Supreme Court of the United States

An Open Letter to the
Supreme Court of the United States

As an ordinary citizen of the United States I congratulate the members of the Court for serving this great country by taking up the burden and privilege of being the final arbiters of law for us all. It cannot be denied that each of you are distinguished not only in the field of law, but as worthy, honorable and notable scholars of American justice as well. I know that your days and nights must be filled to capacity with the labors of the court but I hope you will find some time to listen to an ordinary citizen about his and other’s honest concerns about the Supreme Court. For example, take the matter of what most people call “common sense”. I realize that when an expert labors exclusively in their field of endeavor, like being a Supreme Court Justice, a job related hazard common to all savants is the gradual, but inexorable, slide into an esoteric world where nuance is regularly raised to equal importance as the rudiments, or perhaps as an ordinary person would say, a loss of “common sense”. In this regard, take the matter of the US Constitution itself. Most ordinary citizens understand that when the Constitution was written, it was the several states that came together and granted, very grudgingly, certain enumerated powers, and only enumerated power, to a federal Government that was to be created. In other words, there was not yet in existence the Federal Government that very grudging granted enumerated power to the several states. Of course this salient is codified by the founders as Amendment X, to wit: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. It would seem unnecessary to restate the obvious that the Federal Government serves at the pleasure of the States, i.e., The States do not serve at the pleasure of the Federal government. However, the tenth Amendment has been the most disregarded requirement in the constitution by the Supreme Court, and today, the reality is that the States are now, for all practical purposes, subservient to the Federal Government because of the rulings of the Supreme Court. Perhaps this lack of fidelity to the Constitution is a result of nuance, or at least, expediency (the most deadly sin of all), taking precedence over common sense. While we are on the subject of the Constitution, let’s also restate another obvious fact that most ordinary citizens understand but this fact may have become lost within today’s esoteric world of Constitutional law. The fact is that the Constitution of the United States is an “entrenched” Constitution and this fact along with the requirements of Amendments IX and X, make the argument concerning Strict Construction versus Loose Construction an invalid argument. I believe T. Jefferson supported Strict Construction by saying that if the entrenched Constitution does not grant a power or right, then it is unconstitutional for the legislature, court or anyone else to grant such an unremunerated power or right. I believe A. Hamilton supported the notion of Loose Construction that held if the Constitution did not specifically prohibit a power or right then any unremunerated power or right would be legal and constitutional. The later argument is patently absurd because a free people already enjoy all that they themselves say is not illegal by their Constitution and State, otherwise, they would not be a free people as the Constitution guarantees. This is so because if the Constitution doesn't specifically prohibit a power or right, then Government is free to enact any law they wish that would restrict the inherent right of freedom for the people. A Constitutional loss of individual freedom is exactly what is happening today under the doctrine of Loose Construction because the doctrine does not prohibit anything and this situation can be laid directly on the bench of the United States Supreme Court occupied by those misguided Justices who practice Loose Construction. The doctrine of Loose Construction may be misguided, but it is at least understandable. The practice of the Court to reach across any nuance to confer constitutionality upon a freedom usurping law not only defies common sense, it is not understandable. For example, Justices John Paul Stevens, Steven Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter recently dissented the majority decision of the D.C. gun ban. How these learned scholars could deny the unambiguous second Amendment is beyond understanding by the common man unless they purposely found some nuance derived justification for what they personally believed rather than what the Constitution says. Indeed the second Amendment is not really about the right of the people to keep and bear arms, it is about the right of free citizens to form and maintain a Militia. In order to have a Militia, free citizens must have their own arms, after all, that is exactly what the second Amendment says, doesn’t it? And don’t even go the nuance position that the National Guard is the people’s Militia, the National Guard is an arm of the standing United States Army and a standing Army is the very situation that the founding father’s were deathly afraid of. The right to form and maintain an armed Militia was thought to be the final line of defense against a freedom usurping Government and when you rule against the second Amendment you are tearing down the last line of defense for a free people. Other examples that perplex plain citizens like myself is the ongoing Court rulings that support a Loose Construction derived doctrine of separation of Church and State. Just where in the Constitution is the separation of Church and State codified? Indeed, I would hope that when the “cross in the desert” case comes before the court, the court would simply instruct the plaintiffs forthwith: Bring forth to this Court the law respecting an establishment of religion that Congress has made. I believe that the first Amendment is the only reference that the Constitution has made concerning the state and religion, that is, unless you disregard the repeated reference to God and stuff like that. The point of this open letter is that the Supreme Court of the United States is our next to last line of defense against a freedom usurping Government and that next to last line of defense appears to be crumbling before our very eyes as Loose Construction and the personal ideology of the Justice’s serving the court lay waste to our carefully constructed entrenched Constitution. I, and the Citizens of this great freedom loving country, beseech the august court to put politics and personal ideology aside in the greater purpose of service to the fidelity of the Constitution.

Geezer Rant

Geezer Rant

How did it happen that manly men started replacing a hearty handshake with an embracing hug?
How did it happen that a proud free people began letting the Government completely run their lives?
How did it happen that shapely women are now kicking manly men’s butts in pop media?
How did it happen that even sailors blush when hearing mainstream movie dialog?
How did it happen that modern women have now become the sexual aggressor?
How did it happen that grade and high school students now feel free to cuss-out and physically threaten their teachers in the classroom?
How did it happen that it is now socially acceptable to scorn Christianity?
How did it happen that Governments and people are afraid to criticize Islam?
How did it happen that the New York Times changed from the paper of record to an ideology rag?
How did it happen that people who don’t want to work have now become respectable welfare recipients?
How did it happen that it is socially acceptable and celebrated to have children outside of marriage?
How did it happen that the great American stock exchange has become a casino?
How did it happen that Government now sponsor and encourage citizens to gamble?
How did it happen that the emotion of hate has now become a hideous crime?
How did it happen that labor unions now negotiate for lower wages and less benefits?
How did it happen that US Corporations became global Corporations?
How did it happen that personal heath care has now become a Government responsibility?
How did it happen that 47% of Americans pay no federal income tax?
How did it happen that a father is no longer required for anything except money?
How did it become impossible to buy American?
How did it happen that Government says there is no inflation when a loaf of bread has went from 19 cents to $1.50?
How did it happen that science became politicized?
How did it happen that the Holocaust can be denied?
How did it happen that the US Constitution has become a living document that now means what eggheads say it means in today’s world?
How did it happen that lawmakers make laws without reading or understanding the laws they are making?
How did it happen that it is impossible to live a free life without breaking laws and regulations that are without number?
How did it happen that responsible citizens keep on electing lying, cheating and corrupt politicians?
How did it happen?

CERN

CERN


I’m guessing that most readers of this have not had a great deal of interest in or knowledge of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). This massive facility is located on the border between Switzerland and France and will be the subject of a great deal of news in the coming months. The reason that this facility will be newsworthy is because of the experiments in nuclear research that is about to get underway. The experiment will be conducted with the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is a massive underground tunnel that houses a gigantic ring some 27 KM in circumference and containing some 9300 super conducting magnets with the whole thing cooled down to –192.2°C (-313.96°F) and evacuated to a vacuum better than outer space. Added to the scientific mix is a computer that can probably be qualified as the world’s largest and fastest with enough power to compute all of our federal income taxes in one fell swoop. And finally, some very special detectors that will be the center of attraction when the experiment finally gets underway after a false start a few months ago. What’s this all about? The multinational scientists and technicians will inject nuclear sub-particles called Hadrons and accelerate the particles around the ring until the particles reach a speed of over 99.999% the speed of light. But wait, there’s more. They will inject another batch of Hadrons into the ring, also going 99.999% of the speed of light, but heading in the opposite direction (one group of particles will be traveling in a clockwise direction and the other batch will be traveling in a counter clockwise direction at the same time). When every thing gets all revved up and everything is just right, they will cause to counter rotating beams of particles to collide head-on. If you had a smattering of science in your youth, you will realize that when things are accelerated they pick up momentum and when that momentum is suddenly halted, the momentum is converted into energy, and in this case, massive amounts of energy. Why are they doing this? They are trying to find all of the constituents of matter by banging them together with enough energy to cause all of the sub-particles to separate and go flying off. The separated particles will be detected and the scientists will study the flying chaos to determine how matter is made. The whole purpose of this experiment is meant to advance our understanding about the universe we live in. If this seems a bizarre way of trying to understand things, you are not alone. The banging together of particles in order to understand matter has been likened to banging two watches together and then studying the flying parts of the destroyed watches in order to understand time. I, along with many others, think these kinds of massive experiments misuse precious resources that could be better used elsewhere to further more practical findings. After all, a single man sitting alone with only a pencil and a pad of paper on his lap, provided most of the insight and knowledge we have today about the universe we live in. That single man was Albert Einstein. Einstein used his logic, reason and power of observation to make all of his discoveries and those discoveries and insights have never been disproved or improved upon. Oh, by the way, Einstein did it all without the necessity of a massive Large Hadron Collider. But wait, there is even more. There are some knowledgeable people who are concerned about colliding two counter-rotating beams of particles together with a relative speed nearly two times the speed of light. They are concerned that when that happens, a black hole will be created, and in an instant, the earth will be swallowed up and no more Monday night football with a cold brewski for any of us. Surly God will not be happy about this.

World Federalist Movement

World Federalist Movement
(or how I learned to stop worrying and love the (Convergence) Bomb)

The World Federalist Movement, American Movement for World Government, Citizens for Global Solutions, Democratic World Federalists, One World Trust, The United Nations and other like organizations only feed the conspiracy minded that there is a vast and loosely organized intellectual Cabal out there that is leading and pushing the world’s struggling masses towards a utopian One World Government. Conspiracy or not, there is little doubt that an acceleration towards a One world altruistic (ethical) community is occurring within the world body politic and this new one world community will seek to end, for all times, the collection of self-centered (rational) nations that are now free to go about their own ways at the expense of all others and the planet. The race towards One World Government may not be obvious to all of us at this point in time, but I’ll wager we all instinctually feel that something very big is happening to our country and culture even if we don’t yet understand what is happening or why it is happening. I believe the unknown thing that is happening that feels so big nowadays is that the international intellectual community now believes that a rare confluence of events has occurred that will enable the dream of a One World Government to become reality and so a lot of seemingly unconnected things are being pursued in the furtherance of One world Governance. A theory that has been out there for a very long time now is that divergent political thought, like Communism and Capitalism, will eventually converge into a single socialistic movement, and when this happens, it will pave the way for One World Government. This event of convergence is now happening. Other of the more importance events that has happened, and has made the international intellectual community so giddy and hopeful, is that the United States has finally elected a progressive leader who also embraces the One World notion which means the timing is now perfect for acceptance of a One World Government by the rest of the world at large. The timing is now perfect because the world community, including the United States, has been conditioned by the mass media, academia and science that the human race has finally outgrown its regressive tribal instincts and is now ready for the enlightened notion of a single human family all living in peace and harmony under one World Government: Kumbaya, y’all. You know; Save the Planet, the United States uses an inappropriate amount of the world’s resources, it takes a village to raise a child, only the entire world can stop global warming and save the planet, immigration is a human right, it’s Government’s responsibility to ensure no one goes hungry, it’s Government’s responsibility to ensure all have the same health care, the Planet’s resources belong to all of the people, etc. Of course these words sound familiar because these, and other such rhetoric, are part and parcel of the progressive indoctrination, or education if you prefer, that has been going on for sometime now and is supported by the mass media, intellectual community, Academic and Scientific communities, and others that generally support a movement towards an altruistic world government. The timing is perfect because, of all things, the United States has even elected a black President who supports the One World Government movement. To really understand what is happening, we should visit why the One World Government movement began in the first place. The One World Government movement really got going as a result of World War I & II, which resulted in the very real and commendable desire to find a way to prevent such human catastrophes from ever happening again because science and the resulting technology will increasingly make it possible to destroy us all if unlimited war between nations continues unabated. No thinking individual could possibly be for unlimited war and destruction of all of mankind, could we? The problem is that there is no proof that One World Government is the way to prevent world war and strife by raising all of mankind up to a common and sustainable level of existence and governance. Indeed, civil wars still happen today in the modern world and neighbor still kills neighbor even though democratic governments strive to make all equal under the law by promoting and embracing an enlightened progressive philosophy. Certainly One World Government is the ultimate social course to pursue but only if the human family is ready for it. Regrettably, I believe it is far to early in our social development to even consider such a thing. Why, you ask? Even though we humans are the sentient life on this beautiful blue planet, we are, nevertheless, still only just one of the animal species that lives here. I know we all believe that we are well beyond mere animal existence, but like it or not, we all still have the antecedent animal instincts still encoded within our DNA (that is, if you believe in Evolution) and we behave the way we do because we are hard-wired by evolution to do so, i.e., we will always be burdened by our primitive animal past. By the way, isn’t it paradoxical that those who believe life accidentally sprang from an inert soup of materials which then allowed evolution to propelled us humans to where we are today, developmental wise, but yet question that our behavior is still governed by our antecedent animal ancestors as well as our evolution derived superior cognitive brains. What’s that you say? You don’t believe we are governed by our primitive past? Oh really. Was that you that ate that nice juicy steak? You are an animal that eats other animals just as big fish eats smaller fish. And don’t hide behind “Well, I’m a vegetarian and I would never eat animal flesh”. Plant life is life just like animal life with the exact same life giving DNA, and the fact is, life must consume life in order to live (at this point in our development, that is) and is just one aspect of our primitive past that we all must live with. I recommend that you read the book “THE MIND OF THE MARKET”, by Michael Shermer, to investigate this line of reasoning further because you will be surprised to learn such things as “fairness” was derived from our hunter-gathering past when those who did not contribute to the clans existence were shunned. This understanding of how we developed a sense of “fairness” goes a long way in explaining why we get so upset today with welfare programs and the like. So, as much as we all would dearly love to live in peace and harmony as one happy human family, we simply have not progressed far enough from our primitive animal past to do so. Personal freedom enabled by democracy and free markets within our respective cloistered nations is still the best possible choice until we all have raised ourselves to the same level of existence and governance. Whenever that happens, we should finally then be really ready for one world Government as a human family. Unfortunately until that time, it is probably true that those who are now clamoring for One World Government are doing so because of the desire for unlimited power. I don’t think you could ask for better proof that our primitive past is still governing our behavior in today’s supposed enlightened environment than the primordial yearning for power over your fellow man. God help us all.