December 12, 2000

Democracy Murdered, News at ...?
Why does the whole rest of the world
know that Bush stole the election,
but the Americans are kept in the dark about it?

I wonder why investors are pulling money out of the US?
Mr. Bush has only seriously embarrassed our country about four times
(now it's 10,000x's)
in the last week.
As well as talking down the economy into a sell off.
The man's Residency is cursed, no doubt about it.
I don't care *how* lucky he is supposed to be.

There should be a "Gate" Topic devoted to Voter Scam Gate. Cheat Gate.
Whatever it is people want to call it. Interfering with an election by a government official is a crime punishable by a $10,000 fine or
one year in jail. There are many that should be prosecuted.

Why isn't Katherine Harris being fined for hiring a private database management firm for $4 million of taxpayers dollars (as reported by the BBC) in order that 60,000 (96,000)voters would be taken off the roles for being falsely identified as felons? The error rate was 95%? The people so disenfranchised Democrats and Blacks.
Why isn't John Sweeney of NY being prosecuted for
shouting, "shut it down" and intimidating the people counting the votes in Dade county? Why are the men and women who were aides to different congressional leaders including Tom Delay, who were flown to FL on a paid vacation to pose as grass roots citizens and behave a thugs not being prosecuted? These thugs shut down the count and gave the Presidency to W. Bush.

The SCOTUS and the Republicans overthrew our Democracy
and to get it back they must be impeached.

This must not be covered up.
Nor can it be in the long run.
Bush must be thrown out of office.
And this is a major argument for that end:
The corruption of the electoral process;
Bush's indifference to it and his shamelessly benefiting
from it. And allowing his friends to benefit from it.
(And the shameless indifference of many of the U.S. population and the U.S. corporate Media.)

I believe the Justices of the SC were acting cynically and consciously to do whatever it took to ensure Bush's election.
To imagine anything else stretches my credulity.
Scalia was "unconsciously" making sure he's to become Chief Justice?
O 'Conner is deliberately torquing the interpretation of the Law
so that she can retire and not worry
that a Judge of a different political persuasion will take her place.
That's funny. (It's not so funny 4 years later.)

Scalia based his intellectual career on "State's rights" and "Judicial restraint" What a joke!
What fools people are now to take the SCOTUS seriously.

I believe that the Press are intimidated by the Far Right Republicans
who jump up and down and scream "Law"
and meanwhile subvert it.
Where does the Law reside?
Not in the pronouncements of a corrupt judiciary.
Not in the actions of pompous Justices
who impose their own will by technical and arbitrary rules.

Justice Scalia argued that the court was acting
to protect the legitimacy of a Bush victory.
But the Court's decision damaged Bush's legitimacy (not to mention to its own) much more than anything else they could have possibly done.

It's obvious that the action of Scalia was to make sure Bush had a Presidency. He mentioned "legitimacy of his election," - - as if such an election existed, which it did not under FL law at that time.

Scalia Lies.

By backing up Bush's claim:
that Bush had been "elected,"
Scalia repeated a lie.
He gave substance to a lie.
He just made up Law.
The "legitimacy" smokescreen was just a "claim."
Scalia knew damn well there would never be any "legitimacy" to what Scalia did except as Scalia writes the Law
and therefore Bush's claim is bona fide if Scalia pronounces it so, by definition. He didn't care.
He's taken his gloves off.
That's why people are rightly frightened.
(But in retrospect, not enough so.)

Supposedly Chief Justice Rehnquist and his colleagues
had hoped History would remember them well.
They would have liked that.
But not as much as they liked to make sure Bush got into power.
Power is more important.
That's the name of the game.
If they honestly cared more about how they'd be remembered,
they wouldn't have done this - they wouldn't have committed treason
and ruled as they did on Bush vs. Gore.
Ruling the country and loyalty to the "Party" is a more important to them
than what anyone thinks.

The SCOTUS deliberately setup a no win situation for Gore.
And they naturally tried
in the hearing of the oral arguments to pretend to be fair.
And they had the boldness to have demanded of Boies
that he tell them what is a fair standard for the re-count.
But neither he, nor us, nor they, could go back in time.
And they knew that.
And they arbitrarily set a time limit.
And they had the boldness to claim it was an issue of "equal protection."
Straight out of the book "Animal Farm" it is:

"Your vote is not being thrown out like those of other unfortunates;
We must remedy that.

We are not protecting you adequately.
We must throw out your vote so all can be equally protected"

It's not "equal protection"
but "pretend protection and equally arbitrary disenfranchisement."
They can't give you your vote back because that is not fair to the people who's vote were suppressed or who's votes got lost?
But they are naming it "Protection?"
Who exactly are they protecting?
Only Bush was named.

How can anyone believe their goodwill after what they did?
They had the brazenness to demand Boies tell them how to repair it?
After it was a fait accompli!
They liked to get themselves off the hook.
But after all, it was too late for that.
That's why Scalia was all smiles.

Our institutions are the sum of the people who inhabit them.
If the standard goes down, I see now, the body politic becomes weak.
The weakness doesn't erupt into sickness necessarily right away.
But December 12th we crossed that line into sickness.

If the sanctity of the governmental Institutions are not upheld - -
And I don't mean because of something as minor as a blow job;
If the Institutions are not protected,
the country is prone then to increasing violations.
Then the ultimate value of those Institutions will become zero or less.

An article on the Supreme Court I read recently detailed
that it was the Respect
in which there was a concern that the SC Institution Must Be Held
and the delicacy with which Precedence, Judicial consistency and impartiality
Must be Upheld.
And that respect was what had kept the two swing Justices
from overturning Roe vs. Wade.

Maybe that is part of Scalia's motive
in destroying the reputation of the Court at home and in the rest of the world. He is a Roman Catholic and his loyalties are obviously with overturning Roe v. Wade for his God and for his Church?
(This was my conjecture 4 years ago and it seems from the outcome of events that his motives were much deeper and the consequences of his action much more far reaching than Roe vs. Wade.)

Those 5 are operatives for the Republican Religious Right, not jurists.
They have proved that.
The Court is sullied now,
so there is no reason for anyone to need to uphold it's "reputation"anymore.
The masks are off.
The green curtain is pulled back from the racist wizard from AZ
and pulled back and away
from the smug and faux fancy cohorts who voted with him.
And now Scalia can get his way.
No one will persuade O 'Connor and Kennedy to
hold back from Roe because of fear to harm the Institution of the court. There is no more reputation.

The SCOTUS' respectability is now a pretentious charade.
Every one of Tony Scalia's opinions is now rendered questionable.
His judgment is proven by this to be worse than poor.
It's proven to be completely arbitrary.
In fact, the ruling is probably not only prima facie illegal but illegal on top of that because neither did Thomas didn't recuse himself
(he broke the law by not recusing himself in that his wife will benefit from the decision because of her job -"headhunting" for the Enterprise Institute.
And Rehnquist: his involvement was illegal because two of his sons work for a law firm that works for Bush. And Scalia : *his son works for Olson*)

Why are no investigations being done of this?
These three broke an actual law. It's not some trumped up insinuation.
They do not care about the law. They are seriously dangerous.
They only care about power.

What they have done is worse than breaking some rule
in a bid for a Faustian freedom,
since Faust at least made a barter.
What they did is betrayal - - of our American values.
They threw away our Democracy
so they could, in what they pretend to be their superior wisdom but is in fact their criminal job as operatives for the Radical Republican Party,
decide on what would be our government.
SCOTUS 5 betrayed those values upon which our Country was founded.
(You could sniff out where we were headed back then from this act alone.)

Our tradition here *was* that of the Enlightenment.
The Tradition is: the settlers came here to escape and avoid
the arbitrary rule of those in power.
Our Government was constructed in particular to avoid
the arbitrary rule of power.
The remedy in order for us to return to our original form of government, determined by the rules of that form of government,
is to Impeach and Remove from office
Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O' Conner, Kennedy and Bush.

I call for this here and now.

If this is not done our Democracy is in peril.

The betrayal of the American people
and of our American tradition
by this Supreme Court
and by the ultra-right factions of the Republican party
I am afraid can never breed happiness or anything good.
It is based upon hubris.
George Bush's highhanded actions
and disregard for the people of this Country
is based upon the disenfranchisement of elderly Jews and Blacks and
millions who voted for the better, the more qualified, and the
smarter man. No good can ever come from that.

I shiver for our beautiful Lady Democracy; 224 years old. But way
too young anyhow to face murder. She is supposed to be
immortal. In our lifetimes, we will never know her immortality
for she died for us December 12th. I never knew how much
I truly and keenly loved her. In case you didn't guess I curse
Tony Scalia. And will do so each day of my life.