THE PROGRESSIVE CONSERVATIVE, USA
An Online Journal of Political Commentary & Analysis
Volume VI, Issue # 107, May 25, 2004
Dr. Almon Leroy Way, Jr., Editor
Government Committed to & Acting in Accord with Conservative Principles
Ensures a Nation's Strength, Progress, & Prosperity
JUDICIAL TYRANNY & CORRUPTION IN AMERICA:
HOW DID IT EVER COME TO THIS?
By Christopher G. Adamo
FULL STORY:
It is altogether unimaginable that America’s Founders, after having only recently thrown off the shackles resulting from the endeavor of
the British government in London to impose centralized control over Britain's North American colonies and reduce the colonists to what
the Declaration of Independence called "absolute despotism," would, at the time of the drafting of the United States Constitution in 1787,
willingly establish the central government of the young American nation on a constitutional basis that would threaten the people with
eventual subjugation to a corrupt and tyrannical American centralized absolutism or dictatorship masquerading as the federal court system.
Indeed, had they ever imagined such a system would eventually impose on
them, by judicial decree, so heinous and reprehensible a concept as same-sex
“marriage,” they certainly would have immediately crawled to the feet of
King George III, and begged for re-admittance as colonies into the British Empire.
As the dark day of court-imposed same-sex “marriage” dawns in America, many
are asking themselves just how things could have degenerated to this point
in a nation that was founded on a “firm reliance on the protection of Divine
Providence.” That this abomination is publicly being carried out among the
many magnificent old churches in what was once the spiritual bastion of
Massachusetts, only enhances its already despicable nature with an element
of blasphemy. But the root cause of the problem is no more complicated than
it has ever been. In short, it resulted from a sustained, twofold attack on
the nation’s foundational principles.
America was established on a system of checks and balances, devised for the sole
purpose of limiting the power of the central government and insuring accountability
on the part of those holding public office and exercising governmental power. Somewhere
along the way, the architects of social transformation managed to convince
the rest of the country that the federal judiciary was somehow exempted from
the restraints on power and necessity of accountability imposed by the system
of checks and balances. From there, it was a simple matter of merely installing
corrupt individuals into crucial judicial offices.
Some contend that the stage was initially set in the early days of this
nation, when the U.S. Supreme Court asserted itself as the ultimate arbiter of
the U.S. Constitution. However, such an assumption of power would never have
stood, if Americans of that day had assumed it to mean absolute and
unquestioned authority accrued to the federal courts, with no avenue of redress.
Furthermore, judges of that day thoroughly understood that they must remain
well within the framework of traditional morality. The nation would by no
means have allowed anything on the order of present-day breaches, and would
doubtlessly have seen the situation as warranting another disposal of tea
(and perhaps other unwanted cargo) into Boston Harbor -- or, at least, wholesale
subjection of federal judges to the impeachment, trial, and conviction process
and removal of the convicted judges from office.
Thus the judicial activism of that day was necessarily limited to relatively
minor “adjustments” to the law, any one of which did not fundamentally alter
the fabric of American society. However, over time the degree of court activism increased,
with previous overextensions of the law being invoked as precedent, not only
to legitimize the very concept of activism itself, but also as a springboard
for ever more outrageous decisions. Ultimately, it became imperative for
modern judicial activists and their accomplices to simultaneously expunge
any restricting principles from each and every governing institution, and
completely supplant them with the twisted premises of “political
correctness.”
Considering the critical importance of this element of their overall
strategy, it is no wonder that they have been so obsessive in their efforts
to attack the Boy Scouts and every similar organization within the nation’s
borders and, if such organizations will not acquiesce, to eliminate them.
Now the nation’s morality, its ultimate wellspring of freedom, is no
longer considered fit and proper as the basis for law. Worse yet, activist
courts and Liberal-controlled institutions are hard at work to outlaw even the
discussion of such things, labeling them as “hate speech,” and virtually
assuring their eventual extinction.
Concurrently, they’ve been systematically stamping out individual rights.
Americans are now told by the courts that they can no longer
pray, say the Pledge of Allegiance, support and oppose political candidates as they see
fit, or even require public officials to conduct government business in
English.
Ironically, those who are most adamant that the U.S. Constitution is a “living” Constitution
(i.e., a document subject to flexible interpretation) are the very individuals who, when
considering judicial impeachment, suddenly become “strict constructionists,”
insisting that impeachment can only take place as a result of felonious
activity. Apparently, exceeding every boundary of law and ignoring every standard of decency in pursuit
of radical social transformation, and thereby destroying the foundations and
heritage of the nation, doesn’t qualify as grounds for subjecting federal judges
to the impeachmemt, trial, conviction, and removal process.
It is high time that Americans begin holding their federal judges to the constitutional limitations on their power and
to some standard of accountability for their official actions and decisions. And, in each of the fifty American states,
the people of that state should ensure the imposition and enforcement of such limitations and standards on their
state judges. Trivializing or ignoring the ravages of judicial activism is no more of an option than pretending the
threat from Al-Qa'ida no longer exists.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Legal Issues, Lawyers, & America's Judiciary
U.S. Constitutional Law & Political Philosophy
Appointment of U.S. Federal Judges
Morality, Decency, & Traditional American Family Values
Christopher G. Adamo is a freelance writer who lives in southeastern Wyoming and works in the field of industrial instrumentation.
He is actively involved in Wyoming's political process, serving as a delegate to successive Wyoming State Republican Conventions
and as a member of the Wyoming State Republican Central Committee. He has assisted Republican candidates for local and state
legislatures and for the United States Congress. His articles, which appear regularly in The Progressive Conservative, U.S.A.,
and on a number of other websites, reflect a major concern with the damage being done to Conservatism and Conservative causes by
the Liberal Leftist faction in the Republican Party as well as by the much larger and more powerful Liberal Leftist faction in the
Democratic Party. During the early and middle 1990s, Adamo was Editor of the Wyoming Christian Coalition's official news organ,
The Wyoming Christian.
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