Without the Moon...
February 14, 2013
Every generation has a “fringe” portion of society that are not teamplayers- that do not go along with whatever their “superiors” tell them;. After all, “any fool can make a rule and any fool will mind it.” * Without this “fringe” the U.S. Constitution would have been obsolete shortly after it was ratified. To allow a group of “teamplayers” to rid the court system of Don Bailey and others like him, is a direct attack on the protections built in by the authors of the Constitution, and will only hasten the demise of what once was the greatest country ever on this planet.
Removing this man from the practice of law is like removing the moon from the orbit of our sun. The moon's gravitational influence produces the ocean tides. It stabilizes the Earths’ tilt, just as the “fringe” in our society keeps the political pendulum from swinging too far to the right or too far to the left. The moon gives us our seasons, and prevents drastic climate changes. And this has changed the way life evolved on Earth, allowing for the emergence of more complex multi-cellular organisms compared to a planet where only small, robust organisms could survive. Enough for the astrobiology lesson and its effect on political science. Can the earth exist without the moon? Yes. But you wouldn’t want to live there.
Why are our courts still modeled after medieval tribunals where a judge sits up on a throne, flaunting the existence of a superior class, and embracing inequality among citizens? It has no place in this country, which is supposed to be a democracy. ..not a monarchy. You have to wonder why they are no longer wearing those white, pin-curl wigs. Where have all the jury trials gone when it is a guarantee of the U.S. Constitution? And why are these jury verdicts being overturned by individuals in black robes, inflicting their own “discretion” i.e. discrimination, instead of following the statutes passed by legislature? The “how” is because there is no longer any oversight to the judiciary branch of government. Somehow over the last half century, the members of the bar associations held conventions and exempted themselves from the checks and balance system which is supposed to constitutionally exist between the branches of government.
Did Abraham Lincoln really say, "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."? No- the actual quote from "The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions", known as the Lyceum Address reads:
"Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
*Author-Henry David Thoreau
