[North-NV-Greens] Fwd: [usgp-dx] Bill to turn the US into a theocracy (W. David Kubiak, 911truth.org)

Sun Apr 3 23:28:51 PDT 2005

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>Introducing the Constitution Restoration Act
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>-- Say hello to Taliban America and goodbye to
>godless judges, courts and law.
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>by W. David Kubiak
>911Truth.org, March 24, 2005
>http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050323215320295
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>Tired of waiting for the Second Coming to enforce
>Christ's rule on Earth? Fortunately, so is your
>Congress and they know how to "bring it on."
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>Just when you thought the corporatist/Christian
>Coalition had milked the 9/11 "surprise" for all
>it was worth in powers, profits and votes, we
>regret to report that you may have to think
>again. Just in case you've briefly fallen behind
>on your rightwing mailing lists, you might have
>missed the March 3rd filing of Senate bill S. 520
>and House version is H.R. 1070, AKA the
>"Constitution Restoration Act" (CRA).
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>In the worshipful words of the Conservative
>Caucus, this historic legislation will "RESTORE
>OUR CONSTITUTION!", mainly by barring ANY federal
>court or judge from ever again reviewing "any
>matter to the extent that relief is sought
>against an entity of Federal, State, or local
>government, or against an officer or agent of
>Federal, State, or local government (whether or
>not acting in official or personal capacity),
>concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's
>acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of
>law, liberty, or government." [see full text here
><http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.520:>.]
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>In other words, the bill ensures that God's
>divine word (and our infallible leaders'
>interpretation thereof) will hereafter trump all
>our pathetic democratic notions about freedom,
>law and rights -- and our courts can't say a
>thing. This, of course, will take "In God We
>Trust" to an entirely new level, because soon He
>(and His personally anointed political elite)
>will be all the lega l recourse we have left.
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>This is not a joke, a test, or a fit of
>libertarian paranoia. The CRA already has 28
>sponsors in the House and Senate, and a March 20
>call to lead sponsor Sen. Richard Shelby's office
>assures us that "we have the votes for passage."
>This is a highly credible projection as Bill
>Moyers observes in his 3/24/05 "Welcome to D
>oomsday" piece in the New York Review of Books:
>"The corporate, political, and religious right's
>hammerlock... extends to the US Congress. Nearly
>half of its members before the election-231
>legislators in all (more since the election)-are
>backed by the religious right... Forty-five
>senators and 186 members of the 108th Congress
>earned 80 to 100 percent approval ratings from
>the m ost influential Christian Right advocacy
>groups."
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>This stunning bill and the movement behind it
>deserve immediate crash study on at least 3
>different fronts.
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>1. Its hostile divorce of American jurisprudence
>from our hard-won secular history and
>international norms.
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>To again quote the Conservative Caucus: "This
>important bill will restrict the jurisdiction of
>the U.S. Supreme Court and all lower federal
>courts to that permitted by the U.S.
>Constitution, including on the subject of the
>acknowledgement of God (as in the Roy Moore 10
>Commandments issue); and it also restricts
>federal courts from recognizing the laws of
>foreign countries and interna tional law [e.g.,
>against torture, global warming, unjust wars,
>etc. - ed.] as the supreme law of our land."
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>Re the last point, envision some doddering judges
>who still revere our Declaration of
>Independence's "decent respect to the opinions of
>mankind," and suppose they invoke in their
>rulings some international precepts from the UN's
>Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the
>Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of
>Discrimination against Women or, God forbid, the
>Geneva Conventions. W ell, under the CRA that
>would all be clearly illegal and, thank God,
>that's the last we'd ever hear from them.
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>2. The political implications of replacing "we
>the people" with a Christian deity as the
>"sovereign source" of all our laws.
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>Imagine hyper-zealous officers or "entities" of
>the Federal, State, or local government (like a
>governor, legislature or school board) that
>mandate Christian prayers, rituals and/or
>statuary in public buildings under their control.
>Were this to happen, some local Jews, Muslims
>and/or Buddhists might be moved to hire a lawyer
>and legally object. But if the CRA passes, their
>objection would be beyond any court's
>jurisdiction and that's the last we'd ever hear
>of that. It in fact demands "impeachment,
>conviction, and removal of judges" who dare to
>even hear a case that challenges its "Last Days"
>morphing of Christian church and state. (Just how
>our new Sovereign Source of Government's advocacy
>of public executions for adultery, gay-ness,
>contraception and blasphemy will fit into our
>current corrections system still remains to be
>seen.)
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>3. The incessant mainstream media blackout on the
>bill's existence and import.
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>The potential impact of the Constitution
>Restoration Act on American life, law and
>politics is so radical and vast that you would
>expect a boiling national debate. Yet just as
>with the crimes and questions of 9/11, everyone
>in the media seems terrifically busy looking the
>other way. If you want yet another dramatic
>metric of US journalistic dysfunction, try
>Googling "Constitution Restoration Act" in their
>News category and see what you get. Today, three
>weeks after the bill was filed, I find a grand
>total of three throwaway mentions in Alabama's
>Shelby County Reporter, the Decatur Daily, and
>the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. ("Terry
>Schiavo" in contrast will net you over a thousand
>news hits, and "Michael Jackson" just passed
>36,000 with a bullet.)
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>If the Alabama paper interest seems a little odd
>or sponsor Shelby's name a bit familiar, you
>should recall that this old boy AL senator was
>high among those same wonderful folks who kicked
>off the 9/11 cover-up. As his Senate bio proudly
>relates:
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>"From 1995 to 2003, Senator Shelby served on the
>Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. In this
>capacity, he and the other committee members
>provided oversight of the intelligence community,
>and following the September 11, 2001 terrorist
>attacks, Senator Shelby served diligently to
>investigate the intelligence failures that led to
>those attacks." [Emphasis demanded again.] Got
>that? First he "oversees" intelligence for six
>years before 9/11, then "diligently investigates"
>its bizarre "failures" for two years more, and
>finally finds--in a no-fault judgment--it was all
>due to "deep institutional defects" and "systemic
>miscommunication" that he'd apparently never
>noticed or heard about before. Having so
>brilliantly defended the country before 9/11 and
>the official story since, some seem to find it
>comforting that he's now busy defending our
>court-harassed Constitution with a legally
>bulletproofed God. Some, alas, do not -- feel
>comforted, that is, either by Shelby's blurry
>oversight or fundamentalist agenda, not to
>mention the Orwellian performance of our autistic
>corporate press.
>
>In the meantime, however, before the CRA takes
>force and reduces legal education to a Bible
>study course, what say we undertake a little
>Constitutional defense of our own? To get up to
>speed on the current Christian right agenda,
>Moyers' "Welcome to Doomsday", Katherine Yurica's
>"The Despoiling of America" and John "The 9/11
>Truth Candidate" Buchanan's "Fixing America" are
>excellent places to start.
>
>None of these analyses offer a silver bullet or
>paint a pretty picture, but as students of 9/11
>now know, spreading the courage to face the truth
>is really the only hope we've got.
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>W. David Kubiak is a Project Censored
>award-winning journalist and executive director
>of 911truth.org. He can be reached at
>david(at)911truth.org. (He is indebted to John
>Buchanan for the latest heads-up on this story
>and the Shelby office call.)
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