After twin Republican assaults on the Constitution [Texas anti-abortion law; Sup. Court overturn refusal], and on American’s right to run their own lives without fascist quasi-government interference, questions exist.
Some people are talking in terms of “Lord of the Flies,’ where non-gov’t vigilantes enforce compliance.
Some people are talking in terms of a new witch burning; groups of citizens crazed by religious zealotry
enforcing compliance.
Some people are talking in terms of a new Inquisition; private citizens carrying out the wishes of The Church
against “heretics.”
Some people are talking in terms of a new Ku Klux Klan, private citizens enforce street “justice” on subhumans
by dragging them into kangaroo courts.
Some people are talking in terms of a new “Scarlet Letter,” worn by abortion assisters.
Some suggest, this being Texas, this is the result of too many concussions under Friday night lights.
Texas, too cleverly, says it has the un-American mandatory motherhood plan insulated from challenge,
because the “state” isn’t doing any of the dirty work.
WRONG!!!
The vigilante suits will be filed in a Texas [government!!!] state court. Then – if the rigged court says “evil-doers” are “guilt,” exactly. WHO enforces the $10,000 penalties??? The police [government!!!]? Private “law enforcement?”
KKK-brown shirts-witch burners-vigilantes-Inquisition?
Suppose the “guilty” resist? Suppose a gun fight – in a state where anybody can carry guns – occurs? Who is “defending themselves? Suppose innocent bystanders are killed – exactly who is guilt of murder: the accused abortion assisters, or the KKK-brown shirts-witch burners-Inquisition-vigilantes???
Texas panderers [circle Eight, Dante’s Inferno] have created yet another attempt at authoritarian America. Like Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China – authoritarian Texas declares that it, and it alone, controls any pre-pregnant female’s reproductive system [for the good of “the state’]. The state of Texas owns you.
If one does not control their own body – YOU – have no rights.
All this is unnecessary, unConstitutional. Amendment One has two religious freedoms: freedom for and freedom from. Freedom from: “Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion..” An “established” church is an official state church – like Sweden, England, etc. had. An “established” church requires all paying taxes, all following official church dogma as law. The Founders were very clear – they did NOT want this.
North Carolina, 1776 constitution, Article XXXIV: ‘..no establishment of anyone religious church..in this state, in preference to any other; neither shall any person ON ANY PRETENSE WHATSOEVER. , be compelled to attend any place of worship contrary to his own faith..be obliged to pay, for..the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of ANY. minister or ministry, contrary to what he believes is right…”
Texas’ mandatory motherhood law is plainly unConstitutional, unAmerican in the worst way, cruelty personified, a violation of individual religious and personal rights, fascist.
All this compounded by actions of 5 “conservative” Supreme Court members, all raised in one of the fundamentalist churches behind this law. They by this reckless action, have now raised terrible possibilities for America.
The Court’s decision invites the possibility of “Nullification” again. Various “red” and “blue” states outlawing things they don’t like – leading to vigilante-brown shirt-KKK-witch burning everywhere. Law made by zealots [we’ve seen them in action, January 6, 2021].
Women protested against similar laws in Poland. Courageous Afghan women taking to the streets. Mexico has just decriminalized abortion. What can we expect in “our” Supreme Court denies American women rights?
In this, like January 6 events, we have seen what Republicans really mean by “law & order.” “Law & order” for them has never been more than a “code word” to get elected. Their 1980-2021 in-office actions have often been repressive “laws” enacting authoritarian ideas – political, economic, religious.
In 2002, internationally respected religion expert, Charles Kimball, published “When Religion Becomes Evil,” listing “The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion: absolute truth claims, blind obedience, establishing the ‘Ideal” Time, the end justifies any means, declaring holy war.”
Kimball put the Taliban and American ‘religious right’ on a continuum. Page 121: “Christian reconstructionists in America are only one step removed from their counterparts with a concrete, divinely ordained plan for an Islamic state…”
Republican presidents put reactionary justices on the Supreme Court – a well known Republican plan since 1968; then the “conservative” game plan is running “test cases” up to the Court so it can make these law. This gave America “Citizens United” and “Shelby County;” previously “Bush-Gore.”
There was already a Mississippi anti-abortion case accepted for 2021-2022, and – SURPRISE111 – another “gun rights” case [America doesn’t have enough murders, we need more gun”rights”].
These are only the most visible Court decisions. For 35 years, an increasingly reactionary Supreme Court has sided with corporations and the rich [“Citizens United” in real life payoff action]. The Roberts Court is the most “business friendly” since 1945. They have made it very difficult to restrain the greed and power of corporations.
Texas added more antidemocratic legislation by making it harder to vote, and insulting intelligence claiming these were “voting reforms.” Changes yes, reforms no. Several other Republican states also made it more difficult to vote [their gift from “Selby County”] – they don’t want “the wrong people” people to vote.
In 1935, Sinclair Lewis wrote “It Can’t Happen Here”. – but it “did.” A fascist dictatorship ran America, reducing women’s rights, and also many others. Texas has now made fiction real life.
Welcome to “law & order” – Republican style. America has now joined Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, Communist China in “owning” women’s bodies [for the “good’ of the state].
If the Supreme Court allows this Texas law – you can throw out the Constitution. You can forget about “freedom” on your terms. “Freedom” will be what Republicans [Texas, Supreme Court, other reactionary states] say it is.
If. YOU. don’t control. YOUR. body – YOU. have no rights.
There is.a fever burning on this land. For 50 years it has burned, and tormented. Now we will burn “witches” in Texas. Previously “heretics” who performed abortions were murdered and medical facilities destroyed. For 50 years the laws and judicial system have been perverted because “the end justifies the means.” Now the Texas Brown Shirts will enact “justice.” We await Spring, 2022, to see if the Inquisition court will bless Texas vigilantes, and all the other brown shirts in various Republican klaverns. And, the fever will continue.
The fever will go on, until the good people, after many burnings, rediscover our humanity, put an end to this Republican madness. Only then, will we be entitled to call ourselves “Americans” – and not the fools of Salem.
Only then, will we discover why a 25-year top Republican political operative, Stuart Stevens, confessed in a 2020 book. – “It Was All A Lie.”i
With Justice For All 