Think in terms of a coup, a slow-moving coup. think in terms of a planned counter-revolution. think in terms of murder. the current “supreme court” is NOT a “court.” It is the end station of a deliberate process to remake America, by changing the rules. tis has evolved over the last 50 somer years. It began under Nixon. the first major act was “Reaganism.” the second major act was “Bush-Gore. The third major act is the Roberts “court.” The fourth major act was January 6, 2021.
American law, American democracy, American decency, are being murdered in a “death of a thousand cuts.” This process is well organized, extremely well financed. The end object if a theocratic plutocracy. One that takes America back to 1787 – an America ruled by rich white male Christians.
Let the evidence speak for itself, 1968-2022. Let the PATTERN of “supreme court” decisions be the proof. WHO are the consistent “winners” and “losers”???
Let the major tests be the words of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution’s Preamble, the 1776-1800 state constitutions, the Bill of Rights, the content of the Constitution’s ratification and adoption of the Bill of Rights, the words and acts of the Founders in 1776-1800; and – how these documents were seen by judges, public servants, and the American people, 1776-1968.
This first article is only a broad outline of the case against the current reactionary Republican dominated “supreme court” and Republican “justice,” l968-2022. Details will follow.
This “court” claims to be following American history; they claim to be upholding the “original intent” of the Founders. THEY. ARE. LYING. This “court” is ahistorical, illegitimate, un-Constitutional, un-American, and destructive. Their own actions refute their claims. One of the Crusaders claimed they weren’t political hacks. YOU decide. What do their own words and actions illustrate? What is their pre-“court” and “court” behavior? WHO are the “winners” and “losers” in consistent PATTERNS? Why are major decisions virtually predictable?

SOME of the charges against the ever increasingly reckless, arrogant, and destructive McConnell-Trump-Roberts “court” are listed below. Much more depth, in detail, will be forthcoming.

I. The Roberts “court” violates the property of “descriptive representation.” This concept dates back to classical Athens and their lottery machine, the kleroterion. It was designed to give the citizens the feeling their assembly was a LEGITIMATE body that truly represented ALL citizens. The McConnell-Trump-Roberts “court” most certainly does NOT represent America, which is at the heart of Americans increasingly distrusting them.

II.The current Republican appointed majority have violated their oaths of office. Each federal judge takes this oath: “..that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and the rich..” The total PATTERN of “winners” and “losers” during the Roberts “court” tenure easily refutes they have done this requirement; let alone if their decisions have in fact defended the Constitution as it was known, 1789-2004.

III. This “supreme court” has violated the Constitution’s Preamble: the American government exists to: “..form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility…promote the general Welfare..” Many of their decisions have produced chaos, allowed corruption. The PATTERN of these decisions has produced “winners” and “losers” that have worked against Union, Justice, Tranquility, the general Welfare of Americans.

IV. They have violated Article VI: “..but no religious test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States>”. The well known and documented process of selection by the Republican Party since at least 1980 demonstrates that they, and virtually EVERY Republican judicial nominee, WAS. subjected to TEST. of their beliefs. If not “pro-life” [the TEST] they were highly unlikely to be chosen.

V. This “supreme court” has violated Amendment IX: “The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.” The current 6 Republican “justices” claim to be following a jurisprudence of “original intent,” which says anything not in the Constitution is not protected. A recent 2022 major decision stated a certain long-term right wasn’t protected because it wasn’t in the Constitution.

VI. This “court” has violated Article V: the process for amending the Constitution. NO Supreme Court can amend [change, alter, delete, add provisions to] the Constitution. This “court’, by its attacks on Amendments I, II, III, IV, IX has attempted to, in reality, amend the Constitution. It has by its decisions weaken3d American access to protected, and often long respected, basic Constitutional rights.

VII.The 6 Republican “justices” have violated tenets of Article III, Section I: “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior..” Consider all of the above as violations of “good Behavior.” Consider also the personal conduct of the Republican “justices” off the bench. They have become increasingly bold in their public appearances and words taking on a highly partisan flavor – raising questions about their objectivity. Consider also their Senate testimonies – many of which are now seen unfavorably in terms of truth and honesty.

VIII. This “court” has violate4d basic American principles, as understood, 1789-2004. Begin with “.. all Men are created equal..endowed with certain unalienable rights..” Go to the Bill of Rights and basic American freedoms>. How many of these rights, well documented and understood, 1789-2004, have been weakened?

IX. They have violated the basic principle of courts as neutral, fact and precedent respecting bodies. It is DOCUMENTED this “court” has IGNORED inconvenient facts, or lied about them, or twisted them. How many times have you seen this: “the expected ruling..”? Why is THAT phrasing often used? Examine the Roberts “court” track record for WHO the big “winners” have consistently been. You need not go back any further than the infamous 2022 decisions.

X. They have violated the confidence and trust of the American people – that decisions will be fair and rational, a just one. More and more, especially after 2022, the American people sees the Roberts “court” as a “kangaroo court.” There was a public process, but more and more, suspicions are this was all done for appearances.

XI. Their destructive decisions have made corruption more likely. “Citizens United” has led to American politics being inundated by floods of money, much of it ‘DARK’ from domestic and foreign sources. “Shelby County” has led to numerous state laws trying to prevent [the “wrong”] people from voting – gutting a law that worked. They have refused to end gerrymandering, which from its entire history has produced corrupted voting.

XII. Some of their decisions have resulted in cruelty. “Ledbetter” was so egregious that Congress passed relief. In another case, an innocent man was allowed to be executed. Another decisions denied military women, who it was documented, had been raped. Books have been written about “supreme court” cruelty and callousness.

XIII. Increasingly, legal commentators are edging toward this: the theme of the Roberts “court’ as a very real THREAT to American democracy. They have had chances to rule against practices such as gerrymandering, with both a Democratic and Republican case – and refused to do it. This should have been easy. This is only the beginning….

XIV. Increasingly, after Roberts “court” rulings, commentators will describe the decision as having been written “BY PEOPLE ON A MISSION.” Fellow Supreme Court justices have used similar language, such as “they did this because they wanted to.” Several of these Republican “justices” said in their Senate confirmation hearings that “they didn’t have an agenda,” that they were only umpires “calling balls and strikes.” They DIDN’T tell us where their strike zone was.

For Perspective:
1] Research the careers and background of major Republican “justices since 1970: Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, Alito. What were their pre-court careers? How have they conducted themselves in public and on the bench? What has been the RESULT of their decisions? For example, one of them was proven wrong for his rationale for a 2013 decision within 24 hours!!!!! [ and many others that followed!!!]
2] Research WHY the Roberts “court” is labeled “the most business-friendly” supreme “court’ since 1945. What has THIS meant to American society and people? Before the notorious 2022 decisions, the Roberts ‘court” had given the “religious right” a “win” in 80% of their decisions! The “religious right” was 3 for 3 in 2022!
3] Research the cases the Roberts “court’ has taken since 2005. WHY did they take THESE particular cases? After changes in personnel, they accepted cases that previous Republican dominated “courts” had rejected – WHY????? The laws in question did NOT change. Research this “court”s” use of the “shadow docket”!!!!!!!
4]. The Constitution’s Framers designed a three-part American government so there would be three INDEPENDENT major branches. It is increasingly being said that the Roberts “court” no longer is an “independent” branch. WHY is THIS being said – by mainstream, informed, well respected legal experts and observers? What is the BASIS for what these people are saying?
5]. Make comparisons. Compare the “courts” of Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, current 21st century authoritarian regimes to the Roberts “court.” These authoritarian regimes are notorious for ‘USING THE LAW’ to protect their power snd people they wanted to protect. Find some of the many media reports on the Roberts “court” “using” cases to reach a desired outcome>. Some will include fellow Supreme Court justices pointing out this fact.
6]. During the Rehnquist “court,” a group of Republican appointed justices- O’Connor, Souter, Kennedy – often restrained that “conservative court” from making bad decisions. Since then, Republican political operatives have had this mantra: “No more O’Connors.” “No more Souters.” What does THIS tell you?????
7]. Do research to find out what Senator Mitch mcConnell meant when he told an aide after the 2016 election that he was going to conduct a “conveyor belt” of “conservative” judgers to the federal bench> Research the McConnell PATTERN of behavior on getting “the proper” judges on the federal bench.
8]. Research the role of advocate groups outside of government in getting “conservative” judges on the federal bench. Research a particular legal network that has an outsized presence in this since 1982. Research the particular leader of this group who was/is prominent in judge selections – he was known as a very religious person. Research the funding of this and other groups – WHO gives them their millions?
9}. Do REAL research – minimal and JUDICIOUS internet use!!! Be careful – the political-economic-social-religious right has a very skilled, often believable propaganda network. Find mainstream studies, papers, articles, books by REAL historians [THEY have one who has written a lot of debunked junk history]. THEY have columnists submitting as blizzard of articles to papers. THEY have talking heads everywhere on media; internet idiots and media morons. i

Every American who desires freedom and individual rights MUST read Pema Levy’s “Surveillance State” article in the November-December, 2022, “Mother Jones” magazine. MUST.
For perspective, consider Charles Kimball’s “When Religion Becomes Evil” and his “Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion:” absolute truth claims, blind obedience, the end justifies any means, declaring holy war, establishing the “Ideal” time. Most relevant here: the end justifies any means and declaring holy war. See also, Eric Hoffer’s classic, “The True Believers.”

Levy discusses effects of Texas’ “SB 8” bill banning abortions after 6 weeks of pregnancy (before many know they are pregnant), and most significantly: the enforcement mechanism. Under the law, ANY person can sue ANYBODY they SUSPECT of helping a pregnant person get an abortion – legalizing vigilanteism. The incentive: a minimum $10,000 in “damages.” Doctors can also get life in prison.

This mob law phenomenon spread to other states: 191 bills in 40 states “sought to limit classroom instruction on gender, sexual orientation, race, American history since January, 2021…46 of whose would be enforced by private citizens. Vigilantes, like the KKK, used to be extra-legal.
Also of major concern, Levy mentions some considerable damage to the practice of medicine with respect to women, ALL facets. Decades old normal procedures now reconsidered and delayed, with deadly results to female patients.

Levy’s discussion of authoritarian aspects of “SB 8” begins with Communist East Germany’s security forces, the Stasi. A nation of 40,919 square miles had “more than 170,000 informers..not only to spy on its citizens but, through that surveillance, psychologically terrorize them.” Only authoritarian, dictatorial, governments seek to terrorize their own citizens. It was once written, “It Can’t Happen Here.” No more.

Levy discusses another sinister aspect of an American Surveillance State: the right-wing war on America’s public schools. “The war will be won in education, Republican Richard Corcoran, Florida’s then-education commissioner..”Education is our sword, that’s our weapon.'”
A New Hampshire chapter of “Moms for Liberty” “put a bounty on these teacher’s heads” because of the “Divisive Concepts” law. (President Eisenhower: “read every book in the library.”)

“All this happened amid a nation-wide campaign to pass laws that would censor America’s racist past and deny its influence on our present.”
George Orwell already discussed this in “1984,” stating what dictatorships already knew and practiced: government censorship: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Even more sobering for freedom-loving Americans: Levy’s discussion of the work of Jon Michaels and David Noll. “Michaels and Noll see vigilante enforcement laws as an extension of America’s anti-democratic traditions of slavery and Jim Crow. The closest historical corollary to “SB 8”, they argue, is the “Fugitive Slave Law” of 1850.”
Why should we be surprised??? A state of the old “Confederacy,” passing an unAmerican law built around hatred and bigotry? A state that was one of the first, after the infamous 2013 Supreme Court “Shelby County” abomination to revive a previously un-Constitutional law gutting the 1965 Civil Rights Act, to be quickly followed by other Confederate states.

The American Surveillance State is built on fascist principles. Like previous dictatorships it uses “divide-and-conquer.” It turns ordinary citizens against other ordinary citizens. (“the Pursuit of Happiness” anyone??????)
Just like the Stasi, the Gestapo, the KGB, the kempei – Texas’ “SB 8” uses law for authoritarian purposes. What more can be said than the anti-abortion ‘holy war’ has regressed to pre-Civil War practices???
Runaway slaves now replaced by runaway female medical patients.

Historian William Freehling’s “The Road to Disunion,” in his chapter, “Democrats as Lynchers,” between 1830-1860, 300 WHITES were lynched in the South, mentions the “quality of terror produced.”
Just like the quality of terror produced in Hitler’s Germany by “the knock on the door at midnight;” just like the quality of terror in Stalin’s Russia – you did not want to be the first to stop clapping.

But why should YOU be surprised? The “pro-life” agenda is built around authoritarian principles. Just like the Nazis (who also outlawed abortion and homosexuality), just like the Russian communists, just like “true believers” everywhere – the “pro-lifers” know what is best for you. And – if you don’t agree – they’ll force YOU, using any means necessary – to accomplish their holy war’s goals.

The American Surveillance State is only a logical step on the road to a modern Puritan theocracy – except Roger Williams is no longer exiled – SHE is persecuted and prosecuted. Pillory, stocks, ducking stool, witch burning next?

One more thing: for more perspective on what the American surveillance State portends, please check “the 14 characteristics of Fascism.”
Play special attention to these: “powerful and continuing nationalism; disdain for recognition of human rights; identify enemies/scapegoats; rampant sexism (male domination, opposition to abortion and anti-gay laws and policies); religion and government intertwined; corporate power protected (Roberts Court); labor power suppressed (Roberts Court); disdain for intellectuals and art; obsession with crime and punishment.”
THINK on these alone – how many ALREADY EXIST in America? THINK also on how the American Surveillance State aids and abets accomplishment of these fascist characteristics.

Texas’. “SB 8” is a MAJOR step to ending American democracy.

It rained in the upper midwest election U.S.A. night. If one were a poet, they might say the gods were weeping. If a student of cultural history, P.T. Barnum crying, because having lost his crown as America’s biggest con man. If a student of America, Abraham Lincoln, distraught over having been proven wrong: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.”
Or, Lincoln weeping having seen his concerns of January 27, 1837, come to fruition: “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 be 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.”
Or, perhaps foreign friends weeping. As described in Damien Cave’s 11/9/22, New York Times article: “World watches U.S. democracy lose its way.” Friends from Asia, Europe, Canada, Africa, Australia, Latin America bemoaned what they saw in the one-time world champion of democracy, steadily worsening since 2000. What did this mean for THEM?

It”s often said, in war the first casualty is truth. A war against American democracy has been waged for 50 years. A series of corrupt presidential administrations in one political party. A well-financed and orchestrated plan to corrupt the federal judiciary succeeded – a fact mentioned by foreign observers. An alternative universe of reactionary forces in information produces “alternative facts.” “Torrent of lies coalesces into suspect vote” said the Stanley-Becker and Harwell article in the 11/9/22 Washington Post – itself echoing numerous findings by American intelligence organizations, police forces, investigative journalists, statements by ordinary victimized Americans.
The torrent of DEFINITIVELY debunked lies, internet idiot rumors, media moron mistruths has, with Madison Avenue professionalism, so saturated America many swear these obvious falsehoods are gospel truths. All that is in addition to Russian and Chinese trolls building upon America’s own paranoia and fears.
Lies are the dagger that kills democracies.

Perhaps the skies are weeping because recent two decades’ worth of CARTOON CHARACTER CANDIDATES one party has nominated. If these people had been running for office elsewhere, it would’ve been said “only in a banana republic”; or only in a sinking European “democracy” in the early 1930s could a Charlie Chaplin played character become dictator. No more. it HAS happened in America

Perhaps weeping skies are coming from the Founders, because their four worst fears have become true: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs. Their hopes for a “virtuous republic” dashed. Corruption of government and law financed by reactionary billionaires, carried out by corrupt politicians. Slavery transformed into hatred and discrimination against women and various minorities. Religion weaponized by right-wing forces to control people’s lives and pervert laws. Mobs trashing the U.S. Capitol and injuring 140 police; armed mobs everywhere intimidating innocent civilians.

America has, supposedly, survived the 1850-1865 slavery struggle – but – the area that demanded slavery has not mentally/politically changed. We survived the 1940s-1950s anti-communist witch hunt, sort of – a favorite right-wing accusation is somebody/something is “socialist” or “communist.” Still!!!!!!!!!!!!

Perhaps we will survive the current 50-year attack on true democracy. Attackers are determined, very well financed. They’re at war with post-1900 American civilization. They’re armed with religious belief in the rectitude of their “mission to save America.” They’ve demonstrated anything goes to accomplish this sacred self-imposed “mission.”

Aristotle: “The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.”
Later Orwell: “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”

Reactionary anti-democratic American forces have tried to control the past – by numerous bogus “history books pushing lies; by numerous “scholarly works” twisting principles and events; by bogus “Supreme Court” statements purporting historical and legal “truths.”

Perhaps weeping November, 2022, skies are IN FACT fears of the gods, the Founders, Lincoln, foreign friends. If so, it will be remembered this occurred.
If America ceases to be a democracy IN FACT, not reactionary rhetoric, it will be said its death struggles lasted over 50 years, 1970-2020s.
As in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Putin’s Russia, Xi Jinping’s China – appropriate lies will be constructed to provide official “history” and dogma explaining democratic America’s death.

Web sites like this will be deleted.

I also will be deleted.

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  ****** So what is a patriotic American like YOU who dearly loves his country supposed to think? Look at all the possible suspects who want to get rid of Trump. You KNOW you haven’t heard the real truth behind all this manufactured “criminal” activity – because Fox News hasn’t told you the REAL story.

1980-2022 America has been robbed, divided, misinformed, persecuted by four groups of artificially privileged people: American oligarchs, media morons and internet idiots, reactionary religious zealots, gun zealots. The Super “Citizens’ above the law [or in some cases – beneficiaries of laws they funded and wrote].

These people have been aided and sometimes created by the 2005-2022 “supreme court.” The majority 6 have been illegally appointed by a “religious Test.” This site has called the McConnell/Trump/Roberts “court” the ‘Stupid Court>”. We are not alone. The President said it “didn’t have a clue.” A minority Justice said there was a “stench” about this “court.” After the infamous “Dobbs” rough draft was leaked, a law professor said it looked like it was written by “people on a mission.” AND – these people are not alone in questioning the sanity and competence of the majority 6.

At his Senate confirmation, “justice” Alito said: “A judge can’t have any agenda. And a judge certainly doesn’t have a client>. In a November, 2020, speech [to a right-wing group}, Alito stated that freedom of speech, religion and gun rights are in danger of “second tier” constitutional status. No agenda? No client?

The majority 6 often claim to be only supporting “original intent” [1787-1791] of the Founders. Chief Justice Marshall’s critique of this fabrication: “A Constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles.” Marshall, and 1789-1999 American “history and tradition” – versus Alito.

Given the 2005-2022 PATTERN, YOU decide: has the McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid court “establish[ed] Justice, insure{d} domestic Tranquility.. promote[d] the general Welfare..????? Is this “court” one of competence and wisdom – following “American history and tradition” – or – does it have a reactionary agenda [an agenda that is defended by use of R-W think tank manufactured “scholarship”, with a history of twisting facts and basic principles]???????

The Founding Father’s generation envisioned a “virtuous” America; led by “virtuous” leaders [George Washington], populated by “virtuous” citizens. They understood human frailties, tried to build a system that encouraged only “virtuous” leaders who would “do the right thing” for the entire nation [Washington]. they envisioned a “virtuous” populace that informed itself and discussed issues – NOT a populace that fell victim to media morons and internet idiots.

There have always been differences of “opinion.” The 1980-2022 American problem is differences of FACTS [the “alternative facts” of certain people]. When 35% of a population is trapped in a DELIBERATELY CREATED “echo chamber” of MEDIA MORONS AND INTERNET IDIOTS making $1-5-l0-20-25-30-50 million a year to deceive them – America cannot worked as designed.

Having a “discussion” of issues is NOT, CANNOT, be an exchange of bumper-sticker slogans: “freedom,” “Second Amendment rights,” “religious freedom,” “COVID is a hoax,” “global warming is a hoax,” “election integrity,” the “stolen election,” “states rights,” “tax and spend,” “crime is out of control,” “we’re the REAL Americans,” “not in the Constitution,””defund the police,” “America is over taxed,” etc, etc until the “right” election issue is found.

What are the REAL facts??? Is any of the above bumper-sticker election slogans true??? Have YOU done any REAL research [beyond the internet] to find out if what YOU believe true really is??? What do YOU know about what the Founding Fathers’ generation REALLY said, thought, wrote, on basic principles they put into 1776-1800 federal and state constitutions??? WARNING: there is a major industry of manufacturing and TWISTING what the Founders REALLY said and created – some of which has surfaced in dubious “supreme court” 2000-2022 decisions.

Vladimir Putin’s propaganda principle is flood Russia with various stories – so after hearing contradictory “information” – Russians don’t know what the truth is. “American’ MEDIA MORONS AND INTERNET IDIOTS are masters of this. They’ve been taught by “American’ big business – which lied about tobacco, fossil fuels, global warming, pesticides, taxes and regulations, outsourcing jobs. The consequences o these BIG LIES are now destroying America and the world.

Article I, Section 9: “No title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States..” This refers to nobility of royal birth and “achievement.” America does not grant FORMAL titles of “nobility” – but DOES have “nobility.” these privileged persons are sometimes referred to as “masters of the universe.” They are the top members of the top 1% – the AMERICAN OLIGARCHS.
American OLIGARCHS run parts of the economy. they been LUCKY to become rich – making obscene amounts of $10-20-30-50-100 million per year, often EVERY YEAR, and with that, immense political power to get American rules changed to benefit themselves. Spitting in the faces of less fortunate Americans, they routinely evade taxes by ANY means possible [often using tax laws they paid for, “campaign contributions,” future job offers, P>PO. box company “headquarters,” anonymous shell companies].
for comparison; if Joe Sixpack works 18-68, makes $50,000 every year, his LIFETIME earnings are $2.5 million. If Susie Sorority works 22-68, makes $100,000 every year, her LIFETIME earnings are $4.6 million. AND – they will pay a HIGHER PERCENTAGE of their incomes than Percy Moneybags, III is likely to pay in taxes. Spit in YOUR face.

One of the founding generation’s DOCUMENTED BIG FEARS was an “ESTABLISHED CHURCH.” Major Baptist ministers protested against this; evangelicals sent protesting petitions against it; James Madison’s famous “Memorial and Remonstrance” warned against it; many major Founders were Deists [watchmaker God]; Jefferson and Paine were routinely called atheists; the First Amendment prohibits it [“Congress shall make NO law respecting an establishment of religion..”]. Is there an “alternative; meaning to the word “NO”?????????
State constitutions prohibited it [North Carolina, 1776, Articles XXXIV: not “..on any pretense whatsoever..”]; eight 1776-1800 state constitutions banned an ACTIVE MINISTER from their government!!!!!; 11 states HAD an “established church” – ALL were gone by 1830. These are all DOCUMENTED facts.

“Separation of church and state” means a church YOU don’t attend cannot tax you, cannot force you to run YOUR life by their religious dogma. PERIOD. A state or nation that allows this is not a “democracy.” It it a THEOCRACY. the founders were very aware of European religious wars. The First Amendment was designed to avoid this.
Unfortunately, a dedicated group of “fundamentalist” churches has conducted a 50-year religious war on America. Some results have been murdered doctors, violence, and 2000-2020 Stupid Court rulings.

The Second Amendment: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free people, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

So – what does “Second Amendment rights” really mean??? that a STATE will have a “well regulated Militia – meaning a STATE has a National guard unit??? The “security of a free State” means what??? That the ENTIRE population of a STATE as one political unit feels secure from threats? Threats by whom??? What force could threaten an entire STATE??? Why do people have “arms”???
So – which of the THREE parts of the Second Amendment are “Second Amendment rights? The right to join a National guard unit??? The right of “the security of a free State”???
By the rules of English grammar – the FULL, CORRECT, meaning of the Second Amendment”. MUST include ALL parts of a sentence – the Second Amendment: state Militia, state security, people with guns – combined. ANY statement of “Second Amendment rights’ which does not do that is FALSE.

By the rules of the Constitution – “Militia”. appears in Article II, Section 8: “To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States…”
Article III, Section 2: “The President shall be Commander in chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into actual Service of the United States…”

SO – what part of Articles II and III allows for ordinary people, NOT in the National guard, to have guns to “protect their family”. when NOT. “called into actual Service of the United States”?????????
SO – what part of a “well regulated Militia” entitles ordinary civilians to be “good guys with guns”??????????
SO – what part of the U.S. Constitution allows civilians to carry in public military grade weapons on streets when NOT “called into actual Service of the United /states”?????????

Further, please read both parts of the “1792 Militia Acts [May 3, 8]”. REQUIRING every free able-bodied white male, age 18-45, to be enrolled in the militia, and, within 6 months, provide himself with a “good musket” and equipment.
REQUIRED, not asked, 18-45 males to Militia service for their local Militia. Tp provide communal security.

And – for you “strict constructionists,’ you constitutional literalists; the “arms” possible to you are ONLY single-shot, muzzle loading muskets – because that’s what existed then [see “not in the Constitution”]. Modern weapons did NOT exist – so – under YOUR rules – you can’t have them!!!!!!!!!!!!

1980-2022 America has been sliding into chaos BECAUSE it has accepted the BIG LIES of what the Constitution and the people who wrote it said, and DIDN’T say; because MEDIA MORONS AND INTERNET IDIOTS have spewed forth daily BIG LIES. o YOU would get angry [at the wrong people]; because “American” OLIGARCHS have so corrupted government and the economy that ordinary people – that’s YOU – struggle to survive – while the top 1% live i previously unimagined “nobility” and wealth.

Keep listening to their lies, voting for the politicians responsible for the PLANNED destruction of the American Dream – Republicans – and you’ll get what their announced, documented, goal is: a plutocratic theocracy. A system built on daily Putin-style BIG LIES and a total PERVERSION of what the Founders wrote and intended, of what 1789-1980 America WAS. Those alive in 1947-73 America KNOW what was achieved then – they lived the Dream.

“The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of
government are justly considered, perhaps, as deeply, as finally staked on the experiment
entrusted to the hands of the American people.” [George Washington; first inaugural
address; April 30, 1789]

******* “..the EXPERIMENT entrusted to the..American people.”
Are YOU. up to continuing that experiment? If so, YOU. have work cut out for
YOU – because OUR American “experiment” is under attack like never before –
by determined, very well funded, fanatics, bent on imposing THEIR values
and religious dogma on YOU. This evidence is all around you – by people
claiming to be “patriots” and following the Constitution. That is their first
and greatest BIG LIE.i

Looking for answers to the madness, stupidity, injustice,, unfairness of 2022 America? Look no further than what the Founding generations meant, and did create in 1775-1800 .

They revolted against favored treatment for a British corporation in 1773; revolted against a king and established church in 1775.

The Republicans/Far-Right have managed to enthrone corporations, economic royalty, established churches with help from the McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court, a kangaroo “court” unmatched in American history. [and – given their 2005-2022 track record, many more un-Constitutional decisions await a defenseless American public].

The Founders had four major fears: corruption, slavery, religion, mobs.

Thanks to Republicans, the Far-Right, YOU have been forced to endure all four.
Corruption has, like a malignant cancer, eaten away at basic fairness and equality in ordinary American’s lives. The horror of slavery replaced by virulent racism/discrimination against colored peoples; and also against women and gays. The Founders’ documented fears of tyranny of an “established church” realized by enthronement of right-wing fundamentalist churches. Mobs now rove America, with military-style weapons, traumatizing communities through fear; culminating [so far]. with the January 6, 2021, assault on YOUR national capitol.

The word “corporation” is NOT in the Constitution. ALL corporate “rights” GIVEN. them by the Stupid Court, 1886 forward. This began with twisting 14th Amendment words; continues with twisting “free speech.” “Citizens United,” said legal experts made money laundering “speech.” The richer you are – the more “speech” you have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court had a 70% “win” rate for “big business” even before. gutting regulations that protect YOU in their infamous 2022 ruling, “West Virginia.”

The word “God” is not in the Constitution. Founders intended whatever religion, or no religion, one practiced would be PRIVATE. Explicitly in 1776-1800 state constitutions, they prohibited people from having to attend, or, “on any pretense whatsoever,” being forced to pay for church buildings or ministers. [see 1776 North Carolina, Articles XXXIV].

Both state and federal constitutions banned an “established church” – an official or state church – which citizens are FORCED to financially support and live by church dogma. A church YOU don’t attend, may even despise, cannot tax YOU, cannot FORCE you – by using the “law” – to live YOUR life by THEIR religious dogma.

The McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court has ALTERED the Constitution – illegally, they have NO power to change the Constitution. this “court” has destroyed what Amendment I’s language plainly states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..” The infamous three 2022 rulings, combined with previous un-Constitutional rulings have CREATED an”established church” in America: the far-right fundamentalist churches. By the cumulative weight of McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court rulings – YOU. are now compelled to support churches and their schools with YOUR tax dollars. YOUR reproductive choices are now governed by THEIR religious dogma, NOT. medical science and proven, standard medical practices.

Much of 1968-2022 Republican/Right Wing fear propaganda has to do with maintaining second class “citizenship” for women, colored peoples, gays. The Repubs/Far-Right regime requires “enemies.” Their official “enemies” are “uppity” women, “uppity” minorities, “uppity” gays. One is constantly told these “enemies” “need’ to be controlled so they don’t sabotage and damage America.

The revolutionary language, spirit, message of the Declaration of Independence said: ‘..all Men are created equal with certain unalienable rights..among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Republicans and the Far-Right. DON’T. believe in these words. Since 1968, they have done everything they could to erase 1775-1968 progress America had made on political, economic, religious, social grounds
The intensity and arrogance of their opposition has increased since 1980, 2010, 2016.

Connect ALL the dots. Research [in REAL info, not echo chamber bumper stickers from media morons and internet idiots]. Examine the TOTAL. PATTERN. of what Republicans and the Far-Right have said and done. THEY have outsourced jobs [creating the Chinese threat], rigged the economy [to favor the top 1%], rigged the tax codes [to favor the top 1% and corporations] rigged elections [continuing in 2022-], put forth massive amounts of propaganda and LIES [on their own TV station and other media morons and internet idiots] to snow job YOU and “justify” their corruption.

The middle class peak, the peak of American civilization, STATISTICALLY, was achieved in 1947-73. This was “too good a deal” for the “undeserving’ common people – it had to go, and it did. 2022 America is NOT in any way like that era. We do have more “stuff,’ more comfort [some of us].

We also have more manufactured fear, more preposterous propaganda, more insecurity, more anxiety. THIS is part of the price Republicans and the Far-Right have exacted – the severe psychological wounding of the American soul.
We are not safe anywhere – because Repubs and the Far-Right [and the Stupid Court] want more guns in the hands of more people [rational, decent or not] – based on a BIG LIE of what the Second Amendment meant in 1791. That and a bald violation of the rules of grammar [one is required to read all 3 parts of that sentence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!].

People, misinformed, living in fear, can be manipulated, vote against themselves.

Republican/Far-Right contempt for YOU is symbolized by “election” of THE CON MAN in 2016, with no program other than to enrich himself at YOUR expense. Republican/Far-Right cruelty is represented in the controversy over a pregnant 10-year old girl [and their serious discussion of whether she should have been forced to give birth].

Repubs/Far-Right have PROVEN, repeatedly, for over 50 years, they don’t believe in the words, the spirit, the meaning of the Declaration of Independence.

Keep voting Republican, you’ll get more corruption, more cruelty, more contempt.

• in 1860-61, the physical South seceded from the Union, because of slavery. This had been building since 1820.
  – in 2016-22, the physical and psychological South seceded from the Union again, because of guns, abortion, contraception, and religion. This had been building since 1968.
  
  -Servitude: – the 1861 South wanted Black slavery to continue forever.
  – the 2016-2022 South wanted female servitude to continue forever.
  
  – Cruelty: – the old South wanted to control ALL aspects of Black lives – existence, work family, children, education, possessions.
  – the modern South wants to control women, keep them second class citizens, enact mandatory motherhood.
  
  – “States’ Rights”: – the 1861 South claimed they had a right to maintain Black slavery under the “states’ rights” legal theory
  – the modern South claims it has a right to abolish abortion and ban contraception use under the “states’ rights” theory.
  
  – Fugitive Slave Laws: – the old South demanded fugitive slaves be returned to their owners. The Compromise of 1850 had provisions imposing heavy fines on people who aided slave escapes.
  – the modern South enacts Fugitive Women Acts, “bounty hunters” are allowed to hunt down and prosecute women escaping to free states for abortions or anybody providing contraceptives.
  
  Religion: – old South slavery was “justified” using biblical scripture.
  – modern female reproductive servitude is “justified” using biblical scripture>
  
  -Supreme Court: – the infamous 1857 “Dred Scott” ruling said Blacks couldn’t be citizens, and the Constitution “must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption.”
  – the infamous 2022 “Dobbs” ruling claimed abortion wasn’t in the Constitution, and therefore it wasn’t a protected right.
  
  – Ignorance: – the old South banned educating Blacks; many whites were poorly educated
  – the modern South bans ALL children from learning “disruptive” and inconvenient truths; previously had closed ALL schools in some states to prevent integrated schools.
  
  -Poverty: – in the old South, poor “white trash” led very hard lives; this continued into the 20th century.
  – in the modern South, books and studies like “The Spirit Level” documented the poverty and backwardness of states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
  
  -Guns: – in the old South, whites armed themselves against greatly feared potential slave revolts.
  – in the modern South, populations are heavily armed, to “protect their families”, “stand your ground” laws passed, the most heavily armed are white evangelicals.
  
  -Migrants: – in the old South, most European immigrants went to the North, because they didn’t want to compete with zero-wage slaves.
  – in the modern South, early signs are that women are beginning to consider leaving the South because of lost independence of their bodies; corporations in the South now fear a “brain drain” out of talented women.
  
  -Political Party: – the old South had the Democratic Party – phase one, same party
  – the modern South has the Republican Party – phase two, same party
  
  -“Victimization”: – the old South claimed the North was “out to get them”
  – the modern South claims the North is “out to get them”
  
  -Taxes: – the old South didn’t like taxes.
  – the modern South is against taxes that IT pays, especially when this contributes to “socialism”; although Southern counties and states are VERY happy to collect hand outs paid by taxes in the North.
  
  – Myths and Lies: – the old South made up myths about the glories of slave society and that civilization; claimed the 186l-1865 Civil War was ALL the North’s fault
  – the modern South makes up myths and lies about the glories of Southernized civilization; that THEY alone are the “real Americans.”
  
  The Founders compromised on the Constitution, because if they didn’t – the old South said it wouldn’t join the United States of America.
  The Constitution was thus flawed from the very beginning.
  The Union was also flawed from the beginning, the South insisting on preferential treatment for its “peculiar institution.”
  Many Founders were deeply troubled by implications of their Declaration of Independence not being true with the existence of slavery. George Washington freed his slaves at his death, few others did.
  
  Some have said Lincoln shouldn’t be regarded as a hero and great president – because h made a tragic mistake in not letting the old South go its own way>
  
  Throughout American 1789-2022 history, the South has been a source of “cancer” – anti-democratic attitudes and policies emanating from the South have caused trouble, embarrassment, violence.
  
  We arrive at 2022, with the South again causing disunion and division; again demanding the majority bend to their prejudices and zealotry; their politicians again refusing to solve issues majority opinion wants done; again the South creating destructive issues to fester and become even more damaging; above all – demanding that it can keep unwilling people in servitude.
  
  Did Abraham Lincoln make a VERY BIG. MISTAKE????????????????

“When Religion Becomes Evil,” written by internationally recognized religion expert Charles Kimball, describes “The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion.”

“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. “..one or more of these five signs always precedes any instance of religiously sanctioned evil.”

Peter Gomes on the fallacy of a literalist approach to the Bible:
“Literalism is dangerous for two reasons. First, it indulges the reader in the fanciful notion that by virtue
of natural intelligence the text is apprehensible and therefore sensible. Despite genuflections to the notion
of original or authorial intent, meaning is determined by what the reader takes out of the text, and this
meaning the reader attributes to the author. Thus, what the reader thinks is there becomes not merely the
reader’s opinion, but the will of God, with all the moral consequences and authority that implies…The second
danger of literalism is that the power of private judgment may well obscure the meaning of a text by paying
attention only to what it says…Allegories, typologies, and symbolic interpretations are to be avoided in favor
of the pure and uncorrupted word. Literalism does not want the text held hostage to these devices, but literalism
itself is hostage to the 18th century illusion that truth and meaning are the same, and that they are fixed and
discernible by the application of the faculties of reason and common sense.” [meaning: literalists TELL you what
THEY think the “will of God” is; meaning”. They are NEVER wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Kimball: “When missionary zeal is informed by absolute truth claims defining who is “saved” and what is acceptable, the propagation of religion frequently includes sinister dimensions.”

Kimball: “Authentic religion engages the intellect as people wrestle with the mystery of existence and the challenge of living in an imperfect world..Conversely, blind obedience is a sure sign of corrupt religion..When individual believers..become enslaved to particular ideas or teachings, religion can easily become the framework for violence and destruction.”

Kimball: “When the hoped-for ideal is tied to a particular religious worldview and those who wish to implement their vision become convinced they know what God wants for them and everyone else, you have a prescription for disaster.”

Pat Robertson: “For reconstructionists there is no neutral ground, no sphere of activity outside God’s rule. One is either following God in all aspects of life or not following God at all. One is either engaged in godly politics or is participating in the anti-God structures that now threaten the home, the school, and the church..”

Kimball: “Christian reconstructionists in America are only one step removed from their counterparts with a concrete, divinely ordained plan for an Islamic state or the reconstituted, expanded biblical state of Israel.”

Kimball: “When a key feature of religion is elevated and in effect becomes an end, some people within the religion become consumed with protecting or achieving that end..that component of religion functions like an absolute truth claim, and zealous believers become blind in their single-minded defense of it.”

From other sources:
-Paul Weyrich: “..it is war. It is a war of ideology..a war of ideas..a war of our way of life..to be fought with the same
intensity and dedication as ..a shooting war.”
-Pat Buchanan: “There is a religious war going on in this country. It is a cultural war..for the soul of America.”
-Randall Terry: “Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty..are called by God to conquer this country.
We don’t want equal time..don’t want pluralism.”

Because religion was one of the four main FEARS of the Founders, they included both a freedom of – and a freedom from, religion: “Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..” [meaning: NO state church; ALL religion is private]

Because extreme efforts have been made to destroy the “establishment clause,” America has been faced with decades of experience with WHEN RELIGION BECOMES EVIL. Zealots have conducted a HOLY WAR against the rest of America. “THE END JUSTIFIES ANY MEANS” has been demonstrated hundreds of times in physical violence, murder, corruption of the Constitution, hateful laws in the name of ‘God,’ corruption of what was the Supreme Court – now more accurately seen as the Stupid Court, the Stench Court, the Supreme Inquisition.

Justice Brandeis: “If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”

“Absolute truth claims” are illustrated by zealots insisting people should NOT be able to control their own sex lives and reproductive choices; that gay people are somehow not real people. “Scripture” is quoted to “prove” all this.

Justice Fortas: “Government in our democracy..may not aid, foster, or promote one religion or religious theory against
another.” [“Epperson”]

The “pro-life” HOLY WAR against America is reaching a stage where some “Christians” are arming themselves, saying violence might be “necessary” to “save” America – on THEIR terms. Some of these people were very visible in ther January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. ABSOLUTE TRUTH CLAIMS.

Chief Justice Warren: “When the rights of any individual or group are chipped away, the freedom of all erodes.”

Since 1968, the “religious right” has worked to change how America’s legal system works. They worked to get “pro-life: judges installed [a violation of Article VI] – and have – with the help of one political party which sold its soul for power.
This plan has succeeded. Religious zealots now control the Supreme Court. Those 6 issued 3 un-Constitutional rulings in June, 2022 – cooking up radical right -wing “reasoning’ mumbo jumbo to justify. ‘THE END JUSTIFIES ANY MEANS.”

James Madison’s famous 1785 “Memorial and Remonstrance” contained this warning:
“Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of
all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in
exclusion of all other sects?”

The McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court has now accomplished this, with a series of rulings, one building on top of another; contrived reactionary think tank arguments providing for PRIVILEGED status of “conservative” fundamentalists. Taxpayers forced to subsidize religious schools; people with “sincerely held religious beliefs” allowed to discriminate against other Americans; religious dogma put into law [violating the text, intent, spirit of Amendment I as understood for 200 years].

The religious HOLY WAR on America is now reaching unprecedented levels in various “conservative” states. Not only abortion banned – in ALL circumstances, but efforts made to deny people legitimate medical prescriptions. Ongoing work on laws censoring people’s mail; controlling how people travel; suing people in OTHER states for what is done THERE. THE END JUSTIFIES ANY MEANS.

Rumors, hints, from the Stupid Court indicate the HOLY WAR will be enlarged to achieve other ABSOLUTE TRUTH CLAIMS on same-sex marriage, total abortion and contraception bans

The only question now: do the zealots with to take America back – to Puritan Massachusetts, circa 1692 – or – forward. – to “Gilead”???
Will we be “blessed” with a gentle theocracy of only scarlet letters {“A” for guilty of abortion, “C” for
guilty of contraception use, “G” for guilty of being gay????????}

Has the 10-year old pregnant Ohio girl tipped the hand of how far the zealots will go? Or – are they “only” planning on adult “handmaids”?

Will male vasectomies be banned? Will male masturbation be banned????????????

Will control of females by the state extend to clitoridectomies, birth quotas, gold-silver-bronze motherhood medals. “protective custody” while pregnant, miscarriage prosecution???????????????

1641 Massachusetts legal code based on three biblical books; 1692 Salem; Comstock laws; Prohibition; book bans; anti-abortion laws, anti-contraception laws, religious rights to deny service – all illustrated how far Puritans have been wanting to go.
Since THE END JUSTIFIES ANY MEANS while conducting a HOLY WAR, how far will the new Puritans go, knowing the McConnell/Trump/Roberts Stupid Court. will back them?

WHEN RELIGION BECOMES EVIL. – there is no “too far.”

l]. The McConnell/Trump/Roberts STUPID COURT has just made America a THEOCRACY. YOU are now REQUIRED to support 2 churches oppressing YOU, with YOUR tax dollars.
2] YOUR body now belongs to the state – just like in Nazi Germany.
3] The other half of the R-W goal, PLUTOCRATIC state, has been enabled by the STUPID COURT’S 70% “business-friendly” PATTERN, capped off with “West Virginia” – which could gut ALL regulations.

Closer to home. – YOU. The Roe reversal has upended American medicine – YOUR health. Below are SOME of the consequences that now exist for YOU, YOUR family, the practice of medicine”

-7/17/22: “Abortion laws spark profound changes in other care”: “..the art of medicine is lost and actually has been replaced by fear…”we watched her get sicker and sicker…severe complications..7 died within hours..patients seeking sterilization..denied medicine..” [L.Tanner; Assoc Press]
-7/6/22: “Without Roe, what’s IVF’s future?” [J.Hoffman; N.Y. Times]
– 7/10/22: “I’m Terrified for my patients”: “..could have required doctors to ‘reimplant an extopic pregnancy into the woman’s uterus,’ which is impossible..” [Hackney; N.Y. Times]
-7/l0/22: “Abuse victims trapped without abortion options”. [M.Iati; Wash Post]
-7/17/22: “Post-Roe maternal care in turmoil”: “..one Wisconsin woman bled for 10 days because emergency room staff wouldn’t remove fetal tissue..” [Sellers & Nirappil; Wash Post]
-5/6/22: “Pregnancy-related deaths could soar 20% [E.Weise; USA Today]
-7/7/22: “Abortion Bans Will Affect Both Rich and Poor Americans”: “..a crisis for all American women..men who think the ban won’t affect them are mistaken..will change the political economy..” [E.Spiers; N.Y. Times]
-6/27/22: “The Demise of Roe Brings a Return of Sexual Servitude”: “Mandatory, forced or compulsory pregnancy contravenes enumerated rights..what happened to Black women during slavery..” [M.Goodwin; N.Y. Times]
-6/25/22: “The Battle to End Roe Has Changed Democracy”: “..change the Republican Party and rules of campaign finance..elections are more expensive..major donors..” [Ziegler; N.Y. Times]
-12/15/21: “Supreme Court decision jeopardizes all of our constitutional rights”: “.. provided a road map..put in great jeopardy a basic legal principle that no one should have to violate a law in order to challenge its constitutionality..has severely undermined federal judiciary supremacy..” [E.Chemerinsky; L.A. Times]
-7/17/22: “Vasectomies on the rise after Roe is overturned’: “..urologist reported a 300-400% increase in vasectomy consultations..” [M.Vnkataramanan; Wash Post} **other reports say men doing it out of fear vasectomies will be outlawed
-6/26/22: “Patients and States Turn Focus to Pills”: “..19 states already had laws barring using telemedicine for abortion. Texas..enacted a law prohibiting sending abortion pills through..mail..” [P.Belluck; N.Y. Times}
– 6/30/22: “Brazil Law Sets A Black Market In Abortion Pills”: “..drug traffickers control most access to the pills..the police were monitoring a website..” [S.Nolen; N.Y. Times} ***the new “Prohibition”??? gangsters selling YOUR pills???
-7/10/22: “With Roe’s Reversal, A Brain Drain Looms”: women now calculating: do THEY wish to work in states banning abortion and contraception; businesses facing hiring and talent losses [G.Bellafante; N.Y. Times}
-7/17/22: “Data on rape cases is elusive”: “..estimated about 2.9 million women in the U.S. experienced a rape-related pregnancy during their lifetime..about 7 of 10 sexual assaults go unreported..1,410 abortions reported in girls under 15 in 2019..” [A.Rodriguez; USA Today]
-7/17/22: “Abortion Bans Leaving Young At Higher Risk”: “In 2017..the institute concluded there were 4,460 pregnancies among girls under 15..In Texas, state records show over 200 children aged 15 and younger received abortions in 2021..One was 11 or younger..30 were 12 or 13 years old.” [D.Goldstein & A.Sasani; N.Y. Timers]
– June, 2022: “Complications in pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death among girls aged 15 to 19 years.” [Population Connection]
-7/17/22: “We reported truth of girl’s rape story”: “..in 2020, there were 52 abortions among children 15 or younger in Ohio….The year before that, the number was 63. Before that, 54. Before that, 61..before that, 76.” [N. Carroll; USA Today]
-7/14/22: “Are we a country that makes rape victims give birth?” “We told you this would happen if Roe v. Wade was overturned. This is a tragedy we will..see again and again..What is to happen to those children if they are unlucky..to be raped in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio..that do now allow for an abortion even in cases of rape or incest/”. [C.Pierson; USA Today]

Bottom lines:
1] do You want YOUR private sex life and reproductive choices controlled by religious zealots?
2] “Are we a country that makes rape victims give birth????????????????????
3] are we a country that makes. CHILDREN. ages l0, ll, l2, l3, l4 give a forced birth to a rapist’s child???????????
4]. what kind of nation even has this debate??? How can a “civilized” nation even consider making a 10-year old a “mother”??????? Even in “Gilead” the “handmaids” are adult women. Thanks to Republicans, America has now exceeded the fictional cruelty of “Gilead” in real life, right here, in “America.”

How stupid are YOU????????
Keep electing Republicans – and – YOUR chances of getting shot. – anywhere. in. “America” will continue to increase; the chances of YOUR. daughter being a 10-year old rape victim FORCED to give birth. – will also increase

The madness, the frustration, of 2022 living in America for ordinary people – is. NOT. an accident. It is the result of a 50 year plan. now coming true. Is America “great again”? This is what living in a PLUTOCRATIC THEOCRACY. is like. The billionaires who funded it, the religious zealots who voted it, have won.

IT DID. HAPPEN. HERE.

*** Nothing in the Constitution allows a Supreme Court to unilaterally alter, neuter, destroy parts of it. Amending the
Constitution is done by Congress and the people.
***. Changing the Constitution is PRECISELY what the 2021022 Court has done to Amendments I and II.
***”Dobbs” alone is clear violation of Amendments I, II, IV, VIII, IX, and XIII.
***. By its 2005-2022 PATTERN, this Court has demonstrated how destructive and anti-democratic it is. It is now THE
#l threat to American democracy.
*** This Court, and the reactionary “think tanks” that feed it, have cooked up anti-historical LIES about what American
“tradition and history”. REALLY. are.
***. All this was PREDICTED, by John W. Dean”s 2007 “Broken Government. Chapter 3, “Third Branch” eerily says, with
close to 100% accuracy, exactly what has and is happening.
*** Perjury – or – prevarication? You decide. Multiple Senators said they were “misled” by one of the majority 6. Others
have, on the bench, contradicted themselves.
*** “Partisan political hacks” – or – judges? YOU. decide. Respecting 1787 – 2000. REAL. American legal norms, rules,
expectations, precedents – or – enacting a predetermined agenda? YOU decide.

By a series of decisions, this court attacked the “establishment clause” of Amendment I – reading “meanings” into it the Founders expressly OPPOSED. This court uses the “free exercise clause” to attack and weaken the “establishment clause.”
The Founders were ADAMANT they did NOT want any one or combination of churches to dictate how they ran their lives. WE have numerous speeches, some in Congress, many preceding the Constitutions on this. State constitutions, many preceding the Constitution, some of 1776, explicitly stated strict “separation of state and church.

The same people who wrote the Constitution also wrote state constitutions. Below is North Carolina, 1776, Articles XXXIV:
“That there shall be no establishment of anyone [sic] religious church or denomination 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 or judgment; nor be obliged to pay, for the purchase of
any glebe, or the building of any house of worship, or for the maintenance of any minister or ministry,
contrary to what he believes right”
THIS. is what “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..” REALLY MEANS.
The current “conservative” 6 majority has REPEATEDLY VIOLATED this explicit “original intent.” The culmination of a string of un-Constitutional decisions, “Dobbs vs Jackson Women’s Health,” imposes a specific RELIGIOUS ideology upon ALL Americans – regardless of THEIR own religious beliefs, or none at all.
“Dobbs” denies Americans a medical procedure, practiced around the world, that other religions have said THEIR faith allows. This is a blatant violation of the “free exercise clause.” No church can deny other faiths their practices.
“Dobbs,” dressed up in legal language, and selective historical opinion, is the culmination of a 50-year RELIGIOUS WAR by one religion, the one the 6 majority “justices” themselves belong to, to impose that religious view on ALL Americans.
All this is clearly, plainly, obviously, un-Constitutional, and, un-American.

“Dobbs” is a clear violation of Amendments I, III, IV, VIII, IX, XIII. The intent of Amendment III was people’s privacy in their home. Amendment IV: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons..” against unreasonable government violations of bodily integrity. “Dobbs” aids states in “mandatory motherhood” laws, which obviously violates Amendment VIII’s “..nor cruel & unusual punishments inflicted>. What is more cruel and unusual” than forcing a person to carry a possibly dying fetus to term – when that could mean the mother’s death, in addition to other harms? Amendment IX plainly states Americans have rights NOT enumerated in the Constitution. “Dobbs” violates Amendment XIII: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude..” “Dobbs” means an American is FORCED to become a slave of the state.

An attempt was made by the Court to paint this decision in legal and historical terms, a blatant attempt to obscure the driving force. Opposing abortion and contraception are. RELIGIOUS BELIEFS. Religious zealots pushing this agenda justified refusing to give people LEGL contraceptive prescriptions because it “violated their religious beliefs.” The Court, in “Hobby Lobby,” in violation of corporate law principles, granted a “closely held” corporation the ability to deny employees LEGAL prescriptions because of the owners’ “religious beliefs.”
In “Dobbs,” the Court claimed the medical procedure in question was “not deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions.” This. FALSE. Abortion and contraception are 2000 years old; practiced in virtually every human society; practiced in America before and after the Constitution. Anti-abortion laws were pushed by MALE doctors, to prevent FEMALE midwives from practicing their historical craft; an illustration of MALE discrimination “tradition.”

Something IS. “deeply rooted in the Nation’s history and traditions: “separation of church and state,” the right of citizens to practice their faith without government establishing an official, “established church” to dictate to them. This tradition goes back to 1636; was mentioned in 1776-1800 state constitutions. “Dobbs”. clearly VIOLATES this. It is “Dobbs” that violates American history and traditions, not the medical procedures it dislikes, for RELIGIOUS reasons.

This Court violated its own professed principles: not in the Constitution, not in American history and tradition, when it loosened controls on guns in public spaces.
This Court’s 2008, 2010, 2022 rulings are themselves RADICAL departures from ALL 1788-2007 American history and traditions controlling guns in public spaces.

In March, 2021, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals “said restrictions on carrying guns in public except for hunting do NOT violate the Second Amendment”…Judge Jay Bybee, appoint4d by President George W. Bush, wrote for the majority. He said review of more than 700 years American and English law showed government has long had power to regulate arms in public spaces. “We have NEVER assumed..individuals have..unfettered right to carry weapons in public spaces..”

The justices could have researched “history and traditions” of “the Old West.” Cowboys were required to check guns with the town marshal at city limits.

The justices might have consulted with an /english teacher. She would have said “tradition” and rules of grammar, REQUIRE one obtains correct meaning of a sentence – the Second Amendment – by including ALL words, NOT just half of them.

The 6 “justice” majority violates its own test: “originalism” – things supposedly only possible by the 1787 document’s specific words. By the easily KNOWN Founders’ “original intent” this Court has failed on its own terms.
1]. there is nothing in the Constitution that allows a Court, by itself, to alter, neuter, destroy parts of it. No “established
church” means means 6 justices cannot impose THEIR religious beliefs on America. No violation of “free exercise
means 6 “justices” cannot violate religious beliefs of other Americans. Taking an oath to support the Constitution
means 6 “justices” cannot violate Amendments I, III, IV, VIII, IX, XIII.
2]. 700 years of history and tradition regulating guns in public spaces is proof enough of “original intent.” Nobody said
American towns banning cowboys from shooting up their towns violated Second Amendment rights; importantly,
no previous Supreme Court did either>
The “justices” ignored 1792 “Militia Acts,” which OBLIGATED free, white, able-bodied males, 18-45, to join a militia.
The “justices” forgot rules of grammar. How could literalists of “original intent” jurisprudence omit a basic “textual”
literalism: using 100% of the “text’s”. words??????????

The majority 6 “justices” compounded other illegalities by being accomplices in the FARCE of some state delegating governmental authority to religious vigilantes, allowing civilians t track down, then prosecute “abortion criminals.” Where do the vigilantes claim their $10,000 reward? Do they confront “criminals” in their homes, threaten to cart off vehicles, damage property. if the “criminals” don’t voluntarily hand over $10,000??? How does all this uphold the “justices'” Constitutional requirement to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility..promote the general Welfare”???
If one is threatened in their home by strangers in a “stand your ground” state, do they have rights to defend themselves??? How does censoring mail, preventing people leaving a state “for the wrong reasons,” prosecuting people in OTHER states uphold “history and tradition” of America???

Where is all of this in the Constitution??? What is the difference between Nazi “Brown Shirts” and American religious zealot vigilantes?????

“Dred Scott” led to Civil War.” Will “Dobbs”????? Having completed their “work,” do the 6 “conservative” Supreme Court majority members even care? One said they were ignoring what YOU thought. oo