Why Bother Voting?
By Dave Gibson (04/01/05)
The judiciary branch has become the only branch of government which seems to matter. The executive and legislative branches have been rendered meaningless. Thus, our vote has become just as meaningless.
The responsibility placed upon a federal judge is to simply hand-down decisions which are based upon the U.S. Constitution. Or rather to interpret the law as it is written--not create laws according to their own personal preferences.
Abortion (Roe v. Wade), Affirmative Action (Regents of the Univ. of California v. Bakke), offering legitimacy to homosexuality (Lawrence v. Texas), granting amnesty to death-row inmates (Roper v. Simmons) have all become law due to the opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court. Though all of those actions are opposed by a majority of Americans, and the decisions simply dismissed laws passed by many state legislatures--the nine-member oligarchy known as the U.S. Supreme Court discount any opinion other than their own.
We elect representatives both at the state and federal level to pass laws which reflect our wishes for community standards. Judges exist to enforce those community standards, when they are ignored. Period.
Judges are not law-makers. However, that is exactly what they have become. The time has come to re-examine the power and boundaries of our federal judiciary. The Supreme Court is a prime example of how a blood-less coup can take place, without anyone taking notice until it is too late. The High Court is also a great example of the old axiom "absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Not only have our state and federal laws been made useless, but our Constitution has truly become nothing more than a museum piece. The federal courts, run by liberal activist judges have in effect become mini-dictators. While the Supreme Court has become the Supreme Council of Dictators!...We no longer live in a republic, but a dictatorship.
Many brutal and even death-worshipping dictatorships have come into power relatively innocuously, while espousing so-called high-minded ideals. The Nazi party of Germany comes to mind.
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