Talk about the foxes guarding the chicken coop - a five to four majority on the Supreme Court has just chewed up any last vestiges of personal property rights guaranteed by the constitution.
In spite of the fact that our federal government has long subverted and misinterpreted our constitution, the recent "eminent domain" ruling by the Supreme Court was a clarion call to the citizens to rise up and take back our liberties. Not that it will happen - we have become way too complacent for that.
Our local radio talk show hosts have contended that this is conservatism or liberalism at its worst, depending on which one you listen to. They ended up in a compromise, saying it is neither, that neither side likes it and that the ruling came out of nowhere. I disagree. It isn't conservatism or liberalism at its worst, it is simply liberalism at its socialist core and we have been heading that direction on both sides of the political aisle for generations. It has just accelerated to an attention getting speed in recent years.
This isn't about empowering big land developers (which the liberal press mischaracterizes as a conservative idea), it is about the rights of individuals being usurped by the government for the supposed benefit of the collective - a purely liberal idea. I.E., "the government knows best."
Paul Harvey said it best, "The communism we defeated at the Berlin Wall has found a new home in New London, Connecticut." I would argue only that its new home is instead in the chambers of the Supreme Court justices. The justices on the majority side of this decision should be impeached for their blatant disregard of the constitution they are sworn to uphold. Then they should be disbarred for their blatant abuse of power and total lack of judicial ethics.
No wonder they keep trying to take away our guns and our pens.
Thomas Jefferson said, "And what country can preserve its liberties, if it's rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
I only hope that there are enough patriots left to make a significant impact at the polls. Failing that, we are headed for either a second revolution, which, due to modern technology, is doomed to fail or to a life of servitude to a government that is supposed to serve us. I strongly suspect the latter.
Unfortunately, neither of the two major parties will well represent us in this struggle to regain our lost liberties. They are only interested in expanding their own power. And, unfortunately, "we, the people," are evidently too blind to realize that no political party has earned our loyalty.
The unfortunate truth is that we will continue to suck up the slop that the mainstream press flushes at us instead of making the effort to do some research, study history and think for ourselves. We will continue to vote Democrat or Republican like our parents did, just because they did. We seem to be incapable of learning from the past and switching our support to a more deserving third party.
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This actually has nothing to do with your last post. It has to do with the comment you left on mine on June 15, 2005 ( Wil's Rant- http://wilsrant.blogspot.com/2005_06_01_wilsrant_archive.html) concerning global warming. Your points gave me cause to do a little research, beyond the news headlines, on the subject. I still don't consider it a wild-eyed theory as you called it. I do however accept that it is in fact a theory. I have come to agree that there is nowhere near enough real evidence to support the conclusion that we are responsible for the current warming trend. In fact there is doubt that once we take into consideration the addition of local warming affects, such as cities, there may in fact not be any overall warming at all. I can only conclude from my research that we have an intense need for much more study and we currently have very little knowledge of the over-all patterns of the weather when applied to short time scales. I do believe that with recent data we are warming slighlty. How much so is very much in doubt. That actually supports my point which is to say that because we know so little we should be very careful about any net affect we have on the environment. A little change can create major differences in the net result of any reaction. There is great hope that a large part of the current patterns are the result of a solar flare cycle and this will end in ten or twenty years. I do agree that a lot of the media coverage over the environmental questiosn is based on poor science and is therefore tainted. All the more reason to study it properly.
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