Jakubczyk on Common Sense

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

TYRANNY OF THE JUDICIARY


As we ponder the price of our freedoms and the sacrifices made by our soldiers and sailors today and in days past, we do well to consider the ever increasing encroachment by our judiciary at the state and federal courts upon our liberties and our right to direct our government and its representatives.

All who have visited this site can attest to the most egregious example of judicial interference in the role and rule of law. The legal disaster that is Roe v Wade has not only been responsible for the killing of over 40 million children but it has wounded the law and gutted the moral purpose for government and our legal system. Because there are those who truly care for the rule of law and the sanctity of life, the ba ttle has been engaged for the last thirty-three years. Though abortion is still allowed, it has never achieved the acceptance in society its perpetrators demanded. And as much as the Supreme Court, the liberal media and the entertainment types with their leftist lackeys in government have tried to force this down the throats of the American people, there has been a reaction and a response objecting to this acquiescence to wholesale slaughter of innocents. Granted many people just as soon never address the problem because of the commitment it requires. Still there is a gut reaction by most ordinary people that abortion is a bad thing.

Yet abortion is not the only means by which the judiciary in this country seeks to establish themselves as the aristocracy of our nation. Whether it be interference in obvious state matters or an expansive reading of plain language, more judges are sitting as if they were the philosopher-kings of Plato’s ideal Republic. They only problem with such moralizing is that their decisions seem to run contrary to anything remotely resembling common sense.

The latest attack on the democratic process has been a running story about a cross, a city and a park.

A long time ago some people wanted to honor their war dead in a seaside town known as San Diego. These people erected a cross on one of the hills called Soledad. And so it happened. And for many years the people of San Diego looked with pride recalling the sacrifices made by those who served their country. The fact that San Diego had the Naval Training Camp and North Island, along with the Marine camp at Pendleton only underscored this city’s respect for those who served.

Then along came an atheist who filed suit, claiming that the erection and maintenance of this cross, violated the First Amendment. Instead of throwing this lawsuit out as being a frivolous action, the court actually entertained the suit and ruled in favor of the atheist. So the people of San Diego tried to transfer the cross to a private foundation. No good, said the judge. Then the people voted 75% to give it to the Federal government as a formal war memorial. Again, not allowed said the judge. The judge ordered the cross be removed or the city would face fines and penalties. Indeed the order was to have it removed in two weeks. So we thank Justice Kennedy for putting a stay on hat order. And we thank those lawyers who have stood up against this tyranny of a sitting federal judge.

Congress should impeach this fellow. He should not be a judge.

Reminds me of a fellow named King George.