The Constitution Restoration Act? Hello Taliban America

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Thu, 7 Apr 2005 20:39:14 -0400

Hello Taliban America

 

 

 

FW: The Constitution Restoration Act

 

 

The Constitution Restoration Act

 

 

Neo-Cons are using religion and misleading terminology like

`Constitution Restoration Act' to mask their attempts at rewriting the

Constitution. Is America even paying attention? Most people who buy

into the present day `American Delusion' are not aware of the efforts

by Neo-Conservatives to restructure American Doctrine to their liking.

We're on the brink of a Constitutional Crisis. Be informed, or be

manipulated. Pass it on...

 

Also check out a collection of quotes provided by Thomas at

the end of this email.

 

 

ZNet | Criminal Justice System

 

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=104 & ItemID=7569

Introducing The Constitution Restoration Act

 

Say Hello To Taliban America

And Goodbye To Godless Judges, Courts And Law

 

by W. David Kubiak; April 03, 2005

 

Tired of waiting for the Second Coming to enforce Christ's

rule on Earth? Fortunately, so is your Congress and they know how to

" bring it on. "

 

Just when you thought the corporatist/Christian Coalition

had milked the 9/11 " surprise " for all it was worth in powers, profits

and votes, we regret to report that you may have to think again. Just

in case you've briefly fallen behind on your rightwing mailing lists,

you might have missed the March 3rd filing of Senate bill S. 520 and

House version is H.R. 1070, AKA the " Constitution Restoration Act " (CRA).

 

In the worshipful words of the Conservative Caucus, this

historic legislation will " RESTORE OUR CONSTITUTION! " , mainly by

barring ANY federal court or judge from ever again reviewing " any

matter to the extent that relief is sought against an entity of

Federal, State, or local government, or against an officer or agent of

Federal, State, or local government (whether or not acting in official

or personal capacity), concerning that entity's, officer's, or agent's

acknowledgment of God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or

government. " [Emphasis demanded - see full text here:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.520:]

 

In other words, the bill ensures that God's divine word

(and our infallible leaders' interpretation thereof) will hereafter

trump all our pathetic democratic notions about freedom, law and

rights -- and our courts can't say a thing. This, of course, will take

" In God We Trust " to an entirely new level, because soon He (and His

personally anointed political elite) will be all the legal recourse we

have left.

 

This is not a joke, a test, or a fit of libertarian

paranoia. The CRA already has 28 sponsors in the House and Senate, and

a March 20 call to lead sponsor Sen. Richard Shelby's office assures

us that " we have the votes for passage. " This is a highly credible

projection as Bill Moyers observes in his 3/24/05 " Welcome to

Doomsday " piece in the New York Review of Books: " The corporate,

political, and religious right's hammerlock... extends to the US

Congress. Nearly half of its members before the election-231

legislators in all (more since the election)-are backed by the

religious right... Forty-five senators and 186 members of the 108th

Congress earned 80 to 100 percent approval ratings from the most

influential Christian Right advocacy groups. "

 

This stunning bill and the movement behind it deserve

immediate crash study on at least 3 different fronts.

 

 

1. Its hostile divorce of American jurisprudence from

our hard-won secular history and international norms. To again quote

the Conservative Caucus: " This important bill will restrict the

jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court and all lower federal courts to

that permitted by the U.S. Constitution, including on the subject of

the acknowledgement of God (as in the Roy Moore 10 Commandments

issue); and it also restricts federal courts from recognizing the laws

of foreign countries and international law [e.g., against torture,

global warming, unjust wars, etc. - ed.] as the supreme law of our land. "

 

Re the last point, envision some doddering judges who

still revere our Declaration of Independence's " decent respect to the

opinions of mankind, " and suppose they invoke in their rulings some

international precepts from the UN's Universal Declaration of Human

Rights, the Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination

against Women or, God forbid, the Geneva Conventions. Well, under the

CRA that would all be clearly illegal and, thank God, that's the last

we'd ever hear from them.

 

2. The political implications of replacing " we the

people " with a Christian deity as the " sovereign source " of all our laws.

 

Imagine hyper-zealous officers or " entities " of the

Federal, State, or local government (like a governor, legislature or

school board) that mandate Christian prayers, rituals and/or statuary

in public buildings under their control. Were this to happen, some

local Jews, Muslims and/or Buddhists might be moved to hire a lawyer

and legally object. But if the CRA passes, their objection would be

beyond any court's jurisdiction and that's the last we'd ever hear of

that. It in fact demands " impeachment, conviction, and removal of

judges " who dare to even hear a case that challenges its " Last Days "

morphing of Christian church and state. (Just how our new Sovereign

Source of Government's advocacy of public executions for adultery,

gay-ness, contraception and blasphemy will fit into our current

corrections system still remains to be seen.)

 

3 The incessant mainstream media blackout on the

bill's existence and import.

 

The potential impact of the Constitution Restoration

Act on American life, law and politics is so radical and vast that you

would expect a boiling national debate. Yet just as with the crimes

and questions of 9/11, everyone in the media seems terrifically busy

looking the other way. If you want yet another dramatic metric of US

journalistic dysfunction, try Googling " Constitution Restoration Act "

in their News category and see what you get. Today, three weeks after

the bill was filed, I find a grand total of three throwaway mentions

in Alabama's Shelby County Reporter, the Decatur Daily, and the

Massachusetts Daily Collegian. ( " Terry Schiavo " in contrast will net

you over a thousand news hits, and " Michael Jackson " just passed

36,000 with a bullet.)

 

 

If the Alabama paper interest seems a little odd or

sponsor Shelby's name a bit familiar, you should recall that this old

boy AL senator was high among those same wonderful folks who kicked

off the 9/11 cover-up. As his Senate bio proudly relates:

 

" From 1995 to 2003, Senator Shelby served on the Senate

Select Committee on Intelligence. In this capacity, he and the other

committee members provided oversight of the intelligence community,

and following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Senator Shelby

served diligently to investigate the intelligence failures that led to

those attacks. " [Emphasis demanded again.]

 

Got that? First he " oversees " intelligence for six years

before 9/11, then " diligently investigates " its bizarre " failures " for

two years more, and finally finds--in a no-fault judgment--it was all

due to " deep institutional defects " and " systemic miscommunication "

that he'd apparently never noticed or heard about before. Having so

brilliantly defended the country before 9/11 and the official story

since, some seem to find it comforting that he's now busy defending

our court-harassed Constitution with a legally bulletproofed God.

Some, alas, do not -- feel comforted, that is, either by Shelby's

blurry oversight or fundamentalist agenda, not to mention the

Orwellian performance of our autistic corporate press.

 

In the meantime, however, before the CRA takes force and

reduces legal education to a Bible study course, what say we undertake

a little Constitutional defense of our own? To get up to speed on the

current Christian right agenda, Moyers' " Welcome to Doomsday " ,

Katherine Yurica's " The Despoiling of America " and John " The 9/11

Truth Candidate " Buchanan's " Fixing America " are excellent places to

start.

 

None of these analyses offer a silver bullet or paint a

pretty picture, but as students of 9/11 now know, spreading the

courage to face the truth is really the only hope we've got.

 

 

W. David Kubiak is a Project Censored award-winning journalist

and executive director of 911truth.org. He can be reached at

david(at)911truth.org. (He is indebted to John Buchanan for the latest

heads-up on this story and the Shelby office call.)

 

___________________

 

I thought I would pass on a few relevant quotes to inspire

what needs to be civil disobedience, resistance, and revolutionary

thought and action if our freedoms and rights are to survive. This

nation was birthed on the principal that whenever the government no

longer is by the people, for the people and of the people that we had

the right to overthrow that government and its oppression. The first

settlers came here to escape the persecution of " State Churches " that

existed in most places in Europe at the time. We cannot allow the

" Religious Right " and their " Neo-conservative advocates that have

taken over Congress and the White House, cow the Judiciary and

establish what amounts to a " State Church " with rulers that govern

ostensibly by " Divine Right. " These folks are pushing us toward a

second American Revolution, which I personally support.

 

Thomas

 

 

--

" [ ... ] when a long train of abuses and usurpation's,

pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them

under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to

throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future

security. "

---The Declaration of Independence

July 4, 1776

 

--

" Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it

something that is fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual

process embedded in the human spirit. "

-Abbie Hoffman

 

--

" Revolution is a serious thing, the most serious thing about a

revolutionary's life. When one commits oneself to the struggle, it

must be for a lifetime. "

Angela Davis

 

--

" If there is no struggle, there is no progress. "

--Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)

 

--

" The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what

kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire

need of creative extremists. "

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

--

" As to the history of the Revolution, my ideas may be

peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the Revolution? The

War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and

Consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the People... "

---John Adams

 

--

" The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to

establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of

every human being to liberty and well-being. "

Emma Goldman

 

--

" When the people fear the government you have tyranny...when

the government fears the people you have liberty. "

- Thomas Jefferson

 

--

" Now it is high time to awake out of sleep. "

-St. Paul to the Romans

 

 

 

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