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Funny how these 'super smart' people come out of the woodwork when
they don't like what happened but stay quietly IN the woodwork when
the Constitution was being undermined for 8 years. What is happening
is the right reaction: Buggzy SHOULD be ignored. Go water your
tomatoes, Buggzy.
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001 23:47:56 EDT William Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> <A
>
HREF="http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=2009";>http://www.m
etrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=2009</A>
>
>
>
> … whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these
> ends (life,
> liberty, and the pursuit of happiness) it is the right of the people
> to alter
> or abolish it.
> —Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
>
> ... these five justices have gotten away with murder, and I want to
> do
> whatever I can to make sure that they pay dearly for their crime.
> —Vincent Bugliosi, The Betrayal of America, 2001
>
> Long as we have been a nation, we have celebrated the Fourth of July
> with
> time-honored rituals: parades, red-white-and-blue bunting, a clumsy
> reading
> of the Declaration of Independence to an audience which understands
> perhaps
> half of it, and fireworks.
>
> Backyard barbecues are also part of the sacred ceremony, which has
> undergone
> slight changes with the passage of time. In recent years, the actual
> reading
> of the document has been gradually replaced by a ritual in which one
> or more
> neighborhood children blows off one or more fingers, or perhaps
> takes out an
> eye, with illegal firecrackers. Oddly, this isn’t usually seen as
> a fitting
> commemoration of the glorious martyrs of the Revolution.
>
> Leftist cranks used to suggest the American Revolution was really
> nothing
> more than an effort by rich landowners of the day to minimize their
> tax
> burden.
>
> And while there was a little truth in that, this nation really was,
> all false
> sentiment aside, the best hope of mankind. Which is why I suggest
> you do your
> patriotic duty and buy and read a very important little paperback
> that should
> make you mad: Vincent Bugliosi’s absolutely marvelous The Betrayal
> of
> America: How The Supreme Court Undermined Our Constitution and Chose
> Our
> President (Nation Books, paper, $9.95).
>
> This book is by far the most important of any about last year’s
> election.
> What makes it especially important is that Bugliosi is not just a
> scribbler
> but a super lawyer, the prosecutor who put Charlie Manson away.
> He’s no
> conspiracy-theorist crank, either; he is well-known for arguing Lee
> Harvey
> Oswald acted alone. His last book, Outrage, was a bestseller that
> claimed
> O.J. Simpson was guilty as sin.
>
> And he has put himself at some risk; he argues that the right-wing
> Supreme
> Court justices who handed the election to George W. Bush are
> absolute
> criminals who are essentially guilty of treason. “These five
> justices, by
> their conduct, have forfeited the right to be respected, and only by
> treating
> them the way they deserve to be treated can we demonstrate our
> respect for
> the rule of law they defiled,” he writes.
>
> This isn’t just rhetoric. Calmly, methodically, he demonstrates
> beyond any
> reasonable doubt that there were no principles of law at stake;
> instead, the
> Criminal Five violated all the principles of states’ rights and
> federalism
> they have cited for years.
>
> They wanted only to make sure that their man “won.” What makes
> this even
> more outrageous is that not only didn’t he win, he would, almost
> certainly,
> have been installed anyway, by the House of Representatives.
>
> But instead, the one branch of government previously above reproach
> soiled
> itself.
>
> “Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity
> of the
> winner of this year’s presidential election, the identity of the
> loser is
> perfectly clear. It is this nation’s confidence in [this court] as
> an
> impartial guardian of the rule of law.”
>
> That last quote isn’t Bugliosi, by the way. That’s U.S. Supreme
> Court
> Justice John Paul Stevens — a conservative Republican appointed by
> that
> wild-eyed commie Gerald Ford. Stevens may have voted for Bush, but
> he is a
> man of integrity, a product of a tradition in which the nation’s
> courts
> didn’t steal elections.
>
> This court did. Last week I was in Washington on the last day the
> Supreme
> Court was in session, and went over and sat in the most important
> courtroom
> in America. “Is this where they made Bush president?” I heard a
> girl, who
> looked to be in her early teens, ask her mother. Which is exactly
> what I was
> thinking, less politely.
>
> Last year, I would have looked up at the irregularly shaped chairs
> and
> thought: This was where Brown vs. Board of Education was decided.
> Not any
> more. What Bill Clinton did for the Oval Office as symbol, the five
> criminals
> have done for their chambers.
>
> Now you might think Bugliosi would be getting a lot of attention —
> especially
> since he is the author of the classic book on the Manson family,
> Helter
> Skelter. Instead, he is being virtually ignored.
>
> “I have experienced rejections from shows that have always
> welcomed me in the
> past,” he told the Web zine <A
> HREF="http://www.buzzflash.com/";>Buzzflash</A>. “They all give me
> the same mantra.
> ‘The election is over. Bush won anyway. No one cares
> anymore.’” He isn’t
> surprised; he knows, as many of us do, the essential conformist
> cowardice of
> most in the media — and among liberals.
>
> But Bugliosi isn’t giving up. Why? “Because this is the greatest
> American
> crime since slavery. The Supreme Court actually ruled that Americans
> don’t
> have the right to have their votes counted. This is worse than John
> Wayne
> Gacy.”
>
> He’s right, you know. We shouldn’t accept it. Not even if the
> Shrub weren’t
> the most ignorant and unprepared president in a lifetime, a smug
> little
> right-wing puppet.
>
> “We have to fight,” he pleads, in perhaps the most important
> pro-American
> essay since Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” We know for a fact
> that Sandra
> Day O’Connor helped steal the election so Bush, not Al Gore, could
> name her
> successor.
>
> So every American should urge all Democratic senators not to let
> Bush name
> anyone to the U.S. Supreme Court — to kill any nomination this
> phony
> president sends. Refuse to accept this crime, just as
> African-Americans
> refused to accept Jim Crow. On this Independence Day, I cannot think
> of a
> more truly patriotic thing to do.
>
>
>
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