Fade Resistance Performance
The travesty of justice in the 1965 case of Griswold v. Connecticut had extremely far reaching implications regarding the Government's involvement in the personal or private affairs of the People. Ultimately, it laid part of the groundwork for the Supreme Court's even more radical 1973 ruling in forthcoming case of Roe v. Wade.
In 1993 the Court handed down one of the most bizarre decisions of all time. For two decades, enemies of legal abortion had been supporting Republican candidates in the hope of filling the Court with appointees who would review Roe v. Wade. In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Court finally did so. But even with eight Republican appointees on the Court, the result was not what the conservatives had desperately hoped for. The Court reaffirmed Roe.
Its reasoning was amazing. A plurality opinion admitted that the Court's previous ruling in Roe might be logically and historically vulnerable. But it held that the paramount consideration was that the Court be consistent, and not appear to be yielding to public pressure, lest it lose the respect of the public. The Court in effect declared itself a third party to the controversy, and then, setting aside the merits of the two principals' claims, ruled in its own interest and in doing so, allowed Roe to stand!
It was as if three umpires in the final game of the world-series in baseball sent both teams home and declared the ball-field the winner. Cynics had always suspected that the Supreme Court did not forget its self-interest in its decisions, but they never expected to hear it say so with such overwhelmingly blatant clarity.
The three justices who signed that opinion evidently didn't realize what they were saying. A distinguished veteran Court-watcher who approved of Roe, said he had never seen anything like it - The Court was actually telling us that it put its own welfare ahead of the merits of the arguments before it and in its confusion, blurted out the truth.
Very few Americans today, even know the original constitutional plan or the Freedoms and Rights it was intended to Serve and Protect. The original plan was as Madison and Tocqueville described it: State government was to be the rule, federal government the exception. The States' powers were to be "numerous and indefinite", federal powers "few and defined".
The simple elegance of the precepts on which the Constitution was engineered is a matter not only of American heritage and world history, but of ironclad logic: the Constitution simply doesn't make sense when read any other way, then or now. As Madison asked, Why bother listing particular federal powers unless unlisted powers are withheld?
Like the ever-rising floodwaters of a swollen river, the unchecked federal Government has not only overflowed its banks; it has even created its own economy. Thanks to its exercise of myriad unwarranted powers, it can claim tens of millions of dependents, at least part of whose income is made possible due to the abuse of the taxing and spending powers for their benefit...
Large numbers of government employees, retirees, farmers, contractors, teachers, artists, even soldiers are paid much more than their market value because the taxpayer is forced to subsidize them. Our militia should have the best equipment with most advanced technology, but should the American people be paying fifty thousand dollars annually along with 100% major medical and dental care plus retirement pension to the military equivalent of a high school educated civilian store clerk?
By the same token, most taxpayers in this country would instantly be better off if the federal government simply ceased to exist - or better yet, if it suddenly returned to its constitutional functions. Can we restore the Constitution and recover our freedom? Why, sure we can! Like all great reforms, it will take an intelligent, determined effort by many people.
By deploying intelligent determination it becomes a very simple task to pluck our heads from out of our asses. Oh yes, it's not difficult at all. Then everywhere you go, and all the friends that you know, and all the people that you meet, and even those in the street; proactively set out to annihilate stupidity and apathy for without those two, ignorance will self-destruct. Bondage is lost, Freedom is delivered. This is the way of the Patriot.