It's very rare when a Supreme Court Justice, retired or not, let's loose his or her opinion on the direction of our country. So, it left me pleasantly surprised to hear retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke out about the troubled path our country is headed in.
Last week in a speech, Justice O'Connor spoke against the ongoing abuse of America's judicial system by the Bush administration. Labeling it as the beginnings of a Dictatorship:
"It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship...but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings."
Oh, wait, there's more as it pertains to recent threats that Judges throughout the nation have been receiving:
"attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders pose a direct threat to our Consitutional freedoms..."
A direct slap in the face to disgraced Fmr House Majority Leader Tom "criminal" DeLay who had this to say after the Terri Schiavo episode in which the Theocratic impulses of the Bush Administration step in to prevent her husband from going through with her wishes of not being hooked up to a feeding tube:
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior."
Well, Mr. DeLay, when will it be time for you to sit down in your prison cell and explain your actions? Hopefully soon.
The speech given by Fmr Justice O'Connor is just as important if not more than the speech that President Bush gave out, just 9 days after 9/11. And, I say that because it's a more honest portrayal of how a country's true values is being rewritten by uneducated barbarians from the eyes of a woman who made history in being the first female judge selected to the highest court in America.
When a Supreme Court Justice, retired or not, speaks out and declares that our nation is in the infancy of a dictatorship we must listen intentively, otherwise, if we tune out those who know more how this country is supposed to work and take not of those who have no regard for our history and the constiution, then we deserve to have all of our freedoms to be stripped away.
And, that's the sad part. Americans, will allow this current administration to eliminate portions if not all the Consitution to protect us from the so-called evil-doers.
In the 3 years that America has occupied Iraq, the Bush Administration has show time in and time out, that they're impotent in how the Middle East works. They should've known that once a Western country comes in, uninvited to a Middle Eastern country, then those people will see us as the true "evil doers." And quite frankly, with Civil War looming in Iraq at any moment, that's what we are.
We've eliminated a sycophant who was our sycophant, and have stragetically turned Iraq into a playground for terrorists. Staining our reputation forever.
And, what good has come from that?
None.
Justice O'Connor's remarks aren't just a shot to a group of thugs who want to strongarm judges into adopting the neo-con manifesto, it's a shot at the aura that has wrapped itself around this country since Bush was elected in 2000.
To create fear among those who will refuse to fall in line with an ideology that could equal to that of Adolf Hitler's.
Fear is the recipe to Bush's success.
When in doubt, make the people believe that Homosexuals, Women, Muslims, Judges, Scientists, and minorities are the plague that continues to pollute America.
The threats that Judge O'Connor and Judge Ginsberg have received are unwarranted and heinous.
Threats that probably would make people like Sean Hannity and Dick Cheney proud.
Their goal is to eliminate constructed thought to the Judiciary and replace it with theocratic ideals. You see, in the eyes of all Neo-Cons throughout the land, all wisdom is not resided to people in black robes but rather the Ten Commandments.
I seem to believe that eight of those commandments are broken on a daily basis. But hey, if a bunch of Neo-Cons want to create a society of soulless zombies who drink out of the kool-aid of perfection, then more power to them.
However, will gather our masses and eliminate them from the political backdrop for good.
Or, maybe not. Because with the current mindset of the Democratic Party, I wonder if we even have a set of balls.
Justice O'Connor's remarks have met with harsh criticism from Tom DeLay. Who said that maybe she should read the Consitiution. An arrogant display of disrespect from a man who fan the flames of anger against judges after the pathetic show of preaching to the choir in the wake of the Terri Schaivo case.
But, what's more appalling is the lack of media coverage, with the exception of Keith Olbermann, that O'Connor's remarks have been given.
It's as if it never happened. A reminder that once again our American press has failed to speak for the country. But, rather cave in to the Mafia crime syndicate that is the Bush administration.
Well, the speech did happen.
And, what came out was as important as anything that has been said in the last 20 years.
This nation, that's been run like a corporation, is under attack by wannabe gangsters posing as government officials, who've continuously have cooked the United States Constitution for their own sick and twisted pleasure.
And, for that, America could fall at any moment. We've lost our reputation first, now comes the freedoms we so love.
Never tune out what Justice O'Connor so eloquently pointed out. If we do, then this nation will deservedly get the government it asked for.