There is reason to hope. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will not attend this evening’s State of The Union Address. She joins many of us across the nation and around the world as we boycott the president’s State Of The Union speech to Congress.
This act of strategic peaceful nonviolent protest is but the latest example by a prominent figure of how to make a stand, how to reject a vile sinister agenda that is most antithetical to democracy, how to say no, not now, not here, not on my watch. This is how a true Patriot acts. May many, many others emulate this act.
Hopefully, surely the esteemed Justice Ginsberg supports SCOTUS case #17-857, docketed with a response due 1/16/18, two weeks now overdue as of this writing. The case petitions the Supreme Court for redress of grievances and seeks a Writ of Mandamus to address the fact that the 2016 election was neither free nor fair.
The true State Of The Union today?
We were attacked. We have known we were under attack. We know that we will be attacked again. Indeed we are yet under attack, from without and from within. We are not alone, democracy everywhere has been and is under attack. We have been infiltrated to a degree most simply cannot comprehend, so they chose to deny, or are complicit. Our enemies are poised to strike a death blow that will render the world a very very different place, indeed if we even survive.
Our elected officials, our Members of Congress, are helpless, held hostage, many are complicit and are obstructing the various efforts to investigate this attack ongoing.
Our Executive Branch has been busy systematically dismantling, disrupting and destroying the institutions that protect us, rolling back regulations designed to protect the environment, eroding faith in the free press, the FBI, the DOJ, spreading lies and hate and discord, controlling information and consolidating power. Now, by refusing to enact and enforce near unanimously bi-partisan legislated sanctions against Russia, who has sought and continues to seek to undermine our democracy, the treasonous agenda to enable the attack ongoing is irrefutable. The words dereliction of duty aren’t quite adequate enough to embrace the sheer audacity of such unprecedented support of the enemy.
Our Judicial Branch served as check on the Muslim ban, but with Gorsuch seated in the stolen SCOTUS seat, and bench appointments ongoing of unqualified persons, how long will our Judicial Branch be able to function as designed as a check to balance power? Indeed any action undertaken such as the docketed SCOTUS case #17-857, would take time. We are quickly running out of time, as duly noted and chronicled in Amy Siskind’s The Weekly List.
In summation regarding the current State Of The Union: we are under attack from enemies without and from within. We are infiltrated. The enemy is poised to strike. Two branches of our government, the executive and the legislative, are compromised, the third, the judicial branch, is holding fast and gives us some reason to hope. Although the Fourth Estate has let us down, and appears to have largely sold out, many of its journalists compromised, or complicit, many journalists have dug in to expose widespread corruption and continue to do so, some such as Daphne Caruana Galizia, author of the Panama Papers, have paid for doing so with their lives.
Before this dire sinking state of affairs worsens, We the People must rise to the occasion: the responsibility to save the Republic and preserve our freedom rests upon our shoulders.
We are after all governed by consent, and by consent alone.
Every moment we hesitate makes the task at hand that much harder, riskier and less attainable.
“You will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve YOUR freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it.” — John Adams
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” – Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)