II. Jigsaw
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The real question is: What "good for one use only" legal doctrine will Roberts, Miers, Scalia and Thomas adopt this time.
I. Stare Decisis (UPDATED)
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Tyranny of Words the Law and the courts.
America has reach the backside of the event horizon of organised, institutionalised corruption and fraud on every level. Where protection rackets, embezzlement, larceny, confiscation, entrapment, misappropriation, and rico crimes, as well as murder have become the norm; by bullies, fraudsters, pervert soul sick class elites, politicians with their sykophants*, lobbys, lawyers of the Kelptomania class who run everything. A litigation nation where truth is treason, justice is a mockery, and liberty is for sale to the highest bidder, where action of the State, arising from suspicion and not from proof, has degenerated into the satisfaction of vendettas by a “coin-operated congress”, a “blue-blooded-aristocratic Senate” and finally, a power hungry blood thirsty executive branch- a general system of tyranny, all in the name of “public safety.”
The general public means nothing to them, we have been and are being, carved out like a pumpkin, the seeds spit in our faces, while they laugh at our poverty. “The essential political choice is the same as it always was: “freedom or security” nor, is the blame entirely with the warmongers, plutocrats, and demagogues.
If a people permit exploitation and regimentation in any name they deserve their slavery. The law has always been perverted to serve the “haves” and not the “haves-not”, only not always as heavy handed as it is now. We have made progress in the recent past with “the New Deal”, labor unions, civil rights, and the constitution. Only within the last few decades have the ruling elites pushed back, with their hatred of liberal democracy. What once existied in ancient Athens – now hold sway in America and Britain , (it’s transatlantic and trans-national now ) where powerful and corrupt individuals, organizations and corporations are routinely using threats of vexatious and malicious litigation to bully and oppress ordinary innocent and working class people.
Coercion seems to be covering-up greater crimes committed by these individuals / organizations. Their corrupt misuse of Law takes the form of restraint of trade and prevention of free speech, eminent domain, tax cuts for the top 1%, hidden fiat/poll-taxes, money laundering in off shore bankings and usury interests and loans. All nothing more than hypocrisy, hiding behind law.
Take for instance, What Congress Does Not Know about Enron and 9/11.
I’m sure you could come up with hundreds of other examples but make no mistake, “the Class War” has shifted and started a dramatic new phase of Supernova proportions with The Rise of Rove’s Republic. And the one thing that todays “New America” has in common is the elite stranglehold on Politics, medicine, law, policing, media, bureaucracy etc. where, they are all “self-regulating”. Further, and not so coincidentally, all these ‘trades’ tend, more or less, to control their own incomes at the top levels. [i.e. the fat cats decide their own].
RANT OVER. Note: I got more, but didn’t want to hog up space…
*SYKOPHANCY – “Generally, sykophancy has been viewed as an “inevitable disease” that plagued a society “where the chances of perverting justice were so numerous because of the character of the courts” (Lofberg 1917, 10).
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 17 2005 14:35 utc | 1
To judge from some very recent press reports of Scalia’s allergy to reporters, something seems to be gnawing at the innards of Scalia these days. Perhaps he knows that he can’t intervene in the Justice Department’s proceedings. Or perhaps (we should rather say): Scalia can only look on while Fitzgerald sends a favored hunting companion off to one of those places where folks bearing arms are also the folks enforcing the law.
Posted by: alabama | Oct 17 2005 14:53 utc | 2
In Paula Jones’ case it was a matter of consensual sex between adults. Now we are looking at a case of compromising America’s intelligence agents for political reasons.
The Rove approach worked well for election campaigns: once they are over, Americans tend to forget about them and look to the future. But the war in Iraq has become bogged down and has dragged out for too long, now all those loose ends are starting to unwravel.
Posted by: ralphieboy | Oct 17 2005 15:10 utc | 3
Uncle,
You have never hogged up space in my estimation. I never miss a through read of your rants and follow many of your links.
Don’t go and get modest on us.
Posted by: Juannie | Oct 17 2005 15:25 utc | 4
The real question is: What “good for one use only” legal doctrine will Roberts, Miers, Scalia and Thomas adopt this time.
The Emily LaTella Doctrine, “Never Mind.”
Posted by: mpower1952 | Oct 17 2005 15:26 utc | 5
Correction: The Paula Jones case permitted civil cases to go forward against constitutional officers (president, vice president) for matters that occurred before they were in executive office. Clinton asked that the case be stayed until his term was over, and the court said no, with Justice Steven’s now-famous remark that the civil proceedings shouldn’t interfere much with the president’s duties.
Since what Bush, Cheney, Rove and Libby did was while they were in office, the Paula Jones case wouldn’t seem to help. While I think its the wrong result ethically, under current law a civil action for damages against a siting constitutional officer for conduct during their term of office would almost certaintly be dismissed. This is in contrast to the famous Nixon supreme court case (Richard, not Alcee) which said that criminal investigations against constitutional officers are A-OK.
Posted by: doug | Oct 17 2005 16:24 utc | 6
Thanks Doug for ruining my day! ha
Perhaps they will set a new precedent. I know, and pigs fly.
Posted by: mpower1952 | Oct 17 2005 16:30 utc | 7
Scalia may be having buyers remorse. Or, maybe I’m giving him too much credit. I know the supreme court will think a million times over before deciding another election.
I don’t believe they can get around the Paula Jones case. But I know this, if it was BillClinton in this Plamegate mess, he would have been inpeach ten times already.
Jerome had a post at kos, that showed when wages and savings started tanking. In the mid seventies after David Rockefeller got his tr-lat carter in the White House. They have proceeded to create a Argentine movement in the US, and Dave Rs Chase Manhatten bank was the main culprit in that fiasco.
Uncle, your rant is right on. The country is being run by plutocrats and until a middle class revolt taje place, they will push the envelope on evicerating any symblance of people power in the US. Family connection as Mike Vidals article at Counterpunch says is the only way up.
Posted by: jdp | Oct 17 2005 16:34 utc | 8
uncle, i read all your posts very slowly and follow all the links. you open doors for me. don’t ever stop.
Posted by: annie | Oct 17 2005 20:16 utc | 9
JDP, would you pls. elaborate on this, for we econ. illiterates?
They have proceeded to create a Argentine movement in the US, and Dave Rs Chase Manhatten bank was the main culprit in that fiasco.
What’s never discussed is the politics of Credit Cards. I assume that everyone here realizes that the fascists could never have implemented their plan to bankrupt us if not for them – which is one reason it infuriates me when people now turn around & blame Americans for not living “w/in their means”. W/out credit cards, people would have been demanding political changes ‘cuz they could no longer afford to live, much less send their children to college. Credit cards allowed this realization to be put off until the Pirates had bought up the entire political class, and the system of stealing the wages of the middle classes by shipping their jobs overseas or letting hordes of aliens in to destroy the wage scale was all but irreversible. Now, that the Pirates of Wall Street have simultaneously stolen virtually everything, bankrupted the nation & the middle class, they can seal the economic, if not physical, exits via the bankruptcy bill & declare martial law.
Credit Cards depoliticized America. They took economic issues off the table, allowing repugs to cobble tog. a coalition of Econ. & Religious Fundies. They camouflaged the most brutal economic & political warfare of the century, transforming the deliberate bankrupting of Americans into a personal problem of over-consumption.
(P.S. This is why that goddamn sen. barak obama must never be considered anything but The Enemy. When push comes to shove (ie Bankruptcy Bill), he’s in bed w/the Pirates.)
Posted by: jj | Oct 17 2005 21:02 utc | 10
@jj,jdp et al
frontline: secret history of the credit card: watch online | PBS
See the pirates at work…
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Oct 17 2005 22:20 utc | 12
jj,
sorry not to elaborate. David Rockefeller and Chase bank backed all kind of third world central and south american dictators. Then they would loan them large amounts of money that couldn’t be paid back. The IMF and world bank would come in and require harsh taxes and spending restraint impoverishing the populations during re-payment. Argentina jsut refused to pay back last year.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s many countries defaulted. The loans to central and south american countries ended up repackaged into Brady Bonds named after Nicholas Brady, Reagans treasury secretary. So the banks got paid back, people starved and debt got floated in the world bond market.
Now, the Tri-Lats, if you read Holly Sklars “Trilateralism” planned out creating a mass consumer society. The labor movement had made great strides into the middle seventies. The personal savings rate was up, home equity was high and the elite saw that the heartland was flush with cash. That just didn’t seem right to the economic elite. So they created financial instruments to take the money away creating the consumer society, ie, ten cars in every driveway, five TVs in every house, credits cards, home equity loans, etc. In thirty years, the country has went completely down hill with a total of 37 trillion in US debt (private, govt etc.) From the biggest creditor nation the largest debtor nation.
David Rockefeller and his cabal was the architects of this mess. It is no conspiracy, they believe what their doing is how things should work. Their the elite. They run the show. Its called elite theory and I have mentioned this many times on this forum.
Thus they have created and are creating macro economic structural displacement of people and populations throughout the world.
The bottom line is debt and usury (which fires the US economic system) has created current world affairs.
Posted by: jdp | Oct 18 2005 1:59 utc | 13
I’m not sure why there was a correction posted on this. I’m not a lawyer but a lawyer and a former White House Counsel who might have some knowledge of White House dirty tricks and the effects of suits brought in response has posted an opinion on the subject.
More vicious than Tricky Dick
John Dean says the Bush team’s leaks are even viler than his former boss’s — and that Plame and Wilson should file a civil suit.
By John W. Dean
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/10/03/dean/index.html
Posted by: Amos Anan | Oct 18 2005 2:30 utc | 14