02-15-2016, 05:04 PM
I believe that comparisons to Hitler are overused today, but if you review his methodology, it is very easy to see what is happening in America.
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” Adolf Hitler
Antonio Scalia stood as a bulwark against those changes, and without him, we are in the gravest of dangers. The Supreme Court affects our lives in more ways than the President does. The Roe vs Wade decision has allowed 58,000,000 abortions since 1973. Regardless of anyone's personal belief about abortion, no one can deny how many people that one single decision has affected. Miranda affects millions every day. Brown vs. the Board of Education has affected every school child for 60 years. Dred Scott led to the Civil War.
If the Senate allows confirmation of another Justice who believes that the Constitution is a "living" document and can be interpreted in ways other than original intent, we are as a country, doomed.
Scalia was correct when he said, "That’s the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn’t say other things."
A post I read 4 years ago may be 100% correct. It said, "You aren't voting yourself out of this." The death of Antonin Scalia may very well be the tipping point that makes that true.
I am glad my children are raised, because I believe more and more in Thomas Paine's statement, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.” Adolf Hitler
Antonio Scalia stood as a bulwark against those changes, and without him, we are in the gravest of dangers. The Supreme Court affects our lives in more ways than the President does. The Roe vs Wade decision has allowed 58,000,000 abortions since 1973. Regardless of anyone's personal belief about abortion, no one can deny how many people that one single decision has affected. Miranda affects millions every day. Brown vs. the Board of Education has affected every school child for 60 years. Dred Scott led to the Civil War.
If the Senate allows confirmation of another Justice who believes that the Constitution is a "living" document and can be interpreted in ways other than original intent, we are as a country, doomed.
Scalia was correct when he said, "That’s the argument of flexibility and it goes something like this: The Constitution is over 200 years old and societies change. It has to change with society, like a living organism, or it will become brittle and break. But you would have to be an idiot to believe that. The Constitution is not a living organism, it is a legal document. It says something and doesn’t say other things."
A post I read 4 years ago may be 100% correct. It said, "You aren't voting yourself out of this." The death of Antonin Scalia may very well be the tipping point that makes that true.
I am glad my children are raised, because I believe more and more in Thomas Paine's statement, “If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt