Whitaker's Current Articles April 17, 2004
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April 17, 2004 -- The
Idea that the Law is Holy is a Costly Myth
April 17, 2004 --
The Holy Black Dress
April 17, 2004 --
Where Mythology Rules, Freedom Dies
April 17, 2004 --
The People Versus the People
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"A sour face is the Devil's religion."
-- John Wesley
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The
Idea that the Law is Holy is a Costly Myth
The legal system is
just one more bureaucracy. It is dangerous to trust any
bureaucracy. But the legal bureaucracy decides life and death
issues. To trust THAT bureaucracy is fatal.
We have over two
million lawyers in the United States. They produce nothing.
All those lawyers
and their employees and their lawsuits and all the paperwork that is
required to avoid lawsuits has been estimated to cost the American
economy about two trillion dollars a year.
I think that
estimate is low.
I hear Shrewd
people saying, "America should have a government of Laws, not of
Men."
Nobody asks them
what the hell they are talking about.
There is no law
that is not made by men, enforced by men, and screwed up by men.
The Constitution of
the United States is the only authority it rests on:
"We the People of
the United States of America."
How can you say
that and then turn around and say "We are a government of laws, not
of men?"
DUHH!
The Holy Black Dress
Back when
the Supreme Court was all male, I used to say, "The United States Supreme Court
consists of nine lawyers who had enough political pull to get themselves made judges.
They were just nine human lawyers before they went on the court, and they are
nine lawyers now."
I would
then add, "But because these nine guys now wear black dresses, they are supposed
to be The Constitution of the United States. If they wore mascara and high
heels, would they be the Bible, too?"
What kind
of superstitious peasant could possibly believe that something called the Law is
somehow something godlike and superhuman? What kind of retard could believe
that a man has the right to be a dictator because he wears a black dress?
Judges
today are, in fact, dictators. Here is what I said in the Introduction to my
1982 anthology for St. Martin's press, "The New Right Papers:"
"Several papers in this book deal, in one way or another, with the restoration
of popular rule."
"
Professor William A Stanmeyer's discussion of the imperial
judiciary explains, from the point o"f view of a legal scholar, the steady
erosion of the power of elected officials, and the increasing use of the
Constitution as an excuse for, rather than as a source of, judicial
decisions. Behind such decisions ranges the full power of the United States
Government. A situation where one man's personal judgment is law
has a name, and it is not democracy."
Where Mythology Rules,
Freedom Dies
Freedom is based on a very unromantic idea. It says people
should do what they want to.
The easiest way
to destroy freedom is to trivialize it. You just say "We could
avoid a lot of accidents if we did this, and the reason for not
doing it is because somebody just WANTS to do something else, for
no reason at all."
You go straight
from there to the Marxist myth of Social Progress, which the term
"progressive" is now based on, and from there you go to
dictatorship. If we have a Higher Mission, there is no room for
Freedom.
Every
totalitarian society worships The Law.
When the Supreme
Court overrules the will of the American people, it says it is
"interpreting the Constitution." If
you "interpret" the Constitution, you ARE the Constitution.
Barry Goldwater
pointed out in his 1958 book, "The Conscience of a Conservative,"
that EVERY public official has to interpret the Constitution.
He
takes an oath to uphold the Constitution against all enemies,
including an enemy in a black dress.
Who said the
courts were supposed to be the Constitution? Certainly not the
Constitution itself. If it meant that, it would have said it.
Who gave the
Supreme Court the right to be the Constitution?
The Supreme Court
did.
If one branch of
government IS the Constitution, then the balance of powers between
the different branches of government simply does not exist.
The People Versus the People
The
Constitution says that its only source of authority is , "We the People of the
United States of America."
So nine
lawyers in black dresses overrule the popular will in the name of "We the People
of the United States of America."
How far
can you go if you say you are "interpreting" the Constitution?
O'Reilly says the Founding Fathers demanded interracial high school dances
because they called it the UNITED States of America.
He's
serious.
Once you
start "interpreting" the Constitution, there is no limit to how ridiculous you
can get.
And you
can kill anybody who gets in your way.
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