"Respect the decision of the Supreme Court?" SAY WHAT?

President Bush's press marshmallow, Scott McClellan, said the wrong thing at the wrong time, big time. Tom Ambrose of World Net Daily reported on how McClellan was able so deftly to insert his foot into his mouth. Mr. McClellan was asked about that infamous Supreme Court decision of 6-23-05 which abolished one of the key Constitutionally protected Rights of Man-- the right to property:

Amidst a lot of doublespeak, McClellan had a moment of clarity:

I think the president has made his views clear when it comes to private property rights. In terms of Supreme Court decisions, we obviously have to respect the decisions of the Supreme Court.

Tom Ambrose rose in high dudgeon to say so much so well about this awful fifth column third of three powers of the American government. Read his entire article. It is wonderful. I must restrict myself to only a smidgen of its flavor:

It's past time for all of us to wake up. Prior to the signing of the Declaration of Independence, John Hancock said, "We must be unanimous, there must be no pulling different ways; we must all hang together." "Yes," replied Ben Franklin, "we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately." Is this not so now?

Will you join me now so we can save America while it is still possible?

He "gets it" and gets it well.

More and more Americans are arising in frank revolt against this decision made by the Supreme Court. Some televised coverage on 28 June 2005 featured residents of New London, Connecticut, who plan every form of legal resistance.

With the 4th of July almost upon us, what is happening across America adds significantly to my pride as an American. We must revolt, and it looks like that is what more and more of us are doing.

No, we do not need to take up muskets and fire at the Supremes in their red coats, not yet. We have legal options we have not begun to tap.

For example, a year or so ago, the Tennessee governor and legislature tried to ride roughshod over Tennesseans to institute an income tax, after vowing NOT to do so. A Nashville talk radio host served as fuse striker to a mentally well-prepared populace. Reminiscent of the peasants with torches and pitchforks in the movie, Frankenstein, Tennesseans flooded into the capital city with automobiles, trucks, tractors, and whatever other motorized conveyances they could find. The drove around the capitol blowing their horns and blinking their lights.

You know what? They scared the legislators sh__less. Thus ended the Tennessee takeover by the governor and legislature.

This was fully legal, and the legislators "got it."

I do not know what other local revolts are coming, but I do know of one national revolt that we should all get behind. Senator John Cornyn of Texas has introduced Senate Bill S. 1313, The Protection of Homes, Small Businesses, and Private Property Act of 2005. His website offers the the bill text as a pdf file. The intent of his bill is to "... prohibit ... transfers of private property, without the owner’s consent, if federal funds were used, and if the transfer was for purposes of economic development rather than public use."

Right now, this is the best course available to us citizens. It is unrealistic, probably, to expect the kind of fuller thinking and language our Founders might put into a bill, but Senator Cornyn's bill goes far toward rectification. We must support S. 1313 and Senator Cornyn. Reach him by his website and via his District Office, Washington DC, 517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.Washington, DC 20510, Tel: 202-224-2934, Fax: 202-228-2856.

In addition, we must animate our own legislative garden slugs hiding in the dark, wet corners of Washington and who just raised their own salaries (doubtless as a reward for all their good works), to get behind S. 1313 and "git 'r done'! Whether by telephone, or by fax, or by email, FEDEX, or barging into their offices, we must animate our representatives and senators to nullify the 23 June 2005 Supreme Court decision. We have no time to waste, and our cause could not be more important for the long-range future of America and the freedom of Americans.

We can do it. The citizens of Tennessee did it, and there are jillions of other examples. Once raised, our voices not only deafen elected officials and bureaucrats, but we scare them into doing what is right. The worst course we can do is follow the White House press marshmallow's malaise of "... we obviously have to respect the decisions of the Supreme Court." Why must we? They are wrong, morally wrong!