Today, Pat Buchanan released the following statement:
"Yesterday, the American people were given a brute demonstration of how their constitutional right to govern themselves has been usurped by an imperial judiciary. They may also see today just how far that imperial judiciary has gone in repudiating the moral order, as Western civilization has always understood it.
"The Vermont Supreme Court gave advocates of homosexual marriage what they have repeatedly failed to win before the bar of public opinion. The court unilaterally ceded to homosexual liaisons all the legal benefits of married couples, and declared outdated and obsolete the Judeo-Christian idea that traditional marriage deserves special consideration. The Vermont judges have thus, in an afternoon, overturned thousands of years of tradition and law that defined marriage as a sacred bond between a man and a woman. This is judicial dictatorship.
"On the very same day, a federal district judge in Cleveland ruled that a voucher program passed by the Ohio legislature was unconstitutional, because parents used the vouchers to send their children to religious schools. There in a nutshell is the mindset of the judges who now rule over us: 'Gay marriage good; religious schools bad.' Without the consent of the American people, a social revolution is being imposed upon them from above by unelected judges appointed for life and answerable to no one.
"We, the people, are, with little protest, ceding control over the most basic aspects of our public life to such judges. The pseudo-conjugal arrangements endorsed by the Vermont Supreme Court would likely never have won the support of Vermont's people or even of its generally liberal legislature. But the voucher program struck down in Cleveland was supported by the people of Cleveland and their representatives. When Americans are no longer able to decide, through their elected officials, the most fundamental questions of their public lives, they are no longer living in a democratic republic.
"I condemn these two illegitimate judicial decisions, as I condemn Roe v. Wade and other decisions where federal and state courts have ruled in unconstitutional and immoral ways. It is time the American people took back from these arrogant judges the right to make the decisions that govern their daily lives."
To which Ernst Zundel added this:
For years, the phrase "judicial dictatorship" was applied to rubber-stamp "justice" meted out against political dissidents in Communist East Germany under its Jewish Justice Minister Hilde Benjamin, or in Communist Romania where another Jewish judicial activist by the name of Erna Panker (sp?) held sway.
Judicial dictatorship in Israel ruled that the torture and knee-capping as well as bone-breaking of Palestinian suspects was not immoral but justified - and therefore legal in the Jewish state.
Judicial dictatorship in Germany meant that to lie about what really happened to the Jews in Auschwitz and other camps was legal. To tell the truth based on scientifically verified facts was illegal and punishable by huge fines and up to five years in prison.
Judicial dictatorship has the same effect in France on scholars like Dr. Robert Faurisson who is persecuted by politically motivated prosecutors and judges who want to extort out of him a version of World War II history which is grotesquely false and impossible to reconcile with science and documentary evidence.
In Canada, judicial dictatorship is rampant, culminating in Human Rights Tribunals ruling that Truth is not a defense in cases involving historical questions or issues. Some judges might have learned this while hobnobbing with Israeli judges on so-called "familiarization" trips to Israel.
Judicial dictatorship also allows the violent dismemberment and killing of the unborn as being legal. Few dare call it murder.
How perverted our societies have become in less than a generation is shown by the fact that homosexuality and abortion were criminal offenses for centuries if not millennia in Western civilization before our mass media changed hands.
In Hitler's Germany, homosexuality was illegal, as was abortion. People who broke these laws ended up in Auschwitz.
So - who is the Evil Empire? Where is evil protected? And where was it punished?
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Thought for the Day:
"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."
(H. de Balzac)