{"id":51,"date":"2007-07-12T12:51:41","date_gmt":"2007-07-12T17:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20070712\/end-of-the-constitution\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T16:27:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:27:08","slug":"end-of-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/end-of-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Constitution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maybe Bush’s outrageous commutation of Scooter Libby’s will help some folks recognize that this president and his cronies have more than normal self-interest or operative pragmatic scheming in mind.<\/p>\n

The oft-used term “neo-conservatives,” or “neo-cons,” is thrown around the identify the circles that helped lift this current administration to power . . . these are not just new conservatives . . . At the top, these people have a total overhaul of U.S. Constitutional government in mind. Bush and friends are the first administration that has achieved a level of power high enough to exhibit this. Their goal is the end of democracy as defined by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

. . . led by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and those under his sway on that bench who installed Bush as the president in December 2000 . . . many, including myself, attending a dinner honoring a retiring George Mason University law professor in Arlington in January 2003, were shocked to hear [Scalia] couch in Jesuit-steeped legaleze the core substance of his notion of law.<\/p>\n

In so many words, he said the law is defined by who wins. If you win, you get to decide what is legal and what isn’t.<\/p>\n

It’s a variant on “might makes right” and other tenants of “social Darwinism,” the ideology which, when unbridled in political practice, leads to all varieties of tyranny.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Maybe Bush’s outrageous commutation of Scooter Libby’s will help some folks recognize that this president and his cronies have more than normal self-interest or operative pragmatic scheming in mind. The oft-used term “neo-conservatives,” or “neo-cons,” is thrown around the identify the circles that helped lift this current administration to power . . . these are … <\/p>\n

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