Once the planned-demic is finally cooled down, and Americans are a little less hysterical and asinine, I predict that at least one American lawyer will sue a governor for doing what they all have done — completely abolish all civil liberties (and economic liberties) supposedly protected by the Constitution.
It will go to the Supreme Court, at which time it will get interesting, for the chief justice MUST — MUST! dream up some kind of cockeyed rationale for the complete abolition of the rule of law. He will, of course, just as he claimed that after 220 years he personally discovered that medical socialism (“Obamacare”) was one of the delegated powers in Article 1, Section 8. (Where on earth was it hiding all that time?).
At that juncture anyone with an I.Q. above 25 will realize the true role of the Supreme Court: to rubber stamp any and all powers of the ruling class, even if it means a complete, 100% demolition of all civil liberties explicitly protected by the Constitution. It will be the final victory of the Hamiltonian interpretation of the Constitution, which was exactly what I have just described. Hamilton’s belief was that the actual constitution was “a frail and worthless fabric” because, although it greatly expanded the powers of the central government compared to the Articles of Confederation, he wanted government to be much more powerful and pervasive. Thus, he concocted such ideas as “implied powers,” the perversion of the Commerce Clause, the notion that the states were never sovereign (even though Article 7 gives them the duty of ratifying the document), and myriad other subterfuges. His use for the Constitution was that of a rubber stamp for unlimited governmental power, “properly” interpreted by clever lawyers and central planners like himself.
Hamilton’s nemesis, Thomas Jefferson, held the opposite view that government needed to be “bound by the chains of the Constitution.” That view was long ago eclipsed by the Hamiltonians of the legal profession who have chipped away at it for generations with two hundred years of case law. The planned-demic has provided the ruling class tyrants with the perfect excuse to wipe away what was left of the Constitution and the rule of law once and for all. We are not ruled anymore by a constitution but by such buffoons as Larry “Mr. Potato Head” Hogan, governor of Maryland; that New Jersey governor who chuckled that the Bill of Rights is “beyond my paygrade;” self-described communist Mayor DeBlasio of NYC; and that Michigan governor who decided to ban the purchase of paint and tomato seeds as part of her house arrest order. It gets worse from there, with hundreds of mayors and city councils behaving like buffoons on steroids, reveling in their new roles as mini-Mussolinis.
Placing everyone’s freedom in the hands of five government lawyers with lifetime tenure is the perfect recipe for tyranny.
7:48 am on April 21, 2020
