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07 Sep 2005 04:12:26 PM |
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Scalia and Thomas's America |
THEOCRACY IN ACTION
Scalia and Thomas's America
Radical Right Leaders Celebrate Roberts Nomination
http://www.savethecourt.org/site/c.mwK0JbNTJrF/b.898733/k.8157/Why_is_the_Right_so_happy.htm
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Justice Scalia's America
As Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's writings and speeches make clear,
if justices who share his hard-right ideology take control of the Supreme
Court, radical changes are sure to follow. Here are just some of the things
that would change in Justice Scalia's America:
People would lose the right to make their own medical decisions. Scalia has
written that even fully competent adults have no constitutional right to
refuse unwanted medical treatment.[1]
The government would control women's bodies and eliminate a woman's right
to choose.
Government and religion would be one and the same.
Affirmative action would be forbidden at state schools, and campus
diversity could disappear.
People's bedrooms would be fair game for government intrusion.
Civil rights and liberties would “be ratcheted right down to the
constitutional minimum.”
Women would have to pay taxes to fund public educational institutions that
are only for men.
Courts would no longer fight school segregation.
The police will have no obligation to inform people who are arrested of
their rights.
Votes of members of a racial minority group could matter less.
The government could allow blatant exclusion of African Americans from
juries.
Workers would have a harder time striking for fair wages and benefits.
State laws won't protect patients if an HMO declines to pay for needed
medical care.
The government will be able to prevent speeches that provoke controversy.
Americans' cars would be subject to search at any time.
Environmental protection would be dealt a serious blow.
Government workers could be fired if their boss doesn't like their
politics.
State workers will lose their right to seek damages from their employer
when their right to take time off to care for sick family members is
violated.
Like Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas has sought to use his power as a
Supreme Court justice to rewrite the law in order to create radical changes
threatening our rights. Here are just some of the sweeping changes you
could expect in Justice Thomas's America:
There would be no right to privacy.
State and local governments would be able to establish official religions.
The government would be able to censor library, museum, and public
broadcasting content.
A judge's foremost responsibility would be to his or her religious
beliefs-not the Constitution.
The government would be able to jail American citizens and hold them for
unlimited amounts of time without access to an attorney.
Voters would lose effective protections from racial discrimination at the
polls.
Americans would lose protections against horrific punishment.
Americans would not have the right to a second medical opinion if their
insurance company refused to pay for a needed procedure.
Some anti-discrimination and equal opportunity protections would disappear.
Large groups of citizens will have no recourse when big corporations harm
their health and pollute their environment.
The government will be able to determine what people can watch on TV.
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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