None Dare Call It Treason: O'Connor has forfeited the right to be respected

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61. I've Thought Long and Hard About This...

O'Connor was a Reagan appointee, and let's not forget America's most activist judge, Scalia. When the history of this country is finally written, the beginning of the end will be correctly traced to Reagan.

Bush the first was his Vice President, Casper Weinberger was Secretary of Defense, Edwin Meese Attorney General, Alexander "I'm in control..." Haig as Secretary of State.

Bush was previously appointed by Ford (the first non-elected President) as the director of the CIA. Bush, who as president pardoned Casper Weinberger even before he was tried for his part in the Iran-Contra Affairs (remember that one?). This was after Attorney General Ed Meese refused requests of assistance by the FBI and apparently looked the other way while a "shredding party" took place destroying National Security Council documents purportedly verifying Reagan's involvement in the arms sales to Iran.

The actions of the Reagan and then Bush the first's administrations set the president of certain people being above the law. Their actions in dealing with (or allowing) criminal actions of those in their own and in previous administrations signaled to right-wingers they could act without fear of legal action. Even if they were caught, they'd be pardoned.

What does this have to do with Bush v. Gore?

Even if the Supreme Court was found out as to their plot to install an unconstitutionally non-elected President, even if they were impeached by the Senate and tried in federal court, they knew they could act with impunity. Someone would pardon them, probably the very president they elevated to the post.

The point is, what the founding fathers set up as a nation of laws of which no one was above, is now a nation of men not unlike the very country our founding fathers fought against.

We no longer have trust in the judicial system. There is the law for the average person and then there is a system for those able to avoid the system. Even if they can't avoid it, there are ways designed for them to get through it unscathed (Scooter Libby, anyone?).

As to treason, the attempt to overthrow one's own government, it isn't where to begin as much as where do we end it? When do we reinstate the Constitutional government? At what point do we stand up against the very tyranny we left when we separated from King George and England?

What gets me about this whole farce is when you've corrupted the judicial branch, you've damaged the entire under-pinning of the government. So, when O'Connor says Bush v. Gore was a "mistake" she's admitting her complicity in a crime against the Constitution and is admitting she participated in circumventing the process, as written down in law, this government uses to govern itself. In effect, she helped overthrow the duly elected president by disrupting one state's process of counting ballots (these are the self-same states rights people).

The question is, if the highest court in the land is corrupt, who's judging them? More importantly, how do we clear out the corruption?