The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the juvenile death penalty ushers in a frightening reinforcement of America's trend toward oligarchy.
Translated from the original Greek, oligarchy, or “rule by the few” is certainly now comfortably established in these United States, a place that was once a nation “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Now we operate in a government reborn of the Supreme Court justices, by the justices, and for the justices.
As reported in the Washington Post article, linked above:
“For the Supreme Court itself, perhaps the most significant effect of yesterday's decision is to reaffirm the role of international law in constitutional interpretation.
The European Union, human right lawyers from the United Kingdom and a group of Nobel Peace laureates had urged the court in friend-of-the-court briefs to strike down the juvenile death penalty.”
Excuse me? Where does the U.S. Constitution stipulate a “role of international law in constitutional interpretation”? Since when is it appropriate for the U.S. Supreme Court members to be soliciting feedback from their European chums before handing down United States decisions?
"In saying that this strong expression of international sentiment "provide[s] respected and significant confirmation for our own conclusions," Kennedy lengthened the recent string of decisions in which the court has incorporated foreign views -- and decisively rejected the arguments of those on the court, led by Scalia, who say it should consider U.S. law exclusively."
Oh, no, of course America wouldn’t want to consider our own laws exclusively! How would that look to our good friends on the U.N. Security Council?
The “Robed Masters” of the highest court are settling far back on their thrones, and they have no intention of moving anytime soon. We, the U.S. citizens, must remain very vocal about this situation, calling and writing our representatives in Congress, and publicly speaking out--while free speech is still legal. That is not overstatement. The Supreme Court has evolved into the abusive power that Thomas Jefferson feared it might become.
We, the citizens of the United States of America, are going to become increasingly irrelevant to this black-robed government of the few.
If we allow that to happen to us, the black boots can not be far behind.
