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The Day Democracy Died

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 20:39:12 -0500

Foxnews has a story today about how Prop 8 is being challenged in the California Supreme Court on its constitutionality.

Proposition 8 is an amendment to the California State Constitution.

An amendment to a constitution cannot be unconstitutional. Let me repeat that. An amendment to a constitution cannot be unconstitutional. The amendment changes the constitution so that it conforms to the language of the amendment. Any conflicts with any parts of the existing constitution are superseded by the amendment.

One more time for Obama voters. A constitutional amendment cannot be unconstitutional because any part of the existing constitution that may disagree with the amendment becomes null and void BECAUSE OF THE AMENDMENT.

The thirteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution violated every word of language in the constitution that dealt with slavery because the thirteenth amendment banned slavery. The moment the thirteenth amendment was passed, all parts of the U.S. constitution regarding slavery became null and void, superseded by the amendment, which became the constitutional standard. It wasn’t the thirteenth amendment that was unconstitutional, it was all parts of the U.S. constitution that disagreed with it that became unconstitutional.

Likewise, in the state of California, when Prop 8 passed, the California state constitution changed. Prop 8 isn’t unconstitutional, any language that disagrees with Prop 8 in the California Constitution is now unconstitutional. By definition. And a court has no power to say otherwise. At least in a democracy.

But, none of this has stopped the California Supreme court from hearing arguments. That’s right. The California Supreme court has taken upon itself to write the state Constitution, determining what shall and shall not be in it, and the outrage is that the California governor and state legislature are allowing it to happen.

In reality, the California Supreme court, and the justices on it are now guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State of California and its constitution, and if California were still a democracy, the governor would have had them arrested and jailed the moment they claimed authority to write and amend the state Constitution. That neither governor nor state legislature performed such an act killed democracy in California. Let me say it again. California is no longer a democracy. It is a dictatorship of 7 men and women, and the governor and legislature are now no more than symbolic offices who may make recommendations to the court to be accepted or rejected by the court as the court sees fit.

And the people of California? They are subjects of the court, and all they are now allowed to do is make requests for changes to the constitution.

March 5, 2009. The day democracy died in California.

Tom’s Birthday

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:13:54 -0500

We celebrated Tom’s birthday today. It’s hard to believe he’s 8 years old. It’s also hard to believe just how much progress he has made in the past three years. When he was five, he wouldn’t even move unless you took him by the hand. Now look at him!

Awesome Christmas present

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:12:20 -0500

For Christmas this year, my wife bought me the latest Celtic Woman DVD. I’ve been a fan of Celtic Woman ever since I saw their performance at Slane Castle on PBS. This DVD contains segments from their three PBS productions. It’s all awesome, but my favorite is The Voice, sung by my favorite Celtic Woman, Lisa Kelly. Below is a segment from that piece. Watch and then go buy the DVD.

Bread & Circuses

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:32:49 -0500

I just saw this ad on Facebook. Note the picture. That was his promise. It is sad at how eager we are to prostitute ourselves. As I was telling my son yesterday, socialism can never work as a government system, because it is based on envy. And a negative cause can never result in a positive result. Or, as my son Adam put it so well: Vice cannot create virtue.

Fred Goff – Author

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:49:36 -0500

Wow. I actually finished a novel. 70,000 words. I haven’t done that since I wrote Sarsys over ten years ago. Thanks to Mike and Terri Taylor for keeping me motivated by telling me they were actually reading it.

Now, I just need to have my editor go through it and clean it up. Right now, it’s just a bunch of blog entries. If you want to read it, you need to start here.