Justice or ideology?

The Healthcare Bill is now before three Appellate Court judges in Virginia. They will decide whether to shackle the United States with this crippling legislation. These judges, all three of whom got their appointments from two liberal presidents, must find whether the Healthcare Bill is constitutional. Their decision would affect the lives of all American citizens, if the case were not sure to go before the United States Supreme Court. Then the fate of our country regarding healthcare will depend on nine men and women whose judgment will become the Rule of Law. Any change in the political line-up of the higher court will also change the chance of a fair decision.

The public has seen all the arguments for and against this controversial bill. That’s right and just. But as the legal process continues, the country is no longer talking about how absurd this bill is. It is talking about where the judges lean politically. And this seems normal to us! It is anything but normal and shows the sad state of our judiciary – once the watchman of our Constitutional Republic. Worse, it shows the sad state of our culture. While Grand Juries are the courtroom arbiters of indictments, this time the citizens of this country have indicted themselves. The sentence: judges may legislate from the bench and change our Constitution from the Rule of the Land to the Rule of Those in Black Robes. By keeping quiet and willingly accepting such a state of “injustice” among our justices, we show a level of apathy that is nothing less than constitutionally criminal. No, we can’t blame the Republicans or the Democrats for this one. We have none to blame but ourselves. We have allowed the brilliant check and balance system our founders designed to disintegrate before our very eyes with hardly a whimper of protest.

Former New Jersey State Senator Richard LaRossa often says that the law is what the judges say it is at any given time.Sadly, We the People have allowed that to happen. When did we start accepting judicial decisions that boldly contradict the letter and spirit of our Constitution? How and when did we allow men and women in black robes to hijack our Constitution and morph it into a form of government that our founders would never recognize? Who permitted these judges to rewrite our Constitution, which they took an oath to support and defend? We did. And now we wait for their decision, and hope and pray that they will decide on the law and not their leanings. Yet in our hearts we know that will not happen. The sun may rise tomorrow and life may continue. But the liberties we once had as a free and proud nation are passing with the wind

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Immediately after the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government we had. He answered, “A Republic, madam, if you can keep it.” 230 years later, maybe we cannot keep that Republic, not because any foreign army invaded or will invade us, but because we have let ideology-driven judges and power-hungry politicians dismantle the very document that preserved and protected our liberties against their voracious appetites. Many may be praying that the Virginia judges make a just decision, but perhaps we should pray that we wake up from our apathetic nap and settle for nothing less than the restoration of our Constitutional Republic.