Next Revolution: The Second American Revolution

law
 
Two impending legal tests of our fundamental rights, and a strange legal decision appeared in the news this week.
 
First, the fundamental question asking if the second amendment gives an individual the right to keep and bear arms may finally be decided by the supreme court. Or it may not. The supreme court has a way of not deciding issues while deciding cases.
 
I've got to put my two cents in on this gun issue. It is apparent that governments have always, throughout the history of organized governments, claimed the right to raise and keep armies. Since that is a given, it is apparent that the Second Amendment was specifically written into our Constitution to keep the military power firmly in the hands of the people.
 
Our Constitution's uniqueness WAS based on putting the most dangerous powers, individual freedom and the political franchise, let alone guns, into the hands of the citizen voter solider. Despite these facts, I assume that our supreme court's decision will reflect contemporary politics, rather than Constitutional principal.
 
 
The next test of law is the rise of prop. 98, the neo-fascist assualt on the right of the people to regulate commerece and contract.
 
Finally, the supreme court came up with a surprising decision, for them. They approved "Grange Blanket Primaries." This decision allows fully open primaries that every voter can vote in. It gets even better. The top two vote getters, independent of party, rise to the general election.
 
This is really cool for a state like california, where the real battle for who wins office occures in the primary. This is due to the gerrymandering scam that the parties executed in 2001 to divide up political power in our state between themselves. To put it another way, this decision means that the dominant party in each district in california had better watch out.
 
The reason is because after the dominant party's chosen candidate tromps the party opposition, they will still have to face the overall second-placer, who under our present system would have normally been eliminated by the political party's overwhelming financial superiority.
 
Now the dominant party may really face opposition in the election. This decision could very well present a real threat to the two-party monopoly of political power in california. Our initiative's emphisis on voter contributions would compliment the supreme court's breakdown of political monopoly. Denying the parties a political monopoly on primaries while cutting off their corporate bribes would change our political reality.
 
 
Voices of War
 
This week brought two different voices on the war. Bush is again claiming victory. If it was not so sad, it would be pathetic,
 
The other voice came from Winter Solider. Here's two more links to winter solider:  foreign policy in focus, and realnews network.
 
Costs of "Victory"
 
Torture by us and our allies was big in the foreign news this week. Our egyptian dictator has been busy torturing the enemies of israel.
 
In another torture case, an italian judge gave the go-ahead for a trial in abesentia of 26 CIA agents who kidnapped Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr in 2003 and flew him to Egypt. There he was tortured for us by our egyptian dictator.
 
According to the Canadian press, Canada's supreme court agreed to hear arguments that the US is holding one of its citizens, Omar Khadr, beyond the rules of war and international law.
 
The US press ignored the Canadian supreme court, but reported extensively on Khadr's claims he was tortured. The american press article did not mention that Canada's supreme court was reviewing the legality of our forms and terms of detention. The US press article did mention that Khadr's case had been postponed because of a federal judge's ruling against the unfairness of the evidentiary rules in bush's  kangaroo courts, without mentioning the fact that these kangaroo courts allow secret evidence, evidence obtained under torture, and secret witnesses.
 
Disturbingly, both articles omitted the inconvient fact that the evidence actually points to Khadr's innocence. The original battlefield report, before it was edited months later, stated that Khadr did not throw the grenade that killed an american, but the person that did was killed in the firefight. It appears that the real basis of his illegal detention is that he is what bush has defined as "A bad Guy," so they are either going to frame him, or hold him forever without charge or trial. Did you know he was 15 years old when captured?
 
 
China's Bitch: Tibet and the US
 
We continue to empower China's enslavement of Tibet, not to mention their weird commie police state with as much business, money, political and police state techonology as we can.
 
 As it stands now, the chinese have flooded Tibet with troops, and held a parade of captured Tibetens to dissuade further uprisings against their occupation of Tibet. I'm not even going to watch the olympics.
 I suggest we all read our labels and not buy anything made in china.
 
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