The Screwballs Have Spoken February 5
As a letters to the editor junkie, I can’t help looking to see what kind of insanity is whirling around in the minds of the readers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For the past several days, numerous letters have been written in lamenting the death knell of democracy and freedom thanks to the US Supreme Court’s 5 to 4 ruling that the First Amendment actually means what it says instead of something else entirely.
The letters are full of harsh language decrying a ruling which they claim results in America being made subordinate to those evil corporations. Apparently it’s OK for George Soros and his minions at MoronsDotOrg, VoteForLiberalVets, Catholics Against Catholicism and the rest of them to spend millions of dollars on attack ads, but it’s the end of civilization if corporations tell us who they like for president.
So the letters have been pretty crazy, but this one wins grand prize in the off the deep end competition:
The people of this country have had their right of representation usurped by monied interests for far too long. Now the Supreme Court has not only overstepped its bounds, it has made a mockery of the balance of power and of government of the people, by the people and for the people (”Court Lets More Corporate Cash in Politics,” Jan. 22).
This must be overturned by the other branches of government, and those justices must be dealt with as traitors to the Constitution and the principles upon which our nation was founded.
PHOEBE WOODING
Edgewood
“Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech.” The First Amendment was written in order to protect exactly the kind of speech that these unconstitutional laws were restricting – political speech. The First Amendment doesn’t state that Congress shall make no law abridging the speech of “a person” or “people”. It states that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, period. And, no, endorsing a candidate for president isn’t like yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.
That someone like Phoebe Wooding can actually write a letter like this, send it to the Post-Gazette, wait for them to contact her about it, and tell them that it’s OK for them to put it in the paper is unbelievable to me. Granted it only appeared in the online version of the letters to the editor, but still. The US Supreme Court struck down precedent in favor of the actual text of the US Constitution and this woman calls them traitors to the Constitution?
But honestly, what can we expect from the left? After all, through their evolutionary progressive tactics they have built up decades of “precedent” which has morphed the First Amendment from this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Into this:
Nobody in a government building or at an event which has any connection with government whatsoever, no matter how tangential, shall ever pray out loud, state the name of Jesus Christ, or otherwise acknowledge religion in any way. Speech is only free if it’s not “hateful”. “Hateful” speech means anything that liberals don’t like. Liberal people have a right to peaceably assemble, but far-right teabaggers are inciting violence and riots and should be stopped. You may petition government for a redress of grievances, unless the president is black, in which case doing so means you are a racist.
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