Equity asks that we look at context and perspective; that we apply to these the unwritten law as a guide to better steer how we read in turn the actual written word of the law. The attitude that fosters an aristocratic outlook in politics and government, together with an oligarchic tendency throughout economics, is one that also ensures a slow but certain diminution of stewardship guarantees against abuse of offices. We have seen quite enough of this trend.
The fear in my breast is that there are few remaining options and even fewer media by which to sound the real clarion call. To compel accountability in Congress; to tame the military-industrial complex (that a Republican President warned us of fifty years ago); to remove from unwarrantable secrecy any number of agencies, and to reclassify what counts as "classified" -- requires at some point a reprise of the founding jural principles grounding our democracy, which requires in itself a return to theory and history of law in law schools, a stern look at our boutique system of injustice, and a revue of the not-so-effective adversarial techniques that make our courts as bad as Roman circuses.
A good place to start the conversation is with the Mannings and Assanges and Snowdens. Their efforts draw us into the center of the legal firestorm that holds in balance what it means to be free and democratic. Challenge these successfully and we shall more readily command the ear of Congress. Get their ear and we can begin to unravel the privatization of the military and its tentacles. When we realize just how fully we are under their sway, perhaps we will actually get up the nerve to take money out of legislation, the single most important tool the aristocrats possess outside of their unrelenting influence on the High Court.
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