From Counterpunch
"The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of the people." -- Justice William O. Douglas
For those still deluded enough to believe they're living the American dream -- where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people -- it's time to wake up.
We no longer have a representative government, a rule of law, or justice.
Liberty has fallen to legalism.
Freedom has fallen to fascism.
Justice has become jaded, jaundiced and just plain unjust.
And for too many, the American dream of freedom and opportunity has turned into a living nightmare.
Given the turbulence of our age, with its police overreach, military training drills on American soil, domestic surveillance, SWAT team raids, asset forfeiture, wrongful convictions, profit-driven prisons, and corporate corruption, the need for a guardian of the people's rights has never been greater.
Yet as the events of recent years have made clear, neither the president, nor the legislatures, nor the courts will save us from the police state that holds us in its clutches.
After all, the president, the legislatures, and the courts are all on the government's payroll.
They are the police state.
Certainly, Americans can no longer rely on the courts to mete out justice.
The courts were established to serve as Courts of Justice. What we have been saddled with, instead, are Courts of Order.
This is true at all levels of the judiciary, but especially so in the highest court of the land, the U.S. Supreme Court, which is seemingly more concerned with establishing order and protecting government interests than with upholding the rights of the people enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
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