Scalia also rips the "pretentious" and
"egotistic" style of the majority opinion, describing it as
containing "silly extravagances" and "showy profundities"
that are ultimately "profoundly incoherent."
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Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov disappeared from
public view in early May, 1984 after he had begun a hunger strike to get
permission for his wife, Yelena Bonner, to travel to the U.S. for heart
surgery.
In the Soviet paradise, just like in America today, the new American that the Patriot News John L. Micek is fighting for, you're not really allowed to enjoy your Constitutional rights unless your given permission.
Through the words of wanting one’s anti-Soviet wife to live, and,
worse still, to be saved by evil capitalist surgeons and not by the holy
surgeons of the Soviet utopia, was, clearly, an exercise in abnormal
psychology.
Like millions of Micek thinkers, just shut them all up and then we win, it's the Barack Obama utopia of gay marriage, climate doom, imported oil, bank scandals, Islamic jihadists, illegal aliens hiding in Pennsylvania, rampant crime in Philadelphia and the streets of downtown Harrisburg Pennsylvania, the capitol.
Sakharov was undoubtedly “mentally ill.” and that's what Micek thinks about public opinion if they happen to be against gay marriage.
No wonder,
therefore, that Soviet authorities forcibly confined him in a closed ward of
the Semashko Hospital in Gorky, where he was force-fed and given drugs to alter
his state of mind. This is how the Soviet Union shuts you up, maybe a government hospital deep in the woods could cure the people that don't want gay marriage. Maybe they could line a few people up and make an example of them, just like ISIS and ISIL will do today?
This is how Soviet authorities believed they would get the
Soviet dissident to not only stop caring about his wife, but to also make a
public recantation about his abnormal anti-Soviet views – a gambit in which they
ultimately failed.
I dare you not to bake a queer cake! I dare you.
The Soviet system had a long and cruel record of
perverting psychiatry to abuse political dissidents. Labelling many
thought-criminals ”insane,” the communist regime institutionalized them under
horrifying conditions in mental hospitals and force-fed them dangerous and
mind-shattering drugs. Barack Obama does the same thing by using Welfare, ObamaCare, Food Stamps, Free Phones, Section Eight Housing and discounted free bus rides. The welfare drug always works, at least for a while.
But Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton must have people like the Patriot New's John L. Micek to fight the street battles against the peoples voice. It takes tens of thousands of little people like John L Micek of the Patriot News to shut people off, turn the valve closed on public opinion to force people into ignorance and compliance.
Dissidents such as Pyotr Grigorenko, Joseph Brodsky,
Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Vladimir Bukovsky and Natalya Gorbanevskaya were among
the brave heroes who did not elude this grotesque form of Soviet barbarity. Now a new America and a savage progressive barbarity is closing around your free speech. The supreme court broke every promise found with the U.S. Constitution and you were given ObamaCare and now this grotesque Gay Marriage mandate against all the people.
Grigorenko was forcibly committed to a special psychiatric hospital for
criticizing the Khrushchev regime. What will happen to people around Harrisburg PA when they speak out against Micek, will they be removed?
Brodksy was sent to mental hospitals for not
writing the right kind of poetry; his treatments involved “tranquilizing”
injections, sleep deprivation and forced freezing baths.
Esenin-Volpin was
institutionalized in the Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital for his
anti-Soviet thoughts. Bukovsky was also confined to the same psychiatric
hospital for “anti-Soviet agitation.” Gorbanevskaya was committed to a
psychiatric hospital for, among other “abnormality” crimes, attending the 1968
Red Square demonstration against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
And now enter the leftist totalitarians of the
Obama stripe. While anti-Soviet ideas caused dissidents to be confined to
psychiatric institutions in the Soviet Union, the soil is now being fertilized
for the same process in the American leftist land of Alinskyite hope and
change.
The radicals can have the Patriot News and PennLive but they cannot have our voice, our churches or our children. They can hide illegal aliens in Mechanicsburg Pa and hire thousands of illegal aliens in the warehouses, fulfillment centers and distribution centers but they cannot keep us quiet.
Indeed, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina
McCarthy consoled leftists worldwide this past Tuesday, engaging in
Soviet-style labeling vis-Ã -vis global warming dissidents that would have made
Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov proud.
Addressing an audience at a White
House summit, she stated that “normal people,” and not climate skeptics, would
win the debate on global warming. This is the exact same thing that Micek is trying to pull.
She made the comment in the context of why
the EPA had issued a recent report on global warming’s negative impacts on
public health, stressing that, “It’s normal human beings that want us to do the
right thing, and we will if you help us.”
The contention that global warming skeptics are not
“normal people” is, of course, a normal sentiment coming from a leftist.
The
Left, as the history of the Soviet regime and other communist regimes has well
revealed, breathes it oxygen by labeling.
The opponents of the messianic
utopian cause are always “evil” and/or “mentally deranged” to one extent or
another. And these labels are very effective in demonizing and dehumanizing
dissidents — especially when the labels have that little inconvenient
limitation of not having any relationship to the actual facts.
There is enough
evidence to suggest, after all, that man-made global warming is the myth that
the skeptics say it is. A strong presentation of the facts by Shillman Fellow
Daniel Greenfield on this score can be found here and here.
There is enough evidence to suggest that the Patriot News should fire Micek before the sun goes down because the sun is going down on America.
Gina McCarthy’s totalitarian attitude toward global
warming skeptics parallels, of course, the Soviet mindset that forced Soviet
dissidents into psychiatric hospitals and to be force-fed drugs. McCarthy and
her superiors in the Obama administration do not, at this point, have the power
to put the skeptics they are labeling into asylums, and the Patriot News cannot shut us up, and to be administered
“tranquilizing” injections and immersed into ice baths, but it is clear from
their own words what their desires are – and what path they are clearing for
the brave new world.
The spheres of powerlessness and dehumanization
being built by the Gina McCarthys of the Obama administration, to which
dissidents and the opponents of “hope and change” are being banished, are
somewhat of a personal issue for this writer.
Yuri Glazov, was a
scholar at the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a professor at Moscow State
University who became a “skeptic” about the Soviet paradise in which he lived.
He attended human rights demonstrations in Moscow on behalf of political
prisoners and signed letters of protest against Soviet political repressions.
For not being “normal” in this particular regard, he was fired from his work
and received a labor card with a special secret code that meant that he was
blacklisted and could not receive employment anywhere in the country. The
activities he had engaged in could land a Soviet citizen in the gulag or a
psychiatric hospital for decades. But we were the lucky ones. The ones who got
away.
The family never forgot, obviously, those who we
left behind — and Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Vladimir Bukovsky
and Natalya Gorbanevskaya were and are among our friends, and the torment they
endured for not being “normal” remains etched in history and in our hearts, and
we gauge very clearly the pernicious ideological seeds that spawned their
persecution and suffering.
Millions escaped Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Asad and their totalitarian hell to come to a
free country to now face, in the most tragic and bizarre sense, the ideological
cousins of our tormentors. The Supreme Court of the United States of America.
The Left and its totalitarian gate-keepers are now
in solid power here, slowly but surely building the prison walls and
“psychiatric” spaces designed for the treatment of abnormal skeptics. Gina
McCarthy and her ilk must be called out for exactly who they are — and for what
they are intending to do. The unimaginable cruelties that Andrei Sakharov
endured in the Semashko Hospital in Gorky in the mid-1980s must never be
forgotten and must never leave our hearts, for they are the dividing lines in
the battle between good and evil, despite the labels that try to camouflage the
truth.
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And finally we have the out-of-control ruling released today in the
Obergefell
v. Hodges case that imposes same-sex marriage on the entire
country. As Justice Antonin Scalia has warned in his eloquent dissent, democracy
itself is at stake. Ironically, Chief Justice Roberts got it right today, when
he says that the opinion by the liberals on the Court has nothing to do with the
Constitution. Here is my statement:
Today's decision shows that the Supreme Court
can be a danger to our republican form of government. The opinion authored by
Justice Kennedy is not constitutional, is unmoored from law and precedent - and
is invalid. The exercise of raw judicial power by five justices should be
resisted under law and overturned. Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer,
Sotomayor, and Kagan abused their public offices and acted contrary to their
oaths of office by assuming the power to legislate their progressive views on
homosexual marriage from the bench. The personal advocacy for homosexual causes
by justices in the majority has also cast an ethical cloud over this decision.
This decision will lead to frontal assaults, led by the Obama administration, on
a right which actually is in the Constitution, the right to freely exercise
one's religion. I fear this judicial coup will lead to social unrest, the
jailing of religious leaders, and other outrages against those Americans who
shared the views of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and all of Western civilization
on traditional marriage. This is a terrible, terrible day for our nation
.
“The
Supreme Court has become a Supreme Legislature. They have not only rewritten the
laws of the 50 United States, but have redefined a sacred and ancient
institution.
The Framers provided only two means of amending the Constitution:
an amendment must be proposed through either a two-thirds vote of the House and
Senate or a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the states,
and either must then be ratified by three-fourths of the states.
They did not
authorize judges to amend the Constitution. Five judges have neither the moral
nor legal authority to decide for themselves that the heritage which gave birth
to our nation should be supplanted with their own fleeting views of contemporary
events.
It
is not an act of courage but supreme arrogance to pretend that the wisdom of
five judges is greater than all the men and women who have voted upon this issue
in the 50 states, and the men and women whose convictions have defined the
course of western civilization.
The civilization we flourish in today did not
spring out of nothing: it was carved out of the wilderness by families and
communities knitted together by their faith and traditions, and set upon a
foundation stretching back thousands of years.
When
a society begins to strike its shared faith and traditions from every place of
respect, a new faith always takes its place. Where the family is not the center
of American life, government is. Today’s ruling is part of a continuing effort
to secularize, by force and intimidation, a society that would not exist but for
the faith which inspired people to sail across unknown waters and trek across
unknown frontiers.
Justice
Scalia was sadly but fully correct when he wrote that: “Today’s decree says that
my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority
of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court… This practice of constitutional
revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today)
by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty
they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of
1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”
Such
action must end. All who seek high office—whether legislative or executive—must
pledge to curtail these abuses and support only the nomination of those who will
do the same. The American people are losing the power to control those who seek
to control them.
In
a single week we have seen the Congress surrender its legislative authority
through fast-track, we have seen the Court rewrite the dictionary to protect
Obamacare, and we have seen unelected judges rewrite the Constitution in order
to impose the will of five on 300 million.
But
whether these progressive victories are transient, or permanent, depends on
us.”
