Silencing The People's Voice

By Douglas V. Gibbs

When Judge Walker in California struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, it sent the message that the opinion of one, gay judge was superior over the 7 million voters that approved the state constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

When Judge Bolton struck down Arizona's immigration law, it sent the message that the opinion of a single judge was superior to the voices of an entire state.

When one considers that marriage is a state issue, and a federal judge like Walker had no business hearing the case, it also indicates that State sovereignty means little to the leftist judiciary.

When you consider that there is no authority in the Constitution regarding enforcement of immigration law for the federal government, and nowhere in the Constitution is such authority prohibited to the States, meaning that the states have enforcement authority regarding immigration, one realizes that not only is Arizona's immigration law constitutional, it is the State of Arizona's responsibility to enforce immigration laws.

Than, when one realizes that according to Article III, Section 2, Clause 2 the Supreme Court has original authority when a State is a party in a case, which means that Judge Bolton also had no business taking the case in which she struck down portions of the Arizona Immigration Law, it shows that to the judiciary, the U.S. Constitution (which is a contract between We The People of "The States," and the federal government) means nothing to these leftists.

Meanwhile, with the abusive use of czars and executive orders, Obama is rendering the Congress irrelevant, thus silencing the last vestige of the people's voice.

But if all of that was not blatant enough in regards to how the Left is doing what it can to silence the people, subvert the Constitution, and do what it pleases in government regardless of the desire of the people or the letter of the law, Massachusetts has now proposed to disallow citizen petitions of the state government.

The attempt to further silence the people in Massachusetts is in the form of an amendment to the Massachusetts Constitution proposed by Democrats. The aim of the amendment is to put an end to citizen-initiated referenda in the state.

The amendment specifically would exclude any citizen petition that deals with issues concerning a person's right to "the enjoyment of life, liberty and property, according to standing laws." Passage of the amendment would virtually eliminate the citizen's right to petition in Massachusetts.

The way the amendment is worded, using "life, liberty or property," virtually every attempted petition could be affected. As with the judiciary in the Proposition 8 case, and the Arizona Immigration Law case, in Massachusetts the legislators with this amendment are literally trying to shut down the voice of the voters. They believe in the General Will, which means that the elite believes only they can recognize what is best for society. The people, according to these rats, are not "sophisticated enough" to make decisions that only the elite elected officials are.

The amendment states, "No proposition inconsistent with any one of the following rights of the individual, as at present declared in the declaration of rights … shall be the subject of an initiative or referendum petition." Citizen petitions would be all but eliminated.

To combat this kind of tyranny, this is when the voices of the people need to be the loudest.

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