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This is a ship so heavily damaged that merely preventing new damage will not save her. The water continues to pour in through old damage, and time is running out.We need to use the jurisprudential principle of remoteness to blast a hole in /stare decisis/, so that wrongly-decided cases may swiftly be overturned, and their decedents uprooted, debasing laws and federal programs along the way.

This is my alternative to violence. What do you think?

Do not misunderstand Tea Party quiet right now. We are digesting an unpleasant fact. Even those of us who support Romney as a pragmatic measure are confronting the news that far from not setting things right, he may not even be able to halt the new damage, which is our only reason for supporting him. And it’s only partly his fault: John Roberts has brought us to this pass.
We are deciding what to do about it. To a first approximation, I say that we have lost the Federal government and should shift to the other defendable grounds of States and Citizens. The Federal government is now hostile to the states and the citizens.
So regard this as an ominous silence, not apathy or resignation. We have much to think about.
People are underestimating (or downplaying) “Roberts Rage”. I could handle losing this if the decision were backed up with a Constitution-based argument. Instead, we got some pretty blatant singing and dancing in the service of the enemy from a cowardly and small Chief Justice.
It is as though we walked down the hall, opened the door, and found the room had been replaced by a sheer drop down an ocean cliff onto a rocky shore.
It is not a crime to own or carry agun. Laws which purport to make it a crime are unconstitutional. Our federal government no longer defends the Constitution. The citizens and the state governments will.
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Clarity: Chief Justice Roberts’ abandonment of legal principle in favor of political considerations and the “reputation of the Court” was the last straw.
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In the American Revolutionary War, only three percent of the population took up arms in support of independence. Ten percent more actively supported them in an off-battlefield capacity, and thirty percent more expressed support. The rest were split between support for the crown and a position of apathy.
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Apparently yet another UN attempt to grab our guns is in the offing. Let’s see what the Obama administration does with it.
For me the questions is no longer “Romney or whom?” but “Romney and what?”It is obvious to me that Romney is or will be the only path to victory in a Presidential race. If you disagree with this reluctant and unhappy pronouncement, I understand, but that’s where I am.

Meanwhile, with Congress doing nothing but passing the buck and raising the debt ceiling, the Executive engaging in armed war by proxy against a member state (Arizona), and the Judicial collapse to rubber-stamping the other two branches, it is just as obvious that electing a President will not begin fixing things; indeed, it may not even stop the new damage.

What else besides voting will be required?

To be blunt, how can we shoot the Leviathan dead without shooting Americans? Now is the time to consider our options as what they are — alternatives to violence — before those are taken away as well.

Those who seek war would do well to wait and counsel patience. Those of us who wish to avert war must act now or fail.

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