I was having dinner one evening at a Benihana near where I live. The restaurant serves food prepared in the traditional Japanese style on a hibachi table that is surrounded by seats for 10 or more to eat all at the same time. I was so very much looking forward to the evening because I like watching people and this was going to be a good opportunity to do that and see the chef put on his show.
We were seated and, as they always do because the cooking surface gets very hot, they warn diners not to reach over to that surface. Seated at our table was a man and woman with their three small out-of-control children screaming, crying, throwing toys onto the grill, running around the table, and grabbing at the hot food. Undoubtedly it was the nanny’s night off.
Now, you would think those parents would’ve just got up and left with the brats after seeing how much trouble they were causing. But no. You see, those parents were all mad at everyone else because we dared not to see the awesomeness of the fruit of their most-enlightened liberal loins.
I promise to tie up this story at the end of the article. You might just get a chuckle. Or you might just get mad at my logic. Who knows? But you’ll soon find out. Read on.
Balance of Power is a real thing.
Human nature itself cannot be changed. The best anyone can hope to do is legislate that nature into acquiescence. Too much or too little legislation and abuse of power grows. Making law is a balancing act. When imbalanced, law is always used by Evil to its own advantage, and often ill-applied by Stupid.
But when maintained — fought for! — by Good, it is balanced.
Which brings us to the current situation with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS).
The beauty of the highest court in the land is that if Government — federal, state, county, parish, borough, city, or township — tramples on any right given us in our Founding Documents, then Government should darn well be able to defend to the People why the People should be thus prohibited. The Founders made it possible for the People to equalize and rectify the imbalance of power there in that court.
Among other responsibilities with a very limited scope, the main thing SCOTUS exists for is to defend the Constitution upon which our nation maintains stability.
Alas, even in that court, throughout its entire tenure, there have been imperfect people applying opinion imperfectly. Many of these have been rectified over time as the People again challenged the offending ruling. We find ourselves in that same situation today with the 2020 election catastrophe.
But we cannot put all the blame on SCOTUS for ruling the way they have in this matter.
Even though it is clear that Chief Justice Roberts lost his los cojones and gave into fear of the mob, thus weakening the spines of most of the other justices, it is also just as clear that many of the People imbued the Court with more power than the Court actually has the right to exercise.
O! how the masses hated them when the Court denied to hear arguments about election fraud and threw all those cases right back into the faces of the States. Vitriol spewed forth in spot-on cartoons, from pundits’ mouths and pens, and on social media by folks like us.
Granted, given the volatile nature of those cases — both in content and time period — the Court could’ve done a much better job of explaining to the People in layman’s terms their reasonings for not accepting the cases.
Why am I arguing for the Court in this instance?
Because it seems everyone is so frickin’ emotional about them right now, blaming them for the demise of the West as if it were all their doing, and as if they were the last line of defense to freedom. Yet, tell me, why should nine people do all the work?
No slackers when it comes to spotting an opportunity, Democrats in the House took advantage of the seeming instability in the core of our systems to introduce and pass the HR1 Bill which targets U.S. Election systems by wanting to federalize it, thus controlling it for themselves. [The American Center for Law and Justice will be challenging that if it should pass the Senate.] If it should not pass this go-round, the Dems will try again and again…and again.
The federal government did not invent the states.
Yet clearly manipulations of voting procedures, machinery choice, and oversight all happened at the state and county levels. Not only that, but these egregious acts were performed while state legislatures watched their executive branches break their own state’s laws. Sure, a few whined, but nobody put up their political dukes and thus, in effect, did absolutely nothing to stop the criminals in their tracks.
The defense of freedom, lawfulness, and justice does not begin in Washington, D.C., and trickle down to the rest of us. If anyone thinks that they are sadly mistaken. That defense starts locally. Where you stand. Where you work. Where you live.
The federal government was invented by the states to handle issues in common such as but not limited to regulation of fair trade with other nations and the sharing of the burden of mutual defense.
Washington, D.C., only has as much power as We the People give them.
Benihana story ends.
You are probably wondering how long we had to put up with those people at the restaurant that night. I can tell you that the constant dirty looks and loud comments of fellow diners, the chef hollering at the parents to get their kids under control, and management standing nearby staring a hole through them, finally had its work complete.
The husband said, not without self-righteous snark dripping heavily, “Honey, maybe we should get our food to go.” When they left, people at four tables all erupted in cheers and the rest of the evening was awesome.
Like those parents and brats at Benihana’s that night, many politicians are horrible little creatures ruining everyone’s dinner. Who, due to complacency of the People, and without any brake on their power, have become hideous monsters doing unspeakable things.
The real adults in the room now need to show them who is boss.
And by so doing, We the People shall help stiffen the spines of the Supreme Court of the United States. We all need to have the backs of each other.
China is watching. Russia is watching. Venezuela and Cuba and Mexico and Canada and North Korea and Iran and Qatar and Somalia and Eritrea and so many more nations, ethnic groups, and religions, are watching.
And why do they watch the US? Because We the People exist nowhere else, that’s why.
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Born and raised in Georgia, Angela K. Durden is an author, publisher, editor, songwriter, performer, and more, living in the Metro Atlanta, Georgia, area. Support your Citizen Journalist and visit her Consolidated Author Page and buy a book.
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