Thursday, June 15, 2006

America is moving rapidly towards right-wing authoritarianism

With the decision of the Supreme Court to permit the use of evidence obtained even if the police don't knock before entering your home the right-wing takeover of all three branches of the federal government is complete. This was a decision that was reargued after Justice O'Connor was replaced by Alito (who we knew was a knee-jerk "support the police and government at all times" judge. Without O'Connor the decision was 4 - 4. Alito joined with Scalia and Thomas and two others to provide the 5 - 4 decision that works to gut the procedures that made a search warrant an effective protection of an individual's personal privacy.

We will see more of these decisions eliminating traditional American legal Constitutional Rights as further decisions come out this year.

Think about this as you go back to read Mary Scott O'Connor's essay Slouching towards Kristallnacht.

No comments: