Rule Of Law Citizen Tribunal

This is not a blog.  It is an addendum to all my previous blogs.  So my statement that I won’t blog anymore still stands, OK?  OK. 

This is just a proposal that I should’ve made long ago…OK?  OK.

Constitutional Tribunal of 2009

For generations now, Americans have known about our government’s growing string of lawbreaking and abuse of power.  Somehow, we have rationalized and abstracted it such that it doesn’t bother us.  This must be the “frog in the cook pot” scenario by which life is slowly, but strangely tolerably boiled away.

Over the years I’ve found few people who have demonstrated any interest in jumping out of the pot.  Sure, many will accurately describe our impending doom, but they then stubbornly refuse accountability for their predicament, and they do nothing to solve it.  This wouldn’t be such a problem if it weren’t for the fact that they’re getting us all boiled. 

It’s perhaps understandable that from the inside of this boiling pot of collective madness, I’ve not always seen things so clearly myself.  I’d never read any constitution until I was thirty.  I was forty when I first read the Indiana Constitution.  I’ve had varying types and degrees of “AHA!” moments and epiphanies ever since.

Perhaps I’ve just had another.  I hope so.

You’ve no doubt seen that the world loves a trial.  Whether it’s OJ, Perry Mason or Judge Judy, we seem to become transfixed by legal battles.  As you know, our government is fond of “tribunals” when regular courts just don’t fit the objectives.   And if you’ve ever tried to fight our government, you know that existing “courts of law” are anything but legitimate courts of law.

Well, we have the makings of what should be the greatest legal battle of all time – citizens against their own Golem.  The nation that started with a legal/political argument against an oppressive regime (Declaration of Independence against crazy King George) has actually been gone for decades, we now have the opportunity to peacefully create the dream that our founders never fully realized – a nation where every citizen has inalienable rights, and where the foul-tempered pit-bull we call government stays behind a fence of laws.

I’ve come to believe that we should immediately convene a Constitutional Tribunal.

We should assemble the best minds of our movement to serve as a judicial panel. 

We should gather our best arguments. 

We should employ all means possible to promulgate our findings (blogs, conventional media/press conferences-releases, social networking, twitter) to the general public.

We should invite our rulers to rebut.

We should publicly convict and sentence our rulers…and ourselves as their masters, as I am certain that we will find that we’ve all broken the law, turned on the flame, and jumped into the pot.

I’ve started arguments many times over many years; for instance HERE, HERE and HERE, and, of course, HERE.  But we need to make use of our best brains and technology to make a coherent case in the form of a public trial…a public movement on behalf of the proven, already-law, best-ever-compromises, world-renowned Rule of Law under our state and federal constitutions.