No fear of theocracy, No longer a Democracy, We Got us a KRITOCRACY
Posted on 03/30/2005 2:58:42 PM EST by St. Johann Tetzel
It is time to add a new word to the "pop culture of death" lexicon: Kritocracy
Kritarchy \Kri"tarch*y\ (kr[imac]"t[aum]rk*[tcr]), n. [Gr. krith`s judge + 'archh` beginning, government.] The rule of the judges over Israel.
Kritocracy: "-the rule of "wise", "omniscient" and omnipotent judges unchecked by constitutional strictures or popular constraint-appealed greatly to an authoritarian like Plato. But it doesn't resemble democracy, and it isn't freedom."
--definition from KEN BELL, "Judges Benched for Bad Behavior"
As Alan Keyes has so elequently pointed out, to the continued consternation of not a few so-called "conservatives" on this forum, when the judiciary branch assumes supremacy over and above that of the legislative branch and the executive branch, and inviolation of the safeguards against same written into the US Constitution, and the legislative and executive branches refuse to act to restore the proper checks and balances distorted by the judiciary branch, we are no longer a Representative Republic.
We have become a Kritocracy with absolute rule by omnipotent judges unchecked by constitutional strictures or popular constraint.
Unless and until the legislative and executive branches make definitive efforts, including force if necessary in cases like Terri Schiavo, to re establish the checks and balances between the three branches of government, we will continue to live as unrepresented people, the subjects of judicial tyrants.
This situation is of course untenable.
From a document that should be familiar to us all, but apparently has been forgotten:
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal,
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
--That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. The long train of judicial abuses and usurpations that has lead us to this current stage of absolute judicial Despotism, unchecked by the other two branches of government, have brought us to an unwanted but grim reality.
As Fr. Frank Pavone, of Priests For Life, stated so eloquently during Hioly Week,
"The Terri Schiavo case has demonstrated that we are being governed by unelected judges, and that the legislative and executive branches of government lack the will to stand up to them when they authorize acts of violence.
"The matter, therefore, now rests with [WE] the people," he said in a statement.
"When government fails to protect life, the people must do so directly. Today must mark the beginning of a new era of civil disobedience and conscientious objection, with simultaneous, determined efforts to curb the authority of the courts and restore government to the people through their elected representatives."
Looks like World Net Daily's Jack Wheeler reads Free Republic's Religion Forum!Perhaps he read Ken Bell's "Judges Benched for Bad Behavior" : )
Moral Absolutes Ping.
Excellent article, please read and comments are invited. If the judiciary is supreme, and no one can contravene their pronouncements, and the majority of them are leftists, what is our recourse? If the executive and legislative branches are in thrall to judges, what is the solution?
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That's a democracy allright. The blind judge was elected; any judge, whether directly elected or appointed and confirmed by elected officials is a product of democracy. Both Elian and Terri debacles illustrate the same point: the state protects itself and no one else, works solely its interest, and uses inhumane and injust laws to devour the individual.
It is democratically produced laws that sent Elian back to the prison island and killed Terri.
When two wolves and one sheep vote what to have for dinner, the dinner menu becomes law. It doesn't make that piece of thick paper wise or just, but it gives the sheep an illusion that their lives are violated justly.
Wake up.