As I write this article, a woman is slowly dying in Florida. A
decision was made to take away her life support. Of course, America
has been conditioned to beleive that every American has the choice
as to whether he or she will live or die. This has been brought about
by the advances in medicine that enables tubes and wires to be connected
to a human body in order for it to be kept alive by artificial means.
This particular case has gained a nationwide attention. A husband
has been trying to disconnect the tubes and wires against the wife's
parents' wishes. The case had been decided by a judge, then a panel
of judges. The press has published pictures of the woman, obviously
not communicative but breathing on her own and looking around with
her eyes. The parents say that she responds in positive ways; the
husband says she is comotose. The battle has become a public battle
and people are taking sides. In a unique move, the congress met and
passed a law, trying to reverse the decision to pull the tubes and
the President of the United States signed it into law. How- ever they
somehow tossed it back to judges to make the final decision, and once
again the judges are making the same decisions.
It seems to me that lawyers and judges are actually running this
country. Everything about the American way is being challenged in
courts. Another fellow on the east coast is threatning to sue a town,
because he had to say "Under God" in a public pledge and he was offended
by that. He will probably win his case. After all majority no longer
rules when there is disagreement by one. I wonder if that will be
true when America's majority is no longer Christian in a couple of
days.
OK! back to the original subject of this article..Who is in charge
of the country? The best I remember in my government and civics classes
50 or so years ago, there are supposed to be three divisions of our
constitutional government, governed by that constitution. First there
is the Executive branch, then there is the Legislative branch, and
then there is the judicial branch. In this process members of the
legislative branch come up with proposed laws etc., the Executive
branch signs them into law. Then the judicial branch decides the constitunality
of that law and sees that the country abides by that law. I'm not
sure when problems began to develop in this relationship, but I do
know that recently it has become blatent. It looks to me that the
judicial branch has used their "power" and abused their "power" to
the point that they are interpreting the constitutional and congressional
laws the way they see them or worse the way A.Civic L.U. lawyers want
them to see them.