An Appeal For Dictatorship Comes Out Of The Closet At The NY Times
Daniel Downes * American Thinker
See also: Abandon the Constitution?
True to form, the New York Times saw out 2012 by publishing another apology for dictatorship. In his op-ed, Louis Michael Seidman — Professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University – argues that the Constitution should be abandoned. The suggestion is so preposterous that it is tempting to dismiss the article altogether, but to do so would be to miss some very revealing implications. The article is not so much a suggestion of constitutional reform as an open call for dictatorship.
Seidman begins by blaming the current governmental crisis, incredibly, on “obedience to the Constitution,” which he describes as containing “archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.” He does, however, lament that when some wise government official reaches a decision on what will benefit the country, he is likely to be stymied by this document. Seidman expresses doubt about the rationality of letting our wise official be dissuaded by the views of “a group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves.”
It is amusing to note Seidman’s hypocrisy as he takes the authority of this hypothetical ‘government official’ for granted while he sneers at the authority and smears the characters of men like Madison. Don’t dwell on that double standard for too long, however, else you’ll miss the real sleight of hand: the insinuation that belief in constitutional government amounts to faith in the personal authority of the founders — that constitutional government has nothing to do with individual liberty. By launching into this ad hominem abuse of the Founding Fathers, Seidman hopes to distract his readers from noticing that without a constitution there would be no restraint on the government and that officials would be free to act on the expediency of the moment.
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the constitution is nothing more than an illusory bait and switch. a piece of paper worth nothing, created by rich white slave owners not to bestow any rights, because all humankind is BORN with all the rights we need, but to LIMIT rights, to establish a hierarchy of power of elites over plebes. to hell with nations, with governments and with nations. stop dividing and distracting. one humankind. we are all in tis together.
Until you actually take time to read it and see how well it preserves Liberty. But those mean Liberal
I’d recommend you actually read something before commenting on it, you make yourself look the fool.
You are right on par with the NWO batman, Your ignorance is disgusting and your brain has been washed well. You sound like a shill. Now go drink some more kool-aid.
Hey batman the very ability to spew such anti American crap here is gift from a bunch of poor, middle class and sometimes wealthy white men who died in great numbers during WW2. They had to to use guns of various types to defeat the evil that existed in those times. NO, minorities did NOT win the war nor any other armed conflict for that matter. Our Constitution is a brilliant document, conceived of by men 200 years before their time. How do you figure all mankind is born with anything much less rights?? It most certainly depends on geographical circumstance. White people have been enslaved for thousands of years you don’t hear any Caucasians crying about it. Blacks from Africa regularly hunted and supplied their own kind to the slavers. Wah wah wah we were slaves big deal. If no one was in charge you would be dead, a victim of anarchists who care far less for your freedoms than any semblance of government like you enjoy. And I am anything but one with muslims, religious psychos and Hollywood hypocrites speak for yourself.
How ironic…. from a source that uses words to describe “events”, they fail to use words (like reading history) to understand what this will cause…..
We are one sad nation….
Lawless traitors like Seidman forget that if we don’t take the Federal Constitution seriously, then we don’t have to take federal government authority seriously.
Anarchists with ‘humanity unity’ fantasies should remember that ever part of the world not governed by a national government is a lawless hell hole.