What doe it all "mean"??
As the Casket rolled away from the Basilica this morning; following a Funeral Mass presided over by a Priest who is a cherub-faced Son of the dead JUDGE; we're all left to contemplate what lies ahead for us!! This "Passing" is a matter of huge significance for the Nation, and the World! It came "too soon" (he was only 79 years "young); it caught the World, by "surprise"! One week after the death; its meaning is just beginning to dawn on us.
Given to us, in 1986, by President Reagan, for the purpose, do doubt, of fashioning a Judiciary Complement to "White Backlash"; Judge Scalia's task was aided by Daddy Bush when he appointed Clarence Thomas, in 1991, as Scalia's "help-mate". The two of them set about "hastening" the departure of Justices O'Connor, and Rehnquist, to provide for a "solid core" of Justices of their ilk, on the Court. "Dubya Bush" accomplished that, with his insertion of Roberts and Alito. Just as they were warming up their Act; rolling-back "Justice" for Non-whites and the Poor, God-Almighty "struck-down" Scalia! Could this be some sort of SIGN; of the end of a 30-year Movement in this Country??
During that time, Senators like Orrin Hatch labored studiously to pack Benches at all levels in our Judicial System with "Backward-Looking" Judges. It has resulted in our "School-to-Jail" Prison Industry that has enriched Wall Street, while enslaving Poor, Black, and Brown "inmates". One of them was released this morning after spending more than three decades in Solitary Confinement! Will we finally escape the "Cold Dead Hands" of Ronald Reagan?? Not if any Republican gets elected to the Presidency in 2016!! The increasing and encroaching "slavery" pressed upon us by BIG MONEY will continue! None of can "exhale", as it is, due to the mad scramble to earn enough money to put food on the table!
Meanwhile, the death of TRUST; in our Society, our Economy, and our Lives, began with Reagan, and, has moved to a point, today, where Relationships of all types (professional and personal; economic and social), have become weakened and/or destroyed. Policing has become divorced from Executive Power at all levels of Government. NO ONE may remain SAFE!!
Stay Vigilant! The up-coming Election can "Seal-the-Deal" for the Reactionaries being offered to us by the Republican Party. They come in several flavors: "Conquistadores", "Inquisitors", or, cross-dressed as a "Youthful-Muti-cultural-Moderate" -- on the RIGHT; and: "Gender-flavored Bureaucracy", or "real Economic Revolution" on the LEFT. TOUGH CHOICES?? Maybe for You; but I think the decision will be made by Voters below the age of 40??
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