You’re Going To ALLOW This, Aren’t You? – The Burning Platform

You’re Going To ALLOW This, Aren’t You?

Guest Post by Karl Denninger

In a recent op-ed for Slate, Judge Posner, a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School, argued that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments “do not speak to today.”

“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries — well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments),” he wrote. “Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21st century.”

He added, “let’s not let the dead bury the living.”

Let me point something out to you who have not read The Constitution: There is a legitimate means by which it can be amended, without limitation, provided that the people deem it to be inappropriate for the world of today.

It was intended to be hard to do that, incidentally — on purpose.  To amend the Constitution you need a supermajority of the people defined by their representatives in the States — and in Congress.  You need that supermajority because while the founders recognized that they were not perfect they also recognized that it is always easy to deem something old, decrepit or no longer relevant by a small group of elites than to actually find a supermajority of the people to agree.

That’s the majesty of the Constitution — it wasn’t perfect — but it was defined in a way that made amendment possible but difficult, and was intentionally designed to take people like Posner and expose them as unamerican traitors who deserved to be impeached, indicted, convicted and imprisoned should they attempt to run this sort of crap without first managing to sustain said supermajorities.

Why?

Because the alternative — what Posner puts forward — is to invite war by trampling the rights of the many on the claims of the elite.

The Founders knew this because they had just suffered under this exact illusion put forward by a King, and had to pay in blood to successfully challenge same.  They knew damn well that if they allowed the same mistake to be made again the same payment would be necessary.

Those who incite same are not Americans.  They are kingdom builders, destroyers of truth and jackbooted jackasses who have no place in a political debate, no place on a bench and definitely no place in educational institutions. 

Any university that employs such a person is one that deserves to have every degree they have ever certified, past, present or future, burnt by any employer who may come across it and any applicant sporting same deserves to have their shoes spat on.

The University of Chicago is one such school, but hardly the only one.

Oh, by the way, if you didn’t catch the title Judge, yes, Posner is.  A sitting Federal judge.  Who declared, in print, that the hierarchy of law he swore to uphold is something he not only doesn’t believe in but should not receive any attention from Judges and those going to law school.

Go perform an anatomically impossible act, the dishonorable and traitorous Mr. Posner.

PS: Mr. Posner ought to contemplate very carefully the implication of willfully, intentionally and publicly ignoring the hierarchy of law in this country and the lawful means by which it is amended.  You see, if he can ignore the Constitution and said law, then anyone else is justified in doing so as well, and should the thin veneer of “respectable behavior” in society be lost neither he or anyone else that gives aid and comfort to him is likely to enjoy the consequences that flow from his decision in this regard.