Axel’s 7/1/8 letter to the editor

Axel seems not to like the Supreme Court’s 5-4 habeas corpus decision.
I don’t like 5-4 decisions by the US Supreme Court.
I do like the Court’s habeas decision; i.e. I agree with it.
McCain absolutely hates the habeas decision. Bush and Chaney, who believe America has the God-Given Right to do all the things no other country should be allowed to do, are disgusted by the decision. Habeas corpus disgusts them. Bush and Chaney disgust me. McCain is problematic.

Obama agrees with the decision.

Article I, Section 9, of the Constitution of the United States of America, survived the third branch of our government on a 5 to 4 vote. It may or may not have survived the second branch. Just a point of interest, but the only reason the issue even came up is that the Supreme Court of the United States stopped the recount of ballots in Florida in 2000, ceding Florida, and the election, to GW Bush. That vote was 5 to 4.

That’s seems scary to me.

Axel tries to make the point that the 9/11/1 attack on the US by Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda was an invasion; not only that, but an invasion that is ongoing so it justifies suspension of habeas corpus. Now, if Axel said the US had been invaded by Mexico, he might have a point, since there are said to be 12 million people from Mexico living illegally in the US. Fortunately he didn’t say that, because then there’d have to be a discussion centering around whether governments have to be involved in order for there to be an invasion; instead, he points to 19 dead suiciders, mostly from Saudi Arabia, and calls that an invasion. And of course those Saudis and such having died on American soil is therefore the reason hundreds of Iraqis and Afghans and Canadians and Germans and who knows who else are penned up by Americans with no way to even find out why they’re there.

So, Axel didn’t use Mexico as justification. Here’s another gimmick he could try: “in case of … invasion the public safety requires it.” There was an invasion, all right, but it was in 2003, and it was the US invasion of Iraq. Even at the biggest stretch that doesn’t work, though, because that was over when Bush declared “mission accomplished” in May of 2003. No more invasion after that. Since then it’s been war.

Axel is wrong. There was no 9/11/1 invasion. Axel is wrong. Habeas exists. Bush is wrong, Chaney is wrong, McCain is wrong. This is America. We have a Constitution that guides us.

Now, if only we had some way to enforce it besides the voluntary compliance of an executive who says he disagrees with the Court but gosh he’ll go along with it (and apparently without even a signing statement).

Proving God

Proving God – unfinished; God will provide.

Things sometimes prey on my mind (maybe on yours, too). Why is that, whose is that, what ate that. In this case it’s a fairly simple thing, something that’s been on the minds of millions or maybe billions of people over the ages, something that doesn’t need doing yet draws attention now and then anyway.
Proving God.
Lots of other things might seem more important. Criminal activity by the leaders of the Most Powerful Nation Ever To Rule The World. Past, present, and future lies from the Swift Boaters Who Fear Obama. Why Republicans need their bills to be paid by old people on fixed incomes and by young people who must spend their lives paying Republicans’ bills. How anyone can claim they’ll fix everything by lowering the taxes paid by rich people.
But the issue is Proving God.
1) the world exists therefore God exists. There, that’s fairly straightforward. God should like it.
2) God allows billions of people to believe in _false_ gods because God only has room in His Heaven for a limited number of True Believers. That makes good sense to me. Otherwise God would simply have everyone be a True Believer, destination: left hand of God. As Simon & Garfunkel said lo those many years ago, “…been Ayn Randed, even branded a Communist ’cause I’m left handed, that’s the hand you use – well never mind.” Those guys surely knew or they wouldn’t have been so successful (i.e. God wouldn’t have blessed them with success). So: since all the True Believers sit at the left hand of God, it follows that True Believers are that most paradoxical of creatures, Ayn Rand Communists. No wonder GW Bush is President.
So, why all those surplus people? God only knows (maybe Jerry Falwell knows, too), but here are a couple of maybes: a) Heaven has limited capacity, b) God made a deal with Satan to assure fodder for Hell. And clearly, since most humans are Unbelievers, Hell has room for far more humans than Heaven has. I guess that’s a good thing. But of course Proving Satan is not really part of Proving God.
(the following space reserved for God’s finishing thoughts)