by Garvan Kuskey on May 16, 2012
Every game has rules. There are rules for baseball, poker, arm wrestling and NASCAR. Without rules there would be total chaos. Rules promote fairness.
In the game of politics there are strict rules, too. One of these rules is that only blacks can play the race card. But fairness demands that blacks playing the race card have to be bona-fide blacks.
So what constitutes a bona-fide black? The criteria must be objective, otherwise people will lose faith in the rules.
The only objective criterion is the percentage of ethnicity: a genuine black must be more than 50% black.
Take Barack Obama: he plays the race card on a regular basis. But how come he gets to call himself black when his mother was pure white? Why should his black half take precedence over his white half? Answer: it doesn’t. He isn’t America’s first black president. He’s just another white president.
Attorney General Eric Holder, the government gangster in charge of Operation Fast and Furious, refuses to turn over to Congress documents he knows would incriminate him. He recently groused to the media, “They wouldn’t be investigating me if I were white.” [click to continue…]
by Garvan Kuskey on February 11, 2012
Catholic organizations and bishops are outraged at Obama’s latest Alinsky-style mandate to force Catholic schools, hospitals and other organizations to provide contraceptives and abortion drugs to their employees.
Some are threatening to sue the Obama administration. Others are calling upon Congress to overturn the mandate. Good luck with that.
Unfortunately for the Church and the nation, I have not heard a single bishop tell Pope Barack his mandate is dead on arrival. Not one bishop has said, “Non serviam.”
But supposing a bishop did defy the regime and refused to obey the mandate? What would likely happen to him?
For starters, the Department of Justice would charge him with violating U.S. law. If so, the bishop should demand a trial by jury.
It would be a unique jury trial because this time the jurors would be informed in advance of their common law right to judge the law as well as the facts. This is called “Jury Nullification.”
Nullification is what happens when juries vote to acquit a defendant charged with breaking a law they perceive as unjust.
Believers and non-believers alike who prefer liberty over tyranny should use this latest Obama assault as a teaching moment about Jury Nullification, which may well be our last line of defense against an out-of-control central government.
Very few Americans alive today have ever heard the term, “jury nullification,” but all of our Founders knew about it. [click to continue…]
