The Pendragon's Hall

Among cultural elites it has become quite the fashion to hysterically declaim about civil rights and all the "powers" the president supposedly has been granted in this new age of terrorism. I suppose there is some reason, and it is an historic tradition, to worry about "executive tyranny." But there is a tyranny that is more to be feared, because it is not a potential threat, like the president's supposed ability to suspend elections or arrest anyone of Arab descent, but is actually happening now. That threat is judicial tyranny. Ever since Roe v. Wade, America's federal courts are continually abusing their authority by writing laws, which is the express task assigned to Congress. Congress never wrote a law authorizing abortion--the Supreme Court decided this right was in the Constitution, despite the fact the concept never occurs. Somehow, "the benefits of liberty" for "our posterity" means "the right to kill them before they see the light of day." This bizzarre reading, as columnist Ann Coulter has pointed out in several recent columns (www.anncoulter.com), means now that legislatures all over the country must rewrite their laws and their constitutions to reflect the court's will. What if Lincoln had done this with the Dred Scott decision? The people crying the loudest for abortion on demand would still be slaves. And now they are about to do it again with gay marriage in Massachusetts. I can only hope and pray that our "tyrannical" president will refuse to pay any attention to the courts and their loony rulings. Both the president and the Congress, by Constitutional law, are independent of the courts. Does anyone remember the idea of "separation of powers"?