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This, seems worth pondering on the state of the US’s ongoing 4th generation civil war as a civilisation level issue:

A draft Supreme Court opinion overruling Roe v. Wade has been leaked to the press in one of the greatest scandals to ever hit the nation’s highest court and a possible attempt to intimidate one or more justices to reverse their vote or to ignite a liberal brushfire to pack the Supreme Court before Democrats lose Congress in November.

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” the possible draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito reads, making the case that where the Constitution is silent, the American people govern themselves through elections and elected leaders, not federal judges. It quotes the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who said, “The permissibility of abortion, and the limitations upon it, are to be resolved like most important questions in our democracy: by citizens trying to persuade one another and then voting.” It then adds, “That is what the Constitution and the rule of law demand.”

The document published by Politico that claims to be a draft opinion appears to be authentic, but it is not a binding decision of the court unless at least five justices sign it, and this looks like a transparent and unprecedented betrayal by one of the 45 or so people with access to a draft Supreme Court opinion to prevent this decision from becoming law by scaring off moderate justices and attempting to whip the political left into a frenzy.

Of course, the global pattern, with the US as a trend setter, has seen 800+ million [statistically 1.4+ billion] deliberately inflicted deaths on our living posterity in the womb. An associated picture is that in certain asian countries, devaluation of girls has led to widespread sex selection abortions and a preponderance of boys and now young men in population statistics.

To all of this, I make two self-evident assertions. 1: A human child is precisely that, human. 2: The first right is life, without which there are no rights.

Let’s add, 3: there can be no right to take innocent life at will.

Our civilisation is in the dock. END

U/D, Blaze TV discussion:

U/D, May 10, as Vivid has pointed it out, let us embed a video of testimony by a former abortionist regarding second trimester abortions:

F/N May 7: As tangential objections to the design inference have been taken up (in obvious subject switching) I pose p. 5 from Sir Francis Crick’s March 19, 1953 letter to his son:

Crick’s letter

And, here is the protein synthesis process in outline:

Protein Synthesis (HT: Wiki Media)

Together with a summary of the information communication system involved, as outlined by Yockey:

Yockey’s analysis of protein synthesis as a code-based communication process

F/N, May 8: As the tangent continues, it seems a further illustration is advisable:

It seems more is needed, so here is how this fits into protein synthesis and the metabolic network and how we see prong height coding:

In for a penny, in for a pound, here is a video:

Notice, we are actually dealing with a storage register. Say, each shaft with pins is set for five positions, four elevated, one on the ledge. This is directly comparable to GCAT, and as the video shows there are five digits:

| X1 | X2 | X3 | X4 | X5 |

The key is encoded to the correct string of digits that in combination will open the lock, say 13213. The resting fully locked position is of course 00000.

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ET actually spots my point about biological sex. Well done, as far as it does. Male dominance is the norm in some social species, though female dominance works in others, hyenas for example. Patriarchy and religious fundamentalism seem to occur together in human society. Do you live in a cave?Fred Hickson
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:lol: It's demo(no)cratic party "move" because the polls show they will be destroyed in nov and want to move the pressure from WH dummy, oil price, Afganistan, vaccine damages to ...HATE the pro-life people.Sandy
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Slippery slopes are slippery, KF.Fred Hickson
May 4, 2022
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VL, one distortion and overreach opens the way for the next and the next. Restoring due proportion is not extremism nor reversion to evils such as racist law. And, you still need to show us a nine sided hexagon. The projection of extremism and danger to the other invites confession by projection analysis. Especially, where an obvious aspect of this leak was to call out the red guard mobs to threaten and intimidate. KFkairosfocus
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Sev,
In other words, Alito’s retrogressive opinion [--> demonisation by loaded language labelling] could return the country to the absurd position [--> projection of absurdity to the despised other, inviting inference, cognitive dissonance defence of one's own absurdities] where what is perfectly legal in one state could, in the most extreme case, be punishable by death in a neighboring state.
When you are forced to set up and set afire an absurd strawman caricature, that is a strong sign that you are in the wrong but have an agenda that you are determined to cling to at all costs. Crooked yardstick thinking. And projection of such a lurid nature invites confession by projection analysis, thence the admonition to correct the seething hostility behind such gross projections. For simple corrective example, cruel and unusual punishments are banned by the Eighth Amendment, also part of the Bill of Rights passed with the Constitution:
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Extreme and disproportionate punishment is an affront to justice, an expression of contempt and vindictiveness. Which BTW is the real meaning of the eye for eye principle. Sanctions in law should be proportionate. So, you should first acknowledge the core concern: the first right, life, without which there are no other lives. And this draft is about restoring due respect for life in the face of patent judicial overreach that justice Alito points to, costing in just the US 63+ million lives. It also enabled the global rise of abortionism, which has cost 1.4+ billion lives, on Guttmacher/UN estimates. Due balance is in order. KF PS, A reminder from Locke and Hooker with a dash of Aristotle:
[2nd Treatise on Civil Gov't, Ch 2 sec. 5, citing "the judicious [Anglican Canon, Richard] Hooker":] . . . if I cannot but wish to receive good, even as much at every man's hands, as any man can wish unto his own soul, how should I look to have any part of my desire herein satisfied, unless myself be careful to satisfy the like desire which is undoubtedly in other men . . . my desire, therefore, to be loved of my equals in Nature, as much as possible may be, imposeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to themward fully the like affection. From which relation of equality between ourselves and them that are as ourselves, what several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn for direction of life no man is ignorant . . .
[This directly echoes St. Paul in Rom 2: "14 For when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do what the law requires, they are a law to themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the work of the law is written on their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness, and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them . . . " and 13: "9 For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 10 Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law . . . " Hooker then continues, citing Aristotle in The Nicomachean Ethics, Bk 8:]
as namely, That because we would take no harm, we must therefore do none; That since we would not be in any thing extremely dealt with, we must ourselves avoid all extremity in our dealings; That from all violence and wrong we are utterly to abstain, with such-like . . . ] [Eccl. Polity ,preface, Bk I, "ch." 8, p.80, cf. here. Emphasis added.] [Augmented citation, Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government, Ch 2 Sect. 5. ]
kairosfocus
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“Put the gays back in the closet where they belong, cancel transexuals, don’t teach sex education to kids, push Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists back into the hidden cracks of society, restrict women to their traditional housekeeping and motherhood roles, mandate the Lord’s Prayer in school, and ban contraceptives.” Two words “emotionally unhinged”” Vividvividbleau
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Sev, note that the US framers and other thinkers of their day, commonly viewed democracy as [an invitation to] lawless/arbitrary mob rule. This in key part harked back to the failure of Athens. While there is a democratic, representational, public accountability element, the framers were careful to hedge it around and consciously premised what they did on the cultural buttresses of a lawful state. These of course include the Christian sentiment, the adherence to core natural law rooted in our morally governed nature [and endorsed by the Christian faith], and the rise of a duly informed public tracing to the printing revolution and associated trends that for example include familiarity with the Bible, the decalogue, the Proverbs, the gospel and its integral gospel ethics. The undermining of these opens the way to lawless ideological oligarchy, and that is the discernible intent of the agendas now afoot. Some serious rethinking is in order. KFkairosfocus
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RE: seversky/ 198 The key difference between a republic and a democracy is not how power is projected, but the limits to power. Both use the representational system, meaning that the citizenry is represented in the government by elected leaders. In both cases, the majority rule, but in a republic the constitution limits how the government can exercise power. These rights are inalienable and cannot be changed or altered by an elected government. The United States is a typical example of a republic state because the constitution limits the power of the government. Some rights such as the Bill of Rights, the right to vote, and the powers to amend the constitution are limited and cannot be changed by the sitting government without consulting the public directly. This has more detailET
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Viola Lee:
... if I understand the draft opinion correctly,...
Thankfully, it is a given that you don't. This whole thing is a media manipulation to further divide the country, rally support for the losing democrats and get us to forget about the outrageous inflation. And people like you are feeding the frenzy. Sick, actually.ET
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JHolo:
Have you always had a problem socializing with women or is this something new?
Fred Hickson is a woman? I was just correcting Fredette's misrepresentation of the use of the word biology.ET
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VL@202, I never thought of it that way, but I think you are correct. But there are also several commenters here who would see the returning to the good old times that never were as a good thing. Put the gays back in the closet where they belong, cancel transexuals, don’t teach sex education to kids, push Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists back into the hidden cracks of society, restrict women to their traditional housekeeping and motherhood roles, mandate the Lord’s Prayer in school, and ban contraceptives.JHolo
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re 199: Sev, if I understand the draft opinion correctly, the same reasoning could be applied to same-sex marriage, inter-racial marriage, and who knows what else, going a long ways to un-doing the united part of the Unites States. I see this as very dangerous.Viola Lee
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ET: Maybe genetically. But phenotypically we are the dominant of the two. Well, not you, obviously.
Have you always had a problem socializing with women or is this something new?JHolo
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Recent headline:
Amazon announces benefit to pay for US employees who travel for abortions, other treatments
Amazon employs 85,000+ people in Texas. A state that rewards people for squealing on women obtaining abortions or those helping women obtain abortions. Is Amazon going to be charged?JHolo
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Chuckdarwin/191
The ironic thing about all the bruhaha surrounding the Alito draft is that the availability of abortion will likely be less restrictive in those states where it remains available because they won’t be subject to federal restrictions. It won’t be a matter of if a woman can get an abortion, it will rather be an issue of where she can have it done. I’d call that a pyrrhic victory for pro-life advocates.
Given the absurd principle of "vigilante justice" which Texas exploited to outsource enforcement of SB8 to private citizens and protect their officials from prosecution, I would be concerned that anti-abortion states might enact similar legislation to allow private citizens to take legal action against a woman or her doctor for procuring an abortion in a pro-abortion state. In other words, Alito's retrogressive opinion could return the country to the absurd position where what is perfectly legal in one state could, in the most extreme case, be punishable by death in a neighboring state. In a nineteenth century context, his position would still allow each state to decide whether or not to practice slavery and the 14th amendment could go hang.Seversky
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William J Murray/165
The USA is not a democracy, and was never intended to be one. It is a constitutional federal republic, which is not a democracy, although it has democratic aspects to it such as the democratic election of the POTUS/VP and congressional representatives.
Is the United States a democracy? Yes, the United States is a democracy, since we, the people, hold the ultimate political power. We’re not a “direct democracy,” but we are a “representative democracy.” This is where our history education might add some confusion. We are commonly taught that democracy is a product of ancient Greece. It’s their word – demokratia – after all. The city-state of Athens is credited with implementing a system of government of and by the people, whereby eligible citizens would congregate to make decisions. They’d make these decisions themselves (or “directly”), not through any elected representatives. That system of government, better understood today as direct democracy, lives on in the United States in the form of ballot initiatives and referenda. Some states and localities afford their citizens the right to use these measures to directly enact, change, or repeal laws themselves. More commonly, we exercise our political power in a different way: by voting in elections to choose our representatives. That’s representative democracy. The Constitution does not use the term “democracy.” It’s true. But as Eugene Volokh notes in the Washington Post, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, Justice James Wilson and Chief Justice John Marshall all used the word. These scholars understood representative democracy – the American variety – to be democracy all the same. Is the United States a republic? Yes. The United States is a republic because our elected representatives exercise political power. History also tells us that Rome was a republic, unlike Athens. When its monarchy was overthrown, Rome developed a republican system of government whereby citizens elected officials who were empowered to make decisions for the public. That’s the core of how our government works. While “democracy” and “republic” have been historically pitted against one another, the reality is that the two terms enjoy considerable overlap. So, which term should I use? It’s really up to you. In practice, the word “republic” has the same meaning as the term “representative democracy.” And a representative democracy is a form of democracy in the same way that a Granny Smith apple is a form of apple. We wouldn’t say it’s inaccurate to use “apple” to describe a Granny Smith apple, so it’s OK to follow in the footsteps of Jefferson, Adams, Webster, and Chief Justice Marshall and simply call our “representative democracy” a “democracy.” But it’s also accurate to call the United States a “republic.” It’s mostly about your preference of words. Hopefully, this post will help lower the heat in the online debate. Let’s put our energy toward working to fix our government so it represents the people!
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"The danger of lying too much. Lying is very powerful because you can manipulate the world with your language. And you can get what you want lots of times; or escape from things you don't want. Well, there are many reasons, but one of them is that you can't trust yourself if you lie. And there are going to be times in your life when you have no one to turn to except you. So, if you've stuffed yourself full of lies, you're going to be in a crisis one day, and you're going to have to make a decision, and you're going to decide wrong, and you're going to be in real trouble. You won't have the clarity of mind necessary to make the proper judgment because you have filled your imagination and perception with rubbish". https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1522011321075736585Lieutenant Commander Data
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CD, in recent decades, law students have been indoctrinated in legal positivism, but not in the nihilism it opens the door to. This is part of the problem somehow dressed up and presented as part of the solution. KFkairosfocus
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Supreme Court Justices just cannot just step up out of the blue and overturn anything. There has to be a case in front of them involving abortions, for example. And even then, they are limited by that case. And good for Judge Alito for understanding how wrong it is for us to slaughter our most vulnerable on a wholesale scale. It's great to have leaders with the spine to stand up to that sickening nonsense.ET
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Fred Hickson:
Yes biogically men are deficient women.
Maybe genetically. But phenotypically we are the dominant of the two. Well, not you, obviously.ET
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OK. We won't say that abortion is murder. We will call it the wholesale slaughter of our most vulnerable.ET
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Fred Hickson The Y chromosome is a degenerate X chromosome.
Well at least you have an excuse for degenerate brain.Lieutenant Commander Data
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TLH/183 KF/184 Every first-year law student is quickly disabused of the notion that morality and the law are the same thing. They are also quickly disabused of the notion that the law is always fair or to their liking. The ironic thing about all the bruhaha surrounding the Alito draft is that the availability of abortion will likely be less restrictive in those states where it remains available because they won't be subject to federal restrictions. It won't be a matter of if a woman can get an abortion, it will rather be an issue of where she can have it done. I'd call that a pyrrhic victory for pro-life advocates.chuckdarwin
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Querius
I noticed it but I didn’t think you were being serious since you said: Yes biologically men are deficient women.
I'm perfectly serious about that from a biological perspective. The Y chromosome is a degenerate X chromosome. It has a bit missing.Fred Hickson
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FH, You should just forget about me. I'm nothing but trouble. ;) Andrewasauber
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FH
You ignored or didn’t notice my use of the word biological.
I noticed it but I didn't think you were being serious since you said:
Yes biologically men are deficient women.
But at least you're willing to define what a woman is. That's a lot better than what our newest Supreme Court Justice could do.Silver Asiatic
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Silver Asiatic
It aligns you with the extreme far-right, if you’re ok with that.
Nonsense. You ignored or didn't notice my use of the word biological. You can engage me in discussion and I'll respond but childish gotchas of the Andrew Sauber level are a bit boring.Fred Hickson
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Two women are pregnant. Both are going to have a baby, not a fetus. Both are getting health care. One woman aborts her child. She could have had her baby, but she decided to eliminate it. Question: Did a human being die in the process?marker
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TLH, lawful is of course not equivalent to under colour of law. KFkairosfocus
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M, Vivid is quite right. Critical theories have become the 800 lb Gorilla of too much of the modern academy. They derive from the neo marxism of the Frankfurt School, and are also termed cultural marxism. Critical Race theory is a subset of critical legal theory and of course is the background for project 1619 etc. Many things in literature, history, gender studies and far more are driven by such thinking. And of course, logic, truth, soundness, etc are at steep discount. KFkairosfocus
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