There may be nothing that so obviously proves the degeneracy of the American Constitution as interpreted by recent courts at the behest of a range of lawyers from obvious corporate whores and shills who work for the gun industry and its front groups and the more inexplicably complicit lawyers like the ACLU than the total failure of the Congress, state legislatures and courts to protect Americans from the tsunami of gun violence that kills more Americans than wars have.
That the Florida legislature killed a bill to ban assault weapons, of the kind that only most recently murdered and maimed and terrorized a Florida high school proves that the First Amendment rulings that have allowed lying a free hand in the media, that makes millionaires and billionaires have more speech than even tens of millions of Americans and which allows, not only domestic but foreign money interests to sway American elections has made the American political and legal system a tool of even the de facto Murder inc. of the NRA as it promotes the murder of Americans, even as it funded the gun training of the asshole who murdered the students and teachers in that one of many schools attacked with ASSAULT WEAPONS.
I am as critical of the self-styled civil liberties industry as I am the willing white-collar servants of the gun industry because they largely provided the basis which the rest have used to further the corruption of American politics. I think that was done because the fundamental ideology of many, perhaps most of the bright lights of those groups, the ACLU foremost among them, is essentially amoral. Anyone who, in 1964, didn't know that allowing the commercial media in the United States, the media that Newton Minnow warned about in such dire terms three years earlier, was bound to turn it into a tool of the rich and the anti-democratic, the sleaziest of gangster-businessmen-lawyers -etc. would have been too stupid to make the arguments that were made at the time. I think they did it because they didn't and never did believe in anything better.
I know some people have been confused and upset when I've written about this in the past because it violates the most sacralized items of secular-pseudo-liberal piety, it certainly is against the self-interest of the media and those who work in it. I have come to realize that even some of those in the ever diminishing roles of journalists and reporters I still have some respect for either are unwilling to admit to the self-interest that the "liberal" media has in never changing the law to make lying by the media punishable by civil action or who know that they would be black-balled by the majority of the media that enjoys their and their companies ability to lie with impunity. But that is where this all starts, it starts by a big mouth on radio or TV blathering a string of lies about a liberal politician, about the Second Amendment, or in favor of a whore of oligarchy and them swaying votes on the basis of their entertaining ranting. Newton Minnow could probably not have imagined the degeneracy of the American media today in the wake of the ACLU's success in deforming the First Amendment. They don't really need to go through the motions anymore because the depraved membership of the Roberts court, as the Rehnquist court before will issue such oligarch-gun-industry favoring First Amendment interpretations without bothering to look at the rotely generated briefs from that fraudulent public-interest group.
That is what happens when the law is allowed to pretend that it is not a serious sin to lie, to bear false witness. The reason the Florida legislature, not a week after the slaughter of school children refuse to listen to them, to their parents, to their teachers, to the millions who want protection from assault weapons for their children because they know the media will lie them back into office because money has power granted it by the Supreme Court along with the protection from lying.
If I were in a real jam, legally, and the ACLU offered to come to my help, I'd turn them down because I wouldn't want to be part of their cover-up operation of their real agenda. Their real success is on display whenever school children get killed and the government won't protect them.
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