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Let me tell you about a farmer outside of Dayton, Ohio, named Roscoe Filburn.
He planted 23 acres of wheat, and harvested 462 bushels - which exceeded his allotment under the Agricultural Adjustment Act by 239 bushels.
For this violation of a Federal Act, he was fined $117.11, which he refused to pay.
He grew the wheat for his own private consumption - primarily to feed his chickens.
Since the constitutional justification for the Agricultural Adjustment Act was Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce, and since the wheat was grown for private consumption and thus not involved in commerce at all much less interstate commerce, farmer Filburn argued he was exempt from the law.
The Federal District Court in Ohio agreed.
The government appealed and took the case to the Supreme Court.
After less than a month of deliberation, the Justices reached their decision.
By a vote of 9 to 0, they unanimously found Filburn guilty.
Their reason:
"That the production of wheat for consumption on the farm may be trivial in the particular case is not enough to remove the grower from the scope of federal regulation where his contribution, taken with that of many others similarly situated, is far from trivial." This is the landmark decision of Wickard v. Filburn, in which the Supreme Court declared there were no limits whatever to the Federal Government's constitutional authority to regulate any activity of Americans whatever via the "Interstate Commerce Clause." This decision was in 1942. Now, after 67 years, Roscoe Filburn's unconstitutional chickens have come home to roost, and to destroy America.
The Exponential Curve of Fascist Unconstitutionality is accelerating straight up and cannot be slowed down - it can only be beheaded.........
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on April 9, 2010 at 6:35 AM
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well in a way you are correct
but now in the way I infer you think you are
the problem has existed for more than a century.
much of it has been growing for decades
Eisenhower warned against some of it in his farewell speech -- "beware of the military-industrial complex (paraphrased)" he said.
It controls Congress and the news media. It's power and influence has reached heights that are virtually unassailable. The American Public is totally ill-informed because of such influence.
What you are talking about has little to do with the Obama Administration.
Oh, by the way, according to CBS Morning News, there doesn't seem to be a viable Republican to oppose Mr. Obama in 2012. Four more years, in all likelihood. Thought I'd make your day.
Although I lean farther left than the Democrats, it does my old heart good to see that your hopes for a return to the Right might be dashed.
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 9, 2010 at 6:24 AM
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^ I’ll take a whole hearted effort . KBC-A, Bill’s RJLst
posted by
BC-A
on April 9, 2010 at 5:29 AM
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