[Marxism] A Signal Victory For Us All -- Whether People Know It Or Not

[Hunter Gray]

NOTE BY HUNTER BEAR   5 / 23  / 08
National media coverage of the Texas Raids travesty has come a very long way indeed from the lurid and denigrating portrayals of the polygamists so widely and breathlessly featured less than two months ago when this Texas-initiated and tragic train of events rolled ruthlessly -- and sanctimoniously --  into the kidnapping "under color of law" of almost 500 young people and their dispersal all across the Lone Star State.
Three quite conservative appellate judges of the 3rd Court, sitting at Austin, ruled unanimously and in super strong caustic language. explicitly and implicitly against all of the Texas "levels of authority" involved in this massive miscarriage of justice -- doing so with very broad and deep implications.  They've ordered the State to return the hundreds of victims to parents and homes and community; and, while Texas may appeal, it's going to have to have vastly more than the thin and vaporous "evidence" it produced for the obviously very skeptical 3rd.  The Texas Supreme Court isn't likely to overrule an extraordinarily strong unanimous decision like this one.
So, if Texas is smart, it won't appeal -- and will seek to restore the pre-raid status quo just as fast as it possibly can.
In the summer of 1953, wrapping himself up in the paranoia of those times, self-serving Arizona Governor Howard Pyle, talking about "foul conspiracies" and "Insurrection," launched the raid against Short Creek [now Colorado City.]  That blew up in his face, wrecking his political career. Took some time, but that's what happened.

In this repeat episode, Texas authorities waved the flag of one of the varieties of the currently-in-vogue paranoid hysteria -- sexual abuse and all of its implications -- as it launched its own self-serving  version of the Holy Crusade.  The current atmosphere in the United States is replete with the extremes of not only "political correctness" but often a willingness to scuttle the Constitution in the name of various kinds of "security."

And many American people who knew and know better remain silent -- as so many have done during other periods of national fear and hysteria.  No reasonable person can justify genuine abuse against anyone -- but no reasonable American should ever justify scuttling such important 'rights dimensions as freedom of speech and freedom of religion and due process of law.

But in this case, as in others of these times [e.g., anti-Islamic paranoia], a great many Americans did support this militaristic assault against peaceful people -- and, again, others who at least sensed the colossal injustice engendered by Texas, or in many cases fully recognized it, remained "discreetly" silent.

And that's the most frightening thing, of all of the hideously frightening things, that's come out of this Texas Horror.  

No "abuse" by polygamists has surfaced  [at least not to the satisfaction of the three very conservative judges] -- as so many alleged other and often politically-labeled "crimes" in this country have not been proven to be Real.  

In the last analysis, the Real Abuser has been shown to be Texas.

Let's hope, and fervently, that a great many Americans have learned something valuable about Freedom from all of this.

And that this most signal victory by the polygamists -- and their lawyers and their public supporters -- is a signal victory for Us All.

Whether some people know it or not.

Yours, Hunter [Hunter Bear]

For background, see http://hunterbear.org/POLYGAMY%20FIRES.htm


HUNTER GRAY [HUNTER BEAR/JOHN R SALTER JR] Mi'kmaq /St. Francis
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