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Natasha's statement:
My name is Natasha H... I am 10 years old. I too want my vote to mean something someday. When I grow up, I am going to be an attorney. I want to one day help protect the Constitutional rights of all Americans. Yet the very future of the Constitution is in jeopardy. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish Justice"? Justice was so important
that it was placed up front in the preamble. Yet when justices whose wives and sons work for a party to a case and whose future plans depend on the outcome of that case, choose to violate all established precedents in ruling for the party they are personally vested in seeing win rather than recusing themselves, they make a mockery of both justice and of the Constitution. And to do this they had to grant standing to a party who had none in violation of established law and precedent.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,
that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness " "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." The governed said they wanted Al Gore for President. They did not consent to the government that was forced upon them by William H. Rehnquist, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O"Connor. Jefferson wrote "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
If Supreme Court Justices can get away with selecting a President against the consent of the governed, then government of the people, by the people, for the people shall perish. Don't prove Abraham Lincoln wrong.
How can we support democracy anywhere, if we don't first support it here and now? A historical question: Who was worse Hitler or the Germans who allowed him to take over their country and institute his Reforms? If we don't act now, people may one day ask that question about us.
Resolution:
INVESTIGATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
WHEREAS: the right to vote is one of the most fundamental rights of United States citizens thereby allowing United States Citizens to express their wishes in how they want to be represented; and
WHEREAS: United States Citizens voted in good faith only to realize that their ballots were mismarked and/or tolled out in the State of Florida thereby nullifying their right to be heard; and
WHEREAS: legal recounts of the ballots were ultimately denied by the US Supreme Court majority who also had friends and family lobbying on behalf of George W. Bush, creating a conflict of interest
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: that the Democratic Party of Orange County demands the immediate investigation by the Congress of the behavior of U.S. Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas, for their
decision in December 2000 that led to United States Citizens being denied their fundamental right to choose a President of the United States.