{"id":102142,"date":"2018-08-10T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T02:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=102142"},"modified":"2018-08-10T22:07:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T02:07:50","slug":"cultural-marxists-systematically-gutting-the-constitution-and-bill-of-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=102142","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Marxists Systematically Gutting the Constitution and Bill of Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Paul Craig Roberts: &#8220;Is There Enough Of America Left To Be Saved?&#8221;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Paul Craig Roberts,<\/p>\n<p>As many readers of this website have noticed,\u00a0<strong>the United States has lost its character and become a dysfunctional society<\/strong>. In place of a largely homogeneous population once united in veneration of the Constitution, there exists today massive diversity which\u00a0<strong>Identity Politics has used to disunite the population into separate interest groups.<br \/>\n<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/download_13.jpg?itok=7TT9SZe5\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/download_13.jpg?itok=7TT9SZe5\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/download_13.jpg\" srcset=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/download_13.jpg?itok=7TT9SZe5 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"271\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0d26768e-4704-407e-9007-d88f293141da\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/download_13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-102143\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/download_13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/download_13.jpg 890w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/download_13-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/download_13-768x417.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><u><strong>No clause or article of the Constitution, nor the Bill of Rights, is safe.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>The George W. Bush and Obama regimes destroyed two of the most important protections of civil liberty\u2014habeas corpus and due process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bush declared indefinite imprisonment on suspicion alone without evidence or trial. Obama declared execution of US citizens on accusation alone without due process. The Justice (sic) Department wrote legal memos justifying torture, thus destroying the constitutional protection against self-incrimination. One of the authors of the memos is now a professor of law at UC Berkeley. The other is now a federal judge, indications that respect for the Constitution and enforcement of US and international laws against torture is fading in law schools and the federal judiciary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A third important protection of civil liberty &#8211; freedom of speech which is necessary for the discovery of truth and to serve justice &#8211; is being destroyed.\u00a0<\/strong>Apple, Google\/Facebook, Twitter, Spotify, university speech codes, legislation against protesting Israel\u2019s atrocities against Palestinians, and the presstitute media that has been turned into a propaganda organ in behalf of vested interests are all actively involved in protecting lies against truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/02\/16\/greatest-threat-to-free-speech-in-the-west-criminalizing-activism-against-israeli-occupation\/\">Glenn Greenwald reported<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cthe single greatest threat to free speech in the West\u00a0\u2014 and in the U.S. \u2014 is the coordinated, growing campaign to outlaw and punish those who advocate for, or participate in,\u00a0activism to end the Israeli occupation\u201d of Palestine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Second Amendment, which was placed in the Constitution as a defense against oppression by government, is under attack by well financed organizations in service to the police state with the intention of disarming the population.\u00a0<\/strong>Many attentive Americans are convinced that mass shootings are staged or pretended in order to create public support for repealing the Second Amendment. Clearly the amount of effort expended against the Second Amendment is disproportional to the number of shooting deaths as compared to other causes of deaths. Why this one cause of deaths has so many well financed and politically active organizations compared to other causes of deaths is a question that is studiously avoided. We see far more opposition to the Second Amendment than we see against Washington\u2019s destruction in whole or part of seven countries during the past two decades, resulting in the death, maiming, widowing, orphaning and displacement of millions of peoples.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In an Orwellian twist, freedom of religion is now interpreted as a prohibition against celebrating Christianity, the religious basis of the country, in public arenas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Law faculties and the ACLU have deemphasized the original rights specified in the Constitution, emphasizing instead rights for transgendered, homosexuals, illegal aliens, and those seeking and performing abortions\u2014a horrendous crime only a few decades ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Today all it takes to trump the US Constitution is to utter \u201cNational Security.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the United States is the Constitution, destroying the Constitution destroys the United States. Yet those destroying the Constitution claim that they are making the country safe by substituting police state measures for civil liberty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The newly invented rights and the speech codes are used as weapons against heterosexual white males and to transfer authority from white male professors and managers to university and corporate \u201cdiversity offices\u201d acting in behalf of \u201coppressed minorities\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(women, non-white races except apparently Asians, homosexuals, transgendered). In the August 2018 issue of\u00a0<em>Chronicles<\/em>, a magazine of American culture, Jack Trotter relates one of his experiences as an assistant professor \u201cat a major Southern university, one of those SEC football titans.\u201d In a lecture he encouraged his students to \u201cavoid excessive use of abstract, Latinate terms in their writing.\u201d He was accused of committing a racist crime of advocating white superiority by expressing a preference for short words with clear meaning that comprise Anglo-Saxon vocabulary. The absurd charge was placed in Trotter\u2019s university file for internal use in the event he gave further indications of white supremacy by uttering the term Anglo-Saxon.<\/p>\n<p>It gets even more ridiculous than this. A professor I know at a major research university was\u00a0<strong>unaware that \u201cgirls\u201d had been made an insensitive word and used it in class.\u00a0<\/strong>He was called before a diversity dean and told that one more infraction and he would have to attend a class in \u201cdiversity training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same thing happened to a graduate student at an English University who was one Friday afternoon sitting talking with three secretaries who were describing the evening out they had planned. He said: \u201csounds like a fun girls\u2019 night out.\u201d The expression \u201cgirls night out\u201d is an old one widely used by women themselves, but the secretaries took offense at the word \u201cgirls,\u201d complained, and the graduate student was subjected to sensitivity training.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Any member of an \u201coppressed minority\u201d can make a complaint against a white male on any basis, and it is in the vested interest of the diversity office, whether university or corporate\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/08\/08\/google-committed-suppression-free-speech\/\">remember the Google case<\/a>\u2014to regard the complaint both as true and as an offense.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago a black female student claimed that as she walked past a fraternity house on the Georgia Tech campus, racial slurs were yelled at her from an open window. The president immediately suspended the fraternity without due process. It was proven that all the windows in the house had been painted shut for many years and that none of them would open. But the penalty against the fraternity stood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It would be interesting to know if white males are permitted to file complaints against radical feminists who dismiss all white heterosexual males as rapists and black professors who describe whites as \u201cice people,\u201d racists, and imperial\/colonial exploiters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The question is: are white heterosexual males protected by speech codes? I would suspect that if a white male filed a complaint against a man-hating feminist, the diversity office would take the complaint as proof that the white male is a misogynist, and if a white male filed a complaint against a black it would be interpreted as proof of the white male\u2019s racism.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some cases of Christian students complaining of prejudices that professors display against Christianity, but by and large I don\u2019t think the complaints have had much success.<\/p>\n<p>Liberals will say that the rights protected in the Constitution are more prevalent, not less. They will point to the success of the civil rights movement in integrating blacks. Overall, however, it is not clear that blacks have any more due process and habeas corpus rights under the War on Terror than they had under Jim Crow. The overall loss of civil liberty cancels the blacks\u2019 gains. Indeed, have blacks actually gained any rights when the police with little accountability can shoot down unarmed blacks on the streets and in their own homes? If gun control is needed, why isn\u2019t it needed for the police?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Just as protests against Israel\u2019s atrocities against the Palestinians are being criminalized throughout the West, so is free speech that challenges the self-serving agendas of governments and vested interests.<\/strong>\u00a0The hope that the Internet and social media would expand free speech have been proven wrong by the move against Alex Jones, the Ron Paul Institute, and antiwar.com by Apple, Twitter, Google and Facebook. Apparently these corporations are convinced that Western peoples are sufficiently in the power of The Matrix that the attack on the First Amendment will cost them no lost business or condemnation by the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>That corporations believe that they can attack the First Amendment with no adverse consequences to themselves shows the extent to which the United States has eroded.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-10\/paul-craig-roberts-there-enough-america-left-be-saved\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-08-10\/paul-craig-roberts-there-enough-america-left-be-saved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Craig Roberts: &#8220;Is There Enough Of America Left To Be Saved?&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}