I wrote this letter yesterday and sent it to every US Supreme Court Justice and the President of the United States. We assume these Justices know everything about the law, but I wonder sometimes if maybe they only remember what they want. I wanted to remind them of their responsibilities to "..protect and defend..." the Constitution. They do not have the right to change it at their will by abandoning the principle the founders set up of interpreting it based on what the intent of the writers of the particular article(s) or amendments(s) that are applicable to the case they are deciding on were trying to accomplish when they wrote them, and the country adopted them.
March
8, 2018
Chief
Justice John G. Roberts
Associate
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy
Associate
Justice Clarence Thomas
Associate
Justice Stephen G. Greyer
Associate
Justice Elena Kagan
Associate
Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
Associate
Justice Sonia Sotomayor
Associate
Justice Neal N. Gorsuch
Dear
Justices,
As
a retired U.S. Army Major who flew combat in Vietnam in the F4 Phantom II
fighter-bomber (USAF), and commanded a transportation company in Operation
Desert Storm (U.S. Army), I feel it necessary to express my concerns about the
recent past history of the SCOTUS with regard to several Constitutional
matters. I KNOW I have earned that right
through fighting in combat to defend the freedoms we all enjoy. Most of you, however, have done nothing but
study the law and practices in a courtroom where real life can be twisted,
disguised, and bastardized to the point of completely obscuring the impact that
the decisions that you have been a part of have on the rest of us who have to
live by those decisions. I feel the
Court has errored in the past and where subsequent Courts, following those
errant opinions, have moved America down a path that is leading America to the
point of either another civil war, or at best, a nation divided with no moral
compass to guide it back from the brink of self-destruction.
The Brown vs Board of Education decision
was a terrible ruling. It set a
precedent which started a string of ridiculous lawsuits which have inevitably
resulted in Christianity and any symbol of that religion being banned from the
halls of government at the local, state and federal levels. That is NOT what the founders intended, and
any of you that have studied the writings of the founders know that! All of you should know that America was
colonized by religious refugees from England and other parts of Europe who fled
here so that they could worship God as they pleased with NO government
interference. That was the entire
purpose of the First Amendment. Read the
committee notes on the discussions of the wording of the 1st
Amendment. “August 15, 1789. Mr. [Peter] Sylvester [of New York] had some
doubts…He feared it [the First Amendment] might be thought to have a tendency
to abolish religion altogether…Mr. [Elbridge] Gerry [of Massachusetts] said it
would read better if it was that “no religious doctrine shall be established by
law.”…Mr. [James] Madison [of Virginia] said he apprehended the meaning of the
words to be, that “Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the
legal observation of it by law.”…The State[s] seemed to entertain an opinion
that under the clause of the Constitution…it enabled them [Congress] to make
laws of such a nature as might…establish a national religion; to prevent these
effects he presumed the amendment was intended…Mr. Madison thought if the word
“national” was inserted before religion, it would satisfy the minds of the
honorable gentlemen....He thought if the word “national” was introduced, it
would point the amendment directly to the object it was intended to prevent”
Read
what Justice Joseph Story wrote about the purpose of the 1st Amendment’s
clause:
“Probably, at the time of the adoption of The Constitution, and of
the Amendment to it now under consideration, the general, If not the universal,
sentiment in America was that Christianity ought to receive encouragement from
The State…An attempt to level all religions and to make it a matter of
state policy to hold all in utter Indifference would have created universal
disapprobation [disapproval] if not universal indignation [anger].” On another
occasion, in his “Commentaries”, he wrote, “The real object of the
[First Amendment] was not to countenance, much less to advance, Mahometanism,
or Judaism, or infidelity, by prostrating Christianity, but to exclude all
rivalry among Christian sect”
Clearly,
the founders intended that Christianity was the predominant religion in this
nation; not any one sect or denomination of Christianity, but clearly the
principles and guidelines for behavior as outlined in the New Testament and in
the Ten Commandments were to be the foundation for our laws as a nation. Our founders did NOT believe that
Christianity should be viewed legally on the same level as every other
religion. The founders and the majority of the people of the nation
viewed the principles of Christianity as foundation for our governmental
policies. This is clearly stated by the founders. As an example,
this quote from Justice Story: “One
of the beautiful boasts of our municipal jurisprudence is that Christianity is
a part of the Common Law. . . . There never has been a period in which the
Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundations. . . . I
verily believe Christianity necessary to the support of civil society.
In the
following paragraph from David Barton’s book “ORIGINAL INTENT, THE COURTS, THE
CONSTITUTION, AND RELIGION”:, , during a ruling on this case, Church of the
Holy Trinity v. United States (1892) United States Supreme Court, Mr. Barton
quotes from the ruling and mentions several other cases establishing that
Christianity is the foundation of the laws of this nation, and the Courts
expected it to always be that way!: [W]e find that in Updegraph v. The Commonwealth,
11 S. & R. 394, 400, it was decided that, “Christianity, general
Christianity, is, and always has been, a part of the common law . . . not
Christianity with an established church . . . but Christianity with liberty of
conscience to all men.” And in The People v. Ruggles, 8 Johns. 290, 294, 295,
Chancellor Kent, the great commentator on American law, speaking as Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, said: “The people of this State, in
common with the people of this country, profess the general doctrines of
Christianity, as the rule of their faith and practice. . . . [W]e are a
Christian people, and the morality of the country is deeply engrafted upon
Christianity, and not upon the doctrines or worship of those impostors [other
religions].” And in the famous case of Vidal v. Girard’s Executors, 2 How. 127,
198, this Court . . . observed: “It is also said, and truly, that the Christian
religion is a part of the common law.” 4
I
apologize to the members of the court that are not of the Christian faith, and
I realize that there is no religion clause with regard to those who serve. But the truth is the truth, and even if you
are NOT a Christian, the founding fathers established the foundation of this
nation and its laws upon Christian Principles and the Ten Commandments; not
opinion, fact! As the ultimate deciding
authority of the Constitutionality of a law, it is YOUR DUTY to render your
decisions not based on anything but one guideline: the Original Intent of the author of the
article or amendment to the Constitution.
If one of you interjects your personal values, then you would be
violating your oath of office. The
Constitution is a document meant to be set in stone except when legally amended
by the people of the United States through their elected representatives. You have NO RIGHT to interject your personal
beliefs into the rulings. That is what
many of your predecessors have done, and for that, theyt should have faced
impeachment, except that the Legislature as allowed itself to be cowed by the
Courts and they are as spineless and corrupt as many of the Court members have
been in the past; they have become nothing but party lackies with no brain of
their own and only know how to cow to the will of nut-cases like Nancy Pelosi,
Harry Reid, and Chuck Schumer.
I would
remind the Justices that your opinion of the Constitution and its relevance to
current times is totally irrelevant when it comes time to make your
rulings. I would remind the Justices
that it is not your right to decide whether our Constitution needs changing or
not. I would remind the Justices that it
is totally irrelevant as to how this Constitution rates in your opinions when
compared to other nations when it comes times to make your rulings. Your oath of office as a Justice compels all
of you to do one thing…support and defend and interpret this Constitution
according to the way that the authors of the relative articles or amendments in
question intended them to be interpreted and implemented, NOT the way YOU think
that they should be interpreted or implemented.
To do otherwise violates your oath of office, and should that happen, I
would support immediate impeachment and removal from the bench, but sadly, our
spineless Legislature and Executive Branches will simply bow down and kiss the
feet of the Courts and screw the American public out of our basic freedoms from
God and and as granted in the Constitution.
As
members of the SCOTUS, your obligation is not to make laws as you see fit, but
to render your OPINIONS based on the ORIGINAL INTENT of the writers of the
particular Article or Amendment to the Constitution. Original Intent was and still should be your
guideline for judging on the Constitutionality of any decision you make. It is not and was not the right of any
previous SCOTUS justices to interject their interpretations, but to do your
homework and rule as you believe the first SCOTUS justices, using Original
Intent as their guideline would rule. To
prove my point, here are quotes from several of the founding fathers regarding
Original Intent:
“On every
question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the
Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and
instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented
against it, conform to the probably one in which it was passed” Thomas Jefferson in a letter to SCOTUS
Justice Andrew Johnson
“I entirely concur in the propriety of restoring to the sense in which
the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone is the legitimate Constitution. And if that be not the guide in expounding
it, there can be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a
faithful, exercise of its powers….What a metamorphosis would be produced in the
code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern
sense.” James Madison, 4th
President of the United States
“The first and
fundamental rule in the interpretation of all instruments [documents] is to
construe them according to the sense of the terms and the intentions of the
parties.” Justice Joseph Story
“The first and governing maxim in the
interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made
it.”Justice James Wilson
Your predecessors from earlier courts
understood the dangers in letting ones person opinions influence their decision
making with regard to the Constitution.
All I am doing at this point is trying to remind all of you that this is
not a game. Your decisions, because of
the gutless ways that the Legislative and Executive Branches are letting the
courts treat them as red-headed step children (of which I am one!), are
extremely important. In the past recent
70+ years of the Court’s practices, the attacks against religion have moved the
scales of justice to exactly the opposite of what the founders envisioned, and
I am strongly requesting that this Court pray about this matter, and return
America to the vision of our founding fathers, an America where Christianity is
recognized not as the national religion, but whose principles are certainly the
foundation of our laws. The evidence
clearly points that out, and anyone with half a brain can just look at the laws
and the Opinions that the Court has rendered over the last seventy years, and
see that the founders’ vision for our nation has been totally reversed and
frankly, put America on a path of destruction from within and eventually either
another civil war, or a voluntary split into two or more sovereign nations,
because Christians and conservatives like me will NOT allow the nation to be
destroyed by people who ignore their oaths of office and intentionally make
decisions that destroy the America our founders envisioned and established.
The
true Christians on the Court will understand what I say when I tell all of you
that because of past Court rulings and the impact that they have had on
America, God has taken His had of protection away from America. The Courts have kicked God out of schools,
public buildings and offices, and even out of cemeteries. The Courts have turned at least half of
America into godless, amoral, self-centered individuals who have the “what’s in
it for me, and to hell with the rest of you!” attitude. The Courts have destroyed discipline in
schools, destroyed support for teachers when trying to control their
classrooms, and destroyed the ability of teachers and even parents from
disciplining their own children as they deem fit. The Courts have turned a well-deserved
spanking into a federal crime of child abuse, and as a result, at least half of
America’s youth are undisciplined, poorly educated, immoral or amoral agnostics
who have no moral compass. That is why
there are so many school shootings; teachers and parents have been virtually neutralized
from disciplining children and instilling in them a love of country, a duty of
self-discipline, the need to be self-sustaining, and the morals of a person who
respects the rights, feelings and bodies of others. Half of our society do not have
the training that teaches them the value of human life, the responsibilities of
a productive member of society, and the wonderful blessing to have been born in
a country that recognizes our basic freedoms are NOT from the government, but
are from God, and must be honored.
The
non-Christian members of the Court have the same responsibilities as the
Christian members, and that is to decide on Opinions using the guidelines of
Original Intent, NOT the trending social fad of behavior. That is why we are in the mess that we are in
now, and if the Courts continue on as they are doing now, then the
responsibility for the destruction of America as a “shining light” that the
rest of the world looks up to will be place squarely on your shoulders and will
be shot to hell and gone forever, and instead, we will be living in a cesspool
of a nation like much of the European and African nations of today are living
in.
Sincerely,
Carey
Scott O’Neal, Jr.
MAJOR,
USAF/USAR (ret’d), MBA
Cc:
Donald J. Trump
President of the United States of America
