Antonin Scalia Defends Poor Thinking Skills

by Greg Wilson

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1)"It isn't a living document," Scalia said. "It's dead, dead, dead, dead." Yet, he supports corporate personhood. Important dates for giving life to corporations: 1803, 1819, 1876 (for details click here). Notice all dates are after the signing of the constitution. Therefore he supports a living Constitution, which is liberal, except it is liberal for the transnational corporations. So, reviewing Scalia's record, he is liberal, and believes in a living Constitution, which means he is deceiving a particular group of people who believe in states rights. The Koch brothers do not believe in state rights and Scalia does not support the anti-Federalists perspective. 

2) Scalia said, " That interpreting laws requires adherence to the words used and to their meanings at the time they were written." Then how can he favor federal government dismissing the anti-Federalist position? You must not only consider words but also ideas. What did he say to the incoming Republican Congressional House members in 2010? Read the Federalist papers! He did not say, read the Constitution, which balanced federal power (centralized power) and state power (more local power, self determination by local communities). I think he has replaced the anti-Federalist position with the book, Business As A System of Power", written in 1943 by Robert A. Brady

3) "There's nothing in there about abortion. It's up to the citizens. ... The same with the death penalty." Then how can he over-turn congressional legislation created by the people's representatives when the people have spoken. He favors judicial review established in 1803 after the signing of the Constitution. Further evidence he practices a living Constitution.

4) "If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder? Can we have it against other things?" I find him a fraud and particularly reprehensible in comparing a state of being homosexual with murder – a criminal act. "If we cannot have moral feelings against homosexuality, can we have it against murder?" This is two different categories and represents sloppy thinking. If you have ill-moral feelings toward that which exists, a tree, a river, a heterosexual, a homosexual, women, men, a mountain, a butterfly, then you need to get into therapy and free yourself from displacing feelings from unresolved childhood negative experiences. I say this out of care: if you have negative feelings for what exists, it is projection, and your attachment to that inner knot, that inner twisting of your spirit needs care to be liberated. It is time, you can be freed.