Both Karl du Fresne and Chris Trotter have blogged on the Hawkes Bay case of a young girl and a parenting order for her and whether this should proceed on the basis of culture or race.

The key to the pushback is knowledge, not bumper stickers. This book is the informative way of doing so and is an accessible text.

The curious Biblical story of the Tower of Babel may provide a metaphor for Wokedom’s aberrant use of ideas and words. The woke assault on cultural land marks and institutions is underway.

Richard Weavers was an academic from The University of Chicago and in 1948 wrote a book called Ideas have Consequences. A book that should sit alongside Orwell's 1984.

I set an extended quote by Weavers which speaks to our modern media as well:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news...

Is it over for the rule of law in the USA? Does the Constitutional Republic start ending here?

The procedural laches (timeliness) argument has prevailed rather than the substantive merits argument.

It means the appellants have no remedy. They are boxed in. They could not bring the case beforehand because PA law requires locus standi to be based on harm actually suffered. The harm did not occur until on and after the election.

Our English form of law, which the US inherited, struggled over centuries to free itself from dogmas of the procedural form so as to do substantive justice.

But the constitutional breaches and the fundamental invalidity- e.g. the PA Supreme Court's legislating when only the PA legislature had the plenary power to do so in election matters- remain unresolved. Montesquieu's checks and balances seemingly and prima facie have given way.

The nine wise men and women in Black Robes may have unwittingly undermined the institution of the Court as a Constitutional Supreme Court, which may well under a Biden Presidency be packed and become a tool and dependent wing of the executive government.

CNN continue its war on free speech galvanised by a possible Biden White House.

Professor Turley's Blog has this post:

Like many anti-free speech advocates, Darcy simply labels those with opposing views as spreading “disinformation” and demands that they be labelled or barred from social media. In a recent newsletter, Darcy calls for every tweet by Trump to be labelled as disinformation while asking “and why stop there?” Precisely. Once you cross the Rubicon of speech regulation, there is little reason or inclination to stop.

The late literary critic Harold Bloom in an interview said that US Democracy was dying and that the US was falling to being ruled by Plutocrats [big tech and big corporations]; Oligarchs and Theocrats. As friends of democracy and liberty, these three are not. The present election t sees all three at play. MSM in the USA seems to think it is an activist part of the state's functioning apparatus.

Over the weekend:

1. Biden supporters attacked and harassed Trump supporters in Washington DC;

2. Obama, as reported on Breitbart, announced that Trump was like a Dictator- which is rich coming from a man who weaponised departments of state for political reasons; whose excessive use Executives Orders- the famous "I have a pen and phone" is well-known and whose second term denigrated Americans who did not think like him and brought into play divisive identity politics.

The Lincoln Project is an anti Trumper organisation and is targetting Trump's lawyers. Many are acting pro bono to assist in putting the evidence together.

Raheem Kassam and Natalie Winters have written a piece on the Pennsylvania election in The National Pulse https://thenationalpulse.com/p...

Ben Shapiro today has a clip from Hillary Clinton saying the Trump Presidency has been illegitimate because she had the 2016 election stolen from her. That is a woeful incorrect statement given Mrs Clinton was a lawyer. One popular NZ Blog site- and its writer should know better- has repeated the same ignorant and incorrect opinion.

I return to a theme of Aristotle’s, the “few v the many’ which was his characterisation of Classical Athenian democracy.

Facebook has censored a Babylon Bee article which had Democrat Senator Maisie Hirono using the test of a 'Duck' to determine whether supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barret was a witch. The article was based on a Monty Python skit.

In view of Twitter's and Face Book's censorship of the New York Post's stories on the Biden corruption, follows this weekend's op ed in the New York Times Magazine argues

Democrats, the party of lawyers, "lawfare" , of weaponising of the IRS FBI and DoJ have openly manifested contempt for the voters- all of whom are now relegated to Deplorables.

Voting has already started in the USA but the candour of Mr Biden is astonishing as is the hubris: The National Review writer Zachary Evans noted:

The unanswered question in the current US candidate debates so far, - despite Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer saying ‘everything is on the table’- is Supreme Court packing.

The debate has been described as chaos, unruly, of no value and of frightening a CNN analyst. It was not what a debate should be said Rachel Maddow of MSNBC of dispassionately looking at policy and informing the electorate and I surmise the uncommitted, the non-voters, the swing voters and independents who sit in a 20% twilight zone. Sir Robert Jones also came out against Trump as uncouth, an ignoramus and a liar. < Biden was also short on truth.

The revelation from Hunter Biden's emails has had an explosive effect in the USA raising issues of RICO like contemplated corruption and the national security risk of Mr Joe Biden- i.e. susceptibility to blackmail by the states he is beholden to.

The money involved is substantial.

Brendan O'Neil on Spiked has written an excellent piece to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He writes:

The Australian Spectator carries an excellent analysis of the PM's overreach.

Kevin Norquay in Stuff for 13 February 2022 (https://www.stuff.co.nz/nation...) writes that

Tyranny is anti-fragile: liberty is fragile Liberty is taken for granted: tyranny relegated to a rhetorical shibboleth. The nature of both was sanitised or anesthetised.

The parable of the Hedgehog and the Fox strikes again.

From the Epoch Times 3 August 2021:

Both these writers tell us things worth knowing and our own "Dear Government" may also use them from time to time. Best to be able to pick it out and know what is going on

http://www.solopassion.com/fil...

And those rights, which of course no human document could ever fully spell out, included the rights to property and speech, assembly and free elections, and the right to defense—because, as James Madi

The Cure for the Critical Race Theory Distemper

Dr Walker (1928 to 2018) was Martin Luther King' jr's right-hand man and a great man in his own right.

Every day brings forth something bizarre from Wokedom's idealogues. Today it is the assault on grammar as being part of structural- systemic - racism from some US academics.

Our Ministry of Education has a proposal for the School's History curriculum that hints at the application of Critical Race theory.