As I’m sure many of you know by now, Justice Sandra Day O’Conner has just resigned from the Supreme Court. This means that George W. Bush will probably nominate a middle-aged (so as to have as long a tenure as possible) right-wing, judicial activist with a strong anti-abortion, anti-gay, and anti-civil rights track record. Already the various conservative political propaganda machines are stressing the importance of nominating “a real conservative—not one of those stealth moderates.†Jehovah forbid that a moderate should be approved for the Supreme Court!
Usually on the 4th of July I ask people to reconsecrate the < href="http://www.neopagan.net/SpellsforDemocracyImages.html">statue of the Goddess Freedom on the top of the Capitol Dome. This year, the Spells for Democracy folks are going to cast a specific spell in addition to this. If Bush insists on nominating a right-wing abortion foe, we are going to see a constitutional crisis of unprecedented damage to our way of life. The Democrats will filibuster, in which case the Republican “nuclear option†of canceling filibusters for judicial nominees will be used and the Democrats in the Senate will either “compromise†and betray their principles, or they will stand up on their hind legs and refuse to be bullied, thus dragging the entire legislative branch of the US government to a screetching halt. Either option will be very bad for Freedom in America.
It’s time for Neopagans, New Agers, and members of other minority belief systems, who care about the threat of the Religious Reich to take action! Get photos of all the members of the Senate Judiciary Committee (we’ll try to put them up at our Yahoo Groups page) and do a spell/working/prayer circle/etc., invoking every God and Goddess of Justice we resonate with, to force them to approve only a moderate who believes in true justice for all Americans.
We will zap our spells through the statue of Freedom on top of the Capitol Building and directly into their brains.
As for timing, let’s do it during the climax of our local fireworks displays on the Fourth of July. If you don’t have a local display, do it during the official Washington show—most of the Senators will be there! All left-over energy should be focused to recharge the statue, as we always do on the 4th of July.
Future lunar workings by the Spells for Democracy group will have to be focussed on impeachment investigations actually happening and charges being made against the Bush crime cartel. That should keep Bush and the neo-theo-cons too distracted to want a filibuster fight at the same time.
Let’s have no more arguing about philosophical issues. “Just do it!â€
yours for Freedom,
Isaac