The Age of Totalitarian Anti-Christian Judges?

Totalitarianism subordinates individuals to the state with strict control of all aspects of life.  The use of coercive measures such as censorship and terrorism are most frequently employed.  Two extremes are theocratic and atheistic dictatorship.  However, today in the world, and here in the United States, the latter looms as the much graver threat.  Moreover, evil forces over many decades have infiltrated the judicial branch of government, and with its hundreds of roots at state and federal levels threaten to rot the Republic and eventually outlaw Faith.  

Justice originated from the Latin word “just” meaning righteousness or equity, the latter though only well understood on the foundation of moral soundness.  It originally meant the exercise of authority in vindication of right by assigning reward or punishment.  Yet, again, from the Catholic perspective, God is the primary Author of life and therefore the authority over all law.  More than being “fair,” justice must conform to and serve Truth.  

The Catechism of the Catholic Church has much to share about justice, from its divinely inspired definition to intersection with politics and impact on the affairs of people.  In the purest sense, justice is a cardinal virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to render what is good and due to God and neighbor.   However, ideal justice must always be according to God’s will.  With respect to our neighbors, justice demands respect for their rights and with impartiality regarding status. (CCC 1807).    One may think of the Golden Rule—Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but with a spirit of “equity” in its purest interpretation and form that also aspires to elevate others to love God with their whole hearts, souls, and minds.   Most critically, Church teaching always perfectly balances objective and absolute truth with another cardinal virtue, charity.

 
Moreover, inherent in justice is the recognition of sins that can contort secular judgments to offense against God and our neighbor and ignore the need for contrition, repentance and compensation.   Furthermore, any failure to wisely weigh alleged offenses against the rule of law must always take into account a decision’s eventual influence on the salvation of souls.

Now, insightful Biblical and catechetical scholars, along with those who have closely studied the Church Fathers, Doctors, and other holy souls’ lives and communications have written volumes on justice.  Herein, the focus remains on the current American justice system as it mirrors the good, bad, and ugly of the world and worldly.   The key concern is that most noticeably in recent decades and most pronounced in the past five years,  the third branch of government —the judicial—has been infiltrated by a cadre of scheming manipulators.  This finely tuned network boasts men and women highly knowledgable of man’s laws but ignorant, dismissive, or rejecting of natural law.   Almost brazenly, they showcase their intent on imposing  totalitarian governance that favors upending the government’s role of safeguarding its people to do good, and ruling the rights of the  regime’s likeminded, including criminals, over perceived “enemies of the state.” 

 
Most controversially, the public has witnessed this in cases against President Trump, but if one moves beyond those questionable cases, unfortunately fueled by Trump’s past public and private demeanor, we still can cite numerous assaults against private citizens who happen to be engaged in evangelization of some sort in the public square.  Generally the persecution and prosecutions arise from issues that a nonreligious but  antagonistic judicial system would cherrypick if not develop from scratch.  Also, what the judicial system ignores or destroys are those cases that hold accountable errant citizens, groups, and organizations that have traditionally been pursued.  Planned Parenthood is one that immediately pops up.

 
As we approach Holy Week, the chants to free Barabbas echoes the sentiments of many of these judges and the populace who would rather contend with the vicious and violent than those committed and courageous Christians they find repugnant to their consciences.  Corrupt and dictatorial governments always reject the pure and innocent in pursuit of power and control.  Even as I type these words, today’s reading (Daniel 13) about the plight of the innocent Susanna at the cruel “mercy” of two licentious judges reminds us that sound societies must take great care when appointing or electing such.  Parenthetically, considered apocryphal rather than historically verified, many Bibles (Protestant) do not include Daniel 13, though the Church would assert that it is a ground story of injustice across many spectrums.

In addition to Scripture, Church teaching underscores ideal justice and threats to it.  In one specific section of the Catechism, it is noted:  Moral judgment must condemn the plague of totalitarian states which systematically falsify the truth, exercise political control of opinion through the media, manipulate defendants and witnesses at public trials, and imagine that they secure their tyranny by strangling and repressing everything they consider “thought crimes.”  (CCC 2499).

 
While never dismissing the right of every person to due process, or dismissing any real concerns about violation of the law, certain demonic horn marks have emerged on the head of Lady Justice in recent times to support an intensely partisan influence throughout the country.  Moreover, three elements raise doubts of numerous judges to be impartial interpreters of the law.  Like the two judges in Daniel 13, they are more accusers and, more specifically, of only those who oppose a non religious (at best), collectivist, global government based on narcissistic self indulgence while a handful of elites determine all forces of the economy and distribution of products and services.

 
Also, the Catechism of the Catholic Church notes that no one can command or establish what is contrary to the dignity of person and the natural law (CCC 2235).  Ironically, under the banner of current secular justice, a web of emboldened judges have impressed an anti-Christian ideology on millions of American citizens.  Catholics, in particular,  have borne the catechetically illegal rulings of numerous courts with respect to pro life and parental rights from conception forward.  In general, cases involving intrusive and illegal immigration and crime always lean towards rewarding unjust behavior, but also important, even illegal behavior given American law.

 
Yet, there is more in that the courts permit the most devious practices before and during hearings.  Judges, like anyone in authority, must exercise their duties to give outward expression to the hierarchy of values in order to facilitate the exercise of freedom and responsibility of all.  Lying, false witness, perjury are all incompatible with justice.  Yet, repeatedly, such is entered into court records to falsely weigh the scales of justice (CCC 2236).

 
What are citizens to do?  In Wisconsin, a former Planned Parenthood woman won the seat on that state’s Supreme Court.  Many had predicted the blatant partisan race and that this was truly the stacking of the deck according to political objectives, not blind justice.  Any code or law can be skewed as a person chooses, after all.  So, like the other two branches, justice loving citizens must pay careful attention to all of these courts,  by systemic oversight, state by state and nationally, perhaps under the banner of a current advocacy group.  For one example, as news outlets headlined the tremendous loss for a conservative judge on the Wisconsin Supreme Court,  no attention was given an April 4th hearing of oral arguments in an important Wisconsin case. In a clash between the moderate Democrat Governor and the Republican controlled state legislature, specific channeling of some education funding is at stake.  The decision will either empower the state legislature or its executive branch in such matters.  The legislators who prevailed in passing the bill were abundantly clear that they had legally routed a portion of money to a specific reading program.  The governor partially vetoed that portion of the bill, leaving the spending discretion to the department of education.  Whereas the primary objective was a phonics program to raise reading scores, in the absence of direction, those monies could be spent on…comic books…for all the public would have a say.  This contrived pipeline from totalitarian judgments to cemented ideological bureaucracies has the potential to derail future generations to make informed and just decisions.  

 
Thus every court case now becomes possibly a dereliction of duty,  excessive punitive overreach, an intentional precedent setting decision, or an advancement of the ugly agenda of the Evil One.

 
Intense oversight of the Judicial Branch is a just action.