... is a pernicious poke in the eye of freedom and democracy. Yesterday, the Supremes invalidated the 1937 federal law - on the books for 78 years - that empowered the USDA literally to drive a truck uninvited onto a raisin farmer's real property, park that vehicle, stuff the bed and haul away as much of his annual crop as the Raisin Administrative Committee deemed necessary to prop up retail raisin prices to the level of profitability demanded by the raisin oligarchs on this Committee. For full legal reasoning see, Horne v. USDA, decided 6/22/15; (Mr Horne is a third generation family farmer in California's central valley who had the courage to bar entry to the USDA trucks at his private road gate). Majority opinion by Chief Justice Roberts; sole dissent by our presumably wise Latina Justice. This decision once again reversed (and if possible, embarrassed) the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals lower court decision in favor of this rape of our nation's consumers of raisins. Talk about non-accountability in government employ - I remember reading not too long ago that this most progressive of Circuit Courts gets upheld by the Supreme Court less than 50% of the appeals taken to nation's highest tribunal.
So, with that overview stated, here are the most salient points to ponder as concerned citizens wanting our Constitutional Republic to be restored to its original contours of limited government, with freedom and justice for all:
NEWS FLASH TO THE NINTH CIRCUIT:
As Justice Roberts admonished these legal dullards in his cogent opinion - the 5th Amendment precludes the federal government from seizing w/o. just compensation a person's car, identically as it does that same individual's private home. Now, I know that many legal concepts are not always objectively obvious in the proper application of governing law. That said, how is it conceivable that the San Francisco based court - two hundred thirty-nine years after our nation's founding - determined that despite the clear language of the 5th Amend, the feds can take absolutely everything I own with total impunity, but not my dwelling? Has legal scholarship fallen so far in our law schools, or are these judges just blinded by their ideology.
NEWS FLASH TO THE SUPREME COURT:
Irrespective of the federal government's obligation to pay fair market value for a raisin farmer's produce, when the exclusive purpose of that purchase is to artificially increase super market store prices of raisins - a criminal conspiracy if undertaken by two or more growers in a private sector transaction - that USDA program is not a taking for a legitimate public purpose/use. Indeed, it is Soviet style price-fixing to the substantial detriment of all American consumers.
NEWS FLASH TO THE CONGRESS:
When the USDA acts in concert with a price-fixing oligarchy of raisin conglomerates to screw the American consumers out of millions of dollars annually, where is the populist legislation to prohibit this outrage against free market competition? Where are the great champions of the working middle class? Where is Hillary, where is Bernie Sanders where even is the guy we elected twice to protect us from the deprivations of those evil 1%? (Conglomerate Raisin producers are billionaires, in case you wondered whether they made campaign contributions to both political parties)
I guess President Obama, who mandated a vigorous defense of this communist style central planning disaster, might need to check his constitutional law scholar credentials at the grocery counter next time he goes shopping for affordable healthy foods for the working class kids in charter schools he supports equally strongly.
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