Review: Men in Black: How Judges are Destroying America

Men in Black: How Judges are Destroying America by Mark R. Levin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I don't get into politics much because I despise the entire charade. Politics should be about honor and public welfare from an informed and wise perspective. It has instead become little more than a horrible menagerie of petty children squabbling over scraps of power cut from the heart and soul of our national fabric.

I decided to read this book because I have been very confused about the decisions that came out of the Supreme Court. I am not an extreme conservative and have never considered myself very much of a Republican. I normally vote republican as a policy on choosing the lesser of two evils.

This book contained a great deal of evidence of the corruption of the Supreme Court. I would have found the entire book to be excellent if it were not for the choice of the author to continue to make statements that were rather odd and not very well thought out. He would follow excellent arguments concerning the corruptions of the court with statements about how the courts should be be judging the things they were judging. The problem is, who does judge them? You can't have congress and through them the people judging law because that wouldn’t be rule of law but rule of popular opinion. Another problem was that in one chapter he seems to be supporting federalism and in the next democracy. It doesn't work both ways.

This country is a federated democratic republic, not a democracy. There is a huge difference between the two. The people are supposed to be ruled by the counties. The counties are supposed to be ruled by the States. The states are supposed to be regulated, but not exactly ruled by, the federal government. With the courts intrusion into every aspect of social and economic welfare of the people the government has been gradually turning into something much more similar in function, if not name, to the government of the United Kingdom. With the advent of mass market media such as television the danger has been accelerated.

The book is a fairly good low-level overview of the problems in the judicial arm of the Federal government. I recommend the book with a less than pure enthusiasm as the writer could have made the book far better and more wide spread by concentrating his efforts on the problems and letting them speak for themselves instead of interjecting his own views which aren't exactly insightful or well considered (In my own opinion).

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