Please read the article and click on the interview with The Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court. Florida’s courts are underfunded to the point where constitutional rights are being violated. What I find most disturbing about that is the fact that the corporations and criminals that choked our courthouses and who are squeezing the constitutional rights out of every man woman and child in this state HAD THEIR 4TH MOST PROFITABLE YEAR ON RECORD.
It angers me that my state’s judges and court staff are worked to the bone. They are frazzled, spent, ripped apart. Demands have been placed upon them which are obscene and which show a total disregard and lack of respect for the entire judicial branch. The foreclosure mills are a huge part of this problem because their continued misdeeds, improper filings and violations of basic court rules has been a drain on vital court resources.
Our courts were the last protection the citizens of this country had against the abuses of government and the corporations that own us all. We are losing the protections that our courts used to provide and for that we will all pay a tragic price. The 2011 Legislative Session has only just begun, and our courts are going to be asked to take major budget hits….we cannot permit our legislature to decrease one bit of funding.
From Chief Justice Canady- “In some ways this is the worst year we’ve faced.”
I’m not so sure everyone is buying the “we’re broke” cry from the states, cities, and courts. What many people have learned about are those non-publicly disclosed CAFR “slush” funds governments keep all to themselves. The CAFR’s are oft valued at BILLIONS of dollars, arising from investments in the financial markets. I say why don’t we start demanding our so-called public ‘servants’ to disclose their CAFR funds and exactly how much money is in them before they start jacking up our taxes!
Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
We’re told that the kings of the earth are summoned for battle “on the great day of God the Almighty”.
This echoes the proclamation of the “day of the Lord” in the last chapter of Joel;
“Let the men of war draw near, let them come up…
Let the nations bestir themselves and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat;
For there I will sit to judge all the nations round about…
For the Day of the Lord is near, in the valley of decision”- Joel ch3 vv9-14
In Revelation, the summons is coming in the first instance from God’s enemies.
But the summons has the same ultimate purpose.
The nations are coming together so that God can judge them.
The expectation of judgement is confirmed in the next verse, when Christ himself appears to be speaking.
Parallels to these words can be found in other parts of the New Testament, and they show that “coming like a thief” means coming suddenly, without warning.
“The day of the Lord will come like a thief, and the heavens will pass away with a loud noise”- 1 Peter ch3 v10
“The Day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night…sudden destruction will come upon them…so then, let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober” – 1 Thessalonians ch5 vv2-6