Flablog: You say you'll change the constitution

1/13/2005

You say you'll change the constitution

This is the scariest story of the new year in Florida Politics -- a move by GOP conservatives to do a top-to-bottom rewrite of Florida's constitution.

They lost issue-by-issue at the polls, so now they'll just do a mass repeal of initiatives that had won over the years. And while they're at it, maybe throw in a little anti-abortion language, weaken the Sunshine law so legislators can meet in secret without having to sneak around, remove separation of church and state language and, heck, why not add some novel Patriot-Act-style state police powers? This is a time o' war, people!

And let's make it harder for people to vote on any changes to our handiwork, too. And be sure to weaken the courts so those judges won't get in our way all the time. And some property-rights language so tree-huggers can't take us to court! And that dreadful minimum wage amendment, can you beleive it passed?

Yessiree, this could be a real Ashcroftian, Christian-Coalition-pleasing grab-bag of top-down, hard-right, we-don't-need-no-separation-of-powers-'round-here document. A model Christian Security-State Constitution with some goodies thrown in at the last minute for select contributors.

# posted by Lane @ 1/13/2005