Bill Thompson

You're ruled by an oligarchy.

You've got eight people in robes that are going to tell you whether or not laws are good or bad.

And that's not the founding of this country.

It's not how it was intended to work.

And that all started back in Marbury v. Madison with Thomas Jefferson.

and these writs of mandamus that were the Supreme Court, long story short, essentially granted itself the power to conduct judicial review under the old system or the system, old system, the system that was ratified and that the founders approved was if a law was deemed unconstitutional, it would go before the Supreme Court and they would rule in favor of the person.

And then eventually the government would figure out, oh, this law doesn't work.

But it was never on the Supreme Court to say constitutional, unconstitutional.

You would get arrested for some law and it would get appealed to the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court would say, we're not punishing this person.

This is against the Constitution.

But the government would have to keep arresting people and have to keep going in front of the federal government So what I'm saying is and I'm sorry to go off on this we can go back to tech but all I'm saying is the core of the American experiment in individual rights and what makes this country so great and why I was willing to die for it after my initial enlistment and why I have such love for this is because it was the only experiment where the value of the individual was held at the top of the hierarchy and

And that people could truly be allowed to flourish.

And in 250 years, we did more than any society could have hoped to have achieved in tens of thousands of years.

Not that it's been around that long, but in thousands of years.

Everything tends towards disorder and everything, power always gets centralized.

And we had a framework to do that, but we were willing participants in our own demise.

And now we're scratching our heads and wondering why there's no individual and why there's no individual autonomy here.

Why a guy can't smoke weed on the weekend or why a guy can't do X, Y, or Z because we have centralized the authority and the power and the decision-making structure and we're allowing them to be – there would be no problem with money in politics if the federal government had only the powers that were outlined to it in the constitution.

I'm sorry.