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Constitutional reform bid pushed - Birmingham
News
Constitution reform group lauds founder - Huntsville Times
The man newspapers and others honor in the above named articles, Mr. Bailey Thomson, was a special interest leader
in Alabama politics that Alabama lawyers love. After holding a rally in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 2000, Thomson founded
the Alabama Citizens for Constitutional Reform as part of a grass-roots movement for constitutional reform.
Throughout the state, lawyers are working feverishly to gain exclusive control of Alabama's political and judicial
system. I challenge you to research the truth on Constitutional Reform. Unfortunately newspapers and lawyers use
the uninformed and the naive to promote constitutional reform.
When special interest lawyers control the legislative process nothing good happens. For example, lawyers in the
lawyer-dominated Alabama State Legislature recently revised Alabama's Open Meetings Law. The Birmingham News, The
Huntsville Times, The Mobile Press-Register, The Decatur Daily, The Daily Mountain Eagle, The Tuscaloosa News,
The New York Times and a host of other newspapers considered that a great event in Alabama politics. Newspaper
editors do not understand that the new revised open meetings law COMPLETELY immunizes the entire judicial branch
of Alabama government concerning open meetings.
In short, the new Alabama Open Meetings law does NOT apply to the judicial branch of Alabama government. The Separation
of Powers is in jeopardy and the checks and balances so important to a republician form of government are gone.
One may ask, "Why does that matter."
Alabama's judicial branch (lawyers) is the sole owner of several "rules" committees that control the
operation of judicial administration, state courts, legislative committees and millions of tax dollars. The judicial
"rules" have the same force and effect as any law passed by the state legislature. Thanks to the newly
revised open meetings law the judicial branch is free to change, revise and write new rules without public knowledge
or input.
Is this the kind of constitution you want for your children? When the lawyers, that will most certainly control
of the Constitutional Convention, complete a new constitution, no one will vote again. The vote authorizing the
Constitutional Convention will be the last time the people vote on matters of public concern.
When your children and grandchildren look at you in the future and ask, "How and why in the world did you
let lawyers get so powerful." What will be your excuse? Stop an unnecessary and very dangerous constitutional
rewrite.
Alabama Citizens Against Constitutional Reform
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