Let fascism have its way, until it is too late to stop it — another example of the United States' useless judiciary

29 January 2026

All three branches of US government have been cooperating in . . .

. . . fascism's takeover of the American republic.

The executive branch has gone full tyrannical. Congress has cooperated, by fully abandoning its power as a check on executive overreach. And the American judiciary reliably prevents citizens from rolling back this liberty-destroying tide.

Oligarchy-owned stooges, all.

A recent example from US district court

From The Defender:

In January 2024, [Toby] Stover tried to visit the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site, run by the National Park Service, in Hyde Park, New York.

According to the complaint, park officials turned her away when she tried to use a $10 bill to pay her entrance fee.

Nearly 30 national parks, historic sites and monuments deny entrance to those who try to pay with cash, the amended complaint said. The park service Cashless Fee Collection FAQ states that it accepts only credit, debit and other electronic forms of payment, such as Apple Pay.

Stover asked the [U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia] to declare this practice unlawful, which would mean the park service would be forced to let visitors pay with cash.

On Dec. 3, 2025, the court dismissed Stover’s case, claiming she lacked legal standing to sue the park system because she hadn’t shown that she was “suffering an ongoing injury” or faced an “immediate threat of injury.”

According to U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly, Stover’s choice to avoid visiting Hyde Park until it accepts cash is an ongoing injury of her “own making.”

“Such ‘self-inflicted harm’ … ‘doesn’t satisfy the basic requirement for standing,’” he wrote.

In an appeal [see here] filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, [attorney Ray] Flores argued that the district court was wrong to dismiss the lawsuit.

He asked the appeals court to reverse the dismissal so that the case can proceed — or to declare that the National Park Service’s no-cash policy is unlawful.

“Preserving cash protects freedom,” Flores told The Defender.

Notice the district court's airheaded claim about failed legal standing

Claiming that complainants fail legal standing — to initiate a lawsuit — is how the American judiciary likes to dodge its Constitution-protecting duty:

In Lujan v. Defenders of Wildlife (90-1424), 504 U.S. 555 (1992), the Supreme Court created a three-part test to determine whether a party has standing to sue:

Injury in Fact: The plaintiff must have suffered an “injury in fact,” meaning that the injury is of a legally protected interest which is (a) concrete and particularized and (b) actual or imminent.

Causal Connection: There must be a causal connection between the injury and the conduct brought before the court.

Redressability: It must be likely, rather than speculative, that a favorable decision by the court will redress the injury.

According to the above-cited Defender news blurb, US district Judge Kelly claimed to think that US citizens being forced to pay fees with digital money is not a threat to anyone's wellbeing and liberty. And presumably further — being digitally tracked (by one's digitally recorded payments) wherever one goes is just fine. And last, also by implication, allowing government an obvious avenue to digitally interfere with citizens' ability to move their financial resources around, without government interference, is also just hunky dory fine.

Let fascism reign.

This is the kind of intentional Constitution-dodging judicial stupidity that typifies the American appellate system. All the way up through the US Supreme Court itself.

The moral? — When Fat Cats own government . . .

. . . the Oligarchical Establishment keeps We the Sheep in line for fleecing and mutton-making.

'Blood of patriots and tyrants' did not whimsically spill from Thomas Jefferson's lips.

One cannot keep predatory Fat Cats at bay, without thinning their powers on a periodic basis.

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Let fascism have its way, until it is too late to stop it — another example of the United States' useless judiciary