Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Man Who Rigged SCOTUS | Andy Kroll | TMR" video.

AUSTRALIAN HERE: For an outside perspective on this. I see the Federalist Society as a MAJOR THREAT to Western Society. FYI - I went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering BUT a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they all loved explaining and arguing ideas on the US Constitution with me. So I got an unusual introduction to the US Constitution. I'd argue that any country could become a totalitarian dictatorship because that was the warning all Australians got from studying Orwell in High School. For generations everyone in Australia read Animal Farm or 1984 or BOTH in high school. So I was well versed in "If you're not careful this can happen!" My college friends, several who went onto become lawyers, would always answer that it was impossible for America to fall into a dictatorship (of any kind) because THE SYSTEM WOULD NOT ALLOW IT. The American system of CHECKS and BALANCES would prevent any group or any one person taking complete control. What we NEVER discussed was what a organisation like the Federalist Society could do given enough money. It just never came up. HERE'S the problem for the the rest of the world. We all do business with major American corporations. As was shown with the Steven Donziger case involving Chevron, IF an American company gets into trouble over sees they will drag the case BACK INTO the American Courts where the these corrupt judges owned by the Corporations RUN EVERYTHING and there is no contest. Right now in Australia we have a major scandal involving PwC (an American company) and their consulting to the Australian Government. That inquiry is turning up other issues with companies including KPMG, EY and Deloitte who are all American companies. We haven't yet heard about McKinsey or Boston Group but there are rumors out of Britain and Europe. Just the PwC scandal could end up in a litigation for well over $10 Billion. They actually tried to swindle (with their corporate clients who include other American companies) Australia out of $$$ Billions in tax revenue. What happens if they drag that back to an American court? The complete corruption of SCOTUS is a wider problem than just simply what it does to America. YES I will grant any American its more of a direct problem for you, but don't think its not a problem for us also.
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@diegomagellan Yeah, I don't think that as many people who need to be very seriously concerned about this are actually concerned because its still seen as an internal to America issue and think that America will sort it out. The problem is that SCOTUS appointments are for life or until they choose to retire. So people like Kavanagh, Gorsuch and Barrett could be there for decades. In the meantime they can either block or enable all sorts of crap. This is not a trivial problem and will take a major effort to fix. Its taken decade for the FS to do this and it will take decades to fix it.
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