Citizens of Marfa feel called upon to give account in the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. The autopsy consists of a thorough examination to determine the 1) cause 2) manner of death and 3) evaluate any disease or injury that may be present. But in the absence of that cadaverum, since we don't have the body, we must use the hat. The body itself has been predisposed in a secret will to cremation, so we're never going to see it, an act frowned upon by the traditional Catholic. It does however remove the problem at a later date. This fiat accompli involves not just the hat, but the pillow and the judge's name under Cause. The facts issued in the Case are these. Scalia had been "quail hunting," whatever quail that may be, on a ranch in Big Bend country near Marfa owned by the war hero decorated by Obama, John Poindexter, but without his federal marshal guard. Scalia was declared dead, with a pillow on his head, over the phone by Presidio County's most infamous female judge, named Cinderela, who had already ruled an arbitrary suicide in her short term. There was just no one else available, although two others had been tried before Cinderela. Not that they had been warned off, but these judges said they just couldn't come to the Cibolo Ranch, and deferred. Cinderela couldn't come either, however pronounced the Justice dead without seeing the body, which was anyway embalmed the same day. These Causes, ruled death by natural cause, occurred within the day, without autopsy.
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In the studied non reporting of the event and its non investigation with the assumption that all is as it appears in this best of all possible worlds, to autopsy Scalia's hat means to look in and beneath the context and take part in what the citizens of Marfa call his martyrdom to the state. To examine cause, such executions derive also from the foolishness of the victim, which, as a preface to Justice Scalia's taking off, occurred in his aping of the martyr Sir Thomas More in wearing a replica of More's hat at the Obama inaugural in 2013. As cause goes, this showboating and bluster made him vulnerable to become a martyr to the state like Sir Thomas More, who Scalia often spoke of, a man who died to defend a corrupt Church and papacy, and considered by many, including his wife, to be a fool for accepting martyrdom. Saint Thomas gave his life because he refused to sign an oath that disparaged the pope and Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon. That is, Scalia, with this bluster, invited martyrdom upon himself. Only in Texas could Justice Scalia become a Thomas More martyr for Obama and be executed (covert) by the state for interference with his beliefs.
We should be glad the body was even found considering the cluster of unexplained disappearances in national parks and cities. The absence of investigative reporting in the quick death and disposal is a symbolic disappearance, of which citizens believe more are coming at a future time. They also believe there is a natural/supernatural covering that protects lives which however can be negated by thoughtless speech and acts. This is obvious and more dire the higher one gets. Such thinking preoccupies the cause of King Arthur's death, not his hat or his table, but his sex life made him vulnerable, obviously so if his illicit Mordred killed him. This causality contrasts with Sir Gawain who receives only a scratch on the neck for one stray veniality. According to cause our past president JFK's amazing and complicit affairs made him vulnerable in ways that allowed his taking, to which our citizens complain that who then wants to be famous if so little an error can get you killed? Everything is magnified in the dry air of the Marfa flats. Look at David's loss of his sons over his lusts and consider Dr. King. Made moralists agonize over such assignations, proved and unproved. Scalia is called Scalia Santo Subito for the bombast of his headware. Consider the moral agony of Elizabeth Scalia, no relation, over the murder of last day abortionist George Tiller, worse than Mengele. Levinas gives it best: "Everyone will readily agree that it is of the highest importance to know whether we are not duped by morality." Whether Scalia died to defend a corrupt state and its morality or for blocking crucial corporate and international agendas is wonderfully ambivalent. more: http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring16/page55.html