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Re: Pass this one on This IS worth passing on.....

.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com

2006-03-13, 1:21 pm

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:51:27 GMT, "Gorf" <spam@nospam.com> wrote:

>Former top judge says US risks edging near to dictatorship
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1729396,00.html
>
>Sandra Day O'Connor, a Republican-appointed judge who
>retired last month after 24 years on the supreme court, has
>said the US is in danger of edging towards dictatorship if the
>party's rightwingers continue to attack the judiciary.

Bullshit. She NEVER said that. That is the FALSE
INTERPRETATION of what she said, byt a well known leftist - socialist
'Hate-America-First' rag in the UK.

>
>In a strongly worded speech at Georgetown University,
>reported by National Public Radio and the Chicago Daily
>Law Bulletin, Ms O'Connor took aim at Republican leaders
>whose repeated denunciations of the courts for alleged
>liberal bias could, she said, be contributing to a climate of violence
>against judges.
>
>Ms O'Connor, nominated by Ronald Reagan as the first
>woman supreme court justice, declared: "We must be
>ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary."

Yes, THAT she said. Notice the quote marks around it.

She left out the equally true "We must be ever vigilant of an
over-riding, power-grabbing judiciary who thinks it is the only branch
of government, and the final authority on everything, superceding all
others'.

>In her speech, Ms O'Connor said that if the courts did not
>occasionally make politicians mad they would not be doing
>their jobs, and their effectiveness "is premised on the notion
>that we won't be subject to retaliation for our judicial acts".

There is a difference between 'retaliation' and
'accountability'.

O'Connor spent too long on the SCOTUS, where she experienced
neither.

We have sadly reached a point, thanks to the liberals, where
somehow Judges have become 'The Rabbis of the Temple of the Mount' to
modern society, with unlimited power, the ability to ignore all
reality on a whim, and leap tall buildings of illogic in a single
bound.

They have taken it upon themselves to write whatever
legislation pleases them from the bench, and then in their arrogance
hold it 'unassailable by any other branch'.

They even say things like 'in light of laws in some other
countries' and 'considering evolving societal norms aroudn the world',
etc, in their decisions.

The Founding Fathers would have either shot them, or at least
thrown them out of office, for such perversion of our Constitution.

Their job was, and is, supposed to be to APPLY AND INTERPRET
the law, not WRITE the law. That is supposed to be reserved to
elected LEGISLATORS, who, if enough of us disagree with the laws they
write, we can remove from office in a year or two or six.

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Gorf

2006-03-13, 6:21 pm

<.p.jm@see_my_sig_for_address.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:51:27 GMT, "Gorf" <spam@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>
> Bullshit. She NEVER said that. That is the FALSE
> INTERPRETATION of what she said, byt a well known leftist - socialist
> 'Hate-America-First' rag in the UK.
>
>
> Yes, THAT she said. Notice the quote marks around it.
>
> She left out the equally true "We must be ever vigilant of an
> over-riding, power-grabbing judiciary who thinks it is the only branch
> of government, and the final authority on everything, superceding all
> others'.
>

This is what she said:
O'Connor also said, "Attacks on the judiciary by some Republican leaders
pose a direct threat to our constitutional freedoms. I am against judicial
reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. We must be ever-vigilant
against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their
preferred policies."
<snip>
The retired justice pulled no punches. She noted that interference with an
independent judiciary, not unlike that attempted by Mr. DeLay and other
Republicans, had allowed dictatorship to flourish in countries formerly
subjected to communist rule.

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deserve neither liberty or safety - Benjamin Franklin

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beaten by the spirit."

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