And, yes, I DO take it personally: They hafta be pod people... Nothing else makes sense...

Saturday, April 09, 2005

They hafta be pod people... Nothing else makes sense...

Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said [Supreme Court Justice Anthony] Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment."

say fucking WHAT...???

i gotta stop rolling out of bed and hitting my head on something like this right off the bat... at least i made it to the john and got some coffee before reading this crap...

"sanctity of life...?" "culture of life...?" yeah, ok, it doesn't make any sense to you and me but as i learned the other day, the pro-"life" crowd intends "sanctity" to apply to "good" folks, the "saved" folks, not the "bad" folks, the "evil" folks... so, following that line of reasoning, if somebody's done something "bad" enough to deserve the death penalty, that must mean, de facto, that they are "evil," never mind that the poor son-of-a-bitch is only fourteen years old... un-fuckingly-believable...

phyllis was one of several on the agenda of "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" (see post, "Where does it stop...?," Monday, April 4), a conference that drew a number of fellow pod people... The conference was organized during the height of the Schiavo controversy by the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration (see post, "Scarier and scarier...," Friday, April 8)...

Conservative leaders meeting in Washington yesterday for a discussion of "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" decided that Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, should be impeached, or worse.

other WTF quotes..

Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said Kennedy "should be the poster boy for impeachment" for citing international norms in his opinions.

[L]awyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law."

the supreme court in its decision on the death penalty for juveniles reviewed other countries' legal opinions and laws relating to the same issue...

more eye-popping snippets from the washington post story...

Richard Lessner of the American Conservative Union, opened the discussion by decrying a "radical secularist relativist judiciary."

Schlafly called for passage of a quartet of bills in Congress that would remove courts' power to review religious displays, the Pledge of Allegiance, same-sex marriage and the Boy Scouts. Her speech brought a subtle change in the argument against the courts from emphasizing "activist" judges -- it was, after all, inaction by federal judges that doomed Schiavo -- to "supremacist" judges. "The Constitution is not what the Supreme Court says it is," Schlafly asserted.

Former representative William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) followed Schlafly, saying the country's "principal problem" is not Iraq or the federal budget but whether "we as a people acknowledge that God exists."

Farris then told the crowd he is "sick and tired of having to lobby people I helped get elected." A better-educated citizenry, he said, would know that "Medicare is a bad idea" and that "Social Security is a horrible idea when run by the government." Farris said he would block judicial power by abolishing the concept of binding judicial precedents, by allowing Congress to vacate court decisions, and by impeaching judges such as Kennedy, who seems to have replaced Justice David H. Souter as the target of conservative ire. "If about 40 of them get impeached, suddenly a lot of these guys would be retiring," he said.

Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who wrote "How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary," escalated the charges, saying a Politburo of "five people on the Supreme Court" has a "revolutionary agenda" rooted in foreign law and situational ethics.

in a triumph of understatement, the washington post concludes...