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Phyllis Schlafly, Edwin Viera: Eric Rudolph Hasn't Returned Your Call But Bin Laden Is On Line Two
You must read Dana Milbank's article in today's Washington Post on the gathering of conservative terrorists who were moaning, groaning and worse about "bad" judges. These patriotic vigilantes were in Washington D.C. to participate in the "Remedies To Judicial Tyranny" forum. It is not known if The Department of Homeland Security issued any heightened awareness warning.
Here are some of the opening paragraphs:
And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty
By Dana Milbank
Saturday, April 9, 2005; Page A03
Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is a fairly accomplished jurist, but he might want to get himself a good lawyer -- and perhaps a few more bodyguards.
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.
Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment." To cheers and applause from those gathered at a downtown Marriott for a conference on "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith," Schlafly said that Kennedy had not met the "good behavior" requirement for office and that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment."
...Not to be outdone, lawyer-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."
Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.
Schlafly's thirsting for the execution of juveniles---she must be a very slow reader because, despite her age, she apparently still hasn't made it to The New Testament. Guess she keeps flipping back to re-read all those Old Testament stonings of adulterers, smiting of prostitutes and the slicing and dicing of those who forgot to rub their belly on the third Thursday of months ending in 'r.'
And for years we thought Edwin Viera was a Trotskyist--jeez, it turns out he's been a Stalinist all this time. Who woulda thunk it?
And get this: all these gasbags were part of a conference organized by the Judeo-Christian Council for Consititutional Restoration. It makes you wonder what they would have done to Jesus if they ever had the opportunity to 'straighten' him out? Plus, all these threats piggybacked on the courthouse murders in Atlanta and a jurist's husband and mother killed in Chicago--have these people no shame?
Shakespeare was wrong. According to Mr. Viera, it should be: first we kill all the judges.
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