Targeting Judges

Another example of right-wing foaming at the mouth. Put a lid on it! Bill Wilson carries water for the extreme right, and his comments are as partisan as anything made by the left.

The answer is somewhere in the middle as it always is.

One really has to wonder who these people are talking to, or reinforcing, when they talk of conservative Judges being activists. Was Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor a “judicial activist” or an individual? Yes or no?

Associate Justice O’Connor was appointed by President Ronald Reagan. She approached each case narrowly and decided in agreement with fellow Justices. However, when the court became increasingly “conservative”, in her latter years, she surprised many by deciding close 5-4 decisions by “siding” with Liberal causes. Were her decisions based on matters of case law or was she trying to “even” the score on a false perception that one “side” was winning more than the “otherside”, a collective approach?

Sandra attended public schools. Her approach to her daily duties exemplified an education mostly lost on today’s generations. She was a critical thinker and worked hard for esteem among her generation. There was no left/right ideology in her public school days, only advancement through hard work, self esteem from accomplishments. Graduating sixth in her class from an El Paso highschool, she was accepted at Stanford earning a B.A. in Economics. After matriculating, she pursued a law degree serving with William Rhenquist on the Stanford Law Review.

In Arizona, she rose from Asst AG to State Senator, to being the first female Senate Majority Leader. From here, she was elected to the Maricopa County Superior Court, leading to the Court of Appeals then nominated to the US Supreme Court. Exemplary!

She decided each case on it’s merits voting with fellow judges who were pigeonholed as “conservative” by a new ideology, an ideology that is against the very values she attained from her teachers, colleagues, fellow citizens, her nation.

Becoming a “swing vote” in a divided court based on a “conservative/liberal” division, did she side with liberals on key decisions advancing an ideology for winners and losers, not the merits of the case? Here are some examples of case law where she was the deciding vote, merits of the case as she saw it or activism based on letting the other side win a few?

Stenberg v Carhart (2000)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Grutter v. Bollinger (2003)
Veith v. Jubelirer (2004)
McCreary County v. ACLU of Kentucky (2005)

The point here is that she had an up bringing that was based on American Common Sense taught in public schools, in my opinion. An American value system based on merit not divisions. Her decisions on these five examples shows an individualism which was not for sale. She was neitehr “conservative” or “liberal”. She was her own woman. I encourage you to look up her opinions on these cases. Was she swayed by another ideal, a collectivism? Was she a “judicial activist” for siding with “liberals” or “conservatives”? Read her opinions and decide for yourself. Where does all this lead to?

In my observations today, much rhetoric coming from Democrat politicians at a national level echo an ideology that is foreign to me. An ideology that evidently has the ear of “47%”. Could this be a “47%” that has heard this rhetoric before? In the classroom, in text books? Yes. It becomes easier to make winners and losers when schools teach an ideology that destroys an America value that is the envy of the world, individualism.

What if we stopped progressing away from the public school days of Sandra Day O’Connor, from the promise and mission of America? What if we continued the progression tyranny, away from the so-called alternative government, a Marxist-Communism blend that so many on the left advance in the classrooms, media, politics, and public speeches. What if we as a people stopped the progression towards a collectivist ideology the picks winners and losers, an ideology that shuns individualism?

What if every American High School Principal said this:

“To the students and faculty of our high school:

I am your new principal, and honored to be so. There is no greater calling than to teach young people.

I would like to apprise you of some important changes coming to our school. I am making these changes because I am convinced that most of the ideas that have dominated public education in America have worked against you, against your teachers and against our country.

First, this school will no longer honor race or ethnicity. I could not care less if your racial makeup is black, brown, red, yellow or white. I could not care less if your origins are African, Latin American, Asian or European, or if your ancestors arrived here on the Mayflower or on slave ships. The only identity I care about, the only one this school will recognize, is your individual identity — your character, your scholarship, your humanity. And the only national identity this school will care about is American.

This is an American public school, and American public schools were created to make better Americans. If you wish to affirm an ethnic, racial or religious identity through school, you will have to go elsewhere. We will end all ethnicity, race and non-American nationality-based celebrations. They undermine the motto of America , one of its three central values — e pluribus Unum, “from many, one.” And this school will be guided by America ’s values. This includes all after-school clubs. I will not authorize clubs that divide students based on any identities. This includes race, language, religion, sexual orientation or whatever else may become in vogue in a society divided by political correctness.

Your clubs will be based on interests and passions, not blood, ethnic, racial or other physically defined ties. Those clubs just cultivate narcissism — an unhealthy preoccupation with the self — while the purpose of education is to get you to think beyond yourself. So we will have clubs that transport you to the wonders and glories of art, music, astronomy, languages you do not already speak, carpentry and more. If the only extracurricular activities you can imagine being interested in are those based on ethnic, racial or sexual identity, that means that little outside of yourself really interests you.

Second, I am uninterested in whether English is your native language. My only interest in terms of language is that you leave this school speaking and writing English as fluently as possible. The English language has united America ’s citizens for over 200 years, and it will unite us at this school. It is one of the indispensable reasons this country of immigrants has always come to be one country. And if you leave this school without excellent English language skills, I would be remiss in my duty to ensure that you will be prepared to successfully compete in the American job market. We will learn other languages here — it is deplorable that most Americans only speak English –but if you want classes taught in your native language rather than in English, this is not your school.

Third, because I regard learning as a sacred endeavor, everything in this school will reflect learning’s elevated status. This means, among other things, that you and your teachers will dress accordingly. Many people in our society dress more formally for Hollywood events than for church or school. These people have their priorities backward. Therefore, there will be a formal dress code at this school.

Fourth, no obscene language will be tolerated anywhere on this school’s property — whether in class, in the hallways or at athletic events. If you can’t speak without using the f-word, you can’t speak. By obscene language I mean the words banned by the Federal Communications Commission, plus epithets such as “Nigger,” even when used by one black student to address another black, or “bitch,” even when addressed by a girl to a girlfriend. It is my intent that by the time you leave this school, you will be among the few your age to instinctively distinguish between the elevated and the degraded, the holy and the obscene.

Fifth, we will end all self-esteem programs. In this school, self-esteem will be attained in only one way — the way people attained it until decided otherwise a generation ago — by earning it. One immediate consequence is that there will be one valedictorian, not eight.

Sixth, and last, I am reorienting the school toward academics and away from politics and propaganda. No more time will be devoted to scaring you about smoking and caffeine, or terrifying you about sexual harassment or global warming. No more semesters will be devoted to condom wearing and teaching you to regard sexual relations as only or primarily a health issue… There will be no more attempts to convince you that you are a victim because you are not white, or not male, or not heterosexual or not Christian. We will have failed if any one of you graduates this school and does not consider him or herself inordinately fortunate — to be alive and to be an American.

Now, please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of our country. As many of you do not know the words, your teachers will hand them out to you.

Pass this along if you agree. . . . If not delete..and later regret it !”

…and what if every American lived up to this:

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

—Emma Lazarus, 1883

What if we lived under one flag, a nation of individuals, equal, free, governed by the rule of laws, and under no duress to feel ashamed of their values and beliefs. What if.

“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and to the Republic for which it stands one Nation indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.”

http://www.wvsd.uscourts.gov/outreach/Pledge.htm

You guys stop feeding the Big T sock puppet.

Look at the overuse use of the ellipse and the change in tone and style. It’s a sock puppet meant to increase hits.

Yawn . . . Bill Wilson is a bore – and very predictable – nothing but a partisan hack – guess that is why FITS is so enamored with him.

FITS – maybe you can get him to sign on to your Bagger-TEA group??

FITS – Should we assume your ManCrush with Howard Rich is over and that you’ve got a new bromance or a new thang going on with Bill Wilson?