And if we can't presume that the person in the black robes is one of the "good guys" in addition to being one of the likely targets, then why are we letting them decide our fates in court?
Beats me--if they were, you'd think we wouldn't get 5-4 decisions on the obvious.
[Via cycjec]
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Damn disgusting that government employees are provided with the perks mentioned in that article. Judges should park in the same parking lots (no reserved spaces), use the same elevators and entrances, and have the same level of protection as tax paying citizens. I would scrap every metal detector, locked door and buzzer system in every court house. When the state compels me to enter our local court house, I routinely tell the tax feeders manning the detectors that they are a waste of money. The last time I asked if it was a jobs program for the mentally challenged. That caused a stir. They went and got an "Only One". He stared blankly and threatened to go get the sheriff so I could tell him what I said. I stated I had no problem telling the sheriff that his low paid flunkies were low IQ. After a few threats and bluffs, I was let go on my way. Funny, when you repeat: "Am I under arrest. What am I being charged with?" a few times it tends to make them think you aren't a sheep.
Chris Mallory
Strange don't you think that with all that talk and even Congressional testimony about personal responsibility and right to self defense for judges, nobody saw the value in that for others?
Can we all say hypocrite? Of course, we can, but we don't need to when they are on such public display.
The same blogger "Beldar" correctly takes to task ProfessorEric Posner in his March 2008 post "People who are too smart to find the word "arms" in the Second Amendment" http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/03/people-who-are.html
If what he teaches to his
students is equally shallow as
what he's written for this new
national legal blog run
by Slate, then this man should
be fired as a law professor
immediately, tenure or not, for
the University would
certainly have cause....
[Eric] Posner writes as if
it's utterly impossible that
any members of the Supreme
Court actually think the words
in the Constitution count for
anything, or that they might
think it matters that they're
in, you know, the Constitution
and its Bill of Rights.
Alas, Eric Posner is not alone in the professoriate inthis respect, although Beldar's professors may not have been among those hostile to the RKBA.
The comments on that post are also good. e.g. David Harmer who came to appreciate too late his father's
counsel:
When I was growing up, I
thought that nothing better
demonstrated my father's nutty
side than his opinion on
gun control. "Any form of
licensing is just an
underhanded attempt to ban
guns," my old man, an avid
sportsman and expert marksman,
would expound. I would
roll my eyes. Here we go again.
However Beldar has of late become an advocate for McCain,fearing Obama. He's not the only apparently intelligentperson to do so, despite McCain's record (on the RKBA and immigration, and etc.)
I'd heard various comments about "no more holding my nose and voting for a RINO" during 2007 and the first half of 2008. Obama's appearance on the stage has provoked a recrudescence of partisanship for "any" Republican.
All the best cycjec
Praterea censeo, Zargo delenda est
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