And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post, Saturday, April 9, 2005

This entire article is well worth reading, but I'll confine my comments to statements made by Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, an organization from which my family resigned its membership last year.

Quoting from the article:

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    ... Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said [Supreme Court Justice Anthony M.] Kennedy "should be the poster boy for impeachment" for citing international norms in his opinions. "If our congressmen and senators do not have the courage to impeach and remove from office Justice Kennedy, they ought to be impeached as well."

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    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.

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From a thinly-veiled threat to the Congress of the United States, to a suggestion that a number of federal judges should be punished as examples to others who would dare put the Law above the will of the Christian right, Farris's intentions are clear. He wants greater control of the government by the religious right, removing the constitutionally-mandated separation of church and state, and to give Congress the ability to override federal court decisions, thereby removing the constitutionally- and carefully-constructed separation of powers between branches of our government.

And there ya go ... the reason I cancelled our home-schooling family's membership in the Home School Legal Defense Association ... they are associated with the radical right-wing (as I have long suspected) ... and it's all coming out, the hatred, the bigotry, the lies, hypocrisy, and lust for power and wealth. These people are pathological in their sick pursuit of a world in which they, and they alone, decide what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad, who shall live and who shall die.

What do these people want? For one thing, they would to punish a federal judge for upholding the long-standing revulsion in our society toward the execution of juveniles. They want more blood, always more blood.

They should all swing slowly in the wind. And they're digging their own graves, have you noticed?