Couldn’t Hold Off Any Longer
I’m still frothing at the mouth. This is insane. Treasonous! What recourse do we have as peaceful citizens?
What was the history behind reversing the “Jim Crow” laws that the SCOTUS said were constitutional?
Posted by Tacberry
03/02/2005 at 08:09 AM
How about THIS piece of “international opinion”?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/25/world/main676473.shtml
(CBS) Two young men and a teenage girl will be lashed for having sex.
A court has sentenced the young men to 30 and 40 lashes each, reports the BBC, citing an official Iranian newspaper.
The girl gets 100 lashes because the court found she falsely claimed she was raped and kidnapped, charges that could have resulted in the men’s execution.
Extramarital sex is illegal in Iran and can in some cases be punished by death.
...or even better, how about THIS piece of “international opinion”?
http://islam.about.com/cs/law/a/c_punishment.htm
Islamic philosophy holds that a harsh punishment serves as a deterrent to serious crimes that harm individual victims, or threaten to destabilize the foundation of society. According to Islamic law (in the first verse quoted above), the following two crimes can be punishable by death:
* Intentional murder
* Fasad fil-ardh ("spreading mischief in the land")Intentional Murder
The Qur’an legislates the death penalty for murder, although forgiveness and compassion are strongly encouraged. The murder victim’s family is given a choice to either insist on the death penalty, or to pardon the perpetrator and accept monetary compensation for their loss (2:178).Fasaad fi al-ardh
The second crime for which capital punishment can be applied is a bit more open to interpretation. “Spreading mischief in the land” can mean many different things, but is generally interpreted to mean those crimes that affect the community as a whole, and destabilize the society. Crimes that have fallen under this description have included:* Treason / Apostacy (when one leaves the faith
and joins the enemy in fighting against the Muslim
community)
* Terrorism
* Land, sea, or air piracy
* Rape
* Adultery
* Homosexual behaviorActual methods of capital punishment vary from place to place. In some Muslim countries, methods have included beheading, hanging, stoning, and firing squad. Executions are held publicly, to serve as warnings to would-be criminals.
I’m in the middle of Mark R. Levin’s superb book on the Supreme Court, “Men in Black”. He goes into great detail about how the courts cicumvent the Constitution. Many of the court’s opinion statements these days are packed with references to “international law”, or “European precedents” etc., when their duty is to uphold the United States Constitution, PERIOD. The liberal activism in the Supreme Court is well documented in the book, and you should only read it with your head securely duct-taped.
The book is fascinating and should be required reading, since W. is going to be appointing a new Supreme this year, possibly more in the next three years, and God help us if the wrong people get put on the bench.
More required reading should be “Scalia Dissents”. It is little more than Scalia’s opinions (not all dissenting) with SCOTUS cases.
If you want to see Scalia’s dissent on this case (Which I just finished and highly recommend) see:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04slipopinion.html
The case is Roper v. Simmons, and his dissent is in the last 25+ pages of the pdf file. It is his usual brilliant prose.
Since when does SCOTUS ratify treaties? That’s what our legislative and exec branches are for.
Why is the voice of the people - defined by the state laws passed through their legislatures usurped by 5 justices?
Why are ALL 17 year olds too stupid to know the ramifications of a murder, but smart enough to get an abortion without parental consent? The convict boasted to his freinds that they could “get away with it” due to their age - it sounds to me like he knew what he was doing.
If there is a “national concensus” on outlawing executions for <18 year olds, why has no president run with this as part of their platform - and won?
Stack this one with the worst SCOTUS decisions ever!
Scalia is quoted often in “Men in Black”, and he is just plain brilliant. “Scalia Dissents” is on my must-have list now.
Well, Sen. KKK is vowing to continue the fillabuster on GWB’s court nominations. There was no way that he made the comments that he did yesterday unless every Demo was standing behind him. This is the time. If strict constitutionalists do not get on the bench during Bush’s next four years it will probably not happen. The Supreme Court will have one vacancy definitly, and appellate courts are going to have have many more openings. Something is going to give in the next four years one way or the other, and the seats will be filled. The Republicans need to change the fillabuster rules back to what they were 50 years ago. That will put a end to the current shit. Then get these nominations ratified.
Here are some examples of people who will not receive their punishment in Texas:
* Efrain Perez and Raul Villarreal of Harris County (Houston), convicted with three others of the gang-rape and beating deaths of Jennifer Ertman, 14 and Elizabeth Pena, 16. Perez and Villarreal were 17 at the time. Pena’s father, Adolph, on Tuesday wore a T-shirt with the girls’ photos printed on it. “These people are animals,” he said at a news conference held by Harris County murder victims’ relatives. “They’re the scourge of the streets. If they get out, they will kill again.”
* Robert Springsteen of Travis County, convicted at 17 in 2001 of the infamous “Yogurt Shop” slayings in which four teenage girls were bound, gagged and fatally shot in the head at a yogurt shop a decade earlier.
* Jorge Alfredo Salinas, who at 17 carjacked a man in Hidalgo County in July 2001, fatally shot him in the head, and left the man’s 21-month-old daughter to die of dehydration and exposure strapped in her car seat in a brush area near the Rio Grande.
More than 3,400 inmates await execution in the 38 states that allow death sentences.
Prince William County, Va., said Tuesday they will not prosecute a murder case there against teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo, who is already serving life in prison in two of the 10 sniper killings that terrorized the Washington area in 1992. Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert had hoped to get the death penalty for Malvo, who was 17 at the time of the killings, but said another trial would now be an unnecessary expense.
Posted by DR@HDfixit
03/02/2005 at 02:01 PM
Hey DR@HDfixit:
do you have link(s) for your examples?
If so, can you forward?
Thanks!
tuffOCM - dang, you’re sounding like a right-winger.
Posted by Tacberry
03/02/2005 at 03:25 PM
TownHall - Huston Chronicle - Galveston Daily News
and some other place but I don’t feel like diging that far back to find it.
Posted by DR@HDfixit
03/02/2005 at 03:38 PM
Here is another story in todays LATimes By David G. Savage.
Posted by DR@HDfixit
03/02/2005 at 04:49 PM
Old enough to do the crime, old enough to do the time or death as it stands.
Simplicity in motion is a beautiful thing.
People who are masquerading concern for humanity, are just plain stupid, as all their goody two shoes ideals have acheived is further corruption, despotism and greed, which festers unheeded.
03/02/2005 at 10:24 PM
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