What you have here is less than you imagine. Many jurists, in an attempt to be able to maintain impartiality, and to focus on the "facts" as they might be presented in court, give up reading newspapers, magazines, or watching TV news. This Birch guy and his gumbahs elsewhere probably have no idea what is going on in the public arena where ideas are debated and names called.
Judge Greer is pretty much cut of the same cloth and the fact that the Sheriff thought he needed some personal protection might well have surprised him.
It would be interesting to interview Birch, Greer and these other characters to see just what they know about what the rest of us think of them.
Where the Culture of Death is concerned -- particularly now that their culling of the unborn has been so successful we have a "cereal and milk" situation fast approaching if we don't off some of the "Living" -- it pays to remember EXACTLY what powers Congress assumed for itself in direct contravention of the "inalienable rights" on which our Founding Fathers claimed this nation's right to independence in the first place. To wit:
The Task Force believes that much more knowledge is needed by the public in general about fertility control, contraception techniques and sex determination, as well as the social and material consequences resulting from increased population, in order that the broadest number of options are available to everyone in making personal decisions that affect the use of natural resources, family size and ultimately our environment.
There must exist a greater sensitivity to these problems which cannot be provided by the federal government. The government can provide leadership and direction but should never be put into a position of having to enact controls on population as a result of public ignorance and indifference.
Amazing, isn't it? All it takes is "public ignorance and indifference" to problems to force the poor government into enacting whatever controls it deems "moral".
Death tolls have been reduced in every country to negligible rates from epidemics and diseases such as malaria, measles, smallpox, cholera, polio and tuberculosis; major advances have been made against heart disease and cancer, artificial organs can now prolong life.Since we accept these intrusions into nature's control of population as morally justified, are we not unwise to consider birth control with equal moral justificiation?
If we continue to support government activities to reduce disease and improve health in order to prolong life under the auspices of what is good for society, then should we not consider birth control as a government activity for similar reasons?
In the Task Force report on "Federal Government Family Planning Program" it was recommended that Congress increase appropriations for contraceptive research in the amount of $380,000,000.00 over the next five years.
If think that the GOP and the men they confirmed to head up the American Academy of Sciences and other critical agences were speaking SOLELY to the prevention, abortion, and artification reproduction of new Living, think again.
Those who accepted this "moral" depopulation, prevention and culling of the unborn best now be prepared to Depopulate themselves.
As a result of reduced death rates, there are more people in their non-productive years than ever before. More children and more elderly people unable to participate in the world's work force increase the burden on the productive age group. [...] The National Academy of Sciences has said:
Either the birth rate must go back down or
the death rate must go back up.
Recommendations of the Task Force on Earth Resources and Population
>>> Along the way he seems to have forgotten that the Founding Fathers actually did give Congress that power!>>>
Pretty much for the reasons involved in this Teri Schiavo case alone!
If Congress had the fortitude, they'd dismantle a court that was unwilling to do the job that Congress established and enacted them to do. They seem to lack understanding of their position. The Congress cannot tell them how to rule but they can certainly tell them what is/is not their jurisdiction.