Posted on 07/08/2005 12:27:20 PM PDT by dangus
Well, that IS unusual and NOT the rule in most other places; sadly.
The "so weird you just have to wonder", leaves it open for the rest of us to fill in the blanks,in our own minds, which if posted, would probably get us banned.
You are so right. It is the job and the duty of a lower court judge to obey the finding of a higher court no matter what the principle at stake is. Judge Moore disobeyed a Federal Court ruling and as far as I'm concerned disqualified himself from consideration of future office. I might agree with him in principle but it was not his decision to make. I do not want Liberals on the courts to enact civil disobedience to suit their agenda and I do not have a double standard.
State Court judges need to follow the law set by the higher courts. When that is wrong it is up to us to change it, not individual judges. No matter the cause.
I agree with you 100% and I am having a hard time on here figuring out the so-called conservatives that would want anything less.
Norman Public Schools have a really good school system that actually prepares kids for college.
It is scarey -- noticed that on several issues that they cannot see the forest for the trees. There seems to be a general lack of knowledge how Government works on here as well in recent months. I have sat here shaking my head more in the last few months then I ever have before and thought I had seen it all.
We no longer like NR or NRO. Tell them to shape up.
Karl Keating on the Decline of the National Review and Other Matters
I can't abide determining that the entire outfit is in terminal decline because there is one contributor who doesn't seek to make a big deal about abortion and other pro-life issues.
Sounds like it!
The Constitution of the United States of America is more important than the next guy's agenda. If a judge rules contrary to the Constitution it is perfectly appropriate to disobey them.
"My problem was the examples as well."
The core issue was that Dave S equated deviance with heroism.
Deviance is negative, antinormative behavior, while
Heroism is courageous role modeling, spine, backbone, fighting for what's right.
I disagree with his examples and equating of concepts but it's clear that he does NOT endorse such deviance.
Bottom line: the several of us surely agree that public pervesion and aberration doth not a hero make.
pervesion = perversion
OK, the examples werent so good. I was trying to come up with something that you wouldnt agree with to help make the example it doesnt take courageous action to fight for or stand up for what the common man is demanding. If virtually everone is for something, how courageous an act can it be to defend it. At that point, it could almost become pandering. Maybe better examples would be coming out against slavery in 1856 Alabama or taking part in a civil rights sit-in at a lunch counter in Alabama during the early 60's.
We sure do agree that deviance does not make a hero or make them courageous. Dave S had the right idea with bad examples, and it sure did get a response! :) I have done that before in other areas and spent the rest of the thread trying to say why I said something -- not easy.
But, see, what we want Bush to do with respect to the Supreme Court - make is as pro-life as possible, Buckley failed to do with respect to the National Review. If it is all right for deathist opinion to be printed there, then may be it is allright for a pseudoconservative like O'Connor or Gonsalez to sit on the Supreme Court. It is the same accomodationist mentality that is killing us, -- sometime literally.
You think of KLo's "so weird you just have to wonder" as a gold star on your report card?
Well, there always have been those kids who feel they've scored when they attract attention, no matter what have to do to get it.
We like to hope they usually grow out of it, though.
Dan
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