[kingu]

"Your Honors, Mister Newdow is so horrified and impacted by the motto 'In God We Trust' that he has collected currency since he was a child. Even now, bank records show, he holds quite a stash of the offending currency. Beyond, those same bank records show that he's paid tremendous amounts of these offending notes to his mortgage company, his auto loan company and other entities.

"For the plaintiff to seek such a change, he would have to show that he is impacted in some form, that he has taken some form of effort to minimize the effect. Instead, we have a gentleman who is effectively standing in the middle of the church service that so deeply offends his core and demanding that everyone else stop praying since it bothers him.

"This case should be dismissed until such time that he divests himself of the currency that offends him and also divests of all property gained from using that currency. Anything less is saying to all future plaintiffs - go ahead, stand in the middle of the freeway, and sue to prevent people from driving cars because it puts you in danger. This is absolutely devoid of all common sense and it destroys one of the common ideals of the very basis of our law - if you are a party to the events, you can not sue to stop yourself."

[doug from upland]

Your comment makes me recall confronting a young nitwit at an anti-Bush and anti-Arnold demonstration in Los Angeles. I was really out of place in that crowd. The first guy I talked to had a sign that said NO BLOOD FOR OIL. I asked him a simple question --- how did you get today? At least he answered honestly --- okay, I'm a hypocrite; I drove my car here.