Disagree with Justice O'Connor, or any other Supreme Court justice, or even all nine if you like. That's not the problem. J. O'Connor's complaint was the rhetoric and the personal attacks, like Tom DeLay's complaint that the Supreme Court was a bunch of judicial activists when they slavishly applied the Schaivo statute as written, or the Senator who said that the judges were opening themselves up for assasination by their rulings. Those kinds of remarks are irresponsible and unjustifiable.
The "problem" of free speech? O'Connor was one of the worst justices in the history of the SCOTUS. She deserves no respect.
You want irresponsible and unjustifiable?
Try Kelo - that did far more damage to our republic than any offhand utterance by a Congresscritter.
She should speak "specifically" to those examples then, not with a broad brush that chills all kinds of comments and dissent from their popish, pontifical pronouncements!
No offense to any Catholics!
The courts ARE largely a pack of jack-in-the-box liberal activist clowns. (See: Kelo for a recent example.) And as they grab more and more power away from the other alleged "co-equal" branches of government, they may indeed be flirting with the risk of violent rebellion.
Wake up, dude.