Judge in Dover case reports hostile e-mails

York Daily Record [Penna] ^ | 24 March 2006 | LAURI LEBO

[PatrickHenry]

Gentle reminder: Now hear this: No personal attacks (title of thread posted 15 March 2006 by Jim Robinson).

[PatrickHenry]

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[KeepUSfree]

Great, more irrational homegrown religious terrorist fanatics. Makes me sad to be a Christian.....

[G.Mason]

... "It builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence," Cornyn said. "Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."

Well, either Cornyn isn't a student of history, or he falsely believes pitchforks, sythes and muskets are no longer able to win revolutions.

By all means, keep that deaf ear toward the populace until " some many people engage in violence".

Is that the winds of change I smell?

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"Judge John E. Jones III could still be chairman of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board if millions of evangelical Christians had not pulled the lever for George W. Bush in 2000," Schlafly wrote less than two weeks after the decision. "Yet this federal judge, who owes his position entirely to those voters and the president who appointed him, stuck the knife in the backs of those who brought him to the dance in Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District."

But I thought Intelligent Design wasn't about religion.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

Cornyn hinted after the judge's decision that such rulings could lead to violence.

"It builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in violence," Cornyn said. "Certainly without any justification, but a concern that I have."

Translation into normal speech for the rest of us: "Judges had better rule the way I wish, OR ELSE."

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

He sounds like Jesse Jackson.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

No, he sounds like CAIR.

[Jacquerie]

I don't pretend to know the particulars of the intelligent design case. In general though, I think we have come to accept some tyrannical court decisions that would have sent our forefathers to the hardware store for pitch, a pot and a bag of feathers. Just because a lawyer dons a black robe does not mean he can constitutionally usurp the legislative power of Congress.

[Just mythoughts]

Would be most helpful if we could see what is contained in the e-mails. I think sunlight upon what is described as "threatening" would be educational for the rest of the world to see.

[Nextrush]

Judge Jones seems to be seeing the "bogey man" here. In fact, the media blows up the comments of "terrorists" like Ann Coulter and Phyllis Schlafly to link them to "threats" against judges. The worst part of the story is when they bring in the judge's family murdered in Chicago last year. That was about a personal matter, nothing social or political.

If Judge Jones feels threatened or was threatened, why haven't we heard about arrests? Isn't that a crime? Or was this the work of liberal trolls who stopped short of a crime or just some people P.O.'ed with bad decisions like this one.

I think his decision stank and citing a precedent doesn't make it right. Would Judge Jones have upheld the "Plessy vs. Ferguson" precedent or perhaps the "Dred Scott" precedent? The liberal federal judges have no problem killing the Pledge of Allegiance or ruling for terror suspects at Gitmo.

Judge Jones is a protege of the "moderate" Tom Ridge. (Who raised taxes and increased spending, besides being pro abortion and claiming to be a "fiscal conservative". He even cut a deal giving the legislature automatic cost of living raises every year.) And President Bush and his buddy Ridge naturally worked out this post for Ridge's man.

I sure hope Alito and Roberts vote the right way on Roe vs. Wade or else the GOP could feel some heat.

[Physicist]

I think his decision stank and citing a precedent doesn't make it right.

But the disregard of precedent is one of the defining characteristics of an activist judge! Creationists can't denounce him as an activist while howling about his adhering too closely to precedent.

[linda_22003]

So... you don't know this particular case, but you know the judge was wrong and usurped powers that were not his. Amazing!

[kittymyrib]

Then you aren't a very smart Christian. Do you really believe all these whining liberals' claims of death threats? Nine out of ten times they are lying about them to appear heroic to the msm. How many frauds need to be exposed in page 10B "correction" stories before you catch on that this is s. o. p. for the Left?

[Senator Bedfellow]

Creationists can't denounce him as an activist while howling about his adhering too closely to precedent.

Sure they can, as long as we understand that "activist" is shorthand for "makes decisions I don't like".

[Just mythoughts]

Interesting isn't it that the government dictated and funded theory has no credibility until the judicial system made it so. All manner of "end of civilization" language has been spewed out upon any and all who find darwin's theory full of holes. To disbelieve in darwinism is to be called a cancer or members of radical terrorist based religions.

Prevention of the end of civilization requires action, so how far are the darwinists willing to go to protect their civilization?

[Nextrush]

You've got a point, but all I see here is a double standard and I hope real conservative judges get active. The libs give activist rulings all the time. Let the higher courts stop district judges who rule conservative along with the liberal ones they have to clean up after now.

Anyway Jones is a "moderate" Tom Ridge Republican. The "Daily Rectum" story even drug in Santorum's support of his nomination. Just being the loyal party man again, but I think the newspaper wanted to stir up more conservative anger against him by mentioning it. I'm voting for Santorum over the (not his father) Casey Jr., who's just a lapdog for Chuckie Schumer who'll block good legislation and nominations from the president along with the other Dems.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Interesting isn't it that the government dictated and funded theory has no credibility until the judicial system made it so."

Would be interesting if it were true.

"All manner of "end of civilization" language has been spewed out upon any and all who find darwin's theory full of holes. To disbelieve in darwinism is to be called a cancer or members of radical terrorist based religions."

Hyperventilate much?

"Prevention of the end of civilization requires action, so how far are the darwinists willing to go to protect their civilization?"

We've got the Germ Theory, remember? :)

[mikeus_maximus]

Intelligent design is the idea that the complexity of life demands a creator.

Ho hum.... another day, another simplistic mischaraterization of Intelligent Design Theory...

[Just mythoughts]

Tax dollars are what gives darwinism its life. TOE is at the top of the food chain of welfare.

Any cuts or lack of expected funding really does threaten darwinists, that I know for a FACT.