Harvard Law Student, Others Trash Antonin Scalia

The Floridian ^ | Javier Manjarres

[rlmorel]

In my post above, I give people default respect.

That includes everyone, regardless of race, color, creed or nationality. I try to treat people as individuals with respect, until I have cause not to, and I DO give default respect to office holders, military personnel, and old people like myself.f

Until they give me reason not to.

That is why that particular quote really got me. I WILL not respect someone who has actively demonstrated they are not worthy of respect. I think to respect someone in spite of what they say or do not only results in a watering down of what respect is and means, but is hypocritical and ultimately corrosive and self-destructive.

I can’t...no...I WON’T do it.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I understand your reasoning. Maybe because it lines up with my own. :)

I am inclined to give people respect until they show they are not worth of it. At that point I do not care what office they hold or who they were in the past. If they want my respect back they have to earn it. Not many do.

My example is John Glenn. First American in Space, Astronaut, military man, Senator, all things that should have made him worthy of respect. But he was also in the pocket of a crook who destroyed the life savings of many of my fellow citizens and traded his vote for a chance to be "the oldest American in Space"?

Am I going to scrawl on his gravestone? No. But I have no respect for him and will never call him a hero.

In the words of my FIL, One "Aw Sh!%!" wipes out a hundred "Good Jobs".

[bagster]

But I damn sure will not respect them because they have a title, are elected, or sit behind a judge's bench.

Because we Americans are something different. We do not kneel. We stand. We send represents to government, not 'leaders'.

It may be that human nature causes men to follow other men, and that's why we have people in awe and still bending the knee to "the monarchy" and the Obamas and Clintons of the world. Democrats and left wingers are slaves looking for a master. But we Americans are something different.

Thanks for taking the time to write your essay. I enjoyed reading it and agree with every word.

[dfwgator]

I weep for the future.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

The good thing about these students is THAT THEY WILL NEVER BE ON THE SUPREME COURT, SUPERIOR COURTS, COURTS OF APPEAL, OR even Family Court.

Judge Whopner gives them two thumbs down and the middle finger UP.

[wardaddy]

Hi max
Hope you’re well
I always remember the Delaware senate debates when the mods tried a trick question on separation or church and state and Christine O’Donnell replied no the separation of church and state was not there but rather the establishment clause which she elucidated on more till they cut her off

The law students in the audience where the debate was held....some university in Delaware law I think howled in derision ......thinking she stupid

The mod then asked again ....are you saying separation of church and state is not in the constitution .....she replied no it’s not but her opponent said it was there...it’s not we know that

At which point she was heckled so bad they had to get those snotty mostly white privileged brainwashed progressive agenda driven law school attendees to be quiet and she was allowed to say more leaving the impression she was indeed wrong to stupid ignorant folks ....which sadly many folks are

You like me know in fact it’s not in there and it’s actually the establishment clause and separation of church and state only became real present with Everson around 1950 when an activist court used it to push the separation doctrine we know today based on Toms letters to Baptists in Vermont worried about the federal government restricting their ability to worship

Christine..not a great candidate admittedly....had tried to say these very things but was shouted down and cut off and edited in a way to look bad when in fact they were ignorant asses

I thought then ....damn this is a law school class.....and they are that poorly informed on the Constitution

That’s dangerous .....

I was at ole miss late 70s and took lsat and lived with law students

They would have known all about this issue......before speaking a word on it and sure wouldn’t have snickered at a United States senatorial candidate lady from such an absurd perch of uninformed hubris

And their professors would. Have had their asses Monday morning if they had whereas these dunderheads were likely applauded at class on Monday

It’s really pitiful isn’t it

Future personal injury lawyers I reckon.

Modern history still refuses to acknowledge her correct answer in that debate

[rlmorel]

Exactly. John Glenn was someone I respected and admired growing up, but his political life...how could he throw in with those people?

That was very disillusioning to me.

[rlmorel]

Thanks for taking the time to read it.

What you say is right, and to me, is a subset of “American Exceptionalism”.

I believe we Americans are better, not because we are somehow better in the bloodlines, built differently genetically, or anything like that, but because our Constitution and (at least formerly) our society fosters and rewards achievement.

[Albion Wilde]

[Albion Wilde]

The Constitution is not a living organism. It's a legal document, and it says what it says and doesn't say what it doesn't say. —Antonin Scalia (1936 - 2016)

God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools, and He has not been disappointed. If I have brought any message, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. Have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. —Antonin Scalia

[Kickass Conservative]

I remember when a Republican Woman was running for Senate in a NE State. She and the Rat Candidate were at Harvard, debating in front of Law Students.

Can’t remember the names of the Candidates.

The Rat brought up The Separation of Church and State. The Republican Woman said the phrase “The Separation of Church and State” does not exist in the Text of the Constitution or The Bill of Rights, which of course it doesn’t.

She was then booed and laughed at by the Audience of Law Students and I assume their Professors.

[nickcarraway]

Delaware