Posted on 05/12/2022 3:30:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: "We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like. We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that." The kind of events to which Thomas referred include pro-abortion activists blocking church entrances and protesting at the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Alito.
It is difficult to determine when this generation of Americans on the Left decided to attack rather than persuade those who disagree. But an inflection point occurred when, for the first time in history, the Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, not because of ethics or lack of character, but because Democrats opposed his judicial philosophy.
President Ronald Reagan nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Justice Robert Bork, who represented -- to Democrats like Sen. Ted Kennedy -- a threat to move the Supreme Court to the right on issues like abortion and affirmative action. Kennedy viciously attacked. On the Senate floor, Kennedy described "Robert Bork's America" as "a land in which women would be forced into back?alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens' doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens."
Two years ago, at a pro-abortion rights rally in front of the Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., shouted: "I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions." Following this, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement: "Justices know that criticism comes with the territory. But threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous."
Two years earlier, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., at a rally, called for the public harassment of President Donald Trump's Cabinet members. Waters shouted: "If you see anybody from that (Trump) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere."
resident Joe Biden, who once backed an amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade, recently slammed its possible reversal: "What are the next things that are going to be attacked? Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that's existed in American history -- in recent American history."
Even The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet criticized the intolerance of the supposedly tolerant Left. In 2017, Baquet said: "I don't understand how one can actually have an intellectual discourse in this country if you cannot have the opportunity to read thoughtful people with whom you disagree. We're at a moment in the country right now which I think, you know, the left should do some soul searching too, right? ... We don't want to hear anything -- we've long said this about this about the Right ... but the Left as a rule does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement."
I am pro-life. I oppose abortion. I live in California, where voters opposed abortion restriction propositions for parental notification and for waiting periods. As a federalist who believes that issues like abortion are properly left to the states, I see my role as a citizen, pundit and a person of faith to persuade, not threaten. There was a time when people on the Left felt this way, too.
We should have a group outside the liberal justice’s homes with signs calling them murderers.
Watch the arrests happen quickly.
True, we haven't perfected time travel. But then 2020 came along.
I believe many on the left - AND ALLEGED CONSERVATIVES - feel the same way about Trump. Lacking a time machine, the 2020-equivalent question was "would you steal the election by whatever means, to remove Trump from office? Because, ya know, he's Hitler."
This is the unspoken but likely truth about 2020...I bet most Bidet supporters sure as heck see lots of problems and believe that the election was fraudulent, and it is very likely that Trump won by a mile. But, because Orange Man Bad, these Guardians of Civilization grip onto whatever half-baked rationale for the results to keep the inquiry into irregularities stopped, and feel morally justified in stealing the election.
2020 was a de facto going back in time to kill Hitler. Thomas is right: "We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don't like." But that's because of their new dogma - "anything goes if we are morally justified." Indeed, it is an extension of this article:
.... What (liberals) really want is liberal Sharia law, a secular theocracy. The minimum wage, gender equality, nationalized health care, and global warming—whatever their practical virtues—are not just expedient policy prescriptions. They are essential aspects of the liberal fatwa. Feminism, deconstruction, and gender theory are not just academic abstractions up for discussion among liberal academics: They are articles of their religious creed. Question them and you are not just wrong—you are a heretic.
...for them, politics is the means to secular salvation...political failure is not just a setback on the road to a more stable society—it is a blow to their very worldview. Opposition to their program is not just wrong-headed, but evil.
These are the same people who are “sure” that a fetus is not life.
These are the same people who are “sure” man-made climate change is real.
These are the same people who are “sure” capitalism is a failure and only socialism works.
Need I go on?
They have chosen a set of facts as truth. Only their masters can dissuade them from those truths.
It is a cult. A very dangerous cult that would kill every one of us for our beliefs.
Why don’t the SCOTUS call Garland to appear in
court and explain why he is not enforcing the law
that says you can’t threaten or intimidate the court.
Garland should be impeached and the judges should
tell him he is heading that way.
A court order for keeping protest 100 yards away
from the homes of justices seems simple and fair.
It’s fine. It’s another precedent , that they were for against before they were against, that they will need to bury in the future like quid pro quo in Ukraine and fake news™️ “insurrections”. They really leave themselves open to copious amounts of hypocrisy.
We can't be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want.
When it was evident the election had been stolen, Roberts shrieked that scotus couldn't do the right thing because people were rioting.
Creep.
Depends. When in the 30s? Because if it had been in the late 30s, his generals would have taken over and we would have had a much, much more difficult time in Europe. Hitler was an idiot. Drug addicted. And superstitious. Even his generals wanted him dead once they realized what a fool he was.
If the SCOTUS protesters die of post birth abortion is that not what they really want?
They should rejoice at death for their cause
Leftists have no principles. Whatever advances toward the goal is right. Anything else is wrong.
They have no problem with the double standard. They see nothing wrong with condemning the protests around nancy’s house and supporting the harassment at the houses of the justices.
They are complete and total hypocrites.
They are a pernicious cancer on the American Republic
Put them in JAIL!!!
U.S. Code Title 18 PART I CHAPTER 73 § 1507 18 U.S. Code § 1507 - Picketing or parading U.S. Code
Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
The author and radio host Larry Elder ran for Calif. gov. last year and lost. It was found in Ventura they were shredding ballots. In short the democrats cheated again.
Of course, how else did you expect the rat governor to win?
Exactly.
It is way past time for the left to be repaid in kind.
There are times when a good dose of one’s own medicine is appropriate.
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