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To: dogbyte12
If you expect any official to pull an Andrew Jackson in modern America, you're setting yourself up for major disappointment.....
248 posted on 06/29/2003 8:28:37 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv
No I don't. But it is shocking how civil we are in regards to taking defeat at the hands of the Supreme Court. Other than Andrew Jackson who ignored them in 1832, people have been quite gracious in defeat in this country.

Look back at Bush v. Gore. Misguided as they may have been, millions of democrats genuinely believed that the Supreme Court rigged the election for Bush. However, they basically backbite, they didn't run amock and threaten the stability of the transition.

Look at Roe V. Wade, there have been isolated incidents of violence on the part of pro-lifers, but for the most part, it has been a non violent struggle. We have a tradition of accepting the decision of the court, and then trying to elect president's who will appoint justices with views more to our liking. It is very mature of us as a nation.

If a court in France ruled that farmers blocking streets to protest the lack of farm subsidies, were illegally blocking commerce and arrested them, there would be riots in France.

Here, there would be grumbling and a resolve to change.

250 posted on 06/29/2003 8:38:20 AM PDT by dogbyte12
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