Posts Tagged ‘justice’

Andy Hefty

There is no other way to say it. The harsh reality – until someone proves otherwise – is that the New Black Panther Party and their allies are out for revenge.

During the 2008 presidential election, members of NBPP were staged outside a voting precinct in Philadelphia. They were dressed in “paramilitary” outfits, wielding a night stick. They were shouting racially charged language at white voters. Many left the precinct without voting, feeling intimidated. It was captured on video. None of this is in dispute.

Nothing changes

The outgoing Bush Administration’s Department of Justice began an investigation. A summary verdict was handed down because the accused wouldn’t even show up to face justice. Soon after the Obama Administration placed Eric Holder as Attorney General, the charges were quietly dropped, and the thugs were allowed to remain on the streets.

Now that a DOJ whistle-blower has emerged with further information, it is clear what has been happening since the man of Hope and Change took office: racial revenge.

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David B. Livingstone

Sometimes, it really does take a wise Latina to cut through the mountain of bovine excrement that passes for jurisprudence in these Clueless States of America.

In one of her first questions posed as the newest member of the nation’s highest Old Boys’ Club – er, court – Sonia Sotomayor hit a home run the likes of which haven’t been seen in more than a century. The mother of all home runs, as Saddam Hussein might have phrased it: Imagine a home run wherein a steroid-fuelled Sammy Sosa lapped the bases eleven times before the scoreboard had had a chance to change.

Behind you, boys.

That’s what Sotomayor did – and in so doing, this junior justice neatly outshone generations of justices before her when it came to good old common sense.

Sotomayor posed a simple question that would seem obvious to almost any elementary school student, but which has somehow escaped brilliant legal minds like Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Antonin Scalia. Namely, she asked whether the courts might have been wrong in affording corporations legal status as persons all these many long, stupid years.

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