I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view

comment by Koolhandluke

OK Kool, I’ve thought about it. You’re a Utopian. Reality isn’t your forte. How old are you, sixteen?

Just for the record: (1) America has no military draft, (2) we have an all-volunteer military, (3) the U.S. military is smaller now than it was 15 years ago, (4) we have not withdrawn from the UN, (5) we have not violated or withdrawn from any existing peace treaties, (6) we have not violated or withdrawn from any existing arms accords, (7) we have not occupied any neighboring countries, (8) we have not passed any domestic laws defining Jews or other racial or ethnic groups as second class citizens, (9) our economy is booming, (10) there are an unprecedented number of press, media and Internet news sources, and (11) there is an unprecedented variety of unrestrained social and political debate throughout our culture.

Any comparison between Bush and Hitler, or between America today and 1930s Germany, is as wacky as it gets. I think you should go play with your tinfoil hat, and let the adults here handle the serious stuff.

Way off topic and way over the top. This is more “Bush=Hitler” garbage. If you knew anything at all about Germany in the 1930’s, you’d never make such asinine remarks.

In its 1965 Griswold decision the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Connecticut law that had made it a crime for Planned Parenthood to provide birth control counselling and contraceptives to married couples who wanted to prevent the unplanned conception of a child. The case presented the question whether the Constitution protects the right of marital privacy against state restrictions on a couple’s ability to be counseled in the use of contraceptives. The Court held that, while the Constitution does not explicitly protect a general right to privacy, the various guarantees of privacy and liberty within the Bill of Rights operate together to establish a right to marital privacy. The Court struck down the Connecticut law as violative of that right.

There simply is no dispute whatsoever about this decision among modern legal scholars. Judd would have to look long and hard to find any legal scholar who argues today that Griswold ought to be overturned. To that extent, it is far different from Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, both of which are the subjects of vigorous, continuing debate throughout the body politic, including courts and legislatures. The validity of both cases will be at the heart of two abortion limits cases (concerning partial birth abortion and parental notification) that are on the Court’s docket for the 2005-06 term.

So you see, contrary to Judd’s blinkered reading of his statements, there is a principled basis for Judge Roberts’ responses after all. Can you say “Chief Justice Roberts”?

“The President, during the campaign, promised that should he be reelected, he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court who were like Justice Antonin Scalia.

Well, Judge Roberts, can you tell use if the Preisdent kept his campaign promise? Where do you agree with, or differ from Justice Scalia in your judicial methodology, temperment and ideology? If at all?

I’ll just sit back and let you answer that in detail, with a few follow up qestions.”

Far from being “settled,” the issue of federalism, and the limitation of the commerce clause has been “live wu=ith business” lately in federal courts.

He keeps saying, “I will listen to the arguments from bothsides and keep an open mind”, but so did Thomas and the other dictators on the right. They are not the least bit interested in the Constitution, they only want a Police State, which they say they hate. On every case involving Police misconduct, they side with the Police. The so called conservatives say they hated communism and the Soviet Union, but we have become more like the Soviet State since Rehnquist and this crowd sat on the Court.

Just think about what was happening in the Soviet Union during the Stalin era until recent years. People being held without charge, neighbors being encouraged to spy on each other, no right to attorney, to right to be secure in your own home, the government taking peoples property with cause, arrest and detention with trial. All of these are provisions of the USA Patriot Act. The Act has not been over turned because the so called Conservatives in government and on the Supreme Court are for the government, not the people.

The day they past the Patriot Act, the US Constitution was torn up and thrown out with the trash. Judge Roberts doesn’t think people have a right to privacy, women have no right to abortion, and blacks and minorities don’t really have a right to vote for the same rights as every other American. If this guys is the type of Justices we will have on our highest Court then this Country is in real trouble, not from outside forces, but our own courts. How ever coined the phrase, “We have met the Enemy and he is us”, was never so right.

Watch out Conservatives, and be careful what you wish for, because you might very well get it. Your hate and intolerance will be the downfall of a once great nation. Who needs terrorist when you got conservatives unwittingly doing their work for them. The more our rights are taken away by the idiots on the right, the more Bin Laden laughs at us all. They are doing exactly what he can’t do. We say we want to bring democracy to Iraq. But they are taking our democracy away at the same time. They often quote Ronald Reagan when taking away our rights. I believe Mr. Reagan is turning over in his grave along with the founding fathers when they see Conservatives taking away rights guanteed by the Constitution. For example the 4th Admendment barely still exist anymore.

Think about what I’m saying before you conservatives jump all over me. Ronald Reagan wasn’t for big government, he hated it. He wouldn’t have been for the Patriot Act. Why? Because i think he would say, “If you take away the rights of the American People the Terrorist win”. If you are a true conservative like I am, you’d be for eliminating government not making more of it. He was anti big spending, this administration and spent us into deficits as far as the mind can think ahead. He didn’t believe government was the solution, Mr Reagan though big government was the problem. I completely agree with him we need to get rid of all of these new big brother programs and leave the American people alone. http://WWW.plainnews.blogspot.com

Roberts said he agreed with the result of Griswold, but pointed out — as he said many times through the hearing — that there is a right to privacy “focused on the due process clause and liberty, rather than Justice Douglas’ approach [in Griwold].

Roberts affirmed the right of privacy arising out of the 14th amendment. This is a good thing. It’s also no more contraversal than affirming that the constitution contains a 1st amendment.

The Griswold case concerned the right of a married person to buy condoms — something illegal in CT at the time. Roberts noted

“I feel comfortable commenting on Griswold and the result in Griswold because that does not appear to me to be an area that is going to come before the court again.”

Do you honestly think those facts would ever come before the court again?

As for Roe — yep, been affirmend 38 times. And it’s a live issue — it was mentioned a couple of times that there’s a case with reference to Roe coming before the court in the next session.

Sounds like a principled decision to me. Or to put it a less argumentative way — I would never feel comfortable writing what you wrote based upon the actual facts.

http://caveshadows.typepad.com/cave_shadows/2005/09/feingold_for_pr.html

These clowns are taking this country and the world down the same path as germany in the 1930’s. We don’t have the 1 enemy on the list this time, we have several: Muslims, Blacks & Gays. Quite a workforce for their little war machines too.

Way too smooth for the repugnicans to catch.

If you are hoping roberts might actually do the right thing, we have a better chance of Reinquist returning to the land of the living.

They are hell-bent on getting the most ultra right-wing zealots in place by the time we actually get an election right. (man voted in that actually gets the job)

Heck, if you helped me steal a presidential election, giving you a lifetime job with huge power would be the very least I could do for you.