Sunday he will lead a nationally telecast event called "Justice Sunday." Using the religious right platform to bring together the group of unwitting dupes to do away with "judicial filibusters" so that the minority party will have no leverage in any senate action, but specifically so that there will be no say in the confirmation of US judges and GW can say "...well I guess that nasty little problem of the courts is out of the way."
They have no shame!
I was going to cut and paste the entire column written by Frank Rich at the NYTimes over here, but instead here is a sample, and Ill give you a link to the rest at the end of that:
"...'Justice Sunday' is a humbug, albeit one with real potential consequences. It brings mass-media firepower to a campaign against so-called activist judges whose virulence increasingly echoes the rhetoric of George Wallace and other segregationists in the 1960's. Back then, Wallace called for the impeachment of Frank M. Johnson Jr., the federal judge in Alabama whose activism extended to upholding the Montgomery bus boycott and voting rights march. Despite stepped-up security, a cross was burned on Johnson's lawn and his mother's house was bombed."
The fraudulence of "Justice Sunday" begins but does not end with its sham claims to solidarity with the civil rights movement of that era. "The filibuster was once abused to protect racial bias," says the flier for tonight's show, "and now it is being used against people of faith." In truth, Bush judicial nominees have been approved in exactly the same numbers as were Clinton second-term nominees. Of the 13 federal appeals courts, 10 already have a majority of Republican appointees. So does the Supreme Court. It's a lie to argue, as Tom DeLay did last week, that such a judiciary is the "left's last legislative body," and that Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee, is the poster child for "outrageous" judicial overreach. Our courts are as highly populated by Republicans as the other two branches of government.
The "Justice Sunday" mob is also lying when it claims to...
Click here to get to Rich's column in the NY Times, this one titled A High-tech Lynching in Prime Time.
It is not only time to contact your own representatives in The Senate and the House, it is time to make noise with the other side. They have messed around with the Constitution, they have messed around the our voting booth and ballot boxes, they lied about WMDs and numerous other issues.
Let them know they can't mess with this one last effort to let a minority have a say in any debate. What next? Doing away with voting?
If I had my way, we'd be taking to the streets. It worked in the Ukraine, it worked in Kyrgystan and it worked here to help end US direct involvement in Vietnam. But it isn't likely to happen here and now until somebody cuts the cord on cable TV and confiscates all the video games. Until then the peoples' glaze- eyed appetite will be continually fed and the sleepy satisfaction from gluttonous mind numbing distractions will keep the masses at bay as our rights continue to erode.
As Rev.Martin Niemoller wrote in 1945:
Since then someone wrote a current version dealing with what we face now:
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
When they took the 4th Amendment away---
I was quiet because I didn't deal in drugs...
When they took the 6th Amendment away
I was quiet because I had never been arrested...
When they took the 2nd Amendment away
I was quiet because I didn't own a gun...
Now they have taken the 1st Amendment away
and all I can do is be quiet...
Bye, bye for now,
Cosmo
