Monday, June 28, 2010

Jim Crow was an awesome model for Judicial Restraint

So it has come to this, a Southern Conservative, "Jefferson Beauregard Sessions the Third" (that's right), goes after Elena Kagan for associating with Thurgood Marshall.

The press is too accepting of this bullshit to point this out but...

At Sessions' confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, four Department of Justice lawyers who had worked with Sessions testified that he had made several racist statements. One of those lawyers, J. Gerald Hebert, testified that Sessions had referred to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) as "un-American" and "Communist-inspired" because they "forced civil rights down the throats of people."[6] Hebert said that Sessions had a tendency to "pop off" on such topics frequently and had once called a white civil rights lawyer who dealt with voting rights suits a "disgrace to his race."

23 comments:

Major Woody said...

Sessions had a tendency to "pop off" on such topics frequently and had once called a white civil rights lawyer who dealt with voting rights suits a "disgrace to his race."

Well, I consider Sessions a disgrace to his race; the human race, that is.

pansypoo said...

dick can't see his sides egregious judicial activism-including APPOINTING GEORGEE.

Olives and Arrows said...

....an odd coincidence that this post would pop up, what with the Democratic Party's head klansman having died today.
Quite odd indeed.

Olives and Arrows said...

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mm kay....

......it's obviously time for this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vuW6tQ0218

J Neo Marvin said...

What will the trolls do now that their favorite outspoken-liberal-who-used-to-be-in-the-Klan-when-he-was-a-stupid-kid-but-denounced-them-decades-ago-while-the-real-bigots-continue-to-communicate-in-dog-whistles strawman is dead and gone?

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

"What will the trolls do now..."

Why, they'll continue to communicate in dog whistles at straw men. It's what trolls do.

pansypoo said...

byrd evolved. strom just knocked up the help.

Olives and Arrows said...

heh/
....straw men, huh?

There's not much doubt that many people are willing to forgive a person's racist past. Byrd is one example and another more high profile racist is Barack Obama. He made it all the way to President with most people having been aware of his racist past. And more recently after he became President Obama was widely forgiven after he pulled that racist nonsense on that policeman in Massachussetts.

Anonymous said...

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, O & A, it's trolls like you that can convert even grief to blame.
May the bell drop on your scurvy twisted head and send you off to the nether regions
vox

Olives and Arrows said...

Vox,
It's very unfortunate for you that you are filled with so much hate. Given that you're an extremist there are probably some people in your life that you disagree strongly with, quite similar to what you've expressed at 9:56. I'm certain that you bring a great deal more sadness to them than I felt upon reading your 'comment' here.

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

I'm sure OnA is a flaming hypocrite.

The bell tolls for thee, troll.

Olives and Arrows said...

feh/

...this thread had definitely taken a nasty turn with Vox' comment at 9:56 and here we have more ugliness rearing its hedley.

Not too surprizing, after all it was Hedley that wished for me to contract an illness leading to death.

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

Unlike wishing the price of their lives upon thousands of American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis for a fucking vanity war.

Whose got the bloodier hands, OnA?

Death would be too clean. I hope your dreams are filled with the corpses of innocents, for the rest of your days.

Olives and Arrows said...

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Wow !

Yet another hate-filled comment perpetrated by Hedley!

Is that what you actually wish for, Hedley? Seriously?

.....are you sure that you've been closely following your re-uptake inhibitors regimen?

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

Yes, OnA. I hope that you live the rest of your days haunted by the dregs of what you so mindlessly and capriciously promote.

As regards the use of SSRIs (a topic introduced by me with respect to your apparent state of mental illness): no need here. Though you might consider making an appointment with a psychiatrist to discuss your own condition.

Oh, and Happy Canada Day!

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

Yes, OnA. I sincerely hope that you will live a long long life haunted by the souls of those who had the misfortune of being in the path of cowardly narcissistic armchair warriors like you.

Regarding the subject of SSRIs: this is a topic I introduced in hope that you might find the psychiatric care you so desperately need. Your adoption and use of this as a rhetorical feint provides further evidence of the factors that may lead to a clinical diagnosis for you.

Olives and Arrows said...

Hedley certainly isn't short on his capacity to shock, to offend or to entertain others.

Forget for a minute that Hedley once wished for an illness leading to my death. Witness the above comment where Hedley wishes that I'm haunted by the deaths caused by war while simultaneously wishing me a "Happy Canada Day".

Hedley's comment at 1:22pm is true testament that he's a warped individual or at least a person that's off of their prescribed medication level, the re-uptake inhibitors......

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

Awwww. What's the matter OnA? Did I hit a nerve?

My conscience is clear. I opposed your silly, sick, auto-erotic wars on moral and factual grounds while you cheered on, and continue to cheer on, the destruction of cultures, communities, families and individual lives so you can feel better about yourself. To me, a person like you with such low regard for human life and the consequences of their politics and greed has little ground to stand on.

My hands are clean of that blood.

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

(by the way OnA, do you really think anyone else is still following this thread? Moreover, do you think that you have enough credibility that anyone reading might for a moment give your rambling projections a thought?)

Olives and Arrows said...

Awwww. What's the matter OnA? Did I hit a nerve?

Only the funny bone.
I thought it was absolutely hilarious that you wished me an eternal suffering guilt and a Happy Canada Day in the very same comment box.


(by the way OnA, do you really think anyone else is still following this thread?

Then......why are you
still writing here, Hedley?

You're really coming off the rails lately. I mean, even more than your usual.

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

I don't know, OnA. You appear to be severely wounded by some of my comments. Your dismissive feint of hilarity appears to mask some deep wounds. You might be an 'unprincipled narcissist,' a 'compensatory narcissist,' or a 'fanatic type.' Only a qualified psychiatrist could tell for sure.

Meanwhile, open another bottle of whatever it is you use to enable your denial and drift right on. Cheers!

Olives and Arrows said...

You appear to be severely wounded by some of my comments.

Ummm.......yeah, OK.

The effect your commentary has on my emotional well-being is about the same as this:

Somewhere in a far off galaxy millions of light years away there is a planet inhabited entirely by insect-like creatures. One of the younger insects has just fallen from a rocky outcrop and has injured its outer mandible.

...open another bottle of whatever it is you use to enable your denial ....

The two or three bottles of red wine that Mrs Arrows and I enjoy each month must surely be enabling a depth of denial.

Mr. Hedley Bowes said...

"Somewhere in a far off galaxy millions of light years away there is a planet inhabited entirely by insect-like creatures. One of the younger insects has just fallen from a rocky outcrop and has injured its outer mandible."

Well, if that's the world you live in, so be it.