Conservative leaders meeting in Washington yesterday for a discussion of "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" decided that Kennedy, a Ronald Reagan appointee, should be impeached, or worse.
Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law."
...Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.
The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem." Presumably, Vieira had in mind something less extreme than Stalin did and was not actually advocating violence. But then, these are scary times for the judiciary. An anti-judge furor may help confirm President Bush's judicial nominees, but it also has the potential to turn ugly. [from DailyKos.com]
Kos replies: Edwin Vieira has made a name for himself decrying the unconstitutionality of paper money, among other things. So ya know he's not f---ing nuts or anything.
At this point, it seems prominent batshit-crazy conservatives are running to outdo themselves in just how suggestively they can muse over the murder of federal judges they don't like. Seriously, WTF? Is this a contest I don't know about? Reading up on the guest list for this conference, I am for no apparent reason reminded of a particular South Park episode depicting hooded members of a Klan rally playing "what's the funniest thing you've got on under your robe?"
Does the conservative who can get closest to openly endorsing judicial assassinations without getting dragged off in handcuffs get to take home a pie or something?
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