Monsters in America

It's been over a week since I have had time to write. During this time a lot of things were going on.

We made it over a four day spectacular of scientific lectures sponsored by the local Lion's Club... the first lecture was at my daughter's school followed by a dinner, followed by a public lecture. Next day there was an appearance and lecture at the house of Fermat which is nearby and celebrating some kind of anniversary... centennial or something like that.

All of this, of course, included the fact that we were hosting the speakers in our home, so that meant four houseguests to look after.

Then we had the obligatory "soiree" (read cocktail party) which lasted until 2 a.m.

MEANWHILE, one of our houseguests arrived with a back that got put out during travel and I was nursing a patient and taking her to the osteopath... (She's a psychotherapist, but lord! does she need therapy!)

So then, we had a martial arts master who is now an oral surgeon giving demonstrations at the party ... These demonstrations included applying pressure to various points that make the body do all kinds of strange things like dropping to the floor in amusing ways. The doctor sitting to my left during this exhibition said "Oh, NOW things are getting interesting!" I was happy to provide such entertainment!

And, not to forget, the company rep of my publisher arrived from Bulgaria on Saturday morning in the midst of the chaos for a three day stay and series of discussions!

Monday, I had to take my daughter to lunch from her school and have a talk with the headmistress about the plans for a group of the students to travel to Paris in June to be part of the studio audience for the filming of a scientific documentary, blah blah blah.

Tuesday we managed to get the garden started with several varieties of lettuce and some tomato plants. Since I love Fried Green Tomatoes, the only way to have them is to grow your own. Have you ever seen a prime green tomato in the supermarket? We also put in two pear trees, a nectarine and a fig. I'm planning on getting a couple of peach trees and cherry trees next. It is so surprising that this house, with such a large park, had no fruit trees or flowering shrubs. I've put in a couple dozen roses in the past year, wisteria, jasmine, lavendar, and have a spot designated for a row of lilac bushes.

Everything is intensely green just now. The Rapeseed fields are blooming and it is a feast for the eyes to see the fields that alternate between bright green wheat and golden Rapeseed. The apple orchards are all in bloom, and Spring is just busting out all over, as they say.

The birds are hopping about with bits of grass, leaves, twigs and so on, building nests. I hope that the Nightingale we had last year returns to nest in the park this year.

Tomorrow, we have to have lunch with a famous French Scientist who is organizing a conference to take place in Toulouse in a few months. My husband is on a committee and I expect all the discussion will be mathematics. Since I am dieting, I hope there will be something on the menu that is good and minus carbohydrates.

On Friday we have to go up to Paris to meet some Yugoslavian guy who wants my husband on staff at his university even if he only shows up for three weeks out of the year. I really need to get the tickets and make reservations at our favorite little hotel that is cheap and still manages to be decent AND get the laundry done so I'll have clean clothes to take.

So, today is the only day I will have this week and I just blew 15 minutes writing all of the above. It's not what I want to talk about.

I read something the other day that literally made me sick.

And the Verdict on Justice Kennedy Is: Guilty

By Dana Milbank

Saturday, April 9, 2005; Page A03

Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is a fairly accomplished jurist, but he might want to get himself a good lawyer -- and perhaps a few more bodyguards.

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.

Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment." To cheers and applause from those gathered at a downtown Marriott for a conference on "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith," Schlafly said that Kennedy had not met the "good behavior" requirement for office and that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment."

Next, Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said Kennedy "should be the poster boy for impeachment" for citing international norms in his opinions. "If our congressmen and senators do not have the courage to impeach and remove from office Justice Kennedy, they ought to be impeached as well."

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.

A judge in Atlanta and the husband and mother of a judge in Chicago were murdered in recent weeks. After federal courts spurned a request from Congress to revisit the Terri Schiavo case, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said that "the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) mused about how a perception that judges are making political decisions could lead people to "engage in violence."

"The people who have been speaking out on this, like Tom DeLay and Senator Cornyn, need to be backed up," Schlafly said to applause yesterday. One worker at the event wore a sticker declaring "Hooray for DeLay."

The conference was organized during the height of the Schiavo controversy by a new group, the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration. This was no collection of fringe characters. The two-day program listed two House members; aides to two senators; representatives from the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America; conservative activists Alan Keyes and Morton C. Blackwell; the lawyer for Terri Schiavo's parents; Alabama's "Ten Commandments" judge, Roy Moore; and DeLay, who canceled to attend the pope's funeral.

The Schlafly session's moderator, Richard Lessner of the American Conservative Union, opened the discussion by decrying a "radical secularist relativist judiciary." It turned more harsh from there.

Schlafly called for passage of a quartet of bills in Congress that would remove courts' power to review religious displays, the Pledge of Allegiance, same-sex marriage and the Boy Scouts. Her speech brought a subtle change in the argument against the courts from emphasizing "activist" judges -- it was, after all, inaction by federal judges that doomed Schiavo -- to "supremacist" judges. "The Constitution is not what the Supreme Court says it is," Schlafly asserted.

Former representative William Dannemeyer (R-Calif.) followed Schlafly, saying the country's "principal problem" is not Iraq or the federal budget but whether "we as a people acknowledge that God exists."

Farris then told the crowd he is "sick and tired of having to lobby people I helped get elected." A better-educated citizenry, he said, would know that "Medicare is a bad idea" and that "Social Security is a horrible idea when run by the government." Farris said he would block judicial power by abolishing the concept of binding judicial precedents, by allowing Congress to vacate court decisions, and by impeaching judges such as Kennedy, who seems to have replaced Justice David H. Souter as the target of conservative ire. "If about 40 of them get impeached, suddenly a lot of these guys would be retiring," he said.

Vieira, a constitutional lawyer who wrote "How to Dethrone the Imperial Judiciary," escalated the charges, saying a Politburo of "five people on the Supreme Court" has a "revolutionary agenda" rooted in foreign law and situational ethics. Vieira, his eyeglasses strapped to his head with black elastic, decried the "primordial illogic" of the courts.

Invoking Stalin, Vieira delivered the "no man, no problem" line twice for emphasis. "This is not a structural problem we have; this is a problem of personnel," he said. "We are in this mess because we have the wrong people as judges."

A court spokeswoman declined to comment.

I am almost SPEECHLESS about this. Anybody who doesn't SEE the lunacy in the above article must be dead physically or spiritually. I have never, EVER, in my life been witness to such moral depravity as is evidenced in this article.

But let me try to make a couple of points here.

To start off with, it was easy to see that the media frenzy surrounding Terri Schiavo was utilized by the present administration in a very clever way: to lead to elimination of any judicial oversight of the Executive branch of the government. It was clear to me that it was going to be used as a platform for doing away with the democratic checks and balances system created by the American Founding Fathers. Clearly, if Bush and Co. WANTED to save Schiavo, they could have done so quite easily. Terri Schiavo was worth more dead than alive.

But to have my prediction manifest so soon and so BLATANTLY is still shocking and sickening.

So it seems that, according to these Monsters, these Disciples of Satan (for that is what they are!), refusing to execute kids who have made terrible errors of judgment (it could be YOUR child!) is an impeachable offense!

But certainly, lying about Saddam Hussein's non-existent connection to al-Qaeda is NOT an impeachable offense! Excuuuuuse me!?

Citing international norms in judgments - norms that are an integral part of CIVILIZED humanity - is an impeachable offense, lying about Saddam's non-existent Weapons of Mass Destruction is not. Excuuuuuse me!?

Reading "the country's "principal problem" is not Iraq or the federal budget but whether "we as a people acknowledge that God exists" simply staggers the mind and rendered me almost speechless with horror at how far into the pit of Moral Insanity these people have fallen.

I don't think I have ever read anything more insane than "a Politburo of "five people on the Supreme Court" has a "revolutionary agenda" rooted in foreign law and situational ethics. Vieira, his eyeglasses strapped to his head with black elastic, decried the "primordial illogic" of the courts.

Talk about your "primordial illogic." It is the classic tactic of the psychopath: Blame your victim of that which you, yourself, are guilty. Accuse your victim of what you, yourself, are doing!

What is even scarier is the fact that these lunatics actually get the press coverage and the REAL Christians do NOT, real Human Beings with SOULS, do not.

One thing that occurs to me as I consider this Monster, Phyllis Schlafly - God Forbid that she should have children and pass on her psychopathic genes - is that America turned out in amazing numbers last November NOT to vote FOR Bush, but to vote AGAINST him.

People don't turn out in such numbers to vote when the status quo is okay. Historically, it has only been when they are really unhappy with things that they are galvanized to vote. And I do not, for one minute, think that it was a whole slew of Christian Nazis that turned out, either.

The problem was, since Bush and Co already had control of the election process, from recording the ballots to counting them, it was a foregone conclusion that Bush would be "elected." This gang will not be dislodged by any election process that is not conducted and monitored by impartial international experts.

In the article quoted above, Viera quoted Stalin who said: "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem." When you consider that Stalin said something else: "It is not those who vote who have the power. The power belongs to those who count the votes", put together with the horrifying spectacle recounted above, you get a good idea of where America is going. The journalist excused Viera by saying that "Presumably, Vieira had in mind something less extreme than Stalin did and was not actually advocating violence," but I don't think so. America can expect purges soon - lethal purges of any who do not toe the Party line.

An anti-judge furor may not only help confirm President Bush's judicial nominees, but it also may ensure that Bush is granted the powers of Fuhrer.

Now, let's consider the Schiavo case for a moment. As I have written, in this case, I think it was murder. The problem is: I also think it was SET UP that way! Terri Schiavo was not in a "persistent vegetative state." Yes, she was brain damaged and severely disabled, and those elements were ustilized to whip the Christian Right to a flaming frenzy.

Let's get this straight right now: if Terri Schiavo had been in a PVS, I would have been the first to advocate pulling the plug. I am pro-choice even if I am not crazy about the idea of abortions. I think that prevention is a better policy. But better to have an abortion than an unwanted child. Women have the right to decide if they will bear children or not. It's that simple.

But the point I want to make is this: It took a long time for an issue with such clear-cut lines to come along that gave us an accurate set of polling parameters with which to measure the facts regarding the real numbers of Americans who support BUSH & CO....

The fact is: when polls were taken asking if Americans approved of what the president and the congress had done regarding Terri Schiavo's pathetic plight, 82% DISAPPROVED.

Let me repeat that: EIGHTY TWO percent of Americans DISAPPROVED!

What does that tell us?

It tells us loud and clear that all of the religious right and radical right put together comprises a MINORITY of about 18% of the American People.

Yes indeed: the CULT getting all the press attention, the CULT that is destroying America by using it in an INSANE attempt to take over the World is, like Hitler's disciples, a MINORITY.

So, why don't we hear more about the REAL MAJORITY of Americans?

The problem is: The Zionist controlled Media.

Though Americans demonstrated against Bush and his war by the millions, nationwide, just last month, in more than 800 cities and towns from coast to coast, no one in America, let alone abroad, heard one word about it in the media.

America is NOT a Nation of Monsters like Phyllis Schlafly, Michael P. Farris, Edwin Vieira, Alan Keyes, Morton C. Blackwell; Roy Moore; and Tom DeLay.

America is a Nation being destroyed by Monsters who are supported by a small, lunatic fringe who get the media coverage.

Isn't that the same tactic that was used by Adolf Hitler? By Saddam Hussein?

ALL Americans are NOT the willing followers and supporters of Bush & Co. The Zionist controlled Media and the Zionist controlled Administration is setting America up to be hated by all the world. This global hatred is constantly being fueled and spread until it cannot be stopped, which is exactly what the Zionists controlling Bush & Co. want.

Americans who have Love and Empathy for all humanity and who are horrified to see what America has become must UNITE and form bonds of trust, communication, reason, common cause, and TRUTH that will help us to find the ways and means, as peacefully as possible, to get these psychopaths who are destroying America and other countries, who aim at nothing less than the ownership and destruction of the entire Earth, confined in a way and a place where they can never again do to humanity what they are doing now.