Saturday, May 13, 2023
Merrick Garland’s Refusal To Protect Supreme Court Justices Endangers The Country
The responsibility for leaving conservative justices with hostile groups planted outside their doors rests with Merrick Garland.
You don’t need a lawyer. A truck driver can tell the difference between the crowd that welcomes the Red Sox home after they’ve won the World Series and the sullen crowds still standing outside the homes of the conservative justices of the Supreme Court.
We all know the difference between a smile and frown, between waving hands gesturing people to come forward versus hands signaling people to stay away. The differences are grounded in the natural way people understand body language, and in the way they understand words as their meanings are settled in ordinary language.
Not only does everyone understand these things, they must in order to get on with daily life. Everyone understands these human basics — that is, unless he is Attorney General Merrick Garland and the young lawyers in the Department of Justice feeding him advice.
When he was asked at a congressional hearing about the unfriendly crowds gathered every day around the homes of Justices Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh, the attorney general said the discretion to deal with the crowds rested with the Marshals’ Service, on the scene to protect the judges.
Michael Mukasey, the distinguished judge who became attorney general under George W. Bush, remarked in a public speech that this account of Garland’s was a transparent evasion: The Marshals’ Service, as he well knows, is under the governance of the attorney general. The responsibility for any willingness to leave conservative justices with hostile groups planted outside their doors rests with Garland.
Under federal law, it is a crime to picket or parade “in or near” a federal judge’s residence “with the intent of influencing” him “in the discharge of his duty.” Yet it has been reported that the deputies serving at the justices’ homes have been told to enforce the law only as “a last resort to prevent physical harm to the Justices and/or their families.” Putting out sentences of that kind reflects a public discourse on law so shopworn that real principles have been turned into cliches, fit neither for prime time nor fortune cookies.
Verbal Assaults and Threats
The first point of awareness is that the notion of an “assault” has never depended upon bodily touching. One could shoot at a person and deliberately miss, or hold an unloaded gun near his head and pull the trigger. That is why “verbal assaults” were always taken seriously, as real assaults: the threatening or terrorizing phone call in the middle of the night, the campaign of denigration against racial and religious groups that have produced riots in the past, or the defamation that destroys a man’s reputation and business.
So Judge Kyle Duncan, while visiting the Stanford law school, made his way to the room for a recent lecture by passing through files of students spitting out derision and contempt for him. Furman University prepared to receive the writer Mary Eberstadt as students scrawled “fascist” on pictures of her, and the drumbeat went on calling her a “vicious transphobe” and “homophobe” — a routine welcome for...
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #2079
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Friday, May 12, 2023
The Next Frontier For The Hypersexualized Left: Normalizing Pedophilia
In its lust to destroy every taboo about sexual behavior, the left is never satiated. Next up? Acceptance of pedophilia.
As The Federalist has recently reported, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the left is pushing toward social and legal approval of pedophilia. A failed effort in the Minnesota legislature to extend state-law protection to pedophilia as a sexual orientation should remove any doubt about where we’re headed.
Predatory adults apparently recognize the political problem inherent in protecting the “rights” of pedophiles. So they also cloak their efforts in the language of “rights,” “needs,” and “health” of minor children.
The most recent evidence of this goal comes from the International Commission of Jurists, which joined two U.N. agencies to issue a report advocating that all “consensual” sex between adults and minors be decriminalized. From Principle 16 – Consensual Sexual Conduct:
Consensual sexual conduct, irrespective of the type of sexual activity, the sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression of the people involved or their marital status, may not be criminalized in any circumstances. … With respect to the enforcement of criminal law, any prescribed minimum age of consent to sex must be applied in a non-discriminatory manner. … Moreover, sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual, in fact, if not in law. In this context, the enforcement of criminal law should reflect the rights and capacities of persons under 18 years of age to make decisions about engaging in consensual sexual conduct and their right to be heard in matters concerning them.
The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. “Pedophile” has become “minor-attracted person” (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other “experts” (and Minnesota legislators) describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.
The left always plays the long game, and this one is no exception. Acceptance of pedophilia can be traced to the monstrous Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an entomologist by training who branched out into the study of human sexuality supposedly in response to student questions about sex and marriage.
Actually, though, as his subsequent work proved, Kinsey had a special interest in perversion. His groundbreaking “research” on sexual behavior included extensive observation of infant responses to sexual stimuli. If not a pedophile himself (views differ), he collaborated for years with at least one pedophile who meticulously cataloged his abuse of hundreds of children from 1917 to 1948 — the infamous...
The end game of normalizing pedophilia has been hinted at for some time. A critical step, as always, is to distort language. “Pedophile” has become “minor-attracted person” (MAP), which certainly takes the edge off. TED talkers insist that MAPs should not be stigmatized for their attractions as long as they exercise self-control around children (a talent for which pedophiles are not famous). These and other “experts” (and Minnesota legislators) describe pedophilia as a sexual orientation to be protected under state nondiscrimination law.
The left always plays the long game, and this one is no exception. Acceptance of pedophilia can be traced to the monstrous Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an entomologist by training who branched out into the study of human sexuality supposedly in response to student questions about sex and marriage.
Actually, though, as his subsequent work proved, Kinsey had a special interest in perversion. His groundbreaking “research” on sexual behavior included extensive observation of infant responses to sexual stimuli. If not a pedophile himself (views differ), he collaborated for years with at least one pedophile who meticulously cataloged his abuse of hundreds of children from 1917 to 1948 — the infamous...
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