Wednesday, February 25, 2004

Most dangerous: Judges

The most dangerous threat to the United States today is not terrorism; chemical, nuclear or biological weapons; poor intelligence gathering and interpretation; or even our porous border with Mexico.

The most dangerous threat to American citizens and their God-given liberty are judges who have been appointed, quite often for life, who are not accountable to anyone or any commission for their erratic rulings and often flagrant abuse of their power. It is the one and only flaw in the magnificent document called the Constitution.

There is an 11 year-old girl, Carlie Bruscia, who is dead now because a judge in Florida did not have the gumption to put a man who was in violation of his probation agreement back behind bars while being urged to do so by his probation officer.

This murder came from a drug-abusing man who had been arrested 13 times in the past and one who had been charged in 1997 of trying to abduct a 20-year-old woman but had been acquitted by an idiot jury.

It is time for these judges to serve the same time in jail for the crimes committed by these scum-bags after they are released from incarceration.

A four-judge panel from that great bastion of morality better known as Sodom and Gomassachusetts has decided that the legislature in the state must come up with a statute protecting gay marriage. No state in this union has ever approved such a law and polls show a vast majority is dead set against the concept, yet these judges have issued an edict that demands just the opposite.

The legislature in Virginia passed a law outlawing the use of partial-birth abortion in that state. Now an appointed judge has said that the law is unconstitutional and has overturned it, thereby using his power to usurp the decision of the legislature and eschewing the will of the people.

There are approximately 1,700 players in the N.F.L. and 32 teams, as well. These two opposing sides have reached a collective bargaining agreement that states no player may be drafted until his graduating class has reached its junior year. Now a judge has ruled that the league must allow Maurice Clarett, a former running back from Ohio State, to enter the draft a year before his class is eligible. Once again, the desire of one individual is considered more important than an agreement between players and management.

The time has come for Congress to create an oversight committee to control these activist judges and their agendas. These judges are usually from the liberal side of the issues, but I would not approve of conservative judges doing this either.

The time has come for a Constitutional amendment to appoint judges to their first term and then let the people decide whether their rulings should allow them to retain their positions in the next elections.

Kevin D. Arnold

Fayetteville, Ga.