Reply #19: Scalia: "Government drives its authority from God." [View All]

All our founding documents, in fact the entire experiment in democracy that is America, is predicated on one fundamental principle: government derives its authority from the consent of the governed.

Scalia (who has sworn to uphold, defend and protect the Constitution) said in a speech last year that government derived its authority from God and that Democracy had an unfortunate tendency to obscure that truth, but that the faithful should not give up but continue their struggle to set things right.

That comes mighty near sounding like treason to me. At a minimum a violation of his oath of office.

The judicial code of ethics, by the way, advises a judge recuse him or herself whenever there is even an appearance of a potential conflict of interest. Scalia personally stopped the vote counting in Florida in 2000. While hearing arguments on that case his wife, if I remember rightly, was working for the Bush campaign recruiting and vetting possible cabinet members.

So if you are going to impeach him, which I have been advocating for four year, don't forget to include all his offenses, including the fact that with his wife's employment, he had no business hearing the appeal from Bush's people in the first place. And while we are at it, let's include the entire felonious five who put Bush in place. Each of them had something creating the appearance of conflict of interest. O'Conner was heard in a public place on election night saying it was terrible that Gore was winning. One of them (Rhenquist?) had a son working for the law firm representing Bush.

Scalia is especially dangerous because he is an absolutist theocrat at heart. But all of them are guilty of subversion of an election. And the ghosts of ten thousand Iraqui dead and nearly six hundred American service personnel must trod heavily through their dreams if not their hearts. It is not a karma I would willingly carry.

Gordon25