2004-05-14

Save Our Courts

by Jack Dalton

As the outrage of rape, torture and murder unfolds in Iraq and Afghanistan by U.S. forces, the Bush cabal is hard at work pushing their radical agenda inside the country here. Much of what is being done is getting in under the "radar" as so many are pre-occupied with the outrage in Iraq, and rightly so...but at the same time we cannot allow the situation in Iraq to completely divert our atention from the attempted political and ideologic take over of our federal courts.

Bush has already used his power of executive orders to place more than one person on the federal bench that were being fillibustered in the Senate bypassing the "advice and consent" of that body. Currently, his nomination of Brett Kavanaugh for the D.C. circuit court is being held up in the Senate, and rightly so. Bush has noimated a man for the second highest court in the country that has only been a lwayer for 13 years, has never tried a case, and has no judicial experience at all. On top of that, the D.C. court hears labor cases, environmental case and Kavanaugh is strongly Bushite in his oppositon to environmental policies and labor rights he sees as detrimental to the country across the board.

If this attempted take over of our courts is not stopped, what will the "rule of law" become? What will be our protection then? Where will we turn for justice and our "day in court." Who will stand between us the people and those that wish only to use we the people to futher their own agendas, whatever they may be?

While the mess that BushCo created in Iraq spins out of control we cannot allow ourselves the luxuary of becoming so pre-occupied that Bush is allowed to stack our courts with political ideologues without so much as a wimper from us.

Saveourcourts.org is an excellant source for solid information on and about our courts and what is happening with them. If we loose our courts, we loose everything.

Jack Dalton

www.ommp.org