George Tiller and the Death of Law
This week the President realized a step towards his stated lifelong vision that the law should be flexible before the whims of the court of judges, based upon circumstance, based on random empathy. President Obama's choice for the Justice of the Supreme Court, 2nd Circuit Judge Sotomayor, has said, herself, that she seeks to use her emotional background in her work. They have argued that the law does not mean what is written.
How much does one trust this?
We want to believe that, like so many liberal ideas, this is not an ignoble idea, just stupid. The paper answer we use to describe this behavior of the left is that they use the courts to essentially rewrite laws based upon their emotions and sense of social justice. However, we have before us today, another unintended consequence of emotion making instead of law. We are witnesses to the assassination of George Tiller.
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The true appeal of emotional law is not humanity, but wrath
Now George Tiller was a late term abortion provider. He was shot to death in the lobby of his church by a man driving a blue Ford of some sort. This was an act of terrorism in the United States and his assassin is a terrorist. Having struck down Mr. Tiller in broad daylight, in a church lobby, the terrorist obviously had some knowledge of Mr. Tiller's movements and quite frankly probably set up or had help with setting up Mr. Tiller. Mr. Tiller's assassin is a terrorist and most right wingers will agree with that, placing the rule of law above their political sympathies. We can say with confidence that if John Aschcroft were Attornery General today, there would be no doubt our government would too. |
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President Bush was a tough, but fair minded national sheriff.
Whatever else may be said of him, President Bush was a tough, but fair minded national sheriff. As Governor, George W Bush did not hesitate to execute the two men that dragged a black man to death. His administration had one of the most deeply thoughtful and committed approaches to the fair rule of law this country has seen in decades, and probably will not be seen for decades more. With the left, we are not sure. They too raise vigilantes, world wide. The left has the likes of William Ayers and other 1960s radicals, the FALN, Weather Underground, and others all romanticized as a sort of modern Molly McGuires. The late great Che Guevera was no Ghandi, and yet, he is idolized. When the left means emotional law, they really mean that their terrorists should be held to not so severe an account, because their crimes, are really not too terrible of crimes. Now we have before us this new terroristm, the assassination of George Tiller. It is in the shadow of this killing, where the temptation of emotional law loses its lustre. We find enough blood has been spilled to wash away the lies and reveal a darker truth. The true appeal of emotional law is not humanity, but wrath. Those who advocate emotional law may well seek to allow one's side to strike in a civil war, to encourage their own vigilantes, while suppressing those of others. |
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If terrorism is caused by the United States, what provoked the assassination of Mr. Tiller?
We on the American right do not agree with Mr. Tiller's actions and we will insist that Mr. Tiller's assassin should be subject, as a terrorist, to perhaps even a military tribunal. We wonder, will the left remain true to its arguments that Mr. Tiller's assassin is a criminal, not a terrorist? Will the left demand wiretaps upon his associates? Given the choice between more more abortions or more abortion bombings, would the left suddenly approve of waterboarding whatever anti-abortion terrorist is caught? Will the left wing continue to argue that terrorism has at its roots a fair injustice? Or is that just left wing terrorism, that is just? Should there be a national dialog between anti-abortion terrorists, and the abortionist? Or is it just Israeli Jews and Irish Protestants that must negotiate to dispense with the threat of random bombings. If terrorism is caused by the United States, what provoked the assassination of Mr. Tiller? Will the left wing demand the assassin be spared the death penalty, if he writes a childrens book? The law is a treaty among the people. If one party can change that treaty's terms as they see fit, how much does one believe they keep to any of it? The present administration leaves us unsettled. What shall we make of the nomination of Judge Sotomoyer to the Supreme Court? When President Obama says that the law should be randomly applied, that it should favor the oppressed, we are left asking, how much so? Bill Clinton did pardon the FALN, and Barrack Obama has seen fit to work with William Ayers and not to mention attend quite a church. Is it so unreasonable to wonder, if, the appointment of Judge Sotomoyer yet another play in this balance of terror? What future left wing crime might be romanticized by this coming court? What assault on the first or second amendment will be rationalized? What future terrorist might be pardoned by this administration? What government harrassment of right wing political organizations should be allowed? When the one reserves the right to random law, we can't say we know. |