Jul 06 2007
Alice M. Batchelder and Julia Smith Gibbons: Two Coward Judges
About this morning’s news when two judges who ruled in favor for the wiretap program: both are cowards and traitors to their own institution. The two might as well take off their judge’s gown and hand the power back to the executive branch!
The ACLU is perfectly right when it says, if the program is such a secret and the threshold is proven victimhood, then how can ANYONE challenge it? It is Dick Cheney’s job to grab as much power for the executive branch as he could; It is his nature wanting to be the the law giver, executor and interpreter. But it is the judiciary’s duty to put a check on such a impulse yet the two women did their best justifying the judiciary’s submission–as if a parliament arduously passes a law giving a dictator unlimited power. Why do the two “judges” still call themselves so?
The apologists of this case, together with those who defended the suspension of habeas corpus, are just as cowardly as the two judges in that they are willing to give up their basic rights in order to feel “safe”. If the executive branch ever abused the sudden bounty those cowards surrendered, the American public has no one but itself to blame for submitting to the fear mongering.