Jul 01 2009
The Sotomayor Debacle
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As another blogger recently posted, “Beam me up Scotty… no intelligent life here…” The ability to logically deduct and reason is becoming an uncommon commodity on this earth. What was at one time known as “common sense” is no longer common. I am officially renaming it to the” uncommon sense”. On what planet does it make logical sense, especially one that has made such great advances in race relations and equal rights for all, and in a nation where the voice synonymous with Civil Rights once said “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” to say that a judge who is an enforcer and interpreter of a law that is color blind, needs to have “empathy” and rule in favor of minorities simply because of their minority status? Where is the logic in the belief that a judge needs to disregard the raw facts and strict interpretation of the law which deals with all equally in disregard of color, and rule in favor of skin color? This type of judicial logic sets back Civil Rights 60 years and is an overcorrection for wrong that definitely needed to be corrected, but not swung back in the opposite direction. Both Obama and Sotomayor have a philosophy of reparations that need to be made as a payback for the mistreatment that minorities endured in times gone by. That is the reason for policies like Affirmative Action and this empathetic judicial philosophy. Since I am a minority (I am a white male), I do not want special treatment such as Affirmative Action or as in Sotomayor’s recent ruling on the Connecticut Firefighters. It is an insult to my intelligence and abilities, to say that because of my minority status that I should be able to pass a test at a lower score than a member of a majority. I know everybody is looking for a shortcut to get to where they are going, but where is the pride for example that Clarence Thomas has for getting to the position that he holds today because of his own merit and hard work and not just because he is a minority. The fact that the Supreme Court ruling was 5 to 4 in favor of overturning Sotomayor’s previous decision is a bittersweet victory for me. It’s great that the decision was overturned, but we have 4 completely idiotic illogical thinkers on the court, and I use the term “thinker” rather loosely. We also have a President now that is making it his duty to pack the court with such illogical justices. Lord, help us all.
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