Are Republican politicians inciting violence against members of the judiciary?

"Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, 'upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law.'

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his 'bottom line' for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. 'He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' ' Vieira said.

The full Stalin quote, for those who don't recognize it, is 'Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.' Presumably, Vieira had in mind something less extreme than Stalin did and was not actually advocating violence. But then, these are scary times for the judiciary. An anti-judge furor may help confirm President Bush's judicial nominees, but it also has the potential to turn ugly.

A judge in Atlanta and the husband and mother of a judge in Chicago were murdered in recent weeks. After federal courts spurned a request from Congress to revisit the Terri Schiavo case, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said that 'the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.' Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) mused about how a perception that judges are making political decisions could lead people to 'engage in violence.'

'The people who have been speaking out on this, like Tom DeLay and Senator Cornyn, need to be backed up,' Schlafly said to applause yesterday. One worker at the event wore a sticker declaring 'Hooray for DeLay.'" (Full article at link)

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Whip the mob into a frenzy, and dangerous things can happen.
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