Southern Beale beats me to it:
Just to remind everyone about what’s at stake in November, we have these pearls of wisdom from Supreme Court JusticeAntonin Scalia:
“Is it really so easy to determine that smacking someone in the face to determine where he has hidden the bomb that is about to blow up Los Angeles is prohibited in the constitution?” he asked.
“It would be absurd to say you couldn’t do that. And once you acknowledge that, we’re into a different game.”
Oh wow! I saw that episode of “24,” too! Yeah, that was so cool how Jack Bauer saved Los Angeles by smacking that …. oh, wait. That was a TV show.
Never mind.
British human rights law expert Conor Gearty exposed Scalia’s intellectual dishonesty:
“Antonin Scalia works hard to protect himself from having to think seriously about torture,” he said.
“His devices are quite obvious, the idea of a smack on the face - rather than sensory deprivation, or waterboarding or any of the Abu Ghraib images - and the comment about ’so-called torture’…”
Professor Gearty accused Justice Scalia of creating a “nightmare scenario of mass destruction that all defenders of torture so need, to hide the fact that the reality of torture will be quite different.”
Indeed it is. And the last thing this country needs are more intellectually dishonest people like Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court.
All I can add is that I’m fairly sure Scalia is one sick puppy with some major hangups. Between his love for torture and his hatred of gays…well, you know what I’m thinking.
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The Jack Bauer Power Hour
I still remember the precise moment when I had an epiphany and realized that 24 is the most important show in America. Maybe in all of American history. Not in a positive of course, but I new early on that this was the tool by which the American public would debase itself and become a nation of torturing assholes.
There was a time when America had a sort of low-information innocence. Sure America was torturing people, or sending people off to other countries to be tortured. But the American public had a sort of innocence because they didn’t know about it, and still had a strong taboo against torture.
24, a fucking fictional television show destroyed America’s innocence on torture. Now everyone knows that we’re a nation of torturers. Most importantly, we now know. And we think it’s fucking great because of what a fictional character on a fictional TV show does. And not just the unwashed masses, but our fucking Supreme Court. A fucking fictional television show has even corrupted what is supposed to be the most austere and erudite institution we have - The Supreme Court.
Ewww! Don't Make Me Think About Scalia's Hang-ups
The only good thing about Scalia is that he’s such an asshole, he has difficulty getting anyone to agree with him that it’s Tuesday, much less signing on to one of his decisions.
And the SCLM
love him. I guess he is great copy if you like sexist, racist, assholes. And clearly the SCLM does.
There is some sort of magic in those robes though. They take ordinary political bullies like Rehnquist and Scalia and turn them into “respected” members of society. They’re black, but they work like white out - erasing all of their past political sins so that everyone declares them “objective.” As if a guy who once suppressed black votes for Nixon could ever be objective in a voting rights case.
Yes, whenever I get distressed at the Dems, I simply think about the Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeal and the FISA Court and the district courts and suddenly they’ve got me all over again.
buffoon
scalia is one of the right-wing buffoons who enabled bush, is anyone surprised at anything he does or says? scalia is just one more piece of the shitpile that supports and enables bush. Just remember that history will not treat these people kindly.
"Bush's supporter"
Which maybe will work someway as a label for McCain, available in Small and Extra Small sizes only.
But what was my point? Oh yeah. Scalia could care less about Bush as an individual. He supports the people who put up Bush, the Movement of authoritarian capitalism triumphant. Bush is just a tool, and so is Scalia. The real enemy is back in the shadows.
Still, mocking Fat Tony is a good thing, always possible that pissing him off will pop an artery, not that I would wish such a thing; at least not for another year.