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July
3, 2003
Impeach Supreme Court
Justices?
New
Scheme from the Far Right
By JACKSON THOREAU
After the moderates on the U.S. Supreme Court
prevailed in upholding some affirmative action laws and invalidating
anti-sodomy laws, many far-right wingers have predictably gone
ballistic.
For example, in a recent column calling
for the impeachment of any justice who doesn't hold narrow, far-right
views, Joseph Farar, editor of World Nut Daily, one of numerous
conservative ezines polluting cyberspace, labeled the U.S. Supreme
Court "out
of control" and "renegade" and a "ruling
elite." Of course, he didn't make such comments when
the same court made its most anti-democratic decision in history
in the 2000 Bush v. Gore case.
To Farar, the court is only "exceeding
its constitutional authority" when even several Republicans
on that court recognize that anti-sodomy laws are an unjust invasion
of privacy, not to mention ludicrous to enforce. I know Farar
and others would love to see a special police force out there
whose only duty is to enter Americans' bedrooms and arrest anyone
who is engaging in male-to-male, female-to-female, oral, anal
or any other form of sex not covered by the traditional male-to-female
position. As a longtime Texas resident, I proudly admit I have
violated our stupid anti-sodomy law too many times to count -
I've engaged in adult, heterosexual oral sex in private - and
I don't give a damn who knows about it and what the hell anyone
thinks about it.
Farar and Co. would love to see a law
that only married Americans can perform sex only for the purpose
of trying to procreate, and it must be done in the missionary
position at all times. In short, they'd love other Americans
to have as boring sex lives as they probably have. Perhaps that's
why they are so concerned about other Americans' sex lives and
they want to be legal voyeurs - because their sex lives are so
boring.
To Farar, the nation's highest court
is only "sticking its thumb in the eye of the people"
when its decisions don't benefit super-wealthy, white, apparently
heterosexual Americans [except for those like dress-wearing J.
Edgar Hoover and some other closet gay conservatives]. Farar
and Co. see no problem with far-right fascists Rehnquist, Thomas
and Scalia, of course. It's the other more moderate members they
seek to oust.
They want justices who hate homosexuals
[except for certain conservative ones], minorities [especially
Arabs], civil liberties, the ACLU, anyone who smokes a joint
in private, and anyone who questions why the Bush administration
has the divine right to bully and dominate the world.
These are people who are not satisfied
with controlling Congress, the White House, most state legislatures,
and most of the media and the courts. They want to stamp out
any sign of hope for true progress. They call themselves patriots,
but they are anything but.
The true patriots are those who strive
for a liberty and justice for all that goes beyond selfish, narrow
boundaries. As the celebrated American patriot Tom Paine said,
"My country is the world."
As the esteemed writer, professor and
people's historian Howard Zinn wrote in a
recent column on <TomPaine.com, "I suggest that a
patriotic American who cares for his country might act on behalf
of a different vision. Instead of being feared for our military
prowess, we should want to be respected for our dedication to
human rights. Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We
need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused
so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not
be obstacles to trade - we call it globalization - should they
also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity? Should we
not begin to consider all children, everywhere, as our own? In
that case, war, which in our time is always an assault on children,
would be unacceptable as a solution to the problems of the world.
Human ingenuity would have to search for other ways."
Like Zinn, I am not in a mood to celebrate
much this July 4th, when so many Americans are blind to the pain
and suffering we are causing in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places,
when so many Americans just want to continue the selfish, unilateral,
"America First" approach to foreign policy and most
everything else. But I will keep hoping, keep working, keep fighting
for a better America and a better world.
Here's hoping that the broader patriotism
of people like Paine and Zinn will eventually win out and not
the narrow patriotism of those like Farar.
Jackson Thoreau
is an American writer and co-author of We Will Not Get Over It:
Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated, 120,000-word
electronic book can be downloaded on his
Internet site. Thoreau can be emailed at jacksonthor@justice.com.
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