Posted on 10/03/2007 1:51:59 PM PDT by bluetone006
WASHINGTON — Federal judges are in danger because the U.S. Marshals Service does not work quickly enough to protect them amid growing threats of violence, Justice Department investigators said Wednesday.
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From just the first paragraph, let ‘em arm themselves and handle their own protection. Are they not citizens? Does not the Second Amendment apply to them also? Are the ‘more equal’ and entitled to protective details?
ruefully!
OK, fine, but who protects the public from these judges?
Is Hillary threatening them again?
The whims of the blackrobes carry significant weight; nay, carry dictatorial powers in the age of democratic despotism.
now our annointed ones want protection ... they didn't need it before ... Gee I wonder why they need it now ...
Do as a judge did in Texas. Clean your pistols during a trial. Nobody messes with that cat.
Whats the problem? Protection.
Let them file a restraining order. Those work so well for everyone else.
“U.S Judges In Danger And Lacking Protection”
Welcome to the club!
Hmm. I was threatened many times by the criminal element, and drunks. They threatened to kick my ass, rape my wife(even when I didn’t have one)etc. The laws says that those threats are the cost of doing business. Ok. But threaten a judge, and all hell breaks loose. They need bodyguards to protect them from “inappropriate communications”. What is that? Asking a judge for a date? Telling her that she looks cute in a black robe? Asking if there is anything under that black robe?
art_rocks shoots ... he scores!!! a three-pointer at least.
There are more then a few i know of that if they were attacked and I was sitting on a grand jury I don’t think I could vote to indict.
The fear of judges is one of the reasons we have the 2nd amendment.
Can't they just dial 911 like everyone else does? /sarc
“Asking if there is anything under that black robe?”
You had to ask,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1493257/posts
Let’s see. Woody Harrelson’s hitman dad killed John Wood in 1979, Richard Daronco was killed by a relative of an unhappy pro-se plaintiff in 1988, and Robert Vance, a Circuit judge was killed by a bomb in 1989. (The man convicted in Vance’s case hadn’t even had a case decided by the judge).
Not exactly an epidemic, and no pattern.
Jumpin’ jimminy! No sense of decorum at all. LOL.
Sounds like one of our superior court judges -- later on the Supreme Court, Justice Charles W. Worrill, a/k/a "Two Gun Charlie". Got the nickname when he was a Superior Court judge in Early County GA, he presided with two loaded .44 Special revolvers on the bench, and used one of them for a gavel. Needless to say, there was order in his court.
I do know a local superior court judge here who was murdered by an escaped prisoner who stole a deputy's gun and went on a rampage through the courthouse -- but that was directly due to the incompetence of the Fulton County Sheriff's Department leaving an elderly, semi-retarded female deputy in charge of the cells while the rest of the deputies went to get breakfast.
Stop passing insanely stupid rulings on laws and start using common sense and judges wouldn't be in danger.
They already have their protection. It's called the Second Amendment.
BTTT
It almost looks like a plan to me. Wonder what the judge did to piss off the deputies.
what about drug cartel hits?
what about mob hits?
lets be serious folks. Criminals in criminal cases are not the same as being aggrived by social or civil issues.
If they are that scared, they can hire bodyguards. Being a judge is supposed to be considered a public servant. Being a public servant should not make one a supercitizen.
Sounds like a job for Blackwater!
Maybe they should do their jobs instead of legislating from the bench.
Sounds like some judge saw a re-run of an old Law & Order episode and got scared.
I know in a novel or a movie it would be a plot, but I practiced law in the county for 10 years, and as the old saying goes, never attribute to malice what can be assigned to simple stupidity.
This is a downtown urban county that is run by completely incompetent people. They couldn't organize a one-car funeral, let alone a murder plot. If anybody tries to change something or improve the abysmal conditions there, they all cry, "Racism!" so nothing is ever done. Nobody wants to put up with all the harassment and threats that come with trying to reform a nest of featherbedding layabouts.
So a good judge and a really nice guy got killed. They're trying to try the guy who killed him, his court reporter, his deputy, a deputy outside the courthouse, and a federal agent. He also pistol-whipped the judge's secretary and calendar clerk. But the guy's defense has eaten up the entire Indigent Defense Fund for Georgia (that's another scandal in itself) and it looks like he may never be tried. There hasn't been a death penalty trial in this county for years (the oppression of The Man, you know) but they kinda had to seek the DP for this one, with 4 cold-blooded murders and a bunch of agg. assaults.
The judge's widow is suing the county for negligence. I don't blame her a bit.
Asking if they wear that black burka all the time, or only on the job?
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