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Is it time for a March on the SCOTUS and the Judiciary and the Senate?
Free Republic | March 2, 2005 | Jim Robinson

Posted on 03/02/2005 1:24:42 PM PST by Jim Robinson

Is it time for a March on the SCOTUS and the Judiciary and the Senate?

Are you as fed up as I am over the bad decisions being handed down by the SCOTUS and throughout the judiciary? Are you tired of judicial activism? Are you tired of being ruled by the men in black robes? Is it time to remind the SCOTUS that We The People ARE the final arbiters of law and justice in this land?

Are you fed up with the weak-kneed Republican Senate? Are you ready to drop the nuclear option on the obstructionist Democrats? Are you fed up with Specter and the RINOs?

Is it time for us to rise up and march on Washington again? How many of you are willing to join me in another march to D.C. to straighten out these yahoos and remind them of who's in charge in this republic?

If they can do it in Lebanon, we can do it here!!


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To: Jim Robinson
Well I'm disgusted, big time.

Wondering out loud here....Marches take time, work, commitment, energy and focus. In essence, you'll need to suck all the oxygen out of the political machine to have a meaningful impact.

Isn't our time better spent getting 60 Republicans into Senate seats in '06? That's not to stop a march if others decide that's our focus....

61 posted on 03/02/2005 1:45:25 PM PST by Drango (Will work for money.)
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To: Jim Robinson

Let's do it.


62 posted on 03/02/2005 1:45:39 PM PST by PilloryHillary (Welcome to America...now speak English)
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To: the gillman@blacklagoon.com

Wasn't it Alabama that had them removed? What's the diffence if the SCOTUS roughshods over state's rights with the Ten Commandents and state's death penality laws? IT's time to protest, and protest BIG! I say, another MFJ, that's how I found FR in the first place. And, remember the ad FR took out? We need to be doing more of that.


63 posted on 03/02/2005 1:45:45 PM PST by Indy Pendance
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To: beeler

Ive got the book. It will make your blood boil.


64 posted on 03/02/2005 1:45:49 PM PST by smoothsailing (Eagles Up !!)
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To: Jim Robinson
Long overdue.

You build it they will come!

I'm ready, willing and able, but like fishing, I need a days notice.

65 posted on 03/02/2005 1:46:36 PM PST by G.Mason ("If you are broken It is because you are brittle" ... K.Hepburn, The Lion In Winter)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Exactly, and according to Mark Levin - the Congress has the right TO UNDO ANY RULING - BECAUSE THE COURT IS NOT ELECTED - IT'S APPOINTED.

But the Congress is too spineless to take them on.


66 posted on 03/02/2005 1:46:36 PM PST by CyberAnt (Pres. Bush: "Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.")
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To: Jim Robinson
I was wondering if this should be breaking news -- but it was not a Newbie doing it.

I think you have enough experience with Freerepublic to know what is Breaking News and what isn't.

Is the 10 Commandments display part of the need or the new Chief Justice after Rehnquist steps down [to have the activism]?

67 posted on 03/02/2005 1:48:20 PM PST by topher (Pray for our leaders -- Pray for our Chief Justice of the Supreme Court)
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To: Jim Robinson

On second thought, we need to concentrate our fire on the Senate: we've GOT to get spineless GOP senate caucus to break through the dems' obstructionism. I don't care if they pass nothing else: if GWB doesn't appoint, and the Senate doesn't confirm, decent SCOTUS justices, nothing else matters.

The Senate is key, key, key. THe SCOTUS will ignore us. Senators won't.


68 posted on 03/02/2005 1:48:50 PM PST by mondonico (Peace through Superior Firepower)
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To: Howlin

ping...


69 posted on 03/02/2005 1:49:08 PM PST by deport (You know you are getting older when everything either dries up or leaks.)
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To: Indy Pendance
The difference between the 10 commandments issue and the 16-17 death penalty is the invocation of foreign influences in the decision.

The death penalty decision wreaks of all kinds of BS about foreign sensibilities {PTUI}1 and concerns {PTUI} about how we are viewed in the world {PTUI}

The Decision

1-I am virtual spitting

70 posted on 03/02/2005 1:50:10 PM PST by BigEdLB (BigEd)
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To: Spok

I say the Supreme Court should be permanently removed from Washington DC and relocated every session to a randomly-selected town no larger than, say, Topeka, Kansas. The justices don't need to be around the other branches of government and lobbyists, etc. Get them in a less rarefied environment and take away that high platform they sit on, while you're at it. Scalia and the other good guys can live with this, and everyone else can learn from it.


71 posted on 03/02/2005 1:50:35 PM PST by Puddleglum (Thank God the Boston blowhard lost)
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To: Jim Robinson
Count me in!

We can't hit all the governors separately, but if we can muster up a huge showing in DC, that should make them at least a bit nervous.

I think there's an opportunity here to gather the largest number of grassroots people to march in DC in a very long time. It seems to me that all the talk show hosts, who seem to be steaming over this latest Court decision, will push this thing (if we have it) to the hilt--and most of them, I would guess, would be clamoring to be on the speaker's roster. FreeRepublic has gotten a lot of good publicity in recent months, and has become much more well known around the country. Let's use our new public image to good advantage.

72 posted on 03/02/2005 1:50:37 PM PST by basil (Exercise your Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: Jim Robinson
By the time you get this rolling the cherry blossoms will be in bloom. It will be nice time to be there in DC.

SCOTUS is not immune to public pressure, and their rulings are only as powerful as we the people allow them to be. They command no enforcement resources, those are the Justice Dept and military both under control of the executive. They have no financial power, the purse is controlled by congress. The states can ignore the ruling and the court is powerless unless backed up by the other COEQUAL branches of government.

They all need to hear from us. I'm ready let's go. Who will draft the petitions of grievance?

And we need to modify their oath of office while we are at it.

73 posted on 03/02/2005 1:50:38 PM PST by Les_Miserables
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To: Jim Robinson

Just let me know where and when.


74 posted on 03/02/2005 1:50:53 PM PST by Patriotic Bostonian
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To: Jim Robinson

Amen. The Judiciary was supposed to be the "least dangerous branch." From Federalist No. 78: (http://federalistpatriot.us/fedpapers/fed_78.html)

"...Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them. The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments...."

It's time to re-establish the proper boundaries of the three branches.


75 posted on 03/02/2005 1:51:19 PM PST by Conservative Goddess (Veritas vos Liberabit, in Vino, Veritas....QED, Vino vos Liberabit)
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To: econ_grad
"What makes you think these judges appointed for life would care?"

We'll be marching on the judges, the Senate, the House and the POTUS. Lord knows we have plenty of grievances. They will all hear our wrath!

76 posted on 03/02/2005 1:51:21 PM PST by Jim Robinson
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To: Jim Robinson

If you set the date, they will come.


77 posted on 03/02/2005 1:52:29 PM PST by MineralMan (godless atheist)
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To: sure_fine

Have Hardware, Will Travel...


78 posted on 03/02/2005 1:53:00 PM PST by 7.62 x 51mm (• Veni • Vidi • Vino • Visa • "I came, I saw, I drank wine, I shopped")
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To: Blurblogger

ping


79 posted on 03/02/2005 1:53:03 PM PST by PilloryHillary (Welcome to America...now speak English)
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To: Jim Robinson
A march would only be effective if it were HUGE and the justices in particular and the gov't in general got the distinct impression that the law that they themselves have crapped on for so long is about to get crapped on BUT GOOD by a mob.

These people are as remote and elite and beyond mere opinion as any bunch of rulers has ever been in the history of the world. They sure as HELL don't give a good damn for someone named Jim Robinson or John Galt or Joe Blow.
80 posted on 03/02/2005 1:53:21 PM PST by TalBlack
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