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U.S Judges In Danger And Lacking Protection
Fox News ^ | 10/03/2007 | Associated Press

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: judges; marshals; threats
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1 posted on 10/03/2007 1:52:02 PM PDT by bluetone006
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To: bluetone006

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!


2 posted on 10/03/2007 1:55:52 PM PDT by petro45acp (NO good endeavor survives an excess of "adult supervision" (read bureaucracy)!)
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To: bluetone006

OK, fine, but who protects the public from these judges?


3 posted on 10/03/2007 1:56:21 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: bluetone006
Federal judges are in danger

Is Hillary threatening them again?

4 posted on 10/03/2007 1:58:47 PM PDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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To: bluetone006

The whims of the blackrobes carry significant weight; nay, carry dictatorial powers in the age of democratic despotism.


5 posted on 10/03/2007 1:59:02 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: bluetone006
growing threats of violence

now our annointed ones want protection ... they didn't need it before ... Gee I wonder why they need it now ...

6 posted on 10/03/2007 1:59:17 PM PDT by clamper1797 ("Democrat" 'one who panders to the crude, idiotic, and mindless whims of the masses.')
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To: bluetone006

Do as a judge did in Texas. Clean your pistols during a trial. Nobody messes with that cat.


7 posted on 10/03/2007 2:01:47 PM PDT by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: bluetone006

Whats the problem? Protection.

Let them file a restraining order. Those work so well for everyone else.


8 posted on 10/03/2007 2:03:59 PM PDT by art_rocks
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To: bluetone006

“U.S Judges In Danger And Lacking Protection”

Welcome to the club!


9 posted on 10/03/2007 2:04:26 PM PDT by jjones9853
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To: clamper1797

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?


10 posted on 10/03/2007 2:04:50 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: art_rocks

art_rocks shoots ... he scores!!! a three-pointer at least.


11 posted on 10/03/2007 2:05:58 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: bluetone006

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.


12 posted on 10/03/2007 2:09:48 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: petro45acp

The fear of judges is one of the reasons we have the 2nd amendment.


13 posted on 10/03/2007 2:10:51 PM PDT by rottndog (This Tagline currently closed for maintenance and rehabilitation.)
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To: art_rocks
Let them file a restraining order. Those work so well for everyone else.

Can't they just dial 911 like everyone else does? /sarc

14 posted on 10/03/2007 2:13:06 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (Bring me the head of Miley Cyrus!)
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To: Scotsman will be Free

“Asking if there is anything under that black robe?”

You had to ask,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1493257/posts


15 posted on 10/03/2007 2:13:34 PM PDT by Rb ver. 2.0 (Reunite Gondwanaland!)
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To: bluetone006

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.


16 posted on 10/03/2007 2:13:57 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Jumpin’ jimminy! No sense of decorum at all. LOL.


17 posted on 10/03/2007 2:16:28 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: TexanToTheCore
Do as a judge did in Texas. Clean your pistols during a trial. Nobody messes with that cat.

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.

18 posted on 10/03/2007 2:27:58 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: 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.

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.

19 posted on 10/03/2007 2:32:54 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
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To: Fido969
OK, fine, but who protects the public from these judges?

BTTT

20 posted on 10/03/2007 2:34:49 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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