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9/21/2012 5:17:00 AM
Need a radical court ruling, just call the Monteman

Richard Moore
Investigative Reporter

There’s a reason liberals always file their court cases in Dane County. They know the activist judges there are as culturally biased, morally unprincipled, and politically absurd as they are. They are like three-card Monte con gamers, plying their trade in the courts in Madison.

And so it had to be expected that circuit court judge Juan Colas – let’s call him judge Monteman, shall we – would find Wisconsin’s much tested and resilient collective bargaining reform law to be unconstitutional, and last Friday he did just that.

Here we go again.

“Sections (of the statute) single out and encumber the rights of these employees to choose union membership and representation solely because of that association and therefore infringe upon the rights of free speech and association guaranteed by both the Wisconsin and United States Constitutions,” the judge wrote in the decision.

Wow. To the radical Monteman, wanting to balance the budget and require public employees to pay something resembling their fair share of benefits (meaning comparable to what private-sector workers pay) is not only a political affront but a constitutional violation.

Surely we have heard it all now. Trying to be fiscally responsible is not just wrongheaded politics; it’s a breach of our founders’ intentions.

Such thinking was sure to galvanize a public-opinion backlash, but the mainstream media was ready, and set out to defend the judge. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, in its story, hastened to say that Monteman did not sign the recall petition against Gov. Scott Walker.

Translation: You can trust this man; he is obviously objective and reasonable.

But judge Monteman is anything but objective and reasonable; like most con artists, he is unscrupulous and irrational. Even a quick read through the decision reveals a morally repellent ethics. The judge sets up his cardboard table in the courtroom, beckons the shilling unions to give him vacuous arguments he can agree with, and zeros in with legalistic hocus pocus on his marks, the people and the public interest of Wisconsin.

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