SCOTUS: my letter to the President

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I wrote the following letter to President Bush today, come on guys we need to all pitch in and try to help. We have only ourselves to blame if we do nothing and a "progressive" gets nominated.



Dear Mr. President,

I would like to take a moment to express to you my wishes on the Nominee(s) you will be selecting to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancies left by the departing Mrs. O'Connor and possibly Mr. Rehnquist. I want you to know that I do not approve of Mr. Gonzalez for Supreme Court Justice. Some of his past decisions and comments have indicated that he is not a strict constructionist when it comes to interpreting the Constitution,and we simply cannot afford to appoint someone with that viewpoint. I would like to recommend Mrs. Janice Rodgers Brown, Mr. Alex Kozinski, or Mr. Samuel Alito, Jr. I feel all would be appropriate choices, with a proper view and interpretation of the Constitution, and would make Fine Supreme Court Justices. I also believe either the Honorable Justices Scalia or Thomas would make a fine choice as Chief Justice, in the case of Chief Justice Rehnquist Retiring.

On another note, I would like to thank you for your fine leadership during these horrible past 5 years. You have shown yourself to posses the true capabilities of leadership, and I wish you to know that you have my support. But with one caveat. I am not a knee-jerk republican voter, I have on occasion held my nose and voted for a democratic candidate, but only when that candidate has shown to have a stronger support of the Bill of Rights than the corresponding Republican. I and most of my friends sat out the '92 elections and did NOT vote for your father because of the '89 import ban he passed by executive order. We almost decided not to vote for you when you said you would sign the AWB if it crossed your desk, but once we saw how you used your influence to make sure that legislation would not reach you and that you only said that to appease the soccer moms, we changed our minds. So I would just like remind you, like your father learned the hard way by losing to President Clinton, that gun owners are not a guaranteed Republican voting block.( not that it matters now, you being in your last term, but you can pass it on to other Republicans) Also, Please remember that our Bill of Rights is important, I don't want to lose essential liberties for some illusion of temporary safety.

In closing, thank you once more for you good leadership these past few years, I hope and pray that fortune will continue to shine down upon you and that God will continue to guide your hand.

Sincerely,
Edgar E. Smith IV

P.S. I was only 13 during the '92 elections so I couldnt vote anyway. just a little fib. :)
 
Ahh come on, you get more flies with honey than vinegar. I don't think it would help too much to say " oh by the way, I think your a RINO POS you lying #^&$%^**(@%^#$&$&!!"

come on Zrex, why don't you swallow your disgust and write a short, polite letter or e-mail, talking about how you want a REAL Justice that respects the Constitution. Who knows, maybe we'll actually get one if enough people say something for a change. :rolleyes:

Heck, it can't get any worse, I figured i might as well quit preaching to the choir and maybe make my feelings known to the people that actually make these decisions.
 
Before you sign the ACLJ petition

You ought to know that they are not strict constitutionalists but a right wing Christian Group:

Abortion:

First, overturning Roe v. Wade is a worthy goal. It is bad law. It is legally flawed. However, it would take a major shift on the court for that to happen. Looking into the crystal ball at the Supreme Court does not always produce a clear picture. To overturn Roe, there would need to be numerous retirements – and replacements with justices who believe Roe was wrongly decided. All complicated and unpredictable scenarios. Is it possible? Yes. Probable? Hard to tell.


Pornography/ freedom of Speech:

Images leave a strong and lasting message in our minds. Images are not easily erased and often surface at the most inopportune times. One of Satan's greatest tools against us is our inability to completely erase that which has entered our minds through our senses, whether visual or auditory, but especially visual. Jesus spoke of this power of thought through vision when He said in Matthew 5:28, "I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Our thoughts can be a powerful weapon in the hands of Satan if they are not controlled by what is entering our mind from the beginning.

WHY IS MAN SO SUSCEPTIBLE TO PORNOGRAPHY?

Is it pornography that distorts the mind or is it a distorted mind that seeks the pornography? Paul shows in Romans chapter 1 that man's mind has been greatly affected by the fall of the human race into sin in the Garden of Eden
 
You ought to know that they are not strict constitutionalists but a right wing Christian Group:
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The ACLJ ARE Strict Constitutionalists. The Constitution does not mention the issue of abortion, so a Strict Constitutionalist should leave that issue to the states to decide.

Reframing the Constitution to fit your own personal philisophy is what the antis have been doing for decades. You condemn their actions, but you want to do the same thing.
 
Good letter...

AnchorYanker... but a revised version of this -- sent to your two U.S. SENATORS -- will probably have more impact... especially if they're wishy-washy RINO's or moderate Democrats. (If they're Libs, your SOL.)

The President doesn't even have the time to read half the reports/memos sent by his staffers and cabinet heads. He DOES read the polls, and those poll results are "shaped" (by informed-and-outspoken folks like us) out on the street, in the workplace, at neighborhood bar-b-ques, over beers, etcetera.

That means openly challenging those who are poorly-informed, smartly debating Liberals, and even risking your job and/or social stature... with closet-Lib bosses and "friends" whose "Tolerance" excludes (*ahem*) Political Diversity... and are ever-seeking ways to muzzle/punish us pro-2A conservatives.

Your Senators MIGHT get to read a well-written letter -- if their staffers allow it to make it through their own filters. That's their job. They do, however, keep a log of letters and e-mails on a Pro/Con issue basis. Trust me.

Beyond that, good, terse letters to newspaper editors (and certain TV news centers) DO often see the light of day (e.g., Fox/O'Reilly).

Keep making noise -- well-targeted.
 
good post, twenty mil. I know dubya doesn't exactly sit down at his desk

each morning with a hot cup of joe and read his letters and e-mails, but i do

believe that he has a gofer that reads them and gives him a synopsis of the

opinions voiced in his correspondence. Of course he's a busy man and may

not read every memo sent to him, but public opinion is important for things

like this. If he got several hundred letters and e-mails a day voicing support

for a strict constructionist, I believe someone eventually would bring it to his attention.

heck, just imagine where we'd be if every gun owner or person concerned

with .gov encroachment got involved and start writing and calling

representatives. definitely wouldn't be any worse off.

You're also right about the senators and reps, i'm in Mississippi, so we're

pretty good to go(aside from that POS Benny Thompson :barf: )

But I'm definitely writing them too, just to be sure.
 
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