Historic moment

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An important section of the community is for the first time represented on the Supreme Court of the United States of America. For the first time in history, a proven perjurer has been made Associate Judge. This is surely a progressive step, and we look forward to the first murderer. Or murderess.

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Yes, she only put in yes when the original document said no. The merest shade of disagreement.

The only person whose personal status has anything criminal about it is the KKK member, and you will have to prove that he actually took part in KKK murders in order to call him a murderer. The others are, at most, guilty of perverting the law as judges. Not even the most embittered abolitionists ever said that Taney was anything but a kind and generous master to his slaves (that, alas, is exactly why he felt comfortable with his hideous decision), and while his decision, like Wade vs.Roe, was a judicial crime, it does not bear the name of murder. As for Wade vs.Roe, we should first agree that abortion is murder. Well, if you do, glad to hear it. If not, you should not concede so much to an opponent merely for the sake of polemic; it is a self-defeating strategy.

[fellmama.livejournal.com]

My apologies; I was imprecise in my statement. I assumed you were referring to Kagan's recent testimony regarding the matter. If you were referring to her correction of the wording in the document itself, it was approved by the ACOG, who were under no actual obligation to accept it. If anything, their lack of backbone would be the issue. (And they have NO backbone; witness their cowardice regarding c-sections.)

As far as I know, Black never even participated in a Klan rally. And Taney freed his slaves and paid them pensions. My point was simply that one woman's freedom fighter is another's terrorist.

As for abortion being murder, I find the notion irrelevant. That is to say, I concede nothing or everything as you will.