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Mar. 4, 2005 Senator Harry Reid was out of line recently when he said Clarence Thomas's written opinions were poorly written and an embarrassment. I have read through some of his opinions online, and they are not poorly written at all. His grammar is good, and he uses a sophisticated vocabularly that is evidence of his high educational achievement. His reasoning may be convoluted, and his style is in the hard-to-decipher legalese that lawyers like to use, but that doesn't make him an embarrassment. It makes him no different from any other judge. Mr. Reid was way off base when impugning Mr. Thomas's erudition. Liberals will do better to criticize Mr. Thomas's ideology rather than his credentials. I have plenty of criticisms on this subject. Mr. Thomas is a fascist, right wing extremist, and a hypocrite who should be in jail for ethics violations. In the case of U.S. vs. Lopez he wrote an opinion that would have found a home in the Confederate Constitution. He opposes the right of the government to protect Civil Rights, worker safety, and the environment. Hmm. Let's see. If not for the goverment protecting Civil Rights, Clarence would be down in the cotton field with a hoe. As further evidence of his hypocricisy, he opposes Affirmative Action without which he would have never been able to get into law school and would not be sitting on the bench. He is the only sitting justice to criticize the Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education ruling. He must favor separate and unequal education. Is it any wonder why African-Americans consider him to be a back stabber? His decisions on prisoners are downright cruel. He seems to not believe in the amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment. In an opinion written on a case where a prisoner was beaten severely in the face, while he had his arms handcuffed behind his back, Mr. Thomas wrote this, "the eighth amendment is another manifestation of the pervasive view that the federal constitution must address the ills of society." Huh? That amendment is there to protect people from cruel and unusual punishment, and he thinks it's just an "ill" of society? He was in the minority of the court who thought the Alabama prison practice of chaining prisoners to hitching posts and abandoning them for hours without food and water was ok. He was also in the minority that favored executing the mentally retarded. Incredibly, he was the lone dissenter in the case of Miller-el vs. Cockrell. He thought that a death row inmate shouldn't get a hearing on whether a prosecuter's exclusion of ten out of eleven blacks from a jury denied the man a fair trial. Even Scalia voted that the man should get a hearing. The Dallas, Texas prosecutor--when excluding the potential black jurors--was using a 1963 manual that stated, "Do not take Jews, Negroes, Dagos, Mexicans, or a member of any minority on a jury, no matter how rich, or well- educated." I wouldn't call Mr. Thomas an Uncle Tom. He's not just accomadating; he's a Nazi dressed for a minstrel show. Clarence Thomas should be in jail. He committed perjury at his confirmation trial by claiming to be a moderate. He also committed an ethics violation for not recusing himself during the case of Gore vs. Bush. Bush offered Thomas's wife a job in his administration. A clear conflict of interest. Scalia was also guilty as his son was offered a position in the Bush administration. ------------ About the author Mark Gelbart: My book, Talk Radio, is a black comedy about a radio talk show host who gets kidnapped and psychologically tortured by a loser. It will be published by Publish America within the next year. Email: agelbart@aol.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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