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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86749)12/13/2000 11:21:27 AM
From: LowtherAcademy  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
Skeeter, having absented myself from the political discussions here for the last month, I
feel compelled to
post a comment at the end of the whole sordid affair.
I figure I'm pretty representative of a lot of boomers.
I'm usually a bit ahead of the herd on trends and behind
them on realized satisfaction.
I have always considered the Supreme Court to represent
an impartial final arbitration in matters of constitutional
interpretation. The Court is the entity that keeps all the
petty regionalist factions from subverting the high ideals
our country was founded on.
In my mind, the Supreme Court's decisions have been something
that has never been for sale-- since the first Court heard
the first case in the infancy of the greatest country that
has ever existed in all of long history of humankind, it
has stood aloof from petty and most importantly POLITICAL
sway.
I no longer feel that way. Today is the saddest day that
I can remember. I think I'll remember it in much the same
way I remember the day that JFK was assassinated. What I was
doing, the smell in the air, what people around me were doing--all of this is frozen in
my mind's eye as if they
just happened. This will be a watershed event that will
be remembered in much the same way.
As a society we've chosen the cheap and easy route in so
many things, I guess it should come as no surprise that
we have no institutions that are exempt from political
selfservishness.
It all just came as a big shock.
Lew
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