Know your BFEE: Alito is just another word for Mussolini

[Octafish]

It might be funny, if it weren’t true.

What I mean: If you like living in a Police State, Machine Gun Sam’s your man.

Alito memo: shooting unarmed 15 year old in back of head is OK

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:10:55 -0800

Summary:

Memphis police officer Elton Hymon saw 15-year-old Edward Garner running from a house and shouted for him to halt. When Garner started to climb a chain-link fence in the backyard, Hymon shot him in the back of the head.

Garner, who was carrying $10 and a purse taken from the house, died at the hospital. His father sued police and the city.

In a Memo prepared for the Regan administration on the case, Alito contended that “a fleeing suspect in effect states to the police: ’Kill me or let me escape the legal process, at least for now.”’He added, “If every suspect could evade arrest by putting the state to this choice, societal order would quickly break down.”

Wouldn’t he make a great addition to the SCOTUS?

CONTINUED…

http://vorovski_mir.gnn.tv/headlines/6570/Alito_memo_shooting_unarmed_15_year_old_in_back_of_head_is_OK

More evidence about Alito and killin’ people and the power of the State:

1. WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH SAM ALITO?

What's the problem with Judge Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the U.S. Supreme Court? Here's a summary from some leading organizations:

People for the American Way:

"On the appeals court, Alito endorsed radical restrictions on reproductive choice -- such as requiring that a woman notify her husband before obtaining an abortion -- raising serious concerns about the future of Roe v. Wade if he is confirmed. He is a leader of the radical right-wing legal movement to prevent the federal government from enforcing civil rights protections. He has claimed that the federal government cannot fully apply the Family and Medical Leave Act to state employees. He has even argued that Congress could not enact a ban on the possession of machine guns. If confirmed, Alito could be a threat to our rights and liberties for a generation or more." ... "While working under Attorney General Edwin Meese, Alito urged President Reagan to veto a bill to protect consumers from used car dealers who roll back odometers - he said it wasn't the federal government's job to protect citizens' health, safety and welfare." ... "Alito supported a law that allowed a police officer to knowingly shoot in the back and kill an unarmed 15 year-old boy who fled a police attempt to arrest him as a suspect in a $10 burglary. The Supreme Court and police groups opposed this position."



"A few of Judge Alito's past decisions are especially frightening. In one case, Judge Alito joined in a 2-1 ruling that denied citizens access to courts under the Clean Water Act, which authorizes citizens to bring a civil enforcement action against alleged polluters. Judge Alito ruled that a citizen group did not have standing to sue because it had not
demonstrated that serious harm to the environment had occurred, despite the fact that the trial court had imposed a rare $2.6 million fine for the company's violations of the Act. The Supreme Court has since rejected Alito's analysis. Alito also wrote a dissent that would have unjustifiably restricted Congress' authority under the "Commerce Clause"
(which is the basis for most federal environmental laws) when he claimed that the law prohibiting the transfer or possession of machine guns was unconstitutional. What will he decide about laws protecting our environment?"


Feminist Majority:

"Here is a sampling of Alito's positions: (He was) the only judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to require women to notify their husbands - even husbands who batter women - to obtain an abortion; voted against the Family and Medical Leave Act - this time not permitting state employees to sue for damages under the Act; dissented alone on a decision upholding a conviction under the federal law prohibiting the transfer or possession of machine guns - questioning whether Congress had the power under the Commerce Clause to enact such a law; (was the) lone dissenter on a sex discrimination in employment case - he wanted "smoking gun"-type evidence making nearly impossible an effort to prove sex discrimination."

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whom Alito would replace, writing for the Supreme Court majority in rejecting Alito's husband-notification abortion decision:

Alito's position would give "a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."

Operation Rescue (radical anti-abortion group), commenting on Alito's nomination and the Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion:

"Roe's days are numbered. ... We are trusting that we are now on the fast-track to derailing Roe v. Wade as the law of the land."


MoveOn.org Political Action:

"In one significant case, Alito wrote a dissenting opinion that would have allowed an unauthorized strip search of a woman and her 10 year-old daughter, in their own home. ... Alito was outvoted and strongly criticized by his fellow judges."


Judge Samuel Alito (in a 1985 job application to the Reagan White House):

"I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." ...

(Commenting on a case before the Supreme Court:) "What can be made of this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects?"

CONTINUED MADNESS BEYOND THE PALE…

http://lists.topica.com/lists/ActionAlertsDiscussPP/read/message.html?mid=811726852&sort=d&start=325

He's a come a long way in his thinking, I guess. Killing a 15-year-old boy by shooting him in the back of the head is OK by Judge Sam Alito.

Sounds like he’ll fit right in with the White House that made it OK to torture children by squeezing their testicles.



Hey! In 1971, Alito spent his time bumming around Italy for his senior thesis. There are worse ways of spending time or eternity, like Vietnam.

Oh well. He fits in with the rest of the Chickenhawkus selfpretentii flock.

So...

Knowing what you know about Alito:

WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING WOULD ALITO SUPPORT?

The 14 Points of Fascism

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected.
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections.

The august compiler Laurence W. Britt stated things plainly above and goes into detail here:

http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2

Even if he only supports one of those, Alito's nomination should be toast. Unfortunately for the Constitution of the United States, he is in favor of all 14.

And thus, at essence, Son of Sam Alito is just the latest iteration of a long line of small-minded men. Those who feel it is their birthright to lord it over everyone else. In our history, such turds are called kings and fascists. NAZIs. Dictators. Under the Constitution of the United States, they have no business being here, let alone in charge.

That pretty much sums up what the BFEE has done to the United States of America. Machine Gun Sammy would, um, work see things stay that way.



What can we do? Oh. What can we do?

Lots.

How and Why To Oppose Judge Alito

Progressive Portal

Dec 09, 2005 22:30 PST

AS MORE IS LEARNED ABOUT BUSH'S LATEST SUPREME-COURT NOMINEE,
REASONS TO OPPOSE -- AND BENEFITS OF DOING SO -- BECOME CLEAR

(From People for the American Way <http://www.pfaw.org>, EarthJustice

<http://www.earthjustice.org>, Feminist Majority
<http://www.feministmajority.org>, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
<http://www.fair.org>, MoveOn.org Political Action
<http://www.moveonpac.org>, National Organization for Women
<http://www.now.org>, NARAL Pro-Choice America
<http://www.prochoiceaction.org>, Planned Parenthood Federation
<http://www.ppfa.org>, and others)

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SOURCE w Lots o’ Fact:

http://lists.topica.com/lists/ActionAlertsDiscussPP/read/message.html?mid=811726852&sort=d&start=325

So, maybe…



Whaddya say? Who’s in favor of Truth? Justice? And the American Way?

DUers?

Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public?

Senators?


EDIT: Wrong Link.