Did I hear right? "No man, No Problem?"

[lala_rawraw]

I just heard Jesse Jackson's show where it was mentioned that Delay used this quote, a Stalin quote by the way. I cannot find any links to context. Anyone know where this was said and links?

[MissWaverly]

1. Unfortunately you did, here's the link

http://thinkprogress.org/index.php?p=612

DeLay Allies Advocate Stalinist Measures Against Judges
On Thursday, Tom DeLay was scheduled to be the keynote speaker at a conference called “Confronting the Judicial War on Faith.” He had to cancel because of the Pope’s funeral but sent over a taped message praising the gathering. What sort of ideas were advocated at the conference? In today’s Washington Post, Dana Milbank describes a panel called “Remedies to Judicial Tyranny":

awyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, “upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law.”

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his “bottom line” for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. “He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: ‘no man, no problem,’ ” Vieira said.

The full Stalin quote, for those who don’t recognize it, is “Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.”

[tx_dem41]

2. Technically, DeLay didn't say it.

Lawyer/author Edwin Viera said it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html

Did they really say that DeLay said it on JJ's show?

[lala_rawraw]

6. That is what I heard... but now

So Delay did NOT say it, is that correct?

[tx_dem41]

10. No..the quote comes from Viera in the article I referenced.

Now, he might chime in at anytime though!

[Eric J in MN]

8. When will Edwin Viera be indicted for threatening federal judges? nt

nt

[wtmusic]

3. A 200-year old precedent says you can't sack a judge

for his opinion on a case. I doubt if even Delay would be that stupid.

[Montauk6]

4. What's next: "No woman, no crime"?

Seriously though, this is PRECISELY why I call the "consoviets."

[Eric J in MN]

5. Jesse Jackosn has a show? Radio? TV? nt

nt

[lala_rawraw]

7. Radio n/t

[WilliamPitt]

9. Here's the WaPo link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38308-2005Apr8.html

[lala_rawraw]

11. Oh my, this is not what I heard at all...

Hmmm, Jesse's guest (cannot remember who it was because I was driving to 7/11 for coffee) said that it was a warning to judges (paraphrasing) not a description (albeit a psychotic one) of a judge's strategy as Wapo lists. Delay was given as the voice behind this.

Could it be maybe another "staffer did it" incident? I am entirely confused. Jesse transcripts might help, if I could find them. Anyone?

[tx_dem41]

12. I think its a prime example...

that obfuscation and stretching of the truth is not a monopoly of the RWers.