Comments on: Is Randall Terry’s Anti-Sotomayor Tour Language A Violation Of Law?

By: RevBev

RevBev — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:06:25 +0000

Late here and an aside: I would like for the site now to take down that picture. We’ve made a point….but I think we continue o add/reinforce the exposure. Genuinely repulsive: having it here does not necessarily have the desired effect. Just MHO.

By: DeAnna

DeAnna — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:29:44 +0000

Well that didn’t work the way I expected.

It looks just like the cover of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

By: DeAnna

DeAnna — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:27:31 +0000

This looks like he borrowed the cover of Pride Prejudice and Zombies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.....nd_Zombies

By: misswildthing

misswildthing — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:02:34 +0000

Know that argument about hate crimes affecting all the people in the same community? Here it is, not just a threat to the good judge but to all of us brown people who might have the temerity to succeed in this society. This is no less of a threat to her than to an African American President. Are we safe or not Señor Federal Marshal or not? Will I see mi hermana safely don her robes to be a Supreme Court judge or will lunatics like Randal Terry scare you away?

By: TomR

TomR — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 02:55:51 +0000

As I look at the image of the skull composited together with Sotomayor’s head, I can only conclude the intent is to see her end up in that state in order to defeat her. If he were trying to portray her as the Grim Reaper, there are no visual cues to support this idea.

How different is it from an image of a woman of color who was lynched?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching

I think one can easily make the case that the intent is to threaten and intimate a sitting judge, Sonia Sotomayor. The abortion topic is the MacGuffin to the story of this poster.

- Tom

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 01:46:23 +0000

Thanks for highlighting this issue, Christy. I heard Terry’s remarks and saw that poster, and felt as if it were time (and then some, as the recent murders were not the first in this trend) to call a halt to it, including getting anyone with a piece of the public’s attention to urge a cooling of rhetoric. If enough people turn away from those who spout such vicious things it won’t seem so smart to do it.

By: valletta

valletta — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:20:58 +0000

You mean our Homeland Security Guard Limpy Lieberman?
Asleep at the desk, like the guards he railed against today….

By: oldgold

oldgold — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:16:18 +0000

The ABA needs to get out in front of this matter and use its considerable resources to see that the resources needed to protect judges are made available.

By: tejanarusa

tejanarusa — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:07:57 +0000

and then right after she was born, to get chased through a local store by a family member of someone I’d put in jail. I just could not put her through that. Just couldn’t do it.

Wow. No wonder. That is horrible, no other word for it. I’ve had only the smallest hint of a taste of that - as a legal aid and child support enforcement lawyer, I sometimes ran into people who weren’t happy with me from some case or other. But I was never afraid, just a bit annoyed. It must be so much worse in a small town.
I’m so sorry you experienced that. Believe me, no one blames you for taking the path you did, especially with such difficult pregnancies.
Besides, you are doing wonderful, valuable work right here. I’ll bet you have influenced thousands of people with your passionate, cogent writing on so many important issues. I hate to think what the last few years would have been like for all of us “firepups” the last few years if we hadn’t found you and Jane here. Thank you, again, for your hard work.

By: Christy Hardin Smith

Christy Hardin Smith — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:52:43 +0000

It was the almost miscarriage and months of bedrest that did me in on the “risk” issue. To know in my gut what it would feel like to lose her — and then right after she was born, to get chased through a local store by a family member of someone I’d put in jail. I just could not put her through that. Just couldn’t do it.

And I feel horribly about it — because I was good at my job, and we need decent people doing it. But I can’t take that risk with her. It took us too much and too long to get her, ya know?

It sort of makes me a coward, but I’m a coward with a living child that I cherish. And I’ll take that.

But I still miss the job sometimes. Especially when I see something come up where I feel like I could contribute to the trial or the argument.