Group: alt.politics.economics
From: "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
Date: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: ...Clarence Thomas: 2 Years and 142 Cases of Unbroken SupremeCourt Silence



Clave wrote:
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> "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
> wrote in message
> news:@...
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> > Clave wrote:
> >>
> >> "Rich Travsky" wrote in message
> >> news:@...
> >> > David Hartung wrote:
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> >> >> Harry Hope wrote:
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> >> >> > From The Associated Press, 2/25/08:
> >> >> > /news/politics/wire/sns-ap-scotus-thomas-silence,0,
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thomas: 2 Years of Court Silence
> >> >> >
> >> >> > By MARK SHERMAN | Associated Press Writer
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> >> >> > WASHINGTON -
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Two years and 142 cases have passed since Supreme Court Justice
> >> >> > Clarence Thomas last spoke up at oral arguments.
> >> >>
> >> >> Why is this an issue?
> >> >
> >> > He sits there like a bump on a log? That's what you want in such a high
> >> > position?
> >>
> >> Blind, unthinking fealty to Scalia? Of course that's what he wants.
> >>
> > He writes opinions, he is sometimes the only voice expressing that
> > opinion. That doesn't sound like he's being shepherded along by his
> > "Masser". Of course the undercurrent in your comment is to exactly that
> > sort of racism...
>
> Horseshit. That's just a projection of your own oft-demonstrated bigotry.
>
I'm not the one who is dismissing a black judge who has shown himself to
be worthy of the highest order.