Satanic Principles

Anthony Kennedy, that infamously sinister centrists, has emerged as the target of choice by the Neofascists, i.e.:

Phyllis Schlafly, doyenne of American conservatism, said Kennedy's opinion forbidding capital punishment for juveniles "is a good ground of impeachment." To cheers and applause from those gathered at a downtown Marriott for a conference on "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith," Schlafly said that Kennedy had not met the "good behavior" requirement for office and that "Congress ought to talk about impeachment."

Next, Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said Kennedy "should be the poster boy for impeachment" for citing international norms in his opinions. "If our congressmen and senators do not have the courage to impeach and remove from office Justice Kennedy, they ought to be impeached as well."

Not to be outdone, lawyer-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."

As you are aware, Tom DeLay is unrepentant and unrelenting in his naked attacks on the judiciary. Here we have his latest rant against, of course, Justice Evil:

"We've got Justice Kennedy writing decisions based upon international law, not the Constitution of the United States? That's just outrageous," [Tom] DeLay told Fox News Radio. "And not only that, but he said in session that he does his own research on the internet? That is just incredibly outrageous."

It's okay. Don't worry. When I first read it a kind of stunned silence swept over me as well. Recall, however, that this is the party that refers to academics as "pinheads", "elitists" and (gasp) "educated"; so it makes sense for them to say that doing research on the internet is "incredibly outrageous". We face a new danger: there is a risk that we'll feel pity for people so deeply and unbelievably stupid. This must not be permitted. It is the evil in their hearts that fuels their progress, not the shit that's in their brains.