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The nine-member legislature that passes laws -- overruling Congress -- will perhaps change its mind with that change in membership.

This is the kind of neocon crap that passes for politics these days. The Constitutional purpose of the court is to see to it that the Congress and the President do not just drag the country wherever their whims take us but adhere to the Constutition. The Constitution DOES NOT prohibit pornography, so the Court must interprete how pornography should be handled. They make that interpretation based on their knowledge of American law, not whether the folks in Southie will boot dem out if dey side wit perverts. That may not be your brand of democracy, but I can live with it when it isn't being perverted by baby killers and war profiteers.

Like the "liberal media" (which died with Edward R Murrow) neocons love to trot out the "activitist" court every time the Court (which they have stacked to such imbalance that no one their right mind would call one of them "liberal") tells them something they want to do is unconstitutional. For all their "patriotism," neocons are contemptuous of our political system, because it gets in their way. Bush has been using the Constitution for a butt wipe, and Congress has hysterics when the Court rules that they can't pass a specific law governing a specific case (Schiavo).

Sure, Bush and his totalitarian henchboys will persecute the "low-hanging fruit" -- powerless individuals who create erotic images of children. And the cases will lead to convictions where we will hear about. Like the hundreds of "convictions" of "terrorists"... mostly for credit card fraud to giving false information on Federal documents. WHile bin Laden rests peacefully somewhere with his dialysis machine. Have they gone after one distributor or manufacturer of this stuff? No, because they want lynch candidates who can't fight back. Lynch 'em, burn 'em, THEN try 'em. Oh an' Lemmy Bob, lookit here what the colored girl is doin' in this one. We gotta burn these too?

What this establishes for me is that there is no "law" handing over the TOS. We knew that was righteous baloney; here's the proof.

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