The cheap sensationalistic math of Scalia, in direct opposition to what he swore to uphold, is chilling. It’s clear that he is nothing more than a very dangerous opportunist at this point; that he’d fuck over his country to save its life is not a GOOD thing. Ask anyone who’s been sold into slavery; they got the same deal.

Roe v. Wade, inasmuch as it has any connection to what we’re discussing here, was at least in part about affirming the rights of the individual over the state.

Jack Bauer is a fictional character, and therefore allowed a certain amount of license to torture and murder, all apparently in the name of good.

George W. Bush is, to my contiuing disappointment, real, and is granted a free hand to murder and torture for reasons he and his think best, regardless of countervailing opinions from judiciaries, the Constitution, or simple good sense.

That includes the notion, peculiar in conservatives, that individual rights are apparently strongest when they are removed from the individual and transferred to the state.

Regardless of what one may think of Roe, the Constitiution was put in place precisely to prevent such a theft. It is America’s shame that in the early days of the twenty-first century, the political body elected through its provisions is unwilling to stand up on its hind legs and defend it.

At any rate, I dislike abortion, but I’m not a staunch pro-lifer so I don’t really want to rangle about aborition. My point here is that people in power too often “bend” the law to make it suit their own needs or their own opinions and this habit crosses party lines.