Posts from — May 2008

Oh, the arrogance of power! The Devil and his angels are busy preparing a special place in Hell for Barbara Walther. More details now emerge on Walther’s callous exit from the courtroom yesterday afternoon.

Where is a champion among all of you lawyers there in Texas? Are there no standards of judicial bad faith or misconduct in Texas? And where are the big, strong Texas Rangers to drag this venomous jurist out of her bed at 1:00 in the morning to sign an order freeing people they took captive on her orders in the wee hours 57 days ago?

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Barack Obama has run with Rev. Michael Pfleger for 20 years or more. He’s attended Pfleger’s sermons, directed government grants to Pleger’s projects and knows him well. This afternoon, after the video below surfaced showing Pfleger viling ranting against whites generally, not just Hillary, Obama belatedly “resigned” from the Trinity United Church.

I don’t think the resignation changes anything. Obama has lived with this kind of racist rhetoric for so long, it’s a part of him and his family. He cannot resign from himself no matter what he does with the outward symbolism of church membership. And it’s not his church, per se, that I have problems with. It’s the people who step to the podium and scream racist hatred. And the people in the congregation who cheer at the sound of it.

These are vile people — white and black — who hate America and want to do vile things to it. Their champion is Barack Obama. Obama has voluntarily run with them, helped them and won political office with their help. It’s who Obama is. He cannot resign from that. In my view, this disqualifies him from occupying the Oval Office.

Speaking of strange doings in the courtroom, how about a temporary change of venue? We go now to charming Lille, France, where according to this TimesOnline story, a judge’s decision to annul the marriage of a Muslim man and woman — after he discovered on the wedding night that . . . um . . . he was not the first to the scene — has touched off a huge controversy. [Read more →]

Some leading talking heads — Bill O’Reilly, Nancy Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt, Powerline — have missed a huge opportunity in the FLDS case to expose how CPSs and “family law” judges around the country really operate when they think no one is watching or willing to speak up. The silence of these voices has been deeply disappointing.

I have previously posted the links below, but decided to repost them today for those who may not otherwise see them. If you want to know why I believe that Judge Walther might be charged with genocide, read carefully each of the independent eye witness accounts below telling what horrors CPS was inflicting on FLDS mothers and their babies while Judge Walther laughed and joked, on April 17-18, in her comfortable courtroom in San Angelo.

There are no pictures because Judge Walther cynically ordered Texas Rangers to take away the victims’ cell phones before CPS brutalized them. But the words are enough to make the truly good men and women of the United States cry for justice. Pull up a chair and get yourself a cup of Joe or a stiff drink. You won’t believe that this kind of thing could happen in today’s United States of America. Reader discretion advised.

• “This was a travesty.”
• “This situation was a tragedy.”
• “It was heartwrenching.”
• “Our roles bacame… confidant and a broker.”
• “That is a very good question.”
• “Ashamed of being a Texan.”
• “I often felt helpless.”
• “Vast amounts of hypocrisy.”
• “Even to be an observer was difficult.”
• “This incident… is not what America or Texas stands for.”
• “Even the simplest request was discounted.”

Schleicher County Texas, you have a huge PR problem.

Your pick for the bench has not only failed to offer an apology for so thoroughly terrorizing FLDS families, something most Americans would do in tears if they had inflicted as much unjustified pain as Judge Walther. No. According to press reports, Walther has gone way beyond in the other direction, demanding things in the CPS settlement agreement that not even CPS had the audacity to request. From the AP:

Under the deal CPS released, the families won’t be able to leave Texas until Aug. 31 but would be allowed to move back to the ranch. It also calls for parenting classes and visits by CPS to interview children and parents in the child abuse investigation.

Walther wanted to remove the August deadline and provide for psychological evaluations of the children. She also wanted it specified that parents can’t travel more than 60 miles from their residence without 48 hours’ notice. She also wanted CPS to have access [free, unannounced entry into their homes between 8 am and 8 pm, indefinitely] to the ranch and the children at all times necessary for any investigation.

All as if the FLDS were the ones in the wrong! And when the FLDS refused to sign off on such ludicrous garbage, Walther pitched a fit, then relented, then demanded that all 38 of the mothers who won at the Texas Supreme Court sign the agreement before she would (even though they could not physically all be there because of travel requirements associated with visiting their kids that Walther herself scattered all over the Texas landscape) and then literally walked off the job without explanation, leaving hundreds of children in limbo for yet another agonizing weekend.

If this is not judicial malpractice, I don’t know what is. Where in heaven’s name is the State Bar of Texas?  Is this how your judges behave on a regular basis?  I think Walther and the nutcase whose hoax call Walther used to start this drama, Rozita Swinton (bizarre video here), have something in common. It’s time that Walther be removed from the bench.

Although the terms of the agreement are at this point somewhat ambiguous, it’s clear that most if not all of the FLDS kids wrongly taken by Texas CPS should be back home by Monday. Knowing what we know about Texas CPS, I’m not counting the kids until they’re actually at the ranch. More on the agreement from GoSanAngelo.com.

There’s little question, based on past behavior, that CPS will not deal in good faith unless the courts hold their feet to the fire. This much is true of all CPS-like organizations around the country. They are populated with the worst elements of American society who prey on children and families like so many vultures.

We can only hope that the people of Texas end up with a huge bill to pay for electing incompetent miscreants like Judge Walther to the bench and that Americans across the fruited plain wake up to the menace in their midst. Judge Walthers are in every city across America. They come from all political parties and religions. Their mantra is, “We’re here for the children.” And they will have no hesitation about taking yours if you give them half a chance.

Are you Poor? Have unusual religious beliefs? Disagree with an M.D. about medical treatment for one of the kids? Homeschooler? Strange accident involving a broken bone?  Have a neighbor or ex spouse with a grudge? You’re a CPS target. Get ready for the ride of your life.

Yesterday, “internationally recognized constitutional law expert” Marci Hamilton was talking big about how wrong the Texas Third Court of Appeal was to (unanimously) put Judge Barbara Walther in her place for creating the FLDS debacle. Today, Marci’s been strangely silent. Yesterday. Today. What a difference a day makes. Where is Marci?? In her absence, let’s take a quick whack at part of Marci’s column from yesterday. She wrote: [Read more →]

As if Jeremiah Wright wasn’t enough to brand Obama an extremist. The video below shows Rev. Michael Pfleger — another friend of Barack Obama — at Obama’s Trinity United Church, spewing forth racist hatred.

“When Hillary was crying, and people said that was put on, I really don’t believe it was put on. I really believe that she just always thought, ‘this is mine! I’m Bill’s wife, I’m white and this is mine! I just gotta get up and step into the plate’ and then out of nowhere came, ‘Hey, I’m Barack Obama,’ and she said, ‘Oh, damn. Where did you come from? I’m white! I’m entitled! There’s a black man stealing my show!’ ’’

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