Jim wrote:

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:47:32 GMT, David wrote:


"Pinellas County Circuit Judge George Greer has been under the
protection of armed guards, and friends say his family also is
protected." In case anyone was wondering, Greer is a Republican and a
conservative Christian - although it should be noted that his church
kicked him out last week.

Sounds like separation of church and state in action! Good!

You know, somehow I don't think Jesus would
approve of all this.

It doesn't matter what "Jesus" - or any other character from any other
book - thinks about this. All that matters is the law - and it was
followed to the letter in this case.

Get over it people. This is a country of laws, not people. We
don't change laws to fit "public opinion" in every case. If you
don't like it, move to Florida and get the laws changed. Otherwise,
butt out.

There's a word for a country where laws change at the whim of opinion.
Dictatorship. If you don't have rule by law, you have rule by men (or
one man). It used to be called divine right of the king-the "king" (or
whatever the dictator of the moment is called) ruled by the grace of
God, not the consent of the governed, and thus was responsible only to
God for his actions. Since God was conveniently absent, the king could
therefore do whatever the hell he wanted, and since the king had the
biggest gun (or army) the people had to follow him-or else. Of course,
when two kings claimed the same territory, the people had to choose one
and prayed that they chose the winning side-if they got unlucky they
were summarily executed. This sort of thing caused a thousand years of
war in Europe, and is still causing wars throughout the world. Bush
apparently wants to return to the divine right of kings, with himself as
the king and the rest of us blown in the wind of his whim. The founders
of America recognized the danger in such an idea, and that's why they
carefully crafted their government to avoid any one person or group
becoming king and dictating their opinions as law. Unfortunately,
Americans seem to have forgotten this, and are all too willing to crown
a king-something the founders avoided like the plague 200 years ago-and
bow to his whim. Only a small minority seem willing to say "hey, this
used to be a country where we didn't bow to kings!", but the majority
wants a king, and they've picked King George The W, and now they want to
make damn sure that everybody bows to him. Just remember in the future
when you have to pick between two kings, and making the wrong choice
means off with your head, that you had a chance to reject the divine
right of kings, yet you embaraced it, and now you pay the consequences.


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