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Too many courts are following the example of Pilate when plaintiffs have a case to bring. Rather than giving justice to just persons, the courts wash their hands by saying, “I don’t think you have ‘standing’ to bring your case to my court. Yes, it's an important case, but someone else needs to see to it. I'm washing my hands of it.”
Remarks Constitutional litigator Robert Barnes,
“This Pontius Pilate plea of the courts gives them the pretense and pretext to avoid cases and controversies precisely because they are true cases and controversies. It also affords them the means to protect their allies and impair their ideological adversaries.
“Hence, conservative courts embrace “standing” to defeat environmental groups, voting rights groups, housing discrimination groups, and the like to contesting state power
…while liberal courts embrace “standing” to prevent gun rights, property rights, and disfavored conservative causes from challenging state power.
"Both sides, of course, completely flip sides when it’s time for their side to challenge state action.
"Voters have no right to challenge 2020 election results, not even states. Yet Trump haters have standing to demand Trump not even be on the ballot?
"This is why “standing” is not a serious doctrine, nor should its advocates be taken seriously. The political shroud it provides cowardly courts to escape a case is precisely because the case is a controversy worthy of Constitutional redress, not because the case doesn’t even arise to such a controversy in the first place.”
On this most sacred day of the Christian faith, a US president who claims to be a Christian issues a threat to a nation of 94 million people, including over 500,000, Christians—threatening to commit war crimes (pursuant to Geneva Convention) against their civilian infrastructure.
"Behold the puerile, B-movie gangster style of his prose and his use of the word “F..kin’”—now the most overused word in the English language and the clearest expression of our degenerate culture.
"Upon seeing this post, I immediately thought of Madison’s reflections on the evil of war.
"The same malignant aspect . . . may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war, and in the degeneracy of manners and of morals engendered by both.
"On this Easter Sunday, I pray that the innocent civilians of Iran will be spared from the sadistic and demented wrath of “President DONALD J. TRUMP.”
- John Leake
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This week, the US President gave an apparently delusional update of the Iran conflict. Iran's military is decimated, and it's President is asking for a cease fire, he reported.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman immediately rejected that. State broadcaster IRIB quoted Esmail Baghaei as saying Trump's statements were false and unfounded.
Trump attributed the request for a ceasefire to Iran's "New Regime President."
On the same day, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian criticized the US war against his country in an open letter to the people of the United States on Wednesday, calling it an absurd operation that is costly for their nation.
Within hours of Mr. Trump's analysis of a destroyed Iranian military, Iran fired more missiles at Israel and Gulf Arab states, demonstrating Tehran’s continued ability to attack even as US President Donald Trump claimed the threat from the country was nearly eliminated and predicted the war would end soon.
In Mr. Trump's speech to the nation, Paul...
Today's assymetrical warfare: Iran's cheap munitions are taking out American's most expensive aircraft.
One internet observer:
"Iran, still using their pawns, while Israel and the US out there, with only their King n Queen left. Who will fall first?
"5 pawns and a king versus a king and queen in a chess end game, the side with the 8 pawns always wins. 5 pawns is enough. That’s standard.
"In a way, you could call it asymmetrical warfare."
