WASHINGTON - Threats against federal judges are on a record-setting pace this year, nearly 18 months after the family of a federal judge was killed in Chicago…
Threats and inappropriate communications have quadrupled over 10 years ago. There were 201 reported such incidents in the 1996 government spending year and 943 in the year that ended Sept. 30, the Marshals Service said.
This year alone, the Marshals Service has had 822 reports of inappropriate communications and threats, a pace that would top 1,000 for the year…
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed in February that she and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor were threatened a year ago by someone who called on the Internet for the immediate “patriotic” killing of the justices.
The rise in civil lawsuits, especially those filed by people who do not have lawyers, and a change in criminal cases in federal courts helps explain the rise, Marshals say…
Hmmm...really?
So it's tort reform we need to protect federal judges? Sounds like it's a bunch of them ol' "frivolous" lawsuits plaguing our justice system again--this time not only costing taxpayers and bidnessmen money, but actually putting people's lives in danger!
It's probably that. It's probably a lot of kaaaarazy people filing lawsuits. Most likely left wing moonbats looking for shit under the Freedom of Information Act, stirred up by all the naughty words liberal bloggers keep using on the internets. That's probably responsible for this unprecedented rise in violence against judges.
Though, you know, it just might be the result of a nearly non-stop thirty year campaign of right wing nuts actually encouraging people to kill, harm, and hate federal judges, a campaign which has reached its zenith under Bush administration which considers right wing nuts to be its "base".
That's your modern Gee Oh Pee. It likes to whip up the hate and gin up the rubes and always winds up flat-footed and surprised when someone gets a chair broken over their head.
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