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June 21, 2004
Federal Judge: Bush's Election Like Mussolini's, Hitler's
A federal judge has followed his leftist compatriots down a steep
slope, and compared the current president of the United States with
Hitler and Mussolini, reports the New York Sun.
Not only does he call the election of George W. Bush in 2000 - through
the electoral process upon which this country's elections are based -
illegitimate, Guido Calabresi went on to juxtapose President Bush with
two of the most vile dictators the world has ever known.
In Calabresi's own words:
"In a way that occurred before but is rare in the United States ...
somebody came to power as a result of the illegitimate acts of a
legitimate institution that had the right to put somebody in power.
That is what the Supreme Court did in Bush versus Gore. It put
somebody in power."
Calabresi, from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan,
continued:
"The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened
when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy," he told a group of
like-minded liberal lawyers.
The Sun reports, "The allusion drew audible gasps from some in the
luncheon crowd at the annual convention of the American Constitution
Society."
But Calabresi didn't stop there.
He was just getting started:
"The king of Italy had the right to put Mussolini in, though he had
not won an election, and make him prime minister. That is what
happened when Hindenburg put Hitler in. I am not suggesting for a
moment that Bush is Hitler. I want to be clear on that, but it is a
situation which is extremely unusual," the judge said.
Well, of course he's not suggesting Bush is like Hitler!
He's merely comparing the two; likening, equating, paralleling,
relating ... but he would never say Bush is Hitler.
Of course not.
And was he finished?
Did he stop at his "comparison"?
Not a chance.
Calabresi then said that President Bush should be cast out of office,
not because of "politics" but for the "structural reassertion of
democracy."
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YEAH! Let's hear it for Judge Calabresi!
Harry
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