Well, let’s see how this goes. I’m going to try handing out some homework and see if I get anything but gales of laughter back. Roy Moore was the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice who was ousted in 2003 for placing a statue of the Ten Commandments in the courthouse rotunda. Here is a (very) long Atlantic article detailing his exploits since then and his plans for the future. The short-short version is that he has become tremendously popular in Alabama and across the Southeast and is expected to announce his intention to run for governor in the near future.
The Atlantic article draws a lot of comparisons between the populist appeal of Moore and George Wallace -- he of the standing in the school house door (in Birmingham they love the governor) – in that they both managed to harness the contrarian leanings of Southerners in general and Alabamans in particular to great political gain. My homework then is simply a request for any thoughts you guys might have on the political appeal or future of Moore, or even of populism in the South. I am especially interested in the thoughts of the Southerners here and (as a once and future Alabaman) vgjcd in particular.
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Obviously, knowing a lot of judicial procedure doesn't make you an intelligent man. He has certainly never read the Constitution of the United States, particularly the First Amendment, which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..."
My favorite part so far is Moore's inflammatory statement "We've been deceived by a government that tells us we cannot worship God—contradictory to history, contradictory to law, and contradictory to logic." Moore is an idiot. When and where has the federal government told him that he could not worship his god? When the "Rock" was taken off of the steps of the Alabama courthouse, was he also personally restrained from attending his church service the following Sunday? I can imagine he attended church and with great zeal recounted to his fellow worshippers, who also, apparently, were not restrained by Federal mandate from attending church, the outrageous behaviour of the US government.
I would also like to add that no one in the Federal government has restrained a single soul from attending one of his rallies where he is protesting the government's obvious and unapologetic attempts to keep them from rallying under the name of God. In other words, while others are spending time and resources rallying against things the government is actually doing, like going to war for oil, or selling arms under the table, or curtailing civil rights in the form of the Patriot Act, this numbskull is actually spending time and money rallying against something that our government isn't even doing! He's spinning his wheels and he's spinning the facts.
I have to say, this moron really pisses me off. He's a fucker and every sense of the word.
Its more than a little upsetting to me to think that this guy has a following that is actually believing that their right to worship as they wish is on the verge of being taken away. It seems so awefully convenient that this fictitous attack on our civil rights may gain momentum whilst more subtle and real attacks on our civil rights are occuring right under everyone's noses.
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