Frontier justice
Mar 21, 2007 Americana, Lex scripta
Or is it “frothing” justice? Kim du Toit says, “We don’t need no stinkin’ judges!” Or actually, Kim says the following on the subject of the Second Amendment — Kim’s favorite topic:
The law is what we say it is, not what some unelected jurist thinks.
That’s either a very abstract concept of “the law” or a very scary one. And I’m entirely sympathetic with Kim on gun rights as such. But it’s an odd thing to say you’re defending the Constitution but don’t care what anyone but “we” thinks the Constitution means. What kind of constitution, what kind of rule of law, is that? Kim explains:
Unlike liberals and lawyers who need to have every jot jotted and tittle tittled, we know that the Second Amendment enumerates an individual right, and we know exactly what “shall not be infringed” means, because we’ve taken the time to study what the Founding Fathers wrote at the time, in both their public and their private letters.
Well I think some lawyers, and maybe even some liberals, have taken the time, too. And after all, Kim, it is going our way!
I don’t have a bit problem with originalism; I’m a lifelong Federalist. But when you go waving that thing and shouting that “the law is what we say it is” — that’s when I reach for my revolver.
As soon as someone teaches me which side the bullets go in.
March 22nd, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Ron,
i could be wrong, but i think kim du toit is a guy.
What of it?
— RDC