"The
Judicial Branch must be independent of other
branches of government, but
NOT independent of the
NATION itself."
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Are
judges infallible?by W. Finnerty. Sat Apr 07, 2007
09:47 More importantly, as far as the
future of ancient heritage sites in the
Tara / Skreen Valley is
concerned, is
Mr. Justice Thomas Smyth
infallible?
Keeping in mind that the quotes below
were written by
one of the most highly regarded lawyers of all time, some
may wish to consider the general ideas his quotes
contain:
"I do not charge the judges with wilful and
ill-intentioned error; but honest error must be arrested where its toleration
leads to public ruin. As for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to
Bedlam; so judges should be withdrawn from their bench whose erroneous biases
are leading us to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them in fame or in
fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law."
--Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:122
"The
original error [was in] establishing a judiciary independent of the nation, and
which, from the citadel of the law, can turn its guns on those they were meant
to defend, and control and fashion their proceedings to its own will." --Thomas
Jefferson to John Wayles Eppes, 1807. FE 9:68
"It is a
misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power
is independent of the nation." --Thomas Jefferson to James Pleasants, 1821. FE
10:198
"At the establishment of our Constitutions, the
judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of
the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become
the most dangerous; that the insufficiency of the means provided for their
removal gave them a freehold and irresponsibility in office; that their
decisions, seeming to concern individual suitors only, pass silent and unheeded
by the public at large; that these decisions nevertheless become law by
precedent, sapping by little and little the foundations of the Constitution and
working its change by construction before any one has perceived that that
invisible and helpless worm has been busily employed in consuming its substance.
In truth, man is not made to be trusted for life if secured against all
liability to account." --Thomas Jefferson to A. Coray, 1823. ME
15:486
The above quotes have been taken from a much
longer list at the following address:
http://etext.virginia.edu/jefferson/quotations/jeff1270.htm
Related Link: http://www.europeancourtofhumanrightswilliamfinnerty.com ========================
The
above text has been copied from the following
Indymedia (Ireland)
location:
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81823&comment_limit=0&condense_comments=false#comment189323 ===
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Please see
http://www.kingollamhfodhla.com for a long list of
evidence relating to the amazing and completely unique collection of
Bronze
Age issues -
historical, cultural and
archaeological - connected with the above mentioned Tara /
Skreen Valley area in the
Republic of Ireland. This
appears to be "ocean-going",
world-class type heritage;
and scores of the associated individual monuments are at the present time
poised on the very edge of destruction: thanks to a
PPP
(public-private partnership)
toll road project, which many believe is of
EXTREMELY doubtful value to anybody other than the
PPP
bankers and their relatively very small number of
supporters.
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To view an associated article titled
"Felix Rohatyn's PPP Swindles: The Mussolini Model for Infrastructure"
please click on
http://www.google.com/search?q=PPP,+swindles,+corruption&btnG=Google+Search
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