Obscure "Dred Scott" reference exposed to be "pro-life" code word

[intheflow]

The "Dred Scott" reference * made in the 2nd debate was code. In effect, Bush was transmitting to the anti-abortion freaks that if he were elected again, he'd work to make sure Roe was overturned.

Here's the link at The Nation magazine:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041101&s=pollitt

[Auntie Bush]

1. If B* were to dare F*** with Roe...This country would be up

in arms...literally. But someone in the media should ask about this.

[jobycom]

4. That's too funny

Someone in the media should ask about this. Man, that's too funny. My eyes are watering I'm laughing so hard!

Pravda never contradicts the Caesar.

[underpants]

2. Wow that is freaky

:scared:

[TaleWgnDg]

3. yup. Bush uses code words, both biblical and otherwise . . .

Here, when Bush refers to the Dred Scott U.S. Supreme Court decision, GWBush is *wink* *wink* saying that Roe v. Wade is very bad law and will be over-turned just as the Dred Scott case was bad law and was subsequently over-turned.

Dred Scott was a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom. The U.S. Supreme Court opined that Dred Scott was not a "citizen" w/i the meaning of the U.S. constitution and therefore he had no right to sue and his case could not be heard; and that no State could grant him any citizenship or the rights and privileges of a citizen.

The case is DRED SCOTT v. SANDFORD, 60 U.S. 393 (1856)(this was b4 the Civil War and the enactment of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments):
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=60&invol=393

[intheflow]

6. great picture!

I think I see me and my friends about 1/2 way back in the march! :)

[popstalin]

5. I don't know what scares me more

B* being reelected and ruining the country even more or him appointing justices.

[intheflow]

7. activist judges

How come the right only thinks the left appoints activist judges? I see the court being weighed to the right to overturn Roe as being weighed with activists in their own right.

Oh, wait, I'm confusing activists with fascists.