He's dead.  Please, say it ain't so...

Neocons do not like to admit it, but judicial activism is the same-sex partner of conservative extremism. 

Judging justices has historically been the weak link in their elaborate plans to pillage the republic.  The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's decision that banning gay marriage was unconstitutional was led by Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, who was named as Chief Justice in September, 1999, by republican Governor Paul Cellucci, a less than moderate conservative.  Associate Justice Judith Cowan, who concurred with Marshall, was also appointed by Governor Cellucci as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in October, 1999.  Cellucci, now Ambassador to Canada, is currently engaged in this administrations efforts to make Canada a compliant partner in this nation's world-wide terrorism.  Specifically, Cellucci has been instrumental in obtaining treaties with Canada (as if the current US administration respects treaties at all) to seize draft-dodgers in Canada for prosecution here in the US, side-stepping the due process of extradition proceedings.  I can't help but wonder what all those new prisons will be for; hooded, nameless young men who dared dissent?  Despite all the sound-bites downplaying the looming resumption of involuntary conscription, the draft is coming.  And you have nowhere to go.  Welcome to George Bush's version of a free world. 

As a result of Margaret Marshall's decision defending the rights of gays to marry in Massachusetts, Cellucci, who appointed her Chief Justice, will have a lot to do in order to regain favor among the neocons.  And that is how they like it.  Threaten the man with exile from the party to which he has given his life, and push him to extremes he would never have considered on his own.  Their cake, and eat it too. 

This is a government of inconsistencies, and it needs men like Alberto Gonzales with brains capable of balooning into grotesquely elephantine shapes in order to accomadate the illogic of those inconsistencies.  But he has a nice smile. 

I do not have time to research Clarence Thomas, distinguished for being the most un-distinguished Supreme Court justice in memory, and his slim but hopeful potential for disappointing his neocon handlers.  He sleeps on the bench.  His only virtue recommending him to a seat on the US Supreme Court was his betrothal to the ideologies of the neo-conservative pillagers of republic.  The phrase "bad marriage" is in the modern lexicon for its ability to sum-up within its three little syllables a potential for long-term disaster and regret, stunning for having grown out of a beautiful and happy beginning.  The experience is, for many, all too familiar. 

When Clarence wakes up, and finds himself in the company of bright lights such as Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, David Souter, and Stephen Breyer, there may be no telling what grief he might bring to the inhumane political ideology that elevated him.  But then he may not surprise.  He may just turn out to be a compliant partner for his neocon masters; a good wife.