Hal - Deliberately Basic

Lest Ye Be Judged

With the recent pathetic display of judge Larry Seidlin crying in the court room, after he “suffered” and “struggled” with the case, my reaction was to ponder just how many judges are as ridicules and lame as this. The case concerning Anna Nicole Smith is as exciting as any afternoon soap opera can be, but judge Seidlin at least has given us a good laugh.

As it happened, I was in the sanctum sanctorum (the shit-house) reading Harper’s Magazine about the same time CNN was showing the crying judge. What to my wondering eyes did appear, yet another little article about a freaky judge who is testosterone driven.

Judge William A. Carter, a judge in Albany, New York was handed a decision by the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct as a result of complaints filed. At one point he “angrily left the bench, threw off his glasses and judicial robes, and proceeded rapidly toward the defendant.” He said, “You want a piece of me?”
In another incident he told a police officer, in response to an angry defendant, “If you are so upset about it, why don’t you just thump the shit out of him outside the courthouse?”

And it goes on. In Clearwater Florida a judge is taken to task for compulsive viewing of Internet porn. In Michigan political rivalry resulted in a judge spreading rumors to ruin an opponent’s career. In Maryland a woman is doused with gasoline and set afire by her husband, because a judge refused to listen to her pleas for help.

Think about this before you vote for a judge to “get tough with the bad guys.” There is a fine line between you and the bad guys, a gray area where you could find yourself at the whim of one of these simpleton bastards. Or maybe you are under the illusion that everyone who is judged as such deserves what they get. In that case I won’t even bother to say good luck.

Hal Brown

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