John Roberts v. One French Fry

[struggle4progress]

<snip> The facts of the case are detailed by constitutionalist John Whitehead, president of the Rutherford Institute, which helped provide a lawyer to the mother of the plaintiff: "On October 23, 2000, 12-year-old Ansche Hedgepeth . . . arrived at a Washington, D.C., Metro station to catch the train home." She put one of the french fries she'd bought in her mouth. <snip>

"Led to a police car," she was "taken to the police station, where she was interrogated, booked, fingerprinted and finally released into her mother's custody after being detained for several hours."

The likely future chief justice John Roberts ruled for a unanimous three-judge panel that Ansche's Fourth Amendment and equal-protection rights had not been violated. Ansche's mother has pointed out that if an adult had committed the same crime, he or she would have been issued an appearance ticket—not treated like a dangerous felon. <snip>

However, righteously said John Roberts, revealing the core of his humanity under his black robe: " the legitimate goal of promoting parental awareness and involvement with children who commit delinquent acts." <snip>

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0537,hentoff,67717,6.html

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Holding in custody a kid is Roberts idea of No Child Left Behind.

[delete_bush]

2. repukes have no sense of common humanity...

When Justice William Brennan came to the end of his 1987 speech to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, he had no idea that one day the specter of John Roberts would loom over it. But consider John Roberts as you read this:

"The Framers bequeathed to us a vision of rulers and the ruled united by a sense of their common humanity. . . . We cannot console ourselves with the belief that reliance on formal rules alone is ever sufficient to be faithful to the vision of the Framers."

Remember, 3 french fries and you're out!

[herupachruti]

3. Agreed. Witness Thatcher, of the UK Conservative Party:

The Right Honourable Margaret Thatcher said, "I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problems on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families."

[crikkett]

4. now there's your 'freedom fry'