Are you scared yet?

There's been a lot of discussion of Dana Milbank's piece on the wingnut conference on "Remedies to Judicial Tyranny" in the Washington Post. Most of the citiations I've seen have made much of perenial wingnutress Phyllis Schlafly's remarks, but for me the really scary stuff is further down the page...

...Michael P. Farris, chairman of the Home School Legal Defense Association, said Kennedy "should be the poster boy for impeachment" for citing international norms in his opinions. "If our congressmen and senators do not have the courage to impeach and remove from office Justice Kennedy, they ought to be impeached as well."

Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, "upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law."

What's the "Marxist, Leninist, satanic" notion that's got the wingers calling for the head of the Reagan appointed Justice Anthony Kennedy? Among other things, the notion that we should join the rest of the civilized world in ending the execution of minors. That's your 'culture of life' in action.

Not scared yet? How 'bout this...

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his "bottom line" for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. "He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: 'no man, no problem,' " Vieira said.

As Milbank points out, the full Stalin quotation is "Death solves all problems: no man, no problem." Apparently Vieira's answer to judicial reluctance to kill kids is death to the judges.

Culture of life my ass.

Of course, maybe they're just following Schlafly's advice to offer backup to "The people who have been speaking out on this, like Tom DeLay and Senator Cornyn..." by making the Congresscritters sound moderate by comparison, but there is no moderation in the destructionist attack on the courts and the Constitution.