Popular outrage has exploded over a light sentence that a judge imposed on a young man who was convicted of sexual assault against an unconscious woman, causing even a U.S. Senator to denounce the judge.
What strikes me as bizarre here has nothing to do with the decision itself; after all, the judge exercised his lawful discretion to impose a sentence that he found justified on all the facts (and let it be noted that the assailant gave testimony that there had been prior consent). No, what floors me is that we hear NO popular outrage when a federal court or the U.S. Supreme Court roams far beyond its lawful power and disenfranchises everyone by amending the Constitution, a right that belongs to us. Whenever this usurpation happens with regard to abortion, sodomy, "gay marriage," separation of church and state, or any number of other areas that are none the court's damn business, everyone meekly falls in line and parrots the treasonous sentiment that the court's decision is "the law of the land," which it is not.
Once again, we are through the looking glass. Down is up. Left is right. What is normal is outrageous. And what is outrageous is normal.
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