Today I blogged about GOP activists’ call for Stalinist purges of judges at a recent conference, as reported in the Washington Post.

Now I am pointing out what they are saying about this the call for purges over at DailyKOS.

The folks at DailyKOS are not pulling many punches in their critique of the conference and the participants.

For those of you sympathetic to the right wingers’ call for purges, you might find it entertaining to see how Democratic activists are reacting.

Daily Kos :: Yet Another Conservative Opines on Judicial Assassination

by Hunter
Sat Apr 9th, 2005 at 19:04:22 PDT

From The Washington Post:

Lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that [Supreme Court Justice Anthony M.] 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.’

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.

[…] The conference was organized during the height of the Schiavo controversy by a new group, the Judeo-Christian Council for Constitutional Restoration. This was no collection of fringe characters. The two-day program listed two House members; aides to two senators; representatives from the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America; conservative activists Alan Keyes and Morton C. Blackwell; the lawyer for Terri Schiavo’s parents; Alabama’s ‘Ten Commandments’ judge, Roy Moore; and DeLay, who canceled to attend the pope’s funeral.

As Milbank brightly points out, the full Stalin quote is ‘Death solves all problems: no man, no problem.’

Edwin Vieira has made a name for himself decrying the unconstitutionality of paper money, among other things. So ya know he’s not f—ing nuts or anything.

At this point, it seems prominent batshit-crazy conservatives are running to outdo themselves in just how suggestively they can muse over the murder of federal judges they don’t like. Seriously, WTF? Is this a contest I don’t know about? Reading up on the guest list for this conference, I am for no apparent reason reminded of a particular South Park episode depicting hooded members of a Klan rally playing ‘what’s the funniest thing you’ve got on under your robe?’

Does the conservative who can get closest to openly endorsing judicial assassinations without getting dragged off in handcuffs get to take home a pie or something?

(Via Atrios)

Update [2005-4-9 22:42:53 by Hunter]: Point of note, I am sorry if the ‘pie’ reference detracted from the seriousness of this post, but piteous humor is the only thing keeping me from throwing furniture through my front window. Here’s a guy who stood up in the middle of a conference and approvingly cited Stalin’s executions as a good ‘bottom line’ for dealing with troublesome Supreme Court judges. Spare me the sanctimonious, prissy crap, conservative apologists. These guys know what they’re saying. And God help you if one of these murders actually takes place.”