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Bill Pryor, Ten
Commandments, Why did he want them removed?
George Bush is sending mixed signals to the conservative community. First
our President says he is a born again Christian, which is good. But when
the enemy within our borders attack the Ten Commandments, George Bush sits
silently on the sidelines as we see the Christian culture removed from our
society. When we and Judge Moore needed him to protect our display of the
Ten Commandments, all we could hear from the White House was silence. We
are further confused, when the enemy (Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor)
attacked the Ten Commandments display and the public acknowledgment of
God, and led the charge to remove Judge Roy Moore, then is rewarded by the
Bush Administration by a nice high paying Federal Judge appointment.
Perhaps reading the below article can shed some light on the subject.
Bill Pryor Got His Judas Money
By Chuck Baldwin
February 25, 2004
According to news reports, "President Bush used a recess appointment
Friday [Feb. 20] to give Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor a seat
on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily. Pryor was sworn in
by U.S. Circuit Judge Ed Carnes in a private ceremony in Alabama
Friday. His appointment is expected to last until the end of 2005."
Faithful readers of this column know that Pryor was the political
Judas who turned against Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy
Moore after promising former Alabama Governor Fob James and the
people of Alabama that he would back Moore "all the way." In fact,
Bill Pryor would never have attained the Alabama Attorney General's
office without his enthusiastic support for Judge Moore. Therefore,
James and others were shocked at Pryor's sudden decision to
prosecute Chief Justice Moore and orchestrate Moore's removal from
the Alabama Supreme Court.
(To read the transcript of Bill Pryor's shocking remarks during the
trial and my eyewitness account of the trial, go to my web site:
http://www.chuckbaldwinlive.com)
After Pryor's betrayal of Chief Justice Moore, many people were left
wondering, "Who or what got to Bill Pryor?" The answer is obvious:
Karl Rove and a promised federal judgeship
The Bush White House, through Rove, had clandestinely opposed Roy
Moore since he ran for Alabama Chief Justice. When they could not
defeat Moore at the polls, they decided to defeat him through the
federal courts. To accomplish this, they needed a Judas from inside
Alabama. Enter Bill Pryor.
It quickly became obvious to Rove that Pryor was their man. With the
promise of a federal judgeship, he would turn against Chief Justice
Moore and help assure Moore's removal from the bench. Pryor lived up
to his end of the bargain and now Bush and Rove have lived up to
their end. Last Friday, President Bush used a recess appointment to
install Pryor as a federal appeals court judge. The Judas money has
been paid.
When you read Bill Pryor's remarks at Chief Justice Moore's "trial,"
you will be instantly impressed with the fact that Pryor is a firm
believer in transjudicialism. He actually believes that federal
judges do not merely interpret the law, they are the law. Pryor
suffers from the same disease that many in the judiciary seem to
suffer from these days: the belief that a judge's opinion, not the
Constitution, is law of the land.
Beyond that, Bill Pryor believes that a judge's opinion is greater
in authority than even a person's moral conscience. In Pryor's
world, there is no freedom of conscience and no freedom of religion.
In Pryor's world, a judge's ruling is superior to moral, natural, or
even divine law. In Pryor's world, a federal judge is a de facto
king. In other words, Bill Pryor is a judicial tyrant!
However, Bill Pryor is even worse than a judicial tyrant. He is a
Judas turncoat who obtained his position by lying to Governor Fob
James and the people of Alabama and by betraying a man far greater
in honor and character than himself. There is a place reserved for
such men, and even a federal judge has no authority or power there!
As with Judas of old, Bill Pryor will learn that when one trades
truth and honor for thirty pieces of silver, he always makes a bad
deal.
� Chuck Baldwin
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1) Contact Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions who sponsored then Attorney
General Bill Pryor for the federal Bench. Demand that Alabama Senator Jeff
Sessions work to have activist judge Bill Pryor removed from the bench.
You may suggest that Senator Sessions not praise men like Bill Pyror.
Pyror has a recess appointment and will voted on by U.S. Senate. Contact
info for Senator Jeff Sessions is as follows:
US Capitol Switchboard - (800) 648-3516
Washington, D.C. office: ( 202) 224-4124 or Fax (202) 224-3149.
Birmingham, Alabama office at (205) 731-1500 or Fax (205) 731-0221.
2) Contact your own State Senators and make the same demand to them.
They have no business supporting and rewarding the man who prosecuted
Judge Moore. Would you want this man to be the Judge on a Ten Commandments
case from your area? Contact info for your Senators can be found at:
US Capitol Switchboard - (800) 648-3516 - Ask for your
Senators office.
3) Sign the Online Petition to rescind nomination of Bill Pryor:
This web site also contains massive amounts of documentation of the
Bill Pyror fiasco.
In conclusion, let your heart be encouraged by these
recent words from Senator Zell Miller of Georgia:
"I am pleased to be a co-sponsor of S.J. Res. 26 along with Senator Allard
and others, . . ., the Liberties Restoration Act, which declares religious
liberty rights in several ways, including the Pledge of Allegiance and the
display of the Ten Commandments. And today I join Senator Shelby and
others with the Constitution Restoration Act of 2004 (S.2082) that limits
the jurisdiction of federal courts in certain ways.
"In doing so, I stand shoulder to shoulder not only with my Senate
co-sponsors and Chief Justice Roy Moore of Alabama but, more importantly,
with our Founding Fathers in the conception of religious liberty and the
terribly wrong direction our modern judiciary has taken us in." . . .
"So, as the sand empties through my hourglass at warp speed - and with my
time running out in this Senate and on this earth, I feel compelled to
speak out. For I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not
golden. It is yellow."
Information on these bills discussed by Senator Zell Miller can be found
at www.HelpSaveAmerica.com
Some other
recommended links on Judge Moore
Supporters of ousted Supreme Court Chief
Justice Roy Moore have organized a political action committee (Click
here for more)
Discussion of why or why not
the Ten Commandments should be on display in Alabama,
click here
Ten Reasons Why The
Monument Containing The Ten Commandments Should Not Be Removed
From the Supreme Court Building of Alabama.
more
The Ten Most Frequent
Arguments Answered as to Why the Ten Commandments Should Be
Removed From the Supreme Court Building of the State of Alabama.
more
Human Events Magazine declares Roy Moore, "Man of
the Year."
(more)
Was Judge Moore wrong in disobeying the Federal Court Order to move
the Ten Commandments monument? (more)
Urge Alabama Governor Riley to reappoint Judge Moore to the
Alabama Supreme Court
Governor Riley: as you have said many
times this year, "We need to do the right thing". "We need to do the
Christian thing". After the unjust ruling of Federal Judge Myron
Thompson, and the liberal inquisition of the Court of Judiciary, we
need Judge Roy Moore back on the Alabama Supreme Court. We know Judge
Moore is a proven man of integrity and will do a good job. The voters
of Alabama have also chosen Judge Moore to be our Chief Justice.
Request that you, Governor Riley, do the right thing and reappoint
Judge Moore to the current vacancy of the Chief Justice of the Alabama
Supreme Court.
Sample letter:
Governor Bob Riley
State Capitol
600 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, Alabama 36130
Dear Governor Riley:
I request that you, Governor Riley, take
the right, courageous, Christian, constitutional and noble
action and reappoint Judge Moore to the current vacancy of the
Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court.
As you have said many times this year, "We
need to do the right thing". "We need to do the Christian
thing". After the unjust ruling of Federal Judge Myron Thompson,
and the unconstitutional, liberal inquisition of the appointed
Court of Judiciary, we need Judge Roy Moore back on the Alabama
Supreme Court. We know Judge Moore is a proven man of integrity
and will do a good job. The voters of Alabama have chosen Judge
Moore to be their Chief Justice and reinstating him will please
your citizen voters.
Please PROTECT our FIRST AMENDMENT
RELIGIOUS RIGHTS . Please read the arguments for this position
below:
1. Our Declaration of Independence acknowledges God. It is so
unique in that it acknowledges and describes God and His
supremacy in the founding of our government in four different
ways:
1. Laws of Nature and of Nature's God
2. Creator
3. Supreme Judge of the world
4. Divine Providence
The very fact that our Forefathers
emphasized their faith in God by using such descriptive words to
explain their faith in Him tears down the misconception of the
fallacy of the term "separation of church and state" which they
did not use in any of our Founding Documents. Our Forefathers
obviously did not intend any separation of their Faith in God
from our government. By the 1st Amendment they were saying that
they were acknowledging God yet they did not want God put into
the box of a national denomination.
2. Judge Myron Thompson's ruling was ILLEGAL
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM. Any high school kid who ever took Civics,
History or had a class about our Constitution knows about the
separation of powers. Judge Thompson is the judge who needs
removed from office. Since Congress can make NO law regarding
the forbidding of the free expression of religion, the
acknowledgment of God nor the Ten Commandments then there was
NO law for Judge Moore, any other judge or any state
government to break who might choose to put up a monument with
14 historical quotations acknowledging God and the Ten
Commandments.
3. ALABAMA VOTERS HAVE BEEN
'DISENFRANCHISED' BY the 9 member UNELECTED PANEL THAT OUSTED
the CHIEF JUSTICE ROY MOORE and THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
HAVE BEEN VIOLATED by this APPOINTED & UNELECTED PANEL.
Alabama Attorney General Bill Pryor and the JIC should have
defended instead of prosecuted Judge Moore. To overturn an
election and deliver a crushing blow to our constitutional
republic by stealing this election was unconstitutional and
traitorous.
Gov. Riley, please also ask Congress, on
behalf of the State of Alabama to exercise Article III,
Sections 1 & 2, of the U.S. Constitution which grants Congress
all the power they need to bring an end to decades of judicial
activism. By simple majority vote, Congress can limit the
jurisdiction of the federal courts to the clear language of
the 1st Amendment. And they could do it in 24 hours! 1st
AMENDMENT ISSUES SUCH as the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten
Commandments and Marriage should be removed from the
jurisdiction of any federal court.
But, now, Gov. Riley, for your vital
part please appoint Judge Roy Moore to the office of Chief
Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. If you reinstate Judge
Moore it will right a wrong and give us time to petition
Congress to impeach and remove Judge Myron Thompson.
Gov. Bob Riley
State Capitol
600 Dexter Avenue
Montgomery, Alabama 36130
Some Legal Thoughts from an Alabama Attorney
1. Governor Riley fills vacancies on the Supreme Court and could
simply reappoint Judge Moore. Any lawyer can serve provided he is not
disbarred, his license is not currently suspended, or he has not been
convicted of a crime (which this doesn't not involve).
Riley can appoint Roy Moore back to the Supreme Court Chief
Justice position if he wants to. Gov Riley will soon make an appoint to
fill the vacancy.
2. Caveat: The powers of the Judicial Inquiry Commission are very
vague. The penalties they may impose are also vaguely worded. If they
terminate Moore, with nothing more, then Riley can appoint Moore to fill
the vacancy. Uncharted waters are reached if they both terminate Moore
and try to bar him from holding a Supreme Court position for some future
period of time. The JIC statute doesn't give them this penalty power but
it also doesn't specifically deny them this penalty power.
Sign Online Petition below:
To: Alabama Governor Riley
Reappoint Chief Justice Judge Roy Moore
Petition to reappoint Judge Roy Moore to be
Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice
Governor Riley, as you have said many times this
year, "We need to do the right thing". "We need to do the Christian
thing". After the unjust ruling of Federal Judge Myron Thompson, and the
liberal inquisition of the Court of Judiciary, we need Judge Roy Moore
back on the Alabama Supreme Court. We know Judge Moore is a proven man of
integrity and will do a good job. The voters of Alabama have also chosen
Judge Moore to be our Chief Justice.
We, the under signed, request that you, Governor Riley, do the right thing
and reappoint Judge Moore to the current vacancy of the Chief Justice of
the Alabama Supreme Court.
Sincerely
The undersigned
Weekly Bible Verses brought to you by Conservative Christians of Alabama
Lamentations 2:8
The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
Lamentations 2:9
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.