Justice Scalia Lectures Looney Lefties

Since most of the lamestream media spent the past week fomenting a split among conservatives over a phony security issue at a few terminals at even fewer U.S. ports, it's no wonder that we didn't hear more about this story.

Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia spoke at the prestigious American Enterprise Institute as part of a symposium on the "Outsourcing of American Law." At a time when the concerns of many Americans about foreign influence in our ports is being played like strings on a guitar by the Democrats, this issue gets no attention.

There is a trend among the judiciary (mostly on the leftward side) that when they cannot find an opinion based on U.S. law to support the preferred outcome, they feel free to use the law of another country, which is not bound by our constitutional and legal traditions.

Justice Scalia, possessing one of the most brilliant minds in the nation, gave a remarkable speech, which is highly recommended to all Mike's America readers. The video of his address is available in full via a link at the AEI web site (last item on video link).

But the real action got going after Justice Scalia had concluded his remarks and agreed to take questions from the audience. Normally, these questions are rather dry and stuffed with legalistic jargon. But much to the embarrassment of the AEI a group of twenty-something members of the Lyndon LaRouche Youth Movement (Google here) showed up to display their ignorance by making snide insults to Justice Scalia, slurs against their country and not very good jokes about Dick Cheney and quail hunting.

Obviously poisoned by some whacked out college professors, these parrots for pacifism completely ignored the important subject of the role of international law in U.S. legal decisions to go off on a loon-fest of stupidity.

Expose the Left has a video excerpt from the Q&A, but I found radio talk show host and former Supreme Court Law Clerk, Laura Ingraham's audio presentation to be not only informative, but hilarious.

Scalia allowed not one, not two, or three or four or five questioners to stand up and regurgitate the bilge they are being brainwashed with. But his irritation at the poor level of intellect displayed by the questioners is clear.

My two favorite picks:

IDIOT: "You're just talking about our people, you said just then. And uh, what does that have to do with the general welfare of the people among the world?

SCALIA: "I don't do the world. I do the United States.... I am a federal Judge operating under a Constitution which begins 'We, the people of the United States.'"

In a further exchange, another brain damaged product of higher education, suffering from the disease of moral relativism, which has been used to justify the worst atrocities in the world by accusing the good guy's minor indiscretions of being somehow just as bad, goes on to accuse Justice Scalia of moral relativism. Not smart! Here's a partial transcript courtesy of Patterico's Pontifications:

SCALIA: I'm not a moral relativist at all.
IDIOT: Entirely subjective.
SCALIA: I don't say it's entirely subjective. I do believe that there is a right and a wrong.
IDIOT: No, you
SCALIA: The trouble is, my perception of it is not the same as yours. And therefore, I have no right to im
IDIOT: That's relativism!
SCALIA: No it isn't. No it isn't. I think there's a right and a wrong answer. And I would say my perception of the moral law is right and yours is wrong! [Applause.] All I'm saying... is that our perceptions are different. Yours happens to be wrong. That doesn't make me a moral relativist.

Imagine this nitwit being such a dimbulb with the temerity to argue with Justice Scalia when the loon doesn't even know what he is talking about. If I was this kid's parent, I would be embarrassed first of all, then angry with poor quality of the child's education.

I'll have to keep the audio clip of this quote: "I think there's a right and a wrong answer. And I would say my perception of the moral law is right and yours is wrong! " around for future use. A copy of it is here in Windows Media Audio format.

You will really enjoy the full Ingraham presentation.