Decent Man or Mannequin

I’m not a fan of Clarence Thomas. But, when he made the comment below he showed his anger and frustration. He showed America the man, the human being, he is… so they could understand the feelings he would bring to the bench.

“...as far as I'm concerned, it is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured by a committee of the US Senate rather than hung from a tree.”

All of the media's talk about Judge Alito being a "decent man” doesn't consider the fact that he denied the American people to see the man, the human being, he is and how it will influence his decisions. Stoicism is not a measure of a decent man. Americans deserve to see what drives people who become judges so we can know how it influences their thinking.

A mannequin could have been sitting at the table instead of Alito and committee members could have played the recordings of the utterances drilled into him by his handlers. Conservatives were promised someone who believes the way they believe, but what they got was Harriet Myers Lite.

Judge Alito proved that he is cunning, manipulative, and dishonest by not letting the American people know where he stands on issues important to us. If the rule of law were black and white as Republican senators want us to believe, computers could decide Supreme Court decisions. History has shown us that it takes people who are compelled by the ideals, not just the exact language, of our founding fathers/mothers who shaped the Constitution to rule on controversial decisions facing our nation.

Justice is never served without an honest expression of what influences a judge’s interpretation of the ideals upon which America is built. True ideals are the product of honest men and women. It takes courage for someone to honestly share his or her ideals. Sam Alito either lacks courage or he’s dishonest about the ideals he holds dear.