Judge bans “illegal” and “aliens” from courtroom
Prediction: It won’t be long before this is an official Obama policy as well.
La Raza powers…activate:
Arizona’s Supreme Court Justice has agreed to enforce the Hispanic Bar Association’s demands of banning the terms “illegal” and “aliens” in all of the state’s courtrooms.
Claiming that the terms are inflammatory, the president of Arizona’s Hispanic Bar Association, (known as Los Abogados) has asked state Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor to stop using them at trials or hearings because they create perceptions of judicial bias.
In a strongly worded letter to the chief justice, Los Abogados’ president says attaching an illegal status to a person establishes a brand of contemptibility, creates the appearance of anti-immigrant prejudice and tarnishes the image of courts as a place where disputes may be fairly resolved.
It further points out that no human being is illegal and that a national Hispanic journalism association has roundly criticized the reference for dehumanizing a segment of the population. The letter goes on to criticize the state’s High Court for using the term “illegals” in at least two opinions and the term “illegal aliens” in dozens of others.
It concludes with a list of acceptable and unacceptable terms relating to illegal immigration. Among those the group wants banned are; immigration crisis, immigration epidemic, open borders advocates, anchor babies and invaders. Among the acceptable terms are foreign nationals, unauthorized workers and human rights advocates.
Here’s the banned words list via Judicial Watch:
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Cultural hegemony: “a diverse culture can be ruled or dominated by one group or class through common sense, that everyday practices and shared beliefs provide the foundation for complex systems of domination.”
If you can change/control what a society considers “common sense” or what is “politically correct”, then, by default, you can control that society. We see this with the invasion (a word still ‘allowed’ apparently), with skin color and the accompanying baggage, with changing conceptions as to the role of government, etc.
“Invader” still works fine.
What words do they ban next-
“Criminal”?
“Defendant”?
“The Accused”?
“Inmate”?
“Lawyer”?
Those are all some pretty damn loathsome terms to refer to somebody as, are they going to ban them all?
I hold this court in CONTEMPT!
I’m no lawyer but I propose . . .
instead of “foreign nationals”, use “foreign nationals who are here illegally”
instead of “unauthorized workers”, use “unauthorized workers who are here illegally”
and instead of “human rights advocates”, oh hockey sticks! Just use “illegal aliens”.
Muy bueno.
Ignore it…say illigal immigrants
This is simply a case of a court overstepping its bounds. Federal law trumps state law. This court cannot change federal immigration laws, and those laws in fact use these terms.
Changing federal law is outside of the jurisdiction of this court, no matter how important they think they are.
Does the use of any of the banned terms trigger a “Hate Crime” offense under civil rights laws? What is next, use of these terms outside the courtroom is…what?
PC is Thought Control
LEE
This is a good example!
thought control hard at work…
Banning the word “illegal” = Expected
Seeing an add for “sexy & hot Russian girls” on the side-bar of Michelle Malkin’s website = Unexpected
It is funny that open border Hispanic groups are quick to point out that not all illegals are hispanics, but when terms like illegal alien is used they are the first ones there to protest.
I just preformed another ultrasound exam on an illegal alien looking to have an anchor baby.
Mexico should be sued for the hospital cost. When the patient is fit to travel, she should be deported along with all the other illegal aliens.
A five ton with water, and MRE’s can carry a lot of illegal aliens.
Your naivete is cute. If you think it won’t happen, you don’t know how the judicial system works. MM’s title is accurate, every word. Your words? No so much.
ECS
KTAR radio in phx, az. just reported that this story is wrong, that the judge has said she never made such a ruling, and that she only told the group that she would pass the request along.
imagine that.
MM, you got some kind of power, girl.
jeez.. you already got the word… doh!
I can’t help but picture John Belushi and his buddys from “Animal House” sitting in a court room, while concealing their mouths, sayin..
“Cough**Illegal**Cough”.
Federal lawsuit.
Felon=Person on the wrong path that had it “rough” growing up.
Prisoner=Person being held in captivity (with cable, weight rooms, game rooms and three squares a day) that was wrongly accused. Ref: See felon.
Oh, gag me. Gag me with a sharp instrument. This is the state I live in, frag nabbit! Why wasn’t this judge’s name on the ballot for potential removal?!?
Thank you, Warren Court, for screwing up our criminal justice system to the point that we’re picking apart the terms used in a courtroom…
So wait a minute. If someone has snuck into this country without permission, that’s ILLEGAL, right?
And if said person isn’t a US citizen, then they are an ALIEN, right?
So calling a border-jumper illegal and alien is technically correct.
If you don’t like the terms, well just stay in your own country and don’t come here illegally.
PROBLEM SOLVED!
Okay you’re not illegal and you’re not an alien… you’re a stinking invader and hostile entity.
If any of you have the chance to look at the current version of the Green Card, you will notice that the word “alien” is not on it. Anywhere.
Mr. Clinton did that in ‘96.
It just says “Permanent Resident”.
One of those words is true, the other shouldn’t be.
Let’s just eradicate the term illegal from the language all together. Why not completely twist the truth altogether? After all, no one, and soon, apparently, nothing, is/will be illegal!
Illegal= “unfortunate”
Theft= “borrowing”
Murder= “accident”
Assault and battery= “playful love taps”
Soften the language to soften the law. Eradicate the language of the law, and we eradicate the law itself.
This does not surprise me. Didn’t I hear something a few months ago about not being able to use the word RAPE in a RAPE trial?
I did’t see “foreign invaders” or “parasites” on the list.