JUSTICE MOORE IS UNPATRIOTIC, PEOPLE

I found myself at Instapundit again recently, and--surprise--I read something horribly stupid. It seems that the Professor is attempting to throw Alabama Chief Justice Moore (the Ten Commandments guy, as you know) in the same pile as those who opposed the Iraq war, as in "idiotarians* who wrap their idiocy in 'patriotic dissent'". Over and over, he repeats, sarcastically, that Moore should be "[admired] for his patriotic willingness to dissent!".

That's interesting. Only I, as well as millions of others who opposed the Iraq war, didn't take an oath to protect and defend (and thus, abide by) the Constitution, as a judge surely does. What I did was patriotic dissent. What he's doing is in direct opposition of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, not to mention his job.

As Kos says,

The protesters attempting to save the monument -- they have every right to protest. That's the American way. But Justice Moore "dissenting" is akin to a reservist going AWOL to avoid serving in the Gulf. Once you raise that right hand and affirm an oath you have a duty to perform.

Heh. Indeed.

(* - for those of you who are relatively new to blogs, this is a made-up word childish conservative bloggers use to categorize views different from their own. anyway...)