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Animals Ask A No Vote on Elena Kagan Nomination

by Judicial Animal Rights
Elena Kagan was silent about the torture of dogs and cats (many stolen), and of primates
in underground labs at Harvard, where she was a dean for 6 years. She has promoted the
bombing of animals in Afghanistan for the Obama administration.
Kagan has defended Monsanto, argued for the Obama administration against the right
to remain silent, argued for illegal prisoner detention and violation of the Geneva Convention.


Thumbs Down To Elena Kagan As Supreme Court Nominee

PRESENT "SUPREME" COURT RUBBER STAMPS THE RACIST EXECUTIONS OF THE SOUTH

Why is Elena Kagan's stance on the death penalty or
premeditated judicial murder unconstitutional





Elena Kagan has said she has no qualms about enforcing a death penalty, despite the 88% of the
world and 3/4 of US states (including Illinois)
which no longer commit state premeditated murder)
. Is this the reason that she has been nominated by Obama, who is willing to wage war and bomb civilians?

Kagan considers the death penalty constitutional and established precedent despite the fact that
a. it is cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the 8th Amendment (88% of the countries of the world have banned it while three quarters of US states do not execute).
b. it denies the executed the right of appeal
c. it denies the executed the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
d. for many years the Supreme Court in kinder times ruled it was unconstitutional
e. it is unequal enforcement of the law since 3 to 4 times the blacks as whites on death row
are executed.
f. Kagan's philosophy of 'precedent' is unconstitutional, putting the opinions of past racist, plutocratic, unelected,
uninformed, corrupt or otherwise disqualified judges ahead of cosntitutional principles.

Judges virtually always decide on issues on which others have a greater expertise.

If she were nominated, there would be 6 and not 5 executioning serial killers on the Supreme Court. There would be an hexocracy and not a pentocracy of the unelected trumpers of
democracy.




tapes of the entire Kagan defense of her support for execution, etc.
http://cspan.org/Special/Supreme-Cou...n-Hearing.aspx

Supreme Court Justices and Governors Who Have Taken A Stance Against Govt Murder
Justice John Paul Stevens:
"I have relied on my own experience in reaching the conclusion that the imposition of the death penalty represents 'the pointless and needless extinction of life with only marginal contributions to any discernible social or public purposes. A penalty with such negligible returns to the state (is) patently excessive and cruel and unusual punishment violative of the Eighth Amendment,'" he said in a concurring opinion rejecting a challenge to lethal injections in Kentucky.

Justice Harry Blackmun: I shall no longer tinker
with the machinery of death. (quoted by Governor
Ryan of Illinois when he declared a moratorium
on Illinois executions) (quoted in the hearings
by Senator Dick Durbin)

Governor Jesse Ventura of Minnesota:
"Thou shalt not kill" is not asterisked with
exceptions. Governor Ventura did not execute.
Governor Corzine of New Jersey, after
a close escape from death, signed the
end of NJ executions into law.

Kagan's Violent Positions

As Solicitor General, Elena Kagan sided with Monsanto, not with the people of the US.
http://www.truth-out.org/supreme-cou...-justices59456

. Kagan also has no qualms about illegal detention, about violating the Geneva Convention.

. Kagan has tried to limit the arrested person’s right to remain silent.

As Dean of Harvard Law, Elena Kagan was silent about that institution as the most war invested, the most ecocide invested, the most animal torturing of any US university.

As Dean of Harvard Law, Kagan defended torture advocate Alan Dershowitz.

Why is judicial murder with pens frightening? It is cold and premeditated unlike the often spontaneous and hot actions of those accused of murder.

http://www.amnesty.org
http://www.prejean.org
http://www.ccadp.org
http://www.tcadp.org


Whether it is Elena Kagan, Hillary Clinton, or Sarah Palin... all like Madame DeFarge
promote slaughter and execution...with the reversal that they kill the poor not the rich.

Isaiah: I delight not in your blood sacrifice.
Jesus: Let him without sin cast the first stone. (as he disbanded an execution)http://www.amnesty.org
Koran: Allah is all merciful.
Bhagavad Gita: He is closest to God who has no enemies among living beings.
Buddhist prayer: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.


Please call your senators to ask for a vote against her.
202 224 3121

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Neither did Madame DeFarge have qualms about
supporting the death penalty.

Is it not ironic that 5 Catholic executioners
on the Supreme Court define themselves
as 'prolife?'
See also:
http://www.amnesty.org
http://www.prejean.org



Kagan is defending torture advocate Yoo in the courts.
http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.p...-us-war-crimes
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NPR has hidden Elena Kagan's role in defending Yoo's torture memos.


To oppose her nomination senators can be reached at 202 224 3121.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/gl...10/04/13/kagan


http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-2010
is source for following list of executions in 2009 and 2010 The 12 killer states in the US
of 50 states include 10 from the racist executing South plus Ohio and Indiana:
AL, FL, GA, IN, LA, MO, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA

The pattern of the unelected members of the Supreme Court who serve for life (it has
been suggested that 1 justice be elected every 1 or 2 years to serve for a term of 9 or 18 years)
is to continue the racist executions of the South (3 to 4 times as many blacks on death
row as whites have been executed in thos states) in order to mask the continued racist
killing of Muslims by the federal government in Terre Haute Indiana's execution chamber and around the world. Terre Haute was selected for federal executions because Indiana
has traditionally been a sheepish Republican state in which widespread protests are less likely.


nytimes.com —" China executed more people than the rest of the world combined, a new report states. The report said at least 714 people were executed in 17 other countries, led by Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and the United States." )The state supreme courts which
execute prisoners are often unelected as well as the national court.)



During her hearings to be confirmed as Solicitor General, the Times paraphrases Kagan as saying "that someone suspected of helping finance Al Qaeda should be subject to battlefield law -- indefinite detention without a trial -- even if he were captured in a place like the Philippines rather than a physical battle zone."[8] This view of vast executive power has caused some commentators to fear that she would reverse the delicate majority in favor of protecting civil liberties on the Supreme Court were she to replace Stevens.[9]

Harvard remains the greediest of US universities in grabbing US
govt. torture dollars from NIH which it uses in its underground
animal detention centers. The screams of the animals and the sight
of them are hidden. Ms Kagan has been silent on the subject.

Kagan and Merrick Garland have both acted to prevent 911 truth.

(God give Clarence Thomas the grace to separate from Antonin
Scalia's domination and to uphold the rights of African American
and all prisoners)


No to Merrick Garland.and all other judges who use their pens
to execute in war or in prisons, who maintain the 911 lie

The Constitution does not require either a judge or lawyer
to be nominated to the Court.

The DC Court of Appeals on which Garland is seated includes only those who have proven they will rubber stamp
the invasive military policies of the government.

As the government's Oklahoma bombing investigator, Garland quashed the truth
of the CIA's role in funding Timothy McVeigh with 2 million in cash which they stole
back after arranging his arrest.

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Executions in March 2010.. a tiny minority of over 200 countries
No of executions

US 3

China
10 (Zemin has kept his promise to reduce Chinese executions)

Iran
24

Palestine
2

Saudi Arabia
3

Taiwan
4

http://www.amnesty.org is not the source for the above and has
a more accurate data base

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