Comments on: The Mother of Dissolution http://www.bloggernews.net/121199 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:48:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Churchill's Parrot http://www.bloggernews.net/121199#comment-1288176 Churchill's Parrot Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:33:32 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121199#comment-1288176 My Dear nobody.really said, We are most appreciative of your commentary and always respectful of those who seek editorial integrity. On St. Thomas Aquinas' quote, you are quite right, there is more to it. We fail to see, however, how that in any way alters the truth of what he (and we by way of citation) are saying. Indeed justice without mercy is cruelty. We believe this tenet is firmly entrenched in modern western jurisprudence, as it should be. What is currently contributing to the disintegration of that jurisprudence, however, is our failure to appreciate the significance of the other part of that quote, "Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution." Thus our post. As for the tedium of Miss Sotomayors legal decisions, Ricci v. DeStefano, Maloney v. Cuomo, and the Didden v. Village of Port Chester are tops among those which ruffle our feathers. Look them up. There's no shortage of commentary from others. There is also no shortage of commentary upon Miss Sotomayor's rather bombastic statements about how justice ought be decided and parceled out in her version of America. We disagree with her profoundly (again, thus the post.) A fan of her's our you then? Please do enlighten us as to how and why. Cheers, Charlie My Dear nobody.really said,

We are most appreciative of your commentary and always respectful of those who seek editorial integrity.

On St. Thomas Aquinas’ quote, you are quite right, there is more to it. We fail to see, however, how that in any way alters the truth of what he (and we by way of citation) are saying. Indeed justice without mercy is cruelty. We believe this tenet is firmly entrenched in modern western jurisprudence, as it should be. What is currently contributing to the disintegration of that jurisprudence, however, is our failure to appreciate the significance of the other part of that quote, “Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.” Thus our post.

As for the tedium of Miss Sotomayors legal decisions, Ricci v. DeStefano, Maloney v. Cuomo, and the Didden v. Village of Port Chester are tops among those which ruffle our feathers. Look them up. There’s no shortage of commentary from others. There is also no shortage of commentary upon Miss Sotomayor’s rather bombastic statements about how justice ought be decided and parceled out in her version of America. We disagree with her profoundly (again, thus the post.)

A fan of her’s our you then? Please do enlighten us as to how and why.

Cheers,

Charlie

]]> By: nobody.really http://www.bloggernews.net/121199#comment-1286100 nobody.really Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:42:40 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121199#comment-1286100 You gotta admire Charlie’s rigorous editing. While Sonia Sotomayor has been a jurist for more than a decade, Charlie spares us the tedium of reading actual citations to legal decisions supporting Charlie’s thesis. Indeed, Charlie’s sole citation is not to Sotomayor, but to St. Thomas Aquinas: “Alas, modern man, in his zeal to demonstrate his compassion, his empathy, his sense of justice for those less fortunate, is in the process of securing the exact opposite of all for all. He has removed actual justice from the equation and need now only sit back and await validation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ supposition, ‘Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution’ i.e. chaos, anarchy, tumult, pestilence, suffering, and death.” Ya know, that Aquinas guy had some good thoughts, and might have gone far if only he’d had a little more editorial discipline like Charlie. Thank goodness Charlie spared us the burden of wading through Aquinas’ needlessly wordy sentence: “Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.” Appreciate it, guy. You gotta admire Charlie’s rigorous editing. While Sonia Sotomayor has been a jurist for more than a decade, Charlie spares us the tedium of reading actual citations to legal decisions supporting Charlie’s thesis.

Indeed, Charlie’s sole citation is not to Sotomayor, but to St. Thomas Aquinas:

“Alas, modern man, in his zeal to demonstrate his compassion, his empathy, his sense of justice for those less fortunate, is in the process of securing the exact opposite of all for all. He has removed actual justice from the equation and need now only sit back and await validation of St. Thomas Aquinas’ supposition, ‘Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution’ i.e. chaos, anarchy, tumult, pestilence, suffering, and death.”

Ya know, that Aquinas guy had some good thoughts, and might have gone far if only he’d had a little more editorial discipline like Charlie. Thank goodness Charlie spared us the burden of wading through Aquinas’ needlessly wordy sentence: “Justice without mercy is cruelty; mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution.” Appreciate it, guy.

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