Arizona Court Favors ‘Political Correctness,’ Immigration
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Chad Groening, OneNewsNow, November 13, 2008
Public-interest group Judicial Watch is standing behind a published report on its blog that the chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court agreed to ban the terms “illegal” and “aliens” in all of the state’s courtrooms at the request of the Arizona Hispanic Bar Association.
Recently an Arizona Supreme Court official threatened to sue Judicial Watch for slander for disclosing the information, which is documented in correspondence between Arizona’s Hispanic Bar Association and the state’s Supreme Court Chief Justice Ruth McGregor. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton says the Hispanic group wanted McGregor to censor speech in the courtrooms.
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“When we wrote about it, saying it looks like these words are banned, we got this call from the court spokesperson who talked about slander, which is a code word for ‘you pull back or we’ll sue,’” Fitton contends. “So we’ve effectively been threatened by the court with a lawsuit over this. It’s political correctness run amok.”
Judicial Watch sent a response letter back to the court, standing behind its story and providing a website link to copies of all the documents in question. Fitton points out the Arizona Supreme Court has since backed off, saying no words are being banned in the courts.
[Editor’s Note: Earlier stories on this matter can be read starting here.]
(Posted on November 17, 2008)
Comments
This constant tinkering with our collective language is thought control plain and simple.
‘Disclose the truth or we’ll sue you’, it’s odvious that the Arizona Supreme Court is uncomfortable with the public knowing how they are be representing legally. Sounds like for the hispanic proportion of the public it’s a good deal at least.
What words would the court use instead of ‘illegal alien’, ‘a pre-citizen’, ‘citizenship deprived’ or ‘non tax paying semi-permenant resident’ etc.
The late comedian George Carlin had a real insight when talking about how PC language affects us. Eg. for the same condition from WW1 to desert storm the term:
‘shell shock’ to
‘battle fatigue’ to
‘operational exhaustion’ to
‘post-traumatic stress disorder’.
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for other similar examples
http://www.scribd.com/doc/2525803/George-Carlin-On-Language
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As time goes on the language gets softer and the truth gets hidden ‘in the jargon’.
Posted by Gen X in Oz (Here for moral support) at 6:43 PM on November 17
Public-interest group Judicial Watch is standing behind a published report on its blog that the chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court agreed to ban the terms “illegal” and “aliens” in all of the state’s courtrooms at the request of the Arizona Hispanic Bar Association
Yes, and I think we should also ban the words ‘Hitler’ and ‘Nazi’ at request of German-Americans. I also think we should ban ‘communist’ and ‘Stalin’ so we don’t offend Russians.
Posted by at 7:45 PM on November 17
Yes, and I think we should also ban the words ‘Hitler’ and ‘Nazi’ at request of German-Americans. I also think we should ban ‘communist’ and ‘Stalin’ so we don’t offend Russians.
We will also have to ban “freedom of religion” and “freedom of thought” so we don’t outrage the muslims, mustn’t outrage the muslims you know, since we all know what happens when muslims are outraged…….? HEll!!! the same thing as when we outrage the blacks.
Posted by Skip at 4:08 AM on November 18