Crony socialism:

Posted on December 29, 2012 by KG

‘On Thursday, the California Supreme Court upheld two state laws allowing labor unions to picket on privately owned property.
Justice Joyce L. Kennard justified the state’s interference in protests on private property because “the state’s interest in promoting collective bargaining to resolve labor disputes”…..’
There’s not much doubt that courts have largely morphed into agents of the left. Property rights are now theoretical,  since they’re disposable at the whim of unelected judges.

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5 Responses to Crony socialism:

  1. Francis W. Porretto says:
    December 29, 2012 at 20:28

    “State interest.” “Compelling government interest.” These are the harbingers of tyranny marching through the judicial system. Watch closely for them; where they appear, a natural right is about to disappear.

    I’ve never been really keen on the death penalty — errors are very hard to correct — but I think I’d favor it for black-robed enablers of the Total State.

  2. KG says:
    December 29, 2012 at 20:54

    “..but I think I’d favor it for black-robed enablers of the Total State.”
    Me too, Francis, because they’re a betrayal of everything law and justice are supposed to be about – and as such it’s especially lethal to a republic of laws.
    All I ever really care about is justice because without justice, nothing good is possible. A person charged with dispensing it, who betrays that duty and that trust is unspeakably evil

  3. KG says:
    December 29, 2012 at 21:05

    And if people like Kennard are going to use “the State’s interest” as the test of whether to uphold property rights, then they’ll use the same test to ride roughshod over any rights they damn well fancy. I get tired, sometimes, of making the point that
    our rights are not something gifted to us by politicians and doled out by judges.
    Except that for a huge number of people, that’s actually become a perfectly normal way of viewing them. If they bother to consider the question at all, that is.

  4. Kirly says:
    December 30, 2012 at 01:09

    I expect this case to go to the Supreme Court. If Ralphs doesn’t take it higher they are complete idiots. Of course, our SCOTUS is also overrun by control freak Statists.

  5. Kirly says:
    December 30, 2012 at 01:12

    Maybe the LABOR of Ralphs grocery stores ought to picket the homes of the members of the court which ruled that picketing on private property serves the interest of the state in promoting collective bargaining.