Ninth Circus Court’s Ruling on Armenian Genocide – Huh?
A regional court in Iran has banned a Jewish couple from obtaining German citizenship since Tehran doesn’t recognize the Holocaust. Pretty outrageous?
Actually, as crazy as Iran is such a court decision is unlikely to take place there. But a similar, even more absurd ruling has been made in the United States. According to the Ninth Circuit Court’s circus decision, since the US Administration doesn’t formally recognize the Armenian genocide California cannot have a law allowing Armenian-Americans sue insurance companies to claim their killed ancestors’ policies.
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But, how is fine analysis different from Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate Galileo or Josef Stalin’s decision to promote the fraudulent biological theories of Trofim Lysenko? Both the Church and Stalin also made their factual determinations based on policy.
In Movsesian, the court elevates policy over fact. Instead of undertaking an investigation into whether there was an Armenian genocide, the court resolved the factual question by a policy analysis, which is always a superior way to determine facts.
I am not exactly an expert on the Armenian genocide, but I have read the dispatches from US ambassador Henry Morgenthau. But, I guess his reports cannot be factually correct because they too are contrary to President Obama’s foreign policy and therefore are preempted.
Next week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal will issue its long awaited decision on whether our foreign policy requires college professors to teach that the moon is made out of cheese and that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
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Masik on 22 Sep 2009 at 2:36 am #
Почему так редко сайт обновляете??
nazarian on 30 Sep 2009 at 9:49 pm #
That is quite an outrageous decision. The court played safe but sometimes, in order to reach justice, you have to make some unconventional decisions. The Circuit Court should have allowed the case to proceed and allow the lower courts to determine whether the survivors should receive compensation or not.
The lawyers I talk to always say that the wheels of justice turn very slowly in this country but they eventually reach a just point. To think of it, it took 150+ years for this country to start treating the black people like normal people.
Jeez.