and lovin' getting the hate on...
I’ve been on again off again trying to type up some real life entry for this… whatever this has become… So, I am just going to say what’s on my mind, and be done with it…
First off, I cannot even express to my gentle readers about how much I despise the sleazy sub culture over at the New York Slimes with their inability to show even a modicum of respect to the family of Supreme Court Nominee Roberts. I’m sorry, but considering the noise being made about how people’s rights to privacy are being invaded due to the Patriot Act (which I for the most part agree with) I am finding it difficult to believe that one of the loudest denouncers of said act are now going after PRIVATE AND SEALED ADOPTION RECORDS of a nominee’s family. And it’s not just the rights of that family that are threatened, but the rights of the birth mother and her family. Where the hell is the ACLU on this one?
Are these sewer dwellers so obsessed to dig up any morsel of dirt that they are eager to take their loathing out on an innocent little boy, consequences be damned? What is it about Roberts that has the feeding frenzy of the media even whipped up to a manic state? Is it just because Bush nominated him? Or is it because he is Catholic?
Mostly it pisses me off because it hits so close to home. I was adopted in an age where all adoption records were sealed. This was done to protect the birth family, the adopters and the adoptee. It was done so that once the adoption was finalized; the birth parents couldn’t yank the child out of the adoptive parents’ hands. This is something that has changed dramatically since then. There are now alternatives to the adoption process so that if the birth family wants to be involved in the child’s’ life and the adopting family has no issue with it, they can be. Open adoptions happen constantly these days. So, if that was something this child’s birth mother was interested in, that’s how it would have went down.
As an adoptee, I respect my birth mother’s wishes to remain anonymous, which is a major reason I have never sought to have my own records unsealed. I even know enough about her (because the lawyers were such idiots) to go looking for her without going to court. But here’s the thing, folks… what does the adoption records have to do with the Supreme Court and more importantly, what right does a newspaper (asshat slimebags pigfarts) like the NYSlimes have to try and force a judge to open these records? Absolutely none.
Here’s another point – what if the Roberts family had decided not to tell their children that they were adopted? It’s their right to decide how and when their children find out. Granted, these kids are still too young to grasp the concept, but I highly doubt with the current smear fervor going on at the Slimes, that the assnuggets would have even taken the impact on the children into account no matter what the age. How would anyone one else feel if they learned of their adoption through a shitty rag of a cage liner? So, not only is the NYSlimes violating at least two families rights to privacy, they are also taking away the parents right to inform their children about their background as they see fit.
Anyway, that was my rant on the subject.
A long overdue hat tip to Powerpundit for both this and this as inspiration.
Posted by Ethne at August 9, 2005 12:06 PM | TrackBackWhat the hell business is it if those children were adopted. They are so hell bent to find anything they can to discredit the man that they will go to any unethical course they can to do it. I'm with you on this one Ethne. If they let those people has those unsealed records they should be shot. They are making a farce out of adoption with this very thing.
Posted by: Lucy Stern at August 9, 2005 05:59 PMIt's highly unlikely that the NY Slimes will get their hands on the adoption records through legal methods. They'll have to have a goddamned good reason why, and any judge worth his bar is going to refuse them access -- although we all know just how "just" the justice system is these days.
The interesting thing is just how blind the NYT is to the fact that they're already widening the slit they've made in their own throats by pursuing this bullshit. If I were Judge Roberts, I wouldn't take the blandly honorable high road. I'd be suing the asses off the Times' executive management, and off the managing editor who thought that probing into the sealed adoption records of my children was a mighty fine thing to do. I'd make an example of the Times, were I him.
It's time somebody exposes the Times for the glorified gossip rag that it's degenerated into. Hell, I'd be more welcoming of a "reporter" from the National Enquirer than I ever would be of some asshelmet from the Slimes.
Asshelmet... I like that...
Posted by: Ethne at August 10, 2005 12:22 PM