http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344830,00.html

While I think it's wrong to send them out of the courtroom...I say cudos to the guy for having enough guts to "lecture" the people of his race.

I wonder if he was concerned for the whites safety? OR maybe he just felt embarrassed with the whites there. I don't feel like this is a bad guy, just made a careless decision in the heat of the moment.

There's a problem?

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Reverse it. A white judge kicks all non whites out of a court room to " lecture" white defendants. What do you think the Headline would be?

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

Nope, no problem. Just thought it was an interesting story. You don't normally hear of people "racially" getting asked to leave a courtroom. I just thought I'd get everyone elses view of it. There's bound to be someone who says, "That racist judge," or "good, make the whites leave," or something to that effect. This was most definately more "flame-bait" than a problem. LOL

Never thought of that, should have though. It would have made headlines, NAACP would be all over the place, Jesse Jackson and Quannel X would be out of their holes and all over that judge like chocolate on ice-cream.

"There's a problem?"

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It is interesting. It's interesting to me because I never cease to be amazed at the power US judges have. I'm just not used to it.

Yes, I can see the racial aspect igniting people, don't know why though.

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That's an effective simile, I hope you don't get bombarded for it.

If a judge has the right to kick anyone he or she wishes out of a courtroom and the judge can defend the decision (as it would appear this judge has) then who cares what objectors on the sidelines are saying?

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Because THIS judge was ALLOWED to defend a decision that a white Judge would not be able to defend with the EXACT same words and deeds. It is a double standard. It is racial if a white does it, but just " no problem" if a black does it.

The same reason Obama can have a racist " mentor" and no one gives a rats ass but Trent Lott got thrown under the bus for saying something nice about a retiring US Senator.

A black person in this country can be as racist as they want, they can openly state their racism and they are given a pass. A white person even smiles at some off color joke and they are hounded out of office. By the same people that do not care that a black man is racist.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

When a white judge does it the other way we'll see what happens, until then it's pure speculation.

As for the rest of your post - opinionated crap.

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I doubt he's got the 'right' to throw whites out of a courtroom on race grounds. If nothing else, the judicial canons restrict 'conduct unbecoming' and it's hard to see how this would not count as that.

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Does anyone think it's weird that the two biggest goals of our time are "tolerance" and "zero tolerance"?

You know, probably better than I do, that there's no such thing as an open and shut case. I reckon in this one he would walk out of any impeachment proceedings with an ear to ear grin. Heck I'm not a lawyer and I reckon I could get him off.

I would argue he didn't throw the whites out of the courtroom on race grounds (this is going to cause some brains to explode so get gloves and protective eye wear) but on the grounds that he would be better able to make his judicial point to the members of one racial community if other members of another racial community were present.

Q. "Tell me Judge Arrington, how many whites were present in your courtroom?"

A. "I didn't count, but I can tell you they amounted to 00.1% of the total population of that courtroom, um, statistics was my minor at college."

Q. "And how many members of other races were present?"

A. "Zero percent of the total population of that courtroom"

Q. "The Deputy Sheriffs who were performing bailiff duties?"

A. "Black"

Q. "And what if there were any members of any other race in the courtroom, Asian or Hispanic?"

A. "I can tell you they could have had Canadians in there and I'd have thrown them out too....I wanted to make my point to the members of the black community there and I couldn't do it effectively with members of other racial communities present, the message has a better chance of being heeded that way."

Q. "Judge Arrington, let's reverse it, if the courtroom had been populated by 99.9% whites, would you have removed the 00.1% black population?"

A. "Are you kidding? Sharpton and Jackson would have hauled my ass to....[laughing]...just kidding, just kidding! Yes I would. I wouldn't take the chance of some sort of racial disturbance occurring. Not saying it would, just saying I wouldn't take the chance."

Q. "So you would see that as preserving the dignity of your courtroom?"

A. "Well a mini race-riot would certainly disturb the decorum."

Q. "No further questions."

Aside from being smart I rather like Judge Arrington's sense of humour - and he never said "cracker" once.

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A judge does NOT have the power to remove the Lawyer representing a client before the court without legal cause. He can send the Jury and spectators out any time he wants for just about any reason. He also can not order just certain races out of his court without legal cause.

The defense that we can not know what would happen to a white peson in the same situation is simply NOT true.

Do a goggle on what happened to Senator Trent Lott for simply saying something nice about a retiring Senator. Then get back to me on why Obama can have a racist mentor.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd. Indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

-Bertrand Russell

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable

-Laurence J. Peters

I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

I still like my scenario - come on RGS, lighten it up a bit man

How about a defence of necessity?

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Blowhards-R-Us

Diuretic,

I agree that it shouldn't be a problem, but it is. Whites don't like the double-standard placed on them because of things their ancestors (who aren't alive anymore) did to the blacks (enslaving). Equality is here and everyone has the same rights as everyone else (for the most part)...the problem that arises with whites is for instance...Any time a black person is murdered by a white person (most of the times their crack-heads or criminals anyway), civil rights activists (Jesse Jackson, NAACP, Quannel X) come out of the woodwork and blame the white people for putting the blacks down and killing them. Yet when a black man kills a black man, or a black man kills a white man, you don't see them at all.

You're right, their shouldn't be a problem, but it's a double-standard that exists that piss whites of, even though whites today have nothing to do with slavery or Jim Crow laws. Agreed, the Civil Rights Act was passed in the 60s, but people are different now (most of them). The fact is, if a white judge had thrown blacks out of the courtroom based on race, there would have been lawsuits filed, and all of the activists would have come out hollering discrimination and racism by the white people.