Crazy Indiana

The Indiana Supreme Court recently found that citizens have no right to resist the unlawful entry of police officers.   The majority opines it's better to simply cooperate, and sort in all out in court after the fact.   This turns ruling turns centuries of Constitutional law and common law on its head;   there's always been an assumption of innocence in the American system.   No more.

It'd be easy to dismiss this as local craziness that'll (hopefully!) be overturned by the US Supreme Court, but one fact is worth noting:   the Justice writing the majority opinion was Mitch Daniels' hand-picked appointee, Justice Steven David.   This reflects badly on Daniels, who's not yet decided if he'll run for President in 2012.   Although once Justice David was confirmed, Daniels' influence was limited, this was such a left-field ruling that it calls Daniels' judgement into question as well.

Not entirely relevant, but worth quoting anyway, regarding Daniels' wife running off and leaving their four daughters to marry another man, then returning to remarry Daniels: "While one can't reasonably hold his wife's past behavior against the man, the hard fact is that Americans tend to prefer leaders who are alpha adulterers like Kennedy and Clinton to beta cuckolds."

Word.