This Is NOT Justice

In the United States, one expects a judge and or a commissioner to rule on a case based on law, not ones personal beliefs. But, for a children's court commissioner here in California, her views on the War Against Islamofacsist Terror in the Iraq theatre blinded her to ruin a great beginning to a foster child in the United States Marine Corps http://www.dailynews.com/ci_8482917.
Los Angeles county superior court commissioner Marylin Mackel denied Shawn Sage, 17, to sign up early to join the Marine Corps and the be in the sniper corps.
According to marine recruiter, Sgt. Guillermo Medrano, Commissioner Mackel said the following:
All recruiters are the same. They all tap dance and tell me what I want to hear. And then, according to Sgt. Medrano, commissioner Mackel said I don't want him to fight in it (the Iraq war).
So, a judicial activist denies a foster child who has his head on straight and a career path a chance to sign on to the Marine Corps, attaining a $10,000 signing bonus, and a chance to serve his country. What a surprise!
But, Mr. Sage is not taking this laying down. Already, Mr. Sage is acting like the marine that he wants to be.
Mr. Sage participated in a state assemblyman's Write A Bill challenge and won the contest.
State assemblyman Cameron Smyth (R-Santa Clarita) has introduced a bill in the California state assembly that would allow all foster children age 17 and older the right to sign up for the armed services without having to seek the consent of a judge/commissioner. The foster child could do so with the permission of the foster parent or a social worker.
Mr. Smyth said the following:
Here is one impressive young man who somehow made it through the challenge of the foster system, had a clear sense of a career path and was denied that opportunity by a judge basically because of her personal bias. Amen, brother!
The fact is that since Mr. Sage was seven years old, he wanted to be a marine. By participating in the USMC Delayed Entry Program, Mr. Sage was encouraged to finish his high school education and also to better his skills, eat healthy and all that it takes to be a marine.
Yet somehow, this is not a good choice for Commissioner Mackel because she is opposed to the United States liberation of Iraq and the fact that, wether she likes it or not, it is the front line in the War Against Islamofacsist Terror. I would like to know if this was peacetime, would same commissioner have allowed Mr. Sage to participate in the program? And, of course all Commissioner Mackel has done is delayed the inevitable and thus keeping Mr. Sage back when he would be ahead of the game and on his chosen path.
And the left wonders why conservatives and those who oppose judicial activism of this sort have hostility towards the so-called independent judiciary.
Independence does not mean that a judge can or should make a ruling based on their opinions and or prejudices. It belittles the purpose of the judiciary, which is to be unbiased and to use the law to make correct and just rulings.
Sometime next week, the transcripts of the hearing denying Mr. Sage his right to become a marine will be made public. It will be interesting what kind of socialbabble this commissioner will have used to deny a right to a young man who has already had a crummy start to life, being abandoned by his biological parents when he was two years old.
Hopefully, the crazed lefty Democrats that control the state assembly will let Mr. Smyth's bill, AB 2238, come up to the floor for an up-or-down vote. If they and the state senate pass the bill and Governor Arnold signs it, this will be true justice won for Mr. Sage and those that will follow him.
Because justice was denied by one of those judges' that know what is better for us than us.