I deeply resent any attempts to maliciously misuse and misapply the concept of "customs and traditions of the CDS" in order to retrospectively manufacture a new qualification requirement for judges based on length of residency which, in effect, would create a category of second-class citizens. Such a position, reminiscent of Orwell's famous [u:2wq0trvn]Animal Farm[/u:2wq0trvn] statement that "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" is unacceptable under both CDS and international law. I, for one, will vehemently oppose it as a violation of my rights as a citizen under the Constitution.
On a more personal level, I deeply regret to see that, further to a private conversation I had with Beathan resulting from his offer to have me visit his new premises, he proceeded to use the information I shared with him regarding my application for a judgeship position to intentionally and maliciously devise an argument designed to stall and delay any possible consideration of my application based on the spurious grounds that I have not been a CDS citizen long enough to be fully steeped in its "customs and traditions".
This woefully transparent attempt to stall and block any possibility of allowing our judiciary system to come into force is entirely consistent with other comments Beathan made during our discussion which directly and unambiguously clarified his intention to use any and all procedural tactics at his disposal to prevent a functioning judiciary to operate before the next elections, at which time he hopes that a newly-elected RA would have the required majority to repeal the Judiciary Act. A transcript of our conversation is available for anyone wishing to verify the veracity of my statements.
Given the fact that Beathan opposes so passionately and strenuously our legitimate and democratically voted upon Judiciary Act because, in his words, it violates his “ethicsâ€, I would be quite interested to learn more about an ethical system which allows him to reject the notion of the rule of law, yet permits him to use information entrusted to him in good faith during a friendly, private conversation to ex post facto manufacture a perceived "need" for a new temporal residency requirement for judges whose only purpose is that of deliberately stalling and blocking the consideration of my application for judgeship in order to ensure that our judiciary cannot begin operating before his attempt to take over the RA at the next elections. Such tactics, reminiscent of the 1930s Weimar Germany, far from being ethical, must be condemned in the strongest terms by all CDS citizens, whatever their position may be on the nature and content of the Judiciary Act.
I hereby publicly call on Beathan to cease and desist forthwith from advocating and militating in favor of positions which are clearly unconstitutional (residency requirements creating second-class citizens) and which undermine and trivialize our democratically legitimated political process (blocking the operations of the judiciary; attempting to take over the RA on spurious grounds).
A mature, self-confident democracy must be able to defend itself whenever the basic principles of democratic legitimacy and the rule of law upon which rests its very existence find themselves under direct, deliberate and dire threat from within. We cannot allow our own respect for these self-same principles to allow individuals clearly animated by their own "ethics" to use the very rules they intend to denigrate, disregard and destroy in order to eviscerate everything we stand for and have worked so hard to achieve over so many months.
I, for one, will not stand for it.
I will not allow a small minority, however vocal, to undermine our collective efforts to build a unique 2L community, legitimated democratically, respectful of the rule of law, animated by ethical principles of mutual regard and respect which do not allow betrayals of trust to masquerade as principled positions of care and concern for the customs and traditions of our community.
For the sake of the safety and survival of these same customs and traditions so irresponsibly invoked in order to veil the violation of these very same principles, neither should any of you.