Rehashing three month old info

This is in response to the latest local Christian community smear by Gil. Why does the local newspaper continue to permit this?

SO, Thomas Jefferson is the source of the "smear"?

In context, (if Gil would actually take the time to read Mr. Dobson's piece in it's entirety instead of selecting pieces out of context), Mr. Dobson used the phrase "most dangrous" out of a Thomas Jefferson quote.

Jefferson issued one more warning in 1823, just three years before his death. This time, however, he was not simply predicting the rise of an imperious court; by then he had observed it first hand. Jefferson said, "At the establishment of our constitution, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government. Experience, however, soon showed in what way they were to become the most dangerous…"20

Dobson's April Newsletter

The number "20" is a footnote (or possibly endnote) that directs you to this page.

Although I didn't find that exact quotes, I found other Jefferson quotes. I assume that the page could have been edited since April. Among the quotes I did find:

"The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches."

—Thomas Jefferson to W. H. Torrance, 1815. ME 14:303

"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the [b]despotism of an oligarchy[/b]. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."
—Thomas Jefferson to William C. Jarvis, 1820. ME 15:277
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That isn't a "smear". That's a reference to the language used by Thomas Jefferson describing exactly the situation at hand.

Merriam Webster's defines a "smear" as "a usually unsubstantiated charge or accusation against a person or organization".

Dobson appears substantiated.

As I explained, Dobson was discussing the issue of capital punishment for minors when he referred to the Jefferson quote "most dangerous". Obviously, Gil wants to continue taking this out of context to provide "proof" that the local Christian community is smearing someone.

And isn't Gil's column really just a smear against Dr. Dobson misdirected at local Christians (isn't Dobson in Colorado)?

Hold still, Gil. Let me get that plank out of your eye.