Methinks Supreme Court Justice Stevens doth
protest too much !
If
I were an American citizen I would be seriously worried about the
state of the nation's judicial system.
According to an article in
the Wall Street Journal (April 2009) a Supreme Court justice, John
Paul Stevens is such an ignoramus that he believes that William
Shakespeare was not the author of all the plays that we know and
love.
And on what evidence does the cream of the American judiciary
base his opinion?
Well from the reports it seems that Mr Stevens
finds it impossible to believe that a "butcher's boy" from
Stratford upon Avon could possibly write such works of genius.
Or to put it another way that "all men are not created equal".
Butcher's boys from the sticks can not possibly be as clever as
aristocrats, and by inference chief justices. Mr Stevens believes
another person to be the true author. Guess who? No not Mr Stevens,
although he is very very old, but the aristocratic 17th earl of
Oxford, Edward de Vere.
De Vere fits the bill perfectly, he would
have been clever, very clever (like a Supreme Court Judge), he
would have been posh, very posh, just like a Supreme Court Judge.
The whole of Mr Justice Stevens arguments are based on nothing more
than snobbery. But the poor fellow is not alone, there are many
British and American snobs, usually from Academia, who agree that
a person who did not attend university like themselves could not
possibly be clever enough to write the works of Shakespeare.
The rest of Mr Stevens arguments are no more substantial than
the above.
After a visit to the Shakespeare Birthplace in Stratford upon Avon
Justice Stevens concluded that Shakespeare had no books and that
this was more evidence to refute his authorship ( erm ...but Shakespeare
left the scene of the incident some 400 years ago Your Honour).
Shakespeare
is also accused of never attending the Royal Court and thus would
have been incapable of writing about ....the Royal Courts.
Well, that's
it, that seems to be the sum of Mr Stevens "evidence".
No matter that Kurt Vonnegut Jr had not visited the planet Titan
before writing The Sirens of Titan, nor that HG Wells had
not seen a Martian spaceship before writing the War of the Worlds.
Mr Stevens seems not to have heard of the phrase "using
one's imagination".
If this is the standard of intelligence in the
american courts then God Help The USA.
Follow
this link to a much more serious defence of William Shakespeare's
authorship >