Judge Criticized For Helping Lovers

Judge Pro Tem Bruce R. Fink of the Los Angeles Superior Court is in trouble for simply attempting to help two wayward lovers. Aurora Gonzalez was looking for a restraining order against her husband of six years, Francisco Salgado. She claimed Salgado was "verbally and emotionally abusive" to both her and their children. Gonzalez said Salgado called her a derogatory term and threatened to call immigration authorities. The case was heard in court last week.

Luckily the case was heard by substitute Judge Bruce “Cupid” Fink. Bruce listened and knew in a heartbeat what was going on.

He said he thought the couple "obviously wanted to get back together."

Clearly. Why else would she be in court seeking restraining order? Is there a better way to say, “I want you inside me?” I submit to you there is not. Fink didn’t want to grant a restraining order because it would keep them apart for almost a year. This is exactly the problem with restraining orders; they keep people apart.

Judge Fink then took the next logical step. He asked Gonzalez if she really was an illegal. She said yes. He took the appropriate action.

"I'm going to count to 20, and if you people have left this courtroom and disappeared, she isn't going to Mexico forthwith," Fink said, according to the court transcript. "One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. When I get to 20, she gets arrested and goes to Mexico."

He never got to twenty. Fink then dismissed the case because the plaintiff was running terrified down the courthouse steps. He explained the obvious.

What I saw was nothing more than some yelling and screaming between a husband and wife. I also saw that they really didn't want to not be together anymore.

If he had issued the restraining order, Fink said, "we'd wind up with exactly the opposite of what these people wanted." "The cure could be far worse than the illness.”

Thanks for giving the anti-immigrant, anti-activist judge, right wing lunatics the greatest ammunition ever. And thanks for making me believe in love again.

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