Pulling a Trigger on a horsey judge: The case of Sigmund and Roys.

This is Judge Roy Moore.  This week Roy Moore rode his horse--high horse, hobby horse and real live horse-- to the polling place http://tinyurl.com/7b86972 in Etowa County, Alabama.  He was ejected from his post as state judge by his own colleagues back in 2004 when he wouldn't stop dragging his stone monument of the Ten Commandments into the courthouse, but now he's won again in the Republican primary and is expected to be reelected to the bench.  Presumably on election day Moore was also packing, as guns and horses seem to be de rigeur in Alabama politics these days, even if there may be a few of those infernal horseless carriages out and about.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU7fhIO7DG0&noredirect=1

This is Judge Roy Bean.  Known as the "hangin' judge" (unfairly notes his Wikipedia entry--he only sentenced 2 to death and one escaped), Roy Bean was a law unto himself, dispensing his own particular brand of justice in Pecos County, Texas in a place called Langtry, where the judge owned a saloon called the Jersey Lilly in honor of actress Lilly Langtry, who visited the town 10 months after Bean died on this day in 1903.  A quirky fictionalized biopic, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, starring a bearded but still beautiful Paul Newman and directed by John Huston, featured a cameo of Ava Gardner as Lilly Langtry.  (Roy Bean was also portrayed by Walter Brennan in the Gary Cooper western, The Westerner.)

This is Roy Rogers.  Born in 1911 as Leonard Slye, he grew up in a tenement in Cincinnati but moved with his family to California in the late twenties where he found success singing and playing the guitar.  When the singing cowboy/movie star Gene Autry walked out of a picture in a contract dispute, Leonard Slye was renamed Roy Rogers and began an immensely successful career in serialized westerns.  His trusty horse, by the way, was named Trigger.  Upon Trigger's death, he was stuffed and mounted, and in 2010, he was sold to a cable company.  http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-07-14-roy-rogers-horse_N.htm

Do you think Judge Roy Moore's psyche would be assauged with a stuffed Trigger outside his courtroom instead of his stone commandments?  He couldn't pretend to be Charlton Heston, but a pretend cowboy pretending he's Judge Roy Bean? I'd call that a judicious compromise.  Even Freud might approve.