A Judge For The GOP
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disintegrates, and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies.
The result is families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic
expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law;
the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of
deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral
depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
Are these the words of a Saudi, disgusted at the cheering masses
witnessing a public beheading? Are these the words of a Saddam ruled
Iraqi whose relatives' flesh had been burned off by chemical weapons?
How about those of an unemployed Cuban or an embittered Muslim
Chechnyan? Could be, but no, these are actually the words of Janice
Rogers Brown, a Bush judicial appointee to the DC circuit court of
appeals.
She's been known to represent the law with a keen eye for
opportunities to tattoo this worldview of hers on the backs of peasants
who were unlucky enough to have been screwed over within her
jurisdiction. Say you were a peasant employee who was upset that the
boss had counted a federal holiday against your vacation tally, she'd
insist it was none of her business and send the peasant back to toil as
they should, back to wherever it was they crawled to her bench from.
Same for a peasant who happened to be injured due to a company's
negligence, as it would be wrong for her to infringe upon the will of
nature and uphold any semblance of right from wrong, or a peasant's
role in life being any different than that of a slave. And with this
facet of her ideology comes the stark, hideous truth of exactly where
we're at in 2005 with the crowbar of political power existing within
the head of an African-American woman who favors the idea of
'anything goes' above the ideals that took over a hundred years to
grow and finally bring her people equality within our society.
And this is the wisdom behind Bush and Rove in this chapter of American
history. The skeleton key is the minority of high intelligence and
suggestible idealism. Allow them to enjoy the same expensive scotch and
cigar, with promises of a significant part of the kingdom as long as
they remain loyal and do as they're told. And with this, the label of
racist can be shouted in the opposite direction, and if all goes as
planned, nobody will listen to what they're actually saying and
instead focus on the color of their skin, think twice, and decide to
fight another day.
Yes, it is the idea of limiting debate that lies beneath all of this.
At some point they figured out that if you can make people
uncomfortable enough from fear of losing their livelihood or
credibility, they'll go along with the program. At the start of the
Iraq war this formula was used to perfection. For those who are left
asking questions or happen to wise up, put up another barrier and
pretend it's not about the matter at hand at all, but instead about
the deep seeded racism within the head of the infidel.
This political party whose predecessors shouted at the top of their
lungs about 'activist judges' following the Brown v. Board of
Education decision from the late 50s, is now masquerading their efforts
to reduce the influence of the judicial branch with an African-American
female judge whose ideology and politics would have matched up well
with that of a slave owner from back in the day. But perhaps I'm
overreacting. Just in case, I'll let President Eisenhower, a
Republican, finish this one off for me.
"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security,
unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you
would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a
tiny splinter group, of course, that believes you can do these things.
Among them are...a few other Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional
politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible
and they are stupid." - 11/8/54