Sunday, June 12, 2005

Right-Wing Extremism; exposed by the Times!

Front page headline, New York Times, June 9th:

"New Judge Sees Slavery in Liberalism"

Whoa, the Times chucks a bomb! Let's read a bit...

WASHINGTON, June 8 - Janice Rogers Brown, the African-American daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who was confirmed Wednesday to the federal appeals court here, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberalism.

"In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery," she has warned in speeches. Society and the courts have turned away from the founders' emphasis on personal responsibility, she has argued, toward a culture of government regulation and dependency that threatens fundamental freedoms.

"We no longer find slavery abhorrent," she told the conservative Federalist Society a few years ago. "We embrace it." She explained in another speech, "If we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a kleptocracy - a license to steal, a warrant for oppression."

Bravo, Ms Brown. You echo the beliefs of many Americans (at least 53%; based on W.'s margin). But read the Times next sentence to see their interpetation:

To her critics, such remarks are evidence of extremism. This week, some Senate Democrats have even singled her out as the most objectionable of President Bush's more than 200 judicial nominees...

Oh, so she's an extremist, even if a large percentage of Americans believe that left-wing ideology is not the way to go? The next time the Times call for "mainstream judges" in their editorial pages; ask yourself: Whom defines the mainstream? To the Times, mainstream values include tax hikes, gay marriage, capitulation to terrorism (and France), and the non-stop roll out of liberal welfare programs, despite decades of failures. I don't believe that would describe you, gentle reader...

Interesting that the comparison of liberalism to slavery is worthy of a front page headline as an expose on "extremism". But how about lefty New York Congressman Charles Rangel, who said in a radio interview that the Iraq war was as bad as the Holocaust ??http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/317351p-271348c.html

The Iraq war "is the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. ... This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed," the 74-year-old Harlem Democrat insisted during a Monday radio appearance on the WWRL-AM morning show with Steve Malzberg and Karen Hunter.

On the radio show, Rangel also suggested that proponents of military action - namely Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld's former deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Pentagon adviser Richard Perle - don't worry about the Americans in Iraq because they're "black and poor white soldiers" from "the lower economic class."
"They had a plan to put our kids in harm's way long before 9/11," Rangel said. "Because it's not their kids ... that's exactly why. They go and pick a fight, and then say, 'I'll hold your coat.'"


I would call this a pretty extreme statement - a man representing tens of thousands of New Yorkers claiming a war against a dictator is equal to the most evil acts of history's most evil regime. Then throw in some 9/11 conspiracy theories; why not? But no story on this in the Times, alas...do they agree with Rangel, or do they fear exposing one of their own? Someone should tell the Times that suppression of the truth to forward one's political agenda is...well, that's something that all of history's most favorite liberals (Stalin, Castro, Mao) have done, right?

Final note, back on the original subject of Justice Brown,
"Senate Democrats have even singled her out as the most objectionable of President Bush's more than 200 judicial nominees"
What is it that Democrats have against successful black women, anyway? Are they afraid that unless they remain poor and in permanent "victim status", they may leave the party?

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition." --Thomas Jefferson

Our new Judge would agree with Mr. Jefferson; Charles Rangel would not. Whose side are you on?

Link to Times article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/09/politics/09brown.html

UPDATE on Charles Rangel: Lots of stuff out there on this traitorous snake (remember, in the 2004 election, he introduced a bill to reinstate the draft, in hopes it would prevent our military from waging war? His Quisling pals in the Democratic party jumped on this opportunity to scream that "President Bush wants to reinstate the draft! Look! There's a bill pending in Congress! The media were the only ones stupid enough to fall for that one...); here's a NY Post editorial http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/editorial/45201.htm giving him a spanking. Great quote from Mr. Rangel:

"I don't see why [anyone] would be offended."

And that, folks, is yet another reason why Democrats keep losing elections...

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