Posted on 06/14/2005 2:58:16 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Goodness gracious, she dared say it and the New York Times – the voice of collectivism in the U.S. – and all its Marxist allies are aghast. An appointee to the federal judiciary, no less, dared to describe the New Deal for what it was: a socialist revolution.
For this egregious offense she must be pilloried and cast into the outer darkness inhabited by those who offend the mighty Times, whose omniscience must never be questioned and before whom all right-thinking Americans must cower in humble obeisance.
In retribution for her lese majeste, Justice Janice Rogers Brown – now, by the grace of God, President Bush and a small majority of United States senators, a member of the Federal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia – has been subjected to a campaign of slander and misrepresentation by the Times and a motley crew of Marxist groups fearful that Justice Brown and her like-minded colleagues will work to undo decades of judicial misrule they aided and abetted.
In October 2003, when Justice Brown was first nominated by President Bush, the Times went berserk, writing that "of the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst."
The daughter of a black sharecropper in the deep South is, in the Times' view, "an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, [who] "has declared war on the mainstream [read Marxist] legal values" the Blue State Times in its deep understanding of our Red State values tells us "most Americans hold dear."
Shockingly, Janice Rogers Brown lets "ideology be her guide in deciding cases and has "made it clear in her public pronouncements how extreme her views are." To wit: She "attacked the New Deal, which gave us Social Security and other programs now central to American life, as 'the triumph of our socialist revolution.'"
Writing in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, columnist Colin McNickle took a look at a recent Times story by one David D. Kirkpatrick about Justice Brown mockingly headlined "Seeing slavery in liberalism."
McNickle noted that the Times quoted Brown as remarking:
"In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery."
"We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it."
"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."
Wrote McNickle, "In the first two quotes, Rogers Brown obviously is talking about how liberal social policies foster not independence but dependence and how they usually have the exact opposite effect of their promoter's 'beneficent' purposes.
"In the third quote, she's obviously talking about government as a maniacal Leviathan, and a leviathan with no constitutional warrant for most of what it does.
"Yet, Kirkpatrick quickly notes, these are precepts that liberals cited as examples of Rogers Brown's 'extremism.'
"How instructive. How sad. How frightening. Some of the fundamental building blocks of our constitutional republic are considered 'extreme' by Democrats and their liberal moneybags."
McNickle goes on to provide more extensive quotes, supplied by one William Anderson, "that had turned apoplectic the 'progressives' (i.e., socialists) at People for the American Way."
Said Brown:
"I have argued that collectivism was (and is) fundamentally incompatible with the vision that undergirded this country's founding. The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document."
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society 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."
"Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized. ... When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?"
"Government acts as a giant siphon, extracting wealth, creating privilege and power, and redistributing it."
And, finally, the complete second slavery quote that was truncated by The Times:
"[W]e no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens."
Were James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and George Washington present to hear such words, they would have given Janice Rogers Brown a standing ovation. They would have been proud of what amounted to a ringing defense of the principles embedded in the Constitution they gave us – the document the Marxists realize that, as originally written, stands between them and the socialist government they want to impose on us.
Make no mistake about it, the issue of Janice Rogers Brown and her fellow constitutionalist jurists is the issue that America faces at this crucial moment in our history. It is not one of Republicans vs. Democrats, or so-called liberals vs. conservatives.
It is instead a matter of constitutional freedom vs. Marxist oppression. There is no longer a national Democratic Party dedicated to the preservation of the liberties guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers. In its place is the National Democrat Socialist Abortion Party (NSDAP) – a party now dominated by the modern-day disciples of Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (aka Nicolai Lenin) and devotees of some of the methods of Joseph Vissarionovitch Djugashvili (aka Josef Stalin), such as lying about and slandering opponents and distorting their programs and issues.
(Stalin would have roared approval of the NSDAP's slanderous attacks on John Bolton.)
The whole agenda of the NSDAP is a socialist agenda, one to which Karl Marx and his allies would give a standing ovation were they to attend a gathering of the near-manic Deaniacs who today dominate the party.
Americans need to be alarmed about this. Over the past couple of centuries tens of millions of our fellow humans have been murdered in the name of socialism. In the Soviet Union, National Socialist (Nazi) Germany, Cuba and China, the firing squads were kept busy building workers' paradises. Socialism by its very nature is coercive – people don't willingly surrender their God-given liberties to dictatorial states. In the name of "social justice" they must be forced to obey Big Brother.
As the old joke told by the inmates of the Soviet workers' paradise went, "Under Socialism you will all eat strawberries and cream." To those who protested that they did not want to eat strawberries and cream, the response was "You will eat strawberries and cream and like it. Or else."
Janice Rogers Brown recognizes the deadly toxicity of socialism's diet of strawberries and cream and its caterers, such as the New York Times, who despise and fear her for her faithfulness to the magnificent vision of the Founding Fathers and the liberties they bequeathed us.
* * * * * * Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
I've been away from Ca for a while. sorry you all are losing this gem. but it's a great day for America.
"California in spite of all the bricks thrown at us has produced a few conservatives.:)"
Interesting. I wouldn't be surprised to see a conservative backlash in the next few years. Politics have always seemed to me somewhat cyclical, though it's obvious economic booms can prolong the interventionism or liberty periods, and there are often individual candidates and areas that are exceptions to any grand political shifts.
Well.......if she was nominated by a Republican President, and confirmed by a Republican Senate, you have your answer, don't you??
Absolute USSC nominee. It will take her and three more like her to begin overturning the socialist hubris.
It's about time California did something right :-) ( only kidding )
Obviously, not everyone there is crazy. Just most people.
She not only "gets it", she knocked the ball out of the park.
Those two paragraphs are nothing short of brilliant.
As would I.
Another thing that is happening, slowly but surely, is the introduction and awakening of America to well educated, brilliant, articulate, Conservative blacks. Now, that will REALLY drive the demoRat libs crazy.
Besides, it is just too much fun to watch!!
Good.
I agree. But I'll tell you something....
"W" is running a VERY close 2nd place, and if they let "W" be "W", he'll completely destroy the demoRat party as we know it, and reverse the excesses of the Clinton/Gore administration. That is the reason the demoRats have become the party of "NO". They realize just what President Bush is doing to them, and they have no idea of how to deal with it. They are paralyzed. Actually, I believe the demoRats fear President Bush more than they feared President Reagan.
To be honest, President Bush reminds me more of Ronald Reagan than his own father (#41) He has the same positive outlook and faith in America that Ronald Reagan had.
We are very lucky to have lived in a time with two of the truly "great one's".......
I'm proud to say that I got the chance to meet, talk with, and shake hands with both President Reagan and President Bush.
Both events are memories I will NEVER forget. I met my 2 hero's. It doesn't get any better than that!!
I really don't get it either. He is so much head and shoulders above any other host. Rush does a excellent job commenting on editorials and offical goings-on. Hanraty is just a goofball to me, not serious or seminal at all. But Savage is the only one I look forward to hearing. Savage just delivers stunning off-the-cuff commentary day after day--and he is so damned entertaining! The past week has truly been one of his finest.
Notice that people who attack him here on FR don't get beyond irrelevancies such as his real name (Weiner, they say "Wiener" to deride him childishly), his supposed low ratings and low book sales, and his "abusiveness" (which I have never observed as being undeserved when callers are Muslims or anti-Semetic scum). There never seems to be substantive, factual criticism of this guy. OH NO he criticized Bush...you just CAN'T do that, right? Ridiculous, Bush deserves all of Savage's scorn for his open borders policy and P.C. defensiveness in the WOT. But Savage is 1000 times more harsh against "Leninists" such as Schumer, Boxer, Kennedy, ACLU, Am-nasty, et al. He is a great American.
"I agree. But I'll tell you something....
"W" is running a VERY close 2nd place, and if they let "W" be "W", he'll completely destroy the demoRat party as we know it, and reverse the excesses of the Clinton/Gore administration. That is the reason the demoRats have become the party of "NO". They realize just what President Bush is doing to them, and they have no idea of how to deal with it. They are paralyzed. Actually, I believe the demoRats fear President Bush more than they feared President Reagan."
I'm in complete agreement with you.
GW will be able to regime change a lot of evil leaders in the World with the military and by his leadership. (Regime change is coming to France and Germany with no military intervention.)
Lets get him enough senators to get what needs to be done in the senate, done without the liberals and rinos getting in the way.
"Both events are memories I will NEVER forget. I met my 2 hero's. It doesn't get any better than that!!"
Envy and jealousy are not my norms. However, I envy meeting and shaking hands with these two great Americans.
But think of what freedoms the socialist 'Rats cost this country over the past two years by illegally filibustering her.
Red
Thanks for posting those pictures of our great man, President Ronald Reagan!
Isn't amazing how the MSM and local fishwraps in N California kept the secret of this wonderful lady.
I believe that Pete Wilson nominated her.
How harsh is he? Did he tell them to get AIDS and die?
"Janice Rogers Brown for the US Supreme Court"----pass it.
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