Involuntary Servitude Returns to America

The American Thinker ^ | 4-16-15 | Jack Golbert

[afraidfortherepublic]

A confession: Many years ago, I was an ultra-left liberal, a Marxist, in fact. As a newly minted attorney at law in New York, I joined the ACLU and volunteered serve as one of their lawyers. About six weeks later, they asked me to represent an American Nazi accused of inciting to riot. I refused. They were mightily put off, horrified in fact. They remonstrated. “But he has a right to counsel.” I said, “Maybe so, but he doesn’t have a right to me. I’m protected by the Thirteenth Amendment.” (The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.)... “It doesn’t protect only former slaves. It also protects Jewish lawyers.”

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It took me ten years of mulling over the matter to realize that the right to competent counsel is not the right of the accused. It is our right. We are the ones who have the right to insist that the accused be represented by counsel. That is to protect us, the society at large, from the terrors of a Star Chamber. Like all civil liberties law, it is based on the bedrock notion that what the government does to him today, it can do to you tomorrow. And it will. Therefore we have the right to counsel representing the accused. In his case, I am willing to waive that right. In my opinion, we have the right to decline to even share the planet with Nazis. I know they feel that way about me. We can surely turn a deaf ear to his plea for counsel to defend him when he incites to riot against me.

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In the realm of non-legal services, these are some of the reported cases of people being penalized for refusing to provide services for events celebrating homosexuality for religious reasons.

[Soul of the South]

if churches are stripped of non profit status, let’s eliminate the concept of non profit. Tax Planned Parenthood, the Clinton Foundation, the Ford Foundation. Tax Acorn, the ACLU, labor unions, the NAACP, the Sierra Club. Tax the income from Harvard University’s $30+ billion dollar endowment. Tax Jessie Jackson’s Rainbow Cooalition organization. Lots of liberal money just waiting to be plucked.