Posted on 06/19/2010 6:54:11 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
On May 14, 2010, Princeton University Archivist and Curator of Public Policy Papers, Daniel J. Linke, sent an email to RedState, a right-of-center blog, requesting that RedState remove a copy of Elena Kagan's undergraduate thesis from their web site.
Kagan, who was recently nominated by President Obama to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, wrote her thesis, "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933," in 1981, when she was a senior in the History Department at Princeton.
Linke's email explained that "[c]opies [of the thesis] provided by the Princeton University Archives are governed by U.S. Copyright Law and are for private individual use only." Linke further asserted that "[a]ny electronic distribution is prohibited."
RedState made Kagan's thesis available for downloading as a PDF file on May 13, 2010 in the body of a blog post entitled "BREAKING: We Have Elena Kagan's College Thesis" by Erik Erickson. After receiving Linke's email, RedState removed the thesis from its web site and provided the following explanation: "PULLED AT THE REQUEST OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY EXERCISING ITS COPYRIGHT RIGHTS."
Still, on May 14, 2010, the thesis was uploaded on Scribd.com, where it can be read in its entirety. The entire thesis is also available on infidelsarecool.com. Extensive excerpts from the thesis were published in Newsweek on May 12, 2010. Finally, the White House announced that it will make the document available to the general public, thus ending the impasse between Princeton and the online distributors of Kagan's thesis.
According to RedState, Princeton was trying to protect its revenue stream from hard copies of the thesis, which it sold for $57. Yet, according to Politico, "the copyright in the thesis likely belongs to Kagan, not Princeton."
From the article:
“Finally, the White House announced that it will make the document available to the general public, thus ending the impasse between Princeton and the online distributors of Kagan’s thesis.”
http://www.citmedialaw.org/threats/princeton-v-redstate
From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: ELENA KAGAN
When it was announced in 2008 that Cass Sunstein would be joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Kagan said:
"Cass Sunstein is the preeminent legal scholar of our time -- the most wide-ranging, the most prolific, the most cited, and the most influential. His work in any one of the fields he pursues -- administrative law and policy, constitutional law and theory, behavioral economics and law, environmental law, to name a non-exhaustive few -- would put him in the very front ranks of legal scholars; the combination is singular and breathtaking."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398
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From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: CASS SUNSTEIN
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[Cass Sunstein on Socialism and "wealth redistribution"]:
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Sunstein has argued in favor of bringing socialism (in the form of expanded wefare benefits and wealth redistribution) to the United States, but contends that the country's "white majority" opposes such a development because of deep-seated racism:
"The absence of a European-style social welfare state is certainly connected with the widespread perception among the white majority that the relevant programs would disproportionately benefit African Americans (and more recently Hispanics)."
Sunstein depicts socialist nations as being more committed than their capitalist counterparts to the welfare of their own citizens:
"During the Cold War, the debate about [social welfare] guarantees took the form of pervasive disagreement between the United States and its communist adversaries. Americans emphasized the importance of civil and political liberties, above all free speech and freedom of religion, while communist nations stressed the right to a job, health care, and a social minimum."In 2007 Sunstein co-authored (with fellow attorney Eric A. Posner) a 39-page University of Chicago Law School paper titled "Climate Change Justice," which held that it was "desirable" for America to pay "justice" to poorer nations by entering into a compensation agreement that would result in a financial loss for the United States. The paper refers several times to "distributive justice."
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[Cass Sunstein on "Climate Change" and "distributive justice"]:
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Sunstein and Posner further speculate about the possibility of achieving this redistribution by means other than direct payments:
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[Cass Sunstein on the "Fairness Doctrine" (restricting opposing political views)]:
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Also in The Partial Constitution, Sunstein promotes the notion of a "First Amendment New Deal" in the form of a new "Fairness Doctrine" that would authorize a panel of "nonpartisan experts" to ensure that a "diversity of view[s]" is presented on the airwaves.
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[Cass Sunstein on federally-funded abortions]:
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With regard to citizens who object to having their tax dollars finance abortions, Sunstein writes:
"There would be no tension with the establishment clause if people with religious or other objections were forced to pay for that procedure (abortion). Indeed, taxpayers are often forced to pay for things - national defense, welfare, certain forms of art, and others - to which they have powerful moral and even religious objections."
Lots more on Cass Sunstein here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2422
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________From David Horowitz's
FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org
PROFILE: ELENA KAGAN
- Served as President Bill Clinton's Associate White House Counsel
- Former dean of Harvard Law School
- Sought to overturn the Solomon Amendment, a law that denies federal funding to any university that bars military recruiters from its campus
- Believes that the military should open its ranks and barracks to homosexuals, without restriction
- Was appointed U.S. Solicitor General by President Barack Obama in January 2009
As an undergraduate at Princeton, Kagan wrote a senior thesis titled
"To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933."
In the "Acknowledgments" section of her work, she specifically thanked her brother Marc, whose involvement in radical causes led me to explore the history of American radicalism in the hope of clarifying my own political ideas. In the body of the thesis, Kagan wrote:
"In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalisms glories than of socialisms greatness. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation. Why, in a society by no means perfect, has a radical party never attained the status of a major political force? Why, in particular, did the socialist movement never become an alternative to the nations established parties?...
"Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP [Socialist Party] exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialisms decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight ones fellows than it is to battle an entrenched and powerful foe. Yet if the history of Local New York shows anything, it is that American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope."Lots more on Kagan here:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2398
The majority Dems in the Senate will vote her in, despite statements like this. We are screwed.
RINOs too, I would imagine.
Actually, if you write a thesis for college, it is quite possible that the college will claim the rights to the paper.
You might have rights to distribute yourself, or maybe not.
There was some employee of Princeton who reviewed the paper; if you were publishing, that professor would likely put their name first on the paper. I have a published paper that has my professor first on the list, since he was the teacher in charge of the course for which we wrote the paper.
Why didn’t a Pubblie just enter it as a record in the confirmation committee, making it public?
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