Posted on 06/08/2005 4:45:26 PM PDT by AFPhys
Incredible quotes in here that many will want to savor.
Very long --- very learned --- very timely --- very worthwhile studying.
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What a phenomenal piece from a great future SCOTUS justice!
Soon to be saved on my freeper webpage.
Somehow the word "Brilliant" doesn't seem to be enough. I hope she is confirmed to the SCOTUS.
This is a completely awesome article.
I think it is worth pinging loads of people to, especially now that it is too late to get the Demodogs even more worked up.
Did you catch these quotes:? [I hate to pick any one out - there are so many more good ones]
One response might be that we are living in a world where words have lost their meaning. This is certainly not a new phenomenon. It seems to be an inevitable artifact of cultural disintegration. ...
Our problems, however, seem to go even deeper. It is not simply that the same words don't have the same meanings; in our lifetime, words are ceasing to have any meaning. ...
And we 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. ...
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. ...
The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document. ...
We find ourselves, like the captain, in a situation that is hopeless but not yet desperate. The arcs of history, culture, philosophy, and science all seem to be converging on this temporal instant. ... But, it is too soon to despair. ...
Many of these quotes are from this speech. A few others are not:
Private property, already an endangered species in California, is now entirely extinct in San Francisco.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
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. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
We 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.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
DEMOCRATS are RACISTS.....and many Blacks (I believe) are just finding that out.....
I saw a load of those quotes during the last weeks, but disembodied quotes do not do justice to the thinking of this Justice.
I am now in awe of her thinking, and frankly, I'm glad that I didn't see this speech earlier than an hour ago. I would really have been going nuts with this filibuster stuff.
Excellent post; that lady has a great mind.
Just Damn.
She is awesome.
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Oh, yes. I had read it through closely already, and had already seen some of the quotes, but I didn't save a link to it. Now I'm gonna save it.
Now I understand why the Demodogs were/are worried about her. It has nothing to do with anything they were talking about, though - it has to do with her wanting to go back at least to an interpretation of the Constitution that has at least something to do with what it originally meant.
I hope that President Bush has three nominees to the USSC in the next couple years: if so, I hope he has the guts to bring her nomination to the USSC.
I've seen very little judicial/ Constitutional thought as clearly presented as this - and her description of the history here is awesome, too.
Not really relevant to this article, but Whiter Shade of Pale was my parent's wedding song.
omg ... this is fantastic.
I wish there was a politician who could effectively reason an state similar concepts. Forget about the court - can she run for public office.
"I am now in awe of her thinking, and frankly, I'm glad that I didn't see this speech earlier than an hour ago. I would really have been going nuts with this filibuster stuff."
That's part of why I'm so pissed about it. These are quotes that most of America would LOVE. And she would have been an ideal face to put on the rules change.
Now, of course, it's unlikely we'll ever see a rules change, because the vote will never come--the GOP will always wuss before it fights for a white male conservative. Of course, there's always a chance the change could come over her nomination to the SCOTUS, so there is some slim chance the nominee filibusters could really end at some point. But it's only a slim one.
Memorable.
She rocks!
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