Janice Rogers Brown, photographed in 2004, said in one speech that a government
without limits on its power has "a warrant for oppression."
A related thread with Judge Brown's speech and selected quotations (must read):
Posted on 06/09/2005 6:10:11 AM PDT by OESY
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."
To her critics, such remarks are evidence of extremism. This week, some Senate Democrats have even singled her out as the most objectionable... citing her criticism of affirmative action and abortion rights but most of all her sweeping denunciations of New Deal legal precedents that enabled many federal regulations and social programs - developments she has called "the triumph of our socialist revolution."
Her friends and supporters say her views of slavery underpin her judicial philosophy. It was her study of that history, they say, combined with her evangelical Christian faith and her self-propelled rise from poverty that led her to abandon the liberal views she learned from her family....
Her friends describe Justice Brown as a voracious reader, amateur poet and serious intellectual, and her speeches are filled with allusions to writers including Cicero, the apostle Paul, Abraham Lincoln, Samuel Beckett, Ayn Rand, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Friedrich von Hayek and the comedian Chris Rock....
She concluded that speech, "We've had to decide before: whether to be slaves or free."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
The more I read about this lady, the more hope I have for our country.
She sounds like she would be a great compliment to Chief Thomas. The more I read about JRB, the more I like her. Too bad she can't join us in the White Christian Party.
She just didn't say the word socialism.
She's making liberal heads explode!
I can see now why Judge Brown is so feared by the left.
She has first-hand knowledge of what they've been up to and is exposing it. And now, she can actually do something about it.
I'm reading Mona Charen's book Do-Gooders, and she slays the leftists in a way that few can. If I could get my minority friends to read her book, they'd never vote Democrat again.
I just finished the section on the left's assault on Clarence Thomas and it's making me so angry again that I had to stop reading it or ruin the day.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1595230033/qid=1118322885/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-3612328-9901718?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Wow, I don't know if the Times intended this to be a hit piece or not but I come away admiring this woman more than ever. My first thought upon finishing this article was that I'd really like to have a sit down conversation over a cup of joe with this judge.
TREMENDOUS! Walter Williams says the same thing in his article, "Political Fear Holds Back Blacks", posted on another thread. Too bad too many blacks are happy to sit on their butts and wait for the Massa's check every month, because that's all the life the Democrats have prepared them for. Wonder when some of them will notice that in spite of 40% of the Democrats being black, ALL the Democrat Party leaders are white male liberals?
[She just didn't say the word socialism.]
Actually, she did.
"developments she has called "the triumph of our socialist revolution."
I think she should run for President.
Black liberal poverty pimps have completelyt fleeced their own people. If folks would take a look and see that an even more evil form of subjugation was underway, one that guarantees they will not think or act to better themselves, one that rewards substandard performance and rejection of societal responsibilities with a check and subsidies... they'd do something about it and REJECT the democrats out of hand.
Truly encouraging, thanks for posting it.
[I think she should run for President.]
No,No!
She'll do more good right where she is.
If she runs for President and wins, we may find ourselves with yet another RINO judge on the bench.Especially the way liberals keep back tracking on their promises.
Excellent point. I had the same feeling that they thought they had really servered her up on a right wing extremist platter. What they did was to allow her intelligence to come shining through. Sheets Byrd is probably in a dither today.
Absolutely. I disagree with GWB on several issues but I would disagree with goron and J'fn on ALL issues.
Served...
Our nation's founders believed this.
I'm liking this gal more and more.
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