Posted on 01/06/2006 10:33:18 AM PST by conservativecorner
One of the names on the Democrats' witness list for the Alito hearings is Stephen R. Dujack, who, according to the Democrats' press release, "has appeared many times as a guest columnist in publications throughout the country." Given that the Democrats bill Dujack as a columnist, it's fair to assume that they are aware of this column in the Los Angeles Times, which was spotted by the Capital Research Center:
Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered. Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but inescapable because, whether we wish to admit it or not, cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys are as capable of feeling loneliness, fear, pain, joy and affection as we are. To those who defend the modern-day holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food and give us sustenance, I ask: If the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified the abuse and murder? Did the fact that lampshades, soaps and other "useful" products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust? No. Pain is pain. Dujack will be part of the Democrats' effort to paint Alito as a dangerous extremist.
According to the Democrats' press release, Dujack will testify about Judge Alito's long-ago "membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP). Formed in 1972, CAP has been publicly criticized for its policies opposing Princeton's decision to admit women and minorities." The Democrats have gotten so used to making wild charges that I wonder whether they even bother to read their own propaganda. The decision to admit women at formerly all-male schools like Princeton was indeed controversial, but the Democrats' suggestion that CAP "oppos[ed] Princeton's decision to admit minorities" is ridiculous.
I like fury animals.
You can eat them AND wear them.
Oh, goody, Democrats will charge that Alito eats meat while they beat theirs.
Kate Michaelman gets her chance tor ant, and Beth Nolan is back also..
SODA OUT MY NOSE ALERT!
This guy is joking, right? Go on...pull the other one.
btt
Is this the best the 'Rats can do? He didn't keep a promise, and he eats meat?
I think the author's point is that if this columnist has such a distorted view of the holocaust (that comparisons of the treatment of animals by the meat industry are morally equivalent with the slaughter of Jews by Hitler's goons) as documented in the column cited, then perhaps his credibility as a witness regarding Alito's membership in, and the activities of, Concerned Alumni of Princeton might also be called into question. In that regard, his tarring Alito as anti-women and racist with the CAP brush should cause about as much concern as would the probability that Alito likes to eat meat.
Oh, damn. I haven't bought NEAR enough popcorn for these hearings. I may have to rent one of those industrial/theater type poppers.
{"I think the author's point is that if this columnist has such a distorted view of the holocaust (that comparisons of the treatment of animals by the meat industry are morally equivalent with the slaughter of Jews by Hitler's goons) as documented in the column cited, then perhaps his credibility as a witness regarding Alito's membership in..."
Hmmm. Rereading, I think you are right and that I missed the point. My only defense is that my wife is out of town and I can't figure out where trhe coffee filters are...
Dubya could nominate Jesus Christ and this group would oppose him.
I wonder if they've hired the Code Pinkos to pack the hearing room and disrupt the hearings yet?
I'd bet money on that.
Somehow, someway, Chuckie and/or Leaky Leahy's staff will get them in the room.
"Dubya could nominate Jesus Christ and this group would oppose him.
Errr. Filibuster Jesus? That might bring forth the ultimate "nuclear" option
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