Clarence Darrow--ACLU--Scopes MonkeyTrial Ping.
Too bad Clarence didn’t stick around for the gulags, the Berlin Wall, the Great Leap Forward and all the other horrors that Communism brought to the 20th century.
http://www.tysknews.com/Articles/dnc_corruption.htm
” “Rules for Radicals” begins with an unusual tribute: “From all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins – or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.” “
The liberal mind sure is devoted to rebellion. But the need to proclaim ‘I won’ apparently has not fully sunk in to the right side of their brains.
“...swept from power forever the last of the Romanoff family that ever lived...”
So the old gasbag had plenty of sympathy for those who would shoot down the innocent offspring of the soft Czar.
Bobby Franks and the Czarovich were about the same age. Darrow saved Frank’s killers from the noose that they deserved and here he is defending a murderous ideology as well.
This defense speech is a spectacular example of disingenuity, misleading comparisons, outright lies, and appeal to false sentiment. It's so thick you couldn't cut it with a steak knife.
In Defense of the Communists....
Today, we have useful idiots like Michael Moore,Oliver Stone and code pink who worship at the alter of Castro and Chavez.....one thing these open-minded, progressives have not learned from history is that the useful idiots are nothing but cannon fodder to the communist revolution....
they are the first to be eliminated....
Obviously CD didn't want people to know that Lenin's Bolshies didn't liberate Russia from the Czarist system; they overthrew the democratic socialist govt. of Kerensky et al. by force.
Lenin instituted the Gulag, and among its first residents were all the non-Commie socialists.
INTREP
Mr. Forrest read here yesterday from the New Testament to show that Christ was a Communist, and that his Disciples were Communists; and Mr. Comerford shouted, "Do you compare your people with him, are they lineal descendants of him?" Let me answer, yes. They are lineal descendants, and you would have sent Christ to jail just the same as you would these defendants, just the same as the prosecutor in his day did it; just the same as there have always been prosecutors to send to jail every man who had a dream beyond the narrow vision of his fellow man. The doctrines of these defendants are just the same; and they are lineal descendants of the Communists of the early Christian days; Communists have been in the world since man was born. It was not new when Christ came upon the earth. Men have not only professed it, but they have lived it... The prophets and the teachers and the seers all down through the ages have taught it. When it came to the early Christian times all the disciples and apostles were Communists who owned all their property together and who taught that private property was wrong. Their doctrine came from Christ, and Christ got it from somewhere else... It is the doctrine of Karl Marx, who has left a greater impress upon this world than any other political economist who ever lived... I will tell you where it comes from, gentlemen. It is in you... It is in every man who hates poverty, not because he is poor, but because other men are poor. It is born of sympathy; it is born of love; it is born of the feeling of common brotherhood in man; it will live so long as mothers love their children; so long as idealists love the human race; so long as men hope and strive and dream.Any Biblically literate person would know what a load of hogwash the above is. Except hogwash is too good a name for it. "The disciples and apostles were Communists who owned all their property together and who taught that private property was wrong"? I'd like to see Chapter and Verse for that whopper. "Their doctrine came from Christ, and Christ got it from somewhere else..."? As if Christ needed to get anything from "somewhere else"?
I can see how ACLU lawyers got their penchant for lies. They are lineal descendants of Clarence Darrow.
Cordially,
bttt
Is that not act and scene from an Alinsky play?