The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment

The Socialist Judge: Elena Kagan and the Teachable Moment By Jeffrey Lord on 5.12.10

"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 capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness." -- Elena Kagan, Obama nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court

"This is a great opportunity to find out what's in this woman's mind." -- Rush Limbaugh

The teachable moment on socialism is here. Courtesy of Barack Obama and Elena Kagan..

The issue -- the issue -- of this confirmation hearing for a Supreme Court Justice should be not Ms. Kagan, but socialism. Socialism, the philosophy she professed such admiration for in her 1981 Princeton thesis titled "To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933."

"The Final Conflict." Think of that. Why focus on an undergraduate college paper written almost thirty years ago? Because we are in the middle of a massively controversial presidency led by a man who has exhibited every intention of "transforming" America in the socialist image -- leading the country away from its capitalist heritage. This Supreme Court nomination does not, after all, come in a vacuum. Since taking office, the Obama administration has taken control of everything from car companies to financial institutions to banks to your health care.

Don’t forget he also took control of student loans- therby insuring that he can control WHAT a person shooses to study...

He is after vitamins & supplements we use every day.

He is trying to shut down all home gardens, chicken coops-home grown eggs-home grown beef-sheep, etc. — bill S 510—which is being discussed.

He & Biden have already drafted a plan to take over all private retirement accounts —401-K’s-Keogh’s-IRA’s- Roth IRA’s. Argentina seized all private retirement accounts about a year ago- over $68 BILLION worth. NObama knows that happened & he is marching toward the same actions here in the USA.

He is supporting the unions with card check—which would end small businesses being able to survive.

He is after total control of every part of the economy—& he says he cannot understand why we private businesses won’t hire new people!!

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 capitalism’s glories than of socialism’s 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 nation’s 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 socialism’s decline, still wish to change America. Radicals have often succumbed to the devastating bane of sectarianism; it is easier, after all, to fight one’s 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

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