Posted on 08/15/2012 7:39:11 AM PDT by IbJensen
The Eric Holder Justice Department has filed this brief in the United States Supreme Court defending racial preferences at the University of Texas. (Texas, by the way, is also vigorously defending the racial preferences.)
Abigail Fisher, who is white, is challenging race preferences that cost her a slot at the University of Texas law school. Because the racial spoils go to Obama’s most loyal political constituency, people of color, naturally Eric Holder’s Justice Department is defending them by spending your tax dollars paying lawyers to write the brief.
None of that is a surprise. What is surprising is the argument the Justice Department makes in the brief — that racial preferences are vital to national security:
It is a pressing necessity in an era of intense competition in the global economy and ever evolving worldwide national-security threats. The government, moreover, has a vital interest in drawing its personnel — many of whom will eventually become its civilian and military leaders — from a well-qualified and diverse pool of university and service-academy graduates of all backgrounds who possess the understanding of diversity that is necessary to govern and defend the United States.
This might mark the first time the ideologues in the administration have placed national security topmost among their priorities — even if it is a phony argument.
Let’s consider one of the lawyers who signed the brief. Thanks to PJ Media’s Pulitzer-nominated/submitted Every Single One series, we know a great deal about the radical backgrounds of well over 100 new hires in the Justice Department. Sharon McGowan is a new Holder career civil service hire in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division.
Hans von Spakovsky at PJ Media:
Sharon McGowan: Prior to joining the Section, Ms. McGowan spent six years as a staff attorney at the ACLU, working on its Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender (LGBT) & AIDS Project. Her claim to fame there was that she brought a lawsuit against the Library of Congress on behalf of a Special Forces veteran who was denied a job after announcing his/her intention to transition from male to female. The case resulted in a dubious ruling by a hard-core liberal Clinton appointee (James Robertson, who mercifully has since retired from the bench) that Title VII’s prohibition on sex discrimination also protects individuals who are undergoing sex-change operations. Judge Robertson’s decision notwithstanding, I’m fairly confident that’s not what Congress had in mind when it passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
While working at the ACLU, Ms. McGowan co-authored “The Rights of Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals and Transgender People: The Authoritative ACLU Guide.” She also was a contributing author to “Lesbian/Gay Law Notes,” which is published by the Lesbian & Gay Law Association of Greater New York. Earlier in her career, she interned for the National Center for Lesbian Rights. And she remains a frequent speaker on gender identity issues. Here’s a sample of her work.
As I have written many times, people wrongly assume the radical policies of Eric Holder’s Justice Department come from the radicalism of Holder and his top lieutenants. They think once America rids itself of Eric Holder, the problem is solved.
The truth is far more disturbing. Radicals have burrowed throughout the Justice Department, pushing radical policies and outlandish arguments like the one defending race preferences in Texas. These lawyers genuinely believe that classifying people on the basis of race helps defend the nation. Until Congress addresses the hijacking of the bureaucracy through budgetary measures, the echoes of Eric Holder will continue to resonate through a Romney administration.
No one on the Left can explain how diversity helps anyone but them.
While all this diversity bullshi_ has been going on with having the female lesbian made a general, and this crap, the mainstream media has ignored the fact, along with our homosexual laden administration and pentagon, that a Russian sub has been patroling the Gulf of Mexico all summer long!
Holder, Obama, Burton, Biden, etc. The whole crew are nothing but scumbag socialist a-holes and none of the drivel that comes out of any of their pie holes is worth lsitening to.
To bad Barbara Billingsly is gone. They could hire her, she spoke jive.
“When our enemies threaten our security, homosexuals, by virtue of their homosexuality, will stop them in their tracks”
Yes, they’ll blow them to pieces!
Ask any minority Democrat whether the need for affirmative action has passed now that a black man has achieved the highest office in the land and the answer is always “No”.
Of course they will, Jimmy.
There has never been a socialist, communist or progressive (all mean the same thing) that didn’t have an important screw loose. They are absolutely possessing a one-track mind and their emoting on the stump or, in Obama’s case standing before two screens cabled to a teleprompter comes off as less than sophomiric and totally boring!
Billy Goat and Hillary were two sterling examples of this phenomenon.
Obama and Biden lead the pack.
The most sickening thing of all is that the Department of Defense bought into this pantload long ago... It is part of the standard indoctrination now on both the military and civilian leadership side. Even in the Senior Service Academies, this is taught not as something to be questioned, but as an unquestionable truth. I really don’t care what Eric Holder says or does, but when it really is part of our national defense priorities (I assure you it is), then someone needs to tell DoD leadership that diversity is actually NOT GOOD. The argument is that people from different backgrounds and cultures offer novel perspectives that lead to new solutions. Unfortunately, national defense is a highly technical field, and math, the laws of physics, and human biology don’t care about “unique perspectives”. When this conversation comes up with colleagues at happy hour, I bring up a favorite analogy. If diversity and unique cultural perspective is so important, even in science... then tell me what you would do. You have a tumor in your brain, and require immediate care or you will die. You only get four people on your team. Here are your choices: (A) Best qualified neurosurgeon, best qualified anesthesiologist, best qualified RN, best qualified chemotherapist. or (B) Santeria practioner from Mexico specializing in curing headaches, Animist from the Congo who claims to have risen the dead, a poorly qualified minority female doctor from the states, and a Tibetean sage with unique perspectives on holistic healing. LoL...
Diversity for today’s government stooge is really them DEMANDING we all think alike. Meaning, we all MUST believe that there are no humanly differences. Cannibals are co-equals with high achieving scholars.
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