Charles Pickering [David's Blog - good summary]

FRONTPAGE MAGAZINE.com ^ | January 10, 2003 | David Horowitz

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Charles Pickering

The Democrats have started the new congressional session by launching a lynching party. (How embarassing is it these days to be a Democrat?) In fact this is the second lynch party organized by the Democrats for the same victim, Judge Charles Pickering whom the President has nominated to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Last session, after smearing Pickering in a manner that would make Joe McCarthy blush, the Democrats voted in lock step to keep his nomination from coming to the Senate floor. Leading the lynch party was New York Senator Charles Schumer who has promised to filibuster the Pickering nomination and who said "To renominate Charles Pickering Sr. who...is probably best known for intervening on behalf of a convicted cross-burner, shows unfortunately that Richard Nixon's Southern strategy is still alive and well in the White House."

This is racial gutter talk and rank character assassination. Pickering's court intervention was to prevent a man with no prior record from serving five years in jail for a crime in which there were two other participants who -- thanks to the Clinton Justice Department -- served no prison time at all. It was a matter of equity in sentencing not sympathy for cross burners that prompted Pickering's intervention.

In the 1960s Mississippi was a racial battleground which could mean death for those who challenged its segregationist ways. Here is the Wall Street Journal's summary of the role that Judge Pickering played in that era: "In the 1960s, he sent his children to the newly integrated Mississippi public schools. As county attorney from 1964-68 he aided the FBI in prosecutions of Ku Klux Klansmen, including testifying against the Imperial Wizard, and was defeated for re-election because of it. In 1971, he was elected to the state Senate with the support of two-thirds of the African-American voters in his district.

"He also has a long record of helping advance civil rights causes in Mississippi, getting white banks to lend money to black businesses and helping get federal funds directed to programs that helped African-Americans. Former Democratic Governor William Winter says Judge Pickering has been 'one of this state's most dedicated and effective voices for breaking down racial barriers.' African-American leaders in his hometown of Laurel, Mississippi, overwhelmingly support him."

This is the man -- someone who has put himself on the line for African Americans -- that so-called liberal Democrats have set out to tar and feather as a closet racist. The Democrats on the Judiciary Committee are shameless witch-hunters and liars; they are being egged on by the lynch lobby that preposterously (but effectively) calls itself the "civil rights" movement.

These are disgusting times.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

More eye-opening details re. Sen. John Edwards, the Clinton DOJ and the honorable Judge Pickering from Byron York's The Trials of John Edwards.

[Arkady]

We know they'll lockstep and lynch, what we have to do is yell "obstructionists!" as loud as we can.
'conservative' judges =bad, liberal activist judges= good.
McCarthy had a point, and even liberals haven't found a way to totally discredit the ideas of voting and the Constitution to establish laws, as opposed to legislating their deluded visions of "right."

[solo gringo]

Not one of the democraps that is trashing judge pickering could carry judge pickering socks.they are a bunch of pinhead pukes.

[Enterprise]

Senator Byrd: "A lynching? Honey where's my cap and sheets? And where did I leave that lighter fluid?"

[xzins]

Equal Sentencing!!
The CLINTON JUSTICE DEPARTMENT let the TWO RING-LEADERS OF THE Cross-Burning GO TOTALLY FREE!!

After Clinton let the other two walk, Pickering Sentenced the remaining scapegoat to about 2.5 years in prison.!!

[Gritty]

These are disgusting times.

These are disgusting people!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We know they'll lockstep and lynch, what we have to do is yell "obstructionists!" as loud as we can.

GWB was awfully successful protesting Dem obstructionism last November. You have to figure that the Dems are in serious danger of overplaying their hand when the Republicans chair the Judiciary Committee--and can put people such as Charles Evers on the stand to bring sanity to the hearing.

[Arkady]

The fact that people recognized obstructionism when they saw it is very heartening. W. knows what he's doing and will give Americans more opportunity to say "lead, follow or get out of the way!"

[Congressman Billybob]

My next column for UPI, this week, is titled, "Ping-Pong Reporting," and will deal with both the Pickering nomination and the Bush tax relief program. Both will be discussed from the standpoint of the incompetence of the lamestream media to get the basic facts straight and on paper, on both subjects.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest column on UPI, "Three Anti-Endorsements" (Now up on UPI wire, and FR.)

As the politician formerly known as Al Gore has said, Buy my book, "to Restore Trust in America"

[zook]

bump

[pettifogger]

From the article: Pickering's court intervention was to prevent a man with no prior record from serving five years in jail for a crime in which there were two other participants who -- thanks to the Clinton Justice Department -- served no prison time at all. It was a matter of equity in sentencing not sympathy for cross burners that prompted Pickering's intervention.

Bears repeating. Memorize this and repeat it to anyone you meet who thoughtlessly parrots the "racially insensitive" line.

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[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Ping. Forwarding Pickering info to pols, pundits and the good citizens of NC who still believe Johnny Edwards has class.