THE EXTREMIST INTOLERANCE OF TODAY'S POLITICALLY-CORRECT LEFT-LIB ZEALOTS

Perhaps Senator Miller does remember "all those African-Americans who were hung from trees throughout the period of racial segregation in the South." Perhaps that is why he is haranguing against the obstructionist senators who are refusing to allow a well-deserved up-or-down vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. After all, and the obstructionists have said this themselves, the problem that is keeping the vote from taking place is all about ideology; and ideology, as ignorant as it was, is what had to be overcome during the civil rights movement.

In both cases, both then and now, the American-African community is and was getting -- as Thomas Sowell, the American-African columnist, has affirmed -- "lynched."

During the civil rights movement, the foe was a group of people who couldn't see past the race barrier. They judged a person by the color of his or her skin. They fell into the quagmire of stereotyping people because of how they looked. To these racists, It didn't matter that a black person was creative, sensitive, funny or brilliant; he or she was black, and because that person was black, that person was inferior.

In the most extreme, the most ignorant of this lot felt that black lives were less valuable than even the lowliest of creatures and expendable. As if snuffing out the flame of humanity's candle, they would round up the innocent, the thoughtful and the human in the dark of the night to leave them hanging from the end of racism's noose -- dangling on the shallow end of humankind's tree of bigotry and intolerance.

Only after a long and bloody fight that took years did the dark shadow of racism start to wane, and the light of humanity shine.

Yet, today we are seeing yet another example of intolerance and bigotry rear its ugly head. Only this time, it's cloaked in the sanctimonious shroud of political correctness.....

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"Either Senator Miller has conveniently forgotten a frightening period of American history, or he is willfully demeaning all those African-Americans who were hung from trees throughout the period of racial segregation in the South," said Wade Henderson, the director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. This was in retort to a statement Miller made equating his party's opposition to the nomination of a conservative African-American judge to a lynching. But the question should be raised, what if Zell Miller didn't forget and instead remembers all too well?

Perhaps Senator Miller does remember "all those African-Americans who were hung from trees throughout the period of racial segregation in the South." Perhaps that is why he is haranguing against the obstructionist senators who are refusing to allow a well-deserved up-or-down vote on the nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals. After all, and the obstructionists have said this themselves, the problem that is keeping the vote from taking place is all about ideology; and ideology, as ignorant as it was, is what had to be overcome during the civil rights movement.

In both cases, both then and now, the American-African community is and was getting -- as Thomas Sowell, the American-African columnist, has affirmed -- "lynched."

During the civil rights movement, the foe was a group of people who couldn't see past the race barrier. They judged a person by the color of his or her skin. They fell into the quagmire of stereotyping people because of how they looked. To these racists, It didn't matter that a black person was creative, sensitive, funny or brilliant; he or she was black, and because that person was black, that person was inferior.

In the most extreme, the most ignorant of this lot felt that black lives were less valuable than even the lowliest of creatures and expendable. As if snuffing out the flame of humanity's candle, they would round up the innocent, the thoughtful and the human in the dark of the night to leave them hanging from the end of racism's noose -- dangling on the shallow end of humankind's tree of bigotry and intolerance.

Only after a long and bloody fight that took years did the dark shadow of racism start to wane, and the light of humanity shine.

Yet, today we are seeing yet another example of intolerance and bigotry rear its ugly head. Only this time, it's cloaked in the sanctimonious shroud of political correctness.

While a minority of senators from the left side of the aisle play politics by holding up a legitimate up-or-down vote on President Bush's judicial nominees for their party's political gain, we stand witness to a new style of lynching that isn't so much different from the repugnant tactics of the past -- ideological lynchings. While the bigots of the past judged a person by the color of their skin and then denied them the rights to pursue their lives as they thought fit -- denied them their rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness -- their modern day kinsmen are judging President Bush's judicial nominees by the color of their ideological skin as if to say, "If you don't think the way that I do, then we will deny you your life's work."

Because Charles Pickering, Priscilla Owens and Janice Rogers Brown, to name but three of the six, do not hold the same ideology as this minority group of senators, they are being denied their rightful up-or-down confirmation votes. In essence they are being denied their right to pursue happiness all because of political positioning. These obstructionists and ideological bigots are denying these nominees, sacrificing them if you will, because of the possibility of future ideological battles that may come before the Supreme Court (think Roe v. Wade).

We even see Alabama Attorney's General William Pryor's nomination being blocked. This is the same person who enforced a federal court order against Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore, which resulted in Moore's removal from the bench. Even Pryor's nomination stands in jeopardy because of a difference in ideology. It stands as quite irrelevant that he stood with the liberal left in enforcing what could be argued as an unconstitutional court order; his ideology doesn't kow-tow to the complete will of those who stand to obstruct the process as outlined by the Framers of our Constitution.

While the obstructionists contend that the nominee's ideologies are too "extreme," it desperately needs to be pointed out that those who are protesting the loudest about the nominee's extreme ideologies do so from a place just as extreme -- but from the other side of the political spectrum. For these obstructionist senators to pontificate on the issue of extreme ideologies is down and out hypocritical. If even one of President Bush's well-deserving nominees is kept from the fruition of a life's work, then extremism has won out over hard work and diligence.

Another point that needs to be made is that each of these nominees has achieved elevation through the ranks to the offices and appointments they now hold because they were the best at what they do. To stereotype these individuals, to assume that they would not perform their duties to the letter of the law because they do not hold the same extreme ideologies as those who would prevent them from achieving these new heights in their careers, is to discriminate against able and qualified people. It is extremist intolerance slickly packaged within the protective veneer of political correctness.

Which brings me to my original point. No, I don't think Senator Zell Miller is forgetting anything. In fact, I think he has remembered the lessons of tolerance that the civil rights era taught our nation. And he is doing it better than the obstructionist senators who are organizing the current ideological lynchings against the president's deserving judicial nominees.

All that the members of today's Democratic judicial lynch mob further require are the infamous pointed white hats?but then, with the bigotry that they are displaying, perhaps we should just envision them with pointed heads.

THE EXTREMIST INTOLERANCE OF TODAY'S POLITICALLY-CORRECT LEFT-LIB ZEALOTS

The origin of "politically correct:"

'All these measures were part of the preestablished de-Cossackization plan approved in a secret resolution of the Bolshevik Party's Central Committee on 24 January 1919: " In view of the experiences of the civil war against the Cossacks, we must recognize as the only politically correct measure massive terror and a merciless fight against the rich Cossacks, who must be exterminated and physically disposed of, down to the last man."'

From: The Black Book of Communism - Crimes, Terror, Repression;
Stephane Courtois, Harvard University Press, 1999, p.99.

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"Politically correct" is communist terminology. Always has been, always will be!

How many millions have been enslaved, suffered and died; and how many millions more will die to make sure things are kept politically correct?

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