Posted on 06/14/2005 2:58:16 PM PDT by CHARLITE
Goodness gracious, she dared say it and the New York Times – the voice of collectivism in the U.S. – and all its Marxist allies are aghast. An appointee to the federal judiciary, no less, dared to describe the New Deal for what it was: a socialist revolution.
For this egregious offense she must be pilloried and cast into the outer darkness inhabited by those who offend the mighty Times, whose omniscience must never be questioned and before whom all right-thinking Americans must cower in humble obeisance.
In retribution for her lese majeste, Justice Janice Rogers Brown – now, by the grace of God, President Bush and a small majority of United States senators, a member of the Federal Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia – has been subjected to a campaign of slander and misrepresentation by the Times and a motley crew of Marxist groups fearful that Justice Brown and her like-minded colleagues will work to undo decades of judicial misrule they aided and abetted.
In October 2003, when Justice Brown was first nominated by President Bush, the Times went berserk, writing that "of the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst."
The daughter of a black sharecropper in the deep South is, in the Times' view, "an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, [who] "has declared war on the mainstream [read Marxist] legal values" the Blue State Times in its deep understanding of our Red State values tells us "most Americans hold dear."
Shockingly, Janice Rogers Brown lets "ideology be her guide in deciding cases and has "made it clear in her public pronouncements how extreme her views are." To wit: She "attacked the New Deal, which gave us Social Security and other programs now central to American life, as 'the triumph of our socialist revolution.'"
Writing in the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, columnist Colin McNickle took a look at a recent Times story by one David D. Kirkpatrick about Justice Brown mockingly headlined "Seeing slavery in liberalism."
McNickle noted that the Times quoted Brown as remarking:
"In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery."
"We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it."
"If we can invoke no ultimate limits on the power of government, a democracy is inevitably transformed into a kleptocracy – a license to steal, a warrant for oppression."
Wrote McNickle, "In the first two quotes, Rogers Brown obviously is talking about how liberal social policies foster not independence but dependence and how they usually have the exact opposite effect of their promoter's 'beneficent' purposes.
"In the third quote, she's obviously talking about government as a maniacal Leviathan, and a leviathan with no constitutional warrant for most of what it does.
"Yet, Kirkpatrick quickly notes, these are precepts that liberals cited as examples of Rogers Brown's 'extremism.'
"How instructive. How sad. How frightening. Some of the fundamental building blocks of our constitutional republic are considered 'extreme' by Democrats and their liberal moneybags."
McNickle goes on to provide more extensive quotes, supplied by one William Anderson, "that had turned apoplectic the 'progressives' (i.e., socialists) at People for the American Way."
Said Brown:
"I have argued that collectivism was (and is) fundamentally incompatible with the vision that undergirded this country's founding. The New Deal, however, inoculated the federal Constitution with a kind of underground collectivist mentality. The Constitution itself was transmuted into a significantly different document."
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit."
"Where government advances – and it advances relentlessly – freedom is imperiled; community impoverished; religion marginalized and civilization itself jeopardized. ... When did government cease to be a necessary evil and become a goody bag to solve our private problems?"
"Government acts as a giant siphon, extracting wealth, creating privilege and power, and redistributing it."
And, finally, the complete second slavery quote that was truncated by The Times:
"[W]e no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens."
Were James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and George Washington present to hear such words, they would have given Janice Rogers Brown a standing ovation. They would have been proud of what amounted to a ringing defense of the principles embedded in the Constitution they gave us – the document the Marxists realize that, as originally written, stands between them and the socialist government they want to impose on us.
Make no mistake about it, the issue of Janice Rogers Brown and her fellow constitutionalist jurists is the issue that America faces at this crucial moment in our history. It is not one of Republicans vs. Democrats, or so-called liberals vs. conservatives.
It is instead a matter of constitutional freedom vs. Marxist oppression. There is no longer a national Democratic Party dedicated to the preservation of the liberties guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution as written by our Founding Fathers. In its place is the National Democrat Socialist Abortion Party (NSDAP) – a party now dominated by the modern-day disciples of Karl Marx and Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (aka Nicolai Lenin) and devotees of some of the methods of Joseph Vissarionovitch Djugashvili (aka Josef Stalin), such as lying about and slandering opponents and distorting their programs and issues.
(Stalin would have roared approval of the NSDAP's slanderous attacks on John Bolton.)
The whole agenda of the NSDAP is a socialist agenda, one to which Karl Marx and his allies would give a standing ovation were they to attend a gathering of the near-manic Deaniacs who today dominate the party.
Americans need to be alarmed about this. Over the past couple of centuries tens of millions of our fellow humans have been murdered in the name of socialism. In the Soviet Union, National Socialist (Nazi) Germany, Cuba and China, the firing squads were kept busy building workers' paradises. Socialism by its very nature is coercive – people don't willingly surrender their God-given liberties to dictatorial states. In the name of "social justice" they must be forced to obey Big Brother.
As the old joke told by the inmates of the Soviet workers' paradise went, "Under Socialism you will all eat strawberries and cream." To those who protested that they did not want to eat strawberries and cream, the response was "You will eat strawberries and cream and like it. Or else."
Janice Rogers Brown recognizes the deadly toxicity of socialism's diet of strawberries and cream and its caterers, such as the New York Times, who despise and fear her for her faithfulness to the magnificent vision of the Founding Fathers and the liberties they bequeathed us.
* * * * * * Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.
He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com
I think that is one wonderful black woman, extraordinaire!!! God bless her all the time!!!
I would LOVE to see the president nominate Janice Rogers Brown to the first SCOTUS vacancy! Even make her Chief Justice. Can anyone think of any reason why not?
Char :)
Too true, I wish the party leaders would start calling the traitorous socialists that have hijacked the democratic party for what they are. Crazed lunatics willing to sell out America and it's values for political power, personal gain, and social standing. They represent nothing close to traditional American values and should be revealed for what they are.
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I'm seeing more and more Socialists and Marxists posting on Free Republic. They're not flamers, they are subtle. I suspect they are World Worker party members or Hillary's thugs.
I could just be paranoid, but the patterns keep coming up.
I think it was Pete Wilson. She's been around since 96 or 97, I think.
Doesn't sound like a slip. It sounds like Schumer was trying to make Janice Rogers Brown look like an extremist.
http://committeeforjustice.org/cgi-data/press/files/16.shtml
SCHUMER: "And my favorite, one of their nominees said that the whole New Deal was a Socialist revolution, and we ought to go back to the 1890s. No labor laws, no wages and hours laws..."
REALITY: In an extra-curricular speech, Justice Brown said the New Deal was the triumph of America's "socialist revolution," i.e. unlike many European nations, the U.S. reaction to the Great Depression was not a full fledged embrace of central planning and nationalized industry but rather the far milder New Deal. This is an unremarkable observation as a matter of history; moreover, it was not a point about the Constitution or American jurisprudence.
Thanks for the ping!
Well, there it is, the crux of the culture war. Traditional American freedom is under assault from the neo-Marxists (liberals and secularists), who'll align themselves with anyone - such as muslim extremists - to achieve their nefarious goals. And until Joe Sixpack wakes up and realizes this, we're going to have an ongoing struggle.
Thanks for the ping, Jeff. A great article.
I truly believe that what we do here on Free Republic helps enormously to get the truth out to "Joe Sixpacks" all over America. Time will tell, and we'll know more about how effective we've been, with the 2006 elections.
By the 2008 general elections, if Hillary goes down in flames, then we will REALLY see what a big difference we've made. Everything will depend on all of us working "round-the-clock" to expose her for the socialist/marxist power monger that she is, and all those who will be supporting her......not the least of whom will be George Soros. You can count on that!
Thanks for your comments, Marauder!
Char :(
No tenger, Sean Hannity cannot be considered along with serious talk radio hosts. He is a joke next to any of Rush, Savage, Levin, Ingraham et al. Next...
I am not interested in "new tone" talkradio. Sorry. Callers who are scum get blasted. Rush's calm discussions with well-meaning liberals are all well and good, but some idiots, America-haters and anti-Semites just need to be spanked and yanked, as Bob Grant did famously for decades. Savage does only that. He treats most callers with great respect, and lets them drive the direction of his show like no other host does. It is by far the most democratic show I have ever heard.
"Awesome! She is AMAZING! This was worth every second of the two year wait."
Ditto that!
Back during the Great Depression, there were a lot of people who helped wandering strangers. They didn't expect much from the gov'ment. They said, "You will get some stew. And you will earn it by working around here."
And they didn't expect the stranger to be violent, because most Americans back then were good Christians, not hooked on crack, not awash with thoughts of sodomy, adultery, promiscuity, and multi-culturalism that alienate them from the Bible. Not to mention, people had guns to defend their homes and were willing to use them.
The only good thing FDR did was banking reform, and I bet there's a better way of doing that.
I ditto liz: Supreme Court.
"Brown-Rice?"
I hear it's healthy.
I hope she is here to stay.
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