“slow down cut and pasting”
It’s a thought. Or he likes yelling his editorials!
KAGAN THE PAGAN
AMONG JEWISH PEOPLE THERE IS A TYPE THAT JEWS THEMSELVES CALL A BAGEL AND LOX JEW. KAGAN THE PAGAN IS A BAGEL AND LOX JEW. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? IT MEANS A PERSON OF JEWISH DESCENT WHO MOCKS HER OWN RELIGION. A PERSON WHO SHUNS HER OWN RELIGION. WHEN SHE SPOKE AT HER NOMINATION HEARINGS THIS WEEK AND SAID SHE WAS PROBABLY LIKE MOST JEWS AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT DURING CHRISTMAS, WHAT SHE IS DOING IS INSULTING NOT ONLY HER OWN HERITAGE, BUT CHRISTIANS AS WELL. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WE DO NOT NEED ON THE SUPREME COURT: AN ANTI-RELIGIOUS PAGAN. SHE IS THE TYPE OF JUDGE WHO STANDS IN SHARP RELIEF TO A SERIOUS PERSON OF JEWISH DESCENT.
LOUIS BRANDEIS BECAME THE FIRST JEWISH SUPREME COURT JUSTICE IN 1916. HE WAS BORN OF JEWISH PARENTS WHO HAD IMMIGRATED FROM EUROPE. HE ENROLLED AT HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, GRADUATING AT THE AGE OF TWENTY WITH THE HIGHEST GRADE AVERAGE IN THE COLLEGE’S HISTORY. AS A LAWYER HE DEVOTED MOST OF HIS TIME TO PUBLIC CAUSES AND WAS LATER DUBBED THE “PEOPLE’S LAWYER” BECAUSE HE INSISTED ON SERVING ON CASES WITHOUT PAY. AS A MEMBER OF THE SUPREME COURT, HE WAS A STAUNCH DEFENDER OF FREE SPEECH AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY, BUT HE OPPOSED FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL POWER GRAB. AS A JEW, HE WORKED FOR THE CREATION OF A JEWISH STATE LONG BEFORE WORLD WAR 2. WOULD A MAN OF THIS STATURE AND DIGNITY HAVE JOKED ABOUT BEING AT A CHINESE RESTAURANT AT CHRISTMAS? OF COURSE NOT. HE WOULD HAVE REALIZED THAT HE WOULD BE MOCKING HIMSELF BY DOING SO.
BUT AS DEMEANING AND SELF-LOATHING AS KAGAN’S TYPE OF PERSONALITY IS, IT CAN HAVE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE LAW AND HUMAN LIVES AS WELL. TAKE THE CASE TODAY OF JUDGE DENNIS G. JACOBS. JACOBS IS CHIEF JUDGE OF THE SECOND CIRCUIT CORT OF APPEALS, APPOINTED BY GEORGE W. BUSH. HE GRADUATED FROM QUEENS COLLEGE WHERE HE LATER LECTURED IN THE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. THEN IN 1973, HE GRADUATED FROM NYU LAW. JACOBS ALSO ONCE WROTE THIS IN AN ARTICLE: IN OUR COURTS, JUDGES ARE LAWYERS … MOST OF US HAVE NEVER BEEN, NOR WANT TO BE, ANYTHING ELSE. WE ARE PROUD OF BEING LAWYERS. FOR MANY OF US (LIKE MYSELF), LAWYERING IS OUR ONLY TALENT (ASSUMING WE HAVE ANY TALENT AT ALL), AND IT IS THE SOURCE OF AS MUCH ESTEEM AS WE ENJOY.
DOES THAT SOUND FUNNY TO YOU? BECAUSE IT’S NOT. IT’S DISGUSTING. BECAUSE TODAY, THIS PIECE OF GARBAGE, JACOBS, JUST THREW OUT A DEATH SENTENCE AGAINST A DOUBLE COP KILLER FOR REASONS ONLY LAWYERS CAN UNDERSTAND. THE KILLER WAS FOUND GUILTY OF EXECUTING TWO COPS IN AN UNDERCOVER OPERATION. HE WAS GIVEN THE DEATH PENALTY IN 2003. YET THIS JUDGE JACOBS THREW OUT THE DEATH SENTENCE TODAY BECAUSE HE CLAIMED THAT PROSECUTORS VIOLATED THE COP KILLER’S CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS BY STATING THE COP KILLER WASN’T REMORSEFUL. IT’S AN INSANE TECHNICALITY THAT ONLY A LAWYER COULD UNDERSTAND AND ONLY AN NYU LAW GRADUATE COULD ACCEPT.
THIS IS WHAT I MEAN WHEN I SAY THAT PAGAN-LIKE JUDGES CAN HAVE GRAVE CONSEQUENCES INDEED. KAGAN IS UNQUALIFIED AT ANY WEIGHT. SHE SHOULD NOT BE CONFIRMED, SHE SHOULD BE FILIBUSTERED. IF WE HAD A REAL TWO-PARTY SYSTEM SHE NEVER WOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED.