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Sotomayor confirmation hearings start today

by | 1:54 am, July 13, 2009 | 7 Comments

Let’s make two things absolutely clear: Sonia Sotomayor is not qualified to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. And she will almost certainly be confirmed.

Many of us heard about her statement that a Latina woman would likely make a better decision than a white man. What many of you may not have heard is that more digging into her past public appearances show that that statement was not an outlier, but part of an extremely consistent pattern of thought.

Sotomayor not only believes that impartiality before the law may not be possible, she’s not even sure that it’s desirable.

In comparison to others at her level in the federal judiciary, she’s clearly of less-than-average intelligence and competence, with a trail of poorly-written and poorly-conceived rulings followed by repeatedly being overturned by the Supreme Court and being criticized for shoddy legal thinking even when not overturned. She is, by her own admission, where she is because of affirmative action. The Supreme Court is no place to demonstrate the Peter Princple.

One other thing to be clear about: Sotomayor’s nomination is not an accident. Her repugnant views about how a judge should approach decisions were no secret and she was nominated by Obama because of them, not despite them. Obama also does not believe that justice should be blind. During the presidential campaign, I said that the Supreme Court was the only reason to vote for McCain (rather than voting Libertarian – I was always clear that nobody should vote for Obama.) Sotomayor proves that warning (which is not to say that it was wrong to vote Libertarian). She is the latest foray in Barack Obama’s mission to remake the United States in the vision of the radical leftist Saul Alinsky and his communist America-hating father-figure Frank Marshall Davis.

One can only hope that Sotomayor’s tenure on the Court is a short one and that she’s prevented from destroying the fabric of our nation to the degree that she wants to by making every decision through the filters of race and gender and turning “equal protection under the law” on its head.

Even Democrats should be ashamed of Sotomayor, but of course you’ll never hear even a whisper of such thoughts…

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

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  1.   Kaleokualoha
      July 13th, 2009 @ 12:07 pm

    Why do you say that Frank Marshall Davis hated America? Do you have any primary source evidence, or is it just speculation?

  2.   Kaleokualoha
      July 17th, 2009 @ 1:13 pm

    The PPC Manifesto claims “We offer unafraid, unblinking reporting, the unvarnished truth, no matter what it looks like. We’re here because of what the truth does look like. We’re here to expose the truth, to submit facts to a candid world.”

    In view of your commitment to the truth, please provide evidence of your contention that Davis hated America. This canard may have originated within the “Accuracy In Media” disinformation campaign against the Davis-Obama relationship.

  3.   Rossputin
      July 17th, 2009 @ 1:22 pm

    Allow me to clarify: Davis hated capitalism and America as it was (and still is). Not exactly the same as hating the nation, but if you hate everything that a nation is and represents, it’s a distinction without a difference.

    Here’s a decent article:
    http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/dreams_from_frank_marshall_dav.html

  4.   Kaleokualoha
      July 17th, 2009 @ 3:28 pm

    Sorry, but Davis did not \"hate capitalism\" either. He felt that unregulated capitalism is dangerous, not capitalism, per se. If you have any primary source evidence that he hated capitalism, rather than speculation from the likes of Paul Kengor, please provide the links or quotes.

    BTW: Paul Kengor is an especially unreliable source of information regarding Davis. He falsely reported that Roy Wilkins criticized Davis regarding a 1949 incident with the Honolulu NAACP (see http://www.aim.org/guest-column/return-of-the-dupes-and-the-anti-anti-communists). In fact, criticism came from rookie Honolulu NAACP board member Edward Berman (see Exhibit 4A of http://www.usasurvival.org/docs/hawaii-obama.pdf), not Roy Wilkins, and conveniently posted only by AIM\’s Cliff Kincaid.

    Although “I\’m hardly interested in proving my research to Kincaid or any of those whose work is a travesty to scholarship,\" University of Kansas Professor Edgar Tidwell, whom AIM\’s Cliff Kincaid cites as \"an expert on the life and writings of Davis,\" dismisses misrepresentation of Davis\’s influence in one simple paragraph:

    \"Although my research indicates that Davis joined the CPUSA as a \"closet member\" during World War II, there is no evidence that he was a Stalinist, or even a Party member before WWII. Further, to those attempting to make the specious stand for the concrete, there is no evidence that he instructed Barack Obama in communist ideology. Frank Marshall Davis did NOT believe in overthrowing the USA. He was committed to what the nation professed to be. For him, communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle to achieve a political end-a possible tool for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans.\"

  5.   Rockthrower
      July 17th, 2009 @ 4:07 pm

    Hey Haole –
    are you for real?
    “Communism was primarily an intellectual vehicle… for gaining the constitutional freedoms of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans.”

    Who do you think buys off on such pablum? Communism (along with other forms of totalitarian statism, such as Socialism and Fascism – a manifestation of the progressive LEFT, BTW) is antithetical to the American ideals of individual liberty, limited government, and freedom.

    So yes, Ross is correct: Frank Marshall Davis hated America, capitalism, and freedom. Your specious insistence on quotes (oh, well, Frank Davis was never recorded as SAYING he hated America, so it can’t be true) is ridiculous.

    Crawl back under the rock from whence you came – commie.

  6.   Kaleokualoha
      July 17th, 2009 @ 5:43 pm

    If you reread my post, you will see that the quote comes from Professor Tidwell, who provided the ONLY evidence that Davis actually joined the party. You cannot pick and choose evidence from one source to support your theory, and reject other evidence from the same source, because that is intellectual dishonesty.

    Frank Marshall Davis rejected collectivism. He was a capitalist. He owned two paper companies, and sold advertising specialties, in Hawaii. He joined the CPUSA because of the professional and social opportunities it presented.

    He joined the CPUSA during WWII, just as the United States joined the Soviet Union during WWII, not because they shared the delusion of a communist utopia. Each was a marriage of convenience. He joined because membership had its privileges, such as professional and social opportunities. He considered membership in the CPUSA as a “vehicle and tool” because, according to “The New Red Negro” (cited by AIM’s Cliff Kincaid as a source):

    “ONLY the Communist left had any significant institutional impact on African-American writing during the 1930s and 1940s. This support was crucial as the institutions that had maintained the New Negro Renaissance faded. And for better or for worse, the leading CPUSA functionaries involved in “Negro work” took a direct interest in African-American cultural production in a manner that was unusual, if not unique.

    Vilifying a writer for continuing to publish in CPUSA-supported publications, when they provided his only significant institutional support, is completely unfair. Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Frank Marshall Davis all took advantage of this institutional support.

    Further, as The New Red Negro makes clear, there was no monolithic Stalinist doctrine within the CPUSA: “This is not to say that the impact of the Communist Left on African-American writers in the 1930′s and 1940′s flowed from absolute unity of ideology and practical application of that ideology. As mentioned before, the CPUSA itself, despite the claims of both the party leadership and its most ardent detractors, contained various, often conflicting tendencies. This conflicts appeared within top leadership, where Earl Browder and William Z. Foster and their supporters were frequently at odds. They also surfaced in the regional leadership of important districts that were occasionally, and in the case of southern California frequently, in opposition to the national leadership. Finally, at the rank-and-file level, when leadership debates broke out into the open (as they did in 1929, 1956-1946, and 1956), the were replayed in almost every CPUSA unit, often serving as the vehicle for the expression of a wide range of “unorthodox” political beliefs (ranging from social democratic to anarcho-syndicalist.”

    “A huge proportion of African-American poets (and writers and intellectuals generally) remained engaged with the Communist Left and cultural institutions from at least the early 1930′s until at least the early 1950′s. With the partial exception of the period from the German invasion of the Soviet Union to the end of the Second World War, the CPUSA placed the issue of race and the fight against Jim Crow near the center of all its work.”

    The bottom line is that communist ties were common for African-American poets and civil right activists during that period. Such ties did not mean that they internalized Marxist values, much less Stalinist values, even if they were aware of the distinction. To them, the CPUSA provided safe harbor from the ravages of Jim Crow America.

    For those who question whether anyone would join the CPUSA without internalizing collectivist values, examples abound in more recent developments. Russians and Chinese joined their respective Communist parties because membership was important to professional advancement. Mikhail Gorbachev rejected these values in dismantling the Soviet Union. Leaders of the PRC’s capitalist boom are nevertheless pro forma Party members. According to CNBC’s “The People’s Republic of Profit,” the PRC now has over 100 billionaires – second only to the United States. Some Communist Party members are VERY successful capitalists!

    Even today people join some organizations, such as churches and the YMCA, without internalizing their core values because membership has its advantages. I believe everyone will agree that many so-called “Christians” have not internalized Christian values. Some could argue that Stalinism perverted the core values of Marxism, just as the Spanish Inquisition and pedophile priests perverted the core values of Christianity.

    BTW: As a retired Air Force Intelligence Officer with specific training in Deception Analysis by the C.I.A. in 1989, I am researching election disinformation. I am familiar with disinformation campaigns, starting with Operation Fortitude protecting the D-Day invasion, through Operation Left Hook protecting the coalition drive into Kuwait, and deconstructing the Bush administration “deliberate misrepresentation” of the Iraqi threat this century. The disinformation campaign against FMD fits the pattern precisely.

  7.   Kaleokualoha
      July 17th, 2009 @ 7:43 pm

    I challenge anyone to produce primary source evidence (i.e., Davis’s own writings) to support claims that he hated America or hated capitalism. Here is a link to his writing for the Honolulu Record: http://www.hawaii.edu/uhwo/clear/HonoluluRecord1/frankblog1949.html . Google books also offers extracts of his autobiography “Livin’ The Blues,” and a comprehensive collection of his writings “Writings of Frank Marshall Davis.” Both books were edited by Professor Tidwell, University of Kansas, cited by AIM’s Cliff Kincaid as an EXPERT on the life and writings of Davis.

    Specious speculation by putative pundits that Davis hated America or hated capitalism does not constitute evidence, nor does guilt by association due to his membership in various organizations. As they say on CSI: “Follow the evidence!”

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