Latest Confirmed Nominee Sees Slavery in Liberalism

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/09/politics/09brown.html?ex=1118980800&en=072d350698a568e5&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY

Latest Confirmed Nominee Sees Slavery in Liberalism

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: June 9, 2005

WASHINGTON, June 8 - Janice Rogers Brown, the African-American daughter of Alabama sharecroppers who was confirmed Wednesday to the federal appeals court here, often invokes slavery in describing what she sees as the perils of liberalism.

Roll-Call Vote on Justice Brown (June 9, 2005) "In the heyday of liberal democracy, all roads lead to slavery," she has warned in speeches. Society and the courts have turned away from the founders' emphasis on personal responsibility, she has argued, toward a culture of government regulation and dependency that threatens fundamental freedoms.

"We no longer find slavery abhorrent," she told the conservative Federalist Society a few years ago. "We embrace it." She explained in another speech, "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."

To her critics, such remarks are evidence of extremism. This week, some Senate Democrats have even singled her out as the most objectionable of President Bush's more than 200 judicial nominees, citing her criticism of affirmative action and abortion rights but most of all her sweeping denunciations of New Deal legal precedents that enabled many federal regulations and social programs - developments she has called "the triumph of our socialist revolution."

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[trotsky]

1. She's got a point, but not in the way she thinks.

We're WAGE SLAVES to the corporations that wield so much power. But government regulation doesn't make us slaves, it's what keeps us from becoming outright property.

So clueless.

[Moderator]

2. duplicate

http://sync.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1535019