Alumnus slams Alito's `insensitivity'

[Algorem]

http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137229752128680.xml&coll=5

Saturday, January 14, 2006
By ELIZABETH LANDAU

PRINCETON BOROUGH - Princeton University alumnus Steven Dujack last night slammed Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. for his membership in the Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP), a conservative organization he said frequently published racist and misogynistic material.

"There was no possible justification for belonging to this group," Dujack told an audience of 30 in Princeton's McCormick Hall 101 last night. "To be proudly associated with it is sufficient to show his insensitivity."

Dujack, an environmental writer, was dropped from the list of witnesses to testify in the congressional hearings on the Alito nomination, he said, because of an article he wrote three years ago defending People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. In the article he quoted his Nobel-laureate grandfather Isaac Bashevis Singer: "To animals, all people are Nazis. For them it is an eternal Treblinka."

Some thought this "compared the Holocaust to eating hamburgers," he said, disqualifying him from testifying. Dujack wrote an op-ed piece published in Wednesday's Los Angeles Times to explain the situation and express his concern about Alito's CAP connection...

[BrklynLiberal]

1. kick

Guess they had to do some real heavy searching to find a reason to disqualify him from testifying.

[Mind_your_head]

2. Please correct me if I'm wrong here, but

Weren't the ONLY (two) people who testified in SUPPORT of Alito's nomination the two former clerks? They each had only clerked for him for one year, and would most likely 'have something to gain' if he sat on the SCOTUS?

That's kinda "slim pickin's" for a recommendation after someone of Alito's age has spent a lifetime relating/interacting with numerous people, isn't it?

(Now I must admit that I watched almost ALL of Wed. and Fri. proceedings....missed Thurs. totally. I don't have cable/tivo - could only watch via streaming internet CSPAN, so perhaps more than these two had 'nice things to say'. I am unaware of any 'heavy-hitters' recommending him to the bench).

[joanski0]

3. They had a whole panel of judges who worked

with Alito on the courts. They all sang his praises and the Republican Senators had a love-fest with those judges. Many of the Repub Senators knew them personally. They even flew out from California an old judge who was appointed by Lyndon Johnson singing Alito's praises. Those judges stick together, just like the law clerks did. The US Commissioner on Civil Right also sang Alito's praises (of course, he would have lost his job if he didn't).

[AlGuest]

4. I eat meat...

and I don't think it makes me evil. Defenders of PETA's junk
morality have no place in those hearing as they have zero
credibility. :eyes:

[Karenina]

6. I'm a meat-eater also

however, the point he quoted from his opa IS well-taken. Commercial meat production is ATROCIOUS. I soothe myself by patronizing local farmers.

[pinerow]

5. My problem with this fellow is that he belittles the Holocaust

in order to make a point...and if that was the best witness the eunuch Senate could muster, them we're in worse shape than we thought...:shrug: