November 07, 2005

What PFAW means by 'far right"
Nov 2, 2005 by Terence Jeffrey

During the confirmation battle over Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, whenever you hear a liberal calling the judge "far right," think of the instant dossier published about him by People for the American Way (PFAW). It is an excellent indicator of what this phrase means to the American left.

Terance Jeffrey recently published the above commentary. While it is obviously about the Alito nomination, that is not why I am writing about it today.

This little article very carefully summarizes the situation this nation has gotten itself into regarding who is "entitled" to be treated as a person - and how courts have decided that all humans are NOT persons, in the name of "privacy rights." It is a doctrine that should be branded as evil by ANY lover of liberty, no matter what their religious convictions may be: the situation should be condemned by conservatives, liberals, right, left, as well as libertarians: only the tyrant and totalitarian could stomach such a thing.

Other nations, too, have decided when humans are not persons, but we in the United States used to believe that those nations were evil - even when we had legal slavery in this nation, the slaves were recognized as "other persons" and NOT damned as non-persons. One such nation called certain people "untermenschen" - "under (less than) people." They used them as lab animals, as beasts of burden, and they exterminated them like rodents. The United States has joined these evil nations, in principle, and increasingly, in practice.

That the supreme court of the land, and many, many lower courts, have decided that certain persons, based on their location (inside the womb) are not really persons, not really people, not entitled to protection under our Constitution, not entitled to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" in the words of the Declaration of Independence, is a nearly unspeakable crime and tragedy. In the words of another age, this is an offensive odor, a stench, in the nostrils of God. Yet it is defended by left and even right, and even by those who claim to love liberty.

How can any land of freedom, of justice, of liberty, subscribe to such an evil doctrine? I do not know. Jeffrey blames "the American left," but I fear the whole nation must be held accountable.

Nathan Barton,

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