Der Chef-Richter des Supreme Courts, Rehnquist, starb vor ein paar
Tagen. Ein führender Reaktionär, der zeit seines Lebens für
Rassensegregation und gegen "civil rights", für den
"Ueberwachungsstaat", für die vorbehaltlose Anwendung der Todesstrafe
und ähnliche Dinge kämpfte.
[engl. Zitate siehe link unten, The Nation, Bruce Shapiro]
"... look back at the life of Rehnquist and the life of New Orleans
and it is possible to discern a moment in which the biographies of
this judge and this city collided."
"The terrible events of recent days should force the entire country
to look back at where such doctrines, taken for granted in the
Rehnquist era, come from and where they lead. That means looking back
at New Orleans 110 years ago. It is heartbreaking to imagine a black
New Orleans so proud and idealistic that it could not imagine the
Supreme Court would betray its aspirations. It is sobering to look
back at New Orleans, not just as the beloved city of jazz and
restaurants, but as the legal birthplace of Plessy vs. Ferguson [das
ist der erste Prozess um die Rassentrennung. Plessy verlor und
Rehnquist half 1952, das Grundsatzurteil zu bestätigen, was aber
nicht gelang] and thus of the Supreme Court's approval of racial
segregation and of the state's rights theories that served as
segregation's bulwark."
"And it is important to remember that William Rehnquist showed so
little regard for the social consequences that follow from his
unrelenting application of conservative legal theory. The legacy of
segregation, of "states' rights", of "limited government", is visible
in the ranks of the dead and those made homeless by this storm. To
look back is to look forward with clear eyes. But like his mentor,
Justice Rehnquist, Judge Roberts [der wahrscheinliche Nachfolger
Rehnquists als Chief Justice] pledged himself to the conservative
faith as a young man, and has never once looked back."
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/shapiro
Tagen. Ein führender Reaktionär, der zeit seines Lebens für
Rassensegregation und gegen "civil rights", für den
"Ueberwachungsstaat", für die vorbehaltlose Anwendung der Todesstrafe
und ähnliche Dinge kämpfte.
[engl. Zitate siehe link unten, The Nation, Bruce Shapiro]
"... look back at the life of Rehnquist and the life of New Orleans
and it is possible to discern a moment in which the biographies of
this judge and this city collided."
"The terrible events of recent days should force the entire country
to look back at where such doctrines, taken for granted in the
Rehnquist era, come from and where they lead. That means looking back
at New Orleans 110 years ago. It is heartbreaking to imagine a black
New Orleans so proud and idealistic that it could not imagine the
Supreme Court would betray its aspirations. It is sobering to look
back at New Orleans, not just as the beloved city of jazz and
restaurants, but as the legal birthplace of Plessy vs. Ferguson [das
ist der erste Prozess um die Rassentrennung. Plessy verlor und
Rehnquist half 1952, das Grundsatzurteil zu bestätigen, was aber
nicht gelang] and thus of the Supreme Court's approval of racial
segregation and of the state's rights theories that served as
segregation's bulwark."
"And it is important to remember that William Rehnquist showed so
little regard for the social consequences that follow from his
unrelenting application of conservative legal theory. The legacy of
segregation, of "states' rights", of "limited government", is visible
in the ranks of the dead and those made homeless by this storm. To
look back is to look forward with clear eyes. But like his mentor,
Justice Rehnquist, Judge Roberts [der wahrscheinliche Nachfolger
Rehnquists als Chief Justice] pledged himself to the conservative
faith as a young man, and has never once looked back."
> http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/shapiro