THank you Mark --- I find the analogy to Earl Warren interesting --- Let us remember that Hugo Black, the "great' defender of Civil Liberties on the Supreme Court has been part of the ruling that permitted the incarceration of the Japanese Americans --- From what I learned from the details in the Kaufman biography --- which despite my serious criticisms of the book is worth reading --- he was a very ambitious, self-centered person, without much "saving grace" --- Maybe Warren's tears were genuine.
We gave Kaufman a chance to "come clean" in the 1970s --- we even offered to meet with him to :"discuss'" the issue --- (Fat chance!) On Sat, May 4, 2024 at 10:18 AM Mark Baugher via groups.io <mark= [email protected]> wrote: > > https://monthlyreview.org/2024/01/01/judge-irving-kaufman-the-liberal-establishment-and-the-rosenberg-case/ > > I just read MM's article and recommend it for the insights it gives on US > liberalism: "Liberal democracy is fine as long as the basis of the system > is not threatened. When it is, well, liberals can always fall back on the > cliché that the Constitution is not a suicide pact and make sure that the > truly “dangerous” people—Communists and other leftists—are dealt with by > any means necessary." That is a point that I made for a much different > context in https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/WoRxrTa1qC1iMm5dt3k0uPzx/. > > MM's article also illustrates the general process of isolating the left by > shifting the population to the right, leaving the activists with little > popular support, and then persecuting them to eliminate the threat they > pose to the system. That was the strategy developed by the trial judge, > the prosecutors he met with secretly, the FBI, politicians, and key members > of the US Supreme Court that drove the Rosenberg's prosecution. It > illustrates that in the conflict between power and principle, power wins > whenever the stakes are high enough. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30229): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30229 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105906693/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
