The Warren Court is Long Dead -- so is Diallo

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Mon Feb 28 14:30:49 PST 2000



>Well, you might as well sneer at socialist ideals,w hich also seem to
>remain in the display case.

Apples and oranges, my friend. Maintaining socialist ideals is a rather rarefied posture in this society, but *everyone* has the sanctity of the law drummed into him/her at a very young age. We are all indoctrinated with the notion that being "a nation of laws not men" protects us from the whims of entrenched power.


>But this is not what you mean. You mean that I fail to realize that we live
>in a deeply racist system where justice is class justice, although I do
>believe this and have said it.

Absolutely, but you still seem to get excessively misty-eyed when some of our great national saints are processed about. A few days ago, you posted to the list:

"because I am not as left as some of you, I have establishment heros too--I think the Constitution, for all its flaws, is a great achievement; not least because of the 14th Amendment; I am a great admirer of John Marshall and OW Holmes, Learned Hand, Hugo Black and Thurgood Marshall. Towering over our landscape is the shadow of Lincoln."

OW Holmes -- wasn't he the champion of the little guy who wrote, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough," in support of compulsory sterilization? And (leaving aside the question of how a shadow can tower over a landscape) wasn't Lincoln the fellow who bounced the Bill of Rights around but good while trying to preserve his precious Union?

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