{"id":11166,"date":"2011-09-07T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11166"},"modified":"2011-09-07T12:15:35","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T16:15:35","slug":"mccarthyism-against-obama-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11166\/mccarthyism-against-obama-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthyism Against Obama is A Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not Joe McCarthy. <em>Andrew<\/em> McCarthy. In an absolute <em>tour de force <\/em>at the New Criterion magazine, McCarthy &#8212; the prosecutor who put the parking lot bombers of the World Trade Center (1993) in jail &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/articles.cfm\/The-ruler-of-law-7141\">outlines the manifold abuses of law<\/a> of Barack Obama and his Justice Department consiglieres, especially Attorney General Eric Holder. In doing so, he broadens and deepens and updates<a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2010\/11\/02\/justice-denied\"> a piece I did last fall<\/a> for The American Spectator &#8212; but with an extra dose of authoritativeness I could not match.<\/p>\n<p>Writes McCarthy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In flagrant violation of the Constitution\u2019s guarantee of equal  protection under the law, the Department of Justice now practices racial  discrimination in enforcing, and in choosing not to enforce, the  federal civil rights statutes. These laws, enacted to safeguard our  basic liberties, are not invoked when the victims are white and the  lawbreakers are black. The most brazen example of this noxious  policy\u2014but far from the only one\u2014is the Department of Justice\u2019s  astounding decision to drop a voter intimidation case against members of  the New Black Panther Party <em>even though Justice had already won the case<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As McCarthy explains, for Obama and his Alinskyite allies,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lawfulness and lawlessness, thuggishness and regular politics\u2014we\u2019re not  to divine any moral or ethical differences. They are just different  \u201capproaches\u201d to empowerment. They only \u201cseem\u201d to be \u201cdivergent.\u201d It may  be important to maintain the veneer of respect for legal processes, but  it is just as legitimate to stretch or break the rules whenever  necessary to achieve the desired outcome\u2014social justice being a higher  form of legitimacy than society\u2019s rule of law. Separatism, menacing, and  civil disobedience: none of these is beyond the pale; they are simply  choices on the hard power menu Obama \u201cbridges\u201d with soft power (i.e.,  the system\u2019s mundane legal and political processes).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Again, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newcriterion.com\/articles.cfm\/The-ruler-of-law-7141\">read the whole thing<\/a>.\u00a0 Great stuff. Scary, but oh-so-important for us to understand what we&#8217;re facing in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not Joe McCarthy. Andrew McCarthy. In an absolute tour de force at Commentary Magazine, McCarthy &#8212; the prosecutor who put the parking lot bombers of the World Trade Center (1993) in jail &#8212; outlines the manifold abuses of law of Barack Obama and his Justice Department consiglieres, especially Attorney General Eric Holder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3017,2123,1823,3016,24],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alinsky","tag-holder","tag-justice","tag-mccarthy","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11169,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions\/11169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}