Janice Rogers Brown, Calfiornia Supreme Court Justice and DC Appeals Court nominee, is being pilloried for the following words:
"Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates, and our ability to control our destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege, war in the streets, unapologetic expropriation of property, the precipitous decline of the rule of law, the rapid rise of corruption, the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit..."My take is that they deserve to be carved in marble somewhere. The speech that she gave at the Federalist Society in April 2000, available here is a tour-de-force of the limited government, Hayek-inspired worldview in which Liberty is still valued. For this, she is considered by some to be a great danger to the liberal order.
Good lord, that's a bit of hyperbole. We get her point, but she must live in a very nice neighborhood.
Posted by: Cobb at October 25, 2003 05:03 PM