Whew! Discouraging. The corruption of the courts seems now far advanced. Story: When I was in Duke Divinity School the Durham NC, sit-ins and attempts to integrate things were fully underway. One evening some friends (White and Black) tried to integrate a restaurant; they were thrown to the ground and badly treated. In a seminar the nex…
Whew! Discouraging. The corruption of the courts seems now far advanced. Story: When I was in Duke Divinity School the Durham NC, sit-ins and attempts to integrate things were fully underway. One evening some friends (White and Black) tried to integrate a restaurant; they were thrown to the ground and badly treated. In a seminar the next day (before it started) we complained that this was like the Nazis---to which the professor (Hans Hillerbrand, whose father was a pastor in Germany and friend of Martin Niemöller and was put in a camp by the Nazis but got out) smiled his wry smile and replied to the effect: It is not; the courts have not yet been corrupted. I fear that now we are in the era of corrupted courts in this country.
Your story of "listen to those whose experience has taught them" reminds me of some college "Stop the War" colloquium I went to in (I think) 1969. One speaker was Leo Lœwenthal, a Jewish refugee from the Frankfurt School who (I think) had recently retired from a post at Berkeley. One student radical stood up to loudly denounce the fascist Nixon government. Lœwenthal waited until he was done, and then quietly pointed to the various French doors and windows in the room and said (at I recall it), "You have very inefficient Fascists here in America. We have been here for over an hour. In Germany there would be troops with submachine guns in each of those entries." It shut up the hyperbole, but the memory has recently made me consider that our home-grown fascists may have learned that rot from within existing structures is more efficient than brute force.
Another good story. As things have progressed with the courts I’ve often thought of Hans’ comment with relief. I now think we’ve passed over a dangerous threshold while the Democrat party has been asleep about judges ...
Whew! Discouraging. The corruption of the courts seems now far advanced. Story: When I was in Duke Divinity School the Durham NC, sit-ins and attempts to integrate things were fully underway. One evening some friends (White and Black) tried to integrate a restaurant; they were thrown to the ground and badly treated. In a seminar the next day (before it started) we complained that this was like the Nazis---to which the professor (Hans Hillerbrand, whose father was a pastor in Germany and friend of Martin Niemöller and was put in a camp by the Nazis but got out) smiled his wry smile and replied to the effect: It is not; the courts have not yet been corrupted. I fear that now we are in the era of corrupted courts in this country.
G. Zinn--
Your story of "listen to those whose experience has taught them" reminds me of some college "Stop the War" colloquium I went to in (I think) 1969. One speaker was Leo Lœwenthal, a Jewish refugee from the Frankfurt School who (I think) had recently retired from a post at Berkeley. One student radical stood up to loudly denounce the fascist Nixon government. Lœwenthal waited until he was done, and then quietly pointed to the various French doors and windows in the room and said (at I recall it), "You have very inefficient Fascists here in America. We have been here for over an hour. In Germany there would be troops with submachine guns in each of those entries." It shut up the hyperbole, but the memory has recently made me consider that our home-grown fascists may have learned that rot from within existing structures is more efficient than brute force.
Another good story. As things have progressed with the courts I’ve often thought of Hans’ comment with relief. I now think we’ve passed over a dangerous threshold while the Democrat party has been asleep about judges ...
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