Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: No protestanti nella corte suprema USA

Pare che l'ultima nomina di Change Obama sia una chiavica.
Carriera universitaria su basi etniche, nessuna paratica come giudice.
Insomma un'altra ebrea alla corte suprema.
E, sorpresa, solo cattolici ed ebrei in essa, nessun protestante.
President Obama has nominated Elena Kagan for Justice of the United
States Supreme Court on the basis of an academic publication record,
which might give her a fighting chance for tenure at a first rate
correspondence law school in the Texas Panhandle.
A review of her published scholarship after almost two decades in and
out of academia turns up four law review articles, two brief pieces
and several book reviews and  in memoriam.  There is nothing even
remotely resembling a major legal text or research publication.
Her lack-luster academic publication record is only surpassed by her
total lack of any practical experience as a judge: zero years in
adjudication, unless one accepts the line of her exuberant advocates,
who point to Kagan’s superb ability in adjudicating among the
squabbling faculty at Harvard Law School when she served as Dean.  No
doubt Kagan had been very busy as the greatest fundraising Law School
Dean in Harvard’s history ($400 million), which may account for the
fact that she never found time to write a single academic article
during her nine year tenure (2001-2009).
The criteria for her appointment to the Supreme Court have little to
do with academic performance as it is understood today in all major
universities.  Nor does her total inexperience as a judicial advocate
compensate for academic mediocrity.
The evidence points to a purely political appointment based, in part,
on social networks and certainly not on her lack of affinity for the
agenda of the liberal wing of the Democratic Party.  Kagan’s approval
of indefinite detention of suspects squares with the extremist
restrictions on constitutional freedoms first articulated during the
Bush Administration and subsequently upheld by President Obama’s
Attorney General Eric Holder.  It is no coincidence that Kagan
appointed a notorious Bush torture advocate, the genial Jack
Goldsmith, to the Harvard Law faculty.
Elena Kagan’s appointment certainly was not based on “diversity”.  She
will be the third Jew on the Supreme Court and, together with the six
Roman Catholics, will decide the most critical cases with far-reaching
and profound impact on citizens’ rights and protections.  For the
first time in US history the nation’s largest demographic group, the
Protestants (of any hue or gender), will have no representative on the
Court, thereby excluding the descendents, like retiring Justice
Stevens, of the brilliant, strongly secular judicial heritage that
formulated the US Constitution, the Bill of Rights and its
amendments.
Kagan’s nomination to the US Supreme Court is not exceptional if we
consider many of Bush and now Obama’s choices of advisers and
officials in top policymaking posts.  Many of these officials combined
their diplomas from Ivy League universities with their absolutely
disastrous performances in public office, which no amount of mass
media puff pieces could obscure.  These Ivy League mediocrities
include the foreign policy advocates for the destructive and unending
wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan and the leading economic
advisers and officials responsible for the current financial
debacles.  The names are familiar enough:  Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams,
Levey, Greenspan, Axelrod, Emmanuel, Indyk, Ross, Summers, Rubin, et
al: Prestigious credentials with mediocre, or worse, performances.
What is the basis of their rise?  What explains their ascent to the
most influential positions in the US power structure?
One hypothesis is nepotism . . . of a certain kind.
Elena Kagan got tenure at the august halls of the University of
Chicago in 1995 on the basis of one substantive article and one brief
piece, neither outstanding.
With this underwhelming record of legal scholarship, she became
visiting professorship at the Harvard Law School, published only two
more articles (one in Harvard Law Review) and received tenure.
Prima facie evidence strongly suggests that Kagan’s ties to the
staunchly Zionist faculty at both Chicago and Harvard Law Schools (and
not her intellectual prowess) account for her meteoric promotions to
tenure, deanship and now the US Supreme Court, over the heads of
hundreds of other highly qualified candidates with far superior
academic publication records and broader practical judicial
experience.
The public utterances and political writings of innumerable Harvard,
Princeton, Chicago, Yale, John Hopkins professors, whether it be on
the speculative economy, Israel’s Middle East wars, preventative
detention, broad presidential powers and constitutional freedoms are
marked by a singular mediocrity, mendacity and an excess of hot air
reeking of the barnyard.
If you do not qualify on the basis of excellent scholarship or broad-
based practical experience, your ethnic tribesman will wax ecstatic
over you as a “wonder colleague”, a “superb teacher”, a “brilliant
consensus builder” and a “world champion fund raiser”.
In other words, if you have the right connections and political
ambitions, they can adjust the criteria for tenure at the University
of Chicago, the deanship at Harvard Law School and a lifetime
appointment to the US Supreme Court.
Elena Kagan joins a long list of key Obama appointees who have long-
standing ties to the pro-Israel power configuration.
Like Barack Obama, Elena Kagan started her legal apprenticeship with
the Chicago Judge Abner Mitva, an ardent Zionist, who hailed the newly
elected President Obama as “America’s first Jewish President”,
probably his soundest judgment.

 E, sorpresa, solo cattolici ed ebrei in essa
i cattolici invece come sono stati scelti, se gli ebrei li hanno presi
solo su basi etniche?

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Non so da indagare.

 E, sorpresa, solo cattolici ed ebrei in essa, nessun protestante.
Io pi� che dei protestanti mi preoccuperei delle risse se solo
solo sono un decimo di come sono Nauhm e Logi ;-)
Ciao!