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C 0 R R E S P 0 N D E N C E Hoary Anti-Semitism We should like to take this opportunity to offer a few remarks in reply to Mr. Thomas J. Mullen, Jr. In his letter (Correspondence, November),...
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...But if certain people are forced to make reparation are they not being punished...
...The courts have sometimes created unnecessary hardship by using busing to achieve racial balance...
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...T.'s "reparation theory" of constitutional law accurately expresses the principles of our great Constitution, since that theory demands, as in CharlotteMecklenburg and Denver, the punishment of those who are not in fact guilty...
...From where, exactly, do the courts derive the authority to "recreate society as it would have been ...absent illegal discriminatory laws and customs...
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...So, therefore, should he see the Soviet championing of Palestinian claims as a foil for Communist designs in the Middle East...
...Mullen's views lies in the adoption, as he admits, of the "Soviet party line in being concerned with the rights of the Palestinian people...
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...Israel, in a word, came to exist not as a colonial settler state but as a refuge, and that refuge had long held a Jewish population even through the Middle Ages...
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...Mullen's viewsmas others have denounced recent statements by his mentor, Spiro AgnewP as anti-Jewish and inimical to the defense of political liberty throughout the world...
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...T.'s presumption about "the natural state of American society" is sociologically and historically absurd, as well as incredible...
...unlike the negligent driver whose action is a violation of the law as well as a direct cause of injury, today's school boards (and the citizens whose children are bused) have neither broken the law nor harmed anyone...
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...Czarsponsored pogroms did not furnish the impetus in international politics that was sufficient to permit the establishment of a Jewish state...
...And to this day Israel's most vicious enemy, the PLO, has as its goal the annihilation of the Jewish state...
...Zionism is the name given to the national liberation movement of the Jews, a people that has suffered untold persecution on account of its stateless condition...
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...T. disputes my view of busing as punishment quite puzzles me, since the bulk and substance of his response is devoted to arguing on behalf of that view as a justification for busing...
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...Mullen implicitly does, while omitting mention of Israel's raison d'Stre, gives expression to antiJewish sentiment...
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...Thus, to submit to compulsory busing is to make reparation for the past wrong of discrimination...
...It is, instead, to root out the long-term effects of the past wrong...
...The courts can only assume that the natural state of American society, absent illegal discriminatory laws and customs, would be integrated...
...Zionists struggled to secure a small piece of land for a long persecuted people...
...T. believes this to be legal and just, I correctly demonstrate it to be illegal and unjust...
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...I am certainly not a wholehearted proponent of busing...
...Mullen might like to know that current leftist anti.Zionist rhetoric isborrowed from Russian rhetoric which has attacked Zionism since the turn of the century...
...Munson replies: Since I am not a lawyer, I would be the irst to admit that my knowledge of constiutional law is inadequate, perhaps even 'woefully" so...
...Munson, and other diehard opponents of busing, seem to forget that the traditional purpose of law is not only to put an end to present wrongs, but, also, to provide reparation for past wrongs...
...We both agree that the purpose of busing is punitive, or reparative...
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...In the mere twenty years since it has attained independence, however, Israel, the ultimate achievement of the Zionist movement, has had to fight four wars against aggressive neighbors in order to survive...
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...Mullen was trying to inspire fear of the Jewish lobby in America, and trying to depict it as omnipotent and conspiratorial...
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...The objective of the courts in busing cases is not to make the wrongdoers of the past pay for their "sins...
...His pedestrian-motorist analogy is simply false...
...T. not brag about his law degree, abandon his legalistic sophistry, and re-read the Constitution, the Brown opinion, and my article...
...Munson's basic premises in "Cruel and Unusual Punishment" (November) are (1) that busing violates the 14th Amendment because it classifies students on the basis of race, and (2) that the purpose of busing orders can only be punitive in nature...
...T.'s thinking reflects precisely the judicial reasoning that I among others have so thoroughly discredited...
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...Busing must be and should remain only a judicial tool of last resort--a tool which is to be used only when there is no other adequate method to enforce the design of the 14th Amendment...
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...The overriding purpose of that portion of the 14th Amendment most often involved in busing cases is to insure the equal protection of the laws...
...America, rather, is helping an already established democratic ally to defend itself against Arab and totalitarian advances...
...One would have hoped such canards about Jewish political activity had disappeared with the mass murder of European Jewry whose tormentors were fed such lies by Goebbels' propaganda machine...
...The anti-Israel position of Russian leaders, of course, is at one with Soviet domestic policy: it is grounded in pernicious lies...
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...Nevertheless, I stand by ny assertion that racial quotas in school tssignment are discriminatory and con;titute unequal treatment...
...Mullen manifests a shocking though hoary kind of anti-Jewish attitude, which, in his case, is bound up with an irony that can only be termed pathetic...
...In closing may we note that America is not "support[ing] the establishment of a Jewish religious state in the Mideast," as Mr...
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...As for ~is second criticism, I never said that the ' o n l y " purpose of busing is punitive, but :hat such a view rationally explains what seems totally irrational, namely, why and how the courts have come to require integration...
Vol. 10 • January 1977 • No. 4
