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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),...
...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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...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...
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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...
...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...
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...From where, exactly, do the courts derive the authority to "recreate society as it would have been ...absent illegal discriminatory laws and customs...
...Mullen opposes the advance of Communism...
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...It is not clear, for example, whether busing is supposed to be a remedy for "past wrong" or "past harm," two distinguishable things which Mr...
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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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...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...
...Fortunately, even the Nixon Court eems to recognize as much...
...Zionists struggled to secure a small piece of land for a long persecuted people...
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...Nevertheless, I stand by ny assertion that racial quotas in school tssignment are discriminatory and con;titute unequal treatment...
...In this light it is singularly perverse to term Zionism the "mortal enemy" of the Arab states as Mr...
...The courts have sometimes created unnecessary hardship by using busing to achieve racial balance...
...To what purpose, in what conceivable service of truth, did your journal recently expose Ken Woodward's cloying antiCatholicism, if your editor reserves the right to strike at Mr...
...Mullen implicitly does, while omitting mention of Israel's raison d'Stre, gives expression to antiJewish sentiment...
...Mullen, siding with Spiro Agnew, alleges...
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...And to this day Israel's most vicious enemy, the PLO, has as its goal the annihilation of the Jewish state...
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...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 his letter (Correspondence, November), Mr...
...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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...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...
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...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...
...T. writes that "the traditional purpose of law is...to provide reparation for past wrongs...
...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...
...Czarsponsored pogroms did not furnish the impetus in international politics that was sufficient to permit the establishment of a Jewish state...
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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...
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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...
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...Holding that question aside, suppose the courts expanded Mr...
...T.'s presumption about "the natural state of American society" is sociologically and historically absurd, as well as incredible...
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...When a pedestrian is injured through the negligence of a motorist it would be foolish to argue that we should do no more than enjoin the motorist from such acts in the future...
...But if certain people are forced to make reparation are they not being punished...
...We both agree that the purpose of busing is punitive, or reparative...
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...Barbara Nauer Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana Woefully Inadequate As a lawyer, it is obvious to me that Steven Munson's understanding of constitutional law is woefully inadequate...
...The anti-Israel position of Russian leaders, of course, is at one with Soviet domestic policy: it is grounded in pernicious lies...
...In the same way, the ourts must have a free hand to fashion emedies designed not only to end illegal iscrimination, but also to eradicate the Larm which that discrimination has aused...
...Thus, to submit to compulsory busing is to make reparation for the past wrong of discrimination...
...In a year marked by cynical, unimaginative, and astonishingly peevish political commentary, it sets a new low...
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...Would we accept a court order to deport the large percentage of our black population whose ancestors were slaves...
...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...
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...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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...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...
...It is, instead, to root out the long-term effects of the past wrong...
...Both of these premises are faulty...
...T. says this s a "faulty" interpretation of the 14th ~mendment (what about the Civil Rights ~.ct...
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...It is, moreover, quite evident from the conditions under which Israel came into being that Mr...
...The objective of the courts in busing cases is not to make the wrongdoers of the past pay for their "sins...
...Mullen's claim is blatantly false...
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...The courts can only assume that the natural state of American society, absent illegal discriminatory laws and customs, would be integrated...
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...America, rather, is helping an already established democratic ally to defend itself against Arab and totalitarian advances...
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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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...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...
...T.'s thinking reflects precisely the judicial reasoning that I among others have so thoroughly discredited...
...The amendment would be weak, indeed, if it could only be used to stop discriminatory practices without also allowing the courts to shape remedies to overcome the effects of past discrimination...
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Vol. 10 • January 1977 • No. 4
