Editorials/Bork, Now More Than Ever/Marxist Hashish Handlers
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
EDITORIALS BORK, NOW MORE THAN EVER Washington Judge Robert H. Bork, President J Reagan's nominee to replace Justice Lewis F Powell, Jr. on the Supreme Court, is going to be making heavy weather...
...Today it is Senator Kennedy who can be dismissed as a reactionary...
...But to find Marxist economists counseling industry one has to travel to such industrial paradises as Albania, Bulgaria, and Vietnam—now one of the poorest nations on earth...
...U.R.P.E...
...I.B.M...
...Since Dr...
...His sagacious writings and his winning appearances on Capitol Hill reveal him as a conservative and a man of our times...
...That old crank who in the last century made such a pest of himself at the reading room of the British Museum never said anything true or useful about economics, or anything else for that matter...
...Times change...
...What is no surprise is that most of the Marxist economists are university professors or economists for state governments...
...Modern liberal politics has handed over the burden of reform to the courts...
...In recent decades liberal legislators have been pleased to allow the Supreme Court to do the controversial work of setting national standards in such areas as abortion, affirmative action, capital punishment, and school prayer, where no congressional majority could be mustered for their positions...
...members still believe that liberal democracies keep people in chains...
...on the Supreme Court, is going to be making heavy weather of it over the next few weeks as he is battered on the high seas of partisan politics...
...Nonetheless, despite the fact that Marxism is as useful to an economist as his neighbor's toothbrush, the Timesreports that there are approximately 1,000 members of U.R.P.E., and that the group is growing ever more influential...
...Some years ago the Wall Street Journal exulted in apprising readers that America's poverty line was at that time about $1,000 above the Soviet Union's median family income...
...Judge Bork's moderation is manifest even in his fundamental judicial principle...
...Why has this so angered his critics...
...We move from judiocracy back to old-fashioned democracy...
...Indeed he is not...
...Then with smiling faces they can wink their apby R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr...
...As our judges have become the makers of law, our Congress has become a colony of actors...
...The New York Times reports that the Union of Radical Political Economics (U.R.P.E...
...About this particular fracas, there is something, however, that is decidedly unfair...
...He provided mankind with a compelling new rationale for killing one's neighbor...
...Blue-collar workers and the poor are especial targets of their bizarre theories...
...Remember Dr...
...Marxist economics does not eliminate poverty...
...He does not advocate the judicial activism that might justify his opponents' blood curdling yells but rather judicial restraint, which favors measured changes at best...
...It returns the courts to theirproper role of adjudging the constitutionality of the legislators' work...
...Marx's contribution to knowledge is not in the realm of economics but in the realm of warfare...
...him as an "extremist," who are relicts from another time, 1964 to be exact, when conservatism could with some justification be labeled extremist...
...His readings of the Constitution are quite as contemporary and as relevant as those of the man he will replace, Justice Powell...
...The Senator apparently lives in an endless 1964 when conservatives were belabored as racists and reactionaries...
...Against him has been marshaled a prodigious array of interest groups most of whom are allowed the dispensation of claiming to be above partisanship and motivated solely by noble ideals such as population control, unfettered personal liberty, a well-educated Republic...
...Marx's passing more people have been slaughtered in his name than in the names of any potentate or ayatollah ever heard of...
...Indeed, applying Marxist economics can be a heavy labor...
...That is a surprise...
...In an era of judicial restraint, they are going to have to take responsibility for their acts and answer to the electorate...
...It encourages democratic process...
...and pronounced UR-PEA) has just held its annual summer conference...
...It is his critics, those deriding Adapted from RET's weekly Washington Post column syndicated by King Features...
...They argue that the dinosaur imperils all these good things...
...He and the other surprisingly vitriolic critics of Judge Bork who predict that his confirmation will conduce to an abrupt break with custom might recall that it is they who are the usual champions of abrupt change...
...Things could be worse...
...After all, how many universities or state governments operate at a profit...
...proval to their liberal constituents and when with aggrieved conservatives don the grease paint and commiserate...
...contained large numbers of economists from the world of private industry or banking...
...Next to the blue-collar workers of Communist countries THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR NOVEMBER 1987...
...Since then conservatives have taken their case persuasively to the people...
...Bork would return it to elected representatives...
...Their real complaint is that Judge Bork is not one of them...
...represents the nation's Marxist economists, and there on the business page of the Times the assembled Marxist economists are pictured, attired in work shirts and denims, their faces unshaven, their hair unkempt, all dressed as though they had just finished a day of heavy manual labor...
...Conservatives oppose such change, and there is nothing in the record of Judge Bork or of any of President Reagan's other conservative nominees to suggest that they will encourage any species of radicalism...
...That is the way things go in an era of changing political values, and the era of change will not end with the adjournment of the Reagan Administration...
...A lone federal judge who has sided with his colleagues in 95 percent of their cases, not one of which has been overturned by the Supreme Court, is now inveighed against as a dinosaur of the Tyrannasaurus rex variety...
...Senator Kennedy's harangue against Judge Bork during the hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee sounded quaint, to say nothing of bigoted...
...It is not because judicial restraint will reverse their policies instantaneously but because it will change one of the least noticed conventions of modern liberal politics...
...His main defenders are conservative groups presumed to be partisan...
...It is quite as misleading to speak of Marxist economics as it is to speak of chiropractic science...
...Then, this great city will go into a boil over some other passing horror...
...In truth, the groups above alluded to—Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Education Association—have in recent decades fallen under the sway of liberal Democrats and of persons further left, as have most other organizations in the anti-Bork coalition...
...Was it in good-natured jest that the Times placed this picture of Marxist economists exactly adjacent to the headline: "Dow Gains 23.60 Points...
...It merely assists patriots in transforming their countries into prison camps...
...Marx's great line from The Communist Manifesto, "The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains...
...That ought to worry workers and the impoverished...
...All good U.R.P.E...
...It provides a swell rationale for thwarting modern man's longing for freedom...
...Judicial restraint encourages law made by legislators, not by courts...
...One of their own has been inhabiting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue since 1980, and the country has prospered in comparative tranquility at least when weighed against the 1970s and the ghastly 1960s...
...What would have been news would be if U.R.P.E...
...Well, once again, he was wrong...
...10 MARXIST HASHISH HANDLERS New York Now here is a delightful specimen of Americana for you...
...Nonetheless, according to my reading of the stars, he will be confirmed...
...He has forgotten nothing from the past and learned nothing from the conservative present...
Vol. 20 • November 1987 • No. 11
