Sunday, June 12, 2016

Solid Proof that the Law can be an Ass

An ass is a donkey, and donkeys are stubborn animals. If they do something once because they were trained or because they chose to, they tend to repeat doing the thing the same way. They will persist as if it were an inviolable law no matter how much effort you put into retraining them to do it differently.

This is also how the laws are made, and how they are applied. It is why a human judge must oversee the application of the laws, and why they cannot be fed into a computer (even if equipped with artificial intelligence) for the machine to adjudicate the cases. The reason is that human judges have the ability to see how something small can affect the big picture, thus avoid future complications. And so, judges use their discretionary powers to adjudicate according to what some people call the “natural law” and others call common sense.

Three recent articles having to do with the making of the law or its application, or having to do with quasi-legal arguments – shed light on the subject. They are (1) “Boycotting Israel Isn't free speech,” written by Eugene Kontorovich and published in the New York Daily News on June 11, 2016. (2) “The Anti-Israel Left Suffers a Rare, Close, and Welcome Defeat in Academia,” written by Theodore Kupfer and published in National Review Online on June 9, 2016. (3) “Four New Peace Plans for Palestinians,” written by Josh Gelernter and published in National Review Online on June 11, 2016.

Eugene Kontorovich makes the point that the State of New York is not violating the American Constitution, having legislated against the boycott of Israel. He maintains that the First Amendment protects free speech whereas the right to boycott is not a right to free speech. He discusses the logic of his argument citing cases that support it. Well, if someone were to take the case to court, it will certainly end up at the Supreme Court where the precedents cited by Kontorovich will be weighed against other precedents (such as Citizens United,) and decided one way or the other.

But the chances are that no one will take the New York law to court, anymore than the law pertaining to the Arab boycott of Israel was taken there. One reason is that a would-be plaintiff will want to avoid the publicity that the case will generate. Another reason is that he or she can get around such laws as easily as they can get a stubborn ass to do what they want … differently perhaps, but still achieve their goals as planned.

That, however, does not guarantee there will not be resentment of a different kind to having laws that punish American taxpayers by denying them the fruits of their own money for choosing to follow their conscience, and express solidarity with the Palestinian people who suffer under Israeli occupation. This being an example of Jewish depravity that's financed by the federal government using money also collected from the same public or borrowed from foreigners in the name of that public. How much hate can these people pack in a single act?

In fact, I witnessed how the possible ramifications of such a trend have horrified the people who lived this kind of horror. It happened in Canada that a Minister of Justice whose skull was as void as empty space, wanted to engineer for an executive ruling to favor the Jews at the expense of others. His aim was to set a precedent that will then be used by the regular courts, thus permanently put the Jews on a pedestal above everyone else.

And I happened to be in the company of people, one being a Jewish lawyer who was old enough to remember what happened decades earlier in Germany when the Jews tried to tamper with the laws of that nation. It led directly to the Holocaust, he cried out. It led to the Holocaust, he repeated again and again.

Luckily, there arose such uproar in Canada that the minister backed off from his sick idea. What this says is that making laws is like breeding asses; you never know how far they'll go till invoked by people who have as much affinity with common sense as a jackass. This condition, if you want to know, is what defines the Jewish culture, and what motivates the Jews to act. Not only that, it is also like a contagious disease that affects those with whom it comes into contact. It happened to a Canadian Minister once, and it happens to America's politicians at all levels all the time.

Thus, the solution to avoiding this sort of madness from taking roots in the first place is to raise uproar the moment that legislation of this sort is contemplated. The alternative is to wait for the Holocaust to happen, an event that will do a thorough job at expunging the law books of this kind of rubbish.

We now look at the Theodore Kupfer article. He says he is worried about the trend of academic associations passing resolutions in favor of the BDS movement to boycott Israel. His point is that “such resolutions are advanced [based on] the labeling of Israel as an apartheid state, the notion that its existence is an insidious instance of colonialism … Academic associations that endorse BDS tend to do so as part of a post-colonial impulse. It's hogwash.” And he does not elaborate further on this point.

Someone else did just that, however, not realizing how effectively he has demolished the fallacy which denies that the Zionist movement is a colonial project. The man is Josh Gelernter, the writer of the third article that's reviewed in this presentation. Given that what's happening in the Levant is universally recognized as being the result of the Sykes-Picot colonial project to redesign the borders of the region and better serve the interests of the colonial powers – any new suggestion to redesign the borders in the Palestine-Israel-Egypt region must be viewed as being a Zionist colonial project that will have the same nefarious effects as Sykes-Picot. And yet, that's exactly the project – periodically bandied about – that Josh Gelernter is trying to resurrect.

Having abruptly left the Theodore Kupfer article, we return to it. He wrote this: “In a recently filed lawsuit, the American Studies Association is accused of violating its corporate charter when it passed its boycott resolution … the legal team includes the legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich. Pow! Kaboom! That would be the same Kontorovich who wrote the article we discussed earlier.

Well, well, well, what have we here? We have a so-called legal scholar discussing the same case from both sides of his legal mouth. He sided with the defendant for one audience, and sided for the plaintiff for a different audience. Whereas he said that the State of New York had the right to deny its citizens (a third party) their own money if they boycott Israel, he now says that the academic association does not have the right to suspend a provision of its own rule of conduct; a suspension that neither denies something to a third party nor hurts them. And he does all this so that Israel can get it coming and going. Talking about intellectual dishonesty, this one takes Satan’s trophy.

This being a concept of justice so weird, it can only be Jewish. Indeed, Kontorivich has highlighted the stereotype of the Jews constantly doing the things that lead them to the gas chamber and the incinerator. And this is proof that when good men do nothing to stop evil in its tracks, evil triumphs and causes unimaginable horror.

So I call on all of you, good men and women out there, to rise up and tell the Kontorovichs and the Cuomos of this world to cease and desist. We do not want another holocaust on this planet.