Scary to Conservatives - but "Progressives" will love it! - Granite Grok

Scary to Conservatives – but “Progressives” will love it!

Conservatives, to a T, believe America (warts and all) is the best country that the world has ever known.  They believe in American Exce, and thus, wish the country to bow down to no others – complete sovereignty is a given with no compromise in any area (e.g., borders, financial, militarily, culturally).  Progressives, on the other hand, are often OK with ceding some level of sovereignty (e.g, to the UN, to the ICC, to the "collective" world community) so as to be liked and to fit in.

If you believe that our Constitution and our laws are part of that sovereignty, you may wish to be REAL scared of this guy that Obama wishes to appoint:

…As noted here last week by John Fonte, Ed Whelan and me, President Obama has tapped a died-in-the-wool internationalist, Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh, to be the State Department’s legal adviser.  Battle lines are being drawn regarding whether the United States is going to be a sovereign nation ruled by a Constitution voluntarily adopted by our body politic or a satellite in a world government under "the rule of law" as fashioned and evolved by international law professors, human-rights activists and other transnational progressives.

John Bolton has a typically excellent essay on the stakes involved in this month’s Commentary, here.

We are a nation that was founded on the idea that we should be free from all other nations.  Patriots by the millions have worked, fought, and died for the freedoms that America stands for and in which we share.  Our legal system is built on the idea of individual rights derived from our Creator and not, as some believe, from either Government or others that merely grant us those rights from time to time as they see fit  (the problem, lately, is that our politicians seem to so eager to forget that fact).

There is no way that I would want laws from other countries, many of which do NOT have our sense of liberty and due process, influence our legal system.   I have no stock in anything from Sharia law can offer me as a free citizen; heck, I don’t even like a lot of the French philosophical bent on laws and I have a LARGE problem with Britain’s lack of an institutionalized notion of our Right to Free Speech.

Putting someone in a high ranking that thinks otherwise is not to my liking…

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