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“Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.” Mark Judge
Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
As I watched Anita Hill giver her 1991 testimony to the Senate Committee hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court, I was profoundly moved by it. What courage and dignity she showed in that ordeal.
As I watched Anita Hill giver her 1991 testimony to the Senate Committee hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court, I was profoundly moved by it. What courage and dignity she showed in that ordeal.
Now we have a similar situation with reports coming out
about another sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh who has been nominated by the
king of sexual predator’s Donald Trump, to replace Anthony Kennedy on the
so-called Supreme Court.
It is a tremendous honor among bourgeois circles to make it
on to the Supreme Court. Budding young legal scholars attending capitalist
think tanks like Yale, Harvard, Stanford and so forth, dream of making it and
will do just about anything to get there. The links between these families and
influential people begin at an early age and develop further in their
universities. The struggle in the ranks of the upper middle classes to climb
even higher is ferocious and begins at a very early age.
They hang out, party, trade favors, and, in such patriarchal
circles, women have to do their share of trading and have to learn how to keep
their mouths shut if they want to make it in their world. Socialists have to
support the right of bourgeois women not face discrimination on the basis of
gender.
In
his writing over the past few years, Judge has suggested that revealing clothes
can lead to rape, praised men who know how to be “the boss” with their
wife, and celebrated the beauty of “uncontrollable male passion.”
Like all of them, these connections are maintained
throughout life as Wikipedia
points out”, More
than half of Kavanaugh's law clerks have been women (25 of 48) and more than a
quarter have been people of color. A number of Kavanaugh's law
clerks are the children of other judges and high profile legal figures,
including Clayton Kozinski (son of former federal Judge Alex Kozinski), Porter Wilkinson (daughter of Judge J. Harvie
Wilkinson III), Philip Alito (son
of Justice Samuel Alito), Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld (daughter of Yale
Law Professor Amy Chua), and Emily Chertoff (daughter of former
DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff).
Hostility to workers and organized labor
The circle and class that Kavanaugh is from is naturally hostile to all people they consider weaker than themselves, not as successful as themselves. To be kind, show solidarity, have empathy with those less fortunate is weakness in their world. They see their privilege as a consequence of their superior being. They are naturally anti-worker and along with that anti-union.
The circle and class that Kavanaugh is from is naturally hostile to all people they consider weaker than themselves, not as successful as themselves. To be kind, show solidarity, have empathy with those less fortunate is weakness in their world. They see their privilege as a consequence of their superior being. They are naturally anti-worker and along with that anti-union.
When workers at a meatpacking plant in Brooklyn decided they
wanted a union and in fact unionized, the company, a renowned abuser of workers
named Agri Processor, refused to bargain, then they said the workers were
undocumented and couldn’t be covered by collective bargaining laws. In other words after profiting from their tenuous position they snitched on them. A District Court disagreed with the company
as did the NLRB. The only judge that agreed with the bosses was Kavanaugh. He
also opposed the fines OSHA hit SeaWorld with after the death of one of the
trainers Dawn Brancheau
,opposing OSHA having any rights to regulate the industry. The movie Blackfish describes the terrible conditions that Orca’s were forced to
endure and the exploitation of the workers at Sea World who were told to lie
and pretend they were experts on these creatures. The company even attempted to
blame the victim suggesting Brancheu’s ponytail or perfume triggered the
attack.
Kavanaugh
has also supported rulings that have been beneficial to Trump, “Kavanaugh joined two other
Republican-appointed judges in a unanimous 2012 ruling
in favor of the Trump Organization, after company executives asked the NLRB to
throw out the results of a union election at Trump Plaza, arguing that support
from politicians had introduced bias” And, “As a July Bloomberg article points out, in 2015 Kavanaugh sided
with the management of Sheldon Adelson’s Venetian Casino Resort in a similar
case, authoring a majority opinion upholding the casino’s First Amendment right
to summon police to issue citations to union protesters trespassing on company
property.”
Misogynists
and racists like Trump and other members of the good old boys clubs are not
having an easy time of it. I am watching Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony at the moment, being questioned
by some of the most powerful old men in the world, all of them defenders of a system
that exploits working people on a daily basis. While the Republican Party appears to be ahead in its degeneration and decay, the Democrats among them cannot be trusted to defend the rights of women or the working class. The best protection against
sexual harassment on the job is to collectivize, to unionize. Some of the most
abused women in this regard are those that work in the hotel industry.
The US ruling class is the most violent and brutal on the planet, the head of a nuclear armed rogue state.
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