Marcus Aurelius
2013-05-09 00:21:49 UTC
According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, reverse
discrimination is:" discrimination against whites or males (as in
employment or education) "
By it's very definition "affirmative action" is both racist and
sexist.
The following is the Gettysburg Address which President Abraham
Lincoln gave on Thursday November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the
Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we
can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the
living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they
who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
The following is the URL of the Wikipedia website which describes the
"Gettysburg Address":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
Unfortunately, the political establishment of the United States
government has forgotten the lessons of the American Civil War and the
Gettysburg Address.
Rather, it continues on the path of discrimination and privilege based
upon race, gender, color and national origin through affirmative
action and other overt and covert laws and policies.
As per the Gettysburg address, it is for men's rights activists and
other freedom loving citizens" It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have
thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is the legal definition of " Reverse discrimination"?
"Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations
designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group
members; i.e., positive steps designed to eliminate existing and
continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of past
discrimination, and to create systems and procedures to prevent future
discrimination; commonly based on population percentages of minority
groups in a particular area. Factors considered are race, color, sex,
creed, and age."(Free online Law Dictionary:http://legal-
dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Action)
The Free Online Law Dictionary discusses the history of "affirmative
action" and it's definition at the web page of the following URL:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Action
Affirmative action is not limited to employment but, also, includes
education, the receipt of social services, and many other
governmental, private, and other benefits, freedoms, and privileges.
It can even mean the exclusion of Caucasians and/or men even if the
same are better qualified by reason of education, expertise, or
temperament.
Legal arguments against affirmative action include those that assert
that it is in violation of the equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution as well as
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Do "Affirmative Action" and similar laws amount to "Bills of
Attainder" and "Ex Post Facto" laws forbidden by the U.S.
Constitution?
It appears to me that they do.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
"A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of
attainder) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of
persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without privilege of a
judicial trial."( "Wikipedia, Bill of Attainder,http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Attainder)
The Wikipedia web site describing Bills of Attainder further describes
how the U.S. Constitution forbids Bills of Attainder and the history
of Bills of Attainder and laws against them:
The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder
under Article I, Section 9. The provision forbidding state law bills
of attainder, Article I, Section 10, reflects the importance that the
framers attached to this issue.
"Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws
serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers,
by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive
functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of
necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody
the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article
I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law
shall be passed".
The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of
attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution Article I, Section 12
reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the
obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall
work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate. Contrast this with
the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1
(Titled Bill of Rights) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex
Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No
bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law
impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made". (Wikipedia,
"Bills of Attainder",http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Attainder)
The following is the URL of a VDARE website entitled: " When Quotas
Replace Merit, Everybody Suffers":
http://www.vdare.com/articles/when-quotas-replace-merit-everybody-suffers
This article, by Peter Brimelow, describes the deleterious affects of
"affirmative action" on our society, culture, economy, and body
politic.
Here is a partial quote from the same:
" If quotas are clogging the Clinton transition, what are they doing
to the economy? The subject went unmentioned, needless to say, at
Clinton's two-day economic summit in Little Rock. In fact, it has gone
virtually undiscussed throughout the quarter-century of bureaucratic
and judicial decrees that have effectively transformed the color-
blind 1964 Civil Rights Act into a pervasive quota system.
Ironically, just as socialism has collapsed across the globe, the
leading capitalist power has adopted a peculiarly American
neosocialism, putting politics (and lawyers) in command of its
workplace, albeit on the pretext of equity rather than efficiency.
Says Edward Potter of the Washington, D.C.-based Employment Policy
Foundation: "We have, without doubt, the most far-reaching equal
employment laws found anywhere in the world."
Before applauding Potter's sweeping statement, stop for a minute and
ponder this question: What does the replacement of merit with quotas
cost the American people? The answer is: plenty. The impact may easily
have already depressed GNP by a staggering four percentage points—
about as much as we spend on the entire public school system.
Quotas are not the law of the land, exactly. They are explicitly
banned in both the 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts. Nevertheless,
corporate America has been terrorized by the legal legerdemain whereby
any statistical disparity between work force and population is equated
with intentional discrimination. Throughout American business, newly
entrenched affirmative action bureaucrats are enforcing discrimination
by race and sex—in favor of the "protected classes" (women, minorities
and, most recently, the disabled)—as decreed by Washington."
discrimination is:" discrimination against whites or males (as in
employment or education) "
By it's very definition "affirmative action" is both racist and
sexist.
The following is the Gettysburg Address which President Abraham
Lincoln gave on Thursday November 19, 1863 at the dedication of the
Soldiers National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania:
"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the
proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,
or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting
and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we
can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say
here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the
living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they
who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from
these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly
resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation,
under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of
the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth."
The following is the URL of the Wikipedia website which describes the
"Gettysburg Address":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address
Unfortunately, the political establishment of the United States
government has forgotten the lessons of the American Civil War and the
Gettysburg Address.
Rather, it continues on the path of discrimination and privilege based
upon race, gender, color and national origin through affirmative
action and other overt and covert laws and policies.
As per the Gettysburg address, it is for men's rights activists and
other freedom loving citizens" It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have
thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated
to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a
new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people,
for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
What is the legal definition of " Reverse discrimination"?
"Employment programs required by federal statutes and regulations
designed to remedy discriminatory practices in hiring minority group
members; i.e., positive steps designed to eliminate existing and
continuing discrimination, to remedy lingering effects of past
discrimination, and to create systems and procedures to prevent future
discrimination; commonly based on population percentages of minority
groups in a particular area. Factors considered are race, color, sex,
creed, and age."(Free online Law Dictionary:http://legal-
dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Action)
The Free Online Law Dictionary discusses the history of "affirmative
action" and it's definition at the web page of the following URL:
http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affirmative+Action
Affirmative action is not limited to employment but, also, includes
education, the receipt of social services, and many other
governmental, private, and other benefits, freedoms, and privileges.
It can even mean the exclusion of Caucasians and/or men even if the
same are better qualified by reason of education, expertise, or
temperament.
Legal arguments against affirmative action include those that assert
that it is in violation of the equal protection clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution as well as
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Do "Affirmative Action" and similar laws amount to "Bills of
Attainder" and "Ex Post Facto" laws forbidden by the U.S.
Constitution?
It appears to me that they do.
What is a Bill of Attainder?
"A bill of attainder (also known as an act of attainder or writ of
attainder) is an act of a legislature declaring a person or group of
persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without privilege of a
judicial trial."( "Wikipedia, Bill of Attainder,http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Attainder)
The Wikipedia web site describing Bills of Attainder further describes
how the U.S. Constitution forbids Bills of Attainder and the history
of Bills of Attainder and laws against them:
The United States Constitution forbids legislative bills of attainder
under Article I, Section 9. The provision forbidding state law bills
of attainder, Article I, Section 10, reflects the importance that the
framers attached to this issue.
"Within the U.S. Constitution, the clauses forbidding attainder laws
serve two purposes. First, they reinforced the separation of powers,
by forbidding the legislature to perform judicial or executive
functions—since the outcome of any such acts of legislature would of
necessity take the form of a bill of attainder. Second, they embody
the concept of due process, which was partially reinforced by Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution. The text of the Constitution, Article
I, Section 9; Clause 3 is "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law
shall be passed".
The constitution of every State also expressly forbids bills of
attainder. For example, Wisconsin's constitution Article I, Section 12
reads:
No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor any law impairing the
obligation of contracts, shall ever be passed, and no conviction shall
work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate. Contrast this with
the subtly more modern variation of the Texas version: Article 1
(Titled Bill of Rights) Section 16, entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex
Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No
bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law
impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made". (Wikipedia,
"Bills of Attainder",http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Attainder)
The following is the URL of a VDARE website entitled: " When Quotas
Replace Merit, Everybody Suffers":
http://www.vdare.com/articles/when-quotas-replace-merit-everybody-suffers
This article, by Peter Brimelow, describes the deleterious affects of
"affirmative action" on our society, culture, economy, and body
politic.
Here is a partial quote from the same:
" If quotas are clogging the Clinton transition, what are they doing
to the economy? The subject went unmentioned, needless to say, at
Clinton's two-day economic summit in Little Rock. In fact, it has gone
virtually undiscussed throughout the quarter-century of bureaucratic
and judicial decrees that have effectively transformed the color-
blind 1964 Civil Rights Act into a pervasive quota system.
Ironically, just as socialism has collapsed across the globe, the
leading capitalist power has adopted a peculiarly American
neosocialism, putting politics (and lawyers) in command of its
workplace, albeit on the pretext of equity rather than efficiency.
Says Edward Potter of the Washington, D.C.-based Employment Policy
Foundation: "We have, without doubt, the most far-reaching equal
employment laws found anywhere in the world."
Before applauding Potter's sweeping statement, stop for a minute and
ponder this question: What does the replacement of merit with quotas
cost the American people? The answer is: plenty. The impact may easily
have already depressed GNP by a staggering four percentage points—
about as much as we spend on the entire public school system.
Quotas are not the law of the land, exactly. They are explicitly
banned in both the 1964 and 1991 Civil Rights Acts. Nevertheless,
corporate America has been terrorized by the legal legerdemain whereby
any statistical disparity between work force and population is equated
with intentional discrimination. Throughout American business, newly
entrenched affirmative action bureaucrats are enforcing discrimination
by race and sex—in favor of the "protected classes" (women, minorities
and, most recently, the disabled)—as decreed by Washington."