Days Volume Two

* I have witnessed liberal totalitarianism on many fronts as both a lawyer and a judge, but it is fair to say that I probably would not have written this book if I had not had my own, very direct run-in with the tyrants of tolerance. That unpleasant personal experience forced me to do some serious thinking about what is happening to American law, how it is happening, and who is making it happen. And finally it convinced me to write this book, and to accept whatever consequences came from publishing it. That run-in occurred when I dared confront one of the most active elements of liberalism: the radical feminists. “Manifesting Bias” If Social Security is the “third rail” of American politics, then sex is the third rail of American law. Anyone who touches it, except in the manner approved by the tyrants of tolerance, is fried. In this realm, the tyranny of tolerance is best described as rule by the radical feminist cadre of liberalism. Like the rest of the illiberal liberals, femifascist...

* "She checked her desk drawers, a habit she developed on her first job. They were still locked. Detectives were some of the biggest thieves out. Any loose change, pens or paper vanished if an officer left their desk unattended for even a minute. She switched on her computer and waited while it booted up. Her swollen foot throbbed faintly... Nothing she could see suggested dodgy dealings or falling share prices, and a check of the annual report showed the company had a good credit rating and its business loans were with responsible local banks." Kathyrn Fox Skin and Bone. Fragile, as if nothing mattered any more, as if his ancient bones were dying inside him, as if all that effort had been for nothing; with ancient corridors, an infinity of touch, the astonishing detail the closer he came. He couldn't throw off the images, the endless metallic silver corridors, the criminal awaiting, the disorder in his soul. He had been low before, but this was a different depth. He cou...

* The search for extraterrestrial life does not contradict belief in God, the pope's chief astronomer said on Tuesday, adding that some aliens might even be innocent of the original sin. "As an astronomer I continue to believe that God is the creator of the universe," Jose Gabriel Funes said in an interview with the Vatican mouthpiece, the Osservatore Romano. Even if "we don't currently have any proof ... the hypothesis" of extraterrestrial life cannot be ruled out, said Mr Funes, a Jesuit priest who directs the Vatican's observatory at Castel Gandolfo, near Rome. "Just as there are a plethora of creatures on Earth, there could be others, equally intelligent, created by God," he said. Original sin, which by Christian tradition occurred in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit of a particular tree, refers to the fallen state from which humans can be saved only by God's grace. Asked about the difficult theological quest...

* http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=585 May 19, 2008 The slippery slope to dehumanisation Daily Mail, 19 May 2008 When abortion was first legalised in 1967, that pioneering law was presented as a humane measure designed to end the hazards of backstreet abortion. Few could then have foretold that, four decades later, the abortion rate would be running at 200,000 per year and that thousands of women would have had at least four abortions. Even fewer could have foreseen that, as a result of the profound change in attitude brought about by the Abortion Act, the beginning of life would have been arbitrarily redefined from the moment of conception to 14 days’ gestation for the sole purpose of allowing scientific experimentation upon early embryos — including the creation of animal/human hybrids. Today, MPs vote on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in a changed climate. Many people have come to believe that all this has simply gone far too far. An initially civilised ge...

* "So pervasively has PC penetrated the establishment that there is almost nobody prepared to gainsay it; most people see PC as just a problem of the political classes and the 'metropolitan elite' being completely out of touch through their own self-interest. Not understanding the origins of PC - in despising the masses for their apostasy - the complaint is that if only those who 'rule' us could get closer to the people, then all would be well." Steve Moxon. When all is lost, when a frail speck is caught on the frothing tide, when he grasped his own minuteness in the grand scheme of things, these moments, brutal, cruel, the squashing of insects, was what he felt now as he faced the biggest challenge of his life. He was surrounded by the opaque grey that had been trying to envelop him for days, but now he was inside the vast chamber of the core. Even though part of him knew it was only a visual representation of something else, it was still an awe inspiring sig...

* "Even better, perhaps at long last we will abandon the adolescent notion of relentless progress that has had such a hold of us. This residue of Christian thought at the root of our Western utopianism leads not just to the 'personal is political' daftness in our own countries, but to politics as war in fruitless ventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We might make most progress by rejecting 'the progressive project' in favour of a renewal of mature realism." Steve Moxon, Progressing Backwards. Clouds were forming and then dissipating, he was besieged by thoughts of a fresh start, strange things were happening, his head hurt constantly, he was nervous even getting up from his desk and going to the toilet. Some things were wrong. Even the sheets of grey that were cascading through him had taken on a nasty, silver tone, dicing flesh as they moved. He as screaming in silence and had no way to move. He would have preferred anything to this; apathy, blindness, a dead h...

* "Was ever a situation so set up for a fall? Perhaps there will be just a gradual dawning followed by a 'what was that'? inquisition, but could there be rapid implosion? Once the blindfolds with which the twentieth century has left us are wrenched off, there should be a distinct feeling of liberation. Though the political Left will be rightly held responsible for the new PC totalitarianism, its collapse may herald the resumption of a genuine 'progressive project'; one based on a full acceptance of science, rather than a resort to Freudian Marxism, post-structuralism or other forms of discredited mumbo-jumbo." Steve Moxon. There was little likelihood the voices were human. And little doubt they came from another place outside of time. He was hesitant to embrace inter-dimensional jargon; but equally he could almost hear them, feel them, from a time long ago when this was a very different place. Asphalt, concrete, houses, crowded lives, negligence, insouciance, ...