A Monsanto defender nominated to the US Supreme Court by the C in C.

Is America great or what? Maybe not but by God that is definitely

a CHANGE that all Americans demand. More shit in our food.

http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2010/05/16/obama-s-latest-
monsanto-pick-elena-kagan#more11480

...The right is trying to raise dust about her running military recruiters off the Harvard Law School’s premises. Kagan did nothing of the sort. The recruiters were there, albeit without the School’s official imprimatur. Kagan objected to the Pentagon’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays (until it got judicial sanction, whereupon she gave an official imprimatur to the recruiters)—a nice insight into the relationship of sexual politics to the U.S. war machine. “Don’t tell” has been Kagan’s consistent policy regarding her beliefs and preferences, at least since that first photo of the youngster in judge’s robes, smoking a cigar….

...From 2005 to 2008, she was a paid advisor for Goldman Sachs. In those same confirmation hearings for the Solicitor General’s job she took the hard Bush-Cheney line that the world is a “battlefield” and kidnapping America’s presumptive enemies is just fine. As Jeffrey St Clair and I wrote in our newsletter recently, “There’s zero evidence that Kagan would do anything to redress the right-wing tilt of the Court and plenty that she might exacerbate it in the areas of executive power, civil liberties, and assertion of presidential war powers.”...

FULL STORY:
http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn05142010.html

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

Will a quote [reported by CBC] made by Ms Kagan fifteen years ago in Chicago
come to haunt the little lady?

  ” Kagan to the Supreme Court is an opportunity to rescue the confirmation
process from the “vapid and hollow charade” that it has become.

Talk about a hombre from Utah!

Too bad we haven’t yet gotten mature enough as a nation to dare to allow a Court nominee (or any other of the thousands of officials in government employment) to oppose international slaughter with weapons of mass destruction, for vague goals that lack any semblance of honest validity.

In this case, as in many others, millions of ordinary citizens are ahead of the curve.  Sadly, they can’t find ways to make themselves heard above the banging and booming of the military-industrial complex.