Equal does not mean special

Bob Pearcy — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:15:30 +0000

Equal does not mean special. Letter to the editor published in the Idaho Press-Tribune on May 17, 2009 Once someone explained to me the statue of Blind Justice often seen in our court buildings. She is blindfolded so that she distributes justice impartially without respect to race or creed, but solely on the basis of principle embodied in the law. Delmar Stone wants our nation to jettison such equal protection under the law for the sake of a diversity system akin to affirmative action in which someone gains more of a hearing than someone else because the plaintiff belongs to a social group somehow classified as underprivileged. This would give weight to something other than the merits of the person’s case. As Mark Levin explains in his book, “Liberty and Tyranny,” that is the road to tyranny, anarchy and oppression. It may sound wonderfully egalitarian, but it completely nullifies our Constitution. Even the word “diversity” sets aside the ‘e pluribus unum’ melting pot which has made us one nation out of many peoples. It shows favor to one group and pits it against all others. That would result in a balkanization of our country with no end of civil disorder. Read books such as The Dictatorship of Virtue by Richard Bernstein or The Menace of Multiculturalism: Trojan Horse in America by Alvin Schmidt and you learn that such pitting people groups against one another for the sake of diversity is based in Marxism, not the freedoms we have cherished for 232 years. Phil Bohlken, Caldwell I want to thank Phil and the Idaho Press-Tribune for letting me post this on my blog. And I appreciate that the Press-Tribune prints these letters in their paper without bias.

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Equal does not mean special