Bork's new employ as political instructor underscores the wisdom of his being rejected to sit on the Supreme Court. He shows his personal bitterness by claiming Americans have lost their way. This passage is telling and misinforms us of history:
"But he (Clinton) is also a symptom of the combined effects of the spirit of 1968 and of our exploding media technology. The ‘68 generation believed that its moral superiority and purity of motive absolved it of any need for truth and decent behavior. Those people were, and many remain, antinomians, convinced that since they have been touched by the grace of radical politics, they are freed of normal restraints.
There are few today who believe the war in Vietnam was a just war. Most Vets feel their country's leaders betrayed them by not letting them fight to win.. their bodies were sacrificed to a lack of political will to take on Hannoi, while the war machine's industrial complex got rich. Those who had the courage and moral superiority to withstand ridicule and abuse stood up and protested the war.. they, not Bork, showed they stood for truth and decent behavior.
Bork continues.. This, too, has worked a deep corruption in the nation. People who are not in the least radical, or even interested in politics, eagerly accept the pleasures made possible by collapsing restraints. This, in turn, protects Clinton because the collapse of moral barriers means acceptance of moral relativism, and that means a refusal to judge the behavior of others.
He accuses the nation of having failing morals! Bork is the one showing collapsing restraint. Both Clinton and Bork are the same, each wagging their finger at us!
Where does he stand on privacy, where has Bork stood up to complain against special prosecutors opening the private lives of any citizen to public scrutiny?
Remember who complained so vehemently at his privacy being invaded over video rental records.. which led to the 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act (Bork Bill). Bork is like easy listening radio.. its easy to forget the original tune. |
