The World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime
www.worldcantwait.org
December 13, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Stan Rogouski at 866-973-4463, ext 4,
Far-right supporters of Judge Alito have adopted a ‘put thy enemy
to sleep for the glory of the Lord’ strategy. But make no mistake: Judge Alito
is a far right-wing ideologue who’s been nominated for the court by George Bush
for one reason, to become part of his program to ‘to radically remake society
very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come’ (from the Call to
Drive Out the Bush Regime).
Post reporter Marcia Davis provided us with a clear view of
this lulling strategy last week in her coverage of a press conference by the far-right
group Concerned Woman of America, founded by Tim LeHaye of ‘Left Behind’ fame
and his wife Beverly.
Confronted by a group of anti-Bush protesters from World
Can’t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime on the idea that the nomination of Alito
will lead to the repeal of Roe vs. Wade and a serious danger to the health of
American women, CWA spokesperson Jan LaRue compared Alito, not to Scalia or
Clarence Thomas, but to David Souter.
‘We have heard the same tired rhetoric that women will
die,” LaRue said, holding up what she said was a flier from David Souter’s
confirmation process which read that women would die. “The American people
are tired of the same attacks.”
For the past 5 years, the far-right’s greatest fear has been
that George Bush would appoint another David Souter-centrist who would not
oppose Roe vs. Wade.
Samuel Alito is not another Souter, or O’Connor. His views
on Roe vs. Wade and on the idea that the President can spy on American citizens
have already been made clear from briefs he wrote written in the 1980s. He’s a
far-right ideologue who has an anachronistic view of women he undoubtedly
picked up from his friends at Opus Dei. He’s fully in compliance with the ideas
of Tim and Beverly LaHaye on women’s rights and abortion rights.
That Jan LaRue is invoking Souter demonstrates that the
far-right is going for the stealth strategy, hoping to lull the Democrats and
the rest of us into thinking Alito’s not so bad after all, that he’s just business
as usual. Alito is not business as usual. He’s another example of why George W.
Bush needs to step down immediately.