USSC Justice Ginsburg To Egyptians: Don’t Model Your Constitution After America’s, It’s Too Old… Try South Africa’s Instead

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The following excerpts (marked with asterisks *) were taken from the transcription of an interview (see video below) conducted by Egyptian television station Al Hayat with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. They have been provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.

* Ginsburg: “It is a very inspiring time – that you [Egyptians] have overthrown a dictator, and that you are striving to achieve a genuine democracy. So I think people in the United States are hoping that this transition will work, and that there will genuinely be a government of, by, and for the people.”

This statement alone proves how completely out of touch with reality Justice Ginsburg truly is. While Egypt has indeed overthrown a dictator, she fails to mention that he [Hosni Mubarak] was largely friendly to both the U.S. and Israel, promoted stability in the Middle East and encouraged political and religious moderation. Now that he is gone, Egypt has been overrun by Islamic extremists who threaten the stability of the entire region.

Islamist Success In Egypt Puts Israel In Peril – Jerusalem Post

The success of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egyptian parliamentary elections and the Islamist party’s pending inclusion in the government is a victory for the Palestinians and puts Israel’s security situation in peril, Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in an interview with The Independent published on Saturday.

While U.S. State Department Spokesperson Victoria Nuland said Thursday that the Muslim Brotherhood had given Washington assurances that it would honor Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel, Haniyeh said that Cairo would no longer close its border with Gaza to help Israel blockade the territory, nor would it support any Israeli military operations in the Strip.

“The Palestinian cause is winning,” Haniyeh was quoted as saying by the Independent. “With the Muslim Brotherhood part of the government [in Egypt], they [the Egyptians] will not besiege Gaza. They will not arrest Palestinians. They will not give cover to Israel to launch a war.”

The Hamas leader stated that he envisions his cause benefiting from the changes occurring in the region, and Israel suffering from the developments.

“Gaza was a main reason for the Arab Spring. It was people’s anger at the regimes that co-operated with Israel and did not recognize the government here,” Haniyeh said.

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A young Egyptian girl holds up a banner that reads “Death for Israel” in both Arabic and Hebrew during a protest at the al Azhar mosque

* Ginsburg: “I can’t speak about what the Egyptian experience should be, because I’m operating under a rather old constitution. The United States, in comparison to Egypt, is a very new nation, and yet we have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world.”

Okay, to begin with, Justice Ginsburg is NOT “operating under a rather old constitution”. As perhaps the most activistic, leftist judge to ever sit on the Supreme Court, she believes in a “living, breathing” constitution, which is to say that she believes in no constitution at all. (see ‘Our Living, Breathing Constitution‘) What Ruth Bader Ginsburg operates under is judicial fascism.

Furthermore, if she “can’t speak about what the Egyptian experience should be,” why the hell is she even giving this interview? I’d also like to know why she believes that, because she feels she operates under an old constitution, that somehow disqualifies her from opining about the kind of “experience” Egyptians should have.

How’s this for a suggestion, Ms. Ginsburg? The Egyptians – along with everyone else in the world – should experience true religious and political freedom, and create a constitution which defends their God-given rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They should adopt America’s bill of rights, because within that framework they would be guaranteed the freedom to speak openly about their individual views without fear of being arrested, practice the religious faiths of their choice, carry firearms as a means of defending themselves against an oppressive regime, peaceably assemble, petition their government for a redress of grievances, and so on. Or are those ideas too OLD to be viable in the 21st century?

* Ginsburg: “You should certainly be aided by all the constitution-writing that has gone on since the end of World War II. I would not look to the U.S. constitution, if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012. I might look at the constitution of South Africa. That was a deliberate attempt to have a fundamental instrument of government that embraced basic human rights, had an independent judiciary… It really is, I think, a great piece of work that was done. Much more recently than the U.S. constitution – Canada has a Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It dates from 1982. You would almost certainly look at the European Convention on Human Rights.”

Let me get this straight, Justice Ginsburg, you “would NOT look to the U.S. constitution” if you were drafting one this year. Really? So, even though you’ve just admitted that ours is the oldest (and, therefor, most successful) constitution in force in the world today (as well as the most liberating and beneficent one ever conceived of in human history), you wouldn’t model a new constitution after it. And your reason for taking this position is… what exactly?

You seem to be saying that because our constitution is old, it’s useless as an example to other nations of how a successful constitution should be constructed. Such a notion is so horrifyingly stupid that I find it difficult to believe a sitting Supreme Court Justice could espouse it.

If ever a case could be made for the impeachment of a judge, this is it. Ms. Ginsburg’s own words prove beyond all reasonable doubt that she is incapable of critical thinking, either because she has allowed the insidious disease of Marxism to influence her thinking for far too long, or because she has simply grown senile in her declining years.

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