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It was the "Progressives" that supported him anyway.
Amazing what people will tolerate in the name of progress.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Was a goddamn fascist.
"Three generations of imbeciles are enough." - Oliver Wendell Holmes defending the compulsory sterilization of a retarded rape victim and her perfectly normal daughter
The entire twenties was like the most fascist era of human existence ever.
"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong
It was the "Progressives" that supported him anyway.
Amazing what people will tolerate in the name of progress.
Last edited by Epicurus; 08-31-2008 at 01:59 PM.
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The Progressive movement supported some good things and an assload of fascist ones. Prohibition was a "progressive" accomplishment. The compulsory sterilization program, however, was the most crude and lowest out of all of them.Originally Posted by Epicurus
Holmes did make some good opinions, like when he changed his mind about free speech during war time (after the war, of course). But he had a serious fascist streak.
"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong
Him and Brandeis are still darlings of "progressive" types...
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Well Three, I'd like to remind you that all the conservative justices concurred with him as well. Holmes concurrence was just particularly noted for its vulgar language.
Holmes and Brandeis defended free speech and Brandeis was way ahead of his time in citing a "right to privacy" in his ruling on wiretapping.
But as I said before, Holmes still had a severe fascist streak.
Last edited by Panda Hugger; 09-01-2008 at 09:11 PM.
"Women hold up half the sky." - Mao Zedong
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." - Mao Zedong
In a federal ruling, a right to privacy should be backed up by the constitution... Now if Brandeis was a SC justice of NY, he'd have made more sense...
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-Midcan5 (liberals on freedom)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-Ib1yysguy (liberals on honoring fallen soldiers)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-apple0154 (liberals on constitutionalism)
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