I got an e-mail forward recently that I thought it was one of the bogus ones always making the rounds. It said that the U.S. Department of Justice had adopted a new design for its website (red, white and blue to black) and the following words appeared on the masthead:
"The common law is the will of mankind issuing from the life of the people."
I took issue with the statement because that has never been the origin of English or American common law. Could it be? Off to the DOJ website I went and - sonovagun! - it was all true.
The author was purportedly one C. Wilfred Jenks. Here is a little bit more background about Mr. Jenks from the American Spectator:
"... the quote originates from British lawyer, C. Wilfred Jenks, who back in the late 1930s and after World War II was a leading figure in the "international law" movement, which sought to impose a global, common law, and advocated for global workers rights. Jenks was a long-time member of the United Nation's International Labor Organization, and author of a number of globalist tracts, including a set of essays published back in 1958, entitled The Common Law of Mankind.
Most telling: Jenks, as director of the ILO is credited with putting in place the first Soviet senior member of the UN organization, and also with creating an environment that allowed the ILO to give "observer status" to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and to issue anti-Israeli statements, which precipitated efforts by the U.S. Congress to withdraw U.S. membership from the ILO. The U.S. actually did withdraw in the mid-1970s due to the organization's leftist leanings."
That's about par for this Administration, especially Eric Holder. The "will of mankind"? The "people" as in lumpen proletariat ? What are we talking about here Comrade Holder?
(Tip o' the hat to Ray Ramsay)
(Tip o' the hat to Ray Ramsay)
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