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"You would have to be a capitalist or Rip Van Winkle to expect anything positive to come from Trump’s appointments, but that’s not the point. Looking at his two latest to be “questioned” by the Senate, we can see how the capitalist class rules, how it controls the government. *Supreme Court Nominee Neil Gorsuch*Consider Neil Grouch, nominee for the US Supreme Court: Gorsuch was born with a silver spoon in his mouth (as was Trump) and attended an elite (and conservative) Catholic school. His mother, Anne Gorsuch, was appointed by Reagan to run the EPA and had to resign in disgrace due to investigations over what amounted to corruption. So, well connected from birth. He attended the elite, Harvard law school and from there went on to clerk for US Supreme Court justices White and Kennedy. So we see how, right from birth, Gorsuch was born into and connected to the upper reaches of the capitalist class. He parlayed these connections, including those with the Supreme Court, into a job at the law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figal. Through that job, he connected up with the far right billionaire Phillip Anschutz. Anschutz, in turn, “inherited an oil and gas firm and built it into an empire that has sprawled into telecommunications, railroads, real estate, resorts, sports teams, stadiums, movies and conservative publications like The Weekly Standard and The Washington Examiner,” according to the New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news>. His net “worth” is close to $13 billion. Meanwhile, Gorsuch, Anschutz and other billionaires jointly bought a vacation lodge in the Colorado mountains. And it was Anschutz who is primarily responsible for Gorsuch’s nomination. Anschutz is a major donor to the right-wing Heritage Fund, and it was Heritage that provided the list of potential Supreme Court nominees which Trump adopted. Gorsuch was at the head of that list. So we see how his connections from birth all the way through adulthood brought Gorsuch to the brink of being on the Supreme Court.... "*Alexander Acosta* Unlike Gorsuch, Acosta did not have the good sense to be born to the rich, famous and powerful. Instead, he took a slightly different path: He “chose” Cuban immigrants – the right-wing “gusanos” – as parents. In Miami, where he was born and raised, the Cuban immigrant community is a powerful bloc for the right wing capitalists. Acosta, too, graduated from the elite Harvard law school and clerked for future Supreme Court Supreme Court judge Samuel Alito, who was then on the Third Circuit Court. Similar to Gorsuch, he parlayed that to a position on one of the world’s most elite corporate law firms, Kirkland & Ellis LLP. *Federal Attorney and the Epstein Affair*In 2005, Acosta went to serve as the US Attorney for Southern District of Florida. Three years later, he proved his reliability to the capitalists in the case of Jeffrey Epstein. A fabulously (some might say “suspiciously”) successful Wall Street investor, Epstein retired from that business to a mansion in Florida, where he started another business: Procurer of young (as young as 13 years old) girls for the rich and famous. He used his mansion for orgies (also known as “parties”) to which he transported the young girls for the pleasure of older and more powerful men. He also had a tricked out airplane, known as the “Lolita Express” on which he flew his guests to his private island in the Caribbean. The island was known as “Sex Slave Island.” Among guests on the Lolita Express were both Bill Clinton, and Donald Trump was also a close associate of Epstein. (See this article <https://oaklandsocialist.com/2016/10/10/capitalist-predators-sexual-and-otherwise/> for the details. ) In 2008, on the complaint of one of these underage girls, Epstein was brought up on federal criminal charges. It was here that Acosta proved his value to his class, as he cut a deal giving Epstein a mere six months in country jail (rather than prison) for a crime whose usual punishment is ten years. Not only that, but Epstein was allowed to leave jail during the day and only return to sleep there at night!"... https://oaklandsocialist.com/2017/03/22/gorsuch-and-acosta-representing-the-financial-environmental-and-sexual-predators/ -- "No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them." Asata Shakur Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com and // www.facebook.com/WorkersIntlNetwork?ref=stream _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
