Harold Koh: Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

Ok, so I was looking at Drudge and after the first 1200 or so stories about swine flu, I found one about Obama's nomination to be the legal adviser to the State Department, ,Harold Koh. I couldn't find anything about him that wasn't riddled with right or left wing bias, so I found some writings by our friend Harry via my Alma Mater's online library...oh boy. You know how the European Court of Justice trumps what any individual EU country's court says? That's completely fucked up, right? Not according to Harry. I learned a new word today kids: transnationalism. Specifically, transnational law. Koh counts himself among the followers of Justice Harry Blackmun (one in a line of many terrible Republican appointees) in the belief that, 'the Supreme Court should look beyond the national interests to the mutual interests of all nations in a smoothly functioning legal regime'. It's the Supreme Court of the United States of America, America is a nation, I'm quite sure that the Supreme Court need only concern themselves with national fucking interests. On the other side of this debate are those referred to as nationalists. Koh says that transnationalists, 'tend to emphasize the interdependence between the US and the rest of the world, while nationalists tend instead to focus more on preserving American autonomy'. Let me see if I have this right, transnationalists and nationalists have opposite views. Nationalists believe that America should remain a sovereign nation. That must mean that transnationalists aren't really all that concerned with whether or not America keeps its sovereignty. WHAT THE FUCK!?

How in the fucking world is this the person that Obama is nominating to be the top legal adviser for our country? When will the grovelling end? When will we stop kissing the collective ass of the international community and worry about what is going on in our own country? When will someone finally say 'enough is enough, what the fuck is it with you and these atrocious nominations Barry?'

Harry also wants global gun control! Isn't that lil' law professor cute? Awww...lookit him all naive and hopeful. What's that Harry? You want to create a tracking system for all arms sold throughout the world? Sure Harry, we'll get right on that, would you like a Unicorn horn too? How about a mermaid? I'm sure Harry is a bright guy, you'd almost have to be to become the dean of Yale Law School, but it seems like he has fucking pixie sticks in his head when it comes to this global arms tracking agency. The fucking Super Friends couldn't even pull that off.

With Souter retiring, and six of the remaining eight Justices shitting into Depends while writing legal opinions, this Koh nomination spells disaster for the way the Supreme Court might look in a few years. Oh, the ICC says that capital punishment is illegal? Sorry America, (nevermind individual states...you know what...that pesky 10th amendment, we're goign to throw that thing out) we have to uphold international law. No way, international law also dictates that 12 is the legal age of consent? Alright, we'll take their word for it. After all, the international community has brought us such brilliance as multiple acts of genocide, apartheid, familicide (ok, killing your spouse or kid, I was just trying to be witty and use a bunch of words that rhymed) and numerous other human rights atrocities. But we'll go along with them. Oh, Shariah law is now considered to be valid in the international community? Alright, all you gays that want to get married, we're going to throw rocks at you until you die. What's that teenage girl? You were raped? LIAR! We'll throw rocks at you too. Lovely.

Will someone besides powerless idiots with blogs start bitching about this please? Preferably someone that can stop it. Every day becomes worse. You think it can't possibly get worse, and then Koh happens. There is certain to be a number of Koh's, and I'm certain to open up my computer and bitch about them.

Until then, I'll watch baseball and cry like a little baby.