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Entry: Big Brother in Brussels Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/big_brother_in_brussels#6839 Post contents: Sid, I was a friend--a close friend--of Russell Kirk's for 35 years; I spent a full year in Mecosta as his personal assistant, editorial assistant, and several years ago donated several dozen letters between Kirk and myself to the Southern Hisotircal Collection over at UNC-CH. I am also one of the co-founders along with other Kirk assistants (there aren't that many of them) of Permanent Things, the Kirk email list. Now, you make some statements about Kirk, but you base them on really nothing at all. Kirk, I repeat, opposed Brown v. Board of Education, as well as the so-called "civil rights" bill of the 1960s, as usurpations of state authority and power. At the same time, in THE UNIVERSITY BOOKMAN, of which I was then assistant editor, he published works by scientists such as Aubred Shuey on the inequality of the races (I will be most happy to cite chapter and verse for you, since you apparently want to believe ONLY what you dream up in your mind. In the late 1950s Kirk founded the journal MODERN AGE; I will remind you that one of the issues of that intellectual quarterly (I think in 1958 or'59) was dedicated to the South and Southern opposition to the destruction of the Constitution by the various liberal civil rights bill that you now embrace. You cite the 14th amendment like a liberal, and yet most reputable conservative scholar (and even some neo-conservatives) have made telling criticism of the "interpretations" that have been used to justify the destruction of our Constitution that you now apprently embrace. Let me cite just a few titles that you might do well to read before you open you mouth of this topic and continue to claim to be a "Real Conservative": Raoul Berger's GOVERNMENT BY DECREE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT; Robert L. Cored, SEPRATION OF CHURCH AND STATE; Wm. Stanmeyer, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER; Forrest MacDonald, STILL THE LAW OF THE LAND? And there are numerous other volumes by conservaties that critique the usurpations of the last 60 years. Kirk, in his column From the Academy" and in hi syndicated column over years, and in essays (most all of which I have and can go cite) continued throughout his life to maintain that the courts had usurped the powers of the states in the 1950s and '60s, during the period of the Warren Court. That you state the opposite is perhaps not surprizing to those who read this list, but you really do need to do your research. As a friend and assoicate of Russell Kirk for over 35 years, I can tell you that you are off bvase here. Sent at: 2008 10 07