Schwarzkommando?: Clarence Thomas w/nod to Bushes & Ayn Rand

[MalignD at aol.com]

"Coincidence?" asks someone named Robert James Bidinotto in a perceptive 
query about noted Negro Clarence Thomas, worthy of Thomas Pynchon:

"In 1989, Liberman (who later founded the conservative Federalist Society) 
and chief White House counsel C. Boyden Gray recommended Mr. Thomas to former 
President George Bush, who in turn nominated him to the D. C. Circuit Court 
of Appeals. This post became the final steppingstone to Mr. Thomas's eventual 
nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court.

As most people know, Justice Thomas faced stormy and scandalous Senate 
confirmation hearings. His defiant moral challenge to the committee—in which 
the accused reversed roles and became their accuser—is strikingly reminiscent 
of the approach and manner adopted by Rand's character Hank Rearden during a 
"kangaroo court" scene in Atlas Shrugged. Coincidence? Perhaps. But the 
outcomes, in both real life and in fiction, were remarkably similar.

Last year, when the Supreme Court was, in effect, called upon to decide the 
Presidential election, Clarence Thomas cast one of the votes that narrowly 
tipped the scales to George W. Bush. As we ponder the awesome implications of 
that election, it is astonishing that the rise of Clarence Thomas to that 
pivotal position was in no small measure fueled by the ideas and inspiration 
of Ayn Rand."