A coworker sent me a link to this site with a bunch of quotes intended to attack Justice Janice Rogers Brown.  Despite his best attempts, I'm reading it and having the 100% polar opposite reaction - I'm TOTALLY FALLING in love with her. She's a rockstar libertarian.

I'm very impressed -

... Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

.. At its founding and throughout its early history, this regime revered private property. The American philosophy of the Rights of Man relied heavily on the indissoluble connection between rationality, property, freedom and justice. The Founders viewed the right of property as “the guardian of every other right”….

...Private property, already an endangered species in California, is now entirely extinct in San Francisco…I would find the HCO [San Francisco Residential Hotel Unit Conversion and Demolition Ordinance] preempted by the Ellis Act and facially unconstitutional. …Theft is theft even when the government approves of the thievery. Turning a democracy into a kleptocracy does not enhance the stature of the thieves; it only diminishes the legitimacy of the government. …The right to express one’s individuality and essential human dignity through the free use of property is just as important as the right to do so through speech, the press, or the free exercise of religion.

.. Democracy and capitalism seem to have triumphed. But, appearances can be deceiving. Instead of celebrating capitalism’s virtues, we offer it grudging acceptance, contemptuous tolerance, but only for its capacity to feed the insatiable maw of socialism. We do not conclude that socialism suffers from a fundamental flaw. We conclude instead that its ends are worthy of any sacrifice – including our freedom

I'm disappointed as well - perhaps this is a reminder of just how far out of the political mainstream I must be.... to PFAW and others, this stuff is prima facie, without any further explanation evil while for me it's 100% the opposite. I'm sure I'm not their target audience for this but, I'm also sure they've done at least a little test marketing of these messages and have gotta imagine that for some segment of "swing voters", this was enough to condemn her.