Caught, Red Handed!

Saw it on Drudge, but Ace Of Spades has a good post with the transcribed quote:

If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court. I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed people, so that now I would have the right to vote. I would now be able to sit at the lunch counter and order as long as I could pay for it I’d be o.k. But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn’t that radical. It didn’t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. Says what the states can’t do to you. Says what the Federal government can’t do to you, but doesn’t say what the Federal government or State government must do on your behalf, and that hasn’t shifted and one of the, I think, tragedies of the civil rights movement was, um, because the civil rights movement became so court focused I think there was a tendancy to lose track of the political and community organizing and activities on the ground that are able to put together the actual coalition of powers through which you bring about redistributive change. In some ways we still suffer from that.

Boy, oh, boy, we need to break away from those essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution!

The nice thing about this audio is that it is clean, since it is from a radio show and not recorded on the fly by an audience member at a speech. Quite useful for campaign commercials.

Also, since we can expect YouTube to do the bidding of its Obama lovin' corporate Google masters and pull the video, it is recommended that all interested parties download it and re-upload it. This tool can be used to download it. The Ace Of Spades post has an MP3.

I've also got the MP3: