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Disrobed: The New Battle Plan to Break the Left's Stranglehold on the Courts

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Whether you agree with Mr. Smith's particular school of conservative thought, he certainly gives the reader a thought provoking roadmap to wrestling the judicial system from the grip of the Left. By pointing out conservatives' shortcomings in playing the judicial game, Smith highlights the fact that the Right has essentially allowed liberals to use conservative dogma (i.e., the notion that judges should be apolitical and interpret the constitution in a nearly robotic fashion) against it.

This is an excellent read for anyone who is interested in challenging their view of judicial activism and who is open-minded enough to at least consider that there may be a more effective way to get things done.

Mark Smith has just written the equivalent of The Art of War for the greatest battle in the American legal system today, control the courts. He shatters all of the entrenched misconceptions, identifying why the the Right is having so much trouble with the courts and how to take the offensive. What do we really need in a judge? How should we handle judicial activism? How do we preserve the American way of life? The answers may surprise you, but they're all there.

Mark Smith brilliantly hones in on the assault on the courts by the secular progressives, and he proposes a new litmus test to weed out leftist judges.

This book provides the answers for how modern day conservatives can implement their ideals and values in our courts. It takes hold of the passion, which the Reagan Revolution brought in the 1980's, and explains how we can use it to win back the judiciary in 2006 and onward.

Mr. Smith's new instruction manual for conservatives in or out of the RINO camp should be taken incredibly seriously (and probably, with measured glee from us, informed the Left that many of us are done shouting from the benched sidelines while they make all the inroads into our definitive culture). For all the distress calls and massive documentation by previous author on the destructive legal swaths the left has cut through our whole nation, his antitode is a first to come to the foray.

The conservative cause is currently fought for through the new media that we have (mainly conservative talk, Frontpagemag.com, Nationalreview,The Weekly Standard, Humanevents, Townhall, etc.)and they colletively do great credit in making the public aware--but that's all that has so far been done: alerting and educating. Now is the time for action, as Smith has so succinctly shared with us. This volume is highly informative, but the cases presented most of us might have read in many publications. what he does with them is poignant and cannot be overlooked: linking them to an offensive battle plan--indeed, maybe the only option left--to use the courts.

My question, after reading this playbook of sorts, should be all true conservative's question: Why not use the weapons the left has employed for all these years? One of the previous commentators (obviously distressed that a Red-blooded activist has discovered the secret modus operandi to push them back) has suggested that we not think the left is stupid. To the contrary, Mark Smith is attempting to rouse us out of our daily grind and informed rage and into discovering the light--primarily that the left is anything BUT stupid, and that we'd be mighty--and quite weak, therefore--fools not to use the same tactics to win some battles in this culture war.

I HIGHLY advise anyone who has been, is now, or is investigating the subject and movement of conservatism to PLEASE read this book and consider what must be done to make our plowshears into swords, our hands in the political/judicial dirt, and come alive with a whole new direction. Most I've heard so far argue that we'd be no better than them to do so. Well, this same timidity and weakness of attitude can also be analogous to what we feel about torturing terrorists--that we don't dare stoop to their level. As Smith says, "Judicial activism itself isn't a bad thing. It's who's using it that matters." If we don't get pragmatic about what's been done to the legal system, how it's been done, and that we must do the same, we will be in a much more serious quagmire than we are now.

I am totally convinced that getting conservative judicial activists to make law--as the liberals (and 'Republicans', regretably) have done for decades--will be the only way to turn the tide and preserve our traditional values that help a society surive against itself.

We need to wake up and quickly tear off the shackles and get the hell out of Plato's Cave. The light of a new battle plan emerges, and Mark Smith has initiated this methodology into action. He tells us that "we're all judicial activists now." This is entirely true--we cannot escape it. Conservatives have sat back crying and raising fists at their whole culture being altered and their children's futures at stake. Well, are we willing to stoop down and employ the liberal movement's weapons of the judically-remaking of laws and the constitution?? I sure hope so, and I, for myself am going to do more to make people aware of this book and its ideas that are central and vital to fighting any conservative battles.

This idea must be publicized far and wide, debated, but nonetheless put into action in our conservative circles, elected reps., talk radio, Fox News, etc. We have to wake up and wage an incremental war, as Smith suggests. We must. The Left is hoping against all hope that we do not.

Whether liberal or conservative, lawyer or non-lawyer, political activist or reality TV junkie, this book is a must read. Smith accurately recounts how the judiciary (the forgotten third branch) has become as important of a policy maker as the Executive branch and Congress and how the federal judiciary, who are basically not accountable to anyone once they become judges, touch all of our lives with their rulings. Whether or not you agree with Smith's political views, Disrobed clearly and succinctly identifies the recent shortcomings of many of our federal judges and is well worth the time spent reading it.

A lot of Conservatives/Republicans whine (they actually sound like Liberals/Democrats...) about the state of the judiciary and its left wing bias. Few have come up with a viable strategy for combatting the seismic leftward shift of the courts over the past seventy years. In "Disrobed", Mark Smith offers a practical/brilliant blueprint for turning the tables on the looney left by (horrors!) using their own tactics and arguments against them. This book is a must read for anyone concerned about the direction the courts have been steering this country since the New Deal and a fine follow up to Mark's first effort: "The Handbook Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy". Keep up the good work Mark!

KENNETH G. FISCHER, B.A.,J.D.,REGISTERED REPUBLICAN,CARD CARRYING MEMBER OF THE VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY

Mark Smith lays out a well thought out and comprehensive plan to counter the left's use of activist liberal judges to trump our system of democracy and legislate from the bench.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in law, the constitution, or the courts and how they affect society.

This presents a very interesting view of the courts and how they shape, and are shaped by, society. Whether you agree with his aims or not, it's an interesting read and presents an interesting legal strategy that conservatives could employ. Particularly interesting were how many of the social issues of the day evolved to where they're at now by a long-standing liberal plan of action and how lawsuits are frequently used with no hope of winning, but with every intention of strategic gain.

I think he could have made his (very good) points in slightly shorter order -- a couple of times I feared that I had lost my place. The readability/believability also suffers a bit since he highlights the impacts of the 2005-2006 political landscape and that has changed significantly.

A worthwhile read.

It has been clear for years that the primary tool of the left has been to control the courts and to achieve results that the Democrat Party has neither the courage nor the votes to achieve in the Congress. This is a rich endictment of the folly that is called justice today and how dangerously close we are to losing our republic to an oligarchy composed of elitists that sit on the bench and have little regard for the Constitution that is supposed to limit their authority and provide direction to our courts.