DID YOU KNOW -- The Department of Justice recently re-designed their website and removed the American flag logo from the site's banner???
And did you know that this is part of an IslamoFacistSocialistCommieACLU conspiracy???
Well, if you didn't know that, you must be part of it.
The rightwing blogosphere has gone batshit crazy (or, should I say "batshit crazier") over the recent re-design of the DOJ website.
The loons over at American Spectator are leading the charge:
What's black and white and "red" all over? The Department of Justice's newly designed website. Gone are the standard red, white, and blue motifs, replaced by an all-black backdrop. And prominently placed on virtually every page of the site is a quote credited to a man who facilitated a greater role for socialists and communists at the U.N., and the global "workers rights movement."
The redesigned website was launched without fanfare, but was noticed internally by several career lawyers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political reprisals. "We were told that the media team and the senior leadership that signed off on the design thought that the patriotic shtick from the Ashcroft days was a bit much for an agency that isn't supposed to be political," says a DOJ lawyer, who inquired about the redesign. "It was a real effort not to laugh at that."
Prominent now on the site are links to "Justice.gov en Español" and the "The Recovery Act and the Department of Justice." But most jarring is the quote that is appears on virtually every page of the website. "The common law is the will of mankind issuing from the life of the people," which, some DOJ staff say, is tied to a man who ushered in the socialist and communist theories that now permeate the United Nations.
Another DOJ lawyer says, "It's taken from an inscription along one of the outer walls of the department ["The common law derives from the will of mankind, issuing from the life of the people, framed by mutual confidence, and sanctioned by the light of reason"], but no one is sure where the quote came from."
The quotes that ring the building were selected during the construction process back in the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Some attorneys believed the quote is pulled or adapted from the writing of Sir William Blackstone, the 18th Century British jurist, who wrote the Commentaries on the Laws of England, which influenced not only British law, but also the American constitutional and legal system. But other Department of Justice employees say the quote originates from British lawyer, C. Wilfred Jenks, who back in the late 1930s and after World War II was a leading figure in the "international law" movement, which sought to impose a global, common law, and advocated for global workers rights. Jenks was a long-time member of the United Nation's International Labor Organization, and author of a number of globalist tracts, including a set of essays published back in 1958, entitled The Common Law of Mankind.
Most telling: Jenks, as director of the ILO is credited with putting in place the first Soviet senior member of the UN organization, and also with creating an environment that allowed the ILO to give "observer status" to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and to issue anti-Israeli statements, which precipitated efforts by the U.S. Congress to withdraw U.S. membership from the ILO. The U.S. actually did withdraw in the mid-1970s due to the organization's leftist leanings.
It seems that back in the days after 9-11, the site's banner was changed to one with a flowing red-white-and-blue banner. Now, it's gone to a plain vanilla banner with a quote from a dangerous liberal whom no one recognizes.
Of course, in the fevered minds of the rightwing, this is PROOF that Eric Holder and his criminal co-conspirator Obama the Kenyan are ripping out the heart of America.
Meanwhile, DON'T YOU DARE TELL your rightwing friends that the following websites DON'T HAVE AN AMERICAN FLAG ANYWHERE IN SIGHT:
Defense
Treasury
Interior
HHS
Labor
Education
Transportation
Veterans Affairs
Homeland Security
Nope, no snark intended.