I agree with Tom Smith that "the new DOJ website is kinda creepy."

And I'm also inclined to agree with the majority of those who took Glenn Reynolds's poll that it's only creepy if a website design by Darth Vader creeps you out. It's not so much that it creeps me out (I'm actually kind of partial to creepiness, morbidity, and black colored things), so much as the fact that it seems inappropriate for the Justice Department -- which is supposed to revolve around the idea of fairness, respect for law, and above all respect for the Constitution. Images evocative of black clad government SWAT team ninjas belong at conspiracy theory web sites, not at official government sites.

While I can't prove it, I suspect that the redesign of the website reflects a desire to deliberately stir up angry conservatives and anti-government sentiment. I think they're waging a classic form of psychological warfare (and tends to confirm my long-held suspicions that the Obama administration deliberately fueled and baited the birth certificate truthers).

Think about it. What better way to stir people up than replacing the American flag design with a black background, then emblazoning that with a very weird, unidentifiable quote -- "The common law is the will of mankind issuing from the life of the people" -- along with leaked hints that it comes from a British leftist one-world government advocate?

I kid you not:

...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.

However, I did find a review of the work, with this direct quote from Jenks explaining how he defined common law:

By common law of mankind is meant the law of an organized world community, constituted on the basis of States but discharging its community functions increasingly through a complex of international and regional institutions, guaranteeing rights to, and placing obligations upon, the individual citizen, and confronted with a wide range of economic, social, and technological problems calling for uniform regulation on an international basis which represents a growing proportion of the subject matter of the law.

If, for whatever reason, the above sort of drivel is what the United States Justice Department is now about, we simply need a new Justice Department. At the very least, the people who designed that web site are a bunch of loons who don't even bother to hide their statist, globalist agenda. Instead, they flaunt it in a deliberately provocative way.

Makes me wanna say "Bring back John Ashcroft!"