The Case for the Barbarous Relic
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/barbarous-relic.html
The case for the barbarous relic
07/26/06
LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
"Two hundred years ago, when the United States was a modest commercial republic, the president could take a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue -- by himself -- and talk to anyone who approached him. If he wasn't on a walk outdoors, he was most likely at home, and you could speak to him by knocking on the door of the White House and presenting yourself. ... Today? The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, praetorian guards, snipers, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that's when he travels in the US...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/barbarous-relic.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
The case for the barbarous relic
07/26/06
LewRockwell.Com
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
"Two hundred years ago, when the United States was a modest commercial republic, the president could take a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue -- by himself -- and talk to anyone who approached him. If he wasn't on a walk outdoors, he was most likely at home, and you could speak to him by knocking on the door of the White House and presenting yourself. ... Today? The president moves about like Caesar Augustus, with a vast court of civil and military aides, doctors, secretaries, valets, hairdressers, makeup artists, bodyguards, drivers, baggage handlers, cooks, food tasters, praetorian guards, snipers, bulletproof limos, a portable hospital, and an armored rostrum. And that's when he travels in the US...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/barbarous-relic.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 26. Jul, 09:15
