The right’s rejection of “the rule of law”
Salon
by Glenn Greenwald
05/02/07
[R]eading Mansfield has real value for understanding the dominant right-wing movement in this country. Because he is an academic, and a quite intelligent one, he makes intellectually honest arguments, by which I mean that he does not disguise what he thinks in politically palatable slogans, but instead really describes the actual premises on which political beliefs are based. And that is Mansfield’s value; he is a clear and honest embodiment of what the Bush movement is. In particular, he makes crystal clear that the so-called devotion to a ’strong executive’ by the Bush administration and the movement which supports it is nothing more than a belief that the Leader has the power to disregard, violate, and remain above the rule of law. And that is clear because Mansfied explicitly says that. And that is not just Mansfield’s idiosyncratic belief. He is simply stating — honestly and clearly — the necessary premises of the model of the Omnipotent Presidency which has taken root under the Bush presidency...
http://tinyurl.com/3xln3a
Neoconservative fascism
LewRockwell.Com
by William Norman Grigg
05/04/07
Harvard Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield’s May 2 Wall Street Journal essay ‘The Case for the Strong Executive’ is a remarkable brief on behalf of unreconstructed fascist rule through an Executive emancipated from the rule of law. Mansfield, who unblushingly admits that the alternative to the rule of law is ‘tyranny,’ insists that the ‘defects’ of our system of liberty under law suggest ‘the need for one-man rule.’ Seriously. He really wrote those words. And he apparently meant them...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w11.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=above+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=omnipotent
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/grigg
by Glenn Greenwald
05/02/07
[R]eading Mansfield has real value for understanding the dominant right-wing movement in this country. Because he is an academic, and a quite intelligent one, he makes intellectually honest arguments, by which I mean that he does not disguise what he thinks in politically palatable slogans, but instead really describes the actual premises on which political beliefs are based. And that is Mansfield’s value; he is a clear and honest embodiment of what the Bush movement is. In particular, he makes crystal clear that the so-called devotion to a ’strong executive’ by the Bush administration and the movement which supports it is nothing more than a belief that the Leader has the power to disregard, violate, and remain above the rule of law. And that is clear because Mansfied explicitly says that. And that is not just Mansfield’s idiosyncratic belief. He is simply stating — honestly and clearly — the necessary premises of the model of the Omnipotent Presidency which has taken root under the Bush presidency...
http://tinyurl.com/3xln3a
Neoconservative fascism
LewRockwell.Com
by William Norman Grigg
05/04/07
Harvard Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield’s May 2 Wall Street Journal essay ‘The Case for the Strong Executive’ is a remarkable brief on behalf of unreconstructed fascist rule through an Executive emancipated from the rule of law. Mansfield, who unblushingly admits that the alternative to the rule of law is ‘tyranny,’ insists that the ‘defects’ of our system of liberty under law suggest ‘the need for one-man rule.’ Seriously. He really wrote those words. And he apparently meant them...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w11.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=above+law
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=omnipotent
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=neocons
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/grigg
rudkla - 3. Mai, 14:02
