Statism is counterintuitive
LewRockwell.Com
by Anthony Gregory
08/14/07
Today, we hear the most counterintuitive and contradictory arguments in defense of current policies. We hear that the president has always had the Constitutional authority, by virtue of his office alone, to violate civil liberties during wartime — yet we also hear that each new piece of terror legislation is absolutely necessary to empower the executive to do things it couldn’t otherwise do. We hear that states with nuclear ambitions that have invaded other countries must be disarmed — that, in President Bush’s words, ‘Free nations don’t attack each other; free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction’ — yet we also hear that America, which has attacked other nations since its founding and possesses thousands of nukes, is a free country. We hear that our right to complain about the government shows how free we are, and as long as we have that right, we shouldn’t complain...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory144.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/gregory
by Anthony Gregory
08/14/07
Today, we hear the most counterintuitive and contradictory arguments in defense of current policies. We hear that the president has always had the Constitutional authority, by virtue of his office alone, to violate civil liberties during wartime — yet we also hear that each new piece of terror legislation is absolutely necessary to empower the executive to do things it couldn’t otherwise do. We hear that states with nuclear ambitions that have invaded other countries must be disarmed — that, in President Bush’s words, ‘Free nations don’t attack each other; free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction’ — yet we also hear that America, which has attacked other nations since its founding and possesses thousands of nukes, is a free country. We hear that our right to complain about the government shows how free we are, and as long as we have that right, we shouldn’t complain...
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory144.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=com/gregory
rudkla - 14. Aug, 11:47
