Government blunders create more demand for its services
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
08/13/07
If a restaurant, dry cleaner, or home repair business provided inferior goods or shoddy services, it is likely that the concern would go belly up. Yet when the U.S. government makes a blunder, the more its citizens reward its failure with further money and authority. For example, after the Bush administration exacerbated the worldwide threat from Islamic terrorists by invading and occupying two Muslim nations, spied on Americans without warrants — which is both illegal and unconstitutional — to ‘urgently’ combat such terrorism, and then saw its Attorney General dissemble about the espionage program, Congress has actually rewarded the administration for its actions...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2011
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
08/13/07
If a restaurant, dry cleaner, or home repair business provided inferior goods or shoddy services, it is likely that the concern would go belly up. Yet when the U.S. government makes a blunder, the more its citizens reward its failure with further money and authority. For example, after the Bush administration exacerbated the worldwide threat from Islamic terrorists by invading and occupying two Muslim nations, spied on Americans without warrants — which is both illegal and unconstitutional — to ‘urgently’ combat such terrorism, and then saw its Attorney General dissemble about the espionage program, Congress has actually rewarded the administration for its actions...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2011
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=spying
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrantless
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 15. Aug, 11:52
