Dirty tricks revisited
03/21/05
In a 'democratic' empire, as opposed to the later Roman version, it isn't very often necessary to round up one's political opponents and simply slap them in jail or throw them into the arena with a couple of hungry lions. There are more efficient, and ultimately more effective, ways to crush anyone who gets in the way of the powers that be, and this is where the fine art of character assassination comes in. I discussed this to some extent in my last column, but as it happens, a far clearer and much more important case has come up since that illustrates the corrosive effects of Empire on American liberty...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5276
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
In a 'democratic' empire, as opposed to the later Roman version, it isn't very often necessary to round up one's political opponents and simply slap them in jail or throw them into the arena with a couple of hungry lions. There are more efficient, and ultimately more effective, ways to crush anyone who gets in the way of the powers that be, and this is where the fine art of character assassination comes in. I discussed this to some extent in my last column, but as it happens, a far clearer and much more important case has come up since that illustrates the corrosive effects of Empire on American liberty...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5276
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 21. Mär, 15:48
