Our Disappearing "Rule of Law" and John Roberts
By: Jack Dalton 8-26-05
Jack's Straight-Speak web site
No longer should there be any doubt as to the direction the Bush/Cheney cabal is leading this nation, or the methodologies they are employing to push their neo-con (actually neo-liberal) agenda upon us the unwilling to mindlessly follow and who stand in opposition to what they are doing. Coercion, intimidation, character assassination, extortion—all of the methodologies of a good upstanding crime family.
While preaching about spreading “freedom and democracy” they have turned our own on its head. There are people within the Bush/Cheney cabal who have articulated the need for a limited dictatorship to preserve our “freedoms” and to make us “safe and secure” from all those dirty “terrorists.” That was stated recently by none other than Michael Ledeen as well as Charles Krauthammer both of whom subscribe to the prevailing Leo Strauss ideology: only the “elite” can rule and that to maintain their power over people they must at times lie their a... off. [...] I wonder what my grandmother would have said about that? Sometimes I wonder if about a third or more of the population believes that a lie is the same as the truth ... "it made the point, didn't it?" Read the rest of his article at http://tinyurl.com/9lw3p
© Virginia Metze
Jack's Straight-Speak web site
No longer should there be any doubt as to the direction the Bush/Cheney cabal is leading this nation, or the methodologies they are employing to push their neo-con (actually neo-liberal) agenda upon us the unwilling to mindlessly follow and who stand in opposition to what they are doing. Coercion, intimidation, character assassination, extortion—all of the methodologies of a good upstanding crime family.
While preaching about spreading “freedom and democracy” they have turned our own on its head. There are people within the Bush/Cheney cabal who have articulated the need for a limited dictatorship to preserve our “freedoms” and to make us “safe and secure” from all those dirty “terrorists.” That was stated recently by none other than Michael Ledeen as well as Charles Krauthammer both of whom subscribe to the prevailing Leo Strauss ideology: only the “elite” can rule and that to maintain their power over people they must at times lie their a... off. [...] I wonder what my grandmother would have said about that? Sometimes I wonder if about a third or more of the population believes that a lie is the same as the truth ... "it made the point, didn't it?" Read the rest of his article at http://tinyurl.com/9lw3p
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 28. Aug, 08:58
