American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss-by Paul Craig Roberts

[kpete]

American Liberty Teetering on Edge of Abyss
by Paul Craig Roberts

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Free and informed people get in the way of power-mad zealots with agendas.

It is the agendas that are supreme, not the American people, who have less and less say about less and less.

George W. Bush, an elected president, has behaved like a dictator since September 11, 2001. If "our" representatives in Congress care, they haven’t done anything about it. Bush has pretty much cut Congress out of the action.

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The Democrats are not adverse to inheriting the powers in Bush’s precedents. The Democrats, of course, will use the elevated powers for good rather than for evil.

Instead of having a bad dictator, we’ll have a good one.

more at:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts232.html

[Senator]

1. "elected president" ?!? -- Sorry, appointed ruler n/t

[Echo In Light]

2. I know we're existing in a bizarre, parallel Orwellian mulitverse when I find myself agreeing with..

A former Reaganite, and editor of the Wall Street Journal :rofl:

He's had some real barn burners over the past few yrs ... I've sourced a few here myself.

[flashl]

3. The good dictator is ...

The benevolent dictator is a more modern version of the classical "enlightened despot", being an undemocratic or authoritarian leader who exercises his or her political power for the benefit of the people rather than exclusively for his or her own self-interest or benefit, or for the benefit of only a small portion of the people.

[ananda]

4. A dictator is a dictator is a dictator..

Enlightened or not, s/he still treats
the people like children.

It's up to us to say: no more bigdaddy
or bigmama government.

[flashl]

5. Agreed. nt