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Title: Paul Craig Roberts: Wake Up and Smell the Chains (of tyranny)
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American Free Pres
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Published: May 29, 2006
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2006-05-24 21:08:10 by BTP Holdings
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Can America wage a “war on terror,” respect the Constitution and By Paul Craig Roberts The neo-conservative Bush regime has adroitly used 9-11 to create fear of terrorism among Americans that blinds them to the Bush regime’s assault on our constitutional system. Americans have meekly acquiesced to the Bush regime’s brutal assaults on civil liberties, human rights, the separation of powers and statutory law, because Americans have been brainwashed to believe that the “war on terror” takes precedence and cannot be waged under the rules established by the Founding Fathers. By elevating its “war on terror” above the U.S. Constitution, the neo-conservative Bush regime has made itself a far greater threat to Americans than are foreign terrorists. Two constitutional scholars, Timothy Lynch and Gene Healy, document the Bush regime’s forceful assault on the U.S. Constitution in “Power Surge: The Constitutional Record of George W. Bush,” released May 3 by the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Lynch and Healy show that Bush has failed in his most important responsibility “to preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution and, thus, is in violation of his sworn oath of office. The two scholars document the Bush regime’s “ceaseless push for power, unchecked by either the Courts or Congress,” on issues ranging from war powers, habeas corpus and federalism to free speech and unwarranted surveillance. Bush’s assault on the Constitution “should disturb people from across the political spectrum.” Alas, it doesn’t. Many Americans believe that Bush’s dictatorial powers will only be applied to terrorists. This belief is extremely foolish, because it means that “the liberty of every American rests on nothing more than the grace of the White House.” It has become commonplace to hear Americans dismiss the Bush regime’s illegal and unconstitutional exercise of power on the grounds that only those implicated in terrorism have anything to fear. These Americans need to ask themselves why, if only evildoers have anything to fear from government, the Founding Fathers bothered to write the Constitution? If we can trust the government the way Americans seem prepared to trust the Bush regime, we don’t need the Constitution. Indeed, why is a president inaugurated with his oath to defend the Constitution if we don’t need the Constitution to protect us from our government? If we can trust government, why go to all the trouble to have elections? Why not just get a dictator or a king, or contract with a company to provide government? The question presents itself: Are Americans guilty of treason when they turn their backs on the Constitution? Treason is betrayal of country. And what defines country? In the United States, the Constitution defines country. The Bush regime’s assault on the Constitution is an attack on America. Moreover, it is a far more dangerous and deadly assault than a terrorist assault on buildings. Ask yourself, gentle reader, what are we without the Constitution? Without the Constitution, how do we differ from the hapless subjects sent to Soviet and Nazi death camps? The Constitution protects our rights, and without our rights we are nothing. It has been widely reported, apparently without causing Americans any unease, that the Bush regime has awarded Halliburton $385 million to build concentration camps in the United States. Who are to be the inmates? Certainly not terrorists. The Bush regime has proven inept at catching terrorists, and those few who are captured are kept offshore out of the reach of the courts, where they can be tortured and abused. The camps are certainly not for illegal aliens, to whom both political parties want to give amnesty and citizenship. Concentration camps epitomize the horrors and inhumanity of the Stalin and Hitler era. Why is the Bush regime building concentration camps in America? The Bush regime’s war on terror is the equivalent to the Nazi regime’s Reichstag fire. It serves to blind people to the real assault. According to Bush, America is under terrorist attack because “they hate our freedoms.” But, as Lynch and Healy show, it is the Bush regime that is attacking our freedom, removing their institutional protections and making our liberties subject to the grace of the executive.
Wake Up and Smell the Chains
make the Founding Fathers proud of us —all at the same time?
May 29, 2006 | American Free Press
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#1. To: BTP Holdings, brian s (#0)
People like us, who are smart enough not to have self chained ones's mind to the TV. Building a gulag for 4um folks - how thoughtful.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. – George Washington "If the president made us go to war with Iraq, why doesn't he go over there and fight the war?" Christian May [6th grader] I hope they send their "best" to collect this soul so I can make it as costly, both in men and material, as I can at the "encounter", indeed!~
I remember Roberts as a very dry writer who went on and on forever making technical points about boring economic theories 25 years ago. but today he's very passionate and concise with his words.
I remember that as well. Roberts today rocks. He not only sees beyond the political shills, he is coragous enough to write his free mind about it.
Too few people are aware of this multi-million dollar project.
The reasons behind the Constitution- are not even uderstood in our culture any longer. For most it just means something vague about "Freedom". They have no concept about the dangers from government it was trying to limit. Listening to "liberal" NPR the other day they had a segment in which they were asking people on the Mall in DC if they minded the NSA eavesdropping on them. The piece was chilling to me as person after person said No- and only terrorists had anything to fear. One guy was asked would he mind if the gubmint read his email? He said no and that it was worth not getting killed by a terrorist to have such gubmint snooping. The NPR piece was approving of this mindset and the one person out of like 6 who minded NSA snooping was presented as a paranoid. It was like listening to state radio in the Soivet Union.
Americans are unable to reason. They can't start from a particular position and extrapolate it forward or understand the consequences of their actions (or the govt actions). Americans live in a perpetual present with no past or future, which is why they country is screwed.
"I woke up in the CRAZY HOUSE."
Too few people are aware of this multi-million dollar project. Bush arranged for Halliburton to get a $385 million contract to build these camps.
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
They will never understand that we have all become unwitting victims of tyranny under color of law which gives the gov't actors the right under their color of process and color of office to plunder us for all of those "administrative law" violations where there is NO INJURED PARTY IN FACT. You signed up for the license (or some other gov't benefit such as Social Security) when you did not need one to conduct a "priveleged occupational activity" or working or under contract with gov't or some other "public" entity. You only have your rights if you are a belligerent claimant thereof and stay OUT of their extra-constitutional administrative law venue. WHERE IS MY WARRANT? You don't have one? WHY AM I HERE? "Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
This is what the Bots truly believe. Bump to the 4th you posted: AMENDMENT IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism. – George Washington "If the president made us go to war with Iraq, why doesn't he go over there and fight the war?" Christian May [6th grader] They are all good, little party members. Big Brother is watching. Let him watch. I've got a moon to show him. ;0) "Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
Watch the fuss over illegals blowback in ways that we won't like. NG on the border, as demanded by so many, could easily be moved into other areas. Tamperproof ID cards for illegals; how long before citizens are subject to the same rules as the illegals. And the "sweet" thing will be that it will have been the populace that demanded it.
Pray you will never know, the hell where youth and laughter go - Siegfried Sassoon. Ypres, Autumn 1914.
Please post the correct source link for this article.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
HA, check this out.... Launching himself into the immigration debate, Mayor Bloomberg offered a radical Big Brother-style plan: Give every legal worker a fraud-proof identification card - sealed with a person's DNA or fingerprints. In a column published in The Wall Street Journal and on two national news shows yesterday, Bloomberg called for the creation of a federal database that would allow employers to verify the immigration status of job applicants. Pray you will never know, the hell where youth and laughter go - Siegfried Sassoon. Ypres, Autumn 1914.
Sorry, it's from the AFP subscription site. I hadn't done a search, but Roberts is generally published in other places as well.
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
Good article. Is the American Free Press the former Spotlight?
I think it was posted over on Rense and elsewhere I'm sure. There's previous posts of this article here I believe that do have a source url.
yes it is.
Yes, and they have a special on for a year online subscription for $15 (PDF format). This last issue was just loaded with great articles.
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
Thanks guys. I'm glad the old Spotlight is enjoying a rebirth. Anyone remember Tom Valentine on S/W? He was a major contributor for years.
Tom has handed off Radio Free America and is sort of semi-retired you might say. But, he is still active in his health related research and his vitamin and supplement company, Carotec, in Naples, Florida. His True Health newsletter is available when you join the Carotec Health Club for $36/year. The cutting edge info and the way that Tom strips away the disinfo and hype of the establishment is well worth the price. Plus you can get discounts to some really top quality products his company has available. I've used those products for years and they all have top of the line ingredients with no bogus fillers ar cheap additives like soybean oil. Tom's website: http://www.tomvalentine.com/ There are also some good articles on there covering many subjects.
"Our constitution relies on our ... freedom to nourish independent and responsible intelligence and preserve our democracy from that submissiveness, timidity and herd-mindedness of the masses... The priceless heritage of our society is the ... right of each member to think as he will. Thought control is a copyright of totalitarianism, and we have no claim to it. It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error. Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court, 1954
It has been widely reported, apparently without causing Americans any unease, that the Bush regime has awarded Halliburton $385 million to build concentration camps in the United States. Who are to be the inmates?
#2. To: BTP Holdings, *Paul Craig Roberts* (#0)
#3. To: tom007 (#1)
Building a gulag for 4um folks - how thoughtful.
#4. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
#5. To: Red Jones, BTP Holdings (#4)
I remember Roberts as a very dry writer who went on and on forever making technical points about boring economic theories 25 years ago. but today he's very passionate and concise with his words.
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Concentration camps epitomize the horrors and inhumanity of the Stalin and Hitler era. Why is the Bush regime building concentration camps in America?
#7. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
It has become commonplace to hear Americans dismiss the Bush regime’s illegal and unconstitutional exercise of power on the grounds that only those implicated in terrorism have anything to fear. These Americans need to ask themselves why, if only evildoers have anything to fear from government, the Founding Fathers bothered to write the Constitution?
#8. To: Burkeman1 (#7)
#9. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
Concentration camps epitomize the horrors and inhumanity of the Stalin and Hitler era. Why is the Bush regime building concentration camps in America?
#10. To: Burkeman1 (#7)
The reasons behind the Constitution- are not even uderstood in our culture any longer. For most it just means something vague about "Freedom". They have no concept about the dangers from government it was trying to limit.
AMENDMENT IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
#11. To: BTP Holdings (#10)
Many Americans believe that Bush’s dictatorial powers will only be applied to terrorists. This belief is extremely foolish, because it means that “the liberty of every American rests on nothing more than the grace of the White House.”
#12. To: Burkeman1 (#7)
It was like listening to state radio in the Soivet Union.
#13. To: Fred Mertz (#6)
#14. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
#15. To: Fred_Mertz (#13)
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/420820p-355259c.html
>Well, I do believe we have a Database already!
#16. To: Arator (#14)
Please post the correct source link for this article
#17. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
#18. To: Arator (#14)
#19. To: Jethro Tull (#17)
#20. To: Jethro Tull (#17)
Is the American Free Press the former Spotlight?
#21. To: BTP Holdings, Red (#20)
#22. To: Jethro Tull (#21)
Anyone remember Tom Valentine on S/W? He was a major contributor for years
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