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Title: A Republic or Empire?
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URL Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07082006.html
Published: Jul 9, 2006
Author: PCR
Post Date: 2006-07-09 07:10:37 by Kamala
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Lessons from Stanford A Republic or an Empire? By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS Gentle reader, did you know that in April President Bush went to Stanford University to speak to the Hoover Institution fellows at the invitation of former Secretary of State George Shultz but was not allowed on campus? The Stanford students got wind of it and blocked Bush's access to the campus. The Hoover fellows had to go to Shultz's home to hear Bush's pitch for war and more war. A person might think that it would be national news that Stanford University students would not allow the President of the US on campus. It happened to be a day that hundreds of prospective freshmen were on campus with their parents, many of whom joined the demonstration against Bush. I did not hear or read a word about it. Did you? I learned of it from faculty friends in June when I attended Stanford's graduation to witness a relative receive her degree. The June 16 edition of The Stanford Daily reprints its April 24 report of the episode. At the graduation, I was struck by the preponderance of Asians, Africans, and Hispanics in the the student body. Stanford is truly an international university, a noted difference from the days when I was a member of the university. Looking at the list of graduates in human biology, which I understand to be a pre-med degree, I count 24 white and Jewish males out of a graduation class of 206. That means 88.35 percent of the graduating class in human biology was Asian, African, Hispanic, and female. If white males were a "preferred minority" protected by quotas, they could certainly bring a discrimination suit against Stanford. My count could be off a bit as a result of the modern practice of giving girls boys' names and giving boys girls' names, but on the whole I was able to resolve the gender issue by consulting middle names. One thing is clear. At Stanford the days of white male hegemony are over. To my readers I want to thank you for your emails and occasional old fashioned letters delivered by US mail. I have learned that I am loved by some and hated by others. I continually hear interesting things from readers. Recently I heard from a Russian that Bush's slogan, "you are with us or against us" comes from a communist song dating from 1950, "The one who is not with us is against us." The slogan was part of the propaganda used to suppress dissent. Now for the main subject of the column. Martin Sieff is one of the few remaining American reporters who actually report facts instead of covering up for Bush. Sieff is elated at the US Supreme Court ruling blocking the use of military tribunals to punish alleged "terrorists." Sieff says the ruling means that "the United States is still a republic, not an empire." I hope Martin Sieff is right. But why will Bush pay any more attention to a Supreme Court ruling than he does to the US Constitution, US law, Congress, and public opinion? Bush and his criminal government have decided that they can use 9/11 and the fear and mindlessness it has brought to the American people to elevate the executive branch into its own world of unaccountable power. As Congress, the Democratic Party, and the media have all collapsed in the face of Bush's power grab, why will Bush pay any attention to a court ruling? The Supreme Court, like the Pope, hasn't any divisions or a police force with which to arrest Bush. Moreover, as one reader pointed out, the majority decision against Bush was written by an 86-year old man. His decision shredded the incompetent and utterly ignorant ruling of the lower court written by John Roberts, the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. An 86-year old man hasn't a lot of time left to protect our rights from executive power grabs. All Bush has to do is to appoint one more Federalist Society tyrant to the Court, and he will have a second rubber stamp of his dictatorial ways. He already has Congress which has made it clear that it is perfectly comfortable with Bush's high-handed behavior. Democrats are too intimidated by 9/11 and the phony "war on terror" to offer any opposition. With the electronic voting machines supplied by Republican firms and programmed by Republican operatives, Bush can control election results. Don't bet very heavily that Americans will regain the constitutional protections and democratic accountability that they enjoyed in the 20th century. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com
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#1. To: Kamala (#0)
Excellent as always by Roberts but the North American Community that is now in the workds.. will essentially be the end of the US ..not US sovereignty but the US as a nation.. hopefully in the next few days an article will be posted that will reveal exactly how this proposal will affect us and this country.
Great minds think alike. You Beat me to it. I almost posted it twice because "A Republic or an Empire?" was the subject and yours didn't include "an." Your post didn't show up on my article search but it did on the preview. Roberts, it seems to me, has it right. The War Party will retain control of Congress in the upcoming November elections.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
This is the most critical issue contained in Mr. Roberts article, in my estimation. This is what ultimately stopped the senseless murder happening in Vietnam. And if we're to halt these unleashed psychopathetic murdering scum from maiming and murdering millions of people in other lands, and here in our own country, we must once again make their presence anywhere impossible. I was in Vietnam when the students throughout the U.S. were marching in the streets and on the campuses. They were taking buildings by force to make their voices heard, and some were murdered by our own troops at Ohio State, on the orders of Richard Nixon. "They" stopped Vietnam, and they will stop this fiasco that is being supported by both wings of the D.C. communist government. Anything less than all out resistance to these merchants of death is compliance and cooperation. By funding these squatters in D.C. and Israel you become an accomplice to the murders of innocent people that have never done you or I an ounce of harm. I know this sounds harsh to most people that even bother to read stuff like this ... and I find it difficult to accuse my countrymen of murder, torture and worse, but it's the truth. We do have the power to stop this war. We must all join together for that one single reason and forget the other nonsense that keeps us from organizing a resistance to mass murder. We are Americans, not Democrats or Republicrats. This is our country and our legacy. Will we hand our children the same disgraceful heritage that Hitler's followers, and Stalin's followers left their children ? Can we not look back a mere 60 years to see that these sick bastard children of satan, these Nazis and Zio-Nazis evaded defeat and relocated here in America, in New York and D.C., in Houston and Kennebunkport ? Can we not see the similarities in America today and the Bolshevic Revolution less than 100 years ago, wherein a cabal of Jews overthrew the Christian Czar and killed an estimated 30-50 million people over the next 30 years ? The seat of American governance is saturated with Zio-nazi murderers, a cabal of Jews that have all been "appointed" (not elected) and hold positions of ultimate authority in war, domestic security, and fiscal policy. Political ideology is camoflauge to confuse the simple minded adherents of main stream media propaganda. Murder is murder and the politics of the murderer doesn't mean shit to the child witnessing the torture and death of his mother or a mother witnessing her children dead. I know we can do better, let's rise to the occasion, and stop this now.
If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds (smites) you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen. Samuel Adams ... and I concur !
But why will Bush pay any more attention to a Supreme Court ruling than he does to the US Constitution, US law, Congress, and public opinion? Bush and his criminal government have decided that they can use 9/11 and the fear and mindlessness it has brought to the American people to elevate the executive branch into its own world of unaccountable power. Resist these bastards with your last ounce of stregth and to your dying breath.
"To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can ever fight; and never stop fighting." E.E. Cummings
May as well be..with Nafta & the state of migration between the borders.
"That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want police protection from their slaves." Kim Stanley Robinson, "Green Mars" p318
Yes, we must resist and continue to EXPOSE them for who they really are as PCR is doing.
Not just may as well be.. it is what the purpose in fact is.. they're avoiding the use of terminology that would alert the American people.. but in fact that is what is taking place .. and the American people on the whole know something is wrong but dont know what it is.. of course by design.
Good article, and it is news that the excellent Stanford students wouldn't let the war criminal on campus, Bravo to them! Btw I searched the title and nothing came up so I also posted this piece.
Truthseeker
#2. To: Kamala (#0)
#3. To: Kamala (#0)
The Stanford students got wind of it and blocked Bush's access to the campus.
#4. To: Kamala (#0)
Recently I heard from a Russian that Bush's slogan, "you are with us or against us" comes from a communist song dating from 1950, "The one who is not with us is against us." The slogan was part of the propaganda used to suppress dissent.
#5. To: Zipporah (#1)
Excellent as always by Roberts but the North American Community that is now in the workds.. will essentially be the end of the US ..not US sovereignty but the US as a nation.. hopefully in the next few days an article will be posted that will reveal exactly how this proposal will affect us and this country.
#6. To: BTP Holdings (#4)
Recently I heard from a Russian that Bush's slogan, "you are with us or against us" comes from a communist song dating from 1950, "The one who is not with us is against us." The slogan was part of the propaganda used to suppress dissent.
#7. To: peteatomic (#5)
May as well be..with Nafta & the state of migration between the borders.
#8. To: Kamala (#0)
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