Monday, January 21, 2013

Paul Craig Roberts: The Institutionalization of Tyranny

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33670.htm

The institutionalization of tyranny is the achievement of the Bush/Obama regimes of the 21st century. This, and not the Great Society, is the decisive break from the American tradition. The Bush Republicans demolished almost all of the constitutional protections of liberty erected by the Founding Fathers. The Obama Democrats codified Bush’s dismantling of the Constitution and removed the protection afforded to citizens from being murdered by the government without due process. One decade was time enough for two presidents to make Americans the least free people of any developed country, indeed, perhaps of any country. In what other country or countries does the chief executive officer have the right to murder citizens without due process?
For Washington, victory means stamping out moral conscience and protecting a corrupt government from public exposure of its war crimes.

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