The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
I personally believe it's every citizen's civil duty to pay attention to what their government does, to question their government and hold these people's feet to the fire. If you don't do that, you will get bad government.
It was the right thing to do. We seek justice in every case.
U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni about dismissal of human trafficking case against Mike & Alec Sou
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Congress can impose liabilities on you, your children, and grandchildren without your consent, and even without your knowledge. This is another example of government holding itself above the law.
A country whose population has been trained to accept the government’s word and to shun those who question it is a country without liberty in its future.
Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan
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In America today, and increasingly throughout the Western world, actual facts and true explanations have been relegated to the realm of kookiness. Only people who believe lies are socially approved and accepted as patriotic citizens.
Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan
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The way Amerikan justice (sic) works is that prosecutors in about 96% of the cases get a plea bargain. US prosecutors . . . put sufficient pressure on innocent defendants to coerce them into making a guilty plea in exchange for lesser charges and a lighter sentence. . . . Amerikan criminal justice (sic) is organized to produce conviction regardless of innocence or guilt.
Paul Craig Roberts, political commentator, economist & Asst. Treasury Secretary under Reagan
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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.
Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, pp. 79-80.
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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.
Paul Craig Roberts was the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury during the Ronald Reagan administration, becoming known as “the father of Reaganomics.” He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.
Paul Joseph Watson of Prison Planet interviews Roberts about the death of Osama bin Laden. Roberts doesn't believe the story about Osama bin Laden being killed, believing instead that he died years ago. Quite interesting to hear Roberts' reasoning out the perplexities of the unfolding story.
He says the two questions to focus on are 1) what are the real agendas behind this story and 2) why did the government change its story?