Comments on: Lessons of History

By: The Mahablog » By the Book

The Mahablog » By the Book — Sat, 13 May 2006 21:45:38 +0000

[...] Attorney General Robert Kennedy, remembered today as a champion of the underdog, approved wiretaps on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. [But see this for context.] Nearly every recent president has ordered questionable “name checks” – a search of FBI files for any damaging information – on political opponents. [...]

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The Mahablog » The Dumbest Thing I Have Ever Read on the Internets — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:19:48 +0000

[...] As I explained in more detail here, Lincoln made emergency use of a power given to Congress (to suspend habeas corpus) to deal with riots and unchecked lawlessness in some of the border states while Congress was not in session. The next time Congress came back into session (not “only much later”), Lincoln went to Congress, acknowledged this power rightfully belonged to Congress, and asked for their retroactive approval even while the Civil War was still heating up. Unlike Bush and his NSA spy program, he didn’t act in secret, nor did he declare he could ignore Congress entirely because there was a war on. I agree Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus is still controversial, but if Lincoln was wrong, then Bush is thrice wrong. [...]

By: alyosha

alyosha — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 20:59:24 +0000

“Strict Constructionism” is a scam, a phrase like “Intelligent Design”. It’s a cover for “We will interpret the Constitution to justify anything we want”.

“State’s Rights” is another scam, discarded as soon as they want some broad power to outlaw something they dislike. The classic example is medicinal marijuana, which has passed numerous state voter initiatives, but which so outrages the right that they throw State’s Rights out the window to ban it.

Righties claim any convenient principle to justify their actions, and just as quickly discard the same when it contradicts what they want to do. Learn to recognize this.

These people have all the intellectual and moral rigor of a week old piece of celery.

By: Swami

Swami — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:46:20 +0000

Bush’s war on terror is a scam. He magnified an insignificant bunch of criminals into a global threat capable of destroying the human race — and in doing so, he has swindled Americans of their liberties It’s sad to witness the stupidity that so many Americans have embraced the scam.. I quess there is truth in the idea that, if your liberties can so easliy be fofreited than you didn’t value them to begin with.

I firmly believe that Bush had pricked the heart of America and that wound will be fatal if American doesn’t tend to that wound. In the realm of ideas, if “we the people” don’t retain the ultimate authority then the idea and ideal of America has perished.

Drink the Kool-Aid, Folks. it diminishes the pain of watching America die.