Posted on 02/22/2006 5:00:59 AM PST by billorites
k'ping
History classes are too busy bemoaning the internment of the Nisei and Jim Crow laws to teach history.
And the worst part of this situation is that it has been consciously created.
But, even if more Americans knew that this is by design, they probably still would do nothing about it.
Speak for yourself, Mr. Bovard.
Also from James Bovard:
"The biggest election frauds usually occur before the voting booths open. Bush is upholding a long tradition of presidential deceit. He was reelected in large part due to mass delusions about Iraq."
"In 2002, Bush’s top legal advisors informed him that, as commander-in-chief during wartime, he was above all the laws Congress enacted. Bush’s legal whiz kids also redefined torture so that CIA agents and U.S. soldiers could brutalize detainees without fear of prosecution."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard19.html
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That's very good.
Today the people think they are making things happen with their participation in the never-ending and inane media polls. When that is just absurd. But they think they have a weapon in the fight for good government, when in reality they have little power at all. (To be honest, most of them don't deserve political power. They're too damn ignorant to make a decent judgment on most important matters.)
LOL
James Bovard is just another elitist liberal who thinks he knows what's best for the "ignorant masses".
The MSM didn't want us to think for ourselves because they knew what was best for us. Funny they are blaming us now for "being dumb".
"Government has expanded in recent decades in part because .......for the last sixty years or so Congress has abused the Commerce Clause and passed about 97 gazillion illegal and unconstitutional laws and the Supreme Court had let them get away with it! But thankfully in the last couple years under Chief Justice Rehnquist THAT has finally begun to change and many of these unconstitutional laws have been struck down.
There, fixed it :-)
rl
You have hit it.
His basic theory is good. In his application, what he means is that anybody who disagrees with him is at best ignorant, but is more likely evil.
I get so tired of being preached at by these guys. I'll bet I understand US history and politics more thoroughly than he does. I've just reached different conclusions. But he and those like him cannot even admit that possibility.
Can someone name JUST ONE instance of this "brutality" any soldier or CIA agent has committed other than forcing a prisoner to wear panties on their head?
These people who make these ridiculous allegations are a joke and they're really not funny anymore, they're just sad.
Just a guess Mr. Newspaper Editor: Did your newspaper's subscriptions/circulation increase or decline last year? I could write a better op-ed than these recycled high-toned platitudes. How much does this guy get paid anyway?
I agree with you on something!
I agree with Mr. Bovard that at least half of our population is comprised of idiots, but the liberals deserve a good deal of credit for it by their continued support of a public education system that simply doesn't work. Lib would rather cater to the teachers' unions than provide children with decent education.
I'm all warm inside.
;-)
Dangerous as ignorance is, it is but a blip in the inconvenience scale, and and could be relatively harmless, without the giant stinking shadow of islam looming everywhere...
Majority rule in a Constitutional Republic can be a real bitch sometimes.
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