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Watching the Constitution Fade Away (Paul Craig Roberts B.S. Alert)
NewsMax.com ^ | May 4, 2006 | Paul Craig Roberts

Posted on 05/04/2006 2:47:53 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot

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The fall in confidence in the dollar is evidenced by the sharp run-up in the price of gold. In January 2001, the price of gold was about $240 per ounce. Today, the price is $660 per ounce.

Gold was 253 Euros to the ounce in January 2001, it is now 520 Euros to the ounce. Obviously there has been a serious loss of confidence in the Euro.

1 posted on 05/04/2006 2:47:56 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot
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To: Mase; expat_panama; 1rudeboy; Petronski; A. Pole
Paul Craig Roberts is still an assclown ping!!
2 posted on 05/04/2006 2:48:50 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I couldn't bring myself to finish this . . . I'll come back later when I'm drunk.


3 posted on 05/04/2006 2:51:03 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Toddsterpatriot
PCR: Watching my Relevance/Sanity/Reputation Fade Away
4 posted on 05/04/2006 2:51:21 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg!)
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To: Toddsterpatriot

If the Constitution is under any threat, it's from liberal activist judges who for years have been unconstitutionally making their own laws and abusing their judicial powers in the name of political correctness.


5 posted on 05/04/2006 2:53:47 PM PDT by pcottraux (It's pronounced "P. Coe-troe.")
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To: 1rudeboy

LOL.


6 posted on 05/04/2006 2:54:06 PM PDT by alaskamomma
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To: 1rudeboy

LOL.


7 posted on 05/04/2006 2:55:26 PM PDT by alaskamomma
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To: Toddsterpatriot
It was PCR that started the BS about President Bush nuking a small US city in order to justify attacking Iran.

I don't know what happened to this fella, but he is now definitely in the Helen Thomas "Hate Bush" club.

8 posted on 05/04/2006 2:57:27 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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He used to be reliably conservative. What pushed him off the deep end?


9 posted on 05/04/2006 2:58:54 PM PDT by elcid1970
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I don't agree with everything the President has done, but this article is a cheap slam. The dollar's fall had as much to do with cleaning up the last bubble's excesses as anything. Gold has been surging against all currencies, IIRC. Iran, IMO, declared war on us in 1979. Iran has admitted it houses top Al Qaeda people (Osama's sons)- there are many reasons why we can attack at will, as per the Congress' ipso facto declaration of war (for all intents and purposes, all necessary force = dec of war). Mfg? Does this guy remember the Japanese buying Rockefeller Center? Does he not realize offshoring is only in the news during a Rep administration? I'm not happy with a lot of things, but Bush has inherited alot of things...


10 posted on 05/04/2006 2:59:19 PM PDT by PghBaldy
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To: Toddsterpatriot

I like how Jonah Goldberg referred to morons like this one; spittle flecked bloggers.


11 posted on 05/04/2006 2:59:37 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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" Illegal immigration has continued to explode. While Bush spends $1 trillion and many lives trying to control borders in the Middle East, America's borders remain undefended and overrun. Bush advocates amnesty for the illegals who have invaded America, while Bush invades distant countries. "


He got this right ...


12 posted on 05/04/2006 3:00:32 PM PDT by sushiman
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To: Toddsterpatriot

There are so many logical fallacies just in the first three sentences that I gave up.


13 posted on 05/04/2006 3:00:42 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War (This tagline is false.)
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To: elcid1970

I really don't know, but it wasn't just a move to the center, it was a rabid Michael Moore move to the left.


14 posted on 05/04/2006 3:01:38 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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Ha ha! I read the entire article, and wondered to my self the whole time, "why am I reading this garbage?".

It's caused me to want a drink.


15 posted on 05/04/2006 3:02:48 PM PDT by LubyGee (Insert something witty)
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The U.S. secretary of state, sounding like the warmonger she is, says the United States may ignore the United Nations and attack Iran on its own initiative.

He says this like ignoring the U.N. is a bad thing.

16 posted on 05/04/2006 3:03:33 PM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
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I'll come back later when I'm drunk.

Believe me, you could spend 3 hours on a crack pipe, and still not want to go back there.

17 posted on 05/04/2006 3:07:33 PM PDT by appleharvey
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Instead of putting the Parenthesis with the Paul Craig Robert BS alert, you should have put a Parenthesis saying: (Knee jerk defenders of Bush come and post here) because that's what is going on.
Since when are conservatives supposed to be mindless knee jerk defenders of a Republican president?

Paul Craig Roberts raises some good points that should be discussed. Unfortunately Free Republic seems to have been taken over by some kind of Democrat underground which is chasing any and all valid discusion right off the pages in favor of what sounds like mob decision making.


18 posted on 05/04/2006 3:08:16 PM PDT by Smocker
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Recently, both Chinese and Russian government officials warned of the dollar's shaky status.

At least Paul is citing two beacons of honesty and credibility in this rant. LOL!

..the Bush regime exercises dictatorial powers. The exercise of these dictatorial powers by the executive is a far greater danger to American liberty than are Muslim terrorists.

...unaccountable executive power is inconsistent with free societies. America is no exception. Unless Bush is impeached and turned over to the war crimes court in the Hague, Americans will never reclaim their liberties from an executive branch that has established itself as the sole judge of the limits of its powers.

Wow. I get called a traitor here because I defend the rights of people to trade goods and services without government interference. These same people consider this horses ass to be a patriot who only has America's best interests at heart. Weird.

19 posted on 05/04/2006 3:08:16 PM PDT by Mase
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Very few people realize it but Russia, under the long Communist reign, had a constitution. It read almost word for word like the U. S. Constitution.

It was meaningless because it was not enforced. Our own constitution, by gradual erosion, has reached that point - almost. It doesn't have far to go.

It would be hard for a staff of constitutional scholars to find even one article of the U. S. Constitution that has not been violated by government again and again, or just simply ignored.


20 posted on 05/04/2006 3:12:58 PM PDT by R.W.Ratikal
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