Posted on 01/12/2007 10:11:28 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot
What a pantload. If one writes something ridiculous, expect ridicule. Complaining about it simply makes one appear childish, in addition.
Roberts is an anti-Semite.
"Is Paul Craig Roberts insane."
I think he has some serious mental issues. Let's look at the facts:
1. Back in the eighties, he was a well-regarded economist, government official, and journalist.
2. In the nineties, he wrote some truly brilliant stuff, but already, he was lobbing off-the-wall accusations.
3. In the last few years, he has been blaming the Israeli government for everything. He has no evidence for his claims. He sounds like a classic paranoiac.
4. Twice in the last year, he has gone six weeks without writing a column. On other occasions, he has put out four columns in a week. This past week, he's already written four columns for Antiwar.com. When he puts out a lot of columns in a week, he sounds the most unhinged.
5. He never makes public appearances anymore.
I'm no psychiatrist, but I think Roberts is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. According to Healthsquare.com, here are the symptoms, followed by my comments:
-Confusion (hard to say)
-Inability to make decisions (doesn't write books anymore, and he used to be a pretty prolific writer.)
-Hallucinations (been claiming to know for sure that the U.S. was going to set off a nuclear bomb and blame it on terrorists)
-Changes in eating or sleeping habits, energy level, or weight (could explain the long periods without writing a column)
-Delusions (See hallucinations)
-Nervousness (Hard to say)
-Strange statements or behavior (Absolutely--read a bunch of his columns)
-Withdrawal from friends, work, or school (no longer makes personal appearances. Other columnists don't ever mention seeing or talking with him.)
-Neglect of personal hygiene (don't know)
-Anger (extreme)
-Indifference to the opinions of others (he dismisses most other opinions in his column)
-A tendency to argue (extreme)
-A conviction that you are better than others, or that people are out to get you (he displays both, big time)
I hope he gets help. He was a great man once, and he was the man who wrote the Kemp-Roth bill that saved the U.S. economy.
Thanks for that great response. My question was a serious one, based on reading the article. I didn't know about his past and his former ability to do good work and think rationally. There is obviously something very, very wrong with him now and he clearly needs help.
It's fiction, and therefore can be constructed to prove anything.
Second-guessing history is an amusing pastime, but no more than that.
You make a good point re: Richard III keeping the princes locked up while public opinion turned against him. If he didn't do it, somebody working for him did ("Will nobody rid me of this troublesome priest?")
Surely his family or friends would be trying to get him help?
Of course, they MAY have given up. I've known folks with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia whose families tried everything including involuntary hospitalization to try to get them straightened out.
Eventually, if the patient doesn't WANT to get straightened out (some people get hooked on the manic highs, and simply refuse to take their medication), you have to cut yourself off from them, because otherwise they drive you crazy too. Sad, but occasionally true.
It's hard to believe that Paul Craig Roberts was once a respected member of the conservative movement in America. I remember reading his articles about the Reagan Tax Cuts, supply side economics, and how the Reagan revolution would turn America around from the doldrum of Carter's double-digit unemployment, double-digit interest rates, double-digit inflation, and a double-digit misery index. Then he abruptly resigned from the Reagan Administration's Treasury Department, and he hasn't been the same since.
There are four or five guys who've been touted as suspects. Given the distance in time, and the lack of information even then, we can never know.
They disappeared. Nobody knows what happened to them.
Do you think the bodies found under the staircase in the Tower are those of the princes?
I haven't a clue. And neither does anybody else. A lot of young people probably died in the Tower over the centuries. It is possible that modern forensics could answer some questions.
But nobody knows where the Victorians put the bodies . . .
Oh yuck, this barking moonbat has used one of my favorite books and a jumping off point, to trash President Bush with. HOW DARE HE! *harumph*
Exactly so!
NO!
Just filled up to the eyeballs with hatred and bias.
Cool! I thought the Victorians had lost them . . .
You might be interested in reading THE PRINCES IN THE TOWER, by Alison Weir and THE MYSTERY of the PRINCES, by Audrey Williamson. There are other good books, but you should start with these two.
I read Alison Weir's book somewhere along the line, it's very solid. Had Millais's very romanticised portrait of the two princes on the cover.
Haven't read Williamson, but I'm sure I can find a copy. I still have my stack card to Emory U. library, even though I took my degree in 1980, and they never throw ANYthing away.
If you'd like a larger book list, re the princes, please feel free to drop me a note in FREEPmail. :-)
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