“We’ve slipped away from a true Republic,” Paul said. “Now we’re slipping into a fascist system where it’s a combination of government and big business and authoritarian rule and the suppression of the individual rights of each and every American citizen.”
He repeatedly denounced President Barack Obama’s recent enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012. Provisions within the $662 billion defense spending bill contained a controversial section that required terrorism suspects to be detained by the military without trial, regardless of where they were captured.
While signing the bill on December 31, Obama issued a statement in which he pledged that the new laws would not violate Americans’ constitutional rights. But human rights advocates said Obama’s signing statement did not prevent future administrations from abusing the law.
Read it at Raw Story
by Eric W. Dolan
This is one thing that Libertarians and Occupy agree on.
Unfortunately, some progressives are also buying into Paul's Rothbardian Austrian economics, too, failing to understand that the natural outcome of survival of the (economically) fittest is the exaltation of the grand acquisitors. Since this system favors creditors, it results in neo-feudalism and is the road to serfdom in the form of permanent low wages and debt-peonage.
UPDATE: See also Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
UPDATE: See also Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, Uncle Sam, Global Gangster
includes Scoring the Global War on Terror — From Liberation to Assassination in Three Quick Rounds
by Andrew J. Bacevich
by Andrew J. Bacevich
2 comments:
Dead on, Tom.
Back during the early years of the Iraq War, I used to read a lot of stuff at antiwar.com, and even provided a few opinion pieces for the site, as well as making financial contributions to the site. But eventually I stopped patronizing Raimondo and antiwar.com altogether because the site is used to promote Rothbard, von Mises and others of the Austrian school, and I didn't want to be any part of the trend of luring anti-war progressives down the anarcho-capitalist path.
I would be for "survival of the (economically) fittest" in a fair and equitable system. However, that isn't what we have. We have a system that favors the already-haves, with little room for "the fittest".
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