“The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. I do not speak of your ‘little men,’ your baker and so on; I speak of my colleagues and myself, learned men, mind you. […]
Tag Archives: Tyranny
Since the release on Monday of nine previously-secret Bush administration legal memos claiming that the president has the power to ignore the Constitution when fighting terrorism, experts have almost unanimously denounced both their legal reasoning and their conclusions. “These memos provide the very definition of tyranny,” Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley told MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann […]
I so hope I’m wrong but I told friends that there would be no elections in November in the US. Thank heavens for the Internet; it’s put the surprise back in October Surprise. Here is the latest big-picture conspiracy theory, which has been gathering strength on the blogosphere the way a hurricane feeds on Caribbean […]
