viernes, 16 de junio de 2017

The American Catastrophe - PaulCraigRoberts.org

The American Catastrophe - PaulCraigRoberts.org

 

"As Larry Stratton and I documented in our book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions,
the transformation of law from a shield of the people into a weapon in
the hands of the government began with chasing after devils, such as
gangsters, drug dealers, child abusers, and terrorists. The protective
features of the law were cut down in order to more easily convict those
targeted. The pursuit of devils was expanded by the leftwing’s Identity
Politics and its creation of hate speech, hate crimes, and now thought
crimes. As Gilad Atzmon wrote in his just published book, Being In Time, ”The freedom to think openly and speak clearly are but nostalgic concepts.”


Many Americans, perhaps most of them, still confuse patriotism with
support for the government, at least in the realm of “national
security,” and not with defense of the US Constitution. The liberals and
the leftwing are mainly concerned with inventing new rights in the
Constitution for “victim groups” as defined by Identity Politics. These
new rights, of course, cancel out rights guaranteed by the Bill of
Rights that was incorporated into the Constitution as Amendments. For
example, the right of a preferred minority not to be offended cancels
out the freedom of speech. While the government has destroyed habeas
corpus and due process, the leftwing has destroyed freedom of
expression. Together they have given us a police state."