Comments on: Stomping Freedom: The Martial Law Act of 2006

By: Skruff

Skruff — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:39:30 +0000

Freedom’s just another name for nothing left to lose. Nothing ain’t worth nothing, but it’s free.

By: Center for the Common Interest » Blog Archive » ACLU to protect against Government in Pandemic

Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:14:37 +0000

[...] Act, Total Information Awareness, No-Fly lists, as well as “signing statements”. The 2006 Defense Authorization Act expanded the 1807 Insurrection Act to allow the President to declare Martial Law and send in the [...]

By: Dirk W. Sabin

Dirk W. Sabin — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:10:50 +0000

Gee, the Evil-Doers have been given their greatest victory. Who needs to fight “over there” when the American Government will do the heavy lifting “over here”? Our terrorist foes have just been given their strongest arrow in a quiver of asymmetric warfare by this law.

When all one must do to punish one’s foe is conduct a strategic operation of terrorism , one can rest assured that these types of acts are made even more desirable to the terrorist. The terrorist is relieved from the need to attack with large troops, heavy weaponry or even any kind of sophisticated planning. This government will do the work for the Terrorist.

With Revolutionaries like these, who needs Counter-Revolutionaries?

We really have met the nemy and he is us.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:41:44 +0000

Alice - thanks for the comment.

Likewise on the Clark County speech - if I had not been away, I would have been there, too.

HR 1955 is ghastly - a sign of our times.

Hopefully it gets throttled…

By: Alice Lillie

Alice Lillie — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:32:04 +0000

Great article! Thank you, James.

You spoke to the Libertarian Party of Clark County several months ago. I was away or I certainly would have been there!

Now we are threatened by HR 1955/SB 1959. I would love your comments on that.

By: The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit

The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:27:13 +0000

Adam, I’ve got a better juicy quote:

“Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do.” Rudy Giuliani, March 1994

And you’re right, Jim, the current lot are oligarchs, not aristocrats. A much nastier and brutish breed.

By: Jim

Jim — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 03:01:57 +0000

Adam - thanks for the comments.

I assume that Bush is not sufficiently fluent in Spanish to read or understand the Paraguayan dictator’s comment in the original language…

I would not consider the current US system as an “aristocratic despotism.” I cannot think of the current power-holders as aristocrats, regardless of how many rolls they can juggle at a Georgetown dinner parties.

By: Adam S.

Adam S. — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:16:23 +0000

I wanted to add two juicy quotes from people:
“Liberty is so precious that it must be rationed” -Lenin
“I had a choice in my country between anarchy and tyranny. I decided to choose the latter against the former”-Jose Gaspar Maria Rodriguez, dictator of Paraguay until 1840
These thoughts are the end result of what Ravi Zacharias aptly calls,our “politicizing our morality and moralizing our politics”

By: Adam S.

Adam S. — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:13:26 +0000

When the military dictatorship comes, you can be assured that Fox News will bring you live coverage of the ones who want to “force people to be free” (to use Saint-Just’s phrase) The militarization of the economy is the natural consequence of the latent fascism of the last 50 years of American politics. It is always amazing how when confronted with tyranny or freedom the elites will be the first to go with tyranny. But if they didn’t advocate tyranny, they wouldn’t be elites, would they?
I forgot how utterly dangerous this act is. The article is a stark reminder of how close the US is to becoming a police state. Why does everyone keep using the term “democracy” when they describe the US? We don’t have a federal republic or a democracy, but rather an aristocratic despotism. I think part of the problem stems from as far back as the French Revolution. There the Jacobins “forced people to be free” by making them vote under armed guard and under threat of death. Yep, that’s democracy. (As far as I’m concerned, Professor Hoppe has done us no service by his book on “The God that Failed”"

By: The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit

The Infamous Oregon Lawhobbit — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:11:29 +0000

Fantasy, I’m sure. I may have to start digging through physical files here to see if I printed it out sometime in the past.