Showing posts with label dictator. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dictator. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Praise for a dictator


Well, George, isn't this another fine mess you've gotten us into. So, Hugo Chavez is the devil and Pervez Musharraf is "a strong fighter against extremists and radicals."

I've known some radicals I far prefer to you.

We've given this tyrant $10 billion to throw those radicals in jail. You know, those radicals...lawyers.

Would that our U.S. ambulance chasers would get out on the street and help bring some attention to our own great dictator.

Friday, July 20, 2007

Toward a democratic tyrant


We already have one Declaration of Independence. Doesn't seem like we need another. Maybe just a daily re-reading of the one that worked so well in 1776.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Amazingly straightforward and brimming with common sense. How then have we gotten here? An executive branch exerting authority that doesn't exist in the Constitution, and notable statesmen worrying about tyranny. Perhaps we should not be surprised that someone who grew up the fortunate son of a Senator and a President would have such disdain for the rule of law that he thinks it only applies to other people.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

Thursday, July 5, 2007

A few thoughts on independence from tyrants


Colin McEnroe, the only bright spot in Hartford's vast AM radio wasteland, blogs eloquently about what makes a tyrant, and what makes us free from tyrants. Provocative. Give it a read.