Obama: Our Benevolent Dictator by Jacob G. Hornberger April 5, 2011 In my article of yesterday, “The Benefit of Obama’s War on Libya,” I pointed out how President Obama’s new war provides him with the justification to indefinitely maintain war-on-terrorism powers that are akin to those wielded by the U.S.-supported dictators in the Middle East. American statists might respond, “But Jacob, President Obama isn’t like the Middle East dictators that the ...
The Benefit of Obama’s War on Libya by Jacob G. Hornberger April 4, 2011 Lost within the “humanitarian” rationale that President Obama and his liberal cohorts have provided for the U.S. Empire’s war on Libya is one of the principal benefits of the Libyan War, at least from the standpoint of U.S. officials: the indefinite continuation of the U.S. government’s anti-terrorist powers that have accompanied its decade-long “war on terrorism.” Such powers include the ...
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2011 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2011 Friday, April 29, 2011 Nutrition and the Nanny State Even while bombing and killing people overseas, the federal government hasn’t forgotten its important role of being a daddy for the American people. According to an article in today’s New York Times, the Food and Drug Administration is issuing rules directed to food companies that target children in their advertising. Since child obesity is ...
American Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger March 18, 2011 Would someone please tell me what limits constrain President Obama in foreign affairs? A dictator is a government ruler with omnipotent powers, one who has no constitutional or legislative constraints on his powers. Operating through his military, paramilitary, intelligence, and police forces, he can do whatever he chooses to do. He can use his forces, which loyally follow his orders, ...
The Constitution Requires a Congressional Declaration of War against Libya by Jacob G. Hornberger March 17, 2011 Given the battlefield success of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s standing army against Libyan rebels, President Obama has now shifted his tune. Instead of simply advocating a no-fly zone over Libya, Obama is now requesting the United Nations Security Council to authorize the United States to bomb Libyan tanks and artillery. Did you catch that? The president of the United States ...
Time to Stop Deferring to Federal Authority by Jacob G. Hornberger March 16, 2011 With Saudi Arabia’s military intervention into Bahrain, the dark side of U.S. foreign policy becomes even more exposed. The purpose of the Saudi intervention is to prop up the brutal dictatorship in Bahrain, one of the many dictatorships that the U.S. government has long supported as part of its imperial foreign policy. Of course, it goes without saying that the ...
Socialism’s Denigration of Free Will by Jacob G. Hornberger March 15, 2011 No doubt American statists are feeling that they are good and caring people given the fact that the U.S. government is sending warships and supplies to the Japanese people. I wonder if they also feel that they are bad people given the fact that the U.S. government is also sending cash and armaments to brutal and corrupt dictatorships in ...
Democracy-Spreading Hypocrisy in Cuba by Jacob G. Hornberger March 14, 2011 A Cuban court has sentenced USAID contractor Alan Gross to 15 years in prison for engaging in subversive activity intended to undermine the Cuban government. Some 15 months ago, Gross was arrested by Cuban authorities for delivering satellite telephone equipment to people within Cuba. At first U.S. officials falsely implied that Gross was just a regular humanitarian who was trying ...
Why Isn’t It Evil to Support Evil? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2011 I continue to be fascinated by the response of the American people to U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. Specifically, I cannot understand why people seem so blasé about the fact that their very own government, including the U.S. military and the CIA, have knowingly and intentionally supported and partnered with brutal dictatorial regimes that have used torture, ...
The Military Has the Authority to Nudify You Too by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2011 In the controversy over the U.S. military’s decision to nudify Bradley Manning, I suspect that most Americans have not yet come to the realization that U.S. military forces have the authority to do the same thing to each and every American. It’s simply one part of the revolutionary transformation of American life, one in which the military now has ...
Blame the Empire, Not Muslims by Jacob G. Hornberger March 9, 2011 Yesterday, I appeared on the Glenn Beck Show (at 27:40), with Judge Andrew Napolitano as substitute host, to discuss U.S. Rep. Peter King’s upcoming congressional hearings on the “radicalization of Muslims.” Let me tell you what’s going on here. If U.S. statists can convince Americans that the terrorist problem lies with Muslims and Islam — in other words, a religious problem, ...
The U.S. Government: Egypt’s Co-Tyrant by Jacob G. Hornberger March 8, 2011 In a scene that almost certainly made Pentagon and CIA officials both angry and nervous, Egyptian protestors stormed the headquarters of the much-feared State Security Investigations agency in Cairo, where they began examining top-secret documents. This is the agency that was primarily responsible for enforcing the Mubarak dictatorship’s war on terrorism and war on drugs with such things as ...
