Hornberger’s Blog, November 2011 by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2011 Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Dictatorship Codified by Jacob G. Hornberger A Washington Post op-ed by Democratic Senator Carl Levin and Republic Senator John McCain shows, once again, that the threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people comes from both liberals and conservatives, especially those within the government. The op-ed was written in support of the 2012 defense ...
Greek Bailout Delays the Inevitable by Jacob G. Hornberger October 31, 2011 The European Union’s bailout of Greece will only delay the inevitable because it doesn’t get to the root of the problem — Greece’s welfare state, along with the fierce refusal of the Greek citizenry to abandon the welfare-state way of life. It’s amusing to watch Greek citizens protest so vehemently against Germany, whose taxpayers have just been plundered to bail ...
Chalmers Johnson’s Libertarian Foreign Policy by Jacob G. Hornberger October 28, 2011 Whenever someone asks me how he can learn more about the libertarian perspective on foreign policy, I recommend Chalmers Johnson. Johnson, who recently passed away, was a liberal, not a libertarian. But there are few people who have a better handle on foreign policy from a libertarian perspective than Johnson did. If you want to truly understand the foreign-policy ...
Assassinating Children by Jacob G. Hornberger October 27, 2011 The extraordinary power of the U.S. government to assassinate people has, once again, been manifested in the assassination of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki. No, that’s not Anwar al-Awlaki, the American Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials recently assassinated in Yemen. That’s Abdulrahm al-Awlaki, the 16-year-old son of Anwar al-Awlaki. There are several things that are especially fascinating about the U.S. government’s assassination of ...
Investigate the Torture Partnerships by Jacob G. Hornberger October 26, 2011 American military statists, along with U.S. officials, are glorifying the U.S. government’s opposition to the dictators in Libya, Syria, and Egypt. They’re saying that such opposition shows that the U.S. government is concerned about the people suffering under those dictatorships and just wants to help them out by bringing them freedom and democracy. But there is something dreadfully wrong with ...
No Moral Standing by Jacob G. Hornberger October 25, 2011 There is a principle in the law that requires a person to have “standing” as a prerequisite to bringing a lawsuit in court. The law requires the plaintiff to have a direct interest in the outcome of the case or show he has been directly affected by some government action in order to have the requisite standing to bring ...
An Anti-Semitic President by Jacob G. Hornberger October 24, 2011 Ever since 9/11, we have repeatedly emphasized why the assumption of extraordinary emergency powers by the president, the military, and the CIA as part of their war on terrorism was antithetical to a free society. Everyone is coming to the realization that we now live in a country in which the government possesses the unfettered, non-reviewable authority to assassinate its ...
Gaddafi’s Execution: A Wake-Up Call for Americans? by Jacob G. Hornberger October 21, 2011 No doubt that many supporters of the U.S. government’s war on terrorism and its global assassination program will come to the defense of the Libyans who executed former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi after taking him captive. They will say, “What’s wrong with executing Gaddafi? He was a terrorist, wasn’t he? Those people didn’t need a stinking trial. Everyone knows ...
Illegal Immigrants: The Statist Scapegoats by Jacob G. Hornberger October 20, 2011 It really is sad — no, actually pathetic — to see Republican presidential candidates competing with each other to show how tough they are on illegal immigrants in order to garner votes from Republican voters. That’s not to say, of course, that liberals are any better, as reflected by President Obama’s massive number of immigration raids on private businesses ...
Disparities of Wealth by Jacob G. Hornberger October 19, 2011 On the matter of great disparities of income and wealth in a society, the manner in which people become wealthy is of great importance. In a society based largely on socialism and crony capitalism, which is the system under which the United States operates today, lots of people get wealthy by using the government to plunder and loot their fellow ...
Thou Shalt Not Covet by Jacob G. Hornberger October 18, 2011 American statists are now claiming that Americas economic woes are rooted in income inequality. They're suggesting that the reason people are struggling economically is because there are millionaires and billionaires in American society. If only the government would take more money from the rich and redistribute it to the poor, the statists say, everyone would be living comfortably, happily, ...
Americas Foreign Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger October 17, 2011 President Obamas reaction to the alleged Iranian assassination plot reflects, once again, the dictatorial powers that the president of the United States now wields in foreign affairs. As many commentators are noting, the whole scheme appears to be as bogus as a 3-dollar bill, but that isnt really the point. The point is that we now live in a country ...
