Perhaps the most striking assault on the foundations of traditional liberties is a little-known case brought to the Supreme Court by the Obama administration, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project.
NOAM CHOMSKYThe truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.
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The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.
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There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‘That person I see is a savage monster;’ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.
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I didn’t pay my taxes for years.
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West.
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social relations removes all barriers to coercion and manipulation by the powerful.
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The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.
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It is true that classical libertarian thought is opposed to state intervention in social life, as a consequence of deeper assumptions about the human need for liberty, diversity, and free association.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
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If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
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Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.
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The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.
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The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money.
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The European Central Bank has only the first. It has no commitment to keep employment up.
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Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
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