Reagan
| Posted On: 12/07/07 12:31:54 PM |
Age 61, MO |
As president, Ronald Reagan issued 298 National Security Decision Directives. These were secret orders that were accorded the force of law. This kind of lawlessness corrupted the regular democratic process in the United States. If Iraq violated the "law of nations," and it did; but then so did the U.S. American officials always claim virtuous motives for their invasions of foreign countries by claiming justifiable provocations, but the interventions are decided by the chief executive alone, and are oblivious to the formal procedures by which such actions are sanctioned under both international law or the U.S. Constitution. This overbearing nature of the modern presidencies has been most crippling to democracy. The permanent "Cold War" mobilization made the accumulation of power seem normal, and it allowed for the unrestrained growth of global corporations, mostly military industrial corporations, to feed of this permanent state of war: at the expense of the average U.S. citizens. We haven't won the "cold war" because it never ended, and at the last look, I see the American economy bankrupted from our efforts to win. In the meantime, the communist ethos has permeated our public school systems and contaminated our church systems. Who needs atheism when you can inculcate subtle heresy? George Cancilla
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