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Maureen Dowd Wants Soviet-Style Show Trials with Capitalist Defendants in Shackles
George Reisman's Blog on Economics, Politics, Society, and Culture ^ | February 7, 2009 | George Reisman

Posted on 02/19/2009 8:57:51 PM PST by GoodDay

Our mixed economy rests on the effective discarding of the United States Constitution, which placed severe limits on government power and thus stood as a bulwark in defense of an economic system that was almost one of laissez-faire. The Constitutional protections were discarded by a process of pretending that the Constitution could somehow “grow” or “evolve,” which actually meant nothing other than choosing to ignore it.

...The present symbolism depicting the relationship between the government and the citizen is that the head of the government, the President of the United States, has at his disposal, with no objection from anyone, Air Force One, which is a Boeing 747 jet plane that costs hundreds of millions of dollars and, when configured for commercial operation, carries more than 450 passengers. At the same time, howls of anger and fury go up when one of the largest private corporations in the country dares to order a 12-seat jet plane for $50 million...

(Excerpt) Read more at georgereisman.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: capitalism; interventionism; mixedeconomy
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To: George Smiley

Bwahahaha!

21 posted on 02/19/2009 9:16:52 PM PST by americanophile
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To: VR-21

“I’ve heard that a persons eyes are the windows to their soul.”

Now, which one is Maureen Dowd?


22 posted on 02/19/2009 9:17:07 PM PST by GoodDay (Palin for POTUS 2012)
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To: ari-freedom

I don’t remember anything in the rules about pictures of Michael Douglas.


23 posted on 02/19/2009 9:17:39 PM PST by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: GoodDay

MoDo’s a commie, but a hot commie.

~ ~ R U L E S ! ~ ~

I am prepared to reform the perfidious MoDo, if she be brought to me in shackles. Let it not be said that the noble Mogwai isn’t willing to give of himself for the conservative cause.


24 posted on 02/19/2009 9:24:16 PM PST by Mogwai (You say "far right" like that's a bad thing, Arlen!)
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To: GoodDay

Maureen Dowd needs to be in shackles - out in the public square.


25 posted on 02/19/2009 9:27:09 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
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To: GoodDay

Modo, go talk to the man with the “big ears”, who is on a spending spree with our money that makes the “evil” corporate execs look like pikers.


26 posted on 02/19/2009 9:28:42 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: GoodDay

The United States Constitution? What’s that?


27 posted on 02/19/2009 9:34:17 PM PST by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: GoodDay

Don't worry, there will be show trials, but the marxists won't be the ones running them.

"You are seeing today an all out attempt to marshal the forces of the opposition, using not merely the communists, or their fellow travelers-the deluded liberals, the eggheads, and some of my good friends in both the Democratic and Republican Parties who can become heros over night in the eyes of the left-wing press if they will just join with the jackal pack"

28 posted on 02/19/2009 9:38:04 PM PST by Rome2000 (Peace is not an option)
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To: GoodDay

Even Dowd, the typical man-hating feminist, should know that the most favored constituents of both political parties are above our Constitution and laws. If they say that third world slaves are better than us, so should it be. ...same with their decision to beg our trading partners for protection—a great plan that’s been in practice over the past few years.

Hopes for U.S. military ties with China
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189714/posts


29 posted on 02/19/2009 9:46:11 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: GoodDay

Don’t worry about it. She’s just a _itch anyway.


30 posted on 02/19/2009 9:59:48 PM PST by unkus
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To: americanophile

You just made me realize something. Look at that face and imagine it in 40 years. She’ll make Helen Thomas look hot.


31 posted on 02/19/2009 10:01:54 PM PST by unkus
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To: GoodDay

New York...skyscrapers and E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G ! !


32 posted on 02/19/2009 10:36:03 PM PST by BonRad (As Rome goes so goes the world)
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To: GoodDay

Poor Maureen.

Her only hope of getting laid is a man in shackles.


33 posted on 02/19/2009 10:41:42 PM PST by NoLibZone (To preserve this nation a strongly worded email is in order!)
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To: GoodDay
RULES!


34 posted on 02/19/2009 10:52:57 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: Mogwai
"Let it not be said that the noble Mogwai isn’t willing to give of himself for the conservative cause."

Let us say instead that the noble Mogwai has toboggoned off of the hill of reason and down into the slough of lunacy.

Not that all of us don't appreciate your sense of self sacrifice. ;^)

35 posted on 02/20/2009 3:53:49 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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