Posted on 12/13/2009 6:42:18 AM PST by markomalley
Nat Hentoff is a “Jewish atheist”; Oriana Fallaci was a “Christian atheist”. Both have told unvarnished, hard truths buttressed by Judaeo-Christianity.
The Universal Vague Religion can never produce such atheists (who I have been strangely blessed by)!
You’re exactly right. He said it’s just a collection of “negative rights” and, as such, is deficient. He wants an enumeration of all the wonderful things government should do for us.
The First Amendment can be summed up as “Leave us alone!”
Yeah, it is a great quote. I enjoyed the entire interview, even though he’s griping about issues from his Leftist point of view, he’s right about Obama being all about self aggrandizement.
I believe he lied when he took the oath of office vowing “to protect and defend” the Constitution. If our Congress had any guts they’d throw him out.
Yes, he is.
I have been an occasional reader of his columns for decades (when they were available in local newspapers here) and disagreed with him about half the time. But I always considered Nat to be an honest man, and that counts for a lot in my book.
Zactly so! I love that quote!!!!
When my late father worked at Southern Bell in the late 1960’s (in Miami FL) his sole job was to tap phones for the FBI, Florida State Police, IRS, etc. The phone companies have been playing footsie with the government since Alexander Graham Bell.
Thanks for posting.
Nat Hentoff was the one sane columnist in “The Village Voice” magazine.
(Although they did occassionally have a well-done feature article.)
He was a lecturer in law, which is an entirely different ballpark.
And Nathoff should NOT be surprised, because he must have heard that infamous BHO quote, to wit: The Constitution is a FLAWED document.
So NO surprise that they have no respect for it.
Hmmm. Nice turn of phrase. If I may expand on it?
The difference between patriots and 0bama supporters:
Patriots think we have a hollow man at the helm.
0bamanists think we have a hallowed man at the helm.
needs some work...
"I am 84 years old, and this is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan."
Hey null and void! :)
I like that one too. It speaks volumes.
You're right.
If this turns out to be a temporary link, go to www.uchicago.edu and enter Barack Obama into their search engine.
They refer to him being "a former Law School Senior Lecturer".
Examples:
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It troubles me that Nat Hentoff did say that. No one with power had said that. No one in power has stood up for us.
If they have and I don’t know it they should gather on Congress’ steps and show it.
Congress needs a high colonic.
I have been sitting here wondering how many democrats in congress have heard about or have read this interview. I’m certain Obama has been told.
Hentoff was always one to speak his mind. I can remember reading his Village Voice articles posted here. This one is a stunner. He thinks Obama is dangerous for reasons different from mine, but we reach the same conclusion. Amazing.
There is an extremely interesting interview with Nat Hentoff over here.
In the 60’s two computers of the IBM 1400 series had capacity of 1.4 KB and 2 KB and they ran banks, transit systems and the government that was already spying on us.
IMHO, everybody thinks WhoseSane is dangerous.
Maybe why Bell won his copyright case in court?
I think it’s impossible to overstate the importance of Hentoff’s assessment of Obama. I mean, it’s absolutely stunning.
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