"My Epiphany: From Reaganaut to Anti-War Radical"

[kpete]

Opinion
THE NEW AMERICAN POLICE STATE By Richard Reeves
Fri Feb 17, 8:16 PM ET

NEW YORK -- "When I saw that the neoconservative response to 9/11 was to turn a stateless war against terrorism into military attacks on Muslim states, I realized that the Bush administration was committing a strategic blunder with open-ended disastrous consequences for the United States that, in the end, would destroy Bush, the Republican Party and the conservative movement."


I agree with that, but I didn't write it. No liberal did.

The author is Paul Craig Roberts, one of the creators and champions of "supply-side economics," the great conservative cause of the early 1980s. As a Wall Street Journal editorial writer and then assistant secretary of the treasury under President Reagan, Roberts was a true believer and an effective advocate. His political stance is pretty well summed up in the title of his newest book: "The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice."

Roberts is a syndicated columnist now, an honorable profession, and a fellow at the Hoover Institution, a temple of talented political thinkers devoted to all the Right things, beginning with Reaganism. His essay, "My Epiphany: From Reaganaut to Anti-War Radical," is, as they say these days, sweeping the Internet. (You can read the text on VDARE.com, the Web site of the Lexington Institute.)

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"Americans have forgotten what it takes to remain free. Instead, every ideology, every group is determined to use government to advance its agenda. ... The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and democracy itself. The 'liberal press' has been co-opted. ... Media concentration permitted in the 1990s has put news and opinion in the hands of a few corporate executives who do not dare risk their broadcasting licenses by getting on the wrong side of government, or their advertising revenues by becoming 'controversial.'"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucrr/20060218/cm_ucrr/thenewamericanpolicestate;_ylt=Ak.Y63WL7c.XJq6tnLqGskgDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
http://vdare.com/roberts/060207_epiphany.htm

[Arkham House]

1. Roberts is a true patriot--

--a genuine conservative, and--something almost obsolete--an honest-to-goodness gentleman. If we had real politics in this country, he'd be an honored and respected leader of the Left's opposition. The way things are, he and we are going to be forced into alliance, however uneasy in certain respects...but I'm glad as hell to have him by our side...