"Freedom is on the wane in this country and repression is on the rise all over the world." — Geoffrey Garin, 1973

Garin wrote BEFORE federal laws against money laundering; mandatory mininum sentences; federal sentencing guidelines; the incineration of the Branch Davidian compound at Waco; the PATRIOT Act; the attack on Iraq; the Military Commissions Act; and I could go on and on. He was right that freedom is on the wane, and it kept on waning. Even habeus corpus has been compromised.

We all grow, but love of liberty isn't an idea that one should grow out of; nor does it necessarily have to be associated with leftism. If the Geoffrey Garin of 1973 had been time-transported to 2008, he might have supported Ron Paul, if he'd been willing to support any candidate.

I'm sorry, but working for Hillary, who advocates "obliterating" Iran and expending America's "blood and treasure" in the Middle East, is an abandonment of principles for expediency.

Other remarks of Garin's were chillingly prescient:

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THE attempt to centralize power in the executive and the use of illegal and quasi-legal means to achieve that centralization is not unprecedented. As power increasingly becomes the property of the executive, Americans become increasingly alienated and isolated from their government. They feel that government is out of their hands, and quite rightly they conclude that it doesn't matter a damn what they think or do about the course of American politics.

AMERICA'S low tolerance for turmoil and its self-generated alienation from politics may well cause the trend towards one-man rule to accelerate so that executive rule becomes accepted in name as well as deed. One cannot afford to overlook the possibility that the illusion of republicanism will be dispensed with and that the United States will set out on the road of dictatorship and autocracy.

America will be governed in any case, but the question is by whom. If not by the people, then by a strong executive.

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Plenty of mainstream people, from all across the political spectrum, lament the rise of the "unitary chief executive," secret government, secret renditions to secret torture prisons, and the collapse of Congressional overnight.

Hillary does not want to abolish the unitary executive; she merely wants to be in charge of it.

Geofrrey Garin, at least, cannot claim ignorance. He saw this coming as clearly as anyone. And he's doing his part to help the process along.

I don't have much hope.

Where I live, nobody cares.

Except about the cost of gas for their vehicles.

Now, if a voice arose loud and clear how that is tied into
American domestic and foreign policy…

Instead of pounding on Rev. Wright, why doesn't Geoffrey Garin address the explosive allegation on the cover of this week's Globe (a tabloid publication that's at least as credible as the Slimes and the WaPo): that Hillary has a lesbian lover.

According to the Globe, which published several photos on its inside pages, Hillary's squeeze is a smokin'-hot 33-year-old named Huma Abedin, who's Muslim and was raised in Saudi Arabia. Check out this photo; you'll see what I mean:

http://tinyurl.com/2b4yk3

If Hillary's sapphic (as has long been suspected), I don't have any problem with that. Hell, Eleanor Roosevelt blazed the way decades ago. But shouldn't the American people know whether Hillary's a "bottom" or a "top"?

Seriously, though … as Ron Rosenbaum asks in the link posted below, should the L.A. Times be sitting on this story? After all, Hillary's already been outed. Again quoting from the link below: "On p.41 of Flowers’ autobiography "Gennifer Flowers: Passion and Betrayal," Gennifer asked Bill if there was any truth to the rumor that Hillary was having an affair with another woman. Bill laughed and said (referring to Hillary): "Honey – she’s probably eaten more p***y than I have."

http://tinyurl.com/2xt2qu

LOL, Bill! So … she didn't have 'sex' with that woman!

Attention Geoff Garin: how do you respond to Luke Ford?

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I’m placing my money on the lesbian-Hillary angle.

If you examine the candidates connected by the gossip columnists to current sex scandals, Hillary leads the way with her Huma [Abedin] connection.

My dialogue with my sources left me with no doubt … that Hillary’s made passes at women and that Muslim Huma Abedin is Hillary’s most likely source of romantic and sexual love."

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1031

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I may have to swallow my political objections to Hillary, so we can have the lovely Huma as First Lady:

http://www.lukeford.net/Images/photos4/huma3.htm

The founding fathers knew that government was and always will be an instrument of oppression unless kept closely in check. When allowed to grow as it has, we end up with secret courts and secret prisons.

Can anyone imagine Jefferson or Washington supporting the idea of Homeland Security where you can disappear into a jail without benefit of law?

If any of these great men of your past were alive not only would they be agreeing with armed revolution against this abusive state, they would be leading it.

Right up until they were all arrested and thrown into Guantanamo forever and without benefit of trial. You know of course that the criminals in the current administration have made it illegal to plan, discuss or attempt armed revolution.

Whenever a state makes armed revolution a crime it is only because they know they have created a situation where the possibility of it is real.