Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Last Month Haled the Last of the Kennedy's in Fed. Office- Too Bad it meant a Kennedy Miniseries Nixed as well

Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Kennedy Miniseries Nixed

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Kennedy Miniseries Nixed

The History Channel has pulled the plug on a recent TV miniseries about the Kennedy family. "Liberal filmmaker Robert Greenwald was behind a petition drive to get the movie shelved. A website, stopkennedysmears.com, was set up with a short film that attacked the miniseries. The decision was reminiscent of CBS' 2003 decision not to air a miniseries based on the life of President Ronald Reagan, which had also attracted political controversy prior to airing. .... [Greenwald's] YouTube film quoted Sorenson, a former adviser to Kennedy, calling a script he had seen of "The Kennedys" vindictive and malicious. Sorenson said scenes in the script that depicted him meeting with President Kennedy did not occur."

According to stopkennedysmears.com, "The script for the upcoming "The Kennedys" miniseries on The History Channel is right-wing character assassination, not "history."" Um, sure. I suppose it would be assassinating Kennedy's liberal character to expose him as a supply-sider? I say that any honest account of the Kennedy family would be filled with nothing but "smears." (Naturally this excludes any film directed by Oliver Stone.)

I defer to Christopher Hitchens for historical commentary on the goons that comprise the Kennedy family: "Had [JFK] lived and been re-elected, the anti-war crowds would have been chanting, not "Hey, Hey, LBJ, How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?" but "Hey, Hey, JFK...."

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