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

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The Islamophilia Doctrine that Failed - the inverse is Ameriphobia

Muhammad in Hell; Dante’s Inferno
Illustration by Gustave Dore
We have an administration that has American interests as secondary to its own interests which are unfavorable to the U.S.
Power and respect work in the Islamic world of false honor, not groveling apologies. m/r

The Doctrine that Failed | The Weekly Standard

There’s a reason we get no respect in the Middle East.
SEP 24, 2012, VOL. 18, NO. 02 • BY STEPHEN F. HAYES

On the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, radical Islamists breached the walls of the U.S. embassy compound in Cairo, tore the American flag to shreds, and replaced it with the black flag preferred by al Qaeda, which reads, “There is No God but God, and Muhammad is his messenger.”
The embassy had been warned of protests in advance. Much of the staff was told to stay home. The pretext for the protest was a YouTube video promoting an obscure film, The Innocence of Muslims, that mocks the prophet Muhammad. Larry Schwartz, a communications specialist in the embassy, released a statement before the protesters had assembled, intended to assuage their anger.
It read, in its entirety:
The Embassy of the United States in Cairo condemns the continuing efforts by misguided individuals to hurt the religious feelings of Muslims—as we condemn efforts to offend believers of all religions. Today, the 11th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, Americans are honoring our patriots and those who serve our nation as the fitting response to the enemies of democracy. Respect for religious beliefs is a cornerstone of American democracy. We firmly reject the actions by those who abuse the universal right of free speech to hurt the religious beliefs of others.

That statement was the official position of the U.S. government for more than 12 hours. In a midday briefing, a State Department spokeswoman acknowledged that the embassy walls had been breached but said nothing about the statement. At 10:10 p.m. that evening, an Obama administration official told Politico that “the statement by Embassy Cairo was not cleared by Washington and does not reflect the views of the United States government.”
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