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, March 15, 2015

In Mexico, their President Peña Blames the US to Distract From His Corruption

Much like Obama, he's a small minded, mean hypocrite, attacking the reporter who exposed him. And like our suck-up press, the report's media bosses are helping Peña hide his corruption. m/r

In Mexico, a hard-hitting journalist is getting her wings clipped, again - LA Times

3-13-15

Carmen Aristegui may be Mexico's most famous journalist — and her bosses are clipping her wings

Are the moves by a Mexican radio station meant to intimidate and punish hard-hitting journalists?


She is sort of a cross between Christiane Amanpour (let us hope not that bad) and a dog with a bone. Carmen Aristegui is possibly Mexico's most famous journalist, very courageous and often annoying. She hosts an enormously popular four-hour daily radio program and has a nightly talk-show gig on the Spanish-language service of CNN.

And now, she is in trouble.

Again.

Aristegui has clashed with the corporate bosses who own her radio station and for at least the third time in recent years has faced being off the air at least temporarily.

This time her bosses, without consulting her, she says, fired two key members of her investigative reporting staff. They happen to be the journalists who exposed possible conflict-of-interest real-estate deals involving Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and his wife and several mansions, unleashing a scandal that the government has yet to put to rest.


Many people in Mexico see the station's actions as an effort to intimidate and punish hard-hitting journalists and wonder who is really behind it.

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