HEROES OF EMPIRE #4
December 13, 2010
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in the dirt since history began
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"We have no words to waste on you. When you reach out your vaunted strong hands for our palaces and purpled ease, we will show you what strength is. In roar of shell and shrapnel and in whine of machine-guns will our answer be couched. We will grind you revolutionists down under our heel, and we shall walk upon your faces. The world is ours, we are its lords, and ours it shall remain. As for the host of labor, it has been in the dirt since history began, and I read history aright. And in the dirt it shall remain so long as I and mine and those that come after us have the power. There is the word. It is the king of words—Power. Not God, not Mammon, but Power. Pour it over your tongue till it tingles with it. Power."
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Stump Lane 
Cool, man!
thanks, bro.
I read Lawfare about everyday. The process of otherwise intelligent people engaged in the work of persuading readers that they are “serious” thinkers while rejecting values present in American government since Washington and Lincoln who both rejected maltreatment of “enemies” as sound policy or law and while publicly engaging in sophistry to defend what all [privately] acknowledge is torture and tyranny is riveting. They either miss, or avert their eyes, from the larger more basic principles that have informed law since Hillel. Their collective inability/refusal to engage Greenwald tells us of their essential cowardice.
i’ve not read much over there. are those dudes are engaging in craven power seeking? or is there genuine enthusiasm there?