For a second there, I thought the quote was from John Edwards....just as well could have been.

That is profound. Waffler misses the point...as always

Neo-cons are simply internationalists in sheep's clothing.

I found a copy of the book at a local library. The catalog says there are several copies of it. It is over 1300 pages.

Where's Waffler now?

The exact opposite of what I have seen some write here (Waffler). Right on target!

The math isn't exactly correct, but the accusation is 100% correct and deplorable.

WAFFLER! What the heck?! Taxpayers and CPA's conspiring against the govt? Are you serious? I hope you are being facetious.

FDR was the worst president we ever had. Fascists and Communists are both Statists and both are directly opposed to the system set up by the Constitution. There are few and inconsequential differences between Communism and Fascism. FDR possibly destroyed more of the Constitution than any other president.

Waffler, your idea of democracy is so screwed up I am not sure where to begin with you. Democracy is NOT a safeguard against tyranny. Democracy can be just as tyrannical as a dictatorship. It is not just the form of government that is important but its essence. Freedom is not inherent in democracy. A Monarchy can be just as free as a "democracy". The "trick" and miracle in the Constitution is that it was to protect against BOTH democracy AND tyranny, as well as provide for the political involvement of each individual (which does NOT mean democracy by the way).

Let's not make this quote or responses to it racist when the issue of race is totally irrelevant to this issue. Economic freedom is necessary for political and religious freedom. They are not separate freedoms. They are all part of freedom. When economic freedom is jeopardized, as the manipulation of the currency has done, all freedom is in check.

Well, the internet allows more competition in information than ever before. Now that freedom of information exists on the internet, people have no excuse not to find out the truth and work to preserve it. That is why the government wants control over the internet, because it wants to control how information is spread. I believe the internet will be the tool for spreading freedom once again and abolishing the idea that "democracy" is good, which idea the Establishment uses to lull us into security.

If there is a tradition of tyranny, the ideas of freedom may seem strange at first, but will eventually take root. Freedom has to win in the end, because it is the only thing that actually works. It is the only thing that allows virtue to truly exist. Tyranny may have occasional victories, but it can't last. Unfortunately, forces combine to overthrow freedom also. It is the duty of freedom-loving people to root them out. Sic semper tyrannus.

Waffler, you are dead WRONG! You must know next to nothing about political philosophy. The reason that so many countries use the term republic is because it is actually the best form of government. They use it to claim that their government is great, but that doesn't actually mean it is. However, I am blown away that you would reject the idea in favor of democracy. Democracy is only slightly better than tyranny. For goodness sake go read some books!

I think you all should read some Aristotle. A Republic is fundamentally different from a Democracy. Democracies can violate individual rights by the will of the majority. The idea of a Republic is that the power of the rich is balanced against the rights of the poor. The rich cannot violate the rights of the poor and the poor cannot violate the property of the rich. This is why a middle class is so essential to a Republic and why the US is losing its status as a Republic. The middle class is waning and thus the conflict is raging between rich and poor. Unfortunately, the seventeenth amendment gives the lower class an upper hand in this and the result has been a welfare state which resembles more of a democracy. Had Aristotle known our lingo today, he would have characterized a democracy as a classic socialist state.