Seven Days in May by Jacob G. Hornberger June 30, 2009 The military coup in Honduras, which some U.S. conservatives are already hailing as a pro-democracy coup, as they did after military strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet’s military coup in Chile, brings to mind a fantastic movie — Seven Days in May, starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Ava Gardner. The movie is about ...
Iranians Have Two Options: Obey or Die by Jacob G. Hornberger June 29, 2009 Many Europeans love to look down their noses at Americans over the issue of gun rights. They just cannot understand how Americans can be so uncivilized as to leave people free to own guns. Whenever I discuss the gun-rights issue with Europeans, I point out one fundamental fact, one with which they can never disagree. ...
Federal Fraud in the Kahre Case by Jacob G. Hornberger June 26, 2009 As Christopher Maietta, the Justice Department prosecutor in the current trial of Las Vegas businessman Robert Kahre, was making his opening statement, the following sentence appeared on a screen inside the courtroom: “This is a case about money, greed and fraud.” The case is certainly about money, because it involves Kahre’s use of gold coins ...
Suppressing Free Speech Here at Home by Jacob G. Hornberger June 25, 2009 While the Ayattolahs in Iran are intimidating people into ceasing their criticism of the government, U.S. Justice Department prosecutors are doing the same here in the United States, specifically in the trial of U.S. vs. Robert Kahre, which is currently taking place in Las Vegas. Upset with critical comments posted by American citizens regarding the prosecution of a ...
The Right to Torture Americans by Jacob G. Hornberger June 24, 2009 Conservatives are protesting a federal judge’s ruling that torture victim Jose Padilla’s civil lawsuit against former Justice Department attorney John Yoo be permitted to continue. The conservatives feel that Yoo, who authored some of the infamous torture memos for the Bush White House, should be immune from lawsuits from Americans who were tortured as ...
Interventionism and Gun Control in Iran by Jacob G. Hornberger June 23, 2009 The situation in Iran is providing liberals with a harsh lesson about the First Amendment and the Second Amendment. It’s a lesson that our American ancestors understood very well. Here’s the lesson: Without the right to keep and bear arms, the rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly are meaningless. If tyrants own all ...
Using Waco “Blowback” to Suppress Dissent by Jacob G. Hornberger June 22, 2009 Now that the Democrats are in charge of the White House, liberals are doing all they can to suppress criticism of big government. The newest strategy is to link criticism of big government to unlawful acts of violence, such as the shooting at the Holocaust Museum or the shooting of the abortion doctor. A good example ...
Were the Myerses Spying against U.S. Assassinations, Coups, Embargoes, and Invasions Against Cuba? by Jacob G. Hornberger June 19, 2009 The Washington establishment is agog over the arrest of Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers on charges of spying for Cuba. He’s the great-grandson of Alexander Graham Bell who worked for 30 years at the State Department, and she’s a housewife turned political activist. According to a front-page article in the New York Times today, “American officials say they are ...
Interventionism Comes with Empire by Jacob G. Hornberger June 18, 2009 American interventionists are upset with Barack Obama for not taking a more aggressive stand in favor of the protestors in Iran. Alas, the interventionists just don’t get it. While they themselves are lovers of the U.S. federal government, what they don’t understand is that such love is not shared by people in other parts ...
Federal Prosecutors Buckle on Abusive Subpoena in Kahre Case by Jacob G. Hornberger June 17, 2009 Last Friday in my blog “Kahre’s Prosecutors Are Going Nutso,” I blogged about the abusive subpoena that federal prosecutors had served on the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The newspaper had published a news story about the trial of Robert Kahre, a Las Vegas businessman who is on trial in federal district court for paying his workers in gold and ...
Pull Out of Korea (and Everywhere Else) by Jacob G. Hornberger June 16, 2009 Notwithstanding its occupations of two nations — Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. Empire is at it again, fulfilling its role as the world’s international policeman, this time with respect to North Korea. Americans should hope that things don’t get out of control because if they do, there is little doubt that if war were ...
Padilla’s Lawsuit against Yoo to Proceed by Jacob G. Hornberger June 15, 2009 Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo, who authored some of infamous torture memos for the Bush administration, has just received an adverse ruling in a federal lawsuit brought by Jose Padilla, the American citizen who was incarcerated and tortured for several years by the U.S. military. Padilla had been arrested on American soil on suspicion ...
