Judicial Immunity for the Assassins by Jacob G. Hornberger April 27, 2015 In the wake of President Obama’s apology for the killing of two Western hostages in a drone assassination in Pakistan, people might be wondering if it will be possible for surviving family members to recover in a legal action against the assassins for the wrongful death of their loved ones. The answer is unequivocally no. The reason is that long ago, the judicial branch of the federal government, acquiescing to the overwhelming power of the national-security branch of the government, decided to erect a wall of immunity around CIA assassinations. The Supreme Court called this wall of immunity the “political question doctrine.” The Court said that since federal judges are incompetent to analyze matters relating to foreign policy and “national security,” they would not hold any U.S. official responsible for what would ordinarily be considered criminal offenses, so long as the officials claimed that the act was related to “national security.” Moreover, the federal courts made it clear that the national-security branch ...
Regime Change: The JFK Assassination by Future of Freedom Foundation April 15, 2015 Regime Change: The JFK Assassination by Jacob Hornberger Order Kindle ebook or Audiobook from Amazon.com According to a 2013 Gallup poll, the vast majority of the American people don't believe the government's Warren Report about the assassination of president John F. Kennedy. But there are so many theories about the assassination that it’s difficult to make sense of it all — or even know where to start. Who has the time to delve into the controversy and figure it out? And what difference does it make anyway? If that describes the way you feel about the Kennedy assassination, then this book is for you. It is a primer for understanding the assassination of John Kennedy, and it provides the only paradigm in which all the pieces of the puzzle of the Kennedy assassination fall into place and make sense. The thesis of this book is a simple one: On November 22, 1963, the U.S. national-security establishment violently removed John Kennedy from ...
My New Book: Regime Change: The JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2015 Last September we launched two ebooks on the Kennedy assassination: The Kennedy Autopsy by Jacob Hornberger and JFK’s War with the National-Security Establishment by Douglas Horne. These two books are priced at $1 each. Sales of the books began taking off. Since January both books have consistently remained on Amazon’s list of the Top 100 Best-Selling Books in 20th-Century American History. This morning, they are #32 and #37. The success of these two ebooks inspired me to write a new book on the Kennedy assassination, which has now been launched on Amazon.com: Regime Change: The JFK Assassination. Here is what I state in Introduction to the book (which, along with Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2, can be read here): According to a Gallup poll conducted 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the vast majority of the American people disbelieve the conclusions reached by the Warren Commission. There are so many ...
Regime Change: The JFK Assassination by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2015 The following are excerpts from Jacob Hornberger’s newest book, Regime Change: The JFK Assassination, which has just been launched on Amazon.com ($4.99). Click here to purchase it. Introduction According to a Gallup poll conducted 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the vast majority of the American people disbelieve the conclusions reached by the Warren ...
Bush’s and Maduro’s Power Grabs by Jacob G. Hornberger March 25, 2015 The Venezuelan legislature has just granted President Nicolas Maduro’s request for emergency powers to deal with the crisis posed by President Obama’s recent decree that Venezuela poses a grave threat to U.S. “national security” and Obama’s imposition of sanctions on Venezuelan officials. Not surprisingly, U.S. conservatives are ridiculing Maduro for exaggerating the threat posed by the U.S. national-security state and ...
How Exciting: The Birth of a New Official Enemy! by Jacob G. Hornberger March 13, 2015 There are few events more exciting in people’s lives than the birth of a child. Similarly, there is always a tremendous air of excitement that comes with the birth of a New Official Enemy of the U.S. national-security state. This past week, the American people got to experience this exciting event in the life of the national-security state. Through an official ...
Maduro’s “Paranoia” About U.S. Regime-Change in Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger March 12, 2015 Good for the Venezuelan domestic opponents of President Nicolas Maduro. Although fiercely opposed to Maduro, they have come out publicly against President Obama’s meddling in Venezuela’s internal affairs. According to the Washington Post, Opposition leaders, who generally are close with the United States, said they rejected the use of unilateral sanctions. “We appreciate and are grateful for the support ...
Obama’s Venezuelan Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger March 10, 2015 Ever since the advent of the Cold War, U.S. officials have told us that it was necessary for the United States to adopt the totalitarian structure known as the national-security state in order to combat communist totalitarianism. We are now witnessing a similar spectacle with respect to President Obama’s exercise of dictatorial powers to deal with the socialist regime of ...
Some Levity at the State Department Over Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger March 2, 2015 A couple of weeks ago, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki brought a bit of levity to a press briefing on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, specifically regarding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s accusation that the U.S. government was involved in an attempted military coup attempt in that country. Here’s the pertinent exchange during the briefing: Question: President Maduro last night ...
The Cuban Embargo and the Perversion of American Values by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2015 It would be difficult to find a better example of how the adoption of America’s post–World War II national-security state perverted the morals, principles, and values of the American people than the 54-year-old U.S. embargo against Cuba. Now that the issue of lifting the embargo has fully erupted into the political sphere, Americans have an opportunity to question not ...
The National-Security State’s ISIS Racket by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2015 The official enemy de jour that has everyone all riled up and scared is ISIS. If U.S. forces don’t bomb ISIS, the argument goes, ISIS will take over Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, and Europe, and Asia, and Latin America, and then the United States. If the bombs don’t fall on ISIS, before long Americans will be speaking Arabic ...
Conservative Hypocrisy on Oliver Stone by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2015 One year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation presented what we called “a conference within a conference” at the annual conference of the Students for Liberty, a student-run libertarian group that is, once again, holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C., this coming weekend — February 13-15, 2015. The theme of our mini-conference last year was “Civil Liberties and the ...
