Paul Craig Roberts discusses the dismantling of the U.S. constitution and the current Great Recession.
Father of Reaganomics
Paul Craig Roberts discusses how the American
middle class is being systematically dismantled by means of destroying
the ladders of upward mobility and offshoring US manufacturing as well
as skilled jobs to China and India.
He also explains how the rule of
law has been eviscerated, greasing the skids for the evisceration of the
Constitution and the undue monopoly of power in the executive branch of
government, which has created a dictatorial system that threatens
political stability.
The law has ceased to be a shield to protect
the rights of the innocent and has instead become a weapon in the hands
of the state. Americans today do not have the protection of law, points
out Roberts, noting how the judicial elite have been chasing after
devils by pushing single issue agendas like the drug war, terrorism,
child abuse and crime, making the same mistake that Sir Thomas More
warns against in A Man For All Seasons, eroding protective features of
the law by failing to understand how their application in these single
issue causes would impact in general, leading to a total loss of law
altogether.
Roberts explains how 9/11 opened the door for an
assault on Habeas Corpus and greased the skids for indefinite detention
without charge, and how the Obama administration has completely failed
to roll back any of the new executive powers created by the Bush regime.
PCR notes how the police are now being trained that the American public
are the enemy and that this is the reason for the dramatic rise in
needless police brutality, showing again the breakdown in accountability
and the rule of law.
Moving on to the economy, Roberts points
out the dichotomy of America being the new global empire while
simultaneously outsourcing its manufacturing, engineering and software
jobs to China and India, destroying upward mobility and eviscerating the
middle class, while also killing the dollar as a result of huge trade
deficits. "That's the funny thing about this new neo-con version of
empire," notes Roberts. "It rose up right when we were destroying the
middle class and the manufacturing base and the dollar," pointing out
that the strong dollar as a trusted global reserve currency was the
foundation of American power in the first place.
