Thursday, March 6, 2008

"Ignorance is Strength" (Orwell, 1984)



This is the cognitive dissonance we need to recognize and pay attention to:


" In his twisting of legal principles, the attorney general has succeeded in creating a perfect paradox. Under Mukasey's Paradox, lawyers cannot commit crimes when they act under the orders of a president -- and a president cannot commit a crime when he acts under advice of lawyers....


When reduced to its purest form, Mukasey's Paradox is that government officials cannot violate the law -- but that because executive privilege is also a law, it's sometimes necessary to violate the law in order to uphold the law."


RTWT! (LA Times Editorial by Jonathan Turley)
He's right, its completely twisted. Wake up Winstons!

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