“I am waiting to see, I hope soon, a very strong statement of condemnation by the U.S., by Europe and by everybody who really cares about human dignity.”
- Mohammed El Baradei, the former head of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a prominent non-Islamist Egyptian politician, on that country’s current president Mohammed Morsi conferring dictatorial powers on himself.
Haven’t heard much from Washington on this so far. Have you?
This post was written by MacAoidh on Monday, November 26, 2012, 10:26. MacAoidh has written 13759 posts on this blog.
“The nature of the encroachment upon American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer; it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity and frugality become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality swallow up the whole of society. ”
- John Adams