Hail to the Tyrant

[Marcus Bryant]

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/hail-to-the-tyrant/

[vy65]

Pretty good article. I think the authors could have gone further at the end in criticizing the implications of the Posner/Vermeule position.

Also, I was kinda shocked not to see any mention of this guy:

http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg

[Winehole23]

Interesting article. Political trends in the US do seem to favor decisionism (http://books.google.com/books?id=58O5cXzHX8QC&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=decisionism+definition+carl+schmitt&source=bl&ots=RbteMXsRCL&sig=HLr6kJUqkIXyu52cyjoFMSTbfnc&hl=en&ei=t_3LTdyZHons0gHvru31Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDYQ6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q&f=false) over constitutional republicanism (in Schmittian terms, "political romanticism.")

[Winehole23]

Also, I was kinda shocked not to see any mention of this guy:

http://www.selfhelpdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Abraham-Lincoln.jpg"The sovereign decides the state of the exception."

[Winehole23]

That was insurrection among the states, when American nationalism was still in its cradle.

[Winehole23]

By comparison, 9/11 was not even a pinprick. Not a threat to the regular constitutional order or the nation really, except in our own overreaction to it.

[Winehole23]

How many more fake emergencies will radical, opportunistic deciders find?

[Winehole23]

In principle there's no rational limit, assuming unlimited time.

[Winehole23]

...and human fallibility, enhanced by the mob mind.

[Winehole23]

In principle there's no rational limit, assuming unlimited time.Yet republics, like men, are all mortal...

[Trainwreck2100]

Lincoln would have brought gas to 3 a gallon

[Trainwreck2100]

we gonna arrest erybody

[Winehole23]

fuck you then. you ain't arrestin me. ;-)