By Andrew P. Napolitano
New York Times bestselling writer pass judgement on Andrew P. Napolitano exposes the alarming heritage of presidential energy grabs played within the identify of nationwide security.
Judge, student, bestselling writer, and Fox information Senior Judicial Analyst Andrew P. Napolitano is again with a surprising chronicle of America's descent from a unfastened society to a daunting surveillance state.
In Suicide Pact, Napolitano information a protracted, sordid historical past of governmental—and in particular presidential—encroachments on liberty, enacted within the identify of shielding the United States yet which serve as an alternative to undermine nationwide safeguard and erode the nation's founding freedoms.
Appealing to all politically conscious americans yet particularly to hugely engaged conservatives and libertarians (including his 576,000 fb fanatics and 240,000 Twitter followers), Napolitano's sobering-yet-patriotic point of view unmasks rampant political doubletalk and Washington strength performs through taking a transparent, legally grounded examine how we bought here.
Blending attention-grabbing background with clean reporting and research on modern concerns akin to drone battle and executions, NSA surveillance, and mystery federal courts, Suicide Pact casts a imaginative and prescient past hole rhetoric to commonsense suggestions for returning sanity to our beaches.
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Je me souviens de son visage souriant quand je lui demande si je peux révéler à la presse, présente sur le perron à 54 l’Élysée, l’accord qu’il vient de me donner : l’amnistie des syndicalistes et militants associatifs condamnés pour leur action ! Elle ne coûte pas un euro au budget de l’État. Mais pour des milliers de personnes engagées c’est bien davantage qu’un symbole. C’est l’effacement d’un casier judiciaire, la réintégration dans l’emploi, c’est la reconnaissance d’un sacrifice fait pour les autres, c’est la réhabilitation morale.
Je me suis profondément réorienté sans abandonner un seul jour ni la lutte, ni ses 38 fondements intellectuels en moi, ni le matérialisme historique dont je me suis toujours inspiré, ni le républicanisme qui m’anime, ni l’universalisme qui est ma religion humaine, ni le refus de l’aberrant capitalisme contemporain. Bref, tout me paraît différent mais sans que j’aie perdu en route rien de ce que je crois essentiel depuis mes vingt ans, lorsque j’étais président du syndicat étudiant à Besançon, jusqu’aux épopées comme celle de 2012 où je fus le 39 candidat commun de l’autre gauche à l’élection présidentielle française.
Et quelle honte d’avoir agité en guise de compensation un prétendu « plan de relance de l’économie européenne », qui fut la risée de toute l’Europe car elle comprit immédiatement quel fauxsemblant c’était là ! Pouvais-je 61 deviner qu’il serait capable de s’abaisser à dire : « La France est le bon élève de l’Europe » au moment même où il se soumettait aux diktats de la Commission européenne qui détruisent notre pays ? Comment a-t-il pu croire que la politique d’austérité ramènerait l’emploi quand tous les économistes de gauche dans le monde disaient qu’elle conduit au désastre ?