Oskar Lafontaine, James Madison et Friedrich August von Hayek
▻http://www.jungewelt.de/m/2016/02-20/013.php
Oskar Lanfontaine cite James Madison dans son discours pour la conférence permanente du Plan B en Europe.
Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg wurde der Traum von einem vereinten Europa, den Victor Hugo auf der Pariser Friedenskonferenz am 21. August 1849 geboren hat, wieder lebendig. Die Menschen wollten endlich Frieden, sie wollten Demokratie, Wohlstand und soziale Sicherheit.
Das heutige Europa ist nicht das Europa Victor Hugos, sondern das Europa, das der Säulenheilige des Neoliberalismus, Friedrich August von Hayek, entworfen hat. Internationale Verträge, so seine Idee, sollten sicherstellen, dass das Wirken der Marktkräfte nicht durch demokratische Entscheidungen behindert werden könne. Das ist der Geist, der die europäischen Verträge und die transatlantischen Verträge wie TTIP bestimmt. Es ist derselbe Geist, der schon die Gründerväter der Vereinigten Staaten leitete: » The Primary function of Goverment is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor .« »Die vorrangige Funktion einer Regierung ist es, die Minderheit der Reichen vor der Mehrheit der Armen zu schützen«, sagte James Madison, einer der Gründerväter der amerikanischen Verfassung.
Je connaissais le célèbre dicton de Waren Buffet , mais je suis surpris par ces mots énoncés sans ambiguïté par l’auteur de la constitution de 1776 qui promet le bonheur à chacun.
Quand on regarde la phrase dans son contexte elle est encore plus révélatrice.
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In 1787, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, traditionally regarded as the Father of the United States Constitution, in the debates on Constitution, declared the following:
“The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.”
Après la lecture de ce classique on comprend mieux les textes modernes :
Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop
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SCOTUS and the license to kill
Chapter 563 of the Missouri Revised Statutes grants a lot of discretion to officers of the law to wield deadly force, to the horror of many observers swooping in to the Ferguson story. The statute authorizes deadly force “in effecting an arrest or in preventing an escape from custody” if the officer “reasonably believes” it is necessary in order to “to effect the arrest and also reasonably believes that the person to be arrested has committed or attempted to commit a felony…or may otherwise endanger life or inflict serious physical injury unless arrested without delay.”
But this law is not an outlier, and is fully in sync with Supreme Court jurisprudence.
The feeling of being under occupation by an armed force that cares more about meeting revenue quotas than public security corrodes all trust in law enforcement, and is the sort of environment in which police are more likely to open fire.
The state of emergency that Missouri governor Jay Nixon declared on November 17 seems all too likely to encourage the police overkill, both petty and heavily militarized, that shocked the world over the summer, when much of the state’s use of force against demonstrators was of dubious legality.
Malheureusement ces observations ne se limitent pas aus États-Unis. Quand on ouvre le livre Les Raisins de la colère , on y rencontre des déscriptions qui ressemblent trop à la situation des réfugiés en route pour l’Europe aujourd’hui. Pourvu que les peuples d’Europs sachent les acceuillir autrement que les carliforniens chez Steinbeck.
The Theos Project : The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
▻http://theosproject.blogspot.de/2010/05/grapes-of-wrath-by-john-steinbeck.html?m=1
They are heading west! To California! They know there is work in California, because they have handbills that say so—printed handbills—handbills that say there is a need for workers: fruit pickers and farm hands. Why, a fella’ could work for a while, picking oranges and grapes, then buy himself a nice plot of land. Those handbills wouldn’t have been printed out if there were no jobs. That’d just be a waste of money.
So the Joes follow the handbills to California. It’s a difficult journey. Grandma and Grandpa die, and some desert the family when times get tough.
When they arrive in California, things go from bad to worse. There are no jobs in California. The land owners printed the handbills in order to flood the state with desperate, hungry workers. With a massive surplus of labor, land owners can hire workers to work for food, or in some cases for less than enough to feed a family. The plan works great for the land owners. The only problem is that there are now hundreds of thousands migrant workers hungry and virtually homeless.
Les autre se disent que ce n’est pas grave, le système fonctionne même si pour nous il est kaputt .
The system is working fine - AMERICAblog News
▻http://americablog.com/2015/10/system-working-fine.html
“The system is broken” can be cut-and-pasted into speeches about wealth inequality, racist police terror, regulatory laxity, and nearly every other problem politicians claim to have an answer to. Unfortunately for speechwriters everywhere, the slogan demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the American system’s purpose. The system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as intended.
The system does not exist for the people. It never has. James Madison, one of the most prominent framers of the new republic, declared at the secretly-held constitutional convention of 1787 that the primary function of the American government was “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.”
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source de la citation de James Madison :
Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken by the Late Hon Robert Yates, Chief Justice of the State of New York, and One of the Delegates from That State to the Said Convention , TUESDAY JUNE 26TH, 1787, The Avalon Project, Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy, Lilian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, ▻http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/yates.asp
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