So...this is unspeakable, but waterboarding is OK?
I don't agree with these actions, but I can't say I feel very sorry for the creditors who got screwed. They were refusing to cooperate, whereas many other creditors besides the UAW were willing to cooperate, and that is what led Chrysler to bankruptcy. They were playing chicken and ended up losing.
If they are so upset about it, file a lawsuit. That is what the rule of law allows you to do. The Constitution doesn't guarantee that the government won't violate your rights. But it does typically guarantee you will have some recourse if they do. That is why we adopted it in the first place.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
