America Has Gone Away by Paul Craig Roberts

America Has Gone Away by Paul Craig Roberts

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts289.html

In a speech to the Newspaper Publishers Association in 1961, President Kennedy said:

"No president should fear public scrutiny of his program, for from that scrutiny comes understanding, and from that understanding comes support or opposition; and both are necessary. . . . Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed, and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian law makers once decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment. It is to the printing press, the recorder of man’s deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news, that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: Free and Independent."

Who can imagine a Bill Clinton, a George W. Bush, or a Barack Obama saying such a thing today?