McGovern’s district is home to Raytheon, which sells hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia each year and whose corporate PAC has been a top campaign donor for McGovern in recent years.
“I care very much about jobs,” said McGovern(D-MA), who was an early critic of the war in Yemen. “But I don’t want to create jobs by selling weapons to governments that murder journalists in cold blood and then lie about it.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/killing-of-khashoggi-tests-us-defense-industry-as-backlash-builds-on-capitol-hill/2018/11/21/15a1df52-dc7d-11e8-aa33-53bad9a881e8_story.html?utm_term=.dbbc6514531d
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rule of law. noun. the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced
At its founding the Framers saw America’s unique advantage as being an “empire of laws” unlike the kingdoms of despots that ruled the Old World. Justice was to be doled out by deliberate and dispassionate courts and government was to be run according to certain rules free of the machinations of royal courtiers. https://www.justsecurity.org/60663/trumps-disrespect-rule-law-spreads/
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9-4-2017 Who or what is at fault when AI technologies fail?...arguably no other technology has presented as serious a threat to our agency or autonomy. https://medium.com/@ystvns/the-promises-and-perils-of-artificial-intelligence-why-human-rights-norms-and-the-rule-of-law-40c57338e806
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Well, if the US Consstitution is the greatest single achievement helping America, already the mechanical application/attitude exhibited by, say, defying Contitutional law (e.g., Congress and President put the power of the purse in 2013 into the hands of the monopoly Federal Reserve) is the greatest single undermining element hindering America. The Fed took place with very little AI; what will happen to America with tons of AI and the Federal Reserve? -r, mt. shasta
AI does not fathom a statue in the slightest.
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