Paul Craig Roberts' indictment — of the American public's spineless, Constitution-eliminating placidity

© 2026 Peter Free

 

17 July 2026

 

 

Exactly so

 

Excerpts from Paul Craig Roberts' latest essay:

 

 

Israel’s special pleading for criticism protection and US wars in the Middle East in behalf of Greater Israel played major roles in the destruction of Americans’ Constitutional rights.

 

To be safe from “terrorists” our government assured us, we had to give up free speech, privacy, habeas corpus, and accept execution on suspicion alone without due process of law.

 

The Patriot Act, which unconstitutionally abolished privacy and permits spying without warrants or cause, has been renewed several times.

 

President Obama declared out of thin air that he had a right to execute American citizens on suspicion alone.

 

Washington used Americans’ money, which could have been used to pay their unpaid bills, to provide Israel with the money, weapons, and diplomatic protection to complete the Israeli genocide of Palestine.

 

And now Israel has its puppet doll, Donald Trump . . . at war with Iran for Israel’s agenda of Greater Israel, and for no American purpose.

 

The Israel Lobby has succeeded in having 38 American governors and state legislators pass laws that deny state jobs and contracts to critics of Israel.

 

Without free speech the Constitution and the United States do not exist.

 

As Israel is a prime destroyer of the Constitution’s guarantee of free speech, why are Americans fighting Israel’s wars in the Middle East?

 

Why is the Trump regime committing treason against America?

 

Why do the American people permit themselves to be abused in this way?

 

© 2026 Paul Craig Roberts, Israel Has Destroyed the American Constitution, paulcraigroberts.org (16 July 2026)

 

 

At this point . . .

 

. . . in Israel's genocidal name, 1776 and 1789 America have been lost to the majority mush-brained descendants of those times' arguably stronger people.

 

Amusingly, last night, Donald Trump tried to persuade us that China had tried to prevent his election to the presidency.

 

If that crafted-from-air proposition is true, China would have been doing We the People an America First favor.

 

 

The moral? — Lights out

 

Today, the United States' bread and circuses-manipulated population — currently headed by Demented Stupidity's most vicious clown — complacently waits for History's eradicating broom.

 

We will go the way of the Palestinians. But with magnitudes less courage, fathoms less brain, and no one sensible left to mourn us.

 

One really does have to laugh at such a sordidly unsoulful and absurdly unintelligent end — to what had been a better-intended, more thoughtfully inspired and hope-filled beginning.