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Governments do not govern
but merely control the machinery of government
being themselves
controlled by the hidden hand..
~ Benjamin Disraeli ~ (1804-1881)
Prime Minister of England
British statesman, novelist
Giving money and power to government
is like giving whiskey and car keys
to teenage boys..
~ P.J. O'Rourke, in Parliament of Whores ~
We can have justice
whenever those who have not been injured by injustice
are as outraged by it as those who have been..
~ Solon ~ 594 B.C.
In many areas of human activity there are two histories
the popular history, mostly mythological,
and the real history..
~ David Friedman ~
In the same way, democracy cannot survive overpopulation
Human dignity cannot survive overpopulation
Convenience and decency cannot survive overpopulation
As you put more and more people into the world
the value of life not only declines
it disappears
It doesn't matter if someone dies
the more people there are
the less one individual matters..
~ Isaac Asimov ~
Source.. The Bathroom Metaphor
Starts @5:55 into part 7
What more can be said?
While I think that smoked marijuana is not a good medicine (it's exponentially better to press the juice of the fresh plant),
there is no reason on earth it should be illegal.
Marijuana a "gateway" drug? What do you think alcohol and tobacco are? Try to find a junkie who doesn't also do one or both.
Marijuana bad for health? Compared to alcohol which is at the root of an alarmingly high percentage of violence and deaths on the road.
Marijuana law enforcement is hypocrisy to the nth degree. It's a big business for cops, lawyers, judges and jailers -
a huge percentage of whom are substance abusers themselves (steroids, alcohol, cocaine, and even marijuana itself.)
It's also a form of social control.
Need a reason to hassle otherwise law abiding people?
"Drugs" give the excuse..
~ Bill Hicks ~ (1961-1994)
Stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and musician.
Source..
The problems in the world today
are so enormous
they cannot be solved
with the level of thinking
that created them..
~ Albert Einstein ~
Hegelian Dialectic
The framework for guiding our thoughts and actions
Into conflicts
That lead to a pre-determined solution.
This is accomplished by manipulating consciousness
Into a circular pattern of thought and action.
The synthetic solution to these conflicts can't be introduced
Unless those being manipulated take a side
That will advance the pre-determined agenda.
~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel ~
Problem ~ Reaction ~ Solution
or
Chaos ~ Confusion ~ Opportunity
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We are on the verge of global transformation.
All we need is the right major crisis
And the nations will accept the NEW WORLD ORDER..
~ David Rockefeller ~
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What has happened since 911?
Here We Go
It's like a race
That I didn't know I was running..
How much shame can be brought to the American people
But by those that work for votes
How can the American Republic go forward?
If those that are so superficial in their position
Become paralyzed by it..
~ my thoughts ~
Once upon a time a group of individuals declared to the world that they would fight and risk death
rather than tolerate the oppressions of abusive government
Ours is a very different country today from what it was in 1776
Are we too complacent?
to risk our own comfort so that our children may live in freedom
Will we openly resist despotism as a nation?
or will we just complain and bicker amongst ourselves
while our sacred freedoms are usurped by globalist monsters..
The unconstitutional acts that have been imposed on the American people
can be removed with the stroke of a pen
However, that pen will not move
without the power of the people behind it
If you cannot believe—will not believe— that there are, in fact,
individuals/groups that have been intentionally ruining our country and her people
if the walls in your mind are too great to accept the truth
then understand that these walls
are the primary obstacle which must be overcome
before this nation can be restored to its proper form
If this, the last great hope of human freedom, is lost,
it will have happened on our watch
If so . . .
shame on all of us
Lets make some noise and go for what is right!!!
The War between the States...
produced the foundation for the kind of government we have today:
consolidated and absolute,
based on the unrestrained will of the majority,
with force, threats, and intimidation being the order of the day.
Today's federal government is considerably at odds with that envisioned by the framers of the Constitution.
... [The War] also laid to rest the great principle enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that
'Governments are instituted among Men,
deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'..
~ Walter E. Williams ~ (1936- )
Columnist, Professor of Economics at George Mason University
Because we fear the responsibility for our actions,
we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves.
Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence,
we now pledge "our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor"
not to one another for our mutual protection,
but to the state,
whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us..
~ Butler D. Shaffer ~
Professor, Southwestern University School of Law
June 9, 2003
But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object,
evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism,
it is their right, it is their duty,
to throw off such government, and
to provide new guards for their future security..
~ Declaration of Independence ~ July 4, 1776
The policy of American government
is to leave its citizens free,
neither restraining them nor aiding them
in their pursuits..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source.. Thomas Jefferson to M. L'Hommande, 1787.
The essential characteristic of Western civilization
that distinguishes it
from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East
was and is
its concern for freedom from the state..
~ Ludwig Von Mises ~ (1881-1973)
Economist and social philosopher
The only freedom deserving the name,
is that of pursuing our own good in our own way,
so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs,
or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Each is the proper guardian of his own health,
whether bodily, or mental and spiritual.
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other
to live as seems good to themselves,
than by compelling each to live
as seems good to the rest..
~ John Stuart Mill ~ (1806-1873)
English philosopher and economist
Source.. On Liberty, 1859
The individual has always had to struggle
to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is hard business.
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened.
But no price is too high to pay
for the privilege of owning yourself..
~ Rudyard Kipling ~ (1865-1936)
A man who lies to himself
and believes his own lies
becomes unable to recognize truth
either in himself or in anyone else
and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others
When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love
and in him, he yields to his impulses
indulges in the lowest form of pleasure
and behaves in the end
like an animal
in satisfying his vices
And it all comes from lying
to others
and to yourself..
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky ~ (1821-1881)
Source.. The Brothers Karamazov
When a self-governing people
confer upon their government the power
to take from some and give to others,
the process will not stop
until the last bone of the last taxpayer
is picked bare..
~ The late Dr. Howard E. Kershner ~
Source.. Are We Rome?
There is an exceptionally beneficial and fruitful advantage to be derived from the study of the past.
There you see, set in the clear light of historical truth, examples of every possible type.
From these you can select for yourself and your country what to imitate,
and also what, as being mischievous in its inception and disastrous in its consequences,
you should avoid..
~ The Roman historian Livy ~
Why then sir, why do we longer delay?
Why still deliberate?
Let this happy day give birth to an American Republic
Let her arise
not to devastate and to conquer
but to reestablish the reign of peace and law
The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us
She demands of us a living example of freedom
that may exhibit a contrast in the felicity of the citizen
to the ever-increasing tyranny
which desolates her polluted shores
She invites us to prepare an asylum
where the unhappy may find solace
and the persecuted repose
If we are not this day
wanting in our duty
the names of the American legislators of 1776
will be placed by posterity
at the side of all of those whose memory
has been and ever will be dear
to virtuous men and good citizens..
~ Richard Henry Lee ~ (1732-1794)
Founding Father
Source.. introduced the resolution to adopt the Declaration of Independence in June of 1776.
Those who won our independence
believed that the final end of the State
was to make men free to develop their faculties
They valued liberty
both as an end and as a means
They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness
and courage to be the secret of liberty..
~ Justice Louis D. Brandeis ~ (1856-1941)
US Supreme Court Justice
Source.. Whitney v. California, 1927
In a free society
the state does not administer the affairs of men
It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs..
~ Walter Lippmann ~ (1889-1974)
American writer, journalist, and political commentator
Source.. An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society, 1937
The moment we no longer have a free press
anything can happen
What makes it possible
for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule
is that people are not informed
how can you have an opinion
if you are not informed?
If everybody always lies to you
the consequence is not that you believe the lies
but rather that nobody believes anything any longer
This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed
and a lying government
has to constantly rewrite its own history
On the receiving end
you get not only one lie
a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days
but you get a great number of lies
depending on how the political wind blows
And a people that no longer can believe anything
cannot make up its mind
It is deprived
not only of its capacity to act
but also
of its capacity to think and to judge
And with such a people
you can then do
what you please..
~ Hannah Arendt ~ (1906-1975)
German-American political theorist, escaped Nazi Germany
Source.. 'Hannah Arendt: From an Interview' Comments made in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera
and published in October 26, 1978 issue of The New York Review of Books Interview.
Hey You
Comfortably Numb?
Find out just what the people will submit to
and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them;
and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress..
~ Frederick Douglass ~
civil rights activist, Aug. 4, 1857
Any power that can be abused will be abused.
— Tyranny Law #1
Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it.
— Tyranny Law #2
If people don't resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail.
— Tyranny Law #3
The contest is not between Us and Them,
but between Good and Evil,
and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil,
Evil wins..
Abuses and Usurpations
The more profound problem, however,
is the degree to which many academic intellectuals,
especially in the humanities,
have lost their ability to distinguish
the 'state' from 'society'..
~ Stephen Cox ~ (1948-)
American professor of literature, editor of Liberty magazine
Source.. "Assumptions of Power" Reason magazine, March, 1993
Children should be educated and instructed
in the principles of freedom..
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source.. "Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America," 1787
Not Another Brick In The Wall
Zealotry of either kind --
the puritan's need to regiment others or the victim's passion for blaming everyone except himself --
tends to produce a depressing civic stupidity.
Each trait has about it the immobility of addiction.
Victims become addicted to being victims:
they derive identity, innocence and a kind of devious power from sheer, defaulting helplessness.
On the other side, the candlesnuffers of behavioral and political correctness enact their paradox,
accomplishing intolerance in the name of tolerance,
regimentation in the name of betterment..
~ Lance Morrow ~ (1939- )
Essayist, professor
If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'
don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness,
then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on..
~ Terence McKenna ~ (1946-2000)
Writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist
Journalism is popular,
but it is popular mainly as fiction.
Life is one world,
and life seen in the newspapers is another..
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~ (1874-1936)
British essayist, critic, poet, and novelist
Most people are willing to pay more
to be amused than to be educated..
~ Robert C. Savage ~
Source.. Life Lessons
Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated
by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words
"the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns
are driven by their political agenda.
Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence
means the opposite of what it clearly says..
~ Sheldon Richman ~
Editor of The Freeman, author, journalist
Source.. Reading the Second Amendment, The Second Amendment's Syntax Permits Only One Reasonable Interpretation, The Freeman, February 1998 • Volume: 48 • Issue: 2
Far from failing in its intended task,
our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently,
because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough
to go on supporting the system..
~ Richard Mitchell ~ (1929-2002)
Professor at Glassboro State College, NJ, author, founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian
Source.. The Underground Grammarian
[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions ...
would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source.. Letter to William C. Jarvis, September 28, 1820
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated
that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws
But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them
The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit
We are answerable for them to our God
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others
... Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now
Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potato as an article of food..
~ Thomas Jefferson ~ (1743-1826)
US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US President
Source.. Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, Query XVII (1781-1785)
'Extremism' is a word deliberately chosen for its vagueness and used by intellectual slobs who are too desperate, sneaky or lazy to say exactly what they mean
Its only purpose is to deliberately try to confuse the difference between people who are extremely good
(usually because of devotion to their principles) with people who are extremely bad
The sleazeballs who use this supposedly scary, yet undefined word are not only trying to smear people of conviction and integrity,
but they're also trying to divert attention away from the fact that they are obviously not people of principle themselves..
~ Rick Gaber ~
Libertarian writer
I think that prohibition of drugs is the most immoral program that the United States has ever engaged in
It's destroyed civil rights at home and it is responsible for thousands of deaths abroad..
~ Milton Friedman ~ (1912-2006)
Nobel Prize-winning economist, economic advisor to President Ronald Reagan, "ultimate guru of the free-market system"
A prohibition law strikes a blow
at the very principles upon which
our government was founded..
~ Abraham Lincoln ~ (1809-1865)
16th US President
Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have
The second step is the notion:
“Things must change no matter how, Anything is better than what we have”
Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it
They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn’t kill
Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it’s very difficult to kill, they do it because it's now part of the code of behavior
They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together
This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung — the coordination process
You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor — coordinated with the majority
But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him
And you feel of course marvelous
Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation
And in fear of one another..
~ Hannah Arendt ~ (1906-1975)
German-American political theorist, escaped Nazi Germany
Source.. 'Hannah Arendt: From an Interview' Comments made in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera and published in October 26, 1978 issue of The New York Review of Books Interview..
Replies to quote:
To understand the present, one must study the past. Look to the Weimer Republic to understand what is happening in the 21st century.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand"
Mark 3:25
~ Lucille A. Petillo, Ocean, NJ ~
Explains the right-left paradigm perfectly, and the de facto fascism that has taken over the US political system. It also explains terrorism and the motivations of lone wolf suicide bombers. Mass delusion is a requirement of totalitarianism -- and the ruling class has been perfecting their craft for millennia. Chances are YOU have already been conditioned to accept doing wrong for the 'common good' as OK -- it isn't! Never was, never will be.
~ E Archer, NYC ~
But what do we mean by the American Revolution?
Do we mean the American war?
The Revolution was effected before the war commenced
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations…
This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people
was the real American Revolution..
~ John Adams ~ (1735-1826)
Founding Father, 2nd US President
Source: letter to H. Niles, February 13, 1818
Forgive your enemies
but never forget their names..
~ John F. Kennedy ~
Life is rented
It's what one makes of one's self
While time is being
That looks you in the eye..
That only the blind
can see..
"The human mind has never invented a labor-saving machine equal to algebra." ~Author Unknown
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