Provocative thoughts

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This quote sums up Opera running in 2020

As it relates to the platform of women's rights:


In the beginning of a change the patriot is

a scarce man and brave, and hated and scorned

When his cause succeeds, the timid join him

for then, it costs nothing, to be a patriot..

~ Mark Twain ~ (1835-1910)


How much time did Oprah Winfrey have to bring this out into the light?

It took the strength of others

In order for her to come forward

Sorry, that is not what it takes

To be a Patriot, let alone, a President..


Who's next?

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Just remember

We need to take care

Of each other..

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Dyslexic thoughts can be invigorating

When understood


All the talking points would be mute

If a republic takes precedent

Over a political democracy..

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A system that is rigged against human decency

Will have nothing but

Emotional cripples..

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A democracy is an oligarch's dream

Where the will of the people

Is controlled by the programming of them


Just think about that

If only for a moment


We, as a people, would not be having such discourse

If under a republic

For which it stands..

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All the talking points would be mute

If a republic takes precedent

Over a political democracy..

[Vexari]

We need a culture that will produce people eager to do things

but we need even more

a culture that will make it possible to decide what to do . . .

Decisions about goals requires values, meaning, context, perspective.

They can be set . . .

only by people who have some inkling of the whole picture..


~ Carroll Quigley ~ (1910-1977)

Professor of History at Georgetown University, member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), mentor to Bill Clinton

Source.. Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time Carroll Quigley; New York: Macmillan, 1966 [p. 1,274].

Quigley's observation on the need for a democratic educational process to teach the whole man, rather than just specializations..

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The man who craves disciples and wants followers

is always more or less of a charlatan

The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself

and he wants others to be themselves, also..


~ Elbert Hubbard ~ (1856-1915)

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It's never more important to move slowly

and carefully

before granting the state new powers

than in the wake of tragedies..


~ Brian Doherty ~ (1968-)

American journalist, author, Senior Editor at Reason magazine

Source.. Tragic Government, Reason, May, 1997, p 9.

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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

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Giving money and power to government

is like giving whiskey and car keys

to teenage boys..


~ P.J. O'Rourke, in Parliament of Whores ~

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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.

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In many areas of human activity there are two histories

the popular history, mostly mythological,

and the real history..

~ David Friedman ~

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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

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Ignorance

Is a selfish motive..

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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..

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The problems in the world today

are so enormous

they cannot be solved

with the level of thinking

that created them..


~ Albert Einstein ~

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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?

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Here We Are

Who would have guessed it?

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Here We Go

It's like a race

That I didn't know I was running..

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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 ~

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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!!!

[Vexari]

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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?

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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 ~

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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.

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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

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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

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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?

[Vexari]

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Most people are willing to pay more

to be amused than to be educated..


~ Robert C. Savage ~

Source.. Life Lessons

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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

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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

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[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

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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)

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'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

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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"

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A prohibition law strikes a blow

at the very principles upon which

our government was founded..


~ Abraham Lincoln ~ (1809-1865)

16th US President