Beware the
leader who bangs the drum of war in order to whip the citizenry into a
patriotic fervor. For patriotism is indeed a double- edged sword. It both
emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the
drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate
and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need
in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused
with fear and patriotism, will offer up all of their rights to the leader
and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Julius
Caesar
Are
Soldiers Responsible for Their Actions?
"Others
say the troops are not responsible because, as citizens of the United
States, soldiers, like everyone else, must do as the state dictates. Many
evangelical Christians agree, and join in this chorus of statolatry with
their "obey the powers that be" mantra. No soldier is responsible
for the death and destruction he inflicts as long as it is state-sanctioned
death and destruction. Those who consistently hold this opinion have made
the state their god; those who don’t should not be taken seriously."
- Laurence M. Vance
The
Constitution of No Authority
If
(Lysander) Spooner
is correct, and I think he is, then Scalia and many others (including
me) are sparring about a castle in the air. By living in that castle,
we make the illusion have a real impact as many illusions do. If we should
ever rid ourselves of it, we’d have to construct quite a different
social reality. In the same way, there is no war on terror except the
one that the magician-in-chief has conjured up. But if enough people believe
there is such a thing as a War on Terror, they create a real version of
what they imagine it to be and their actions have real consequences. Get
rid of this delusion and we face a very different reality. - MIchael Rozeff
GloboCop
Meets His Match
Lost
in a Bermuda Triangle of Injustice
"These are increasingly the crucial realities
of our world – and it's not the world of a republic. It's not a
world of checks and balances. It's not a world where even a change of
ownership in one or both houses of Congress in November would prove a
determining factor. It's not a world where people out there are just "starting
to question whether we're following our own high standards." It's
distinctly not the world as we Americans like to imagine it, but it is
the world we are, regrettably enough, lost in. It's the world created
not just by a commander-in-chief presidency, but by a Pentagon-in-chief-dominated
government, and by a corporation-in-chief style of imperial rule."
- Tom Engelhardt
Gore
Vidal: Reflections on 911
Fear:
The Foundation of Every Government's Power
"Thus,
the warrior element of government puts the people in fear for their lives,
and the priestly element puts them in fear for their eternal souls. These
two fears compose a powerful compound - sufficient to prop up governments
everywhere on earth for several millennia." - Robert Higgs
The
Polictical Economy of Fear
For years Higgs, Senior Fellow in Political Economy at the
Independent Institute, has documented in books and articles how government
maintains its power over people, and hence steals their their liberty,
by exploiting various fears: fear of external enemies, fear of social
insecurity, fear of government itself. - Sheldon Richman
War...
Endless War - Desires of a Messianic Ruler
"There's no telling how many wars
it will take to secure freedom in the homeland." "A lot of people
in America see this as a confrontation between good and evil, including
me." - Dubya, statement at a fundraiser Aug. 5, 2002.
Our
Welfare State & Immigration
"The immigration problem fundamentally
is a welfare state problem. Some illegal immigrants – certainly
not all – receive housing subsidies, food stamps, free medical care,
and other forms of welfare. ...Since we have accepted a permanent welfare
state, however, we cannot be surprised when some freeloaders and criminals
are attracted to our shores." - Ron Paul
A Great Wall is not necessary! Halt free handouts to all who come to this
country, even to "real" Americans. Welfare and Warfare are the
death of Freedom. Charity belongs in the hands of people with empathy
and compassion, religous institutions (huh?), and private enterprise.
Forced charity (taxation) is an oxy moron and never works for long...
- crabby
Private
Property, the Heart and Soul of America, is the Solution
The welfare state requires an increase
in the number of laws, rules and regulations, resulting in increased illegal
activity. With the increased amount of illegal activity must come an increased
amount of military and law enforcement personnel. This results in increased
violence and death.
Freedom
at the Checkout Counter
A free market poses no threat
to economic stability.
How
did Pat Tillman Die... Exactly?
"What is most assuredly not debatable is this. Subsequent to his
death – via the bullets of his own countrymen – the government
he represented chose to reward his "gift" by lying to his family
(and everyone else) repeatedly about how he died. If they would lie about
an event such as this – where a key issue in play is the feelings
of those who loved Pat Tillman, versus any item of legitimate national
security interest – what else would they lie about?" - Wilton
Alston
A
Dirty Ditch
"Of course they will have to add some salt and a filter system but
that should be a cakewalk. I mean if we can build the biggest, most deluxe
US (Bhagdad) embassy in the world, in the heart of total chaos, we can
make a salt water, aquarium style ditch." - Tom Chartier
Textbook
Case for Worst President in History
My
Own Private 911
"These times shall pass. And when they finally
do, there will be a record kept by the uncompromising, freedom-minded
people who survived them – people like you and me – a record
of those who publicly, on principle, went against the prevailing political
winds of the era." - Thomas Olson
Textbook
Case for Worst President in History
My
Own Private 911
"These times shall pass. And when they finally
do, there will be a record kept by the uncompromising, freedom-minded
people who survived them – people like you and me – a record
of those who publicly, on principle, went against the prevailing political
winds of the era." - Thomas Olson
Top
Tax
Enforcement
"...Freedom, in fact, is the opposite of freedom.
Freedom is theft, fraud, extortion, violence, threats of violence, conscription,
surveillance, kidnapping, extraordinary rendition, torture and incarceration.
All that matters is that those otherwise distasteful activities be carried
out by the proper democratically elected officials advancing the public
good, as defined by those same democratically elected officials."
- Tony Pivetta
Taxation
is Evil
Why
I'm a Libertarian
A nineteen year old writes his college application
essay.
War
is Horrible, but...
"Call me a cynic, but I can't help wondering whether protection of
the people and their freedoms was really the state's objective, and after
forty-five years of thinking about the matter, I've come up with some
pretty attractive alternative hypotheses. One of them, as Marine General
Smedley Butler famously expressed it, is that war is a racket, but I have
others, too." - Robert Higgs
911
Was a Conspiracy
"... conventional thinking has dictated
that commentaries on that atrocity carry the disclaimer 'I am not suggesting
a conspiracy.' ...But there is another factor – what I call
“existential courage” – that must remain at the forefront
of our efforts to live as human beings, rather than as servo-mechanisms
to the institutional order. What kind of people are we that we should
lay our liberties, property, and lives – including the lives of
our children – at the feet of rulers, to be disposed of in any manner
that suits their momentary temperaments? What have we become that we regard
any questioning of this arrangement as the products of “irresponsible”
or “paranoid” minds? Why should free and energized minds be
fearful of asking any questions, particularly those we have been told
it is improper to ask?" - Butler Shafer
Waking
Up to Neo-Conned Disasters
"These are indeed dark days for Mr. Bush. He has been accused in
the past of surrounding himself with only the most loyal of loyals, of
creating a bunker-like decision-making environment that suffers no dissent,
and brooks no reality" - Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD
War
Criminal At Bay
"President George Bush, betrayed by the neoconservatives whom he
elevated to power and by his Attorney General, Torture Gonzales who gave
him wrong legal advice, is locked in a desperate struggle with the Republican
Congress to save himself from war crimes charges at the expense of America’s
reputation and our soldiers’ fate." - Paul Craig Roberts
A
Wall of Separation?! "Tear Down This Wall!"
"The real problem is not immigration but socialist policy. Immigrants
are just one variable in a score of things that can go wrong with these
programs.. ...Libertarians are sacrificing their principles. If you want
to compromise with state power, go vote Republican. Libertarians constantly
say that the solution to a government-created problem is not more government.
Yet this is exactly what many are suggesting!" - Vedran Vuk
An
Inconvenient "Goddamned Piece of Paper" (Bush)
Our (past) Constitution
Redefining
the Enemy... Again!
"...war-speak from Bush Administration
officials, as they ramp up their oratory for the mid-term election, has
recast Islamic militants and terrorists as "'Islamic fascists.'"
- John W. Dean
Top
"What
did Iraq have to do with 9/11?” reporter Ken Herman asked.
“Nothing,” Bush said in a highly uncharacteristic moment of
candor.
"In a flash, the president realized he had
finally admitted — before America and the world — what war
opponents have said right along: there was no connection between Saddam
Hussein and Osama bin Laden." - Sheldon Richman, fff.org
Researchers
reveal 'extremely serious' vulnerabilities in e-voting machines
Bush
Speek
“'The United States does not
torture, the President said. “I have not authorized it and I will
not authorize it'. This was a lie, and most of the world knows it".
- George Packer, The New Yorker
It's
long past time to stop using/relying on government to solve "our"
problems!
Pondering
Surrender
"To continue this madness, this war
and police statism, is to surrender the last virtues of our national heritage,
our liberties, our stature as an admirable model to the peace-loving world.
I only hope it is not too late. We have already surrendered so much."
- Anthony Gregory
Police
Rush tp Shoot, But Ask US to Withhold Judgment
18 police bullets later a 19 yr old female
with a knife is dead. "Talk about Catch-22: We should shut up about
the incident until the investigation is complete, but once it's complete
we have no right to see it." - Steven Greenhut
911
LInks to Iraq
Just a few
inconsequential comparisons
The
other 911
Estonia...
Land of the Free
Unlike Bush's New Amerika
Lew
Rockwell dicusses the Decline of the Libertarian Party
A Statist
Quo Runs Through It.
I've been disgusted for quite awhile with how the LP is run. Not by the
so-called "kooks" who might believe a
"conspiracy theory", but by those who corrupt the basic integrity
of the LP... what it stood for. Principles. - crabby (libertarian: small
L) Sophocleus
Speach
Gaza's
Darkness
The
Further Dangers of Secrecy:
Federal District Court Interprets the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act to Allow Spying on Those Who Are Neither Spies Nor Terrorists
Hidden
Government
"I don’t recall the 2004 presidential
candidates debating whether the government should have the power to help
other governments, funded and armed by American taxpayers, make war against
civilian populations. Where did President Bush find this blank check?"
- Sheldon Richman
Monsters
Inc
Since September 11, 2001, Osama bin
Laden, the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
have served as useful monsters in generating screams from the American
public. The resulting enhancements in federal government power have enabled
the Bush administration to use the military forces of the United States
to invade and occupy both Afghanistan and Iraq and to install puppet governments
in both countries. - Sam Bostaph
Dump
200 or 300 Incumbents
...send a 50-megaton political shock
wave to Washington that would rattle the Washington Monument... Election
Day can be a revolution if the American people choose to make it one. -
Charley Reese
Top
When
Will Americans Take Back America?
When Dubya stops lying... Never. Or when
we stop buying into the insanity.
If
history repeats, America will again make war
American chose
and America chooses
Rummys
Speech to the American Legion
"My prediction is neither earth-shattering nor
genius. But between now and the November elections, every opportunity to
cause American emotion to trump American intellect will be seized, squeezed
and sustained by this administration and its handmaidens" - Dr. Karen
Kwiatkowski
Checkpoint
Fascism
It's mostly just a money game,
with the end result of more control over sheeple
and invasion of property rights. "Protect and Serve" has long
been absent from most peace officers... now militarized police forces.
Dump
200 or 300 Incumbents
...send a 50-megaton political shock
wave to Washington that would rattle the Washington Monument... Election
Day can be a revolution if the American people choose to make it one. -
Charley Reese
Thought
Police in Action
Media
Brainwashing
Bubblicious...
POP!
Goes the Weasel's Housing Scheme... 'er Scam
How
Hitler Became A Dictator
Teddy
& the Presidents Men
Killing...
An Old Method of Spreading Democracy
Bomb,
Bomb, Bomb... Don't Nuke Iran!
"...Bush was “absolutely convinced
that Iran is going to get the bomb” if it is not stopped. He said
that the President believes that he must do “what no Democrat or
Republican, if elected in the future, would have the courage to do,”
and “that saving Iran is going to be his legacy.” One
former defense official, who still deals with sensitive issues for the
Bush Administration, told me that the military planning was premised on
a belief that “a sustained bombing campaign in Iran will humiliate
the religious leadership and lead the public to rise up and overthrow the
government.” ...“I was shocked when I heard it, and asked myself,
‘What are they smoking?'" - Seymour Hersh
Foreign
Internet Invasion of Privacy -
By Bob Barr (fff.org)
Privacy:
A right to defend -
By Rev. Robert F. Drinan (fff.org)
A
Democratic Dictatorship
"A dictator is a ruler whose powers are omnipotent, that is, unconstrained
by external or superior law.
A dictator has the power to take whatever actions he wants without concerning
himself about whether they are legal.
Anything the dictator does is legal because he is the law." - Jacob
Hornberger
House
Fall Down... Go Boom... in the Bust
The
Mainstream Media: A Free Press or Fascist Media?
"… among the evils against which America
must protect herself one of the most destructive is the evil of
modern propaganda techniques applied to the problem of government."
~ John T. Flynn
Global
Warming or Phenotypic Plasticity?
Is it real
or is it just music ($$) to some ears? Angels
Don't Play This HAARP
Private
Property Rights - for Real Peace
"Life, liberty, and property do
not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact
that life, liberty,
and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first
place." - Frédéric Bastiat
W:
Unconstitutional Again!
But
Daddy Dug for Gold
Now
Read This
Top
Liberty
Loves Company... and Lew Rockwell.com
Boldly go where few dare to travel... Into Freedom!
Plunge
Protection Team... Q but no A
"Well, Mr. Bernanke, how about you find out! Someone in your position
should know if, as former White House
adviser Stephanopoulos has claimed, the Working Group on Financial Markets
- the Plunge Protection Team -
has the authority to interfere with the free market for stocks." Crudele,
NY Post.com
Your
Taxes Subsidize China
"$4 billion subsidy our nation quietly gives China through the US
government's Export-Import Bank" - Ron Paul
State
Must Protect Homeowners from Abuse
DEA
Snake Oil
"...what the DEA officials fail to realize (or
not) is that it is their own war that provides the monies to
finance the terrorists. It’s just another perverse result of another
perverse federal program."
Blair
- Dictator #2?
Ariel Sharon:
"It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion …
that there can be no Zionism, colonization,
or Jewish state without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation
of their lands." Current prime minister, Ehud Olmert,
told U.S. Congress: "I believe in our people's eternal and historic
right to this entire land" ...Blair knew.
Killology
- The Science of Creating Killers
Human reluctance
to take a life can be reversed through training in the method known as
killology
With reference to Stanley Milgram
"Liquid
Bombs"? The Stuff of Movie Plots!
Chemistry 101
The
UK Terror plot: what's really going on?
"Be sceptical. Be very, very sceptical."
Ethanol
Schmethanol - get over it!
What I've been saying since they came up with it... Nearly impossible,
without serious ramifications!
"The grain required to fill a 25-gallon tank (with ethanol) would
feed one person for a year."
Inappropriate
Medicine
"It is apparent that a great deal of inappropriate medicine is prescribed
for common diseases"
Bill Sardi: consumer advocate and health journalist
Blowing
the Roof Off
Regulation kills low-income housing!
Top
Death
& Taxes
A
Libertarian Debate
For and
Against
Libertarian
Cheat Sheet
Government
Sanctioned Marriage?!
American
Eagle Stores
Press
restrictions for RFID Apparel and Footwear Conference
in NY's Fashion Institute of Technology next week
Conservatives
& Communists... What's the diff?
Bombs
& Baloney - the foiled attack plan?
A
clear sign of madness
A brief history, and indication...
Necon's
Next War
Alledged
plot? A little thing about the presumption of innocence.
But who cares about our laws... since they
all "hate our freedom"?
Brazil's
Ethanol scam?
Learning to adapt to nature is the first step towards
independence from
corrupt institutions and insane (fixed - subsidised) prices.
Doctors
& Hospitals Make Me Sick
Trust yourself, your body... If you don't, know thyself,
then heal thyself!
The doctor of integrity, dedicated to real health, has a place in
this world... go to them...
refuse the hysteria surrounding every little ache and sore throat, remedied
by a pharma-pill.
Drink
UP Dubya... Then Speak!
Weapons of Mass Distraction:
The drunken truth from Mel Gibson,
gas-bag talkies, TV, any celebrity... & anything NOT related to DubyaDubya3!
Rising
Property Taxes!
Ron Paul addresses
Texas hold 'em (high!)
America's
Future
The future's so grim, shades
won't matter!
Condi's
Birth Pangs... Rosemary's Baby
Is birth a celebration of slaughter?
War...
Good God Y'all, What is it Good For?
Imperialist war-fare groupies... greed, control, power!
Socialist
Water
Can a Truly Free Market slove a monopolistic (government) problem?
Iraq
War Disappears from Radar (TV)
In favor
of the "New & Improved" War... Israel-Hezbollah
Bush
Hit Men Running Scared
Libertarian
Women
growing
stronger than ever!
Trade
Liberty for Security?
Knock
Knock... Who's There?
No need to answer that question in a
Police State
Argentina
Survives Without Globalist Bank Regimes
What
Congress Can Do About High Gas Prices
The
Power to Tax
Top
Read
Your Child's Textbooks
if you care about how "they" begin to control
us
Home
School Your Children!
Pimping
for the Homeland
Abominations
of War
What
is the Mission... Exactly
Argentina's
Compassionate Conservatism
How
Mexico treats Illegal Aliens
WH
Archive 2
Back
to the Future
~~~~~~~
Favorite
Past Articles:
Humor
at W's Expense ...&
then there's this... Bush
Speech (Edited)
Angels
Don't Play This HAARP
If you think humans are the main reason for global warming, wait
until you read this book!!
A MUST READ for the ENTIRE PLANET!
The
BEST Way to End War!
"We need only love our children and grandchildren
more than the state" - Butler Shaffer
Women
& Freedom: Is there Hope?
Libertarian
Women
Lysander
Spooner
Banned in China (Google censors their
internet)
For
a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
(Podcast) - Murray Rothbard
A Methodology for Hope
Repealing
the Magna Carta / Constitution
Articles
of Impeachment Defined
Tyranny
of the Status Quo
History
of American Imperialism
Liberty:
Freedom from restraint. The power of acting as one thinks fit, without
any restraint or control,
except from the laws of nature. - Bouvier's Law Dictionary
Free: Not bound to servitude; at liberty to act as one
pleases. This word is put in opposition to slave.
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