AMERICAN CHILDREN AND FOREIGN CHILDREN
But when the deaths occur as a result of some drone strike, bomb, or sanctions at the hands of the U.S. government, everything seems to shut down within Americans. Sympathy and empathy disappear. People don’t want to hear the details. They do their best to shut out any discussion of the episode. The attitude is always, “Regrettable, but now it’s time to move on.”
Why the difference?
[]…the answer lies in what the national-security state has done to the American people. In the name of fighting communism and, later, terrorism, it has warped their values and their principles and stultified their consciences.
http://fff.org/2012/12/20/american-children-and-foreign-children/
The worst forms of tyranny, or certainly the most successful ones, are not those we rail against but those that so insinuate themselves into the imagery of our consciousness, and the fabric of our lives, as not to be perceived as tyranny
“In the language of patriotism, these people are traitors. The older ruling elite - and I came out of the working class - they were certainly no friends to working men and women, frankly, but they cared about the sustenance of the nation. The new ruling elite is global… [and] in the language of business, is quite willing to ‘harvest’ the nation. That’s why you’ve seen manufacturing jobs shipped overseas […] and what they tell now, workers around the world, is that in order to be competitive, they have to be competitive, in essence, with prison labor in China or sweatshop workers in Bangladesh who make 22 cents an hour.”
- Chris Hedges, interview w/Alex Jones
Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise.
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law.
New Executive Order Seizes Total Control over Civilian Activities
New Executive Order Seizes Total Control over Civilian Activities
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http://farmwars.info/?p=8052
my comment: The E.O. signed by obama on March 16, 2012, is also posted on the official white house website - so not a rumor or hoax. But this EO is not really “new” - it has has been around at least since Clinton. Maybe in some form since Roosevelt. I’m not sure if anything has been updated or changed in the 2012 version… still, I’m extremely worried that obama has renewed it at this time… in conjunction with NDAA and the other recent tyrannical bills passed. Could they (TPTB) be preparing for war not only with Iran but with their own population?
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
America’s Last Chance
another must read article - this one by Paul Craig Roberts
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make them virtuous, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make them sane
That’s The Way The Cornbread Crumbles
… one shouldn’t fetishize Obama or Bush, … as some kind of unique locus for the authoritarianism that is now, beyond all doubt, the essence and practice of the “American way” in the modern world. Both Bush and now Obama have, in many ways, only exemplified and made manifest the zeitgeist of the ruling elite. This is what they believe: the Constitution is a dead letter. The Republic is a dead letter. Might makes right. Mammon is God. Liberty is inconvenient. And any human being who does not belong to the elite or serve it with dog-like devotion is a piece of shit who can be abused, neglected, discarded or eliminated without the slightest shame or consequence. This is the mindset of our elites and their servitors.
But I want to say one further thing. Every one of these elites, every one of these bowing, scraping, enabling courtiers, is also a individual human being, born with the same inestimable worth and capacity for the same astonishing feats of love and comity that all individuals have in potentia. But they have given themselves over to systems and mindsets that are implacably inhuman. They are all in the process of self-murdering their own souls. It’s a horrible, sickening sight. And although I condemn their crimes and tainted minds with all the fury and outrage and scorn they deserve, I take no pleasure in this rage. I am heartsick, truly, at every soul lost to the machines — the War Machine, the Money Machine, the Power Machine — that rule our world.
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The Private Production of Defense by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.
"The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them 