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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 13, 2013 8:44:01 GMT -5
"The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself." -- H. L. Mencken
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." -- H. L. Mencken
"At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts." -- George Orwell
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Post by avordvet on Sept 13, 2013 15:54:40 GMT -5
Good one... sticky
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 16, 2013 9:04:37 GMT -5
"If we can just pass a few more laws, we could all be criminals!" -- Vinnie Moscaritolo American computer security expert
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 17, 2013 11:02:16 GMT -5
"A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government." -- Kenneth Boulding (1910-1993) British-American economist
"Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them. It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high." -- Jean-Francois Revel [Jean-Francois Ricard] (1924-2006) French politician
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Post by midnightrider on Sept 17, 2013 12:02:54 GMT -5
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. - Napoleon Bonaparte
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Post by avordvet on Sept 17, 2013 12:56:29 GMT -5
"One of the most effective forms of industrial or military sabotage limits itself to damage that can never be thoroughly proven - or even proven at all - to be anything deliberate. It is like an invisible political movement; perhaps it isn't there at all. If a bomb is wired to a car's ignition, then obviously there is an enemy; if public building or a political headquarters is blown up, then there is a political enemy. But if an accident, or a series of accidents, occurs, if equipment merely fails to function, if it appears faulty, especially in a slow fashion, over a period of natural time, with numerous small failures and misfirings- then the victim, whether a person or a party or a country, can never marshal itself to defend itself." - Philip K. Dick
"For each person there is a sentence — a series of words — which has the power to destroy him." - Philip K. Dick
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 18, 2013 8:54:27 GMT -5
"How a politician stands on the Second Amendment tells you how he or she views you as an individual… as a trustworthy and productive citizen, or as part of an unruly crowd that needs to be lorded over, controlled, supervised, and taken care of." -- Suzanna Gratia Hupp (1959-) Texas State Representative (R), survivor of 'Luby's Massacre' where both her parents were among 23 people fatally shot and 50 others wounded
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 21, 2013 12:30:40 GMT -5
Since its inception, we have always regarded the .223 cartridge (5.56 NATO) as a varmint load. Well, now we have our hands full of varmints, so perhaps we have the perfect tool for the task. --LtCol John Dean "Jeff" Cooper, USMC (retired) May 10, 1920 - September 25, 2006 (h/t Wirecutter) westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/quote-of-the-week-76/
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 23, 2013 11:15:07 GMT -5
I do not know how many may have had interaction with the IRS beyond simply filing their taxes but there is no other agency with the power that they have over you and your property. To abolish them and to go to a simple flat tax or better yet a consumption tax would be a big step in breaking our chains. Now they will over see health care? Is there any doubt in anyone's mind that such an organization that would delay a group from tax exempt status simply because they are a Tea Party group would not hesitate to deny or delay a medical procedure to a person sinply becuase of affiliation with a Patriot group.
"The right of property is the guardian of every other right, and to deprive the people of this, is in fact to deprive them of their liberty." -- Arthur Lee (1740-1792) Virgina delegate to the Continental Congress in 1782
"Compare this [U.S. taxation] to the plight of medieval serfs. They only had to give the lord of the manor a third of their output and they were considered slaves. So what does that make us." -- Daniel Mitchell Economist
"Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for “resisting arrest.” " -- Jacob G. Hornberger American author, journalist, politician, founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 25, 2013 9:45:25 GMT -5
"There are two distinct classes of men in the nation, those who pay taxes, and those who receive and live upon the taxes." -- Thomas Paine
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 25, 2013 9:51:10 GMT -5
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do, and with the help of God, I will do."
Edward Everett Hale
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Post by midnightrider on Sept 26, 2013 12:46:31 GMT -5
"Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying." - Martin Luther
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 27, 2013 10:44:15 GMT -5
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 28, 2013 6:51:17 GMT -5
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicity. Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address.
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 30, 2013 8:41:34 GMT -5
"Civilization means, above all, an unwillingness to inflict unnecessary pain ... those of us who heedlessly accept the commands of authority cannot yet claim to be civilized men." -- Harold J. Laski
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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 30, 2013 8:42:10 GMT -5
"In a free society, individuals have the right to do right or wrong, as long as they don’t threaten or infringe upon the rights or property of others." -- Mark Skousen
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Post by Michael Downing on Oct 8, 2013 8:11:54 GMT -5
"...there is no such entity as 'the public' - since the public is merely a number of individuals - the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." -- Ayn Rand
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Post by Michael Downing on Oct 24, 2013 8:55:43 GMT -5
"Fifty-one percent of a nation can establish a totalitarian regime, suppress minorities and still remain democratic." -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
"Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption, plunder, and tyranny." -- Richard M. Ebeling
Sometimes it is lost on many still that we were established as a representative republic not a democracy. That republic is long gone buried by the nonrepresentative felons in DC and the masses that live off the entitlements that they continue to promise that have no end. This will not end well...
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Post by Michael Downing on Oct 24, 2013 8:58:09 GMT -5
"In the twentieth century, the United States government forced 100,000 United States citizens into concentration camps. In 1941, American citizens of Japanese descent were herded into concentration camps run by the United States government. Like the victims of other mass deportations, these Americans were allowed to retain only the property they could carry with them. Everything else—including family businesses built up over generations—had to be sold immediately at fire-sale prices or abandoned. The camps were “ringed with barbed wire fences and guard towers.” During the war, the federal government pushed Central and South American governments to round up persons of Japanese ancestry in those nations and have them shipped to the U.S. concentration camps. ... the incarceration of Japanese-Americans continued long after any plausible national security justification had vanished. ... what if the war had gone differently? What if a frustrated, angry America, continuing to lose a war in the Pacific, had been tempted to take revenge on the “enemy” that was, in the concentration camps, a safe target. Would killing all the Japanese be a potential policy option? In 1944, by which time America’s eventual victory in the war seemed assured, the Gallup Poll asked Americans, “What do you think we should do with Japan, as a country, after the war?” Thirteen percent of Americans chose the response “Kill all Japanese people.”" -- David B. Kopel American author, attorney, political science researcher. contributing editor to several publications Source: commenting on whether a tyrannical or genocidal government could occur in America
Do not ever think that this could not be the future here in amerika and that it could be you and your family rounded up and shipped off to a detainment facility.
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Post by avordvet on Nov 11, 2013 17:37:30 GMT -5
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. ~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 11, 2013 20:49:23 GMT -5
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities
Ayn Rand
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coffee
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I have been a member for years, when does the new member status go away
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Post by coffee on Nov 13, 2013 19:18:38 GMT -5
PRAY, BELIEVE, AND RECEIVE, OR POUT, DOUBT, AND DO WITHOUT
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 19, 2013 20:46:49 GMT -5
"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." H.L. Mencken
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 21, 2013 10:48:36 GMT -5
"There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are 'just' because the law makes them so." -- Frederic Bastiat
"I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy. You can only punish. I warn you that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys everyone it touches -- its upholders as well as its defiers." -- Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Source: the book, Inherit the Wind
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 22, 2013 10:29:55 GMT -5
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. Plato
"Oh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?" -- Ammon Hennacy
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 27, 2013 16:33:07 GMT -5
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced." -- Frank Zappa
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 1, 2013 10:38:26 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
"...Much as it would be great if there was a battle line of freedom to join, there isn’t. There is a mass of overweight selfish entitled citizenry, the statists/tyrannists, some selfish preppers, and small groups of actual liberty minded warriors. So it’s not as if you are deserting something (other than the ideal of America), because there is no network or army, or group, to actually desert. It’s just a bunch of bickering people on the internet. I wish it were otherwise..." -- Max Velocity
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 16, 2013 20:55:18 GMT -5
Sultan Knish: The Redistribution Of Freedom ...The moral argument for freedom is the self-organizing principle of individuals. The moral argument for compulsion is that the system is superior to individuals. The left has chosen central planning in human rights as it has in every other area of life. It believes with the paradoxical perversity of doublethink that freedom can only come from government because only a central authority is qualified to provide the equal distribution of freedom within carefully planned limits... westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/12/16/sultan-knish-the-redistribution-of-freedom/
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 19, 2013 8:08:49 GMT -5
Tyranny cannot be voted out of office. The problem is systemic, not incidental. There is no single candidate who will turn this around. There is no party that will stop the systematic corruption that has grown on the fertile ground of Washington D.C. We cannot just pull the weeds around our precious republic, the weeds have grown to choke out the crops. T. L. Davis christianmerc.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-dark-hulking-figure-of-government.html
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 26, 2013 11:07:36 GMT -5
"Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it." -- Maimonides (1135-1204) Jewish philosopher
"Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again." -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
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