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Post by Michael Downing on Sept 23, 2015 20:26:46 GMT -5
Tyranny is wonderfully ingenious in the art of inventing specious phrases to spread over its nefarious designs. "Divine right, kings can do no wrong, parliamentary supremacy, the holy alliance," are instances of it in Europe. "Common defence, general welfare, federal supremacy and political economy," are impressed into the same service here. When the delusion of one phrase is past, another is adopted to work out the same ends as its predecessor. Political economy is represented as a complicated system of deprivations and compensations, or of getting and giving back money. In the multitude of transactions implied by this notion of political economy, will none of it stick to the fingers through which it passes? Will the privileged bands of brokers get nothing by this economical traffick? Will the officers necessary to enforce this species of political economy, require no salaries? An economy exposed to endless frauds, and incomputable expenses. The pretence "that though it inflicts deprivations, it bestows compensations," is one of those gross impositions upon the credulity of mankind, believed upon no better grounds than the stories of ghosts and apparitions. In the history of the world, there is no instance of a political economy bottomed upon exclusive privileges, having made any compensation for the deprivations it inflicts. John Taylor of Caroline, TYRANNY UNMASKED www.constitution.org/jt/tyr_un.htm
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Post by Michael Downing on Oct 28, 2015 13:40:03 GMT -5
h/t WRSA...
America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity. She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights. She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own. She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart. She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right. Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom. The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force.... She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....
John Quincy Adams
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 6, 2015 11:39:14 GMT -5
"How did it happen? How did our national government grow from a servant with sharply limited powers into a master with virtually unlimited power? In part, we were swindled. There are occasions when we have elevated men and political parties to power that promised to restore limited government and then proceeded, after their election, to expand the activities of government. But let us be honest with ourselves. Broken promises are not the major causes of our trouble. Kept promises are. All too often we have put men in office who have suggested spending a little more on this, a little more on that, who have proposed a new welfare program, who have thought of another variety of 'security.' We have taken the bait, preferring to put off to another day the recapture of freedom and the restoration of our constitutional system. We have gone the way of many a democratic society that has lost its freedom by persuading itself that if 'the people' rule, all is well."
-- Barry Goldwater (1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona)
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 12, 2015 13:13:05 GMT -5
The system ain't broken folks. It is working exactly like they want it to work. Still think you can vote your way out of this mess?
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 15, 2015 8:53:37 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
"...Free speech is not a universal value. It arises from a very narrow, particular tradition on this planet, and when your country becomes ten percent, 15 percent, 20 percent Muslim, there's less and less of a market for a free speech. So, despite what Obama, and Cameron, and M Hollande say, that value of free speech will die."
-- Mark Steyn
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Post by avordvet on Nov 16, 2015 17:19:05 GMT -5
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
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Post by Michael Downing on Nov 17, 2015 19:14:33 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
Quote Of The Week
We who honor facts and eschew wishful thinking in favor of reasoning must accept some harsh truths:
– ISIS is advancing in its overall effort to establish a new Caliphate. – For practical purposes, the U.S. is not engaged in this fight. – Fake “refugees” will soon bring the fight to our shores. – The president wants it that way and no other. – The Legacy Media are solidly with him.
Moreover, unless a solid conservative should gain the White House in November 2016 – and no, I’m not thinking of Donald Trump – none of those things will change.
— Fran Porretto,
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 7, 2015 17:03:44 GMT -5
h/t WRSA soldiersystems.net/2015/12/05/gunfighter-moment-jeff-gonzales-4/Gunfighter Moment So, yes, it is a good idea to create your jump bag, go bag or E&E bag whatever you want to call it, but realize you will probably not have it when it counts. You will have to win the fight, to survive, with your daily load out. In the end, the world is not complicated. It is filled with evil, evil that must be confronted by righteous strength and courage. In the end, some people just need to be killed. – Jeff Gonzales Trident Concepts, LLC
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 13, 2015 11:30:34 GMT -5
From Mike... coldfury.com/2015/12/13/dining-with-the-muslim-terrorists/But the hard truth is, Islam has been at war with the non-Moslem world since its inception, with only sporadic pauses that amount to no more than hudna truces, usually occurring after they’ve suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of a sudden energizing and consolidation of Western civilization that usually comes only when it is very nearly too late (siege of Vienna, anybody?). The central pinnacle of Islam is its demand for world conquest, by any means the faithful can contrive, be they overt, covert, or any combination of both. The sooner we recognize that admittedly harsh reality, the better.
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 16, 2015 19:40:16 GMT -5
From WRSA Trump’s supporters are beginning to understand politics is about who, not what, and seem to trust that he use the state to protect them from perceived enemies, rather than unleashing it on them, as Obama has done. The rise of Trump isn’t “fascism,” but long overdue resistance and self-defense from an occupied people tired of being treated like enemies of the state in the country they built www.vdare.com/articles/trumps-fascism-is-just-white-america-finally-hitting-back
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 17, 2015 19:57:11 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 20, 2015 8:24:13 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 20, 2015 8:46:35 GMT -5
Some varying thoughts on voting:
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it. —Mark Twain
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side. —Orson Scott Card
The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. —Joseph Stalin
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. —Karl Marx
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 26, 2015 13:44:34 GMT -5
ncrenegade.com/editorial/unlimited-power/Unlimited PowerOur Constitutional system of check and balances has been corrupted and is now gone. We see the consequences of allowing a political elite class take control of our country. Once freedom is lost, there is only one course of action left to regain it from our masters. And the masters know what this is and are acting now to protect their families and their interests. David DeGerolamo
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 29, 2015 17:05:15 GMT -5
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2015/12/28/first-quote-of-the-year-for-2016/“…My personal rules assume a continent-size penal colony with armed inmates, to wit: no public place is safe, but I especially avoid cities, airports, sports venues, malls, bad neighborhoods and bars. I’m not in public places much past dark. I avoid minorities. If there are two or more of them and one of me, I’m the minority in the only way that matters. I avoid mass transit and heavy traffic, rallies and demonstrations. In short, I stay away from crowds. I’ll not be missed. When a crowd is unavoidable, I part company as soon as I can. The declared purpose for a crowd is nonbinding, its conduct volatile and its fate my fate. There are no good crowds. As the collapse deepens my rules will be amended until they can be amended no more. Everything, including universal entropy, argues for doing this. I would happily be wrong, but I see no compelling argument for doing otherwise….” — Ol’ Remus
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Post by Michael Downing on Dec 31, 2015 15:06:40 GMT -5
h/t N C Renegade
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 1, 2016 15:37:35 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 12, 2016 18:45:07 GMT -5
Quotes for a month or more... ncrenegade.com/editorial/what-geniuses-come-to-believe/#more-64865What Geniuses Come To BelieveSo, here is a list pulled from my quotes file and presented without commentary. Enjoy: Albert Einstein ◾Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ◾Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. ◾Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it. ◾The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it. ◾Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. Rod Serling ◾The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling. Arthur Schopenhauer ◾We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. Thomas Jefferson ◾I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ◾It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ◾I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it. Allan Bloom ◾The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that makes it seem inconceivable that other ways are viable, that removes the sense that there is an outside. John Stuart Mill ◾The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it. Leo Tolstoy ◾The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens… Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. Will Durant ◾Above all, the ruling minority sought more and more to transform its forcible mastery into a body of law which, while consolidating that mastery, would afford a welcome security and order to the people, and would recognize the rights of the “subject” sufficiently to win his acceptance of the law and his adherence to the state. George Bernard Shaw ◾All government is authoritarian; and the more democratic a government is the more authoritative it is; for with the people behind it, it can push authority further than any Tsar or foreign despot dare do. Aldous Huxley ◾So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable. ◾Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government. Richard Feynman ◾Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity – and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand. Buckminster Fuller ◾Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete. ◾If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine. ◾We are powerfully imprisoned in these Dark Ages simply by the terms in which we have been conditioned to think. ◾Either you’re going to go along with your mind and the truth, or you’re going to yield to fear and custom and conditioned reflexes. Erich Fromm ◾The history of mankind up to the present time is primarily the history of idol worship, from primitive idols of clay and wood to the modern idols of the state, the leader, production and consumption – sanctified by the blessing of an idolized God. ◾Obedience to God is also the negation of submission to man. ◾ f one has no possibility of acting, one’s thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid. ◾Is there really as much difference as we think between the Aztec human sacrifices to their gods and the modern human sacrifices in war to the idols of nationalism and the sovereign state?
Charlie Chaplin ◾As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
Carl Jung ◾For in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him.
Ray Bradbury ◾We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
Abraham Maslow ◾I can certainly say that descriptively healthy human beings do not like to be controlled. They prefer to feel free and to be free.
Simone Weil ◾The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State. ◾Conscience is deceived by the social. ◾Human history is simply the history of the servitude which makes men – oppressed and oppressors alike – the plaything of the instruments of domination they themselves have manufactured, and thus reduces living humanity to being the chattel of inanimate chattels. ◾What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war.
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 13, 2016 8:38:46 GMT -5
h/t WRSA Why It Is A Good Idea To Know Your Neighbor Before The Excitement
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 13, 2016 18:25:07 GMT -5
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2016/01/13/quote-of-the-decade-3/Quote Of The Decade “…You can pretty much carrying on doing all the things you like doing and the only difference is you’ll be doing them for your new religion: you can lie, cheat, steal, rape, kill women and children, and as long as you’re doing it for Allah and his victory over the infidels it’s cool. So we have not just a global terrorist movement and a global political project but a global gang culture insulated within the west’s fastest-growing demographic.” — Mark Steyn
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2016 15:18:59 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2016 16:07:25 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 23, 2016 20:12:29 GMT -5
Come senators, congressmen Please heed the call Don't stand in the doorway Don't block up the hall For he that gets hurt Will be he who has stalled There's a battle outside ragin' It'll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls For the times they are a-changin'
Bob Dylan
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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 25, 2016 18:40:26 GMT -5
h/t WRSA
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 2, 2016 19:45:21 GMT -5
Thinking of voting Democrat? Feel the burn!
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 2, 2016 21:35:56 GMT -5
Voting Republican?You'll get burned!
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 4, 2016 13:05:54 GMT -5
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office ~Aesop~
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 5, 2016 19:46:25 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 7, 2016 15:52:26 GMT -5
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Post by Michael Downing on Feb 10, 2016 13:27:40 GMT -5
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