Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"If John Lennon had had a gun, he would have been able to write a lot more songs."
Owen Benjamin

"Over 98% of all mass shootings in the USSA since 1950 have occurred in gun free zones where the government mandated private disarmament or corporate entities that licked the foul taint of the government to mimic compliance. For the shooters, guaranteed a rather hazard free opportunity to maim and kill as many disarmed humans as they wished or found the time for."
Bill Buppert

"Though the media often attempts to twist the gun rights debate into a web of complexity, gun rights is in fact a rather simple issue — either you believe that people have an inherent right to self defense, or you don't. All other arguments are a peripheral distraction."
Brandon Smith

"Even though Texas is not likely to meekly turn in its arms at the prodding of Washington, the day is fast approaching when D.C. will demand just that. There will be no reasoning with them, nor successful appeals to the Constitution and legality; their mind will be made up. And, if we are still tethered to a greater American populace that has been swayed by left-wing fire-arms sophistry when the order is issued, how long do you think our politicians will stand up to them before tucking tail? Not long, I’d wager! If Texas wants to avoid this inevitability, the ONLY way is to go our own way: independence, resigning our membership in the federal union. For make no mistake, whether whittled away bit-by-bit or whisked-away in one fell swoop, gun-rights as they have been in America are coming to an end."
Ryan Thorson

"The cops are essentially crime historians.  They show up after a crime has been committed, then they write up a report about the crime to be used to beg the legislature for more money for police salaries and more cops for the benefit of police union revenues."
Tom DiLorenzo

"Clinging to the status quo of existing regional and national boundaries is reactionary in the extreme. Insisting that no community ought to be allowed self government unless its leaders are hard-core libertarians is impractical, irresponsible, and doomed to failure. 
Nevertheless, when confronted with new attempts at decentralization and secession, even some of those who claim to be for freedom and self-determination cling to ideas of imposing nationalistic control over others. They invent emotion-laden fictional slogans claiming 'we are one nation' or 'secession is treason' or other sayings designed to justify using the power of the state to impose political unity.  Ultimately, this is an ideology of monopoly and coercion, and tramples the very ideals of freedom that the nationalists claim they hold dear."
Ryan McMaken

"Democracy is an esoteric belief system that manipulates the people in such a way that all power flows to the state. As with pure dictatorships, power flows from the top down. Democracy implies freedom in the public’s mind while power and wealth is constantly channeled to the Federal government. Human liberty is regressively crushed under the one simple word, 'democracy.' The American system has the trappings of representative government — was created to be a representative republic — but is fascism in reality. Fascism with a pretty face (call it democracy) is far more deceptive and sinister."
Bob Livingston

"Philosophically, America adopted fascism, progressivism and socialism. It adopted militarism. All these philosophies (and a good many others) are immoral, and that turns into social failure when they are pursued and elaborated within institutions."
Michael Rozeff

"Truth is the enemy of the state, and the state is eliminating the truth.
Peoples in the United States, Europe, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the various vassal states, such as Japan, all live day in, day out, an orchestrated lie that serves interests directly opposed to the interests of the peoples.
Governments that do not rest on truth rest on tyranny."
Paul Craig Roberts

"The problem is that Americans barely even have a culture anymore. And, assuming being united is a good thing, which is questionable, it’s now impossible anyway. We’re now 'multicultural'—Mexicans, Somalis, Kenyans, Iraqis, Pakistanis—people that generally don’t understand what it means to be an American. Nor do they particularly care to find out. The days of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best are in the distant past.
Today’s Russians are actually more culturally similar to the old America than the new multicultural U.S. is."
Doug Casey

"Both left and right are the same, just different afflictions of authoritarianism. They are as 'different' as a left and a right jackboot on your neck. Those who continue to think in terms of left and right, even after calling themselves libertarians, will never be libertarians.They will never grasp that the only 'versus' that matters and makes sense is libertarianism versus authoritarianism."
Garry Reed

"Men are not omniscient. They are bounded by uncertainty. The free market offers a way to deal with this uncertainty: entrepreneurship. Men of necessity must face the future. They do their best to see what is coming. They delegate to specialists in forecasting the responsibility of allocating resources for future production. Then consumers bid against each other for these goods and services. By their bids, they bless certain entrepreneurs with profits, but thereby curse others with losses. Through the incessant process of resource allocation and bidding, individuals shape the world in which they live."
Gary North

"Guns represent one’s right to defend one’s own self, one’s own spark of existence, one’s own life from unprovoked attack.
Historically speaking, they’ve helped to turn the tables on physically strong predators who wish to prey on the weak, meek and most vulnerable.
Like all technological innovations, they ushered in a new paradigm. Each paradigm has its own set of pros and cons.
Each paradigm is also a psychological construct.
To demolish this psychological paradigm for an illusion (yes, illusion) of safety, even just by chipping away at the idea of it, sets, as history shows, monumentally dangerous precedent.
It’s a step backward."
Chris Campbell