Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"The focus on gun control directs attention to a useless remedy that, even if it were stringently implemented, would only drive killing into alternative means, locales and channels. How does disarming the 9,999,999 out of 10,000,000 people who do not dream of killing others change the mind of the 1 in 10,000,000 who does? If anything, it encourages him that he’ll meet no deadly counter force."

Michael Rozeff

"A trade war is just as phony as a war on drugs, a war on crime, or a war on terror. None are worth fighting. And none are winnable. It is meant to reward the elite at others’ expense. Nothing more."

Bill Bonner

"People don’t have the right to own guns because of the Second Amendment, just as people don’t have the right of free speech because of the First Amendment. People’s natural, God-given rights preexist government. They exist whether the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and the federal government are there or not."

Jacob Hornberger

"Good ideas don’t require force to survive. And neither do bad ideas in order to die. They eat themselves until there’s nothing left. 

Reality has mechanisms built in to snap back the delusional. 

Dealing with it is easy. 

Motivate yourself with seeking and spreading the truth and nothing else. Not spreading, or resisting, some malformed ideology. 

That is all you can do."

Chris Campbell

"Remember you don’t get the best and the brightest going into government. There are two kinds of people. You’ve got people that like to control physical reality—things. And people that like to control other people. That second group, those who like to lord it over their fellows, are drawn to government and politics."

Doug Casey

"The income tax did more than revoke the immunity of property. It gave the State the means of effectively attacking the immunities of mind and of person; it transferred to the State that sovereignty which, according to the American theory, is lodged in the individual. In the final analysis, sovereignty is a matter of dollars. The more dollars the more sovereignty. The individual is no longer sovereign when his living is dependent on a superior will, when that will becomes dominant by the economic strength behind it."

Frank Chodorov

"The 2A [second amendment] is a sham to protect weapons ownership. It has no teeth whatsoever. If it did, how could the 1934 NFA, 1938 FFA, the decision in US v. Miller in 1939, 1968 GCA, Nixon’s pogrom against handguns, the 1986 FOPA, Bushevik I’s ban on foreign cosmetically offensive weapons in 1989, the NICs, the AWB all the way to the conservative zombie Scalia’s Leninist bromide about 'dangerous and unusual weapons'. On and on and on.

The government has a message for your 'right' to keep and bear arms: Fuck You, Helot."

Bill Buppert

"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road-map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die."

John Taylor Gatto

"There is no greater threat to life on earth than Washington. Constraining Washington’s determination to destroy life on earth is the greatest challenge humanity has faced. If we fail, we all die, every one of us and all creatures.

Despite Russia’s military superiority, the humanity of the Russian government places it at a disadvantage as there is no concern for humanity in Washington."

Paul Craig Roberts

"Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as 'surveillance companies.' Their rebranding as 'social media' is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense."

Edward Snowden

"Criminal, totalitarian states (what other kind is there?) have always used mental illness as a means to empowerment. And by that I mean to suggest that so many people who commit acts of violence are deliberately tagged with 'mental illness' as the underlying cause. This is how the state and its institutions use the power of propaganda to create yet another crisis that requires more government resources and taxpayer funding, further growing state power, especially as it applies to the mental health of individuals.

However, what is often ignored is how this utilization of power and propaganda so easily grips the passions of the masses who rely on the advisement of so-called 'experts' in the public sphere; sound bites in the mainstream media and on social media; and emotional arguments that confirm their own biases. The uninformed, hyper-emoting, non-reasoning masses of asses around us are as much of a threat to our freedom as state power in the hands of miscreants."

Karen De Coster