Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"We cherish our right to keep and bear arms in defense of ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our community, and our Texas. We will not accept the politicization of our pain. We will not accept any policy that would reduce us to the status of defenseless prey. We will not listen to the ceaseless judgment from self-righteous and disconnected narcissists who love nothing more than to see Texans suffer. Be gone. You have no power here."
Daniel Miller

"Still using the same principle that political rulership should be employed to the extent of the evil in man, we would then have a society in which complete political rulership of all the affairs of everybody would be called for.… One man would rule all. But who would serve as the dictator? However he were to be selected and affixed to the political throne, he would surely be a totally evil person, since all men are evil. And this society would then be ruled by a totally evil dictator possessed of total political power. And how, in the name of logic, could anything short of total evil be its consequence? How could it be better than having no political rulership at all in that society?"
F.A. Harper

"The rich will be, and should be, first in line for living forever. They may or may not be the nicest people. But their wealth is some evidence that they’re more diligent, more intelligent, and harder working than most. That’s tough luck for the ne’er-do-wells, the mooches, and the slackers. If you’re poor, you made your bed. Now, you sleep in it. And, yes, I hear the whines about 'bad luck.' You make your own luck over the course of a lifetime. In fact, the bread generally goes to the wise, the race to the swift, and the battle to the strong. At least in a free market. That’s what justice is all about."
Doug Casey

"The main merit of individualism is that it is a system under which bad men can do least harm. It is a social system which does not depend for its functioning on our finding good men for running it, or on all men becoming better than they now are, but which makes use of men in all their given variety and complexity."
F. A. Hayek

"I vehemently deny that 'systemic racism' exists in America to any significant degree. The vast majority of Americans are not racists. Yet we have a problem, which is the perpetuation of the false idea that we are racists. There is also the problem of the false idea that racism causes or has caused people of color, mainly people of African heritage and genetic composition, to be so disadvantaged that non-black Americans have to turn themselves inside out in all sorts of ways, including money payoffs, in order to rectify the situation.
I deny that racism is anything worth getting riled up about, much less legislating about. I think that all such efforts to conjure up the specter of racism are scams, con games and rackets designed to favor certain specific beneficiaries. Race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have kept alive the racism myths, and they’ve succeeded in passing them on to a new generation of both black and white people. Along side of them and adding fuel to the fake fire blazing in people’s heads are Barack Obama and other socialists and progressives like him who see racism as a way for them to seize government power."
Michael Rozeff

"Our Ruling Elites have no idea how many of us already want to see them all in prison jumpsuits, and they also have no idea how fast the moral revulsion with their corrupt 'leadership' might spread. Scanning the distracted, consumerist rabble from the great heights of their wealth and power, they reckon the capacity for moral outrage is limited, leaving them safe from any domestic crusade.
They also trust that the citizenry can be further fragmented, further distracted, and so they will continue to be invulnerable. Or worst case scenario, a few especially venal villains will need to be sacrificed, and then all will return to the bliss of Neofeudal exploitation.
But they may have misread the American citizenry, just as they've misread history."
Charles Hugh Smith

"We hear much about America’s external empire—UK, Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan.  What I am suggesting is that the United States itself has become an internal empire of antagonistic races, ethnicities, cultures, religions, genders, and agendas.  As empires are unstable, the US is doubly so.
The decision to deep-six the immigration policy of assimilation was a conscious decision to disunite the country.  Diversity coupled with reverse discrimination dispossessed the core population of their country.  It was an act of national suicide."
Paul Craig Roberts

"I’m not aware of a foreign terrorist threat, attempt, or action against the United States, in which a motivation was stated, where that motivation was anything other than opposition to US military imperialism. Statistically, religion doesn’t seem to have anything to do with it. If you occupy another country, people get mad – with or without religion.
This is part of a broader picture of counterproductive self-defeating masochism. Terrorism has predictably increased during the war on terrorism (as measured by the Global Terrorism Index). 99.5% of terrorist attacks occur in countries engaged in wars and/or engaged in abuses such as imprisonment without trial, torture, or lawless killing. The highest rates of terrorism are in 'liberated' and 'democratized' Iraq and Afghanistan. The terrorist groups responsible for the most terrorism (that is, non-state, politically motivated violence) around the world have grown out of US wars against terrorism."
David Swanson

"The rule of law no longer applies. The law in the U.S. has become the 'expression of the general will' as seen in recent Supreme Court rulings and in the absolution of Hillary Clinton for her crimes by the FBI director and the Department of JustUs, and the unrelenting illegal — but state-sanctioned — spying on and investigations into President Trump and his associates during and after the campaign.
Americans would do well to study to the French Revolution for a precursor to where we're headed."
Bob Livingston

"It is psychologically comfortable to believe that we live in a just world. It is much less psychologically comfortable to understand that we don’t, and that we never will unless we fight very hard for it. One is an illusion, the other is reality. A preference for reality over comfort is the primary factor which separates those who serve corrupt power from those who speak out against it."
Caitlin Johnstone

"I have said before that if the federal government in the US were forbidden from stealing a single dime from its supplicant populations it would wither and die and further, if it was unable to transfer a single ruble of its stolen booty to the vast government enstupidation factories from K-PhD, communism would die on the vine in the west as a 'rational' framework in a generation. The education complex in America is the primary communist software virus hothouse in the US if not the west."
Bill Buppert

"A society’s first line of defense is not the law or the criminal justice system but customs, traditions and moral values. These behavioral norms, mostly imparted by example, word-of-mouth and religious teachings, represent a body of wisdom distilled over the ages through experience and trial and error. Police and laws can never replace these restraints on personal conduct. At best, the police and criminal justice system are the last desperate line of defense for a civilized society. Today’s true tragedy is that most people think what we see today has always been so. As such, today’s Americans accept behavior that our parents and grandparents never would have accepted."
Walter Williams

"You will not hear the mainstream media or even much of the alternative media talk about the real solutions to elitist criminality or government corruption. You won’t hear about these solutions because they are hard; they require struggle and sacrifice. Voting is easy, which is why it does not work. Legislation is easy, which is why it does not work. And, protesting with signs on a street corner is easy, and it might spread the word on an issue, but ultimately it does not work. The corruption remains.
There are two options left; first, walk away peacefully from the system and build one that works on your own or with others of like-mind. If you are successful, then expect the corrupt system and the elites behind it to try and stop you. Second, when this happens, the only option left is to fight back and remove the threat. This is where we are inevitably headed, not because we want it, but because they will force the issue."
Brandon Smith

"Participating in a gun buyback program because you think that criminals have too many guns is like having yourself castrated because you think your neighbors have too many kids."
Clint Eastwood