Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"July 4th is celebrated as 'Independence Day'. There is no holiday called the 'Fourth of July'. It is also not 'Second Memorial Day,' 'Pre-Veterans Day', 'Lather Over Lincoln Day,' 'Yet Another Flag Day,' 'Federal Government Can Do No Wrong Day,' or 'Remember When We Actually Had A Constitution & Bill of Rights Day'. 
July 4th is not a celebration of the creation of the United States of America. There was no such thing on July 4, 1776, nor did it exist on July 5th of that same year. It is a celebration of the day that 13 separate colonies of Great Britain declared their independence from Great Britain in one single action and declared that they were 13 independent, separate, self-governing nation-states.
While you’re eating your hot dog through a surgical mask, waving your flag in groups of 10 or less while standing no-less-than 6 feet apart, and watching reruns of fireworks displays on your TV while in lockdown, take some time to reflect on what it is you are actually celebrating. If you are celebrating the 4th of July as merely a day to “fly the colors” while waiting for government permission to return to work or open your business, then, by all means, turn your back on the Founding Fathers and enjoy your hot dog.
However, if you are genuinely celebrating 'Independence Day', then remember what it was truly about: fed up with an overbearing and overreaching government, which trampled on their rights, and was so disconnected that it no longer could serve them, people in 13 individual colonies declared their political, economic, and cultural separation and asserted their sovereignty as 13 separate, individual, distinct, and independent nation-states."
Daniel Miller

"There really is nothing in the Constitution that allows for the states or the feds to lockdown the entire country. There have been decisions and historical precedents where those who are sick can be quarantined. But no government in 6,000 years has ever imprisoned the entire population on the theory of protecting public health.
Unfortunately, our legal system FAILS to protect people. It allows the government to do whatever it desires and then puts the burden on the people to go to court. It takes years to get to the Supreme Court, who may just rubber-stamp the government anyway. Our legal system is wholly inadequate and it encourages tyranny as we are experiencing right now."
Martin Armstrong

"Those attempting to master our fate are attempting purposely to destroy the inherent passions of life. The most precious things about mankind are under attack by the purveyors of this coronavirus fraud, and the cold hand of indifference already has a firm grip on the sleeping population. Passion comes in many forms, from love, family and friends, anger, hatred, grief, joy, and nature. Passion is all consuming when one has the capacity and capability to be free to embrace and experience all the many aspects of a free existence. When all thought is concentrated due to fear, stress, tyranny, and confusion, the mind and body lose touch with one another, creating internal chaos. This state of being brings only emptiness and pain, and stifles one’s ability to grasp the beauty of life, thus passion is lost."
Gary D. Barnett

"We now live in a time of government-imposed genocide of the old. While this may sound far-fetched, it is exactly what is happening before our eyes in this hoax called the coronavirus pandemic. This fabricated virus scam is being used as the excuse to commit mass extermination of the aged and weak in this country, and few are paying attention to this killing in plain sight. This is first-degree murder by the state, and is being carefully structured in order to achieve as many deaths as possible of the old. It is being done at the local, state, and federal levels, and continues to be prosecuted without much outrage. With the false second wave that is being heavily marketed, these unnecessary deaths will escalate once again, and the slaughter of the elderly will continue unabated."
Gary D. Barnett

"The entire idea of contact tracing is to find out who else might have been in close proximity. To deliberately NOT ask someone if they’ve been in close proximity of thousands of other people sort of defeats the purpose of the entire contract tracing program to begin with.
Naturally, New York City health officials have already said that any spike in Covid infections should be blamed on racism, and not mass gatherings of people.
And that’s what constitutes science in 2020.
This is another obvious sign of woke intersectionality. 
Governments act like public health is their number one concern. They shut down the entire economy and refused to allow people to attend worship services, all to keep us safe from a strand of ribonucleic acid. 
But in actuality they’re far more concerned with building political credibility with protestors, and they’re willing to completely make up science in order to do so."
Simon Black

"And as I said at the very beginning of this nonsense, none of it could happen without the sheepish submission of America’s pa 
The pastor is rightly characterized as being a shepherd. His duty is to both feed the flock and protect it from wolves. Any pastor who cannot see that these government lockdowns, forced isolations, forced business closings and forced church closings are the work of demonic forces is no shepherd. His sheep should certainly move on to safer pastures.
By surrendering their flocks to the worst kind of Nanny State, pastors have abandoned their role as shepherds and are leading their sheep to the slaughter from the most savage of beasts."
Chuck Baldwin

"All eyes are concentrated on a fraudulent virus pandemic, and that is exactly what the ruling elite that now control all thought and non-action of the herd desire. Tunnel vision and concentration on state-manufactured monsters does not allow for critical thought, nor does it allow for any sane decision-making by the general populace.
Once the second phase of this virus scam is in place, phase three, four, and five will be that much easier to achieve. When will the people of this country wake up to the reality that they are simply pawns in a game of power and control by the few? When will they realize that there is little time left to gain any sort of freedom? When will they understand that they are being played, and are now nothing more than puppets on a string? Or will they never understand any of these things, and just continue to be the ignorant masses that their masters think them to be?"
Gary D. Barnett

"Racism in America is the rallying cry of a new generation of educated, well-off and well-positioned black people. They are spouting a Marxist line. They are not hurting, but they act as if they are being oppressed and held by a yoke of racism. They play a psychological game of dominance in which they cannot accept what they have without simultaneously forcing some sort of doctrinal admission of sin from white people. They want to be the masters now and white people their slaves and submissive. They want revenge, and part of that revenge is money taken from white people. They want power, and the most violent among them threaten to burn down the system."
Michael Rozeff

"Good will between races and genders has been destroyed by Identity Politics, and without good will there is only violence. The age of violence is upon us.  Our leaders have no awareness and encourage the violence.   A thug with a long criminal record resisting arrest died either from illegal substances he was consuming or from Israeli training of Minnesota police, but it has been declared by the White Establishment to be death from racism, with the consequence that American businesses are looted and famous cities are burned in what the white liberals say is 'just retribution.'
The 21st century is the century that White Civilization will vanish along with its monuments and history books."
Paul Craig Roberts

"Many alternative economists often wrongly attribute the Federal Reserve's habit of making things worse to 'hubris' or 'ignorance.' They think Federal Reserve actually wants to save the financial system, but this is not reality. The truth is, Federal Reserve is not a bumbling maintenance man, Federal Reserve is a saboteur, a suicide bomber that is willing to destroy even itself as an institution in order to explode the U.S. economy and clear the path for a new globally centralized one-world system. Hence, the 'Global Reset'."
Brandon Smith

"This United States has been the most deadly warmongering nation in the history of mankind, and even in its short existence of 243 years, America has been at war over 93% of the time.  That is 226 years of war out of 243. This statistic is staggering, especially considering that virtually all U.S. wars, domestic and foreign, have been wars of aggression, and never for actual defense. This alone is reason for condemnation of the state, and reason for the American populace to finally awaken to the truth that this country is the world’s greatest terrorist threat to mankind."
Gary D. Barnett

"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies."
Jose Marti

"Booming gun sales signal a government failure, not a complete breakdown, but a diminished capacity. They are consistent with the view of Hobbes that the state of nature is one in which each man has to be wary of every other man. They affirm that guns in good law-abiding hands are in some sense a backup power source when government fails in its duty to sanction the bad law-breaking hands. These realities go way beyond the Second Amendment. The argument for ready gun availability has to depend on the willingness and capability of the law-abiding hands to employ them in self-defense when government fails to defend them against the law-breakers."
Michael Rozeff

"That creature called socialism is, in effect, the transfer of any remaining Liberty to government, based on the fatuous hope that giving complete power to a tyrannical force will somehow reform that force and transform it into a messiah. And this is the best formulation. A more realistic appraisal would be: socialism is a notorious promoted enslavement, whereby elite men behind a curtain preach Centralized Authority as Kindness and Fairness, in order to raise an army of idealistic ravening wolves who will dispossess the people of everything they own.
Obviously, in order for this operation to succeed, the people must have forgotten that ANY quality of The Individual could occupy an exalted and eternal position—a quality such as Liberty."
John Rappoport

"Libertarians accept voluntary social interactions which they see as moral based on their non-aggression principle while collectivists demand some measure of compulsion in their interactions which libertarians reject as immoral.
Yet if all collectivists everywhere adopted the non-aggression principle there would be no conflict with libertarianism. Then every kind of group imaginable could be freely formed, re-formed, peaceably disbanded and the absolutely best types of collective interactions to fit what very different types of people actually want could be discovered."
Garry Reed

"The tradition of the West is embodied in the Great Conversation that began in the dawn of history and that continues to the present day. Whatever the merits of other civilizations in other respects, no civilization is like that of the West in this respect. No other civilization can claim that its defining characteristic is a dialogue of this sort. No dialogue in any other civilization can compare with that of the West in the number of great works of the mind that have contributed to this Dialogue. The Spirit of Western Civilization is the spirit of inquiry. Its dominant element is the Logos. Nothing is to remain undiscussed. Everyone is to speak his mind. No proposition is to be left unexamined."
Robert Maynard Hutchins

"The Second Law not only assures that the Deep State will collapse but, given enough time, that all 'End of the World' predictions will eventually be right, up to the heat death of the universe itself. It applies to all things at all levels…including, unfortunately, Western civilization and the idea of America. As for Western civilization, it’s had a fantastic run. Claims of the politically correct and multiculturalists aside, it’s really the only civilization that amounts to a hill of beans.
Now, it’s even riskier calling a top in a civilization than the top of a stock or bond market. But I’d say Western civilization peaked just before World War I. In the future, it will be a prestige item for Chinese families to have European maids and houseboys."
Doug Casey

"White people have only a short time to arm themselves with weapons or confidence and with a will to resist and to organize.  Many will not be capable of self-defense, intellectually or physically, as they have been so brainwashed that they think all forms of self-defense are racism.
White people are perhaps too d..bs..t to survive.  Everywhere in the Western world white people have allowed themselves to be demonized by racial adversaries and overrun by immigrant invaders, and they have permitted their history to be stolen from them and their children. They allowed themselves to be stripped of equality before the law and hamstrung with racial preferences.  Perhaps people this stupid don’t deserve to exist. 
It is not clear that white people are capable of producing the leadership necessary to protect themselves.  Perhaps the American Asian population, seeing that they will be next, will step in and provide the leadership."
Paul Craig Roberts

"Some people wake up every morning, have their morning coffee and maybe some breakfast, and then sit down at their monitors and begin looking for something to be offended by today. They see it as their job. If they don’t find anything blatantly racist, sexist, or bigoted, they twist or remove the meaning of some words to make them offensive.
They slap a hashtag on it and throw it out where so many others are eager to gang up on someone. Thus is born a Twitter meme and the makings of another scurrilous attack on someone who never intended to offend."
Rick Moran

"The Supreme Court's habit is to defend states' rights and the 10th Amendment when people's individual liberties are being quashed. However, if a case involves states protecting citizens from federal intrusion, the court flips and attacks states' rights when they work in favor of individual liberty or self-determination.
The federal government will run roughshod over citizens' rights and state powers on drug use, gun rights and property rights when it suits them. The 10th Amendment is 'outdated and states have no power beyond the federal government,' they say. But they are also fine with the idea of states implementing body violating forced vaccination programs in the name of state power?"
Bob Livingston

"By doing some bickering of their own, the Founding Fathers picked up where the Greeks and Romans left off. Early American thinkers treated Classical writers as interlocutors, as adversaries — most of all, they treated them as old friends.
Old friends don’t tiptoe around each other or pretend to agree unconditionally: they mix it up. They debate. Old friends speak their minds and hash it out. The early Americans kept the ancient conversation alive — they used it to found a nation. The beauty of the Classical canon is that it makes us part of that conversation, puts modern readers face-to-face with discussion partners across thousands of intervening miles and years. It’s not our job to revere them. It’s our privilege to argue with them."
Spencer Klavan

"The state is a human institution, not a superhuman being. He who says 'state' means coercion and compulsion. He who says: There should be a law concerning this matter, means: The armed men of the government should force people to do what they do not want to do, or not to do what they like. He who says: This law should be better enforced, means: The police should force people to obey this law. He who says: The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."
Ludwig von Mises

"As with any other erosion of our liberties, the real reason has always been to control. Today’s Texans can be detained indefinitely without access to a lawyer. We can have our property seized on the most ambiguous of reasons.  We are under continuous surveillance and face many restrictions on freedom of movement. All of this has been realized as a result of us repetitively having believed that such measures were meant to aid in our security.  
Our votes seldom have any effect on the formulation of these policies. We are stuck between a choice of two parties, both intent on curbing our liberties. Regardless of which party is in power, save for a few token differences in policies, the overall path towards which the Federal government has led America has been the same. If we simply stay within the Union, we are destined to become victims of an increasingly tyrannical government.
In 1836, Texans chose to act and declared their independence against Mexico rather than have their liberties denied further. Rather than passive acceptance of an increasingly oppressive regime in Washington, it is time for us to put our vote where it can actually count – in a referendum for our independence and the only guaranteed way of safeguarding our inalienable rights and freedom."   
Texas Nationalist Movement