Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:"People who are living in irrational fear of this virus already have their representatives: the entire entertainment world, the media, and virtually all of the political class.
The rest of us have almost no one.
People whose family members died because their procedures were indefinitely postponed, or who lost a loved one to suicide, or who have had everything they've poured their hearts into crushed and destroyed -- they have no one.
Elderly people dying of social isolation, and who are told they can see their grandkids through a window or over Zoom, but who think they themselves can best judge what kind of life they want to live, likewise have no one to speak for them.
The physical and mental health toll of the restrictions and shutdowns is staggering -- and nobody is allowed to mention it for fear of being told they want grandmothers to die.
No one will speak for them."
Tom Woods
"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide."
Ayn Rand
"This current response to this manufactured coronavirus pandemic is like a terminal cancer infecting society, and one that if not addressed immediately will drain all freedom from the masses, and instill all power with the claimed elites and their pawns in government. The entirety of the success of the state to implement these measures to control all of us relies on the weakness and acquiescence of the people themselves. Without conformity by the public, the only way for the state to accomplish its nefarious mission would be brute force. If that were the only option available to the ruling powers, they would lose, as when people are pushed to the brink with nowhere else to run, they will fight back. Those in power understand this dynamic, and have chosen to use fear mongering and voluntary compliance as the impetus for their planned takeover and global reset. At this moment in time we are standing on a precipice with the state attempting to push us over the edge. Once over that edge, there will be no coming back. This is why if the people fight back in mass, and withhold all support from the governing demons, we can awaken from this nightmare, and regain normalcy."
Gary D. Barnett
"Those who know freedom are resisting, and will resist. A critical mass is drawing closer. Force from above will not deter it. Evil is overplaying its hand.
You and I are not on this Earth to give in.
The sun does not rise in the morning to shine on eight billion domesticated human animals.
The sun does not choose to shine only on the rancid scum who want to rule us.
The war of thousands of years to establish individual freedom was not fought so we could lay freedom aside like some tired possession. The freedom of each one of us is always there, waiting to be acted upon.
It never dies. In spirit, neither do we."
Jon Rappoport
"The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."
Thomas Paine, October 23, 1776
"It is a historically proven pattern that governments tend to create problems instead of solving them, and this is because the power dynamic of government never changes The politicians we 'vote' for are not in control, rather, the elites who fund their campaigns and who permeate their cabinets are in control. Political representatives come and go, but the establishment elites never leave. Therefore, the problems our society faces will remain; they are a direct result of the real and perpetual power structure that serves the interest of a select minority rather than the public. The decline of our society into tyranny will not stop until this power structure and the people behind it are erased."
Bob Livingston
"Americans are faced with a so-called Democrat political party that has abandoned America’s democratic ways. Democrats have made a power grab for ideological purposes that are hostile to principles such as election integrity which is essential for democracy. Americans are also faced with the absence of a media that serves as watchdog and reports objectively. Without objective reporting, Americans are denied the information that democracy requires to function. Instead, the media controls explanations for the Democrats that support the Democrats’ power grab. The picture is clear that both Democrats and media have abandoned democracy because democracy is a check on their agenda. They value their agenda more than they value democracy, and they are going to force their agenda down our throats whether we want it or not."
Paul Craig Roberts
"In short, Google, Facebook and others are not strictly private sector entities; they are governmentalities in the sense that I have given to the term. They are extensions and apparatuses of the state. Furthermore, these platforms are governmentalities with a particular interest in the growth and extension of governmentality itself. This includes championing every kind of 'subordinated' and newly created identity class that they can find or create, because such 'endangered' categories require state acknowledgement and protection. Thus, the state’s circumference continues to expand. Big Digital is partial to the interests and growth of the state. It not only does business with statists but also shares their values. This helps makes sense of its leftist bent and their preference for the deep state Democrats. Leftism is statism."
Michael Rectenwald
"Want to defeat the government supremacists that have rekindled communism as an idea? You must unharness, unlimber and defund all government subsidies to education from the local to the Federal level from preschool to PhD. The violence, rioting, stoogery, Deep State fuckery and otherwise uncivilized behavior is all the result of the university faculty lounge. It is as simple as that. From BLM to the comically named Antifa and all the branches and subsidiaries thereof, every one of these over-protected, privileged and sheltered urchins yearn for a world in which luxury automated communism has allowed them to not lift a finger to survive and flourish.
Because in the end, the commies want to remove real struggle from the human condition. They want to erase failure and the natural human condition where real struggles define who we are."
Bill Buppert
"The true heroes that you will encounter this holiday season are people like taxi drivers, Uber drivers, waiters, waitresses, hotel clerks and maids, garbagemen, convenience store workers, fast-food workers, airline pilots, ticket agents, truck drivers, pest control technicians, store clerks, shelf stockers, pizza delivery drivers, plumbers, cashiers, roofers, hospice workers, tech support providers, daycare workers, Christmas tree sellers, night-shift workers, and anyone who works at Waffle House.
If you don’t work for the government, then I am sorry if I forgot to mention you."
Laurence Vance
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
Henry David Thoreau
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty."
John Adams, 1772
"The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life…The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber…Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you."
Lysander Spooner
"The DC Political Swamp is safe. This was always going to be true no matter who won what vote. The establishment Dems and Reps fought with tooth, talon, fang and claw to keep their status quo power, wealth and egos intact. 'White Privilege' comes nowhere close to 'Political Privilege' yet few seem to care much about that. The psychopathic swamp critters are still in control and as long as those critters benefit the people who voted for them both the critters and their voters will be happy."
Garry Reed
"We are being socialized in America and everybody knows it. If we had a chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee with the man in the street…he might say: 'You know, the one thing I can never figure out is why all these very, very wealthy people like the Kennedys, the Fords, the Rockefellers and others are for socialism. Why are the super-rich for socialism? Don’t they have the most to lose…?' In reality, there is a vast difference between what the promoters define as socialism and what it is in actual practice. The idea that socialism is a share-the-wealth program is strictly a confidence game to get the people to surrender their freedom to an all-powerful collectivist government. While the insiders [Oligarchs] tell us we are building a paradise on earth, we are actually constructing a jail for ourselves"
Garry Allen, "None Dare Call it Conspiracy."
"Hey, why worry about the spread of a fairly innocuous virus when the spread of bureaucracy is so much more lethal?"
Becky Akers
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
Ayn Rand
