"The generals and other high-ranking military officers lied to their commander-in-chief and to the American people for years about progress in Afghanistan. The same is true for the US intelligence agencies. Unless there is a major purge of those who lied and misled, we can count on these disasters to continue until the last US dollar goes up in smoke.
The military industrial complex spent 20 years on the gravy train with the Afghanistan war. They built missiles, they built tanks, they built aircraft and helicopters. They hired armies of lobbyists and think tank writers to continue the lie that was making them rich. They wrapped their graft up in the American flag, but they are the opposite of patriots."
Ron Paul
"The degree to which the powers that be seriously view any of the above as a threat is open to conversation, given the degree to which hyperbole is a default setting of political discourse. The phrase 'liberal democracy' itself had little literal meaning, given the general consolidation of power in the West away from federalist frameworks, coupled with a managerial framework that has sought to increasingly heighten the power of bureaucrats and alleged public policy 'experts' at the expense of individual rights.
Nothing has highlighted how meaningless both the term 'liberal democracy' and the performative concern about its well-being are than the policy response to covid this past year. To the surprise of no one that had been following their actions carefully, the enlightened technocrats from neoliberal institutions have proven to be the greatest cheerleaders of rising authoritarianism in the West."
Tho Bishop
"Why does America torture Cuba? Because Washington divides countries into two categories, those that submit, and enemies. Which countries don’t lick American boots? Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, and…Cuba. America does everything, and will do everything it can to crush the disobedient: embargos, sanctions, invasion, isolation from the world financial system, coups, assassination, tariffs, bombing. When vassals it calls allies, such as Europe, begin to show independence, as by allowing Nordstream II, it sanctions them as readily as it does the enemies. But, see, it isn’t to protect the Empire, to hurt anybody to any extent to remain dominant, to ruin millions upon millions of people who have no interest in politics, in order to maintain hegemony. No. It’s to overthrow dictators. Except those useful to Washington, which it frequently installs."
Fred Reed
"What a wonderful blessing, to communicate and to consent, to lead and follow without force, to choose your direction and action, as one and as a team. Being at liberty is not only our God-given and God-created state of being, it is how God speaks to us and leads us. Note that this is completely antithetical to how the state relates to us. Removing the very concept of liberty is, and has always been, a method of state control. Many on the right deplore the elimination and weakening of religion, the secularization of society, or the actual assumption of a state religion – all of which are hallmarks of a well-developed state. But without understanding our natural and spiritual state as individuals, the solutions proposed by left and right – solutions that entail a 'better' or 'different' state – are doomed and costly."
Karen Kwiatkowski
"Our times are without precedent in the ways that the ruling class imagine they can use their powers. The lockdowns taught them about what was possible, and they were encouraged and implemented by people who targeted freedom itself as the problem. It wasn’t really about virus control. It was about the control of people and how they think.
It’s never been more difficult to be a dissident, but it’s also never been more rewarding. It’s a way of emancipation from the brutalism that has become the defining feature of public life today.
Finding spaces of beauty, solace, and freedom might be more challenging than ever before in our lives, but it has never been more important to do so. For every action, there is reaction and some new means of escape. The ghastly trends of today are slated to last for another few years at best; buckle up and get ready. At this point, the ruling class has given up all pretext of caring about the good of all."
Jeffrey Tucker
"As several people have pointed out, the unvaccinated are a control group in this vast COVID vaccine experiment. If a year from now, millions and millions of us who didn’t take the shot are obviously still healthy, that’s not going to sit well with the vaccinators-in-charge or the pro-vaccine crowd. They don’t want a vibrant control group. They want compliant robots."
Jon Rappoport
"The myth of altruism and 'public policy' gives the government the implied and collective consent to operate as an organized criminal cartel with impunity. Can you see it? The reason you can't communicate on political matters with some of your family and neighbors is that the doctrine of altruism and 'public interest' has been imputed to them and in concert with the government to subvert their own personal liberty. Anything to the contrary is offensive. It's as if you are not 'a patriot.'
Once an individual sacrifices him or herself to the collective, the collective can then sacrifice the individual to further its own ends. Self-destruction has no equal."
Bob Livingston
"'Public health' is undefined and undefinable, like any aggregate measure. Individuals value different things, and accordingly make different choices concerning their diet, lifestyle, and personal habits. If government and health officials really care about covid or delta risks, they should focus on obesity, exercise, diet, and sunshine to promote natural immunity. Now we are told the delta variant of the virus justifies new government action. But all viruses evolve, and new ones often present themselves during flu season. If every new virus or variation warrants shutdowns or new vaccines, we will face an unending dystopian hellscape of state intervention in our medical decisions.
Ultimately, we cannot outsource or delegate responsibility for our individual health to doctors, politicians, or medical officials. We cannot live without risk, and we certainly cannot force others to accept vaccinations or inhibit their natural exhalations with masks. Time and time again, politicians mislead us, creating alarmism to justify their own desire for political power and control. America can survive a virus, but we cannot survive lawless government which assumes new powers whenever a novel virus appears.
Good Americans can and must resist new shutdowns, mandates, or restrictions. The 2020 shutdowns were not 'worth it,' and we should not make the same mistakes again in 2021.
Enough."
The editors of Mises.org
"They are withholding cures from people so they can continue the vaccine profits. This is grounds for arrest and indictment of every one of them: Fauci, the Head of the FDA, the Head of the CDC and everybody involved. This is legitimate evidence for arresting them, indicting them and putting them on trial. They killed people for vaccine profits by withholding cures. . . . The deaths from Covid, but they would not let them use HCQ, Ivermectin, and now they are blocking a cure from Eli Lilly. This, I think, is the only case we need to make. . . . We have proof they withheld treatment. We know that. It’s not speculative and not a theory. It is an absolute known fact. They withheld treatment, and they are continuing to withhold treatment so they can sell a vaccine."
Paul Craig Roberts
"I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend jail time for it myself."
Vladimir Bukovsky, "To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter"
"Even before the pandemic, the mass-migration into Western Europe from the Middle East and Africa had to be characterized as some sort of foreign invasion. Now, as the result of the pandemic, the number of potential invaders can be expected to rise still higher.
These invaders did not and will not arrive armed with weapons and intent upon military conquest and occupation. Yet they are invaders nonetheless. For one, because no one of them has been personally invited by domestic residents or resident institutions, and second, once they arrive at their destination they did not and will not sustain their lives by normal means, i.e. with their own money, but by plunder, i.e. at the expense of domestic residents. Moreover, as compared to former times, plundering nowadays is much easier. The invaders do not have to engage in lengthy searches to find out where there is more or less to loot. Rather, they know from the very outset the size of the reward that awaits them at various locations, rendering Sweden and Germany their most highly preferred destinations, for instance. And wherever the invaders end up, their plundering does not require the exercise of any violence, they come typically armed only with some cell-phone, but merely their registration with some state-office. And the state, then, as the domestic plunderer-in-chief, will provide them with housing, food and some pocket money out of its own vast reservoir of booty (of taxes and so-called public property), in the expectation that in return for such public 'generosity' the invaders will henceforth lend it their active support in its own future plundering activities."
Hans-Herman Hoppe
"The preposterous nature of the lack of understanding of freedom by the masses is our biggest problem. This ignorance of liberty has been evident since the so-called 'Founders' created this centrally controlled nation-state and their own set of rules for the people to live by at the very secret Constitutional Convention. This is astounding. There has been a steady decline in what partial freedom did exist in the past, but jumping forward to today, all that can be said is that little if any freedom now exists. The decimation of freedom of the individual has been accomplished incrementally, but the continuous assault against the natural rights of Americans has been unrelenting in its march toward the totalitarianism that now consumes this country. This was all planned long ago.
Now we face a total crushing of all liberty at the hands of the state, and few have been able to grasp the absolute urgency of this situation, as most are still of the belief that all will be fine, and we soon will return to the normal amount of tyranny that has escalated for decades on end without resistance. For all those that take this uninformed and absurd position, maybe you should consider just some of the things happening right before your eyes, instead of 'hoping' that all will magically be remedied."
Gary D. Barnett
"Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it."
Hannah Arendt
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