Submit To Your (Jury) Duty

The media serves its function as state apologist in a myriad of ways. One method is through stories like this that offer suggestions on how one can comfortably tolerate state abuse. In this case, advice is given on how to put up with the state’s version of hostage taking- jury duty.


“Don't complain about jury duty. It only makes the wait turn into suffering for those around you.”


By all means, remain quiet and stoically suffer in peace as you are held hostage. Verbally articulating your unjust, undeserved, loss of freedom will only make it more difficult for those (like the reporter) who wish to passively comply. Sheeple “suffer” when continually reminded of the tyranny that represses them. It’s much more humane to slaughter the livestock when they are drugged or in a trance. Remember, Big Brother is watching AND listening.


“I sat next to a woman I began to refer to in my head as The Cackler. She complained about everything. How long we waited, that she didn't like to sit, that the pay was low. And then she'd cackle. Over and over like a person who's had too much to drink when everyone else was sober. Except that her complaining and cackling led other people to join in.”


Oh no! A subversive in our midst! This woman must be quieted or we risk the spread of discontent! Thankfully, at least one person continued to think for herself and remain resistant. At least one person remained aware of the fact they she had been kidnapped and held against her will. A least one person maintained her spirit of individual liberty while others remain “sobered” by the reality of their servitude. What is dismissed as “cackling” by the reporter is in reality subdued and redirected anger. Tyrants value those subjects who obey silently and abhor those who speak in opposition.


“ I was shocked by how many people didn't bring a book or a magazine. The county does offer a few magazines in the grand jury room. But we're not talking People or The New Yorker here because, face it, they'd be stolen.”


What? Is it possible those who are honored and duty bound to judge the guilt or innocence of others be thieves and criminals themselves? It’s irrelevant to this discussion, but it’s laughable to think anyone would value printed rags like People and The New Yorker enough to steal them.


“Bring a book, magazine, iPod or, of course, a newspaper. It makes time go faster.”


Keep your brain distracted and occupied sufficiently to blot out the fact that you have been kidnapped and are having at least one day stolen from your life by those who do not value it.


“Bring a jacket or sweater. Sometimes certain places in the courthouse can be chilly, even in the spring and summer.”


Another way to distract the sheeple- keep their minds occupied with struggling to keep warm. Spending time dealing with immediate survival needs and comfort keeps their minds oblivious to their imprisonment.


“Be prepared to wait. Just because you don't see the attorneys or the judge doing something, it doesn't mean they aren't working. Not all the jurors get there on time. Those who showed up have to be assigned to different courts. The attorneys have to go over your questionnaire.”


Have faith. Behind closed doors men are working feverishly to provide justice to the needy masses. They must closely examine your papers to judge whether you are worthy to participate in one of their upcoming tribunals. Remember, impatience can only be counterproductive. Put aside your selfish claim to your life and time and submit to the needs of the collective.


“Realize you could be there all day. Don't expect to have a day off from work so you can go shopping, tend your yard or take a nap at home.”


Surrender to the fact that your day is lost, that there is little hope that you may make any productive use of it. Every day is a gift from God but the state reserves the power to take it from you. Be reminded that your needs are secondary to the unsolicited obligation of jury duty. Your body is considered state property, as it has been forcibly relocated. Your time belongs to them as well. The concept of self-ownership takes a forced sabbatical.


“If you get picked, realize this: There will be more waiting. Often, attorneys argue their points out of the jury's presence.”


You’ve been chosen! You are hereby deemed worthy and rewarded with….. more waiting, more hours of your life lost, and even more time to contemplate the fact that you have been rounded up and herded like so many nameless bovines to be milked and processed.


It’s always sad and pathetic to see the media encourage the public to submit to state aggression. How can one morally and intellectually defend a “justice” system that is dependent upon kidnapping free men and women and holding them at gun point, locked in a room all day? Does anyone else see the absurdity of this realization?


Wikipedia defines jury duty as “service as a juror in a legal proceeding.” I would define it as “individuals being rounded up under threat of prosecution for noncompliance.” Obey and come forth at a specific time (certainly not at your convenience) or risked being caged.


It’s an unfortunate fact that most readers of this story will take the reporter’s advice to heart and submit willingly and quietly when forced into this situation. Most individuals have been indoctrinated in government schools and by statist media into believing the myths and fairy tales concerning “civic duty.” In addition, this indoctrination has been bolstered by a helpful, supporting dose of reverent nationalism. Statists who believe in this cockeyed vision of “justice” can only muster weak, emotional outbursts to defend it. Their defense lacks the critical thinking necessary to reach the rational conclusion that forced jury duty is characteristic of a barbaric, Orwellian system that claims you must kidnap people to provide “justice.”


It will be interesting to see what this reporter will write in the future- Perhaps a thoughtful piece on how killing brown people on the other side of the world protects my "freedom?" The concept of “kidnapping is justice” has already been covered. Here are some noteworthy topics that this reporter and others might pontificate upon:


Ignorance is Strength
Slavery is Freedom
War is Peace


Whatever the subject, I’m sure another excellent work will be created to mislead the gullible public.
　

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“For far too long we have allowed ourselves to be deluded into thinking that Americans would always be free; that guaranteed "checks and balances" within government would never allow to occur what we witnessed over the last few weeks with the 'health care' monstrosity. Reality has finally assaulted our idealistic fantasies, now the devil wants his due.”
Tim Case

“I believe we have a one party system in this country, called the big-government party. There is a Republican branch that likes war and deficits and assaulting civil liberties. There is a Democratic branch that likes welfare and taxes and assaulting commercial liberties.”
Andrew P. Napolitano

“Government is nothing more than the rationalization and exercise of violence. Everything done by government contains at least the implicit threat of lethal coercion.”
Will Grigg

“This is Americanism, the only predatory ideology to deny that it is an ideology. The rise of tentacular corporations that are dictatorships in their own right and of a military that is now a state within the state, set behind the façade of the best democracy 35,000 Washington lobbyists can buy, and a popular culture programmed to divert and stultify, is without precedent.”
John Pilger

“To maximize liberty, freedom must be limited no more than needed to keep an individual from infringing on another individual’s equal freedom. All interactions, from the most intimate to the most elaborate, must be based in consent. That means no empires, no border cops, no taxation, no drug war, no coercive monopolies, and no forcing people to buy insurance.
Anarchy displaces government and replaces rulers with respect for individual choice, solidarity, mutual aid, and consensual trade. Anarchists solve problems by treating people as autonomous individuals they would like to see flourish, not as resources they would like to use for power.”
Darian Worden

“It is symptomatic of the pathology of politics that those in authority are unable to grasp the intensity of resentment felt by those they presume to rule by force. The politically-minded – like a physically-abusive parent – must have such self-satisfaction in what they regard as their well-intended motives that they can only dismiss such reactions as being the product of ‘crazed minds’ or ‘religious fanaticism.’”
Butler Shaffer

“There is no middle ground between coercion and non-aggression. Trying to dismantle systems of coercion by gaining the ability to use coercion is not only inconsistent with the ends of voluntaryism and a free society but our participation in electoral democracy signals our consent to be governed by democracy.”
Ross Kenyon

“Today, give me liberty or give me death no longer rings true, the typical American is content to put up with any outrage because he’s so ideologically stripped as to no longer have any idea he should be outraged. Harboring a completely materialistic view of politics that equates material comfort with freedom, he’ll bear any assault on liberty with timid submission so long as the hi-def cable stays on. The intellectuals fare no better in this regard, as they are the very ones who spread the ideas that made hi-def cable more important to us than trial by jury.”
CJ Maloney

“History is littered with the bodies of formerly free peoples who accepted government’s promises of how it would use the powers granted it."
Kevin Carson

“A slave rebellion which engages in murder hardly justifies maintaining slavery, and independence movements which engage in criminal activities do not justify centralizing power.”
Robert Wicks

"The FBI's investigative accomplishments are criminally overrated, but in arranging ersatz terrorist plots it displays choreography skills that put the late Bob Fosse to shame."
Will Grigg

“Shopping with your feet is not only your human right, it's a positive good for the whole world; the more everyone shops for the least onerous governments, the more governments will have to compete for being less onerous, and the better off we'll all be."
Doug Casey

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From the Darkness:

“This legislation seeks to ensure that the mistakes made during the apprehension of the Christmas Day bomber, such as reading him a Miranda warning, will never happen again and put Americans’ security at risk.”
John McCain, promoting the “Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010”

"We are all incredibly proud. We all honor what you do. And all of you show all of America what's possible when people come together, not based on color or creed, not based on faith or station, but based on a commitment to serve together, to bleed together and to succeed together as one people, as Americans."

B. Obama, encouraging US soldier boys in Afghanistan to “bleed” some more.

"Your services are absolutely necessary, absolutely essential, to America's safety and security."
B. Obama, explaining to soldier boys in Afghanistan how killing peasants there keeps us safe.

"Just recently I have been directly threatened: A bullet was shot through the window of my campaign office in Richmond this week.”
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, responding to reports of threats made against Democratic members of Congress. However, the bullet didn't go through the window of Cantor's campaign office; it hit another room in that building. From the outside, it's not even possible to tell that Cantor's campaign office is located inside the building.

"What I can say is that it is the considered view of this administration -- and it has certainly been my experience during my time as legal adviser -- that US targeting practices, including lethal operations conducted with the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, comply with all applicable law, including the laws of war."
Harold Koh, US State Department legal advisor.

“We've got that hard-to-count element, along with these fringe (anti-government) groups that are advocating resistance. They think they are hurting the government. They are really hurting themselves and their communities.”
Frances Deviney, director of Texas Kids Count, having a hissy fit over the fact that a large majority of Texans are not returning their census forms.

“We need a more authoritative world. We’ve become a sort of cheeky, egalitarian world where everyone can have their say. It’s all very well, but there are certain circumstances – a war is a typical example – where you can’t do that. You’ve got to have a few people with authority who you trust who are running it. And they should be very accountable too, of course.
But it can’t happen in a modern democracy. This is one of the problems. What’s the alternative to democracy? There isn’t one. But even the best democracies agree that when a major war approaches, democracy must be put on hold for the time being. I have a feeling that climate change may be an issue as severe as a war. It may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while.”
James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia hypothesis.

“Any talk of nullification bothers me because it is talk of lawlessness.”
Neil Siegel, professor of law at Duke University

“The conjunction of a black President and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful gay congressional committee chairman — would sow fears of disenfranchisement among a dwindling and threatened minority in the country no matter what policies were in play.”

Frank Rich, NY Times, blaming opposition to Obamacare on racism.

"There was no evidence to challenge the 'scientific consensus' that global warming is induced by human activities."
From Britain’s House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Report

“In a week when events in the Holy Land thousands of years ago are on the minds of millions, we would all do well to include Israel’s security in our prayers as we encourage our government to do all it can to ensure there is never a nuclear Iran able to threaten our interests or our allies.”
Sarah “The Walking Cartoon” Palin

“The challenge is that 85% of these assets are owned by private companies and individuals. The government cannot protect cyberspace alone—and neither can the private sector. Therefore, we need proactive collaboration.”
Olympia Snowe and Jay Rockefeller showing their support for Obama’s fascist Cyber Security Act of 2010.

"If military force is ever employed, it should be done in a decisive fashion. The Iran government's ability to wage conventional war against its neighbors and our troops in the region should not exist. They should not have one plane that can fly or one ship that can float."
Sen. Lindsay Graham, foaming at the mouth over the impending war on Iran.

“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”
Rep. Hank Johnson, questioning Admiral Robert Willard, head of the U.S. Pacific fleet, about the stationing of 5,000 additional U.S. Marines and their families on the western Pacific island of Guam.

"Keep in mind that there have been periods in American history where this kind of - this kind of vitriol comes out. It happens often when you've got an economy that is making people more anxious and people are feeling that there's a lot of change that needs to take place. But that's not the vast majority of Americans."
B. Obama, attempting to explain away his opponents and the fact that the “majority of Americans” hate his guts.

"I don't worry about the Constitution on this to be honest."
Congressman Phil Hare, when asked where in the Constitution does it give the government power to require individuals to purchase health insurance.

“We're talking about federal funds, and we're talking about representation. Our voice in this community must be heard. It is about power, and it is about federal funding, and we must make sure that our North Texas region ... is well-represented."
Pauline Medrano, a Dallas City Council member, exposing what the census is all about- stolen money, illegitimate power over others, and violence.

Image Review of the Week

What boogie man resides in this here cave?




Barbarians love darkness:

Strong appeal. The faith in pieces of paper as protection, ......

......and reverence for cloth symbols:

It’s official. The Tea Party has been compromised and corrupted:

Quit the partying, there’s mo’ killin’ to be done:

The easy way out. Keep yourself numb with mindless entertainment......

......while tyrants laugh at your expense:

"He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future."

Adolf Hitler

The best and brightest. Johnny Law......

......raises his recruiting standards:

Serve Leviathan and be all the bully you can be:

Pigs and pinwheels- It must be spring!

Cyclic history? Waiting for the call to arms:

DVD Reviews

Frontline- Obama’s War:
This is a 2009 update of the unending war and US occupation in Afghanistan.
I marvel at watching the ignorant, arrogant gangsters masquerading as “statesmen” and “experts” who believe they can (and have the right to) centrally plan and control the lives of people they know virtually nothing about.
Recomended

4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days:
A film set in 1987 Romania. A young woman helps her roommate get an illegal abortion. A very real, starkly made film about a disturbing subject matter. It will make you feel uncomfortable
Recommended

Public Enemies:
Johnny Deep plays amiable gangster, John Dillinger, constantly outsmarting and escaping law enforcement while robbing banks throughout the Midwest in the early 1930’s. Christian Bale plays Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who relentlessly pursues Dillinger.
Recommended

Moon:
An Indy science fiction film that doesn’t disappoint. A solo worker on the moon readies to return to Earth after three years but makes a shocking discovery. To say anymore would your ruin your viewing.
Recommended

Imagine- John Lennon:
This 1988 documentary nicely outlines the life of the Beatle- his background, beliefs, and motivation. Edited from over 200 hours of film, Lennon’s interviews are used to narrate most of the film.
Recommended


Sour Grapes:
I had high hopes for this comedy written and directed by Larry David. Though not a bad film, it really wasn’t worth ninety minutes of my time.
Not recommended

When Soldiers Cry:
This film looks like it was produced by the local junior college film class. No discernible plot. The story seems to revolve around soldiers making their way through the jungles of Vietnam in 1965. Except the “jungle” looks more like the woods along side Interstate 20 in Louisiana.
Not recommended

The Power of Nightmares:
This three hour BBC produced documentary examines the notion that states have failed in promising their subjects a better world resulting in a discouraged populace. As a result, states now turn their energies toward protecting you from perceived nightmares- particularly international terrorism. The filmmakers focus on two groups- the neoconservatives and the radical Islamists.
Recommended


Joni Mitchell- Woman of Heart and Mind:
A nicely made documentary, giving a comprehensive review of the life and contributions (up to present day) of a truly unique and gifted poet, songwriter, musician, and painter. Being male, most women songwriters don’t really reach me, but Ms. Mitchell’s work not only speaks to me, it captivates me. No one else creates music like her.
Recommended

It Might Get Loud:
Three distinctive guitarists, Jimmy Page, The Edge, and Jack White, meet to discuss their different approaches to their music, their influences and what inspires their creativity. They, of course, play their instruments to demonstrate. A great look at the musical creative process from the viewpoint of a very versatile musical instrument.
Recommended

Flame and Citron:
A true story based on the lives of two assassins working within the Danish resistance during the Nazi occupation. In the confusion of war, knowing who the enemy is may not always be so clear cut.
Recommended

World War II: Behind Closed Doors- Stalin, the Nazis and the West:
A six hour BBC series that looks not so much at details of various battles, but rather the meetings between the various national leaders involved- particularly, Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, FDR, and Truman. The details of some of these meetings have only been revealed in the last twenty years. Exhaustively researched, the documentary combines archival material with brilliantly acted dramatizations. Watch how world tyrants (on all sides) meet to carve up the world to their liking while millions are displaced and murdered.
Recommended

Down From the Mountain:
I had this CD but was reminded by a recent Gary North article that a DVD of this monumental concert also existed. All the artists who contributed to the soundtrack of O’Brother Where Art Thou convened in Nashville in May 2000, shortly after the movie finished filming. T-Bone Burnett shows his brilliance in collecting this group of diverse, skilled musicians whose sparse, direct, soulful music comes directly from the joys and pain of human existence.
Recommended

The Invention of Lying:
I keep hoping to come across a feature film comedy that makes me fall out of my seat laughing but I just can’t seem to find it. This one offers a couple chuckles while finding a clever way to promote atheism. Wrapped around the plot is a love story that makes absolutely no sense. Another waste of my time.
Not recommended

Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built:
A thoroughly enjoyable two hour documentary that looks at the life (with his help) of Ahmet Ertegun, the founder of Atlantic Records. The man’s keen ear for musical talent and genius brought a cavalcade of wonderful recording artists to the listening public.
Recommended

Meet John Doe:
This 1941 feature pairs Barbara Stanwyck with Gary Cooper. A great look at how media disinformation coupled with political ambition and manipulation can delude a gullible, well-meaning public.
Recommended

2012:
Roland Emmerich must be the only movie director who has destroyed the White House at least twice. Maybe he’s a closet anarchist. Lots of great apocalyptic special effects gives the viewer some idea of what the end of the world would look like. I especially liked the initial Yellowstone explosive eruption. The most unbelievable part of the story is that the government built these huge, impressive arks in only two years when in reality they have trouble widening a half mile of street in that same amount of time.
Recommended

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“As an institution, the very foundation of which is the use of violence to accomplish goals, it ought to be readily apparent that no particular moral standard can be ascribed to or expected of it. Human life means little or nothing when it comes to the perpetuation of the elitists’ power cycle. Control, domination, and mastery become all-important. Ethics and scruples are mere laughable impediments and distractions.”
Alex R. Knight III

"Civilizations are created and sustained by individuals; they are destroyed by collectives. In our case, the institutionalized collective has found the most expedient course of action to be found in consuming the capital upon which Western Civilization has long thrived."
Butler Shaffer

“Government serves no role in rousing passion nor in initiating or funding entrepreneurship. Instead, the state serves only as a detriment to entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship is a phenomenon inborn in the human spirit. The right to private property serves as the motivational factor behind the action of investment. Therefore, government is a burden on economic development."
Jonathan M. Finegold Catalan

“This is a command society now and medicine is right at the forefront of this….16,500 armed bureaucrats coming to make this program work – if it was a good program [the health care overhaul] and everybody liked it, you wouldn’t need 16,500 thugs coming with their guns and putting you in jail if you didn’t follow all the rules.”
Ron Paul

"Whatever the result of America's radical, new dalliance with government-dominated everything, the distinction between First World and Third World has become much less distinct. In fact, this distinction is well on its way to becoming an historical artifact."
Eric Fry

“Constitutions, bills of rights, statements of principle, party platforms, and all other Guarantees can never be more than self-imposed restrictions which cease to affect the people who run a government the instant they cease to believe in their rightness, or as soon as it is clear that the people will not punish the government for ignoring them.”
Per Christian Malloch

“Mass murder is the only undertaking in which government consistently out-performs its private sector competition. Yet we are supposed to believe that this engine of destruction can also serve as an instrument of compassionate healing.”
Will Grigg

“If there’s a path to ‘smaller government,” that path necessarily leads through the forest of ‘no government at all.’”
Thomas L. Knapp

"Washington denounces other governments for human rights violations while itself violating human rights every day.
Washington puts foreign leaders on trial for war crimes, while committing war crimes every day.”
Paul Craig Roberts

“At the outset, let it be made clear that government is nothing but men acting in concert. The morality and value of government, like any other association of men, will be no greater and no less than the morality and value of the men comprising it. Since government is nothing but men, its inherent authority to act is in no way greater or different than the authority to act of individuals in isolation.”
Jarret B. Wollstein

“Terrorism is like jazz; it's all about improvisation and variation. That's why conventional forces are dead in the water against it; they're all 'by the book,' with top-down command and control.”
Doug Casey

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From the Darkness:

“The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in government. We recognize that the federal government is not the enemy of the people, but the expression of our collective will, and that we must participate in the democratic process in order to address the challenges that we face as Americans. As voters and grassroots volunteers, we will support leaders who work toward positive solutions, and hold accountable those who obstruct them.”
From the Coffee Party website

“For every one degree increase in average temperature, we can expect an increase of 4.58 additional murders and assault cases per every 100,000 people.”
From an Iowa State University press release.

"Tonight, we answered the call of history."
B. Obama, crowing about the US House’s passage of health care legislation.

"It's really declining revenue in the face of a series of attacks from partisan operatives and right-wing activist that have taken away our ability to raise the resources we need."
ACORN spokesman Kevin Whelan, on the folding his organization six months after video footage emerged showing some of its workers giving tax tips to conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute.

"We need to keep focusing on that drug demand reduction issue."
Queen Hillary, working hard to maintain the violence of the Drug War.

“Under several clauses, the good and welfare clause and a couple others. All the scholars, the constitutional scholars that I know -- I’m chairman of the Judiciary committee, as you know -- they all say that there’s nothing unconstitutional in this bill and if there were, I would have tried to correct it if I thought there were.”
Rep. John Conyers, defending how the USG can constitutionally require people to purchase health insurance. [Sorry Johnny- there is no “good and welfare clause.”]

“When you’re going to pass legislation that will cover 300 [million] American people in different ways, it takes a long time to do the necessary

administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people."
Rep. John Dingell , explaining the state’s long process to take over the health care industry.

“We inherited a cynical republic. Republicans still believe cynicism will prevail. That government can’t do anything, that we’re a bunch of socialists.”
Blathering Joe Biden [Relax, Joe, ain’t no “big f@$%ing deal.”]

Image Review of the Week

Covered? How about stripped clean and bloodied?



Are things heating up?



Taking over the world- It’s just a game:



Serving the cause of tyranny- a pat on the back for a job well done:



A load of bricks for the #1 Blockhead:



"This is a big fu#%ing deal!"




Beware, Fearless Leader, another god is horning in on your action:

The youth come alive- Flush the state!

Tactic #1- Wear out the state’s legions and attack the soft underbelly:

Had enough? Folks keep a lookout for their Congress critter:

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now." Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leviathan looks to profit from the pipe:

Garbage in, garbage out:

"The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance."

Thomas Paine

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“Statists say that people can’t be trusted to interact with each other without someone lording over them. They view the state as a solution for inevitable problems of human relations. In reality people often work with each other, without rulers, to solve the problems created by rulers and statists.”
Darian Worden

“You’ll succeed by working hard and playing by the rules about as fast as an Egyptian slave would have got to be Pharaoh by working hard building a pyramid.”
Kevin Carson

“It seems we notice our freedom most when that precious freedom feels most keenly threatened. But what is it that brings out the central planner in men, that moves one to force his will on others, and more importantly that allows us to acquiesce to the planning of the minutia of our lives by fiat? Is it the veil of political freedom? If we believe we are free, will we consent to anything? If we simply feel free, will we consent to even more?”
Allan Stevo

“Most people just don't get what money really is - and what it isn't. They take it as a given, as part of the cosmic firmament. But it's not.”
Doug Casey

“There are inane responses to questions regarding state interventions. But the "I have nothing to hide" response is the most inane of them all. You have something to hide. We all do. And what we hide is our own business – it is personal.”
Jim Fedako

“The government doesn’t work. It is broken. It can’t be fixed. It can’t be fixed because only those within it could, and their interest lies in not fixing it.”
Fred Reed

“Democracy, a system ideally designed to challenge the status quo, has been corrupted and tamed to slavishly serve the status quo.”
Chris Hedges

“Freedom is not only as moral as governmental slavery is immoral, it is as practical as government is impractical. It is foolish to suppose that men would not organize to defend themselves, and do so very effectively, if they were not forced to. Men are not so blind that they can't grasp the value of freedom, nor so indifferent to life that they will not defend their values. Nor are they so stupid that they need politicians, bureaucrats, and Pentagon generals to tell them how to organize and what to do. The freer people are, the more efficiently they will perform.”
Morris and Linda Tannehill

“When politicians speak of listening to “the people,” they are being quite honest; but for almost all of them, “the people” to whom they listen do not include you.”
Butler Shaffer

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From the Darkness:

“Progress occurs in the Middle East when everyone knows there is simply no space between the United States and Israel.”
Joe Biden

“We have an absolute commitment to Israel's security. We have a close, unshakable bond between the United States and Israel."
Queen Hillary

“Public health initiatives aimed at modifying food purchasing by manipulating prices may be an important addition to clinical interventions to prevent or treat obesity.”
Prof. Epstein of University of Buffalo

“If I’m the bad guy to the average citizen … and their taxes have to go up to cover my raise, I’m very sorry about that, but I have to look out for myself and my membership. As the president of the `local,' I will not accept `zeroes' [no increase in salaries or benefits]. If that means ... ticking off some taxpayers, then so be it."

Chris Mesley, president of the Albany, New York Police Officer's Union

"I really am serious about sending the signal that this institute will be based on principle, not politics. I want our actions to be transformative."
GW Bush, babbling about his GWB Institute