Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
"Soldiers will do their duty to a dictator, if the price is right. They will do their duty to the government they helped elect for less. And they will more willingly submit to government's taxes, too, if they feel they are its masters, rather than the slaves. The real difference may only be an illusion, but it is an effective one. In practice, the individual may have less ability to influence the large pool of voting numbskulls than he does to influence a single knuckleheaded autocrat.”
Bill Bonner

“When the going gets rough, it often turns out that civilization is really just a pretty veneer that lies on top of a fetid cesspool.”
Doug Casey

“Our federal government does whatever it wants, whenever it wants because the vast majority of people do not resist its depredations. Most people just want to get on with their lives. The minority of us who despise the State will be jailed, beaten, tasered, and killed for resisting. And the majority will not care what happens to us. They will reason that we should have written our congressman or organized a civil protest. We should have worked within the system, but we did not. Thus, they will conclude that we got what we deserved.”
Brutus

“If the nine most frightening words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help,’ then the eleven most frightening words in the English language must be: ‘I’m from the United States government, and I’m here to help.’”
Charles Featherstone

“Here’s the thing. Forget about arguments over the proper role of government. If politicians and their enablers make promises that lead people to depend on government for things that it can’t possibly continue to provide, those oh-so-caring demagogues are not compassionate, they’re pricks.”
J.D. Tuccille

“9/11 opened a window into the soul of America, all right. And it laid bare the soul of a cringing, beaten dog with its tail tucked between its legs. Ready – eager – to submit to its master’s voice.”
Eric Peters

“Why, we wonder aloud, do people yearn for leaders? Are we humans so ill equipped to do anything but follow those we almost uniformly despise; the political ruling class? Are we unable to lead our own lives, to think for ourselves? Do we see in the mirror every morning a sacrificial animal, some poor sod fit for nothing more than a dismal existence on the government's tax treadmill? Surely we think more of ourselves than that, right?”
Joel Bowman

“Every civil government rests on self-government on the part of the masses. It rests on this assumption: the masses cannot communicate cheaply. They cannot get a message other than the Party Line, communicated in one-way pipelines. That world is now gone. The gatekeepers stand at the gates, but the walls are down.”
Gary North

“The fact is, these fear mongers [state propagandists] only know how to play one tune-- create a sense of panic among the people in order to instill blind allegiance to government. Inundate them with vague threats and scary sounding uncertainties until they say ‘thank goodness we have these cracker jack bureaucrats around to keep us safe!’
A rational human being ought to filter out such noise and let common sense prevail.”
Simon Black

“War emancipates every base and repulsive impulse to which fallen man is susceptible.”
Will Grigg

"This is a cake that's been baking for 85 years. All this administration has done is light the candles."
Cary Wise, membership director of the Texas Nationalist Movement, on the drive for Texas secession

“Government officials are not performing a public service, and they do not regard themselves as public servants. They regard themselves as our masters.”
Andrew P. Napolitano

“Events have shown that people do not need to defer to authority or wait for permission to take power from tyrants. If the masses retain power and show a widespread respect for individual autonomy instead of ceding power and liberty to ambitious politicians, an era of unprecedented human freedom will be safeguarded.”
Darian Worden

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From the Darkness:

“I think that government is a necessary evil. Government is necessary to provide certain services.”

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer [The myth lives on.]

"I think it's way too soon to tell how this is going to play out, but we're going to be ready and prepared to offer any kind of assistance [to the Libyan rebels] that anyone wishes to have from the United States."
Queen Hillary, advertising for a new US sock puppet

"Libyan pilots aren't going to fly if there is a no-fly zone and we could get air assets there to ensure it."
John McCain, looking for more blood to spill

“….I think we need a program — I would dramatically expand [drug] testing. I think we have — and I agree with you. I would try to use rehabilitation, I’d make it mandatory. And I think we have every right as a country to demand of our citizens that they quit doing illegal things which are funding, both in Afghanistan and in Mexico and in Colombia, people who are destroying civilization.”
Newt Gingrich, fascist candidate for president

"I don't think it does anybody any good when public employees are denigrated or vilified or their rights are infringed upon."
B. Obama, objecting to criticism of state employee parasites

"Like all governments, the Libyan government has a responsibility to refrain from violence, to allow humanitarian assistance to reach those in need and to respect the rights of its people."
B. Obama [This guy really expects people to take him seriously?]

"Changing the culture of borrowing and spending in Washington is no small feat, but I am heartened by today's action and it shows that Republicans have started to make the meaningful changes that voters called for in the last election."
Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia, beating his chest with pride, after Congress voted a measly $4 billion in spending cuts.

“There is sufficient justification to question whether outside forces triggered, capitalized upon or magnified the economic difficulties of 2008.”
From a Pentagon contractor report blaming the 2008 economic crisis on “financial subversion carried out by unknown parties, such as terrorists or hostile nations.” [No need to look any further than the terrorists working at the Fed.]

"We are deeply sorry for this tragedy and apologize to the members of the Afghan government, the people of Afghanistan and, most importantly, the surviving family members of those killed by our actions. These deaths should have never happened."
U.S. Gen. David Petraeus, after soldier thugs under his command murdered nine Afghan children in a military strike.

“Every government can not only balance its budget, but wind up with a surplus. The solution is simple: tax the rich.”
Ted Rall [The myth lives on.]

“They’re [the rich] sitting on the money, they’re using it for their own - they’re putting it someplace else with no interest in helping you with our life, with that money. We’ve allowed them to take that. That’s not theirs, that’s a national resource, that’s ours. We all have this, we all benefit from this or we all suffer as a result of not having it. And I think that we need to go back to taxing these people at the proper rates ... We need to see these jobs as something that we own, that we collectively own as Americans, and you just can't steal our jobs.”
Michael Moore

"I've gotten to know Jeb [Bush] because his family exemplifies public service.”
B. Obama [“public service,” as in murdering tens of thousands.]

"The knowing adherence to sharia and to foreign sharia authorities constitutes a conspiracy to further the legal, political, and military doctrine and system which embraces the law of jihad.... The knowing adherence to sharia and to foreign sharia authorities is prima facie evidence of an act in support of the overthrow of the United States government and the government of this state through the abrogation, destruction, or violation of the United States and Tennessee Constitutions by the likely use of imminent criminal violence...."
Tennessee state senator Bill Ketron, promoting his proposed anti-Sahria measure in the Tennessee legislature. [I guess his new law would cover the US military’s installation of Sharia law in Iraq. Check out the Iraqi constitution.]

Whining Warrior

It’s seems we’re presented on a near weekly basis the heart wrenching story of some soldier boy returning home from the horrors of battle, only to be treated “unfairly” in the civilian world.

This time the focus is on a veteran of the US government’s aggressive wars and criminal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan who “returned home only to be told he cannot return to his job as a police officer with the Dallas Independent School District.” It seems the school district has some concerns (and rightly so) about the mental stability of someone who has participated in such immoral acts as killing people in other countries who refuse obedience to the US state’s commands. Here’s a rare case of the Dallas school district making a wise, thoughtful, and even daring choice.

Here is an individual who has been drilled and highly trained in the use of violence, armed with the latest in high tech weaponry and given a free license to kill to force compliance among the US state‘s enemies. He is not trained in the arts of peaceful education and persuasion. He has been participating in such activity without questioning any order he has received. Forget for a moment the obscenity of cops in schools. Is this the type of individual you want keeping company with your children? Particularly, one who is viewed by children as a trustworthy authority figure?

I just don’t see how these military veterans can keep sustaining their tough guy image when so many can’t seem to successfully navigate the relatively minor obstacles inherent in mundane civilian life. So many of their lives seem to degenerate into domestic violence, drug abuse, homelessness, and even suicide. Believe me, despite my passionate disapproval of the military, I take no joy in these facts. These are precious lives with great potential wasted because of one bad choice- joining the military. At least these poor souls didn’t wish to overburden strangers with their troubles and view a successful life as an entitlement earned by voluntarily killing for the state.

To me, the most despicable action is committed by those who contact the dutiful, state controlled media to whine and moan about their perceived difficulties or ‘injustices.” Of course, the mainstream press eagerly await such opportunities to publicize the veteran’s “misfortune” in a well packaged story promoting “gratefulness” to those “who protect your freedom.” They certainly wish to keep alive the meme that we subjects of the king should bow to and accommodate without question those who have served in the king’s legions. They certainly wish to reinforce the class distinction between rulers and the ruled. And they most certainly wish to keep alive the spirit of bloody nationalism beating in the hearts of the patriotic faithful.

This action usually works. Expect to see more.

A ‘Shutdown’ It Ain’t

I’m always hard on reporting done in the mainstream media. They usually, without fail, act not as purveyors of truth but merely as state apologists, “catapulting the propaganda.” Every once in a while, a useful jewel of information makes its way from the Fourth Estate to the readership. Such is the case with “Psst. No ‘shutdown’ during a government shutdown,” by the AP’s Andrew Taylor.

As a state hater and liberty lover, you probably imagine a “government shutdown” as I do- padlocked gates and doors among vacant government office buildings, unemployed, paper pushing bureaucrats, military guns silenced and aircraft grounded, welfare bums not receiving checks, unpaid cops and other lower-level-primate LEO’s walking off the “job,” no food inspectors terrorizing raw milk producers or vitamin supplement salesmen, no diplomats flying around the world creating bedlam, civil war, and strife among people in other countries, and lobbyists unable to reach and bribe our elected trolls to influence and purchase their allegiance.

A very pleasing and hopeful image, to say the least.

But, of course, none of these events occur. The worst (or best, depending on your point of view) that happens is lower level government hacks get a paid, multi-week vacation with the check arriving a little later than they would prefer. It’s all just political theater to keep the ruled masses alarmed and begging for continuity. A brief glimpse of the beautiful reality of true freedom is just too terrifying or incomprehensible for them to conceive. They scream in pathetic tantrums to remain dependent slaves.

Just as “budget cuts” are nothing more that decreases in planned increases in spending, “shutdowns” are nothing more than threatened, imaginary actions to fuel the state’s deceiving propaganda. The only “shutdown” occurs within the gullible minds of uninformed individuals intent on living in a state fabricated fantasy world.

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“The state and its laws are the problem, to which corruption is an unsavory and unaesthetic – but necessary – solution. Laws create corruption, and corruption engenders laws.”
Doug Casey

“If the State wishes to keep its monopoly as originator of law, it cannot tolerate men of integrity who wish to bind the State's power. Moreover, such men also threaten the State's fundamental purpose which is crime. Thus, its agents will create a set of internal rules that ensure the promotion of the worst men to the top of State power. The degree of evil will increase over time in a democratic State because democracies corrupt the masses generation after generation, thus lowering the bar of morality. Moreover, this means that the people who enter into the State apparatus, especially those who enter into democratic politics and the armed Praetorian Guard, will eventually be worse than the people who are currently in charge.”
Brutus

“People (not all, but most) can be persuaded to leave us alone, or will do it in some respects without any persuasion, even if they are still statists. Maybe they don’t like us smoking pot, but their dislike does not rise to the level of violence. Maybe they just don’t care about it if we are in the next town rather than in their town. Maybe they are afraid to stop us smoking because we will physically attack them. There are all sorts of reasons for them not messing with us. Turning them into enemies only eliminates any possibility of reasoning with them or dealing peacefully with them, leaving us only avoidance, submission or war.”
Paul Bonneau

“It is vital – indeed, it is literally a life-and-death matter – that Americans be able to look as coolly and clear-sightedly, as free from myth, at their government's record in foreign affairs as they increasingly are able to do in domestic politics. For war and a phony "external threat" have long been the chief means by which the state wins back the loyalty of its subjects. War and militarism were the gravediggers of classical liberalism; we must not allow the state to get away with this ruse ever again.”
Murray Rothbard

“Anarchy refers to a society without a central political authority. But it is also used to refer to disorder or chaos. This constitutes a textbook example of Orwellian newspeak in which assigning the same name to two different concepts effectively narrows the range of thought. For if lack of government is identified with the lack of order, no one will ask whether lack of government actually results in a lack of order. And this uninquisitive mental attitude is absolutely essential to the case for the state. For if people were ever to seriously question whether government actions are really productive of order, popular support for government would almost instantly collapse.”
John Hasnas

"Is it possible that democracy is just the flavor of the month...an evolutionary development, like all the forms of government that came before it? Is it possible that it succeeded in the 20th century because it was much better adapted to leeching out the wealth and complicity of the average man? It gave him a stake in the system – like getting some prisoners to guard each other, or bribing taxpayers to rat out their neighbors to the IRS? Isn't it possible that by giving the masses a 'voice,' the elites who really control government are better able to take his money...and, if necessary, his life?”
Bill Bonner

“If the people can find and proclaims the truth, they can become free again. If they live in craven fear of the murderous secret police armies and refuse to find and cry out the truth about all of that, they will become permanent slaves.”
Jack Douglas

“Born in sin, the bastard offspring of declining autocracy and bureaucracy run amok, the state is a giant wielded by pygmies. Considered as individuals, bureaucrats, even the highest-positioned among them, may be mild, harmless, and somewhat self-effacing people, but collectively they have created a monster whose power far outstrips that of the mightiest empires of old.”
Martin Van Creveld

“The tax-devouring thugs who have converged on the state capitol in Madison are trying to wrap themselves in the mantle of the hungry, desperate people who defied Mubarak's torturers, and the imponderably courageous people in Bahrain who walked, unarmed and unflinching, into gunfire. Ditching work and pitching a tantrum to demand the preservation of ‘collective bargaining rights’ for over-paid, tax-subsidized functionaries simply isn't the same thing as facing down the pitiless cadres of a quasi-totalitarian police state.”
Will Girgg

“Possession of a ‘right’ has never protected men from the aggression of others, particularly the aggression of those who style themselves ‘governments.’ What has actually done the job but never received the credit is the moral choice of civilized people not to initiate the use of force against one another, and to defend themselves (and each other) from the human predators among us. When the idea of individual responsibility for the defense of life, liberty and property falls into disfavor, your society will not be free much longer. The men who step forward to ‘protect your rights’ for you will soon become your masters. And so it has come to pass, time and again.
‘Rights’ do not exist. The power of choice does. Men are free to act with respect for the individual liberties of others, or to act without respect. There is no such force as a natural right that will reward virtuous action, or punish evil. There is only one force in human affairs. That is the force of individual will. Freedom is a choice, not a right.”
Dabooda

“I would like to see Ron Paul elected President, but not because I see him as a political messiah. I would like to see him elected because, in order to get elected, he would have to represent a majority of Americans. He does not represent a majority of Americans. He will not be elected. The voters want more of the same. They will get it.”
Gary North

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From the Darkness:

“Look what they have done in Egypt, those highly-placed managers of Google, what manipulations of the energy of the people took place there.”

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin, blaming Google Inc for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak

“Seventy-five percent of the kids who are recruit-age for the military cannot pass the physical, because they’re obese by Army standards. We better hope we don’t have a war with anybody because we’re not going to have anybody who can pass the physical to wear the uniform.”
Mike Huckabee

“The United States stands firmly and proudly on the side of liberty. And we will use all means of our national power — including foreign aid and military assistance — to ensure the survival and success of liberty worldwide.”
John Guardiano

“This week, upon learning that Julian Assange had recently been invited to address the same summit [YPO Global Leadership Summit in Denver], President [GW] Bush decided to cancel his appearance. The former president has no desire to share a forum with a man who has willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States.”
Bush spokesman David Sherzer [See: War Criminal Afraid of Truth Teller]

“The international community may be forced to make a choice: does it sit back and prevaricate while people are massacred, as it has so often in the past. Or does it refuse to be scarred by the foolishness of the Iraq invasion and show that it can act when there is unacceptable barbarism.”
Ian Birrell, The Guardian, pushing for international intervention in Libya’s civil war

"We cannot afford to leave our intelligence officials without … the tools they need to keep America safe."
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, after Congress gave final approval to a temporary extension of parts of the Patriot Act [Just who is “we?”]

"We will stand steadfastly with the Libyan people in their demand for universal rights, and a government that is responsive to their aspirations. Their human dignity cannot be denied."
B. Obama [It’s curious that The Emperor doesn’t share the same concern for “responsive” government and “human dignity” among those who don’t stand upon a shit load of oil.]

“I must concur with all the concerns and apprehensions expressed to me that the presence of concealed weapons, on balance, will make campus a less safe environment.”
Francisco Cigarroa, University of Texas System Chancellor, warning Gov. Rick Perry against a measure to allow guns on college campuses [Apparently, this highly educated individual never learned that being able to defend yourself is what makes you safe.]

"We are the United States of America. This talk of nullifying is pretty toxic talk. That led to the Civil War."
Brian Schweitzer, Montana Governor and history ignoramus

"I say to you: 'This is America: Love it or leave it.'"
Rep. William McChesney, during the sovereignty declaration debate in the Montana legislature

War Criminal Afraid of Truth Teller

George W. Bush, former Exalted Emperor of the US Empire has announced, “he will not visit Denver this weekend as planned because WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was invited to attend one of the same events as the former president.” Bush had planned on making an appearance at the Young Presidents' Organization "Global Leadership Summit."

Mr. Bush is recognized in the realm of “global leadership” in that he once claimed to rule the world while killing and oppressing at will those he considered a threat or those deemed worthy of conquering and converting to his skewed Demo-Christo-fascist ideology .

Apparently, The Shrub just couldn’t bear sharing the stage with someone well versed in truth, reason, and the ability to speak in complete sentences. The man is scared to death (and with good reason) of an articulate individual like Mr. Assange. Of course, Mr. Assange has been kidnapped and held against his will in Britain while he awaits eventual extradition and crucifixion in one of the Bush/Obama torture chambers. He did, however, make an appearance through a video link, which Shrub Boy didn’t even make the effort to do.

Bush spokesman David Sherzer claims Assange has, "willfully and repeatedly done great harm to the interests of the United States." Of course, Sherzer is referring to the United States Government, which is the actual entity that suffered any “harm.” The United States, meaning the people, have benefited greatly, gaining insight on just how deceiving, corrupt and murderous their rulers (and others) are. Obviously, no “global leadership” (be it state or corporate) can be successful without willful, uncontested murder, deception and theft. Hence the conflict that arises with GW’s appearance.

Mr. Mission Accomplished is finding fewer and fewer places to park his carcass. The net is gradually tightening and closing in. The man who once worked toward full spectrum dominance of the world is finding his world ever smaller. He can’t risk traveling overseas and now he finds himself threatened within the relative safety of his home town.

Let’s hope this beast eventually meets the justice his fate prescribes.

Glamorizing Thugs

WFAA.com has run a report about how “Mexican narco culture glamorizes drug lifestyle.”

I had to laugh at the reporter’s statement that, “narco culture spreads a seductive view of a violent lifestyle that blurs the lines between entertainment, religion and crime.” This attempt to “win hearts and minds” seems to mirror those methods the state uses to glorify itself while insisting on allegiance and obedience, while glamorizing life as citizen-serfs to the ruling elites. This is accomplished through various propaganda channels, including the same “entertainment, religion, and (state sponsored) crime.” The state even goes to the extreme of promoting and honoring those who kill and “sacrifice” themselves for the glorification, defense, and expansion of state rule.

"If organized crime is in control, that means everyone in that region has to play by their rules."

The state, being an organized criminal syndicate, insists on exactly the same obedience to its rules. Maybe some folks would rather be governed by drug gangs than state gangs.

“Beyond the criminal lifestyle, there's also a spiritual aspect.”

This mirrors the same reverence and respect statists give to specified heroes worshipped within their civic religion- presidents, martyred politicians and statist evangelists, and war “heroes.” This also mirrors statist reverence towards symbols such as flags, chants, pledges, and even the state institution itself.

“The Catholic priest sees youngsters in ultra-violent Juarez who now aspire to be drug traffickers or hit men because of the money and power.”

How is this any different than those who aspire to become politicians, members of the ruling class, and members of police forces and militaries? They are attracted by the money and power that comes with such lofty positions of power and influence. Any entity or organization that offers such rewards for participation, be they legitimate or not, will attract prospects- particularly those who are desperate for opportunity.

This “narco-culture” originates in response to the state’s prohibition and warring against (some) drugs. Otherwise, this business would be like others where individuals make mutually satisfactory transactions. These transactions would also be peaceful, as the threat of violent state interference (as a competing gang) would not exist. This “culture” the report mentions helps unite and protect those who choose to participate in such transactions. The fact they are violent is not necessarily a choice, but a necessity to defend their business. This is also the same response chosen by one state gang when threatened by another.

Gangs are gangs, thugs are thugs- whether they're drug dealers or governments- they both seek to influence, control, and ultimately subjugate the individual without his consent.

The State Exposed

I
I recently overheard a school librarian discussing the merits of non-violence promoted by the likes of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. His audience was government school students. These are certainly sentiments that I can agree with. But then I realized the inherent hypocrisy of the message giver. The person praising this philosophy was employed by an organization (the state) whose entire existence and survival is maintained through violence. Government schools are financed through compulsive taxation enforced, ultimately, by violence. Don’t pay the mandatory tribute required by your state rulers and you will lose your property, and/or your freedom, and/or your life. One hundred percent of this gentlemen’s personal paycheck is comprised of funds obtained through coercion and violence. Does this gentlemen ever wake up in the middle of the night and realize this obvious hypocrisy?

II
There’s some controversy in the Dallas Police Department (so what else is new) about an officer’s “troubling” post on her Facebook page. These posts include derogatory pictures and comments about the homeless and bragging about getting into a fight with a nurse at a medical clinic. Police supporters may be upset that some officers don’t represent the clean, noble image they have of their “protectors.” The department also claims concern. "Anything that would tend to reduce or impair the public's trust and confidence in the police department won't be tolerated," says Deputy Chief Mike Genovesi.

But again, free-living, sovereign individuals, who see the police as an illegitimate protection monopoly, celebrate such displays. Such incidents certainly aren't isolated They all expose how those who become police officers tend to be uncouth bullies who enjoy dominating and abusing others. These personal characteristics are necessary to satisfactorily enforce victimless crimes and extract state revenue by kidnapping, caging, and even physically harming innocent individuals.
 
Let’s hope police continue to be open and honest in their social networking.

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Let’s move on to this enlightening video.

This is from a recent meeting of the Dallas County Commissioners Court. Here we have, in all its brutal glory, a clear illustration of the essence of the state. Politics is essentially war among competing gangs. These gangs (commonly referred to as “constituencies”) war against each other over turf and control. These gangs all seek to control the property of others to be used to further their gang’s agendas, as well as get their “fair share” of the booty the state plunders. They also seek to control the state’s enforcement mechanisms (police and military) that assure compliance among their subjects (commonly called the “electorate”).

Most times these political gang summits remain relatively civil and respectful despite the underlying violence of state coercion. Sometimes their discussions can degrade into shouting matches or even mild physical violence. It’s times like these when free living, sovereign individuals should rejoice and even celebrate such displays. This rowdiness and lack of decorum helps expose the state’s true nature- individuals squabbling over power rather than debating how to peacefully serve others through commerce and voluntary association.

Commissar Price has a history of such antics. It’s encouraging to see his power rivals also getting into the act.