Image Review of the Week

State harassment is not restricted to humans:



"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors."
Jim Morrison




Meet you’re biggest supporter:




"There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats."
Pablo Picasso




Get your meat fresh:

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; .....

.....they support the laws before destroying them."
Voltaire



More clunkers looking for cash?



"Freedom is not defined by safety.....




Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference.....




Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, .....




.....because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. ......



Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. .....




Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long."

Ron Paul

Ben basks in the light of omniscience:

"It is indeed impossible that the liberties of the people in any country can be preserved.....

.....where a numerous standing army is kept up."

Brutus

Obama takes it to the Chinese.....

…..and gives us more expensive tires:

"The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, .....

.....Thus far and no farther."

Ludwig van Beethoven

The independent media stands out from the crowd:

"Freedom of movement is basic in our scheme of values."
Justice William O. Douglas

The Bush Band of Butchers has a new mouthpiece:




Just a little trip to buy some groceries:

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

"There was a time, not all that long ago, when the U.S. pretended that it viewed war only as a "last resort," something to be used only when absolutely necessary to defend the country against imminent threats. In reality, at least since the creation of the National Security State in the wake of World War II, war for the U.S. has been everything but a "last resort." Constant war has been the normal state of affairs. In the 64 years since the end of WWII, we have started and fought far more wars and invaded and bombed more countries than any other nation in the world — not even counting the numerous wars fought by our clients and proxies. Those are just facts. History will have no choice but to view the U.S. — particularly in its late imperial stages — as a war-fighting state."

Glenn Greenwald

“Instead of continually trying to get freedom “legalized,” those who value individual liberty should be working to come up with ways to outwit, escape, resist or defeat the tentacles of “government.” Yes, I mean they should be figuring out ways to be free, despite the fact that freedom is, and always has been, ‘illegal.’”
Larken Rose

“No one has any “right,” under ordinary everyday circumstances, to use violence or the threat thereof to control another’s life or property. In fact, each of us has a very serious moral obligation to not engage our fellow human beings in such a manner. Yet, cloak a cop or a tax collector or a politician in the magical, quantum-physics defying aura of government, and suddenly this becomes not only acceptable, but even commendable and necessary. Such is the intrinsic nature of the State.”
Alex R. Knight III

“Whether there is any truth to the "9/11 Truth" movement or not, it is absolutely essential to freedom to suspect government of complicity in everything that could possibly be its fault. You must know, if you are paying attention, that governments lie. If you have a known pathological liar in your life, it is healthier to distrust every word he utters, until verified by you, than it is to take his words at face value. He may be telling the truth occasionally, but you can't take the chance. So it is with government. Government is a lying axe-murderer with rabies in your bed. Trust it at your own peril.”
Kent McManigal

“Inflation is a deliberate impoverishment of the benighted masses, by the political elites. It is an unlegislated tax, confiscation of capital. The Fed would have us believe inflation is like cosmic rays or a hurricane something out of their control, but that would be mendacity, i.e. a lie. It is a deliberate policy and always has been it is an unlegislated tax, nothing more.”
George Giles

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From the Darkness:

"Humankind has to limit itself to emit only fixed amount of carbon into the atmosphere until 2050. [...] Because the industrialized nations have already exceeded their quotas if you take into account past emissions. [...] With the current output you see that Germany, the US and other industrialized nations have either already used up their permissible quota, or will do so within the next few years. [...] The industrialized nations are facing CO2 insolvency. This means that they have to notch up their efforts to reduce climate change, otherwise they will use up the CO2 budget actually designated to poorer countries and future generations."
German climate “scientist” Joachim Schellnhuber
[Just when you you think the climate kooks can’t get any more wacked, they manage to do so.]

"The story of America isn’t about people who quit when things got tough. It’s about people who kept going, who tried harder, who loved their country too much to do anything less than their best. It’s the story of students who sat where you sit 250 years ago, and went on to wage a revolution and found this nation."
Barry Obama, addressing US school children.

“Mindful that the work of protecting America is never finished, we will do everything in our power to keep America safe.”
Barry Obama on 9/11. [And who protects us from YOU?]

“In the United States of America, no one should have to worry that they’ll go without health insurance — not for one year, not for one month, not for one day. And once I sign my health reform plan into law, they won’t.”
Barry Obama [Utopia is within reach! Just follow The Magic Negro!]

“Enforcing trade laws is key to maintaining an open and free trading system.”
U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk [Formerly known as “Kirk the Jerk,” mayor of Dallas, Tx.]

Image Review of the Week

The loyalist’s view of the state:



The anarchist’s view of the state:



"The larger the state, .....



".....the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart."

Dennis Prager



Play close attention.....



.....and take plenty of notes:

Shakedown. Afghanistan gets a taste of their precious new democracy:

"If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."

George S. Patton

It’s time for thugs in badges to chill out:



The Exalted One gives yet another snoozer.....

.....except for one brief moment of honesty:

"It is the hour to rend thy chains, the blossom time of souls."

Katharine Lee Bates

The public loves to be told sweet lies:

The folks aren’t tickled with Timmy:

"Adults find pleasure in deceiving a child. They consider it necessary, but they also enjoy it."
Elias Canetti

The Obama Health Ration Regulators take a trial run:

An LEO gets off on some in-the-womb violence:




"The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. "

Alice James

Soldier boys still swallow their master’s lies:



There’s still a lot of political hay to be reaped from 9/11:

Typical government building program- 8 freakin’ years and still a hole in the ground:

Still looking for that Boeing 757.....

It’s a toxic combination serving two masters- God.....

.....and country:

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“I believe our addictive attraction to the power of government to improve our lives is the very thing that has got us into our current predicament, and that government, far from securing our lives, liberty, and property, is the only real threat to them. It actually fosters chaos, and retards the process of mutually beneficial exchange that is the very basis of civilization. Government is the mortal enemy of mankind and civilization.”
John Sampson

“If honor cannot contend with the truth we are learning about our obsession with using force and violence on our enemies, the only way for it to save face is to bow out gracefully, forever. If we as a culture do not learn to honor love, freedom, peace, and truth above all else, then I doubt it will matter very much what we do honor, if we honor anything at all.”
B. R. Merrick

“If anything defines the consensus in which a moral society can flower and thrive, it’s the recognition that theft, murder and other initiations of force place those who commit them outside of said society and in opposition to it. If there’s any basis in fact whatsoever for the idea of a “social contract,” it’s that: You only get to be part of society if you keep your hands out of other people’s pockets and off other people’s throats.
Yet theft and murder constitute the two points on any chart of behaviors which a plot of the state’s operations must inevitably cross. The state sustains itself through acts of theft and enforces its writ through the threat of death. If it doesn’t do those two things, it’s not a state. If it does do those two things, its existence and operations are inimical to the existence of the kind of society we’re frequently told can’t exist without it.”
Thomas L. Knapp

“How do you know if something is genuinely a public service? Is it a public service when you take money from one person and give it to another? The press seems to think so. Is it a public service when you load up the nation with hundreds of billions worth of programs and pet projects?”
Bill Bonner

“There should be no monetary policy, or any other kind of policy, of course. Policy is another name for unjust coercion.”
Lew Rockwell

“'Social fabric’ has but one enemy: coercion. Coercion has but one source: bad people. A large percentage of the worst (and most "effective") of the bad people are ‘public officials.’ The power associated with government attracts thugs like raw meat attracts yellow-jackets.”
Kent McManigal

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From the Darkness:

"I just think it's an outrageous precedent to set, to have this kind of, I think, intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration."
Dick Cheney, whining about the Justice Department investigating whether CIA interrogators illegally abused terror suspects.

"As long as there is a foreign enemy that is radical, irresponsible and willing to do anything to cause instability and chaos . . . we need to keep them off-balance, to keep them from coming here.”
Marine Lt. Gen. Samuel Helland, speaking of the Taliban in Afghanistan. [Wa-Wha? The Taliban is a “foreign” enemy? So, what is the US military, just some good ol- homeboys?]

"You'll be doing your patriotic duty to get your seasonal flu shot this year."
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley

"Recovery act dollars are going farther and working harder than we anticipated."
Clueless Joe Biden

"I think we've reached a little bit of the silly season when the president of the United States can't tell kids in school to study hard and stay in school."
Robert Gibbs, presidential spokesman on the furor around King Obama’s plan to deliver a televised back to school speech. [No, what’s silly is the president sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong.]

“Losing wars is a bad thing. It is especially bad if you are a superpower that depends on an aura of invincibility to keep rogue elements at bay. That should go without saying, but those calling for a scuttle from Afghanistan seem to have forgotten this elementary lesson.”
Max Boot

Image Review of the Week

Look skyward and sing praise to the god-state.....



.....and salute its holy symbols:



"In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
Albert Einstein



Flu patriots?



At least they aren’t shooting you:




"Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds."
Lord Chesterfield



"Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind." Johann G. Seume



The IRS releases one from the gulag:



"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it....."



".....Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Helen Keller



Attendance at freak shows is down. Why pay when you can watch the one in DC for free?

Change We Can Believe In- the truth of war:




Tea parties are for little girls and bootlickers. Real men resist with disobedience and armed defense:

No “citizens” left to harass- they’re all in prison: