Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"People, especially in desperate times, band together based on shared values and heritage, not naïve and ephemeral notions of a Star Trek future with the greater and greater flow of power away from individuals and towards giant bureaucracies that must come. This being the case, why shouldn’t states like Texas recognize that this is the time? Is the virus the catalyst for Texans to realize we may be better together, but apart from the union? It may be time for our leaders to cut their losses and cash in their chips. And if not now, when?"
Ryan Thorson

"So, what does our future hold if mass resistance is not forthcoming? This new SARS-related virus called Covid-19 was almost certainly created in a U.S. lab, and although not nearly as deadly as propagated by government and media, and in fact, most likely less dangerous than the common flu, it was the catalyst necessary to fool the people so as to gain control over large populations. This government has the ability to produce very dangerous biological weapons, and can produce at will any multitude of viruses that would be much more deadly than this one, and could do so without detection. With a second wave certainly coming, and if necessary, a third and fourth wave, what will be next? Will it be Covid, or something much worse? Will it kill just enough to continue the lockdowns, or will it be much more devastating the next time around? It is coming, and it is this writer’s opinion that this is leading to the end game, and will not go away, or be temporary, but will be taken as far as is necessary and possible in order for the ruling class to gain total control. There is little time left."
Gary D. Barnett

"The President declared himself dictator and said 'when somebody is president of the United States, the authority is total. And that’s the way it’s gotta be. It’s total.'
The Right cheered. The left sneered. If the rolls were reversed and a democratic president said this, an entire militia movement would have formed to institute an overthrow of the Offal Office, and the left would have defended unlimited executive power till the death. What’s new? Each faction has no issue with total power they just want to be the ones wielding it."
John Meyers

"Ever wonder why the US is illogically battling a virus that kills fewer people than TB?
Want to know why 1300 major corporate US CEOs took their payouts last year and resigned?
Why does America have a man with Alzheimer’s running for President?
Why do our leaders tolerate Dr. Anthony Fauci putting American shop and restaurant owners out of business when neither they or any of their customers are at significant risk for COVID-19 coronavirus killing them, ever?  Do we lockdown the population because some people die of the flu?
America is now living with many contradictions."
Bill Sardi

"A lot of humans around the globe have opened their eyes to what government has always been (power, consolidated, and corrupted. After all, it only took 6 years for the U.S. government to violate the basic human rights listed in the  Constitution that they wrote to 'keep us safe' from them), yet some think they need more chains and restrictions. If you give up power, in any amount, don’t expect to get it back. Ever. Which is why we could be seeing the beginning of the end of government.  It won’t take many more to wake up to eliminate the ruling class by disobeying."
Mac Slavo

"When Patrick Henry famously said 'give me liberty or give me death' in 1775, he didn’t add under his breath 'unless a virus shows up'."
Ron Paul

"This is a nursing-home disease. We need to shelter the appropriate people -- in other words, don't do what Andrew Cuomo did, and send COVID-positive patients into nursing homes.
The rest of us need to get our lives back.
The older folks I talk to are saying more and more: we don't even want you to do this! We're terrified of what's going to become of our grandchildren's futures if this is allowed to go on much longer.
We are living through the craziest moment in American history. It's not even close.
And we're getting a glimpse of how deranged, how detached from reality, how addicted to apocalyptic predictions, our neighbors are."
Tom Woods

"'Public health' is the health of the state and nothing else.  It is literally the reason why the phrase 'junk science' exists.  It is a tool that the old Soviet communists could have only dreamed of having."
Tom DiLorenzo

"There is absolutely nothing concerning those like Fauci and Gates that consists of honest charity or help for mankind. The kind of philanthropy practiced by Gates and his ilk is that of deception, for his desire to help people is just a cover for his real aspirations of money, power, and control. Philanthropy at this level is meant to achieve large-scale objectives, objectives that are aimed at the masses and allow for wealth transfer and control. There is a huge difference in heartfelt charity and large-scale philanthropy, and the latter is most always about sinister intent."
Gary D. Barnett

"The cost of an 0.0003% risk of dying from a coronavirus is costing you all your wealth and savings.  Unless you are Black, or reside in a nursing home, your chance of dying from the coronavirus is remote (0.00001 or 1 in 100,000).  But you must stay indoors, away from sunlight, and experience a decline in your immunity and develop mental depression from the lack of vitamin D, and the death count never goes down."
Bill Sardi

"The average age that people die from this disease is older than the average age people die."
Joe Rogan

"The coronavirus DID NOT cause an economic recession, the people who obeyed the commands of tyrants did. The coronavirus DID NOT cause food shortages, farmers who obeyed the commands of tyrants did.  The coronavirus DID NOT cause tyranny, the cops who followed orders to exact tyranny on the public did.  This all comes down to obeying.  The masters barked orders, and the slaves obeyed to their own detriment. If we ever hope to be free, we have to reject the slave mindset they have brainwashed all of us into."
Mac Slavo

"More than 100,000 Americans died in 1968 of – or with – the Hong Kong Flu. Why wasn’t the country 'locked down' then? Because the country wasn’t yet in the grip of a consolidated media – and pervasive instilled fear of risk – such that a bad flu season could be turned into a simulacrum of the Black Death in the minds of the population.
America was a sane country back then.
It is becoming insane. 
The Goebbelsian kernel of truth about the 'novel' Corona virus hyped to an extinction level threat terrorizes the suggestible and emotional – and makes it very difficult for the thoughtful and rational to be heard amid the manufactured hysteria."
Eric Peters

"And anyone who hasn’t been paralyzed in a skiing accident from the neck up knows that the usual suspects among the considerable communist intelligentsia in the US are secretly celebrating the deaths, unemployment, mass closures, bankruptcies and the whole gruesome spectacle of government utterly destroying the livelihoods and life achievements of millions of subjects on the tax plantation named America.
There is only one solution: refuse all government edicts and increase herd immunity at all costs. The more society becomes dependent on vaccines, the more society WILL become dependent on vaccines. We need to actually get rid of products that make us cleaner and more antiseptic to allow our immune systems to stay functional. It is, after all, additional sanitary conditions that led to the polio outbreaks in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s….the polio antibodies that had been transmitted from mother to child in utero were pretty much gone leaving that generation open for the outbreak."
Bill Buppert

"Humanity is finally moving in the right direction.  The last step is to just live.  Protesting is begging the master to let you be free.  Just live free. Don’t ask permission. Conduct your life as the free, sovereign human being you were born as, and let the ruling class panic. If you don’t buy their fear, they cannot control you. The fact that humans are finally realizing they had this power all along is incredible. Live your life your way! That’s the biggest middle finger we can give to any tyrant, whether it be a cop, a governor, a politician, an elitist, or anyone else who wants our compliance and enslavement. 
Freedom is not negotiable and rights are not gifts from governments or others.  We all have the basic human right to be free and live our life the way we see fit.  As more people realize this, our power grows and the mainstream media’s fear campaign fails. After all, if there are no order followers, there are no orders."
Mac Slavo

"Everyone needs to be aware that when politicians tell you they will use government power to solve a problem or problems and make your life better, what they're really telling you is your life and liberties are being further sacrificed to the collective.
There is nothing lawmakers love more than making laws, even when they know their laws won't accomplish their stated purpose. This is particularly true of those laws that take more authority for the state, or if they enrich the fascist system. For lawmakers, the 'unintended consequences' of their laws are just like gravy, because then they get to pass more laws to correct the unintended consequences. This, of course, leads to more 'unintended consequences' and the passage of more laws.
Understanding this simple fact is essentially to preserving liberty."
Bob Livingston

"Military-economic fascism, by empowering and enriching wealthy, intelligent, and influential members of the public, removes them from the ranks of potential opponents and resisters of the state and thereby helps to perpetuate the state's existence and its intrinsic class exploitation of people outside the state. Thus, military-economic fascism simultaneously strengthens the state and weakens civil society, even as it creates the illusion of a vibrant private sector patriotically engaged in supplying goods and services to the heroic military establishment."
Robert Higgs

"There was a massive surge of migrants to Europe in 2015. But that was, I believe, just an overture to what’s coming. What we’re talking about here is the migration of millions of people of different languages, different races, different religions, different cultures, and different modes of living. If you’re an alien and you’re 1 out of 100, or 1,000, or even 10,000, you’re a curiosity, an interesting outsider. And you’d have to integrate into the new society. But an influx of millions of migrants can only destroy the old culture. And guarantee antagonism—especially when the locals are forced to pay for it."
Doug Casey

"There’s an irony in the fact that Marx and Engels believed capitalism was necessary in order to create more wealth disparity.  That irony is that capitalism creates more wealth for those on the lowest rung of the income ladder than any other system, so income and wealth disparities, while interesting phenomena for academic eggheads to ponder, are pretty much irrelevant.  The only thing that’s relevant is how well off each individual is in absolute terms — not in comparison to others.
Without capitalism, prosperity for the masses cannot exist.  Likewise, without freedom, capitalism, by definition, cannot exist, because it is nothing more than a subcategory of freedom — the freedom to trade one’s goods, services, and labor with others without interference from government.  Plain and simple, capitalism is the purest form of freedom."
Robert Ringer

"Economists have long recognized division of labor, specialization, and complementary factors of production. They have recognized different groups with different tastes for goods. They have recognized people with different skills. None of this is what 'diversity' means today and what the coercive socialist slogan 'diversity is our strength' means. Today these are schemes to share wealth, redistribute wealth, gain positions without having the merit to occupy them, and create well-paid 'jobs' that are unproductive."
Michael Rozeff

"And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made eighty years ago, by men who are now all dead, and who never had any power to bind us, but which (it is claimed) has nevertheless bound three generations of men, consisting of many millions, and which (it is claimed) will be binding upon all the millions that are to come; but which nobody ever signed, sealed, delivered, witnessed, or acknowledged; and which few persons, compared with the whole number that are claimed to be bound by it, have ever read, or even seen, or ever will read or see."
 Lysander Spooner

"You cannot have a government without willing or unwilling submission of the subjects to the will of the rulers.  There is no historical antecedent or precedent for a government ever staying within the confines of its originating power."
None.
Bill Buppert

"In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely…. In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions."
Jerry Pournelle

"There is no honor in war, only hormonally mediated lunacy. Where is the honor in bombing cities, putting them to the sword, raping and looting?"
Fred Reed

"Technocrats, like everyone else, have their own ideologies, their own agendas, and their own interests. Often, their interests are greatly at odds with those of the general public that pays the technocrats' salaries and is subject to the technocracy's edicts.  The rise of technocracy has only meant that the means of influencing policy is now limited to a much smaller number of people—namely those who are already influential and powerful in the halls of government. Technocracy seems less political, because the political wrangling is limited to what used to be called 'smoke-filled rooms.' That is, technocracy is really a sort of oligarchy, although not limited to the financially wealthy. It's limited to people who went to the 'right' schools or control powerful corporations such as Google or Facebook, or work for influential media organizations. It's branded 'nonpolitical,' because ordinary voters and taxpayers are excluded from even knowing who is involved or what policies are being proposed. In other words, technocracy is government by a small exclusive club. And you ain't in it."
Ryan McMaken

"The question seemingly always raised is that the idea of true freedom sounds good, but how do we do it? What is the single plan to fix everything? Obviously, there is not one answer or any legitimate short answer to this question, and those that ask it, are usually not really interested in real freedom in the first place. In fact, most people do not want the responsibility of freedom, and that makes the government’s job easy, because as a rule, the only thing required by the state to keep the apathetic public at bay, is to offer them safety and benefits. They are happy to remain slaves, so long as they can get the things they want without much effort, and can through their proxy government, use others to gain for themselves."
Gary D. Barnett

"The problem with wars, beyond all the death and destruction, is that they are seldom fought for the reasons that governments claim. In most cases, there is an underlying agenda which the public may or may not discover many decades later, and such agendas are not for our benefit. Wars rarely erupt over mere circumstance. Wars are rarely random.
War is a tool for social engineering because war creates crisis for the unprepared masses, and as the unprepared scramble for safety, the state can institute authoritarian powers they never could have asserted in peacetime. Not only this, but in our modern era over the past century there has been a distinct pattern following the aftermath of each war in which power and governance are centralized. Every time disaster strikes, the proposed solution is global government. You would think the political elites would offer some new ideas after 100 years... but no, they only have one idea that they try to sell to us relentlessly."
Brandon Smith

"Only a group that can count on the consent of the governed can establish a lasting regime. Whoever wants to see the world governed according to his own ideas must strive for domination over men’s minds. It is impossible, in the long run, to subject men against their will to a regime that they reject."
Ludwig von Mises

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And make sure to make yourself a copy before it is.

Take a break from the scam-demic madness and listen to some Texas common sense.

US Crimes of the Week

Truthful headlines (and just one week’s worth) offering you more reasons to separate yourselves from The Regime’s madness:

Regime’s Virus Gestapo to Continue ‘Indefinitely’

They’ve been so successful at convincing American slaves their scam-demic is legitimate, why would they disband? They want to see what other tyrannical actions they can get away with.

Regime’s Airport Goons Hoard Masks

Even though their passenger traffic is down 95%...

Regime Communists Want to Give Everyone $2000/Month

But only until the scam-demic is over. Which is…never.

Loyalist Billionaire/Sociopath Hiring Snitches to Tattle on Reopened Businesses

I’ll make sure to reserve a spot for him on the same gallows that hangs Bill Gates.

Regime Gangsters Support Forced Testing of Tax Slaves in Their Homes

Prepare for a knock at the door from “eligible entities.”

And they’ll have “injection devices” just for you!

Regime Gangsters Want $3 Trillion More of Virus Pork

More bailouts and favors for those considered “essential, “front line heroes,” snail mailers, and wealthy donors and bribers.

Regime Spends Your Stolen Money Studying ‘Kitten Cannibalism’

You’ll have to read it to believe it.

Next Emperor/Pedophile Wants to ‘Catch and Release’ Border Invading Criminals

By all means, bring in lots of diseased parasites to keep the scam-demic going!

Regime War Goon Wants to Rescue Failed Terrorists

He probably wants to hire them. Or were they already in his employ?

Emperor Vetoes War Powers Limitation

He considers it “very insulting” that representatives of the people would limit his power to make war.

Regime Buying More Missiles to Use Against China

The largest military in the world claims there is a “missile gap.”

And these new missiles will be a nice complement to the Regime’s prick waving bombers.

It’s Official- Supreme Clowns-in-Gowns Flush Their Constitution Down the Toilet

You’ve all seen it done your entire lives. Now you’ve heard the soundtrack.

Regime Prick Waves Russia

They haven’t threatened Russia in that particular sea since the 1980’s.

This complements The Regime’s “quagmire creating” in Syria.

Regime Creates Record Debt

It increased by more that a trillion dollars in just 28 days.

Brain Dead Regime Gangster Sees Welfare as ‘Stimulus’

I guess it’s a stimulus to not bother looking for work. Your DC Daddy will take care of you.

Regime Adds 1000 New Subordinates

That’s 1000 new tyrants created to loot and rule you. That’s 1000 new thugs to arbitrarily declare you and your work as “non-essential.”

Why remain a suffering subject? Why do you need a “US?”

Isn’t it time for Texians to practice “DC-distancing?”

Secession, anyone?

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"For those that did not think things could get worse, it is obvious that allowing government to gain more and more power over these past decades has reached a pinnacle not expected by the dumbed-down masses. But the reality of this situation is that it can get much worse, and the tyranny that is now evident is not the final tyranny. There is much more to come in the future, and this has been openly stated by the politicians, their powerful masters, and those involved with government, as they do not fear the people any longer. That is why they have openly exposed their plans through live false-flag exercises for a long time, and continue to do so. Only the few real thinkers out there are noticing this, but the bulk of society ignores these warnings due mostly to indifference and ignorance."
Gary D. Barnett

"One thing demonstrated by this episode is the incompetence of governments in dealing with the virus. This is but an example of the incompetence of governments in dealing with everything else they are given powers to deal with.
A second thing being demonstrated is that the politicians, while unable to exercise good judgments on our behalf, are highly competent at devising stories critical of their opponents, while attempting to portray themselves as excellent and strong leaders who are free of blame. Politicians will also attempt to enact other parts of their agenda either as blackmail or by making irrelevant connections to the virus.
A third thing this episode shows with stark clarity is that governments do not give a damn about rights. Given the chance via some crisis, real or manufactured, governments will rapidly extend their powers and crush liberties right and left.
A fourth thing shown clearly is that major media are absolutely horrible. They stoke panic. Heavily influenced by political biases, they distort facts and reports. They are almost entirely unreliable in dealing with government powers. They are much closer to being propaganda arms of governments than independent journalists."
Michael Rozeff

"You can’t fix stupid and the CDC, like so many of the assisted living facilities for the eminently unemployable in Mordor on the Potomac, is filled to the brim with the intellectually lame, morally stunted and sociopathic scum that is the human coin of the realm in the Federal government.
We need to stop with all the data manipulation … algorithms… data homogenizing … smoothing … poor data quality, etc. Just stop. The purpose of all this data manipulation is political. It has nothing to do with reality or actual health."
It is only about control.
Bill Buppert

"The truth is that the 'experts' have no idea how much the lockdowns are even preventing the spread of disease or how employment and economic growth would be affected in the absence of coerced lockdowns. The lockdown proponents simply don’t have enough data to make the case for their position. They only know they desire to force people to abandon their jobs, abandon their shops, and indefinitely embrace a life on the dole. As a result, many will kill themselves. Many will overdose on drugs."
Ryan McMaken

"Population lockdown is an onerous, destructive, last-resort practice that is counterproductive as it eliminates the safety net our communities rely upon (doctors, hospitals, ambulances) and deprives the public of sunlight needed to produce natural vitamin D which is critical for immunity.  We now have a perpetual mandated population lockdown with no exit strategy in mind, which leads to public chaos.  Nutrition is the elephant in the room that modern medicine ignores."
Bill Sardi

"In so many words, Democrats want to “Keep America Sick”, 'Keep America Afraid', 'Keep America Masked', 'Keep Americans Unemployed', 'Keep Americans Locked Down', 'Keep Americans Indoors', and 'Drive Americans Crazy'. In the meantime they will cavort on their private beaches while eating gourmet ice cream and pass spending bills that raise indebtedness to bankruptcy levels.
Political campaigns often descend into baseness. The Democrats’ attempt to benefit at the expense of the lives of tens, even hundreds, of millions of our countrymen is evil."
Michael Rozeff

"I’ll simply say: ALL COVID-19 case numbers are meaningless.
Why? 
ONE: Researchers never properly discovered a new virus in China in the first place. Their claim of having done so is false.
TWO: The widespread diagnostic test for the virus in a patient, the PCR, is riddled with irreparable flaws. It spits out false-positives, because the test reacts to the presence of irrelevant germs that have nothing to do with a purported COVID. Most importantly the test has never been vetted, in the real world, for its claimed ability to detect whether a patient is ill or is going to become ill.
THREE: Many diagnoses of COVID in patients are based on no tests at all, but rather eyeball assessment, guesswork, unproven assumptions, outright lying, or, in China, CT scans of the lungs, which prove nothing about the presence of COVID or any other supposedly causative virus."
Jon Rappoport

"As I watch the current practice of governments releasing violent and predatory convicted criminals, lest they catch the flu, and arrest disobedient and patriotic hair salon and tavern owners, it appears to be nothing more than a poorly disguised mass destruction of the bourgeoisie class so hated by communist revolutionaries, engineered by communists at all levels of government under the pretense of 'safety'. The targeting of these businesses for destruction as 'non-essential' while handing the 'relief' money over to the corporate state 'approved' corporations (that harangue us with their Orwellian commercials about being in this together (as if!), and the 'New Normal' (for who??)) illustrates this more clearly every day. Also, the fact that the ruling class routinely flout the 'safety' edicts that the rest of us are forced to obey makes this whole 'pandemic' more ridiculous and patronizing."
Kathy Grable

"The people who want to add a censorship regime to a health crisis are more dangerous and more stupid by leaps and bounds than a president who tells people to inject disinfectant."
Matt Taibbi

"What sort of life do we think we are protecting? There is more to life than the avoidance of death. Life is a drink with friends. Life is a crowded football match or a live concert. Life is a family celebration with children and grandchildren. Life is companionship, an arm around one's back, laughter or tears shared at less than two metres. These things are not just optional extras. They are life itself. They are fundamental to our humanity, to our existence as social beings. Of course death is permanent, whereas joy may be temporarily suspended. But the force of that point depends on how temporary it really is."
Lord Sumption

"State planning killed close to a billion people in the 20th century. Led by the banning of DDT, the resurgence of malaria, the suppression of nuclear power, and the retardation of global growth, environmentalist excesses have already killed more people than environmental pollution ever did. Now the expert response to the coronavirus is on track to exceed even environmentalism in its vast damage of our civilization.
Now in the name of fighting COVID-19, we are destroying the monetary underpinnings of capitalist markets with untold trillions of dollars of wanton spending and crony bailouts. We are closing down much of the economy for months on end. We are jeopardizing food supplies and other medical services. We are giving up world leadership in technology to Communists in China. We are condoning a devastating blow to the economies of Third World countries that unlike the US cannot merely print dollars and expect people to take them."
George Gilder

"That most Western governments have now decided to emulate the Chinese dictatorship in imposing a severe lockdown of society should be a wake-up call for those innocent souls who still think, even after the show trial of Julian Assange, that the West still protects individual freedom. A dangerous and frightening political evolution is on the way in an already fragile political and economic system. The political consequences of the generalized confinement of millions of people in Europe will be of long-lasting consequence to the balance of power between state and society. Though the Western 'liberal democratic' order was never really one except in name, it is clear that a decisive step has now been taken away from it."
Finn Andreen

"When the state shuts down millions of private businesses but doesn’t lay off a single government employee, it’s not about your health. 
When the state puts you IN a jail cell for walking in a park with your child because it’s too dangerous, but lets criminals OUT of jail cells for their health… it’s not about your health. 
When the state tells you it’s dangerous to go golfing alone, fishing alone, or boating alone, but the governor can get his stage makeup and hair done for FIVE TV appearances a week… it’s not about your health"
Lori Hendry

"In mankind’s past battles against a long line of enemies, an unspoken rule took precedence, which is that people continued with their regular customs and traditions for as long as humanly possible. To halt the normal flow of life when confronted by an adversary was considered an admission of defeat. In our present fight against an invisible virus, however, the old rules of engagement have been rewritten. Unity and solidarity are no longer looked upon as invaluable assets; in fact, they’ve become potentially deadly liabilities. We would be foolish to think this attitude, borne out of understandable fear, will not have long-term repercussions."
Robert Bridge

"Applying the median level of natural reason that informs internet theorizing, GLOBAL COOLING is here. GLOBAL WARMING is dead. We do not need a Green New Deal. All we needed was a rather short period of shutting down, and not even complete shutting down either.
If we want to get back to a pristine environment in which all sorts of animals take over and temperatures go down, and the human population is reduced by at least 90%, all we have to do is allow our governments to make us stop working and place us under house arrest until vaccines are produced for coronaviruses. If we destroy the means of production, there’s a bonus. We won’t have to worry about socialists or communists taking over. There will be no significant means for the socialists to confiscate and control.
How easy it was to produce GLOBAL COOLING. All we had to do was cut our GDP by one-fourth to one-half."
Michael Rozeff

"I have never re-opened a business, let alone one that politicians have shuttered. I’m therefore unworthy to advise these brave souls who have. But despots are bullies, and appeasing bullies never works. Abiding by any arbitrary regulation legitimizes all of them: if you cede government the right to dictate how far apart your tables sit and whether you and your patrons must wear masks, you are tacitly agreeing that it may order you to close your doors as well."
Becky Akers

"As long as the propaganda continues and is accepted by the herd, which requires a continuance of fear, the more control that will evident.
This is exactly what has happened as of late due to a false pandemic called Covid-19, which in effect is simply a normal flu-like sickness blown completely out of proportion by design. The only way that this fraud could have advanced to this current level, is if the propaganda campaign not only fooled large numbers of people, but the entire world’s populations. This has never happened before in history, and that is part of the reason it has been such a successful takeover of humanity. The larger the lie, the more people that are captured due to that lie, and this lie has been the biggest deception of all time. No dictator, king, or murdering tyrant in the past could have ever conceived of such a world takeover as this, and would stand in awe at its scope."
Gary D. Barnett

"'Our boys' are not noble warriors protecting democracy, rescuing maidens, and righting wrongs. They are, like all soldiers, obedient and amoral killers. Pilots bombing Iraq or Syria know they are killing civilians. They do not care. If ordered to bomb Switzerland, they would do it. This is the nature of all armies. Glamorizing this most reprehensible trades is just a means of usefully stimulating the pack instinct which we often call patriotism.
The militarily is America’s worst enemy. It does enormous damage to the United States while providing almost no benefit. Start with the war on Vietnam that cost hugely in money and lives, ours and theirs, with no benefit. Iraq: high cost, no benefit. Afghanistan: High cost, no benefit. Syria: High cost, no benefit."
Fred Reed

"Natural Law is based on right and wrong, and is set in stone. There is right and there is wrong, and the two can never overlap. One of the major problems we face as a people is that many believe that right and wrong are dependent on time and space, on circumstance, or are interchangeable due to human desires. This thinking is the death knell of peaceful anarchy and freedom, and without a collective acceptance of this truth, any society seeking freedom is doomed.
It may be useful to put this into perspective so that no confusion is evident. Government is a cult. All the people that participate in government are the cult priests, and all those who accept government, and live its by rules and vote in its elections, are the cult followers. In other words, government is the church, and the people that accept government are the congregation. This is the American religion. It should be abolished!"
Gary D. Barnett

"America’s national government has moved way beyond a political spoils system. America has become a piñata: Everybody gets a crack at it. Presidents and other elected officials pass the big stick around as a reward to those who help keep them in charge of the piñata party."
Charles Goyette

"Politicians are neither statesman nor public persons of noble intent; they are simply a self-selected class of psycho-/socio-paths whose only agenda is the monopoly of the power to enforce what I just described.  Despite all the court historians and contemporary mouthpieces who sing paeans to government and the drones who run it, the agenda remains the same: the destruction of individual self-governance, direction and volition and the harnessing of the captured citizenry to the whims and will of the rulers.  You have been lied to and civics class in the government education system then and now has been a descriptive mechanism to rationalize yoking individuals into the collective hive of the state."
Bill Buppert

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it."
Albert Einstein

"On a voluntary basis, diversity will not be regarded as anything worthwhile in and of itself. If diversity has a positive price, it’s because it proxies for some factor of knowledge, brainpower, intelligence, training, accomplishment or skill; but it won’t be because skin color, sex, religion, ethnicity or some such thing has inherent value. Goldman Sachs will no longer underwrite new company issues unless their boards meet its diversity criterion. It has its reasons for boarding this bandwagon, and it has even claimed that companies with diverse boards outperform those without them. A serious study will not show that value will be enhanced merely by hiring a woman for the board or a transgender or a bisexual or an Eskimo."
Michael Rozeff

"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Frank Herbert

"A lot of people believe that China has a communist system—where the state owns and controls everything. They call it Communist China. That was the case 40 years ago. But today it’s complete and utter nonsense to believe that.
In fact, China is much more of a free-market country at this point—with much less regulation on economic activities and restrictions on businesses—than the US. I realize that will come as a shock to most Americans, but it’s true."
Doug Casey

"The martial urge is deep in the steroid chemistry. Little boys want to play with guns. If you force dolls upon them, they shoot each other with dolls. When grown up, to the extent they ever are, they fight wars. If there is no reason for war, as for example now, they invent reasons. The Russians are coming. The Chinese are coming. North Korea will nuke us. So will Iran. We must gird our loins and fight, fight, fight.
It is the behavior of a pack of dogs. For example, when an obsolete lumbering propeller-driven Soviet-era bomber approaches American air space, fighter pilots sprint for their planes and roar into the air–loud martial noises are important to men–to intercept the intruder, bow wow, arf, woof. They cannot in sanity think that the dread Russkis have sent a single slow plane to destroy America, but that, presumably due to nucleotide arrangement, is how they behave."
Fred Reed

"To power seekers, the most attractive government is some form of collectivism. It can be any name, but it must be collectivism. Collectivism is ideal for government expansion at the expense of the people. Collectivism attracts hard-wired psychopaths who use the system for cronyism and their aggrandizement. They care not one whit about constitutional government and the rule of law. They only care about a political facade to hide their chicanery.
The result is the collectivist American system that has gradually adopted the 10 planks of communism without Americans even being aware of it."
Bob Livingston

"Good ideas don’t require constant reinforcement, and they certainly don’t need force for others to accept them. And good ideas don’t warrant endless propaganda to bait approval and adoption. Bad ideas, or ideas that have an obvious agenda, need to be bolstered by linking those ideas to 'experts' as a way of forcing unconditional belief. The tyranny of experts is a top-down approach to force others to accept rules and laws without question."
Karen De Coster

"The countries of the Western world are in a state of schizophrenic overconfidence and self-doubt. Their leaders persist in proclaiming 'our values' as the model for the rest of humanity, while their own people are increasingly divided and disillusioned. 
The 18th century was the century of the liberated mind. The 19th century was the century of Great Men. The 20th century was the century of the common man. And the 21st century’s looks like it may become a negation of all of them. The century of nobody at all.
Irrationality and censorship restore chains to thought. Great Men are only statues to be demolished. The common man, once hailed as the hero of a radiant future, has been degraded to a superfluous nuisance, probably racist and homophobic. Ordinary folks have been reassigned from the glorious concept of 'the people' to their derogatory redefinition under the rubric of 'populism' [and Trump deplorables].
People are reduced to 'consumers,' while being told that by consuming, they are destroying the planet. Identity Politics has not only turned people against each other by group, but its late manifestation, Vegan speciesism, even turns people against people altogether, for being an overprivileged life form."
Diana Johnstone

"A man’s natural rights are his own, against the whole world; and any infringement of them is equally a crime, whether committed by one man, or by millions; whether committed by one man, calling himself a robber, (or by any other name indicating his true character,) or by millions, calling themselves a government."
Lysander Spooner

"The more laws and restrictions there are, 
The poorer people become.
The more rules and regulations,
The more thieves and robbers."
Lao Tsu

"The state lies in all the tongues of good and evil, and whatever it says is lies, and whatever it has, it has stolen, everything it is, is false, it bites with stolen teeth, and it bites often, it is false down to its bowels."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"The state is God, deifies arms and prisons. The worship of the state is the worship of force. There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt, or vile men. The worst evils which mankind ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments. The state can be and has often been in the course of history the main source of mischief and disaster."
Ludwig von Mises

"Creativity always comes as a surprise to us. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t need it, and planning [socialism] would work."
Albert Hirschman

"To understand political power right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man."
John Locke

US Crimes of the Week

Truthful headlines (and just one week’s worth) offering you more reasons to separate yourselves from The Regime’s madness:

Regime Disease Goon Wants to ‘Get Rid of all the Whites in the United States’

Suddenly, there is someone more despicable than Fauci the Fraud.

Regime Controlled Media Films ‘Fake’ Patients at Testing Center

Got to look busy to keep the scam-demic going!

Emperor Pressuring ‘Intelligence’ Goons to Blame China for Virus

Sounds eerily familiar, does it not?

"When in trouble politically, governments have traditionally conjured up a foreign enemy to explain why things are going wrong."

Regime’s Disease Goons Caught Lying About Virus Death Count

You have to do your research on these sorts of crimes, because the Regime Controlled Media certainly won’t let you know about it.

Regime Clown-in-Gown Approves Total Surveillance of Baltimore

His reasoning is the previous Clown-in-Gown decisions allowed much worse surveillance than this, so…you shouldn’t be upset about it.

Emperor All Set to Vaccinate You with Bill Gate’s Poison

Which of his many agencies full of goons will be used to forcibly stick you?

Ex-Emperor/War Criminal Encourages Subjects to Accept COVID Slavery

Thanks, Shrub Boy, for reminding us we still need to prosecute you for your war crimes and send you to the hangin’ gallows…

Billions of Your Stolen Money Going to Bail Out Communist Indoctrination Centers

“Hey, essential “diversity directors” have to eat too!”

Regime’s Hired Killers Want Wearable ‘COVID Detector’

They (and eventually you) will wear it around their neck.

"The perfect solution will be designed so the device’s output—a determination on whether the person poses an infection risk—can be easily decipherable by non-medical or -technical personnel and to be 'minimally-invasive' for the wearer."

Regime’s War Goon Looking for a New Way to ‘Punish’ Iran

He thinks he can stop anyone from selling them arms.

Russia has other ideas.

Regime Clown-in-Gown Robs Truth Tellers to Pay Baby Killers

Uncovering the truth about criminals is now considered "racketeering."

Selling baby parts from murdered babies is, well… "OK."

Regime Prick Waves China

This latest weiner waggles are classified as “deterrence missions.”

Regime Clown-in-Gown Reinstates Background Checks for Ammo Purchases in California

You must get a background check each time you purchase ammo!

Some good news for the resistance:

Imperial City May Not ‘Open’ for Months!

Enjoy it while you can!

Why remain a suffering subject? Why do you need a “US?”

Isn’t it time for Texians to practice “DC-distancing?”

Secession, anyone?

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"It has been forgotten in this day and age of total fear that our bodies, not governments, are our defense against viral agents. Maybe a few will learn from this fakery that germs are our friends. Unless our bodies are exposed to germs and viruses, natural defenses against sickness disappear, leaving the body vulnerable to every sort of germ and virus. Listening to these political trimmers therefore is detrimental to our  
Coronaviruses are not a threat to healthy humans with strong immune systems. Viruses cannot replicate in that environment, which means symptoms and sickness are rarely present. In addition, sunshine and high vitamin D levels are of great importance, as is diet, exercise, sleep, and relaxing calm. What this means is that government and its idiotic mandates are actually killing many people, and those deaths are due to the very governing body that is lying about how to protect your health. They are in fact causing much death, much more so than this so-called Covid-19."
Gary D. Barnett

"The war that the state is conducting is not against a virus, but against the people who produce and create value in this country, against free men and women, and the very concept of liberty.  Citizens are rounding themselves up, walking in lines, imprisoning themselves, and purchasing their own tracking devices, and so in practicing a national lockdown, in dealing with the enemy (us!), the state has done well in this current round.
The enemy of the state is not a virus.  The government reaction to this particular set of viruses this year and last, in nearly all countries, has been to assume a war footing, complete with state propaganda, martial law, economic disruption, fear and an indefinite suspension of Constitutional protections that free men expect.  So what is this really about?  Practicing for future biowar? Or just maintaining the health of increasingly pathetic, corrupted, unrepresentative, and financially broken government?"
Karen Kwiatkowski

"It becomes obvious that the mega–bailout package will effectively result in an increase in the quantity of money in the economy. Sound economics tells us what the consequences are: the increase in the quantity of money will result in higher goods prices, thereby lowering the purchasing power of money. In other words: the mega–bailout package boils down to 'money printing'—to an inflationary policy. Again, sound economic tells us that inflation is a policy redistributing income and wealth among people: it does not create a win-win situation; it creates winners and losers."
Dr. Thorsten Polleit

"Ok, enough with the 'social distancing" lingo.  It’s antisocial distancing, exactly the opposite of what the 'public health' bureaucratic scammers want you to say.  Don’t fall for their Orwellian mind-control games."
Tom DiLorenzo

"There is a standard distribution of sociopaths across time and space. It’s a function of Pareto’s Law, better known as the 80-20 rule. 20% of the people do 80% of the work. Another 20% are responsible for 80% of the crime. 20% of the population always winds up with 80% of the wealth. And so forth, through all areas of human endeavor.
This observation can be represented by a bell-shaped curve – a 'standard distribution' – with a small minority at each extreme, but the large majority in the middle. The people who will take us to a police state are sociopaths – criminal personalities who don’t respect the liberty or property of others. And sociopaths gravitate towards government, and eventually come to control it.
My view is that 80% of human beings are basically decent, get along, go along types. 20% are what you might call potential trouble sources, that can go either way. But then you take 20% of that 20%, and you’re dealing with the sociopaths.
When social conditions reach a certain stage, these really bad guys come out from under their rocks and take advantage of the situation. We’re seeing that right now in the US, across the political spectrum. Just as we’ve seen in the past in hundreds of places throughout history."
Doug Casey

"Closing the schools and colleges was a mistake because it retarded the spread of viral 'herd immunity' among non–vulnerable young people. But the economy may benefit if online education and home schools relieve millennials 'herd immunity' to reason and common sense and release their creativity on the frontiers of the new economy."
George Gilder

"Through all the important questions about science, we are failing to ask the most salient public policy question: What authority does a governor or county official have to suspend all personal liberty and property rights of even healthy individuals and business owners indefinitely without due process? The answer is, of course, that absolutely no such authority exists.
There is no greater right than the ability to move freely without restriction. We’ve never experienced a time in our 400 years on this continent, even under King George, when the movement of the entire people of a state was restricted this severely for this long, especially without due process. While the people who form a society give up certain powers in order to empower a government to protect public safety, this core freedom has never been ceded.
It’s funny how the legal mistakes made by our governments have merged with the scientific mistakes they continue to make. The reason why there has never been any power to shut down an entire state’s economy and liberties for a public health crisis is because, scientifically, there is no sensible approach to countering a virus by locking down the healthy, without herd immunity."
Daniel Horowitz

"The foundation of civilization is constructed on the basic principle that when we all come together, the synergy that emerges is greater than the sum of the individuals. As long as we all benefit, civilization expands. Once corruption enters and we begin to see the divide pitting one group against another, the cycle of civilization turns down. The social distancing is yet another step toward dividing and destabilizing our civilization. The Trump administration has cut off funding for the WHO and threatens it may be permanent. The WHO should be dissolved for it has been compromised with conflicts of interest and its recommendations have been undermining not just the economy but the very foundation of civilization."
Martin Armstrong

"This plan totally depended on evangelical pastors and churches sheepishly going along with it. This they would not have done had a liberal Democrat been in the White House. Are you kidding? Commanding churches to cancel their services—no communions, no baptisms, no Easter services—a total shutdown of houses of worship nationwide? Are you kidding me? You and I both know that if Hillary Clinton were president and she had said that no more than ten people could assemble in church—or anywhere else, for that matter—pastors and Christians would have protested in the streets and would have defiantly continued their public services en masse. But, because Donald Trump issued the declaration, almost the entire evangelical world bowed the knee to the state without a whimper.
The rest was easy. Restaurant closures, business closures, school closures, travel restrictions, rationed medical care and empty hospitals: Once evangelicals had been neutralized, there was no resistance."
Chuck Baldwin

"There is also already an outcry by people claiming it is idiotic to re-open nail and hair salons while people are dying. None of these people seem to realize or acknowledge that unlike being forced to close, these business are not being forced to reopen. Also unlike the fact people were forcefully prevented from patronizing these businesses, they are not now being forced to patronize them. The only difference is now the businesses are being allowed to be open and people allowed to patronize them. In other words, nothing more sinister than the restoration of individual choice. As usual the horror of horrors for the busybodies and alarmists is that some people may actually choose to act in some way that they personally feel is irresponsible. Isn’t this always the case with statists of any political stripe?"
Greg Privette

"Using victims to create false heroes has now been elevated to an art form by politicians, the corporate media and mega-corporations to push whatever agenda supports their narrative. The propaganda machine is their most useful tool, as decades of dumbing down the public through government school indoctrination has created millions of pliable useful idiots who will believe anything presented by 'experts' on the boob tube. The fear and panic created by politicians and the media about a virus only marginally more dangerous than the common flu is the perfect representation of this power over reality.
Lies, backed by an unceasing stream of propaganda and fear, are being used to panic the masses into willingly abandon their freedoms, liberties and rights for the chains of false safety, security, and state control over every aspect of their lives. It is astonishing to watch in real time as a vast swath of America cowers in their homes, as demanded by their authoritarian elected leaders, while their livelihoods and net worth are purposely destroyed to benefit the .1% ruling class."
Jim Quinn

"In a market economy, every business is essential because every type of industry relies on, stimulates, and necessitates the other industries. And of course, every business is essential to the owner of the business, the family of the owner, the employees who work at the business, and the customers who patronize the business.
Once it is accepted that the government can decide which businesses are essential, then no reasonable or logical argument can be made against the government deciding which products and services offered by businesses are essential.
Just as all lives matter, so all businesses matter."
Laurence Vance

"The people making the decisions are not the ones who will suffer their consequences. Government entities are–by design–not accountable for their actions. And that is the whole problem. What we are facing right now is not the threat of a deadly pandemic. We are facing the threat of a deadly paradigm.
It is a paradigm that tells us that the best way to deal with threats–especially big, scary threats that could impact us all and potentially kill a lot of people–is for a central authority to make decisions that are then imposed by force on everyone else. (The pushers of this paradigm like to leave out the whole lack of accountability thing.)
To a panicked population, this might sound reasonable. 'Freedom and individual rights are all well and good when things are fine,' people may tell themselves, 'but this is an emergency! We need the parental figure of the state to step in and do something'!"
Bretigne Shaffer

"The fear of the virus is an irrational fear.
In just one week, this became an indelible lifelong fear.
A sneeze in a crowded theatre will now send shivers down your spine.  We are now afraid of a sneeze.  And the sneezer feels guilty.
Gone is “God bless you” or 'Gesundheit'."
Bill Sardi

"When someone dies in this country right now they’re not talking about the high blood pressure, the diabetes, the stroke. They say they died from COVID. We’ve been to hundreds of autopsies. You don’t talk about one thing, you talk about comorbidities. COVID was part of it, it is not the reason they died folks. When I’m writing up my death report I’m being pressured to add COVID.
Why is that? Why are we being pressured to add COVID? To maybe increase the numbers, and make it look a little bit worse than it is. We’re being pressured in-house to add COVID to the diagnostic list when we think it has nothing to do with the actual cause of death. The actual cause of death was not COVID, but it’s being reported as one of the disease processes and being added to the death list. COVID didn’t kill them, 25 years of tobacco use killed."
Edward Peter Stringham

"You’ll never hear a governor say 'I can’t let people die. . .' of heart attacks. Or hurricanes. Or diabetes. 
They’ll never order a complete shut down of the economy because of a spike in automobile accidents.
These politicians are perfectly fine for people to die of every other possible way, including pneumonia (as long as it wasn’t caused by Covid).
But death from Covid? Unacceptable! 
It’s truly bizarre. And they’re willing to destroy everything-- the economy, individual liberty-- just so they don’t look flat-footed or get blamed for Covid deaths.
Sorry, but that’s not what leadership is all about. You’re not supposed to factor your personal approval ratings into a decision-making process. 
Leadership is not a popularity contest. And sometimes it demands the heavy responsibility of asking for sacrifice… asking others to take a risk.
But what have we been asked to sacrifice? Nothing. Stay home and watch Netflix. Take your free government money.
That’s not leadership. And that’s not a tough decision."
Simon Black

"Bear that in mind, all ye dissidents: the State cannot legally enforce whims, whether they originate with the governor or the quacks at the public health department. Only duly-enacted legislation is 'law.' (Unfair, unjust, tyrannical, yes: that is the nature of positive law.)"
Becky Akers

"Americans are uniquely privileged, to the point of simply imagining they can stay home for months and months without suffering severe economic hardship as a result. Our unique privilege is delusion, the mentality that America is rich and will remain rich without particular effort on our part. Abundance simply materializes around us, regardless of incentives, and the job of politicians is to rearrange this abundance more equitably."
Jeff Deist

"Some nations are on lockdown, some aren’t. Some order populations to wear masks, some don’t. But honestly, they don’t even know how many people have Covid-19 or have died from it. Don’t fall for the show of confidence; it’s guesswork at this point.
The lockdowns are an obvious sign. Telling entire populations not to go anywhere is not a plan; it’s a lack of one. Think about all the times you’ve screamed 'Don’t move.' Did you shout it because you had a strategy, or because you needed time to come up with one? Every time a lockdown is extended, it’s an admission that the authorities need a little more thinking time. 
That’s why one characteristic of this crisis has been the array of methods used to say 'We don’t know' without actually saying it. Governments deflect to the science, the science relies on the numbers, and journalists try to sound like they know what should be done while blaming the government. And on it goes."
Simon Rite

"Why aren’t the families of veterans protesting the violation of our freedoms by the state governments? Didn’t veterans fight and in some cases die for our freedoms? And what about the current members of the military? Aren’t we always told that they fight for our freedoms? They sure are lax on the job."
Laurence Vance

"As Americans cower in their self-made prisons, as they are ordered to wear harmful masks, are not allowed to gather together, are not allowed to work or do business, are forced in many cases to be physically violated by 'healthcare' goons, are not allowed to travel, are monitored by drones, harassed by pathetic criminal cops, spied upon at every level, or tattled on and 'shamed' by moronic and worthless citizens, do they feel good about the fact that they have a constitution? Do any actually think that they are protected by such fakery?
Until Americans can regain the small amount of brain power necessary to understand basic rights, until they can understand that they have no obligation whatsoever to comply with government mandates, until they look around and see that they have become slaves, then this coronavirus fraud will continue to worsen until breaking away from this totalitarian abuse will be nearly impossible."
Gary D. Barnett

"I admit that I myself am far from having a complete command of every topic I touch on, but my knowledge of my subject is always greater than the interest or the understanding of my auditors. You see, there is one very good thing about mankind; the mediocre masses make very few demands of the mediocrities of a higher order, submitting stupidly and cheerfully to their guidance."
Alfred de Vigny

"The political process is a facade of government that satisfies the quest for political choices. It is an illusion unrelated to reality and political participation by the people. It is, however, the perfect system for keeping the people focused on empty nonsense year after year. People totally misunderstand the nature of government. Otherwise they would know that there is no such thing as political choices or political freedom.
We are oppressed by government and most people are unaware of it because they themselves have assumed government morality from childhood as outlined above. It is impossible to change what you believe in your heart. If you are taught that democracy means freedom of political choices, you never question it, and the facade of politics serves for reality. Any challenge to this paradigm is written off as nuttery or conspiracy.
The political process is a merry-go-round of phony politicians and platforms that can guarantee only one thing to the person; that is, eternal diversion, deception and exhaustion."
Bob Livingston

"Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the hoard, the 'treasure hard to attain.' He alone has the claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives some faith and trust…in the ability of the self to sustain him, for everything that menaced him from inside he has made his own. He has acquired the right to believe that he will be able to overcome all future threats by the same means. He has arrived at an inner certainty which makes him capable of self-reliance."
Carl Jung

"If the West is to survive, it has to regain the things that made it successful. That means 90% of the government should be eliminated. There’s very little need for organized coercion in a high tech world. In fact, it greatly compounds dangers in every way.
Society would get on much better if economic regulations ceased to exist. The Federal Reserve is unnecessary; gold should be reinstituted as day-to-day money. The US should withdraw its military from its 800 or so bases around the world. By simply eliminating these things—not by doing more—the US economy and technology would boom. But because the opposite is happening, the US is declining."
Doug Casey

"Power does not feed you; it eats you."
Stefan Molyneux

"If our or any social/political system were working properly, socialism wouldn’t last 10 minutes on a freely-chosen and voluntary basis. At most there would be small communities destined to fail. The only way in which socialism and communism retain any presence whatsoever is because they are forced upon us.
The remarkable fact is that socialism still remains highly visible within our current social and political system. We are not free, because if we were we’d not voluntarily or willingly have such elements. They’d fail and we’d reject them. The socialists have so far successfully infiltrated our governments, which have defects all their own, and we as peoples have supported their programs as well as been unable to stop them.
Democratic republican governments of all sorts have proven highly vulnerable to socialist appeals. It’s an outcome of their makeup, their constitutions, and their powers. Although voluntary socialism fails, coercive socialism has succeeded in gripping our lives. Socialists today are all coercive socialists, just as conservatives are coercive conservatives and liberals are coercive liberals."
Michael Rozeff

"The basic assumption that you have a right to get something from somebody else means you have to endorse the concept of theft."
Rand Paul

"The only system of real freedom under natural law is anarchy. Anarchy simply means without rulers or masters, and therefore without government. Living together without aggression, without force, and in harmony is the only way to be truly free. This requires that individuals take full responsibility for themselves and the reality of life, and instead of bowing to a government master, they bow to no one.
What does all this mean, and what is the solution to the bondage of man? Acceptance of the truth is paramount, and without that acceptance, no progress can be forthcoming. Currently, the human species is going backward, and continues to deteriorate at an accelerating pace. It is not just government or rulers that have caused our slavery; it is all of us allowing it to happen. The government is made up of people, not gods. The only way that government can act as kings is if the people allow it. It is up to each individual to quit lying to himself, and understand that allowing a system where slavery exists is no different than being the slave master. Indifference is a human flaw, and the unbridled apathy that exists today is a direct assault on the soul of man."
Gary D. Barnett

"We say 'never again,' when we visit Holocaust memorials, we condemn the internment of Japanese Americans, and we vow to treat all people as equals, never to hate an entire group of people because of their race or ethnicity or sexual preference.
And all of that is beautiful. But it completely misses the point. The atrocities of the century before ours did not take place because a lot of people hated a lot of other people. Those atrocities were the product of all-powerful states that could do whatever they wanted to the people living under them. Not a single one of the living nightmares of the Nazis or the Soviets, of Pol Pot or Mao or any of the others could ever have happened without total state power. And once a state has that kind of power, there is very little that anyone living under it can do to stop it."
Bretigne Shaffer

"It is amazing how the ruling elites have so far managed to keep the show running. But there can be no doubt that the day of reckoning must eventually come, and when it does I see two likely scenarios of how to escape the danger of civil war. The first one is the strong man variant, an authoritarian regime that tries to hold all things together by means of centralized, dictatorial powers. And the second variant is that of decentralization: of secession, separation, and disaggregation so as to approach the ideal of a natural order. Naturally, the second variant is the one favored by libertarians (and recommended by Mises). Yet to make this variant win, libertarians have to prepare the ground. The public must be educated about the economic and social advantages of small, competing political units, and it is necessary to find and nurture potential charismatic leaders for the various decentralist and secessionist causes."
Hans-Hermann Hoppe

"The two most important lessons I learned from my 40 years in international financial markets, lessons that can also be applied to politics and to life in general, are to never make any decision based on emotion or ideology and to never, ever trust the news. Today’s media are exponentially worse than they were in the 1980s and 1990s. They no longer provide news. What they provide are stories that are around 80 percent ideology and opinion,10 percent lies and spin, and 10 percent fact."
Mitchell Feierstein

"All political action is simply seeking to eliminate cannibals by eating them."
Bill Buppert

"'Western values' are constantly invoked, but what are these values?  They are not the values that made the West what it is, or rather was.  These values are rejected.  Free speech is out if it challenges official explanations whether the government’s or the left’s or uses any words that can be misrepresented as 'hate speech.'  Democracy is out as demonstrated by the anti-democratic formation of the European Union. Truth is out as it is 'offensive.'  Rational inquiry is regarded as denial of emotion-based proclamations.  It goes on and on. Government repression is most significant not against violent acts of rebellion but against Julian Assange for exercising press freedom to convey information to the public."
Paul Craig Roberts

"When individuals are bunched into groups assigned intrinsic qualities—from victimhood to racism—normal human ties of mutual concern, shared purpose, comprehension and compassion are severed. In a grotesque development, new gender identities are invented, whose 'cause' overshadows the real problems of genuinely disadvantaged people. Economic issues are forgotten as groups mobilize solely to police attitudes.  Billionaires prosper more than ever before, while down below people bicker over safe spaces and toilet use."
Diana Johnstone

"The fundamental social phenomenon is the division of labor and its counterpart human cooperation. Experience teaches man that cooperative action is more efficient and productive than isolated action of self-sufficient individuals. The natural conditions determining man’s life and effort are such that the division of labor increases output per unit of labor expended.
We conceive what incentive induced people not to consider themselves simply as rivals in a struggle for the appropriation of the limited supply of means of subsistence made available by nature. We realize what has impelled them and permanently impels them to consort with one another for the sake of cooperation. Every step forward on the way to a more developed mode of the division of labor serves the interests of all participants."
Ludwig von Mises

"Had Wikileaks been available in 2001 and 2002, global awareness of government and corporate lies relating to the Iraq war alone would have saved lives, protected the environment, and slowed or stopped the new Cold Wars that still invigorate Western foreign policy. The truth is owned by all of us; those willing to step up and risk careers, reputations, and even their own lives to speak truth to power are a small, and sadly, expendable number.  Julian Assange and his vision of simple transparency, for the people, with technical protection for witnesses to evil, has saved lives, improved governance, and elevated the concept of honesty everywhere.  He is the very product of the Enlightenment, a shining knight of the best traditions of European and American values."
Karen Kwiakowski

"A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
Mark Twain

"Now that freedom has been abolished in America you all hereby have my permission to shout 'Bullshit!' at any member of the military, military veteran, or neocon blabbermouth on television who says the military is 'defending our freedoms'."
Tom DiLorenzo