The Greatest Generation defeated fascism so that their children, the Boomers, could become the most selfish generation in history, drown their descendents in debt, and plunge their nation into state dependency and … fascism. (Today we use more polite words such as crony capitalism, corporatism, public/private partnerships, et cetera, but they are technically the same.) A nation that [...]
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John Lennon — Do Everything for Peace
“Ask them to show you one revolution that turned out to be what it promised militantly … The thing is to protest — but protest nonviolently. They’ve got all the weapons, they’ve got all the money and they know how to fight violence because they’ve been doing it for thousands of years — suppressing us. [...]
Thomas Paine — The Dupes of War
“War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.” – Thomas Paine
Broken Windows and the March to War
In the movie The Fifth Element, protagonist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg perfectly explains The Broken Window Fallacy (see below), first described by Frédéric Bastiat in his 1850 essay Ce qu’on voit et ce qu’on ne voit pas (That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen). Zorg demonstrates how tyrants use this misunderstanding to justify all types [...]
John T. Flynn — Beware Bipartisan Calls for Increased Regulation
“One of the most baffling phenomena of fascism is the almost incredible collaboration between men of the extreme Right and the extreme Left in its creation. The explanation lies at this point. Both Right and Left joined in this urge for regulation. The motives, the arguments, and the forms of expression were different but all [...]
Another OWS Misfire
A recent YouTube video (below) suggests that Occupy Wall Street protesters can take their grievances to the banks directly by resurrecting the old idea of sending back the postage paid envelopes in credit card solicitations with political messages enclosed along with stuff to make the postage more expensive — like wood shims or roofing shingles. Sounds like a [...]
Not So Occupied
Apparently, protesters escape to their capitalist creature comforts at night. Such decadence. The thermal images that prove 90% of tents in the Occupy camp in London are left EMPTY overnight — Daily Mail
Wealth Destruction — By Any Means Necessary
Governments destroy wealth. It’s what they do. This is why it is always mildly amusing (and sad) to watch people protest for the reduction or elimination of “Waste, Fraud and Abuse.” These three things are a permanent feature of government. They will grow or shrink in direct proportion to the size of government. The people [...]
William Graham Sumner — Struggling to Live off the Labor of Others
“All history is only one long story to this effect: Men have struggled for power over their fellow men in order that they might win the joys of earth at the expense of others, and might shift the burdens of life from their own shoulders upon those of others.” – William Graham Sumner h/t lawrence [...]
The Very Best Form of Socialism
All Peoples — regardless of race or heritage — who desire a permanent state of freedom should study the history of slavery. Slavery is, of course, the natural inclination of the State. The State will constantly contrive a way to create slavery. Since it is not currently possible for the State to do this overtly, they will [...]
