Government is the shepherd
“After having thus successively taken each member of the community in its powerful grasp and fashioned him at will, the supreme power then extends its arm over the whole community. It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville
[Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clerel, le Comte de Tocqueville] (1805-1859) French historian. Source: Democracy in America, Vol. II (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), Chap. 6
The value of paper money
“The value of paper money is precisely the value of a politician’s promise, as high or low as you put that; the value of gold is protected by the inability of politicians to manufacture it.”
– Sir William Rees-Mogg
It’s a numbers game
[From a May 20th New American article by Brian Farmer]
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to “the reasonable” Muslim demands for their “religious rights”, they also get the other components under the table, here’s how it works:
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness. [Examples: United States, Canada, Australia]
At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs. [Examples: United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark]
From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They will push for halal (clean by Islamic standards) foods, along with threats for failure to comply. [Examples: The Netherlands, Sweden, France]
At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris car burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam ill result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam- Mohammed cartoons). [Examples: Kenya, Israel, India]
After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and church and synagogue burning. [Example: Ethiopia]
At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare. [Examples: Lebanon, Chad, Bosnia]
From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels. [Examples: Sudan, Qatar, Albania]
…It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.
Built on sand
“The monetary managers are fond of telling us that they have substituted “responsible money management” for the gold standard. But there is no historic record of responsible paper money management … The record taken as a whole is one of hyperinflation, devaluation and monetary chaos.”
– Henry Hazlitt
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Consent or be shot
“The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this – that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.”
– Lysander Spooner
(1808-1887) Political theorist, activist, abolitionist
“The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that the pickpocket doesn’t get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to himself.”
– Joseph Sobran
(1946-2010) Columnist
“[T]his is why the tyrants are moving so quickly to take away our guns. Because they know in their hearts that if they continue the way they’ve been going, boxing Americans into smaller and smaller corners, leaving us no freedom to decide how to raise and school and discipline our kids, no freedom to purchase (or do without) the medical care we want on the open market, no freedom to withdraw $2,500 from our own bank accounts (let alone move it out of the country) without federal permission, no freedom even to arrange the dirt and trees on our own property to please ourselves … if they keep going down this road, there are going to be a lot more Carl Dregas, hundreds of them, thousands of them, fed up and not taking it any more, a lot more pools of blood drawing flies in the municipal parking lots, a lot more self-righteous government weasels who were “only doing their jobs” twitching their death-dances in the warm afternoon sun … and soon.”
– Vin Suprynowicz
(1950-) American columnist, author
Source: Live Free or Die: How Many More Carl Dregas?, September 21, 1997.
Clinton never questioned during State Department Benghazi probe
[Excerpt from The New American . This is a little too rich. The U.S. is surprised to be attacked by Arabs on 9/11/12, and no one is at fault! Least of all Hillary!]
“The retired diplomat who led the State Department investigation into last year’s attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi defended on TV interview programs Sunday the decision not to question former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Former Ambassador Thomas J. Pickering said the Accountability Review Board, created by the department to review the events surrounding the attack, determined that responsibility for what happened fell below the secretary’s level. The panel also did not question Clinton’s two deputies because it had concluded mistakes were made by lower-level officials…”
