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"Your life? It just plain isn't ours to rule. And by that, let me make it clear that we mean your life is not ours to administer, command, conduct, control, curb, decree, dictate, direct, dominate, govern, lead, manage, order, overrule, regulate, reign, restrain, run, sway, or take over."
http://www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe051215.html
"The Bill of Rights is, as best understood, an anti-government document. Its main purpose is not to call upon the government to provide rights; it is rather a list of restrictions on federal authority, spelling out some particular rights that the government shall not violate. ... Human liberty is a natural right. It existed before the Bill of Rights. It will exist after the Bill of Rights. It exists wherever it is left free to exist. Those ten amendments supposedly protect liberty, but they are not the origin of liberty, no matter what anyone says to the contrary."
http://lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory101.html
"It is the result of four years of hard work by Feingold and others who recognized that the fight to fix the Patriot Act would have to be a long-term struggle. Some members of Congress were swayed by Feingold's constant pressure on Patriot Act issues, and by the fact that the senator was easily reelected in 2004 after a campaign in which he highlighted his opposition to the measure and his concern for the Constitution."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=43115
"[T]hose in government -- from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions -- do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want. They have hired vast teams of government lawyers to twist and torture the plain meaning of the Fourth Amendment to justify their aggrandizement of power to themselves. They vote for legislation they have not read and do not understand. Their only fear is being overruled by judges. In the case of the Patriot Act, they should be afraid."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/napolitano2.html
"I don't want this to be a case of blogs running amok with foggy details. I think Maye ought to be exonerated on the facts. So before I go on with new information, I'd like to put up a post that aims to keep everyone on the same page. Let's start with misconceptions, inaccuracies, and clarifications." (TheAgitator.com also has an archive, catalog or clearinghouse page of posts on the Maye case.)
http://www.theagitator.com/archives/026002.php
"Some editorials called for an independent investigation of the shooting. This is a triumph of hope over experience, given how such investigations over the past 15 years almost always whitewashed federal action. Perhaps some truth will seep out as a result of jurisdictional conflicts between the Federal Air Marshal Service and the FBI or Miami police. Even in that case, if the media continue acting like South Park's Officer Barbrady--'Nothing to see here, folks, just move along'--the odds of any such revelation go from slim to none."
http://www.reason.com/hod/jb121405.shtml
"The death penalty is the definitive expression of what the power of the imperium means. It means that the State claims a special right to control you, to beat you, to tie you down, and to kill you, at its own pleasure and discretion, a claim that would be universally met with indignation and horror if it came from anyone else, if it weren't covered with the robes and the crown."
http://radgeek.com/gt/2005/12/13/murder_in
"The enemy of the libertarian is not the liberal, nor the conservative. Nor the Green anarchist, southern nationalist, Georgist, or Constitution Party activist. The enemy is always the Statist, the advocate of coercion and consolidated power."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wilson-jl/wilson-james29.html
"The America conceived in the Revolution of 1776 was supposed to be about Liberty, and American patriotism was supposed to be loyalty to that ideal. The alternately tragic and glorious, contemptible and heroic, American political and social experience over the time since has seen the struggle to adhere to, clarify and realize that ideal."
http://www.rationalreview.com/content/5266
"The world is escaping American control, and Soviet prudence no longer inhibits many movements and nations. World opposition is becoming decentralized to a much greater extent and the US is less than ever able to control it--although it may go financially bankrupt and break up its alliances in the process of seeking to be hegemonic."
http://www.counterpunch.org/kolko12172005.html
"I heard much talk of the need for libertarian conservatives and anti-globalist leftists to work together. There is a sense that the old categories, the old straitjackets, must be shed. When Reverend Matchstick preaches that we need decentralism ... he is speaking a language that pre-imperial conservatives will recognize--the language of local control."
http://www.amconmag.com/2005/2005_12_19/article.html
"Other predicted trends: The survival business will boom for the first time since the Cold War as Americans perceive their government as incapable of protecting them from terrorist attacks and natural disasters. Technology will continue to empower self-reliant, 'off the grid' survivalists, who will seek to avoid payment of fuel, water, electricity and telephone bills. Citizen-driven movements for states to break away from the union will arise." All that sounds great but USA Today doesn't seem to like it.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-14-trends-2006_x.htm
"It's a measure of the imperial nature of the modern American presidency that George W. Bush misstates the truth even as he defends himself against the charge that he misstates the truth."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0512d.asp
"The reason that the Bush administration and the neocons defend torture is that, having launched an illegal invasion and created an American police state, they are desperate for 'evidence' of the terrorist threat in order to justify their illegal and unconstitutional policies."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts12122005.html
"As Rice was declaring America's respect for international treaties against prisoner abuse, Khaled Masri, a German citizen of Lebanese descent, was filing a lawsuit in U.S. federal court. He was a victim of American rendition and a prisoner for five months, during which time just about every law, rule, policy and treaty against prisoner abuse was violated."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/12/11/Columns/Tortuous_excuses_on_t.shtml
"The bottom line of all this is a very simple and inescapable one: anyone who believes that either the Democrats or the Republicans represent and are committed to a consistent, principled defense of individual rights, privacy, the rule of law and the Constitution is either hopelessly ignorant of history, including very recent history, or is incapable of understanding the issues, or is a hypocrite of the first order."
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2005/12/bushs-critics-are-absolutely-right.html
"It is one thing to discuss in the abstract whether the state has the right to ban smoking. But when it comes to advocacy, the defense of liberty may require gouging the eyes, kicking the groin, or whatever it takes to keep those sanctimonious tobacco Nazis off our freaking backs."
http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1702
"Google will find that any political capital it has tried to establish with the Democrats will come to naught, as no self-respecting Democrat is going to stand up for a 'monopoly.' (Remember that Enron also made large contributions to the Democratic Party during the years of the Clinton Administration, but when the company fell from grace, it suddenly was described as a 'Republican' firm.)"
http://www.mises.org/story/1983
"Each of us speaks a certain language (or two), patronizes certain forms of art and literature, wears certain styles of clothing and eats certain styles of food. And yes, we have particular social and political values as well. As libertarians, we understand that each of us owns his or her own values, opinions, and styles of living, because these are expressions of our own minds, and owning one's own mind, as part of one's self, is at the core of libertarianism. Which also means that none of us owns anyone else's values, opinions or living styles."
http://www.bigheadpress.com/TheTimeSink/?p=46
"The wonderful thing about voluntary loan transactions in the free market is that both the borrower and the lender benefit from such transactions. Loan transactions occur in the first place because borrows and lenders have different rates of time preference, and the fact that the agreed upon rate of interest is very high does not change that reality."
http://www.mises.org/story/1977
"The spectacular growth of Protestantism in countries like Brazil, Guatemala, Peru and, to a lesser extent, Mexico, is one of the ways in which ordinary Latin Americans have revolted against centralized power. Unlike the Catholic Church, which has always been associated with the status quo, the various evangelical cults that have gained strength among the poor speak to a more flexible, decentralized and less hierarchic form of religion."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1637
"This week the rich countries gathering for the World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong will tell the poor ones to open their economies to the free market. But the free market does not exist."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,1665737,00.html
"If a private school conducted a sex survey without fully informing their parents, the matter could be handled contractually. As a last resort, parents could pull their children out and cut the school off financially. They can't do that with the government schools. Thus the system is rigged in favor of the state."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=149
"[T]he US government will be complicit in jailing its citizens to protect the corporate profits of music publishers. Just as it already jails people to ensure the corporate profits of large software developers, record companies and movie distributors. There isn't even any debate by the denizens of state whether or not lyrics websites actually do impact the corporate profits of music publishers. Have any of you that aren't musicians ever bought a lyrics book for an album?"
http://www.anti-state.com/blog/?p=34
"When societies organize themselves into war systems -- which is the nature of all political entities -- and purposefully destroy each other's children -- be they soldiers or non-combatants contemptuously dismissed as 'collateral damage' -- they are placing themselves in a state of war with the very future of mankind."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer125.html
"[T]his was really a National Strategy for Victory at Home. It was classic Bush-think: Instead of bombing the insurgency off the map, he bombs the map -- in lieu of actually fighting the war, a bold strategy, to be sure. But would it work?"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8952459
"Having learned nothing at all from 9/11 five years earlier, the President did not, alas, announce that US foreign policy had been radically revised--that all troops would be withdrawn from all foreign countries by the end of 2007, that all foreign aid and interference (both) would cease immediately including aid to Israel--or any such obvious and desperately needed reform that libertarians have been advocating for four decades. On the contrary, he proved his qualities as a Strong Leader...."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/davies/davies9.html
"Jesus was tried and convicted of blasphemy and sedition and executed by crucifixion, a Roman form of execution commonly used for two categories of people -- political rebels and chronically defiant slaves. These two groups shared something in common. They both systematically defied the established authority."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/peshut1.html
"He told us the truth like a loyal friend and not as a venomous and jilted ex-lover with an axe to grind. Rich was humble, he never failed to see himself through the same lens he saw everything and everyone else. It was this quality that caused the Black community not to excuse his offenses, but to give our full understanding to them and him."
http://www.blackcommentator.com/163/163_rhymes_richard_pryor.html
"Although his image was warm and witty on television, Mr. McCarthy stepped back from playing the candidate who engaged by self-revelation. Abigail McCarthy, respected in her own career as a writer, once said, 'The essential thing about Gene is that he's a private person, and in an all-confessional age, that's considered almost treachery'."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1211-04.htm
"In short, the now desperate Bush administration's attempt to achieve 'victory in Iraq' and pledge to take the Iraqi democratic experiment on the road to other autocratic Arab countries really amount to letting U.S. soldiers die to make the world safe for theocracy. In fact, such future theocracies in Iraq and elsewhere would likely be very unfriendly to the United States and might even sponsor terrorist attacks against U.S. targets."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1634
"As the best case, logic suggests that Iraq's December elections might be seen by Iraq's 'key man,' Shiite Ayatollah Sistani, as the turning point. A new, Shiite-dominated government will probably be elected to a four-year term. What better move for him than to issue a fatwa saying that it's time for the Americans to leave? His Shiites are getting restive at the American presence, he has to compete for his leadership role with firebrand Muqtada al-Sadr, and as the man who kicked the foreign occupiers out, he could reach across Iraq's central divide to offer a deal to the Sunnis, perhaps restoring a real Iraqi state. In the face of a Sistani fatwa, Iraq's government would almost certainly have to ask the American troops to leave."
http://www.counterpunch.org/lind12162005.html
"Consider: How is it possible that regular people could commit such heinous crimes as Nanking or eating the flesh of another human being? How is it possible that a person could become so inured to such behavior?"
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/rogers189.html
"In 1809 Jane's brother Edward gave them a permanent home at Chawton, in Jane's beloved Hampshire countryside. It was at Chawton that Jane Austen found the space and time to return to her writing."
http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/austen.htm
"When someone attending one of Garrison's speeches objected that slavery was protected by the United States Constitution, Garrison replied that if this was true, then the Constitution should be burnt. "
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lloyd_Garrison
"Edvard Munch, Norway's most popular artist, was a painter, lithographer, etcher, and wood engraver. He is looked upon as one of the most significant influences on the development of German and Central European expressionism."
http://www.calarts.edu/%7Erjaster/edvard-munch/backg/index.htm
Business adventure stars Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Cusack, Alec Baldwin and Philip Bosco, directed by Mike Nichols. "Sigourney Weaver is magnificently hateful as Katherine Parker. Joan Cusack as Tess's friend Cynthia is a treat. Harrison Ford uses his charisma to make Jack Trainer seem almost like Han Solo in a business suit. However, Melanie Griffith playing Tess shines brightest...."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/working_girl_1988.htm
"Some early reviews are in for V for Vendetta, the movie adaptation of Alan Moore's anarchist graphic novel. I've tried to keep my expectations in check so far, but these reviews for the film, which opens nationwide on March 17, aren't just good...they're great."
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2005/12/symbol-for-revolution.html
"IGN FilmForce has confirmed that the long-in-development feature film version of Watchmen is not quite as dead as fans feared after Paramount put it into turnaround last summer, just months before it was slated to film."
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/676/676592p1.html
"I am persuaded that the gravest catastrophes to afflict this misguided planet were the inventions of agriculture, clean water, and antibiotics. Without these pernicious conceptions our squalid race might consist of a few millions of savages picking bananas and slaughtering the occasional bison. I do not say this in criticism of savages. Theirs was a reasonable existence. I like bananas, which contain potassium. Bison is succulent. A savage could sleep late. We should have let well enough alone." A light toned article on serious topics.
http://fredoneverything.net/ThoughtsUnthunk.shtml
Legend has it that every time you say "Happy Holidays," an angel gets AIDS.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=36295
"A National Weather Service advisory predicting that graphic blood storms will touch ground in the southern U.S. Wednesday is being met with numb resignation by weather-weary Americans."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/43448
"We surely agree that cruelty to animals is somehow horrid; we humans do have a sense of right and wrong, and clubbing baby seals and torturing kittens normally offends it. If there are no laws to prohibit such cruelty, what's to befall our furry and feathered friends? In a free-market, zero-government society, relationships between human members would virtually eliminate violence, for no action could take place without explicit contracts permitting it. But animals are not good at reading contracts, not even oral ones. They would be property, or else simply wild."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/davies/davies10.html
"We need self-transcendent passions. They don't have to be artistic or intellectual. Could be golf or skiing - anything that consumes you, takes you out of yourself. Something you would rather do than anything else and no excuse will stop you from doing it. The passion lives thru you. You are never bored if you have that passion. Nor are you ever alone."
http://porkupineblog.blogspot.com/2005/12/self-transcendent-passions.html
"The point is, anyone who can figure out a way to be offended by 'Merry Christmas' or 'Happy Holidays' probably deserves to be offended. Instead of getting all self-righteous and outraged about two simple, meaningless words, you should be thankful that anyone's going out of their way to wish you well."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001730.html
"If we want our country and world to be truly peaceful and free, we must begin with the children and put an end to the greatest domestic intrusion of all, which is compulsory school attendance and government control of the schools. If we can free our homes and families and schools from the dead hand of the State, perhaps from there we can also find the way to correct the criminally destructive foreign policy of the US government which has made America into a rogue nation in the eyes of the rest of the world…as well as in the eyes of many of its own citizens right here at home."
http://lewrockwell.com/orig6/dclark1.html
"A lawbreaker once lived here by this little lake. He broke the law, encouraged others to break the law, and inspired millions more who visit Walden Pond every year to resist unwise laws. To bend them, break them, ignore them or question them. I broke the law at Walden Pond. Twice. And I noticed scads of other folks doing the very same--breaking the law while enjoying themselves--and no harm came to anyone."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/herman/herman23.html
"A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung's tome on Communism called 'The Little Red Book'."
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/12-05/12-17-05/a09lo650.htm
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