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Must Reads For The Week 5/16/20

May 18, 2020

 

LET’S LAUGH

Starting with this George Carlin video.

Germs And Our Immune Systems

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Some more. This George Carlin video is one of my favorites.

Saving The Planet.

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One more.

Jim Carrey is Environmental Guy. From the show In Living Color.

 

COVID REVEALS TYRANNY and LIBERTY PUSHES BACK

I’ve read about how the Berlin wall went up. The communists just strung some barbed wire between East and West Berlin. A couple days later they started to put up a more permanent  concrete wall. If President Kennedy would have had the barbed wire torn down when it first went up, it probably would have deterred the Communist government.

You can’t appease tyrants. Every little power grab will lead to bigger power grabs. They must be stopped when they first attempt to take your liberty.

 

Gov. Inslee To Washington Restaurants: Want To Reopen? You’ll Have To Help Us Track Citizen’s Movements, by Chris Field, at theblaze.com.     There are not enough government employees to implement all of these tyrannical rules. Government can only become tyrannical if we allow it.

HU Facial Recognition Software Predicts Criminality, at archive.is/N1HVe.     This is the movie Minority Report.  This is unconstitutional on many levels.

Twitter Takes Its COVID-19 Censorship Into Overdrive, at zerohedge.com.        Big media pushes the Big Government party line. These “free speech platforms” don’t like free speech.

More People Dying At Home during Covid-19 – UK Analysis, at theguardian.com.       To politicians and “experts”, these lives are not important. They are collateral damage in our war against COVID-19.             Excerpt from the article:

“About 8,000 more people have died in their own homes since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than in normal times, a Guardian analysis has found, as concerns grow over the number avoiding going to hospital.”

“Of that total, 80% died of conditions unrelated to Covid-19, according to their death certificates. Doctors’ leaders have warned that fears and deprioritisation of non-coronavirus patients are taking a deadly toll.”

Georgia COVID Hospitalizations Drop After State Reopens, at zerohedge.com.       This is a short time sample. But it looks promising. Maybe we have built up enough herd immunity to make a difference in spite of Government edicts that made herd immunity more difficult to acquire.

If US Is Unprepared For A Second Wave Of Coronavirus, Fauci Warns Country Could Be In For ‘a Bad Fall and A Bad Winter’, by Christina Maxouris, at ccn.com.           To add to my above comments; Fauci has almost guaranteed a second wave because of his ‘flattening the curve’ policy. By flattening the curve he extended the curve. I hope we have built up enough herd immunity so we don’t have a second wave.

As Waffle Restaurant Defies Closure, Video Shows Fresno Officer’s Confrontation With Angry Customers, at abc7.com.        I am glad people are taking a stand. But these rules are putting police in a no win situation. They are tasked with enforcing arbitrary rules made by power hungry politicians. People are going to push back and someone will get hurt. Why don’t we make the rule makers go out with the police so they can deal with the consequences of the rules they came up with. Let’s see it they can explain their arbitrary rules face to face to the people who are taking a stand.

Seattle Cop Prepares To Be Fired After Refusing To Remove VIral Video Reminding Officers Not To Obey Tyrannical Orders, at zerohedge.com.          Watch this video. This cop gets it.

The Worldwide Lockdown May Be The Greatest Mistake In History, by Dennis Prager, at pjmedia.com.        Excerpt from the article:

“That’s the way it is today on planet Earth, where deceit, cowardice and immaturity now dominate almost all societies because the elites are deceitful, cowardly and immature.”

“But for those open to reading thoughts they may differ with, here is the case for why the worldwide lockdown is not only a mistake but also, possibly, the worst mistake the world has ever made. And for those intellectually challenged by the English language and/or logic, “mistake” and “evil” are not synonyms. The lockdown is a mistake; the Holocaust, slavery, communism, fascism, etc., were evils. Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.”

“The forcible prevention of Americans from doing anything except what politicians deem “essential” has led to the worst economy in American history since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is panic and hysteria, not the coronavirus, that created this catastrophe. And the consequences in much of the world will be more horrible than in America.”

 

RUSSIA PROBE, FLYNN CASE, OBAMAGATE

 

Open Memorandum To Barack Obama, by Sidney Powell

Former President Obama said he can’t find precedent for Flynn dismissal. Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell calls him out.

Here is what former President Obama said…….“there is no precedent that anybody can find for someone who has been charged with perjury just getting off scot-free. That’s the kind of stuff where you begin to get worried that basic — not just institutional norms — but our basic understanding of rule of law is at risk.”

Her is some of Sidney Powell’s response:

“General Flynn was not charged with perjury—which requires a material false statement made under oath with intent to deceive.1 A perjury prosecution would have been appropriate and the Rule of Law applied if the Justice Department prosecuted your former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for his multiple lies under oath in an investigation of a leak only he knew he caused.”

“McCabe lied under oath in fully recorded and transcribed interviews with the Inspector General for the DOJ. He was informed of the purpose of the interview, and he had had the benefit of counsel. He knew he was the leaker. McCabe even lied about lying. He lied to his own agents—which sent them on a “wild-goose-chase”—thereby making his lies “material” and an obstruction of justice. Yet, remarkably, Attorney General Barr declined to prosecute McCabe for these offenses.”

“Applying the Rule of Law, after declining McCabe’s perjury prosecution, required the Justice Department to dismiss the prosecution of General Flynn who was not warned, not under oath, had no counsel, and whose statements were not only not recorded, but were created as false by FBI agents who falsified the 302.”

 

“It would seem your “wingman” Eric Holder is missing a step these days at Covington & Burling LLP. Indelibly marked in his memory (and one might think, yours) should be his Motion to Dismiss the multi-count jury verdict of guilty and the entire case against former United States Senator Ted Stevens. Within weeks of Mr. Holder becoming Attorney General, he moved to dismiss the Stevens prosecution in the interest of justice for the same reasons the Justice Department did against General Flynn—egregious misconduct by prosecutors who hid exculpatory evidence and concocted purported crimes.”

“As horrifying as the facts of the Stevens case were, they pale in comparison to the targeted setup, framing, and prosecution of a newly elected President’s National Security Advisor and the shocking facts that surround it. This case was an assault on the heart of liberty— our cherished system of self-government, the right of citizens to choose their President, and the hallowed peaceful transition of power.”

 

“The inability of anyone in your alumni association to find “anybody who has been charged [with anything] just getting off scot-free” would be laughable were it not so pathetic.”

“………..the egregious prosecutorial misconduct of your longest serving White House Counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler; your counter-terrorism advisor Lisa Monaco; Loretta Lynch’s DAG for the Criminal Division Leslie Caldwell; and Mueller protégé Andrew Weissmann. While they worked as federal prosecutors on the Enron Task Force—under the purported supervision of Christopher Wray—they destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP and its 85,000 jobs; sent four Merrill Lynch executives to prison on an indictment that criminalized an innocent business transaction while they hid the evidence that showed those defendants were innocent for six years. Both cases were reversed on appeal for their over-criminalization and misconduct. Indeed, Andersen was reversed by a unanimous Supreme Court.”

 

“The Mueller special counsel operation led by Andrew Weissmann and Weissmann “wannabes” specializes in prosecutorial terrorist tactics repulsive to everything “justice” is supposed to mean. These tactics are designed to intimidate their targets into pleading guilty—while punishing them and their families with the process itself and financial ruin.”

“Most important, General Flynn was honest with the FBI agents. They knew he was—and briefed that to McCabe and others three different times. At McCabe’s directions, Agent Strzok and McCabe’s “Special Counsel” Lisa Page, altered the 302 to create statements Weissmann, Mueller, Van Grack, and Zainab Ahmad could assert were false. Only the FBI agents lied—and falsified documents. The crimes are theirs alone.”

“These are just a few obvious and well-known examples to those paying any attention to criminal justice issues.”

Eric Holder partner at Covington & Burling Law Firm.      Obama’s former Attorney General Eric Holder is a partner at the law firm that originally defended General Flynn. The incestuous relationship of everyone in Washington D.C. should make us suspicious of everything that goes on in that swamp.

Obama-Era Surveillance Timeline, by Sharyl Attkisson, at sharylattkisson.com.        Read what happened over Obama’s eight years before you decide what to think.

Collusion Against Trump Timeline, by Sharyl Attkisson, at sharylattkisson.com.      No comment needed. Just read what happened.

Media Mistakes In The Trump Era: The Definitive List, by Sharyl Attkisson, at sharylattkisson.com.             Can all these “mistakes” be, well, mistakes?

Top Six Revelations From House Russia Probe’s Newly Declassified Witness Interviews, by Sophie Mann, at justthenews.com.              Do you really need to see more evidence that Trump Russia collusion was nothing more than a made up hoax by politicians with the help of the main stream media?

Obamagate! Trump Tweets Carlson’s Crushing Breakdown Why The Former President Should Be Panicking, at zerohedge.com.          There is no way former President Obama will ever be held legally responsible for anything that happened during his presidency. We don’t do that to former Presidents. But Trump is using Obama’s tactics against him. He is prosecuting him in the court of public opinion. Sal Alinsky tactics?

 

SATIRICAL HEADLINES

From the babylonbee.com.

Socialism Victory! Workers No Longer Being Exploited Thanks To High Unemployment, at babylonbee.com.

Biden Campaign Hires Interpreter To Translate His Speeches Into English, at babylonbee.com.

Breaking: Dangerous Fascist At  Large At Michigan Capital And Also Some Peaceful Protesters With Guns, at babylonbee.com.

Governor Newsom Orders Ballots To Be Sent To Every Cemetery In State, at babylonbee.com.

68% Say Lockdown Shouldn’t end Until All Diseases Are Eradicated And There Is No War, Hunger, Or Suffering, at babylonbee.com.

 

CARTOONS

Political Cartoons by Tom Stiglich

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Political Cartoons by Lisa Benson

Political Cartoons by Pat Cross

 

Categories: Must Reads For The Week
Tags: Cartoons, Collusin Against Trump Timeline, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covington Burling Law Firm, Environmental Guy, Eric Holder, Facial Recognition Predicts Criminality, Fauci Actions Guarantee Second Wave, Georga Hospitalizations Drop as State Reopens, George Carlin, Germs and Immune System, Gov. Inslee Wants Restaurants to Help Track Citizens, Jim Carrey, Media Mistakes During Trump Era, Michael Flynn Case, Obama-era Surveillance Timeline, Obamagate, Open Memorandum To Barack Obama, Russian Probe Declassified Witness Interviews, Satirical Headlines from The Babylon Bee, Save The Planet, Seattle Cop Viral Video, Sharyl Attkisson, Sidney Powell, Twitter COVID-19 Censorship, Tyranny vs Liberty, Waffle Shop Officer Confrontation, World Lockdown Mistake

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Must Reads For The Week 6/22/18

June 25, 2018

Armed Civilian Kills Gunman, Stops Shooting Spree At Walmart In Washington State, at washingtonpost.com. Another example of a good guy with a gun stopping a bad guy with a gun. The truth is you and I are the “first responders” in every situation. Cops and fireman are second responders.

U.S. Announces Its Withdrawal From U.N. Human Rights Council, at npr.org. Many countries on the U.N. human rights council are the biggest abusers of human rights. Excerpt from the article: “Nikki Haley said, “I want to make it crystal clear that this step is not a retreat from human rights commitments. On the contrary, we take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.” Can I get an amen?

Left Blames Evergreen’s Bat-Wielding Mobs On Anti-Racisim Professor, at thefederalist.com. Progressive leftists can get away with this kind of behaviour. Here is an0ther example that if you are on the politically correct side you can get away with actions that would land other people in jail. Double standard anyone? Her is another article about the social justice cult on Evergreen campus, Weinstein Warns Congress About ‘Cult’ Of Campus Progressivism, at campusreform.com.

6 Revelations From ‘The Swamp’ Documentary Show Just How Dirty DC Is, at thefederalist.com. ‘The Swamp’ Documentary gives insight on how the DC political game is played. We have to fight back if our country is going to survive as a constitutional republic. Trump is an outsider who is pushing back against the swamp. I love the fact that he is driving progressives in the media and both parties crazy.

50 Media Mistakes In The Trump Era, at sharylatkisson.com. Here is a list of Fake News stories that were used by the progressive left to undermine Trump.

Sharyl Attkisson: The Left Invented Fake News, at zerohedge.com. The left invented the term ‘Fake News’ in an attempt to smear talk radio, Fox news and the internet. Trump flipped the script on them. Now ‘fake news’ means the main stream media. Ultimately it is up to us to figure out what is fake news and what is reality. Don’t trust anything you hear or read. Figure out the truth for yourself.

Rachel Maddow Breaks Down During Report On ‘Tender Age’ Shelters.

“…and the Emmy Award for the worst performance by a lead actress in a drama series, or is it a comedy series, goes to Rachel Maddow.” Fake tears to promote fake outrage in an attempt to make Trump look bad.

“Obama Kept Them In Cages” – The Pedophrasty Of Politicians Exposed, at zerohedge.com. The main stream media is using pictures of children to push their vision of the world. Unfortunately for them these pictures have either been debunked as false or used out of context. Excerpt from the article: “Pedophrasty Definition: Argument involving children to prop up a rationalization and make the opponent look like an asshole, as people are defenseless and suspend all skepticism in front of suffering children:…….Often done with the aid of pictures. Pedophrasty is effective as it provides arguments to strike before the evidence is formed. People are moved into “doing something” Pedophrasts prey on our maternal and paternal instincts.”

Pedophrasty had its most effects on actors, journalists and similar types who are intellectually insecure, deprived of critical judgement, and afraid of being classified as violators of some norm of political correctness.”

“That’s what is dangerous: seeing a photo of a child in distress makes people halt their critical thinking. That’s also why such photos are used. They help build a narrative that doesn’t have to be factual to shock people. But at that point TIME becomes a fiction magazine; it’s whee it leaves journalism behind.”

Watch IG Horowitz Reaction When Asked If Hillary Committed “No Crimes”, at zerohedge.com. This says it all about whether Hillary broke the law. Hillary is a part of the establishment. And as an insider she got protection from her law breaking. Anyone one of us would be in jail if we did what she did.

Comey Hits Back At Hillary: “She Doesn’t Understand What Her Case Was About, at zerohedge.com. Here is what Comey said about Hillary’s understanding about her case. “It was not about her use of a personal email system…..It was about communicating about classified topics on that system when those topics have to be done on a classified system.”

I have tried to get people to understand the point Comey is making here. Hillary could legally have a private email server. But it was illegal to conduct government business, especially classified business, on her private server. The standard for breaking this law is ‘Gross negligence’. Intent was not the standard. Comey never tried to hide the facts of what Hillary did. What he attempted to do was use verbal sleight of hand to change the standard of prosecution for what she did, from gross negligence to intent. It is that simple.

IG Report Confirms Obama Lied About Hillary Email Server, at zerohedge.com. Obama said he learned about Hillary’s email server from the NY Times. But Obama had direct contact with Hillary on her private email account. He used a pseudonym for his username on his government email account. Read this short article. You will be amazed at how corrupt establishment insiders are.

Flynn Evidence May Have Been Tampered With By FBI: GOP Lawmaker, zerohedge.com. Corruption in the FBI! Who would believe that? Government agencies have one objective. To protect government power from being rolled back. Political outsiders must be destroyed by all means available. In this case by the legal system.

McCain Office Involved In IRS Targeting Scandal; Pushed “Financially Ruinous” Audits Of 501(c) Orgs, at zerohedge.com. Progressives in the Republican party are no different from progressives in the Democrat party. They both want Government power to grow, and individual freedom to shrink. The IRS scandal is a perfect example of establishment insiders attempting to torpedo groups of citizens who wanted to roll back the size and scope of government. “Public servants” want to protect what is in the best interest of their little feifdom. They are not interested in what is in the best interest of the “public”. And what is best for the “public” is individual freedom.

Soros Steams That Trump’s Revolution In World Affairs” Is Succeeding, at zerohedge.com. Now for the good news. Soros thinks Trump is dismantling decades of work and money he has spent in building the Globalist world order. Here is an excerpt from the article: “Expressing frustration that “everything that could go wrong has gone wrong”, the Billionaire financier of countless Color Revolutions all across the world told the Washington Post that he was “living in (his) bubble” because he failed to foresee Trump’s meteoric rise. Fearful that Trump “is willing to destroy the world”, as he put it, he vowed to “redouble (his) efforts” in pouring millions of dollars into opposing everything that the President stands for all across the world.”

What Soros doesn’t understand is that it is not Trumps revolution. People all over the world had finally had enough of government intervening in their lives. Brexit was an example of this and Brexit happened before Trump. Obama tried to interfere in the Brexit election but he couldn’t stop the reality that people were seeing. Establishment insiders created the atmosphere that pissed off enough people, which allowed an outsider like Trump to get elected. The “revolution” is not Trumps, although he is doing his best to get rid of the status quo. When Trump leaves office, the people who voted him in office will still be there. And they will be looking for the next outsider to take the machete and continue hacking away at big government.

CARTOON

The IG Reports No Bias

Categories: Must Reads For The Week
Tags: 50 Media Lies About Tump, Campus Progressivism, Comey Hits Back At Hillary, D.C. Is Corrupt, Draining the Swamp, Evergreen College Chaos, Fake News Stories, Flynn Evidence Tampered With, Good guy With Gun Stops Bad Guy With Gun, Hillary Email Investigation, IG Horowitz Reaction To Question Of Hillary's Innocence, IG Report Confirms Obama Lied, IG Report Hillary EMails, McCain Involved In IRS Targeting Scandal, Obama and Hillary Email Server, Obama Kept Children In Cages Also, Rachel Maddow Fake Tears, Sharyl Attkisson, Soros THinks Trump Is Dismanteling his Golbalist World Order, The Swamp Doumentary, US To Withdraw From U.N Human Rights Council

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Hillary And Benghazi: Call In The Cleaners!

September 24, 2014

Young caucasian businessman shredding documents - stock photo

A cleaner is a person who gets rid of incriminating evidence at the scene of a crime. A cleaner is usually related to crime fiction novels, but in the case of the Clintons the line between fiction and reality may not be as blurry as you might think.

SHARYL ATTKISSON ARTICLE ABOUT BENGHAZI

I read an article last week by Sharyl Attkisson about former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State Department, Raymond Maxwell,  alleging that Hillary Clinton cronies cleaned potentially damaging documents, from State Department headquarters, concerning the Benghazi terrorist attacks (read article here). Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff Cheryl Mills was at the cleaning party. I’m not going to go over the whole article, you can read it for yourself.  I’m much more interested in one question: Do you believe these allegations or not?

ISOLATED INCIDENT OR DISCERNIBLE PATTERN OF ACTION?

If you look at this incident in isolation your first question would be: is the reporter credible? Sharyl Attkisson was a CBS news investigative journalist for 20 years before she resigned in March 2014 (read why she resigned here). She has main stream media credibility, until such time that the mainstream media decides to undercut her credibility for writing this article. In isolation this incident comes down to who you believe, Sharyl Attkisson”s reporting and the credibility of Raymond Maxwell, or a State Department spokesman who called the allegations that documents were withheld, “totally without merit”.

The question really isn’t who do you believe? The question should be: is this an isolated incident or is this part of a discernible pattern of action? Lets see if we can find a discernible pattern.

SANDY BERGER CLEANS EVIDENCE

Remember Sandy Berger former National Security Adviser Under Bill Clinton. He was convicted of stealing  classified documents from the National Archives, concerning Clinton’s efforts to thwart terrorist threats. He did this before the 9/11 commission could get these documents. His actions suggest he was cleaning documents to protect the Clintons from looking weak on terrorism. These documents were never recovered. Read this article, Berger Thefts Still Weigh On Archives Agents, if you need your memory refreshed.

CLEANERS TAKE CARE OF ROSE LAW FIRM RECORDS

In the summer of 1992, before the election, and in December of 1992, after the election, Couriers of the Rose Law Firm, which Hillary worked at in Little Rock Arkansas, said Hillary called them to the Governor’s Mansion giving them her and law partners  Foster,  Hubble, and Kennedy’s records to have them shredded at the Rose Law Firms Offices. When special counsel began to investigate in early 1994, Rose Law Firm partners admitted they shredded more files but stated these were unrelated to Whitewater. When Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster committed suicide on July 20, 1993, White House aides entered his office that evening and the next day. The fact that Foster was in possession of Whitewater files was not mentioned (read Shredding Foster’s Files here). On July 22, White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum gives the box of Whitewater files to Hillary’s chief of staff Margaret Williams who took the files to the White House living quarters on the third floor and locked them in a closet, after talking to Hillary. These files were discovered on Janruary 4th, 1996 by Special Assistant to the President Ms. Carolyn Huber, and delivered to the Whitewater Committee the next day by Clintons lawyer David Kendall (read Rose Law Firm Billing Records here).

The firing of Billy Dale from the travel office, and finding out who hired cleaner Craig Livingstone, are two more examples of similar conduct.

CONCLUSION

There is a clear pattern of cleaners being used by the Clintons. The question now becomes: Is this enough of a pattern of action to help you make up your mind about the most recent cleaning of records pertaining to Benghazi? Remember human action is purposeful behaviour used to reach a particular end. The end aimed at is believed to be a better state of affairs than what exists at the moment of the action. The preferred end can be revealed by looking at the action taken. At the very least we can say the Clintons don’t want us to know about their previous actions. I think we can take a guess as to why the cleaning took place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Categories: Government and Politics
Tags: Benghazi, Call In The Cleaners, Discernible Pattern, Hillary Clinton, National Archives, Raymond Maxwell, Rose Law Firm Records, Sandy Berger, Sharyl Attkisson, Shredding Documents, Vince Foster's Files

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George Gilder - "Under capitalism, economic power flows not to the intellectual, who manipulates ideas and basks in their light, but to men who gives himself to his ideas and tests them with his own wealth and work."

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Thomas Sowell - "Perhaps the greatest achievement of market economies is in economizing on the amount of knowledge needed to produce a given economic result. That is also their greatest political vulnerability."

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Ludwig von Mises - "Anti capitalistic policies sabotage the operation of the capitalist system of the market economy. The failure of interventionism does not demonstrate the necessity of adopting socialism. It merely exposes the futility of interventionism. All those evils which the self-styled "progressives" interpret as evidence of the failure off capitalism are the outcome of their allegedly beneficial interference with the market."

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F.A. Hayek - "The battle for freedom must be won over and over again, the socialists of all parties must be persuaded or defeated if they and we are to remain free men."

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F. A. Hayek - "Planning, or central direction of economic activity, presupposes the existence of common ideals and common values; and the degree to which planning can be carried is limited to the extent to which agreement on such a common scale of values can be obtained or enforced."

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Thomas Sowell - "In political competition accurate knowledge has no decisive competitive advantage, because what is being sold is not an end result but a plausible belief about a complex process"

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Thomas Sowell - " Taxing away what other people have earned, in order to finance one's own moral adventures via social programs, is often depicted as a humanitarian endeavor, while allowing others the same freedom and dignity as oneself, so that they can make their own choices with their own earnings is considered pandering to greed. Greed for power is no less dangerous than greed for money, and has historically shed far more blood in the process."

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Peter Earle - "In a world of infinate desires and limited means, choices must be made; a study of history and economics reveals that, while markets make no promises, they never lie. The only choice is whether distribution, or redistribution as the case may be, is to be accomplished by the organic, apportioning hand of the price system, or by the corrupt, spoilative claw of states."

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Thomas Jefferson - "....To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with public debt....we must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude....if we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements.... if we can prevent the Government from wasting the labor of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy."

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F. A. Hayek - "The democratic statesman who sets out to plan economic life will soon be confronted with the alternative of either assuming dictatorial powers or abandoning his plans."

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Jean Baptiste Say - "...The encouragement of mere consumption is no benefit to commerce, for the difficulty lies in supplying the means, not in stimulating the desire of consumption; and we have seen that production alone, furnishes those means. Thus, it is the aim of Good Government to stimulate production, of bad Government to encourage consumption."

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Ludwig von Mises - "The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments."

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Thomas Sowell - "What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials."

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Thomas Sowell - "The market is simply the freedom to choose among many existing or still to be created possibilities. The Government establishes an army or a post office as the answer to a given problem.... The diversity of personal tastes insures that no given institution will become the answer to a human problem in the market."

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Thomas Sowell - "Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics."

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Paul Craig Roberts - "We should all be thankful to the Soviets, because they have proved conclusively that socialism doesn't work. No one can say they didn't have enough power or enough bureaucracy or enough planners or they didn't go far enough."

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Alexis de Tocqueville - "Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man, socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality, but notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude."

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George Gilder - "The Real Issue is between the rule of law and the rule of leveler egalitarianism, between creative excellence and covetous "fairness", between admiration of achievement versus envy and resentment of it'.

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Thomas Jefferson - "The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."

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Judge Leonard Hand - "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; if it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it."

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Ludwig von Mises - "Modern civilization is a product of the philosophy of laissez faire, it cannot be preserved under the ideology of Government omnipotence."

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Ludwig von Mises - "The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution."

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H.L. Menken - "Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is an advance auction on the sale of stolen goods"

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F.A. Hayek - "Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's Government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

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Detlev Schlichter - "Economics is the science of how we use social institutions such as private property and voluntary exchange on free markets to make the best use of scarce resources. The printing press tries to do away with scarcity."

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Thomas Sowell - "The God like approach to social policy ignores the diversity of values and the cost of agreement among human beings."

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Henry Hazlitt - "Whenever men are allowed liberty, and freedom of choice, they will make mistakes. Liberty is not a guarantee of omniscience. But neither are the mistakes of free men a valid excuse to take away their liberty, and impose Government controls in its stead, on the ground that all wisdom and disinterestedness resides in the people who are going to do the controlling."

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Thomas Sowell - "Nothing is easier than to confuse broader powers with deeper insight. But almost by definition, those with the broadest powers are the most remote from the specific knowledge needed for either deciding, or for knowing, the actual consequences of their decisions."

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Ludwig von Mises - "Credit expansion is the Government's foremost tool in their struggle against the market economy. In their hands it is the magic wand designed to conjure away the scarcity of capital goods, to lower the rate of interest or to abolish it altogether to finance lavish Government spending."

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Ludwig von Mises - "Economic history is a long record of Government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics."

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Chaderov - "Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by it's avarice foretells its own doom. Its source of income dries up. Thus in pulling society down it pulls itself down."

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Thomas Sowell - "If an informed citizenry is the foundation of democratic Government, than an uninformed citizenry is a danger."

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Thomas Sowell - "The free market works best when there is a level playing field but politicians win more votes by tilting the playing field to favor particular groups."

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Thomas Sowell - "However dramatic or attractive a particular vision may be, ultimately everyone must live in the world of reality. To the extent that reality has been filtered to fit a vision, this filtered information is a misleading guide to making decisions in an unforgiving reality, to which we must all adjust because it is not going to adjust to us."

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Thomas Sowell - "Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name "Social Justice"."

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Murray Rothbard - "Bureaucracy incompetent enough to plan a stationary system, is vastly more incompetent at planning a progressing one."

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Ludwig von Mises - "Freedom is incompatible with equality of wealth and income. Men are born unequal and it is precisely their inequality that generates social cooperation and civilization."

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Murray Rothbard - "Government subsidy systems promote inefficiency in production and efficiency in coercion and subservience, while penalizing efficiency in production and inefficiency in predation (plundering)."

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Francisco Capella - "The right of property is a negative right of noninterference. Humans do not have natural positive rights that imply that others must do something for them, and there is no natural duties towards others (present and future). Positive rights and duties arise by means of contracts."

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Victor Davis Hanson - "Social justice sees the Government's proper moral obligation not as ensuring equality out of the starting gate, but as guaranteeing that we will all reach the finish line at the same exact moment."

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F.A. Hayek - "A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a Government with totalitarian powers."

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Thomas Sowell - "People who are very aware that they have more knowledge than the average person are often very unaware that they do not have one tenth of the knowledge of all of the average persons put together. In this situation, for the intelligentsia to impose their notions on ordinary people is essentially to impose ignorance on knowledge." "Credentialed ignorance is still ignorance."

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Thomas Sowell - "People have to be aware of the dangers in letting economic decisions be made through political processes."

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Winston Churchill - "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

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George Gilder - "Socialist and totalitarian Governments are doomed to support the past, because creativity is unpredictable, it is also uncontrollable. If the politicians want to have central planning and command, they can not have dynamism and life. A managed economy is almost by definition a barren one.

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George Gilder - "The ambitious agenda of contemporary liberalism simply ensures that Government will do nothing well, except to expand itself as an obstacle of growth and innovation. Government best supports the future by refraining as much as possible from trying unduly to shape it."

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Francisco Capella - "Markets are never perfect because human beings are limited in their abilities; proposing state fixes to alleged problems that individuals cannot solve freely seems to forget that the state is also made up of humans; and perhaps not the best ones. ( Bureaucrats are not disinterested angels, and the worst might get to the top.)"

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George Washington - "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force, like fire it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."

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Thomas Jefferson -- "I think we have more machinery of Government than is necessary, to many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

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Thomas Jefferson -- "I sincerely believe with you that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, it's but swindling futurity on a large scale."

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Thomas Jefferson -- "The two enemies of the people are criminals and Government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

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