We become slaves the moment we hand the keys to the definition of reality
entirely over to someone else, whether it is a business, an economic
theory, a political party, the White House, Newsworld or CNN. - B.W.
Powe, Towards A Canada Of Light
The American fascist would prefer not to use
Governments use national animosities, foreign wars and the glamour of
empire-making, in order to...divert rising sentiment against domestic
abuses. - J. R. Hobson
Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in
big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up
As the centers of American power were seized and hijacked by
corporations, the media continued to pay deference to systems of power
that could no longer be considered honest or democratic. The media treat
criminals on Wall Street as responsible members of the ruling class. They
treat the
The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. -
Plato
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected;
they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government,
they assume that its might makes it right. - Joseph Sobran Columnist
Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much
of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.
- Richard Maybury
When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the
victor's will and call it peace. - St. Augustine
War has
You made your rulers mighty, gave them guards, So now you groan 'neath
slavery's heavy rod. - Solon -- (c.638 BC-558 BC) Athenian statesman,
lawmaker.
Government, in its last analysis, is organized force. - Woodrow Wilson
- (1856-1924) 28th US President
But what is tyranny? Or how can a free
It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to
propagandize and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the
Establishment spend any amount of money on arms.-- John Stockwell, former
CIA official and author
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome
outsiders, a bewildered herd. And it's the responsible men who have to
make decisions and to protect society from the trampling and rage of the
bewildered herd. Now since it's a democracy they - the herd, that is - are
