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"[I]t is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it
is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is
a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist
dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought
to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is
tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for
lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the
same in any country."
— Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering |
"In every country where man is free to think and to speak, differences
of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection
of reason; but these differences when permitted, as in this happy
country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing
clouds overspreading our land transiently and leaving our horizon
more bright and serene."
— Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Waring, 1801. Memorial Edition
vol. 10, p. 235 |
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The Destruction of Iraqi Firearms
When World Wars I and II ended, many of our soldiers brought home captured
enemy rifles. Others brought home more after, or even during, the Korean
and Viet-Namese Wars.
Not so in the Gulf and Iraqi Wars. Both Bush administrations seem
to think that the last thing we American civilians need is more weapons,
especially sniper rifles such as the Dragunov SVD and Iraqi al-Kadesiah
rifles that our soldiers have been destroying in wholesale lots. Look
at http://www.dragunov.net/
svdaction_iraq.htm for confirmation. [more]
Homeland
Security Should Protect Us From Diseases
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"Media headlines are
blaming the House leadership for preventing passage of the giant Intelligence
bill designed to restructure homeland security, but negotiations bogged
down on the question of what to do about illegal aliens. How can we
protect homeland security unless the government stops the invasion
of illegal aliens?" [more]
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Where
to From Here?
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"The election of 2004
is now history. It’s time to ponder our next four years. Will our
country become freer, richer, safer, and more peaceful, or will we
continue to suffer from lost civil liberties, a stagnant economy,
terrorist threats, and an expanding war in the Middle East and central
Asia? Surely the significance of the election was reflected in its
intensity and divisiveness." [more]
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Bush’s War on the Bill of Rights
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"It is useful, though
perhaps depressing, to see the many ways in which president Bush has
trashed the most noble and inspiring of all attempts to limit government
through law, the Bill of Rights. Even as he advocates a new amendment
to the Constitution to set national standards on marriage, the most
important amendments already in place have each fallen prey to the
ravages of his government." [more]
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A Modern
American Declaration of Liberty
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"The original Constitution
of this Republic, and its intent, has been so grossly misrepresented,
misinterpreted and wrested that it is scarcely recognizable. Professional
politicians, who have made careers and fortunes out of public service
have, in many cases, sold out the interests of the united States to
foreign powers and financial interests and their organizations. In
other cases, they have usurped and wrested the interests of this people
and their liberties on behalf of their own personal ideologies, vain
ambitions and carnal appetites. Thereby, the very purpose of the system
established by our forefathers (to protect each citizen's life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness) has been corrupted.
"As a result, we reaffirm the following to be self evident : That
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness." [more]
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The Bill of Rights Day
Committee
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"It seems impossible
to halt the erosion of freedom. We try everything and still we lose
more of our rights and liberties every day. But sometimes when a problem
seems unsolvable, you only need to look at it from a different perspective.
Then -- AHA! -- the answer is clear. Here is that different perspective:
Don't fight each and every law; change the culture. Create a Bill
of Rights culture and we will be free again. " [more]
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The Unveiling
of the National Security State, by Richard M. Dolan
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Five centuries ago,
Niccolo Machiavelli explained how to undertake a revolution from above
without most people even noticing. In his Discourses on Livy, he wrote
that one "must at least retain the semblance of the old forms; so
that it may seem to the people that there has been no change in the
institutions, even though in fact they are entirely different from
the old ones." [more]
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A View from the Eye of the Storm,
by Haim Harari
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As you know, I usually
provide the scientific and technological "entertainment" in our meetings,
but, on this occasion, our Chairman suggested that I present my own
personal view on events in the part of the world from which I come.
I have never been and I will never be a Government official and I
have no privileged information. My perspective is entirely based on
what I see, on what I read and on the fact that my family has lived
in this region for almost 200 years. You may regard my views as those
of the proverbial taxi driver, which you are supposed to question,
when you visit a country. [more]
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The Wakening of Lyn Nofziger,
by Lyn Nofziger
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"More and more I'm
beginning to think that I'm not a conservative at all, but a libertarian.
But I think it's the conservatives who are leaving me and not the
other way around. [more]
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Unfairenheit
9/11: The lies of Michael Moore, by Christopher Hitchens
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One of the many problems
with the American left, and indeed of the American left, has been
its image and self-image as something rather too solemn, mirthless,
herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring. How many times,
in my old days at The Nation magazine, did I hear wistful and semienvious
ruminations? Where was the radical Firing Line show? Who will be our
Rush Limbaugh? I used privately to hope that the emphasis, if the
comrades ever got around to it, would be on the first of those and
not the second. But the meetings themselves were so mind-numbing and
lugubrious that I thought the danger of success on either front was
infinitely slight. [more]
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Feeding
the Minotaur: Our strange relationship with the terrorists continues,
by Victor Davis Hanson
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As long as the mythical
Athenians were willing to send, every nine years, seven maidens and
seven young men down to King Minos's monster in the labyrinth, Athens
was left alone by the Cretan fleet. The king rightly figured that
harvesting just enough Athenians would remind them of their subservience
without leading to open rebellion — as long as somebody impetuous
like a Theseus didn't show up to wreck the arrangement. [more]
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Gross
Minus Net Equals Zero: Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment, by Michael
Marriott
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When I worked in Saudi
Arabia as a technical consultant in the 1990s, my coworkers and I
were astounded upon receiving our first paycheck: we actually were
paid the full amount we had earned. Gross pay minus net pay equaled
zero. Never before or since in my lifetime has such a thing happened.
Since every working person in the United States deserves such a delightful,
fulfilling experience I would like to submit the following proposition.
Let us together repeal the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution
by the year 2013. [more]
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Blowin'
smoke, by Neal Boortz
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I know that it might not have been number one on your list of things
to pay attention to, but the Libertarian Party recently held its 2004
presidential nominating convention in Atlanta. As with the past three
Libertarian conventions, I was invited to speak. This time things
were a bit different. There was an organized “Boot Boortz” petition
drive to have me removed from the speaker’s list. It seems that some
fellow Libertarians didn’t exactly approve of my support for the liberation
of Iraq. The quest for Libertarian ideological purity raises its ugly
head. [more]
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MUST READ! Ghosts
on the Roof, by Gerry Smedinghoff
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For most of human history,
the world has been led by vicious tyrants who ruled by terror, arrogant
monarchs who ruled by lineage, or superstitious patriarchs who ruled
by tradition. The 18th century witnessed the spontaneous evolution
of leaders — from monarchs and military commanders to philosophers
and statesmen. They gave birth to the idea of self-rule under the
passive eye of a benign government, dedicated to protecting and preserving
individual liberties under the rule of law.
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No Apology, by Unknown
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I am not condoning
what happened to the Iraqi prisoners...however, I think it is vitally
important that in my head I have these matters in proper perspective...
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Social Security,
by Unknown
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Since many of us have
paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check
every month - - and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85%
of the money we paid to the Federal government to "put away," you
may be interested in the following:
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How
America Must Act in the Middle East, by Edward Cline
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It is almost amusing
to read an analysis of a problem such as Ralph Bresler's "We must
act in the Mideast" ("Other Voices," Daily Press, Newport News, VA,
May 28). I have come to expect nothing else from retired or active
foreign service officers than armchair screeds penned in the ethereal
clouds of fantasy and wishful thinking, otherwise known as the "diplomatic
process." It is almost amusing, because Mr. Bresler's take on the
Mideast situation differs not a whit in fundamentals from presidential
hopeful John Kerry's or even (it has now been revealed) President
Bush's, and also because it exemplifies a policy that has meant little
more than death and destruction ever since it was first proposed and
attempted as a solution to Mideast conflicts.
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The Pentagon - Spying in America?, by Michael Isikoff
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Last February, two
Army counterintelligence agents showed up at the University of Texas
law school and demanded to see the roster from a conference on Islamic
law held a few days earlier. Their reason: they were trying to track
down students who the agents claimed had been asking "suspicious"
questions. "I felt like I was in 'Law & Order'," said one student
after being grilled by one of the agents. The incident provoked a
brief campus uproar, and the Army later admitted the agents had exceeded
their authority. But if the Pentagon has its way, the Army may not
have to make such amends in the future. Without any public hearing
or debate.
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Paris,
when it sizzles with hate, by Nadine Joseph
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Evelyne Sitruk always
envisioned Marseille as a model of tolerance and diversity amid stodgy,
stratified France, a Mediterranean port of 800,000 with a cosmopolitan
mix of Italians, Armenians, some 70,000 Jews and North Africans. Now
she finds it downright hostile.
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An Apology to Arabs, by
Unknown
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For good and ill, the
Iraqi prisoner abuse mess will remain an issue. On the one hand, right
thinking Americans will abhor the stupidity of the actions while on
the other hand, political glee will take control and fashion this
minor event into some modern day My Lai massacre. I heard some Arabs
and Muslims are asking for an apology. I humbly offer mine here:
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How would Reagan end the Muslim madness? by Gal Luft
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President Reagan's
death brought to the fore his outstanding accomplishment of ending
the Cold War. Like American presidents before him he led the U.S.
in the charge against the "evil empire" by forging alliances and sending
troops to remote theaters at high cost in blood and treasury. What
makes Reagan's vision for victory particularly remarkable is that
it stemmed from the belief in the power of technology as both a force
multiplier and a game changer.
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How
We Will Lose the Islamo-Fascist War by Greg Crosby
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Some have made the
statement that our present enemies are no more evil, ruthless, nor
determined than was Hitler's Nazis, and since we succeeded in defeating
the Nazis, the thinking goes, we will, in time, defeat the Islamic
terrorists too. Nice try, but I don't buy the comparison; in fact
I submit that the Islamic fascists we are up against today are by
far a more formidable enemy than were the Nazis. [more]
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Symposium:
KGB Resurrection by Jamie Glazov
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Despite the fall of
communism in Russia more than a decade ago, thousands of former KGB
officers and other members of the Soviet nomenklatura hold significant
positions of power in Russia today. The nation also appears to be
experiencing a process of re-Brezhnevization, which is marked by the
resurrection of the former secret police. What is the significance
of this phenomenon? How will it affect U.S. –Russian relations and,
more importantly, America’s war with militant Islam? [more]
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