MSM Rule of Thumb:

Rule of Thumb for U.S. Main Stream Media: If they don't cover it it's important, if they do, it's propaganda. --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, January 03, 2012 7:07 PM

"Right" or privilege?

You own a "right."  If it's a privilege, someone else loaned it to you.  Temporarily. --L. Reichard White, December 16, 2011, 12:58:44

THE Common Enemy?

As Americans we must always remember that we all have a   common enemy, an enemy that is dangerous, powerful, and   relentless. I refer, of course, to the federal government.   --Columnist Dave Barry

The revolutionary truth - - -

Revolutionaries say revolution [is] a 'right and a duty' . . . .  until they get into power . . . then it's a Capital Crime. --Ronald Tonkyro, Tuesday, December 27, 2011 9:08 AM

Profit motive - - -

Overall, the medical machine isn't incentivised to cure -- that would deprive it of repeat customers. --L. Reichard White, December 21, 2011, 08:45:33

A "Unitary Executive" we could love

We want a presidency with so little power we could put Adolph Hitler or Joseph Stalin in the position without losing any sleep over it. --L. Reichard White, December 10, 2011, 23:35:48

"Unitary Executive?"  See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory

Have YOU been paying attention?

If they hate us because of our freedom, they haven't been paying attention either. --L. Reichard White, Monday, November 28, 2011 6:27 PM

It's not who or what you think - - -

It's not the power elite, it's the Machine(s) that largely exist independently of the people who run them. --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, November 22, 2011 8:27 AM

"...by the time you become the leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You may find you can get away with virtual presidents, virtual prime ministers, virtual everything." --U.S. President Bill Clinton 1998

"...we had created a doom machine"

But who runs these "doom machines?" And why?

In The Constant Gardener, in particular, it was quite extraordinary to go to Basel, to get among the young pharmaceutical executives in a private way, promise them that I would never tell-divulge their names, and listen to them pouring out their rage against the work they were doing, at the people who were making them do it. But they were still taking the penny, and they were still doing what they were doing. They were still contributing to the invention of diseases. --British Novelist John le Carré, Democracy Now!, November 25, 2010

So, it's often like this - - -

"U.S. Defense Sec. McNamara: "I was part of a mechanism..."

So governments are themselves such doom machines, ones over which we have even less control than we have over corporations. If you don't like a particular corporation, stop buying and paying for "its" products. If that's not enough, organize a boycott, etc. As Sam Walton pointed out,

"There is only one boss--the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else." --Sam Walton

When there is constant inexorable FREE market competition (which, thanks to governments, we often don't have), businesses are very very sensitive to their customers.

What's the equivalent control over government doom machines?  If we don't stop financing them with our tax money, there are only things like this - - -

What can be done?

And, if that doesn't work, as U.S. PresideNT John F. Kennedy observed, "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

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"Authorities??"

"They're NOT 'authorities.' If they actually knew anything, they wouldn't be doing this crap."  --L. Reichard White, Friday, November 04, 2011 7:54 PM

Victor Milan, Two more Strategic Errors

Yeah, that part of OWS which imagines government will save it expects to be rescued from the rich and powerful by ... the rich and powerful.

Phony oppositions - Democrat vs. Republican, Government vs. Big Business - have formed a key part of the fraud which is the State over much if not all of the millennia over which it's been socializing cost and centralizing gain.

--Victor Milán

Strategic error

"Never underestimate the left's willingness to feed the hand that bites it." --L. Reichard White

It FITS!

"Well, it *is* the New York Times: All the news that fits the narrative."  --Gordon Runkle

Your choice

Who do you want guessing -- and gambling -- on what's going to happen next in the economy -- politicians and bureaucrats with your money, or businessmen with theirs? --L. Reichard White, Sunday, September 25, 2011 12:03 PM

How to get more spare time - - -

"[L]et's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone." --Clint Eastwood

Government doing nothing - - -

The government doing nothing isn't everyone doing nothing.  However, the government doing something often causes others to do nothing.  For several reasons.

1. Government uses up resources others would otherwise have to do something.

2. People assume that if the government is doing it, they don't need to. 

3. People worry that if they do something and the government doesn't approve, they may be prosecuted for doing something.   --L. Reichard White, Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:43 AM

The Standard of Deviation

"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." ~Frank Zappa

War or revolution?

"War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.” --Anonymous via Jeffrey Jones

What ARE they good for?

What do governments provide that can't be provided by other organizations and/or means? --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 10:04 AM

Fiat ambience

Weimar times are always so sepia and brown. --Heidi Luckin on Facebook

What SHOULD you call it then?

"If a department of government creates more and more enemies that are so angry at you they will blow themselves up to get you, should you call that department a 'Defense Department?'" --L. Reichard White, Tuesday, August 02, 2011 12:33 PM