GoodFightLads | Are you an Individual, or an easily managed and controlled follower of groups, political parties, ideology and "leaders"?

TokeOfTheTown.com | Have you ever wanted to go into a courtroom and honestly tell the judge and prosecutor what you think of their marijuana laws?" Walker asked on the Facebook page, "Dana Goes to Jail!"

AngryHateMusic | This speech was said to be given in Virginia by Willie Lynch in 1712. It was regarding control of slaves within the colony. Some believe the term “lynching” to be derived from his last name. Many historians conclude that it is a hoax and that this particular Willie Lynch never existed. It is an interesting read regardless.

ZeroGov.com | The Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia in 1989 under Vaclav Havel was not the first non-violent revolution and it will not be the last, the notable point with this revolution was the government it occurred against. Daily, individuals let me know that I am working against a system that cannot be beat except through use of force or worse. When I say worse I, of course mean voting and simply replacing one side of the coin with the other.

CopBlock.org | When Ademo and I walked into the Franklin County Jail in Greenfield, MA to bail out a friend last July I had no idea we’d be standing in front of a jury over a year later. But, such is the state of affairs today – when individuals who merely question requests voiced by someone wearing a badge are kidnapped, caged, and threatened with years in a cage and thousands in fines for allegedly engaging in actions that victimized none.

C4SIF.org | In talking about various technopanics over time, there’s always someone who hates some new technology because it somehow “undermines” the good “way things were.” These days, think of the books by the likes of Nick Carr or Andrew Keen, who focus on just how awful new technology is making people, compared to “back in their day…” when things were just lovely. Yet, as we’ve pointed out, these sorts of complaints about new technology happen throughout history, such as the attacks on the telephone (makes men lazy and breaks up your home life) and novels (corrupts the mind). But sometimes it goes back much, much further. In the past, we’ve even joked about those “poor monks” put out of the scribe business by the printing press.

LarkenRose | Wouldn't it be great if YOU were in charge of everything? You could fix the world! Maybe. Maybe not.

FreedomInOurTime | Singer recalls asking a drone pilot “what it was like to fight insurgents in Iraq while based in Nevada. He said, `You are going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants, and then you get in the car and you drive home. And within 20 minutes, you’re sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.” Meanwhile, somewhere in Iraq (or Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, or another country yet to be identified), families are picking through the rubble of their homes in the rapidly evaporating hope that their own children have somehow survived this most recent act of imperial generosity.

Men and women who spoke out against the first World War were punished. Their families were torn apart. In Montana, scores of people were convicted of sedition, merely for criticizing the war effort or for refusing to prove their loyalty by buying war bonds. Some were sent to prison for up to 20 years, another was lynched on the spot.

FreedomsPhoenix.com | There are a lot of people who consider themselves freedom advocates, who, with righteous zeal and indignation, vehemently rail against the injustice, corruption and oppression "government" continually spews forth. However, many of those same people, when they hear someone suggesting life without the monstrosity called "government," will immediately go into turbo-backpedal mode, insisting that some "government" is needed, that we need to work to fix the system, and that we need a good "government," that just does good stuff, and protects us, and so on.