SwiftKickOnline.com | Erica Goldson graduated as valedictorian of Coxsackie-Athens High School. Instead of using her graduation speech to celebrate the triumph of her victory, the school, and the teachers that made it happen, she channeled her inner Ivan Illich and de-constructed the logic of a valedictorian and the whole educational system.
C4SS.org | This lame response is in no way limited to Nazis. In fact, it’s a typical bureaucratic excuse from every government agent on earth when the inevitable abuses and horrors of such backward institutions are exposed. It’s as if the simple invocation of “I have my orders” somehow magically absolves any bureaucrat who acts on such edicts from any and all forms of independent moral judgment. The bureaucrat, earning his or her tax-funded paycheck, is permitted — nay, expected — to behave like a wind-up toy, a pre-programmed robot incapable of any deviation from his or her master’s directions. And at the end of the day, when natural rights are violated, when real human beings end up deprived of their property and/or hurled into cages, when live people end up dead — every bureaucrat pleads “helpless automaton.”
LibertyOnTour | It amazes me that handing out educational material can land you in a cage. Is this not the year 2010? Doesn't everyone know that education is a great thing? How do those employed by the DHS continue to arrest Julian for such an honorable act? Do they not realize that they are going against just about every oath they swore to uphold? I bet they would think differently if they ever found themselves in front of a jury.
C4SS.org | "He looked suspicious so we found it necessary to take action,” stated a Drexel Police Chief after handcuffing, threatening and detaining Michael Gurrieri, an attendee at the Student Liberty Front Retreat Conference on the campus this past weekend. The criminal activity that required four police officers to show up on scene was Gurrieri smoking a hand rolled cigarette, a new trend amongst the youth who are looking for cheaper and a more natural alternative to the highly taxed and contaminated cigarettes on the market, in which the cops mistook for a marijuana joint. After a confrontation that included a long lecture involving the reasons why the police deemed Gurrieri as a threatening figure and how he should always bow to his masters, he was released.
CopBlock.org | When a city pays out large amounts of money to settle lawsuits against the police department the money does not come out of the pockets of the thugs who perpetrated the crimes or the chief thugs who either failed to prevent the abuses or actively encouraged them. Taxpayers foot the bill in one way or another, so there is little incentive for police chiefs to be discriminating in their hiring practices. It is not uncommon for cops with a history of misconduct to be hired by police departments even after they have been fired from another. This was apparently quite common in Maywood, California. William Grigg describes how the police bankrupted a town by hiring a “merry band of armed plunderers”.
FarmWars.com | Have you ever tried corralling sheep? Not an easy task unless you know what you are doing. Since sheep are herd animals, they like to stick together. Get the leader to go in one direction, then the others will soon follow. They also tend to be very habitual. Both of these tendencies can be used against them to get them to do what you want them to.
LarkenRose.com | In response to my two prior messages about stating the bleeding obvious, a lot of people said that we need SOME "laws," or that we need LEGITIMATE "government," or some minimal amount of it. Not surprisingly, no one actually contradicted the bleeding obvious points. No one said, "Yes, I CAN delegate rights I don't have!" And no one said, "Yes, I CAN be obligated to ignore my own conscience!"
