Nineteen Eighty-Four is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. The story follows the life of one seemingly insignificant man, Winston Smith, a civil servant assigned the task of falsifying records and political literature, thus effectively perpetuating propaganda, who grows disillusioned with his meager existence and so begins a rebellion against the system.

"All men are not created equal. It is the purpose of the Government to make them so." This is the premise of the Showtime film adaption of Kurt Vonnegut's futuristic short story Harrison Bergeron. The movie centers around a young man (Harrison) who is smarter than his peers, and is not affected by the usual "Handicapping" which is used to train all Americans so everyone is of equal intelligence.

AngryHateMusic | The individuals participating in the gang that calls itself Government attempt to hold a coercive monopoly over every aspect of trade and commerce. If we choose not to participate, which is effectively canceling our subscription to their crappy services, we can return to providing acceptable alternatives.

OTN | How free is the press today, and what did the founders intend? Come along with OTN on location at the Executive House and see how police respond to a film crew not approved by the state.

LarkenRose.com | Despite all the lovey-dovey rhetoric about the supposed greatness of "democracy," there's only one thing its proponents want it for: to get moral permission to force their preferences, opinions and ideas on other people. People vote, hoping "their guy" will win. Why? So their own interests and agenda, and NOT the interests and agenda of the people who voted for "the other guy," will be served by the machine of "government." And everything "government" does, it does by threat of force. (It doesn't just ask nicely; it commands, and inflicts harm on any who don't obey.)

ThePhaedrus83 | "Our real enemies are not in some distant land. They're not people whose names we don't know and cultures we don't understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify. The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable, the CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable, the Insurance Companies who deny us Health care when it's profitable, the Banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemy is not five-thousand miles away. They are right here at home." - Mike Prysner

FreeDomainRadio.com | Any author who gives his work away faces the unique challenge of convincing people who have not invested their money in buying it that it is worth investing their time to read it. Samuel Johnson once wrote: "No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money," which makes my task even harder, since either Mr. Johnson was a blockhead, or I am.

FFF.org | One of the things about statists that fascinate me is how they look to the federal government to solve problems facing society, especially when it’s the federal government that is the cause of the problems. Such a mindset might make sense if they were asking federal officials to eliminate what they’re doing that’s causing the problem, but that’s not what statists do. Placing the government in an exalted, even holy, position, they refuse to acknowledge that the government has caused the problems and instead look to government to enact new, similar programs and policies to fix the problems.

4409 | The border is 60 miles south and we were on a highway that runs east-west? If their job is to violate your God given and Constitutional rights then that is a job they should NOT be doing....Furthermore they cannot plead ignorance. These gestapo are grown adults not children.

OTN | Has the TSA made your safety their priority as the tag-line suggests? Will the body scanners give us extra security, or move us closer to a total police state?