lewrockwell--2020-07-04--On July 4th, I’ll Be Celebrating Walter Block

One night in New York City , I watched Walter Block debate another libertarian personality at the invitation of Gene Epstein from Barron ’ s as part of his SoHo Forum .
There was such determination from Block to get at the truth , and there was such glibness from his debate partner .
It was painful for me to watch his debate partner be so glib .
Beyond a few articles and a few conversations , I barely knew the debate partner ’ s work , but to see him have the treasure of libertarian thought in front of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the community , and to treat the search for truth like that verged on the nihilistic .
In his attitude toward Block , he rebuked so much of what I love , and he did it wearing a leather jacket , as if that made him the cool person on stage .
Block wore a goofy hat .
Though Block was likely frustrated by the exchange , the debate partner did Block a favor that night by being Block ’ s foil .
In being the foil , he did me the favor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ dichotomy between two approaches to the world .
Robert Bly , writes about this dichotomy in his book Iron John , citing the Greek god Hermes .
Hermes is the god of the interior nervous system .
His presence amounts to heavenly wit .
When we are in Hermes ’ field , messages pass with fantastic speed between the brain and the fingertips , between the heart and the tear ducts , between the genitals and the eyes , between the part of us that suffers and the part of us that laughs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ know that mercury can not be held in the hand – it rolls everywhere , separates into tiny drops , joins again , falls on the floor , rolls under the table , moves with amazing quickness .
It is correctly called quicksilver .
This mercurial energy is called , among other things , Odin in Northern Europe , Mercury in Italy , Hermes in Greece .
Its day of the week is Wednesday ( Odin ’ s Day ) and mercredi in France .
Sometimes when friends are talking in a closed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ begins to increase : witty things are said ; contributions flow from all sides ; leaps of imagination appear ; the genuinely spiritual follows an instant after the genuinely obscene .
Hermes has arrived .
At some beautiful moment of the conversation a silence falls that feels mysterious ; everyone hesitates to break it .
In Spain until the fifteenth century that silence was called “ Hermes ’ silence.
” ( So Lopez-Pedraza says in his fine book on Hermes . )
The old tradition maintains that true learning does not take place @ @ @ @ @ @ @ depressing , because university English departments , and sociology departments , and religion departments usually get rid of teachers with Hermes energy first .
The whole Ph.D. system was created by Germanic Hermes-killers .
Hermes is magical , detail-loving , obscene , dancelike , goofy , and not on a career track .
Hermes slips in true information in that split second between the moment your tongue starts a word and the moment it finishes .
You plan to say “ This is my mother ” and you say “ This is my @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mother looked very pleased .
You plan to say “ farther ” and it comes out “ father , ” because Hermes moves faster than our thought .
What people call a Freudian slip is really a Hermes precision .
Hermes punctures pomposity , piety , sureness , and self-satisfaction .
Though I think the man in the leather jacket might imagine things differently , from the point of this onlooker , Block was the “ Hermes energy ” and the man in the leather jacket that night was the embodiment of the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that has such cynicism built into its roots for that passion for life and passion for truth that Block embodies .
Some People Are “ Offended ” By Hermes Energy , Others Find It Inspiring I ’ ve always loved Walter Block ’ s work , but that night something even more meaningful to me was on display .
This was someone who was so in touch with himself and his dogged drive for truth .
It was a confidence and sincerity that the world hardly deserves and hardly knows how to react @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that a petition is being circulated calling for the dismissal of Walter Block as a teacher .
The only surprise is that the mob took so long to circulate such a petition .
It can also be no surprise that a competing petition was issued to give Walter Block a pay raise .
The petition calling for a raise has seven times more signatures than the cancel petition .
I encourage you to share this with your circle and make that eight times .
What Will Walter Block Do ?
At the root @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ crisis , ” is a Greek word of neutral connotation meaning “ crossroads.
” It ’ s a place where one must make a decision .
One could even say one “ gets ” to make a decision .
Certainly not inherently negative , a crisis is an opportunity to decide .
Who knows what Walter Block will decide .
Perhaps the distraction of the cancel mob will leave him reflecting on the many reasons the academy doesn ’ t deserve him .
Or , if his school ’ s administration is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ their institution , perhaps Block will feel compelled to stay in exchange for a raise .
Whatever he decides , and make no mistake , for such a talented person , the decision is always in his hands , the world is lucky to have as much writing from Walter Block out in the world as it possibly can .
I interviewed Walter Block eight years ago when it was libertarians and conservatives who wanted to silence him .
Hermes energy is always ready to make the self-certain uncomfortable , regardless of their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ flag do not hit at the heart of what July 4 is .
The spirit of 1776 is very different from the spirit of 1787 .
One was decentralizing and about individual autonomy .
The other was centralizing and about governmental power .
The US Constitution ( 1787 ) is nearly the opposite of the Declaration of Independence ( 1776 ) .
As such , it is certainly not the Constitution that makes America great .
That tension between the two is constantly at play in American society .
One is the embodiment @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so great .
The other is some poor attempt at being a German PhD program seeking to restrain the massive and seemingly limitless magnitude of human potential for the benefit of the few .
Earlier this year , as the early stages of corona communism began descending upon us , Gary Barnett , reminded his readers of something written by the brilliant Henry David Thoreau in all of his Hermes energy : “ Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty .
The obedient must be slaves.
” Cited by Gandhi as a text @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a text of inspiration , I read Thoreau ’ s “ Civil Disobedience ” each July 4th aloud .
It was given as a speech and takes less than an hour .
It is ideal reading on the 4th of July and rewards the reader many times over .
Here ’ s a PDF of “ Civil Disobedience ” from my own website , formatted to be easy to read from a screen , if you don ’ t already have a print copy in your family library .
Another Fourth of July @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In 1787 , Thomas Jefferson , writing passionately from Paris about a tax protest , commonly referenced as “ Shay ’ s Rebellion ” commented in a letter to William Stephens Smith : “ The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants ” Jefferson was not always so encouraging about upending power .
Once he stepped into the role of president , he too had his moments of tyranny .
The third draft of The Declaration of Independence does not show a tyrannical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ consistent document than the one that we commonly know of .
In it , Jefferson called for an end to slavery .
But like many great documents that end up processed through committee , it got stripped of some of that Hermes energy , though thankfully , much of it remained .
A little editing , some might say , added to the stylistic flourish of the document we know today .
Each July 4th I read that third draft of the Declaration of Independence .
I find it a more beautiful document @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Though it appears in some anthologies , few people know the wonderful document .
Here ’ s a PDF for you , formatted to be easily read from a screen .
The cancel mob , imbued with that censorious German PhD energy , has reminded me how much Hermès energy exists in this era and how lucky we are , for the first time in history , to have so much of it at our fingertips .
The mass censoring that took place early this week as social media channels updated their @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rational discourse as “ hate speech , ” reminds us that this ease of access to hard hitting ideas is not forever promised to the world .
I ’ ll be paying honor to the Hermes energy of Walter Block this July 4th .
I ’ m going to start with his first LewRockwell.com article on 6/28/2001 .
Some titles I am looking forward to are “ Ideas Rule , ” “ Don ’ t Take Your Daughter to Work , ” “ Four Firemen Die in Socialist Fire , ” , “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” , “ Term Limits Hurt Female Politicians , ” “ Ayn Rand Was Wrong , ” , “ Gentrification Makes the World a Better Place ” , and “ I ’ m Ruled by a Left-Wing Jesuit ” .
I ’ ll also take a look at his Mises Institute work , and will have a look at some of his hundreds of academic papers that appear through a Google Scholar search .
The man is prolific .
No More Mental Masturbation — Let The Great Minds Inspire You To Act A @ @ @ @ @ @ @ written by men who refused to be anything but free is a reward of its own .
A day like that can be treated as mental masturbation , or it can be channeled into action , which is what I ask of you .
Let this special day be a day to reflect on how you will act , to make commitments to yourself and others , and to act .
The forces supporting a communist and globalist takeover of the United States are coalescing .
On a weekend like this , consider @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If we look to the example of formerly prosperous , democratic , and relatively free Czechoslovakia after World War 2 , we can find an option of what the future could hold for the United States .
Other Countries Have Travelled This Path Moscow ’ s intelligence bodies meddled significantly in internal affairs of post-war Czechoslovakia .
The 1948 elections were stolen and the communists came to power , descending the country into some dark years .
The US doesn ’ t need Russian or Chinese intelligence meddling in our internal affairs @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fine .
One has to wonder if Russia or Chinese intelligence would even represent a drop in the bucket in our rigged system .
Though the system was rigged , many in Czechoslovak society called for the communists to come to power and called for some of the evil that followed .
I ’ ll recount but a few examples .
Housing — Rather than offering any protection of property rights , a morality of thrift was encouraged as being socially just .
People with too few family members living in their homes @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the middle of the night .
The neighbors might hear a commotion that quickly died down and the next morning woke up to find farm workers from some far off village moving their possessions into their neighbors home in the city .
There was little logic as to why a person should be moved in the middle of the night other than the fact that the middle of the night provides for less community resistance and greater likelihood of compliance .
If one was lucky , rather than being confiscated , family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to move in .
You could then at least still live in a corner of the home that you grew up in and were raising your family in , though that too brought insult on top of injury .
Education — Education was politicized .
You needed higher education to get a career .
You might be denied higher education to prepare for that career if you were from a privileged segment of society whose parents and grandparents had not bowed down by joining the Communist Party , which incidentally seldom had more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society in its membership .
Movement — Though I can ’ t know a person ’ s thoughts , right now Trump is likely attempting to build a southern border wall , both physical and electronic , in order to stop America from growing so increasingly destabilized socially and politically through unchecked mass migration .
That border wall may be used one day to keep Americans in .
Though it is no longer fortified or guarded the way it once was , to the keen eye , a no man ’ s land @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Slovakia where shootings took place to prevent a person from leaving Czechoslovakia surreptitiously .
Seldom was that needed though because it was known that the family you left behind would be so horribly treated after your departure .
Guilt kept many from sneaking out of the country and inflicting that on their family .
They might be closely watched by the contact tracers of their day to make sure that they were not afflicted with the same social contagion that the emigrant was .
The family member ’ s career , education , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ impacted by someone leaving .
Everywhere a culture of fear and compliance reigned .
Ten years after the end of communism , it was still uncommon to see a person smile in public .
It was just too dangerous to show your emotions .
To this day the compliance taught during communism weighs heavy upon that society .
Every day , American society steps toward that future .
Every day your actions become less and less consequential to that outcome as society grows increasingly locked down and compliant .
Tomorrow ’ s action @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I can no longer envision a future where that is not the case .
I beg of you to decide where you stand and to act decisively today .
The Best of Allan Stevo

One night in New York City, I watched Walter Block debate another libertarian personality at the invitation of Gene Epstein from Barron’s as part of his SoHo Forum.
There was such determination from Block to get at the truth, and there was such glibness from his debate partner. It was painful for me to watch his debate partner be so glib. Beyond a few articles and a few conversations, I barely knew the debate partner’s work, but to see him have the treasure of libertarian thought in front of him and such a coveted place in the community, and to treat the search for truth like that verged on the nihilistic.
In his attitude toward Block, he rebuked so much of what I love, and he did it wearing a leather jacket, as if that made him the cool person on stage. Block wore a goofy hat.
Though Block was likely frustrated by the exchange, the debate partner did Block a favor that night by being Block’s foil. In being the foil, he did me the favor that night of so definitively drawing a dichotomy between two approaches to the world.
Robert Bly, writes about this dichotomy in his book Iron John, citing the Greek god Hermes. Defending the Undefend... Walter Block Best Price: $1.99 Buy New $10.80 (as of 07:55 UTC - Details)
Hermes is the god of the interior nervous system. His presence amounts to heavenly wit. When we are in Hermes’ field, messages pass with fantastic speed between the brain and the fingertips, between the heart and the tear ducts, between the genitals and the eyes, between the part of us that suffers and the part of us that laughs. Hermes is Mercury, and we know that mercury cannot be held in the hand – it rolls everywhere, separates into tiny drops, joins again, falls on the floor, rolls under the table, moves with amazing quickness. It is correctly called quicksilver. This mercurial energy is called, among other things, Odin in Northern Europe, Mercury in Italy, Hermes in Greece. Its day of the week is Wednesday (Odin’s Day) and mercredi in France. Sometimes when friends are talking in a closed room, the heat of the conversation begins to increase: witty things are said; contributions flow from all sides; leaps of imagination appear; the genuinely spiritual follows an instant after the genuinely obscene. Hermes has arrived. At some beautiful moment of the conversation a silence falls that feels mysterious; everyone hesitates to break it. In Spain until the fifteenth century that silence was called “Hermes’ silence.” (So Lopez-Pedraza says in his fine book on Hermes.) The old tradition maintains that true learning does not take place unless Hermes is present. That is depressing, because university English departments, and sociology departments, and religion departments usually get rid of teachers with Hermes energy first. The whole Ph.D. system was created by Germanic Hermes-killers. Hermes is magical, detail-loving, obscene, dancelike, goofy, and not on a career track. Hermes slips in true information in that split second between the moment your tongue starts a word and the moment it finishes. You plan to say “This is my mother” and you say “This is my wife.” I did that. My mother looked very pleased. You plan to say “farther” and it comes out “father,” because Hermes moves faster than our thought. What people call a Freudian slip is really a Hermes precision. Hermes punctures pomposity, piety, sureness, and self-satisfaction.
Though I think the man in the leather jacket might imagine things differently, from the point of this onlooker, Block was the “Hermes energy” and the man in the leather jacket that night was the embodiment of the very opposite — the Germanic PhD system that has such cynicism built into its roots for that passion for life and passion for truth that Block embodies. How to Win America for... Stevo, Allan J Best Price: $14.36 Buy New $17.95 (as of 04:37 UTC - Details)
Some People Are “Offended” By Hermes Energy, Others Find It Inspiring
I’ve always loved Walter Block’s work, but that night something even more meaningful to me was on display. This was someone who was so in touch with himself and his dogged drive for truth. It was a confidence and sincerity that the world hardly deserves and hardly knows how to react to.
It can be no surprise that a petition is being circulated calling for the dismissal of Walter Block as a teacher. The only surprise is that the mob took so long to circulate such a petition.
It can also be no surprise that a competing petition was issued to give Walter Block a pay raise.
The petition calling for a raise has seven times more signatures than the cancel petition. I encourage you to share this with your circle and make that eight times.
What Will Walter Block Do?
At the root of our often negatively connoted English word “crisis,” is a Greek word of neutral connotation meaning “crossroads.” It’s a place where one must make a decision. One could even say one “gets” to make a decision. Certainly not inherently negative, a crisis is an opportunity to decide.
Who knows what Walter Block will decide. Perhaps the distraction of the cancel mob will leave him reflecting on the many reasons the academy doesn’t deserve him. Or, if his school’s administration is invested in the long term success of their institution, perhaps Block will feel compelled to stay in exchange for a raise.
Whatever he decides, and make no mistake, for such a talented person, the decision is always in his hands, the world is lucky to have as much writing from Walter Block out in the world as it possibly can.
I interviewed Walter Block eight years ago when it was libertarians and conservatives who wanted to silence him. Hermes energy is always ready to make the self-certain uncomfortable, regardless of their allegiance.
An Appropriate July 4 Tradition — Civil Disobedience
Fireworks or obeisance to the flag do not hit at the heart of what July 4 is. The spirit of 1776 is very different from the spirit of 1787. One was decentralizing and about individual autonomy. The other was centralizing and about governmental power. Speaking for Myself: F... Sanders, Sarah Huckabee Buy New $20.99 (as of 05:07 UTC - Details)
The US Constitution (1787) is nearly the opposite of the Declaration of Independence(1776). As such, it is certainly not the Constitution that makes America great. That tension between the two is constantly at play in American society.
One is the embodiment of that Hermes energy that makes America so great. The other is some poor attempt at being a German PhD program seeking to restrain the massive and seemingly limitless magnitude of human potential for the benefit of the few.
Earlier this year, as the early stages of corona communism began descending upon us, Gary Barnett, reminded his readers of something written by the brilliant Henry David Thoreau in all of his Hermes energy:
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Cited by Gandhi as a text of inspiration, cited by King as a text of inspiration, I read Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience” each July 4th aloud. It was given as a speech and takes less than an hour. It is ideal reading on the 4th of July and rewards the reader many times over. Here’s a PDF of “Civil Disobedience” from my own website, formatted to be easy to read from a screen, if you don’t already have a print copy in your family library.
Another Fourth of July Tradition — Jefferson’s Third Draft
In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, writing passionately from Paris about a tax protest, commonly referenced as “Shay’s Rebellion” commented in a letter to William Stephens Smith:
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants”
Jefferson was not always so encouraging about upending power. Once he stepped into the role of president, he too had his moments of tyranny.
The third draft of The Declaration of Independence does not show a tyrannical Jefferson. It is a more intellectually consistent document than the one that we commonly know of. In it, Jefferson called for an end to slavery. But like many great documents that end up processed through committee, it got stripped of some of that Hermes energy, though thankfully, much of it remained. A little editing, some might say, added to the stylistic flourish of the document we know today.
Each July 4th I read that third draft of the Declaration of Independence. I find it a more beautiful document than the final draft that we know. Though it appears in some anthologies, few people know the wonderful document. Here’s a PDF for you, formatted to be easily read from a screen. Unassailable: Protect ... Jeftovic, Mark E Best Price: $26.03 Buy New $14.95 (as of 05:08 UTC - Details)
A New July Fourth Tradition?
The cancel mob, imbued with that censorious German PhD energy, has reminded me how much Hermès energy exists in this era and how lucky we are, for the first time in history, to have so much of it at our fingertips.
The mass censoring that took place early this week as social media channels updated their terms of service to redefine peaceful and rational discourse as “hate speech,” reminds us that this ease of access to hard hitting ideas is not forever promised to the world.
I’ll be paying honor to the Hermes energy of Walter Block this July 4th. I’m going to start with his first LewRockwell.com article on 6/28/2001.
Some titles I am looking forward to are “Ideas Rule,” “Don’t Take Your Daughter to Work,” “Four Firemen Die in Socialist Fire,”, “Is There a Right To Unionize?”, “Term Limits Hurt Female Politicians,” “Ayn Rand Was Wrong,”, “Gentrification Makes the World a Better Place”, and “I’m Ruled by a Left-Wing Jesuit”.
I’ll also take a look at his Mises Institute work, and will have a look at some of his hundreds of academic papers that appear through a Google Scholar search. The man is prolific.
No More Mental Masturbation — Let The Great Minds Inspire You To Act
A day of reading and mediation about revolution written by men who refused to be anything but free is a reward of its own. A day like that can be treated as mental masturbation, or it can be channeled into action, which is what I ask of you. Let this special day be a day to reflect on how you will act, to make commitments to yourself and others, and to act.
The forces supporting a communist and globalist takeover of the United States are coalescing. On a weekend like this, consider what role you will play moving forward.
If we look to the example of formerly prosperous, democratic, and relatively free Czechoslovakia after World War 2, we can find an option of what the future could hold for the United States.
Other Countries Have Travelled This Path
Dissenters Project: Th... Collection, Essay Best Price: $16.66 Buy New $9.95 (as of 05:08 UTC - Details) Moscow’s intelligence bodies meddled significantly in internal affairs of post-war Czechoslovakia. The 1948 elections were stolen and the communists came to power, descending the country into some dark years. The US doesn’t need Russian or Chinese intelligence meddling in our internal affairs. American intelligence does the job just fine. One has to wonder if Russia or Chinese intelligence would even represent a drop in the bucket in our rigged system.
Though the system was rigged, many in Czechoslovak society called for the communists to come to power and called for some of the evil that followed. I’ll recount but a few examples.
Housing — Rather than offering any protection of property rights, a morality of thrift was encouraged as being socially just. People with too few family members living in their homes were removed from their homes, sometimes in the middle of the night. The neighbors might hear a commotion that quickly died down and the next morning woke up to find farm workers from some far off village moving their possessions into their neighbors home in the city. There was little logic as to why a person should be moved in the middle of the night other than the fact that the middle of the night provides for less community resistance and greater likelihood of compliance.
If one was lucky, rather than being confiscated, family homes were merely subdivided to allow others to move in. You could then at least still live in a corner of the home that you grew up in and were raising your family in, though that too brought insult on top of injury.
Education — Education was politicized. You needed higher education to get a career. You might be denied higher education to prepare for that career if you were from a privileged segment of society whose parents and grandparents had not bowed down by joining the Communist Party, which incidentally seldom had more than 10% of any communist controlled society in its membership.
Movement — Though I can’t know a person’s thoughts, right now Trump is likely attempting to build a southern border wall, both physical and electronic, in order to stop America from growing so increasingly destabilized socially and politically through unchecked mass migration. That border wall may be used one day to keep Americans in.
Though it is no longer fortified or guarded the way it once was, to the keen eye, a no man’s land exists to this day between Austria and Slovakia where shootings took place to prevent a person from leaving Czechoslovakia surreptitiously. Seldom was that needed though because it was known that the family you left behind would be so horribly treated after your departure. Guilt kept many from sneaking out of the country and inflicting that on their family. They might be closely watched by the contact tracers of their day to make sure that they were not afflicted with the same social contagion that the emigrant was. The family member’s career, education, and ability to travel could all be impacted by someone leaving.
The Pervading Sense Of Fear Demands Courageous Action
Everywhere a culture of fear and compliance reigned. Ten years after the end of communism, it was still uncommon to see a person smile in public. It was just too dangerous to show your emotions. To this day the compliance taught during communism weighs heavy upon that society.
Every day, American society steps toward that future. Every day your actions become less and less consequential to that outcome as society grows increasingly locked down and compliant. Tomorrow’s action means less than today’s. I can no longer envision a future where that is not the case. I beg of you to decide where you stand and to act decisively today.
The Best of Allan Stevo


lewrockwell--2020-07-04--Are Uncivil Protests and Mob Violence Winning?

The Seattle Commune is no more .
Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ , the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone , rechristened CHOP , the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest , the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1 .
The cops shut it down .
As Marx said , history repeats itself , first as tragedy then as farce .
If the Paris Commune of 1871 is the archetype , that mass uprising and swift slaughter of the communards who rose against the regime , what happened in Seattle is the farce .
Nixon ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Best Price : $ 2.03 Buy New $ 8.50 Police Chief Carmen Best , who opposed Mayor Jenny Durkan ’ s surrender of one of her precinct stations to the mob , explained in exasperation why her cops finally acted : “ Enough is enough .
The CHOP ( had ) become lawless and brutal .
Four shootings — two fatal — robberies , assaults , violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area.
” The shooting death of a 16-year-old and critical wounding of a 14-year-old on @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hand .
Some journalists touring the CHOP had burbled on like Lincoln Steffens on his first trip to Lenin ’ s Russia , “ I have been over into the future and it works !
” They wrote of “ peaceful ” meetings , “ documentary screenings ” and “ concerts.
” Best was more hardheaded about what she found after recapturing the CHOP : “ After walking through the area I was stunned by the amount of graffiti , garbage , and property destruction.
” Apparently , however , Mayor Durkan does @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days of what she had predicted would be a “ summer of love.
” “ Durkan called for charges to be dismissed against those who were arrested for alleged misdemeanors … The mayor also said that Seattle arts and parks departments would preserve a community garden and artwork and murals that protesters created within the zone.
” Hard to believe .
Statues of Washington , Jefferson , Jackson , Lincoln , Grant and Theodore Roosevelt are dragged down , while the murals and graffiti of misfits who trashed downtown Seattle are to be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ protests since the death of George Floyd — weeks featuring riots , looting and trashing of city centers , desecration of monuments from Columbus to the Founding Fathers , presidents and Confederate generals , proven to be a cultural and political victory for the radical left ?
More precisely , is the mob winning ?
The case can be made that the mob has won already .
People have gotten away with massive demonstrations blocking roads , highways and parks .
Shopping areas in elite and working-class sections of scores of cities have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ been insulted , taunted and showered with debris .
Result : Mob demands to “ Defund the Police ” have been met by political concessions and capitulations .
Minneapolis is moving to abolish its police force .
New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has slashed $ 1 billion from the NYPD budget .
Protesters camping out at city hall are demanding more .
Joe Biden , who began his campaign by telling us how well he had gotten on with the old segregationist senators like Jim Eastland and Strom Thurmond , has been @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that basement .
“ ( W ) ith regard to those statues and monuments , like the Jefferson Memorial , there ’ s an obligation that the government protect those monuments because they ’ re different .
That ’ s a remembrance , it ’ s not dealing with revering somebody who had that view .
… They may have had things in their past that were now and then distasteful , but that ’ s a judgment.
” This mush comes from a senator who probably can not remember how many Jefferson-Jackson @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
CANCEL CULTURE : How to ... Reich , Alexander Buy New $ 12.99 Consider what else the radicals and rioters have accomplished .
They have made mass civil disobedience an acceptable and even praiseworthy form of protest , if you are justifiably outraged .
They have won near-immunity for burning and looting stores .
Blanket amnesties at the state and city level appear to be in the cards .
With the collaboration of an allied and indulgent media , the radicals have turned public opinion against the cops .
They have forced @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the national agenda .
They have pulled the center of gravity of politics sharply to the left .
Contrast how our establishment has been panicked into headlong retreat , with how Xi Jinping ’ s Chinese Communist Party handled its year of protests in Hong Kong — protests aimed at attaining the democratic rights that the American protesters are abusing .
The Chinese made a calculated decision : They would not use the methods they had employed in Tiananmen Square in 1989 .
But bottom line , they would also not lose Hong @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has now taken over Hong Kong , stifled the protests and begun a roundup of those who initiated and led the disorders .
And the West has done nothing .
As the world observes how the world ’ s greatest democracy handles disorders arising from left-wing radicals , and how China is handling an anti-Communist uprising in its city of Hong Kong , which appears to be more in command and control of its nation ’ s destiny ?
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The Seattle Commune is no more.
Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, rechristened CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest, the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1. The cops shut it down.
As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.
If the Paris Commune of 1871 is the archetype, that mass uprising and swift slaughter of the communards who rose against the regime, what happened in Seattle is the farce. Nixon’s White Ho... Buchanan, Patrick J. Best Price: $2.03 Buy New $8.50 (as of 12:15 UTC - Details)
Police Chief Carmen Best, who opposed Mayor Jenny Durkan’s surrender of one of her precinct stations to the mob, explained in exasperation why her cops finally acted:
“Enough is enough. The CHOP (had) become lawless and brutal. Four shootings — two fatal — robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area.”
The shooting death of a 16-year-old and critical wounding of a 14-year-old on Monday finally forced the mayor’s hand.
Some journalists touring the CHOP had burbled on like Lincoln Steffens on his first trip to Lenin’s Russia, “I have been over into the future and it works!”
They wrote of “peaceful” meetings, “documentary screenings” and “concerts.” Best was more hardheaded about what she found after recapturing the CHOP: “After walking through the area I was stunned by the amount of graffiti, garbage, and property destruction.”
Apparently, however, Mayor Durkan does not want posterity to forget the glory days of what she had predicted would be a “summer of love.”
Writes The Washington Post:
“Durkan called for charges to be dismissed against those who were arrested for alleged misdemeanors … The mayor also said that Seattle arts and parks departments would preserve a community garden and artwork and murals that protesters created within the zone.”
Hard to believe. Statues of Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Theodore Roosevelt are dragged down, while the murals and graffiti of misfits who trashed downtown Seattle are to be preserved.
This raises a larger question.
Have the six weeks of protests since the death of George Floyd — weeks featuring riots, looting and trashing of city centers, desecration of monuments from Columbus to the Founding Fathers, presidents and Confederate generals, proven to be a cultural and political victory for the radical left?
More precisely, is the mob winning?
The case can be made that the mob has won already. People have gotten away with massive demonstrations blocking roads, highways and parks. Shopping areas in elite and working-class sections of scores of cities have been torched and looted. Police have been insulted, taunted and showered with debris.
Result: Mob demands to “Defund the Police” have been met by political concessions and capitulations. Minneapolis is moving to abolish its police force. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio has slashed $1 billion from the NYPD budget. Protesters camping out at city hall are demanding more.
Joe Biden, who began his campaign by telling us how well he had gotten on with the old segregationist senators like Jim Eastland and Strom Thurmond, has been scrambling as swiftly as he can in that basement.
Said Biden this week:
“(W)ith regard to those statues and monuments, like the Jefferson Memorial, there’s an obligation that the government protect those monuments because they’re different. That’s a remembrance, it’s not dealing with revering somebody who had that view. … They may have had things in their past that were now and then distasteful, but that’s a judgment.”
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Consider what else the radicals and rioters have accomplished.
They have made mass civil disobedience an acceptable and even praiseworthy form of protest, if you are justifiably outraged. They have won near-immunity for burning and looting stores. Blanket amnesties at the state and city level appear to be in the cards.
With the collaboration of an allied and indulgent media, the radicals have turned public opinion against the cops. They have forced the issue of defunding the police onto the national agenda. They have pulled the center of gravity of politics sharply to the left.
Contrast how our establishment has been panicked into headlong retreat, with how Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party handled its year of protests in Hong Kong — protests aimed at attaining the democratic rights that the American protesters are abusing.
The Chinese made a calculated decision: They would not use the methods they had employed in Tiananmen Square in 1989. But bottom line, they would also not lose Hong Kong to the democratic camp.
Beijing has now taken over Hong Kong, stifled the protests and begun a roundup of those who initiated and led the disorders.
And the West has done nothing.
As the world observes how the world’s greatest democracy handles disorders arising from left-wing radicals, and how China is handling an anti-Communist uprising in its city of Hong Kong, which appears to be more in command and control of its nation’s destiny?
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lewrockwell--2020-07-04--The Fourth Estate Has Murdered America

The Fourth Estate Has Murdered America

The “ news service ” of multi-billionaire Bloomberg echoes the New York Times lie that Russia paid the Taliban to kill US occupying troops : “ Lawmakers from both U.S. political parties demanded President Donald Trump hold Russia accountable over allegations it offered cash bounties for the killing of American troops .
Trump has denied reports by several major news organizations that he was briefed on the matter ; he has not demanded an investigation of the allegations ; and he has yet to even threaten Moscow with retaliation should the reporting be confirmed .
Trump ’ s lack of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is more interested in maintaining cordial relations with Vladimir Putin than defending American interests—including its troops.
” Notice all the innuendos in this dishonest report : “ Trump has denied , ” “ he has not demanded an investigation , ” “ he has yet to even threaten moscow , ” ‘ Trump ’ s lack of action , ” “ more interested in cordial relations with putin than defending American troops.
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The US and Taliban have been killing each other since October 2001 when the Cheney/Bush regime illegally attacked Afghanistan .
For 19 years the Taliban has known who its enemy is and does not need Russian bribes to kill US occupiers .
To me , it is extraordinary that the New York Times and the proprietor of Bloomberg News are so devoid of integrity that they make up out of thin air false allegations for the sole purpose of convincing Americans that their president is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ along with Putin than protecting US soldiers .
This latest lie from NYTimes/Bloomberg is an effort to resurrect the Russiagate hoax .
Here is what happened .
Some Democrat or anti-Trump member of the military/security complex planted a lie on the New York Times .
The NY Times knew it was a lie , did not investigate , and quickly published the lie for which the NY Times had no evidence .
Indeed , it is possible that the NY Times simply made up the story itself .
In Their Own Words Bracken @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Buy New $ 28.94 Once the lie is published , the rest of the presstitutes , such as Bloomberg , quickly spread the lie .
Democrat and even Republican politicians start agitating for explanations and investigations of why Trump took no action against Russia .
The Department of Defense issues a statement that there is “ no corroborating evidence ” to support the New York Times ’ fake news .
But the Democrats , presstitutes and liberal pundits dismiss the DOD statement as covering up for President Trump .
Once again an obvious @ @ @ @ @ @ @ fact .
The New York Times is supposed to be a newspaper , “ the paper of record , ” and Bloomberg is supposed to be a news service .
But both are propagandists dispensing lies in order to help the American Establishment get rid of Trump who represents the working class .
In American politics , representing the working class is no longer permissible .
The liberals , the progressives , and the left are the actual forces aligned against America .
They are far more dangerous to ordinary Americans than are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Russia .
They are dangerous to all races that comprise the US Tower of Babel , because they are bringing America down in a spasm of disinformation and hate .
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The “news service” of multi-billionaire Bloomberg echoes the New York Times lie that Russia paid the Taliban to kill US occupying troops:
“Lawmakers from both U.S. political parties demanded President Donald Trump hold Russia accountable over allegations it offered cash bounties for the killing of American troops. Trump has denied reports by several major news organizations that he was briefed on the matter; he has not demanded an investigation of the allegations; and he has yet to even threaten Moscow with retaliation should the reporting be confirmed. Trump’s lack of action has reignited concerns that the Republican is more interested in maintaining cordial relations with Vladimir Putin than defending American interests—including its troops.”
Notice all the innuendos in this dishonest report: “Trump has denied,” “he has not demanded an investigation,” “he has yet to even threaten moscow,” ‘Trump’s lack of action,” “more interested in cordial relations with putin than defending American troops.” The MAGA Doctrine: The... Kirk, Charlie Best Price: $9.99 Buy New $13.50 (as of 04:42 UTC - Details)
The claim iitself is so absurd that it indicates the media regard Americans as completely stupid. The US and Taliban have been killing each other since October 2001 when the Cheney/Bush regime illegally attacked Afghanistan. For 19 years the Taliban has known who its enemy is and does not need Russian bribes to kill US occupiers.
To me, it is extraordinary that the New York Times and the proprietor of Bloomberg News are so devoid of integrity that they make up out of thin air false allegations for the sole purpose of convincing Americans that their president is a Russian agent more concerned with getting along with Putin than protecting US soldiers. This latest lie from NYTimes/Bloomberg is an effort to resurrect the Russiagate hoax.
Here is what happened. Some Democrat or anti-Trump member of the military/security complex planted a lie on the New York Times. The NY Times knew it was a lie, did not investigate, and quickly published the lie for which the NY Times had no evidence. Indeed, it is possible that the NY Times simply made up the story itself. In Their Own Words Bracken, Donagh Best Price: $29.11 Buy New $28.94 (as of 06:23 UTC - Details)
Once the lie is published, the rest of the presstitutes, such as Bloomberg, quickly spread the lie. Democrat and even Republican politicians start agitating for explanations and investigations of why Trump took no action against Russia.
The Department of Defense issues a statement that there is “no corroborating evidence” to support the New York Times’ fake news. But the Democrats, presstitutes and liberal pundits dismiss the DOD statement as covering up for President Trump. Once again an obvious lie is being turned into a proven fact.
The New York Times is supposed to be a newspaper, “the paper of record,” and Bloomberg is supposed to be a news service. But both are propagandists dispensing lies in order to help the American Establishment get rid of Trump who represents the working class. In American politics, representing the working class is no longer permissible.
The liberals, the progressives, and the left are the actual forces aligned against America. They are far more dangerous to ordinary Americans than are North Korea, Iran, China, and Russia. They are dangerous to all races that comprise the US Tower of Babel, because they are bringing America down in a spasm of disinformation and hate.
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History Lesson

Now I am going to tell you why BLM is a hustle , and how it came to this .
Here is an opening to that honest conversation about race everyone ’ s been pretending to ask for .
That ’ s been a hustle too , so far , because when anybody actually ventures to launch it , the cries of “ racist ” shut it down .
The BLM hustle has turned into a violent insurrection supported by a body of bad ideas geared to driving the nation insane .
The action on-the-ground is like the Jacobin phase @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violent derangement of Mao Zedong ’ s Cultural Revolution .
As biologist Bret Weinstein said in his podcast last week with linguistics prof John McWhorter : “ If you attempt a Maoist takeover of the US , you ’ ll get a civil war.
” What we ’ re seeing in the looting and burning , the “ canceling ” of careers and lives , the toppling of statues and the attempt to rewrite history , the pathetic obeisance of political leaders to raging mobs , and the lives lost in senseless acts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the civil rights movement .
That business was the full participation of Black citizens in American life .
The main grievance now is that Black Americans are still denied full participation due to “ systemic racism.
” That ’ s a dodge .
What actually happened is that Black America opted out and lost itself in a quandary of its own making with the assistance of their white dis-enablers , the well-intentioned “ progressives.
” False Black Power ?
( Ne ... Jason L. Riley Best Price : $ 8.95 Buy New $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the mid-20th century .
America had just fought and won a war against manifest evil .
The nation styled itself as Leader of the Free World .
That role could not be squared with the rules of Jim Crow apartheid , so something had to change .
The civil rights campaign to undo racial segregation under law naturally began in the courts in cases such as Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ) .
So-called public accommodations — hotels , theaters , restaurants , buses , bathrooms , water fountains , etc @ @ @ @ @ @ @ early 1960s , the clamor to end all that took to the streets under the emerging moral leadership of Martin Luther King and his credo of non-violent civil disobedience .
Many acts of non-violent street protest were met by police using fire-hoses , vicious dogs , and batons to terrorize the marchers .
This only shamed and horrified the rest of the nation watching on TV and actually quickened the formation of a political consensus to end American apartheid .
That culminated in the passage of three major federal laws : the Public @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rights Act of 1965 , and the Fair Housing Act of 1968 .
Meanwhile , something else was going on among Black Americans : not everybody believed in Dr. King ’ s non-violence , and not everybody was so sure about full participation in American life .
Altogether , Black America remained ambivalent and anxious about all that .
That full participation implied a challenge to compete on common ground .
What if it didn ’ t work out ?
An alternate view emerged , personified first by Malcolm X , who called @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and then by the younger generation , Stokely Carmichael , the Black Panthers and others retailing various brands of Black Power , Black Nationalism , and Black Separatism .
It amounted , for some , in declining that invitation to participate fully in American life .
“ No thanks .
We ’ ll go our own way.
” That sentiment has prevailed ever since .
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The civil rights acts had some startling adverse consequences , too .
They swept away much of the parallel service and professional economy that Blacks had constructed to get around all the old exclusions of everyday life .
With that went a lot of the Black middle-class , the business owners especially .
In its place , the liberal-and-progressive government provided “ public assistance ” — a self-reinforcing poverty generator that got ever worse , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ destroying the working-class job base beginning in the 1970s .
The catch was that Black America did not ask for or demand an end to those poverty-generating “ welfare ” programs .
Rather , they objected loudly to changing them .
It was , of course and unfortunately , a form of addiction .
How did white liberals and progressives react to all that ?
Increasingly with shame , disappointment , consternation , and amazement that the civil rights campaign had worked out so imperfectly .
Despite all their idealism , American life @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , fraternity , and amity .
In the most troubled places , the urban ghettos , the statistical markers of out-of-wedlock births , crime , drug use , failure in school were getting demonstrably worse year by year .
It was embarrassing , confusing , galling to the sociology professors , the congressional staffers , the school boards , the media pundits , the arts community , the literati , the clergy… really everybody who had hoped to right all the wrongs of history in their lifetime .
The solution was multiculturalism and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ society didn ’ t require a common culture , a consensus about behaviors , manners , and values .
Multiculturalism and diversity ( M & D ) provided a rich repertory of rationales for moral grandstanding , not to mention countless well-paid jobs administering institutional policy , without requiring anything of anyone .
But , contrary to good intentions once again , that didn ’ t work .
It only increased friction between groups of people and induced more failure .
Liberalism or How to T ... Burgess Owens Best Price : $ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , the language problem .
Black children in the centers of poverty were not learning how to speak English coherently .
Their poor language skills were arguably a greater impediment to success in school , and in adult life later on , than the color of their skin .
Yet the dogmas of M & D militated against fixing that .
And , of course , it is still a deep taboo to broach the subject .
Really , America , if you want to begin somewhere , require the teaching of language @ @ @ @ @ @ @ continue to deny it , you are condemning people to failure .
Eventually , M & D evolved into the identity politics that turned the universities into lunatic asylums and finally infected the already badly fragmenting culture at large .
The figments and phantoms that preoccupy “ woke ” revolutionaries are a product of that still-vibrant shame , disappointment , and hysteria that progressive America feels about the outcome of the long civil rights campaign .
That is what all those Ivy League Maoists are acting out in the streets now , abetted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ establishment , the city halls , and the state houses .
The economic collapse underway is intensifying these quandaries , paradoxes , and predicaments because from now on life is going to get much more difficult for everybody in the USA .
It will require everybody to get more serious about what actions they can take , what behaviors they can follow , in order to remain civilized .
Do we really want it to become a fight over the table-scraps of history , or can we clear the phantoms out of our @ @ @ @ @ @ @ change ?
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Now I am going to tell you why BLM is a hustle, and how it came to this. Here is an opening to that honest conversation about race everyone’s been pretending to ask for. That’s been a hustle too, so far, because when anybody actually ventures to launch it, the cries of “racist” shut it down.
The BLM hustle has turned into a violent insurrection supported by a body of bad ideas geared to driving the nation insane. The action on-the-ground is like the Jacobin phase of the French Revolution seasoned with the violent derangement of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution. As biologist Bret Weinstein said in his podcast last week with linguistics prof John McWhorter: “If you attempt a Maoist takeover of the US, you’ll get a civil war.”
What we’re seeing in the looting and burning, the “canceling” of careers and lives, the toppling of statues and the attempt to rewrite history, the pathetic obeisance of political leaders to raging mobs, and the lives lost in senseless acts of violence is the unfinished business of the civil rights movement. That business was the full participation of Black citizens in American life. The main grievance now is that Black Americans are still denied full participation due to “systemic racism.” That’s a dodge. What actually happened is that Black America opted out and lost itself in a quandary of its own making with the assistance of their white dis-enablers, the well-intentioned “progressives.” False Black Power? (Ne... Jason L. Riley Best Price: $8.95 Buy New $8.95 (as of 10:15 UTC - Details)
Let me take you back to the mid-20th century. America had just fought and won a war against manifest evil. The nation styled itself as Leader of the Free World. That role could not be squared with the rules of Jim Crow apartheid, so something had to change. The civil rights campaign to undo racial segregation under law naturally began in the courts in cases such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954). So-called public accommodations — hotels, theaters, restaurants, buses, bathrooms, water fountains, etc. — remained segregated. By the early 1960s, the clamor to end all that took to the streets under the emerging moral leadership of Martin Luther King and his credo of non-violent civil disobedience.
Many acts of non-violent street protest were met by police using fire-hoses, vicious dogs, and batons to terrorize the marchers. This only shamed and horrified the rest of the nation watching on TV and actually quickened the formation of a political consensus to end American apartheid. That culminated in the passage of three major federal laws: the Public Accommodations Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
Meanwhile, something else was going on among Black Americans: not everybody believed in Dr. King’s non-violence, and not everybody was so sure about full participation in American life. Altogether, Black America remained ambivalent and anxious about all that. That full participation implied a challenge to compete on common ground. What if it didn’t work out? An alternate view emerged, personified first by Malcolm X, who called MLK an “Uncle Tom,” and then by the younger generation, Stokely Carmichael, the Black Panthers and others retailing various brands of Black Power, Black Nationalism, and Black Separatism. It amounted, for some, in declining that invitation to participate fully in American life. “No thanks. We’ll go our own way.” That sentiment has prevailed ever since.
Why I Stand: From Free... Owens, Burgess Best Price: $9.81 Buy New $10.79 (as of 03:48 UTC - Details) So, the outcome to all that federal legislation of the 1960s turned out not to be the clear-cut victory (like World War Two) that liberals and progressives so breathlessly expected. The civil rights acts had some startling adverse consequences, too. They swept away much of the parallel service and professional economy that Blacks had constructed to get around all the old exclusions of everyday life. With that went a lot of the Black middle-class, the business owners especially. In its place, the liberal-and-progressive government provided “public assistance” — a self-reinforcing poverty generator that got ever worse, especially in big cities where de-industrialization started destroying the working-class job base beginning in the 1970s. The catch was that Black America did not ask for or demand an end to those poverty-generating “welfare” programs. Rather, they objected loudly to changing them. It was, of course and unfortunately, a form of addiction.
How did white liberals and progressives react to all that? Increasingly with shame, disappointment, consternation, and amazement that the civil rights campaign had worked out so imperfectly. Despite all their idealism, American life had not become a nirvana of equality, fraternity, and amity. In the most troubled places, the urban ghettos, the statistical markers of out-of-wedlock births, crime, drug use, failure in school were getting demonstrably worse year by year. It was embarrassing, confusing, galling to the sociology professors, the congressional staffers, the school boards, the media pundits, the arts community, the literati, the clergy… really everybody who had hoped to right all the wrongs of history in their lifetime.
The solution was multiculturalism and diversity. These credos declared that a society didn’t require a common culture, a consensus about behaviors, manners, and values. Multiculturalism and diversity (M & D) provided a rich repertory of rationales for moral grandstanding, not to mention countless well-paid jobs administering institutional policy, without requiring anything of anyone. But, contrary to good intentions once again, that didn’t work. It only increased friction between groups of people and induced more failure. Liberalism or How to T... Burgess Owens Best Price: $8.46 Buy New $12.22 (as of 05:14 UTC - Details)
For example, the language problem. Black children in the centers of poverty were not learning how to speak English coherently. Their poor language skills were arguably a greater impediment to success in school, and in adult life later on, than the color of their skin. Yet the dogmas of M & D militated against fixing that. And, of course, it is still a deep taboo to broach the subject. Really, America, if you want to begin somewhere, require the teaching of language skills in the schools. If you continue to deny it, you are condemning people to failure.
Eventually, M & D evolved into the identity politics that turned the universities into lunatic asylums and finally infected the already badly fragmenting culture at large. The figments and phantoms that preoccupy “woke” revolutionaries are a product of that still-vibrant shame, disappointment, and hysteria that progressive America feels about the outcome of the long civil rights campaign. That is what all those Ivy League Maoists are acting out in the streets now, abetted by their elders in the Democratic Party establishment, the city halls, and the state houses.
The economic collapse underway is intensifying these quandaries, paradoxes, and predicaments because from now on life is going to get much more difficult for everybody in the USA. It will require everybody to get more serious about what actions they can take, what behaviors they can follow, in order to remain civilized. Do we really want it to become a fight over the table-scraps of history, or can we clear the phantoms out of our heads and play it straight for a change?
Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-04--The Establishment of an Absolute Tyranny

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations , all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States .
To prove this , let Facts be submitted to a candid world .
The country is in the grips of many insanities , visibly playing out on the streets .
Usurpations inconceivable even four months ago , let alone in 1776 , are accepted as liberty .
Most churches acquiesced as quickly as any .
Tomorrow is Independence Day in the United States .
On Sunday , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ path of celebrating the destruction of that independence .
Independence Day is just one more excuse for many churches to celebrate the destruction brought on by US military power .
1 oz .999 Hand-Poured ... Buy New $ 33.95 In the meantime , society is melting down , driven , at least as pretext , by the death of one man in Minnesota .
Millions killed overseas , no one complains – in fact , it is cheered on every Sunday .
Why complain about one man in Minnesota ?
What a horrendous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The loss of liberty has many fathers ; it has one mother .
Christian churches have thrown away love and reason .
They can not bring peace to a torn nation internally because ( among other reasons ) they cheer on the destruction of peace externally .
Matthew 7 : 21 “ Not everyone who says to me , ‘ Lord , Lord , ’ will enter the kingdom of heaven , but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven .
22 Many will say to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Lord , did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles ?
’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly , ‘ I never knew you .
Away from me , you evildoers !
’ It is very easy to understand why many see Christianity as a hindrance – even an enemy – to liberty , albeit not , in my opinion , for the right reasons .
Isaiah 10 : 1 Woe to those who make unjust laws , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 12 When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem , he will say , “ I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes .
20 In that day the remnant of Israel , will no longer rely on him who struck them down but will truly rely on the Lord , the Holy One of Israel .
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22 Though your @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sea , Israel , 23 The Lord , the Lord Almighty , will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land .
There will always be a Remnant .
This is our best hope for liberty .
First , we will live through the destruction of the whole land .
Arguably , this process has been ongoing for at least 100 years .
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The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
– Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
The country is in the grips of many insanities, visibly playing out on the streets. Usurpations inconceivable even four months ago, let alone in 1776, are accepted as liberty. Most churches acquiesced as quickly as any.
Tomorrow is Independence Day in the United States. On Sunday, most churches will continue down the ever-accelerating path of celebrating the destruction of that independence. Independence Day is just one more excuse for many churches to celebrate the destruction brought on by US military power.
1 oz .999 Hand-Poured ... Buy New $33.95 (as of 04:44 UTC - Details) In the meantime, society is melting down, driven, at least as pretext, by the death of one man in Minnesota. Millions killed overseas, no one complains – in fact, it is cheered on every Sunday. Why complain about one man in Minnesota?
What a horrendous disservice to man and to God.
The loss of liberty has many fathers; it has one mother. Christian churches have thrown away love and reason. They cannot bring peace to a torn nation internally because (among other reasons) they cheer on the destruction of peace externally.
Matthew 7: 21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ 23 Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’
It is very easy to understand why many see Christianity as a hindrance – even an enemy – to liberty, albeit not, in my opinion, for the right reasons.
Conclusion
Isaiah 10: 1 Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
12 When the Lord has finished all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the willful pride of his heart and the haughty look in his eyes.
20 In that day the remnant of Israel,
the survivors of Jacob,
will no longer rely on him
who struck them down
but will truly rely on the Lord,
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21 A remnant will return, a remnant of Jacob
will return to the Mighty God.
22 Though your people be like the sand by the sea, Israel,
only a remnant will return.
Destruction has been decreed,
overwhelming and righteous.
23 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, will carry out
the destruction decreed upon the whole land.
There will always be a Remnant. This is our best hope for liberty. First, we will live through the destruction of the whole land. Arguably, this process has been ongoing for at least 100 years.
Reprinted with permission from Bionic Mosquito.
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lewrockwell--2020-07-04--On Not Going Towards the Trouble: Staying Safe During Civil Unrest in America

No matter what you have to say about the current situation , the one phrase that I think a lot of us can agree on is that we are living in interesting times .
Our computers and phones live stream these interesting times to us 24/7 .
This post is going to concentrate on tips for the average person that wants to avoid taking part in civil unrest or protests .
It seems pretty clear that most people would rather not participate regardless of how the news portrays it .
There are some that say that if someone doesn ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ things are not going to improve .
While that may be true I ask you to consider how dedicated you are to a cause before you take action .
As we will discuss later in this post , it can be hard to stop violence if you find yourself in an escalating situation .
While you may have strong opinions one way or another , there is a difference between that and being “ all in ” .
Unless you are very dedicated then the consequences and risks are probably not worth going @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Towards The Trouble : Staying Safe During Civil Unrest In America 3 Pack POLICE MAGNUM O ... Buy New $ 19.99 • Curiosity is natural but it can also be dangerous .
• Avoid peer pressure .
I am talking about adults and younger people too .
• Watch out for family trying to talk you into things .
Carefully consider any ideas , favors , or anything that they may ask of you during these trying times .
• Avoid talking about potentially volatile subjects .
I have found that plenty of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ go there ” .
• Do not give out too much information online or in person .
• Remember that no matter who you are or your opinions , it is easy to justify terrible acts if one feels they are morally superior or if someone convinces themselves that an act is for the greater good .
• Violence is easy to start and hard or even impossible to stop until it simply can not go on any longer .
• You may not be able to talk someone out of committing violence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ on any major issue there are people that will try to trigger you and use your reaction against you .
• Do not openly brandish firearms in public places unless your life is truly in danger and you must defend it .
• Other Tips and Bits of Advice Curiosity is natural but it can also be dangerous .
Restrictions that were put in place due to COVID-19 are being eased or ignored .
Obviously there is some risk of contracting any number of illnesses from being in crowds of people , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ another a lot .
While it may be tempting to try to go observe peacefully the events that are occurring in your area , you need to consider just how worth it is really to you .
Sure there is nothing like seeing something with your own two eyes but the cost of that could be great .
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Avoid peer pressure .
I am talking about adults and younger people too .
Getting caught up in the energy and group of a crowd is easy to do .
I have heard of these types of incidents in my own area .
Somebody gets an idea and suddenly 10 people or more are getting themselves into a situation that is not at all what they anticipated .
Emotions are high and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sides of any issue or argument to see too far into something and make some assumptions that can lead to a major escalation in little time at all .
Just because everyone else seems to be doing something doesn ’ t mean it is a great idea .
Even if you really like a group of people , it is important to think for yourself and consider your well being and that of your family .

No matter what you have to say about the current situation, the one phrase that I think a lot of us can agree on is that we are living in interesting times. Our computers and phones live stream these interesting times to us 24/7. This post is going to concentrate on tips for the average person that wants to avoid taking part in civil unrest or protests. It seems pretty clear that most people would rather not participate regardless of how the news portrays it.
There are some that say that if someone doesn’t take a stand then that means things are not going to improve. While that may be true I ask you to consider how dedicated you are to a cause before you take action. As we will discuss later in this post, it can be hard to stop violence if you find yourself in an escalating situation.
While you may have strong opinions one way or another, there is a difference between that and being “all in”. Unless you are very dedicated then the consequences and risks are probably not worth going towards potential trouble.
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Curiosity is natural but it can also be dangerous.
Restrictions that were put in place due to COVID-19 are being eased or ignored. Obviously there is some risk of contracting any number of illnesses from being in crowds of people, especially those that are shouting and touching one another a lot.
While it may be tempting to try to go observe peacefully the events that are occurring in your area, you need to consider just how worth it is really to you. Sure there is nothing like seeing something with your own two eyes but the cost of that could be great. Motorola T100TP Talkab... Best Price: $33.43 Buy New $37.99 (as of 05:16 UTC - Details)
Those of you that have kids and teens that are old enough to be going places on their own or hanging out at friends, or that are being left home alone need to talk seriously about the dangers of going towards potential trouble or ongoing trouble and unrest.
Avoid peer pressure. I am talking about adults and younger people too.
Getting caught up in the energy and group of a crowd is easy to do. I have heard of these types of incidents in my own area. Somebody gets an idea and suddenly 10 people or more are getting themselves into a situation that is not at all what they anticipated. Emotions are high and it is easy for people on both sides of any issue or argument to see too far into something and make some assumptions that can lead to a major escalation in little time at all.
Just because everyone else seems to be doing something doesn’t mean it is a great idea. Even if you really like a group of people, it is important to think for yourself and consider your well being and that of your family.
That being said…..
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lewrockwell--2020-07-06--Pandemic Madness: The State’s Plan Rests on the Destruction of the Human Spirit

We now live in a world where the entirety of all the ideas and learning that has sustained and guided us as humans for the past 200,000 years is being destroyed .
Modern civilization as we know it has been around for about 6,000 years , but during these current times , the governing forces are intent on the destruction of all that has been , and all that has been gained throughout history concerning humanity and morality .
In order to gain control of current and future generations , all truths of the past must be altered or eliminated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” allowed is that which has been artificially created in the present .
This is necessary in order to bring about a new paradigm of collective sameness and non-human existence , a world governed by the few claimed “ elitists ” at the top of the power pyramid .
This will require a loss of emotion , sympathy , individuality , intellect , and spirituality .
There is a distinct advantage for those that seek to gain power and control to eliminate or alter any real knowledge of our history , so that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ allowed by the ruling element of society .
With the loss of our history and heritage comes the loss of any freethinking people .
There will be no separation of church and state , no separation of governments , no separation of national borders because all borders will become localized , and no unity of family , friends , and neighbors ; in other words , no community .
There will be only the ruling class and the proletariat or lower class .
Dissenters will be shunned , locked out of services , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ This is what the future will look like in this global dystopia currently being created in plain sight .
Even Pope Francis is on board , and promulgating this agenda , as is evident in his July prayer message : The German Ideology , i ... Friedrich Engels Best Price : $ 6.97 Buy New $ 13.23 “ Let us pray that today ’ s families may be accompanied with love , respect and guidance , and especially , that they may be protected by the State.
” The State is the new @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be respected by all , it is the guiding light for mankind , it is to be the sole protector of life and family , it is to be prayed to , it is to be loved , and it is to be obeyed .
This is the new world order ; this is the new religion of humanity ; this is the new global church of mankind .
What is happening today is no accident , it is not due to any natural virus pandemic , and there is no global Covid @ @ @ @ @ @ @ has been purposely staged , and the reaction by the masses was anticipated long in advance , and that is the pathetic truth of this global agenda-driven madness .
Once the switch was flipped , the majority acquiesced to the high command , and submitted to the grand master called government .
The timing of the state ’ s takeover of this country was absolutely brilliant , as the bulk of the American populace had been dumbed down and made dependent to the point of being little more than an impotent herd of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The Evolution of Civil ... Carroll Quigley Best Price : $ 10.80 Buy New $ 12.00 At this stage of the game , many will be summarily eliminated , especially the old , sick , mentally inferior , poor , and weak among us .
This will be accomplished through mass vaccination of poison , of fear of continuous false threats of disease , of isolation , of mandated mask wearing and distancing rules , of despair and suicide , of economic devastation , of the elimination of common and vital communication and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ from the loss of all hope .
Spontaneity and the natural love of life have been lost by most , and this is a death knell to the sanctity of our very existence .
This is what the monsters that created this fraudulent crisis have brought to bear on the people of this country , and without mass resistance now , our future will be one of servitude .
Many are currently participating in a mock celebration of independence and freedom while much of the country is under orders to self imprison , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ distance from one another , and comply with every order handed down by a corrupt and tyrannical government .
This is the epitome of useless contradiction , and is an embarrassment to any that understand the concept of what it means to be truly free .
Fireworks and flag-waving have nothing to do with real freedom , but the false belief that freedom exists where it does not exposes only the truth expressed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe when he said “ None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ left in this country as it stands today .
A Conflict of Visions : ... Thomas Sowell Best Price : $ 14.97 Buy New $ 14.99 We are in the midst of an attempt by the oligarchs to eliminate the human spirit , and if this attempt is successful , the singular majesty of the human experience will have been abolished , and only a technocratic black hole of emptiness and despair will remain .
This is the essence of a failed society brought about by the destruction of human intellect by state @ @ @ @ @ @ @ planned control of individuals through physical and psychological manipulation due to fear .
“ It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries .
Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will , so that , after pupils have left school , they shall be incapable , throughout the rest of their lives , of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished .
But in his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what he regarded as the best system in existence produced Karl Marx .
In future such failures are not likely to occur where there is dictatorship .
Diet , injections , and injunctions will combine , from a very early age , to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable , and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible .
Even if all are miserable , all will believe themselves happy , because the government will tell them that they @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Servando Best Price : $ 22.00 Buy New $ 19.95 ~ Bertrand Russell , The Impact of Science on Society ( 1952 ) Ch .
3 : Scientific Technique in an Oligarchy It is important to understand that the American public has accepted almost all of this tyranny voluntarily , and because of that fact , the untenable situation we find ourselves in today can still be reversed .
This is the light at the end of the tunnel that is still within our reach .
There is a huge difference in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ force of arms .
Once state rule advances to the stage of aggressive force , it becomes much more difficult to alter the course of events , and instead of light at the end of the tunnel , only darkness will remain .
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We now live in a world where the entirety of all the ideas and learning that has sustained and guided us as humans for the past 200,000 years is being destroyed. Modern civilization as we know it has been around for about 6,000 years, but during these current times, the governing forces are intent on the destruction of all that has been, and all that has been gained throughout history concerning humanity and morality. In order to gain control of current and future generations, all truths of the past must be altered or eliminated, so that the only “knowledge” allowed is that which has been artificially created in the present. This is necessary in order to bring about a new paradigm of collective sameness and non-human existence, a world governed by the few claimed “elitists” at the top of the power pyramid. This will require a loss of emotion, sympathy, individuality, intellect, and spirituality. There is a distinct advantage for those that seek to gain power and control to eliminate or alter any real knowledge of our history, so that future generations have access only to information allowed by the ruling element of society. With the loss of our history and heritage comes the loss of any freethinking people.
There will be no separation of church and state, no separation of governments, no separation of national borders because all borders will become localized, and no unity of family, friends, and neighbors; in other words, no community. There will be only the ruling class and the proletariat or lower class. Dissenters will be shunned, locked out of services, marginalized, imprisoned, or eliminated. This is what the future will look like in this global dystopia currently being created in plain sight. Even Pope Francis is on board, and promulgating this agenda, as is evident in his July prayer message: The German Ideology, i... Friedrich Engels Best Price: $6.97 Buy New $13.23 (as of 04:46 UTC - Details)
“Let us pray that today’s families may be accompanied with love, respect and guidance, and especially, that they may be protected by the State.”
The State is the new God, it is the entity to be respected by all, it is the guiding light for mankind, it is to be the sole protector of life and family, it is to be prayed to, it is to be loved, and it is to be obeyed. This is the new world order; this is the new religion of humanity; this is the new global church of mankind.
What is happening today is no accident, it is not due to any natural virus pandemic, and there is no global Covid health crisis. All of this response has been purposely staged, and the reaction by the masses was anticipated long in advance, and that is the pathetic truth of this global agenda-driven madness. Once the switch was flipped, the majority acquiesced to the high command, and submitted to the grand master called government. The timing of the state’s takeover of this country was absolutely brilliant, as the bulk of the American populace had been dumbed down and made dependent to the point of being little more than an impotent herd of domesticated human livestock ready for slaughter.
The Evolution of Civil... Carroll Quigley Best Price: $10.80 Buy New $12.00 (as of 02:43 UTC - Details) At this stage of the game, many will be summarily eliminated, especially the old, sick, mentally inferior, poor, and weak among us. This will be accomplished through mass vaccination of poison, of fear of continuous false threats of disease, of isolation, of mandated mask wearing and distancing rules, of despair and suicide, of economic devastation, of the elimination of common and vital communication and closeness of family and friends, and from the loss of all hope. Spontaneity and the natural love of life have been lost by most, and this is a death knell to the sanctity of our very existence. This is what the monsters that created this fraudulent crisis have brought to bear on the people of this country, and without mass resistance now, our future will be one of servitude.
Many are currently participating in a mock celebration of independence and freedom while much of the country is under orders to self imprison, wear masks, close their businesses, distance from one another, and comply with every order handed down by a corrupt and tyrannical government. This is the epitome of useless contradiction, and is an embarrassment to any that understand the concept of what it means to be truly free. Fireworks and flag-waving have nothing to do with real freedom, but the false belief that freedom exists where it does not exposes only the truth expressed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe when he said “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” There is no freedom left in this country as it stands today.
A Conflict of Visions:... Thomas Sowell Best Price: $14.97 Buy New $14.99 (as of 04:25 UTC - Details) We are in the midst of an attempt by the oligarchs to eliminate the human spirit, and if this attempt is successful, the singular majesty of the human experience will have been abolished, and only a technocratic black hole of emptiness and despair will remain. This is the essence of a failed society brought about by the destruction of human intellect by state education, mass propaganda, and the planned control of individuals through physical and psychological manipulation due to fear.
“It is to be expected that advances in physiology and psychology will give governments much more control over individual mentality than they now have even in totalitarian countries. Fichte laid it down that education should aim at destroying free will, so that, after pupils have left school, they shall be incapable, throughout the rest of their lives, of thinking or acting otherwise than as their schoolmasters would have wished. But in his day this was an unattainable ideal: what he regarded as the best system in existence produced Karl Marx. In future such failures are not likely to occur where there is dictatorship. Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.” Psychological Warfare ... Gonzalez, Servando Best Price: $22.00 Buy New $19.95 (as of 04:13 UTC - Details)
~ Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science on Society (1952)
Ch. 3: Scientific Technique in an Oligarchy
It is important to understand that the American public has accepted almost all of this tyranny voluntarily, and because of that fact, the untenable situation we find ourselves in today can still be reversed. This is the light at the end of the tunnel that is still within our reach. There is a huge difference in voluntary acceptance of rule and rule by force of arms. Once state rule advances to the stage of aggressive force, it becomes much more difficult to alter the course of events, and instead of light at the end of the tunnel, only darkness will remain.
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