Alexander P. Butterfield, former deputy in the Nixon Administration, recounts the following story: On Christmas Eve 1969, Nixon walked through the Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House to wish employees a merry Christmas. Nixon discovered that some employees had prominently displayed photographs of President John F. Kennedy. Nixon was furious and ordered that …
Category: The Cult of the Omnipotent State
Oct 11
Unearthed Nixon Memo: 10 Years of total control over Vietnam Airspace Achieved “Zilch”
The hubris and arrogance of governments and government officials is rarely realized by the officials themselves. Conventional wisdom among political scientists suggests that when governments achieve TOTAL domination and control over others, great achievements and accomplishments are just moments away. Yet the opposite is true. Take, for example, “total institutions” such as prisons. One might …
Oct 09
Americans overwhelmingly want a LESS powerful government but are not getting it
Is libertarianism a fringe ideology, pushed by a tiny minority? Since 2002, Gallup has been asking Americans if they think the government is too powerful. Today, Gallup published its polling data for 2015. Fully SIXTY PERCENT now say the federal government has too much power. See here. The view that the current federal government has …
Sep 21
More polling shows Americans distrustful of government
The average person in the world is at least 4 times more likely to be killed by his own government than by any foreign government, any criminal, or any terrorist. Statistically, one’s own government is always the greatest source of potential danger to one’s life. For years, Gallup has been asking the question: “Do you …
Sep 19
Missourian criminally prosecuted for “[meeting] with legislators,” “testif[ying]” before the Missouri legislature, and “appear[ing] as a witness before committees”
Our masters in government repeatedly tell us we are to be “engaged” in politics. But when citizens “engage” in efforts to limit or rein in government–especially when such citizens become successful–they are increasingly subject to criminal prosecution and imprisonment. In Missouri, a citizen activist named Ron Calzone, who bills himself as a “citizen lobbyist,” has …
Sep 14
New York Times: Climate-Change “Deniers” Will Bring World Genocide
An astounding op-ed “review” appeared in yesterday’s (Sunday, Sept. 12, 2015) edition of the New York Times. Timothy Snyder, a professor of history at Yale University, wrote what is apparently a summary of his new book: “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning.” The review is here. The Amazon link to the book is …
Aug 05
It begins: Thousands of Americans have been secretly arrested, tortured and/or interrogated without lawyers in a Chicago facility
Every government that ever existed ultimately came for all property, all freedom, all money, and to kill all who resist. The average person in the world is several times more likely to be killed by his own government than by any other source. This is why governments are always the greatest source of danger for …
Jul 15
Government continues to seek total access to every microprocessor
Jacob Sullum is one of America’s most gifted writers on civil liberties. His most recent column points out that federal police-state control freaks are (once again) seeking to ensure that all future federal laws governing computer technology be written so that the surveillance freaks in the federal government (the NSA, FBI, etc.) will always be …
Jul 11
Pope Spews Satanic Lies
Somebody’s gotta say it. The current Pope of the Catholic Church is spewing utter falsehoods that have been so repeatedly disproven that only a knowing deceiver could spread them. Socialism has impoverished, starved and killed millions. For centuries, those who have trusted their governments to dispense food, shelter, clothing or medical care have watched as …
Jul 11
U.S. Census Workers Violate Privacy, “Camp out” in Yards of Americans who Decline to Participate
by Dr. Roger I. Roots, founder, Lysander Spooner University I remember years ago after I graduated from law school, I applied for a job with the U.S. Census Bureau. I attended an initiation meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. At that meeting I recall a Census official telling applicants that as Census agents we would be …
