1 post tagged “atlas shrugged”

So basically, I wanted to rant about freedom and the lack of it and mention how the world is fucked up.  But I figured many of you wouldn't care and so for the very few that do, I've added some interesting links.  

http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2009/190109Faber.htm

    Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.    --Eugene V. Debs

    They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security    --Benjamin Franklin

    When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.    --Dorothy Thompson

    None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.  --Goethe

    For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of 'brainwashing under freedom' to which we are subjected and which all too often we sere as willing or unwitting instruments."    --Noam Chomsky

    If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all.    --Noam Chomsky

    If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.    --Samuel Adams

http://www.prisonplanet.com/israel-recruits-army-of-bloggers-to-troll-anti-war-websites.html
Israel really needs to be held accountable for their war crimes.  They feel that the deaths of children are totally justified.  Frankly, they have no right to be in that area of the world anyway.  But that is another rant for another time.
(see also:
    http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLH286481
    http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLJ166444
    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gLCYgTPBsvOMPGYdnLPvL40D0X_Q
)

This is really disturbing.  And I urge my fellow Canadians to be prepared to fight for freedom if necessary:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8323

I like the take on Lincoln towards the end of this article:
http://www.infowars.net/articles/january2009/190109Messiah.htm

Feed your brain (interesting things to read):
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml
http://www.prisonplanet.com/obamas-civil-defense-program-resembles-domestic-draft.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/fisa-%E2%80%98compromise%E2%80%99-completes-transformation-of-us-into-full-police-state.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/washington-post-20000-more-us-troops-to-be-deployed-for-domestic-security.html

And, ultimately, perhaps the most important link of all:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html

(and here is an opposing viewpoint on the above article which I read because I like to remain open to differing opinions: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ellis-weiner/on-atlas-shrugged-as-a-gu_b_157295.html I still love Atlas Shrugged though and objectivism is still awesome)

And omfg you guys have no idea how frustrating it is to try to explain something to someone who refuses to listen.  Who has a closed mind.  And... she just... can't see things from my viewpoint... she doesn't even try.  

Umm... and now I lost my train of thought, but hopefully I'll come up with some proper blog posts soon.  I hope to write one on the influence of the internet and media and bloggers on popular opinion.