Theme: Governance

  • Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty.

    —“Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.”—

  • SPRING IS SPRUNG, THE GRASS IS RISEN. DO HEAR THE REVOLUTION COMIN’? (The govern

    SPRING IS SPRUNG, THE GRASS IS RISEN. DO HEAR THE REVOLUTION COMIN’? (The government behaves best when the guillotine is most certain.) #Trump


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 13:54:00 UTC

  • PUT A WARRIOR IN CHARGE OF MILLIONS OF ARMED MEN —“Oliver North to become next

    PUT A WARRIOR IN CHARGE OF MILLIONS OF ARMED MEN

    —“Oliver North to become next president of National Rifle Association”—

    I wish I’d thought of that. Absolutely Perfect Timing. Genius.

    Wow.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 13:50:00 UTC

  • “Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social

    —“Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty. Tolerance is a social norm because it allows different people to live side-by-side without being at each other’s throats. It means that we accept that people may be different from us, in their customs, in their behavior, in their dress, in their sex lives, and that if this doesn’t directly affect our lives, it is none of our business. But the model of a peace treaty differs from the model of a moral precept in one simple way: the protection of a peace treaty only extends to those willing to abide by its terms. It is an agreement to live in peace, not an agreement to be peaceful no matter the conduct of others. A peace treaty is not a suicide pact.”—


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 10:40:00 UTC

  • yeah, but you know there are far worse things an legions of extremely forgiving

    yeah, but you know there are far worse things an legions of extremely forgiving extremely charitable idiots. You just DON”T LET THEM VOTE.


    Source date (UTC): 2018-05-07 00:05:51 UTC

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  • Trump Is Doing What Kennedy Tried to Do…

    (good article) (via zero hedge) “CIA Whistleblower: Trump Is Doing What Kennedy Tried To” Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says what is going on with Donald J. Trump “is an ongoing coup to remove a duly elected President.” Shipp contends, “This is a huge constitutional crisis like the country has never seen before. This makes Watergate look like a Sunday school class.” On Friday, Shipp and other retired top officials at the CIA, FBI, DOJ and NSA held a press conference and demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessions prosecute top Obama era officials for obvious crimes against the incoming Trump Administration. Shipp says, “We have a coup within our government right now at the senior levels at the CIA, DOJ and the FBI attempting to unseat a duly elected President who was elected by the American people and remove him from office… This is, at worst, treason with senior officials in the shadow government or Deep State . . . to attack Donald Trump and remove him from office. . . . We have not seen anything like this since the Presidency of John F. Kennedy (JFK), when CIA Director Allen Dulles attacked him, and we saw what happened there… There is crystal clear evidence that the CIA was, at least, involved with the cover-up of the JFK assassination. Now, we have the same thing happening again… Remember what Chuck Schumer said, and it was chilling. He said, ‘If you cross the intelligence community, they can hit back at you six ways from Sunday.’ That’s what we are seeing now. It’s collusion or a coup with senior officials at the FBI, DOJ and CIA along with Robert Mueller to unseat an elected president.” Shipp goes on to explain, “There is essentially a civil war involving parts of senior management and upper parts of our government that is occurring in the United States. It’s between the ‘Dark’ side and the ‘Constitutional’ side.” “There has never been anything like this in history. It is extremely serious, and this is an extremely serious hour for our government and especially for our constitutional freedoms… This essentially is a global criminal cabal that has penetrated into our government and now has senior level officials colluding and, I would argue, conspiring to unseat this president.” In closing, Shipp says, “People need to understand that the Democrat Party today is not the Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy.” “The Democrat Party with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is more Marxist than anything else. They think the Constitution should be a ‘progressive’ document. In other words, the Constitution is outdated and should be redone. They are both directly connected into George Soros, who wants to destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. government… The Democrat Party is now made up of Marxists and leftists that have penetrated that entire organization. . . . Their entire goal is to change our form of government and destroy our sovereignty.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with CIA whistleblower Kevin Shipp, founder of the website ForTheLoveofFreedom.net.

  • Trump Is Doing What Kennedy Tried to Do…

    (good article) (via zero hedge) “CIA Whistleblower: Trump Is Doing What Kennedy Tried To” Former CIA Officer and whistleblower Kevin Shipp says what is going on with Donald J. Trump “is an ongoing coup to remove a duly elected President.” Shipp contends, “This is a huge constitutional crisis like the country has never seen before. This makes Watergate look like a Sunday school class.” On Friday, Shipp and other retired top officials at the CIA, FBI, DOJ and NSA held a press conference and demanded Attorney General Jeff Sessions prosecute top Obama era officials for obvious crimes against the incoming Trump Administration. Shipp says, “We have a coup within our government right now at the senior levels at the CIA, DOJ and the FBI attempting to unseat a duly elected President who was elected by the American people and remove him from office… This is, at worst, treason with senior officials in the shadow government or Deep State . . . to attack Donald Trump and remove him from office. . . . We have not seen anything like this since the Presidency of John F. Kennedy (JFK), when CIA Director Allen Dulles attacked him, and we saw what happened there… There is crystal clear evidence that the CIA was, at least, involved with the cover-up of the JFK assassination. Now, we have the same thing happening again… Remember what Chuck Schumer said, and it was chilling. He said, ‘If you cross the intelligence community, they can hit back at you six ways from Sunday.’ That’s what we are seeing now. It’s collusion or a coup with senior officials at the FBI, DOJ and CIA along with Robert Mueller to unseat an elected president.” Shipp goes on to explain, “There is essentially a civil war involving parts of senior management and upper parts of our government that is occurring in the United States. It’s between the ‘Dark’ side and the ‘Constitutional’ side.” “There has never been anything like this in history. It is extremely serious, and this is an extremely serious hour for our government and especially for our constitutional freedoms… This essentially is a global criminal cabal that has penetrated into our government and now has senior level officials colluding and, I would argue, conspiring to unseat this president.” In closing, Shipp says, “People need to understand that the Democrat Party today is not the Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy.” “The Democrat Party with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is more Marxist than anything else. They think the Constitution should be a ‘progressive’ document. In other words, the Constitution is outdated and should be redone. They are both directly connected into George Soros, who wants to destroy the sovereignty of the U.S. government… The Democrat Party is now made up of Marxists and leftists that have penetrated that entire organization. . . . Their entire goal is to change our form of government and destroy our sovereignty.” Join Greg Hunter as he goes One-on-One with CIA whistleblower Kevin Shipp, founder of the website ForTheLoveofFreedom.net.

  • No Political Parties, or Politicians

    There is no value in a political party under rule of law since there are no political parties. There are no political parties because there are no politicians. There are no politicians because there is nothing for politicians to do. Either return to monarchical decision making. Or direct equi-distributive economic voting. Or direct proportional economic voting. All of which are bound by the limits of the natural law of reciprocity. Ergo, king is bound by contract, and voters cannot but vote for contracts. And only judges discover and make laws. There is no need for politicians when the only purpose of politicians was to solve the problem of distance from one another. This problem no longer exists. Quite contrary to every presumption I had going in, the constitutional monarchies were far better at governing than democracies. I don’t care which model, but representative democracy is the worse possible model.

  • No Political Parties, or Politicians

    There is no value in a political party under rule of law since there are no political parties. There are no political parties because there are no politicians. There are no politicians because there is nothing for politicians to do. Either return to monarchical decision making. Or direct equi-distributive economic voting. Or direct proportional economic voting. All of which are bound by the limits of the natural law of reciprocity. Ergo, king is bound by contract, and voters cannot but vote for contracts. And only judges discover and make laws. There is no need for politicians when the only purpose of politicians was to solve the problem of distance from one another. This problem no longer exists. Quite contrary to every presumption I had going in, the constitutional monarchies were far better at governing than democracies. I don’t care which model, but representative democracy is the worse possible model.

  • Right Sector

    Right Sector seized military weaponry from an Interior Ministry arsenal in western Ukraine, near Lviv, towards the end of the Maidan revolution. Following the collapse of the Yanukovych government, with police having largely abandoned the streets of Kiev, groups of young men, including members of Right Sector, patrolled them armed mostly with baseball bats and sometimes with guns. Right Sector recruited retired officers of the interior ministry and the security agencies. Right Sector delivered some weapons to Ukrainian authorities in the aftermath of the revolution, and kept others. Petro Poroshenko in an interview with DW English in late 2015, claimed that Right Sector was going to be disarmed and taken out of operations in Donbass, but still hasn’t done so as of 2017. Right Sector holds the position that the population should keep and bear arms, as in Switzerland.[110] Yarosh told the New York Times that the organization’s lawyers were drafting a bill modeled on Swiss notions of firearms possession.