"Or you are abominably wicked;
You are a toad."
And after I had thought of it,
I said, "I will, then, be a toad."
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"I can think of few things as pernicious as nationalism (disguised as patriotism), because it blinds people to the injustices and atrocities committed by their own governments, and it pits people against each other on the basis of nothing more than circumstance of birth. All this “Team Amurr’ka” nonsense needs to stop. The US is actually killing real people, and it’s stealing (and counterfeiting) a lot of money to do it."
Ricardo Perez (via hipsterlibertarian)
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Law is not born of nature, near the springs frequented by the first shepherds; law is born from real battles, victories, massacres, conquests which have their dates and their heroes of horror. The law is born in torched villages, ravaged lands; it is born with the notorious innocents suffering in the throes of death as the sun rises.
But this does not mean that the law and the State are a kind of armistice in these wars, or the definitive sanction of victories. The law is not pacification, because under the law, war continues to rage within all the mechanisms of power even the most lawful. It is war that is the motor of institutions and of order: peace, right down to the smallest of its cogs, obscurely engages in war. In other words, we must decypher war in peace: war is the very cypher of peace.
Thus we are at war with each other; a battle front runs through our entire society, continuously and permanently, and it is this battle front which places each of us in one camp or another. There is no neutral subject. We are all inevitably someone’s adversary.
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Michel Foucault, (1997). ‘Il faut défendre la société. Cours au Collège de France. 1976. Paris: Gallimard Seuil, pp. 43-44
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"Throughout the world, on any given day, a man, woman or child is likely to be displaced, tortured, killed or disappeared, at the hands of governments or armed political groups. More often than not, the United States shares the blame."
- Amnesty International, in its annual report on U.S. Military aid and human rights, 1996
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(via statistsgonnastate)
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Assassinate Obama if he won’t attack Iran for Israel, Jewish monthly suggests
Option three, wrote Mr. Adler, is for the Israeli leader to “give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice-president to take his place, and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”
With a usual readership of only a few thousand, the Atlanta Jewish Times rarely reaches beyond the Georgia’s genteel suburbs. But Mr. Alder now has readers worldwide.
In Washington, Secret Service agents, already coping with record numbers of threats against America’s first black president, falsely accused by some of being a Muslim or a non-native-born citizen ineligible to be president, will “make all appropriate, investigative follow-up in regard to this matter,” the agency said.
Gawker, the news and gossip site, gave Mr. Alder’s violent musings global exposure.
Mr. Alder now insists he wasn’t seriously urging the assassination of the President.
But in his original column, he makes clear that he considers a “hit” a genuine option.
“Yes, you read “three” correctly. Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If I have thought of this Tom Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?” he wrote. Options one and two were all-out Israeli attacks on Hezbollah or Iran’s nuclear sites.
Now Mr. Adler says: “I feel really bad,” and promises an apology and a retraction in the next, monthly, issue of the Atlanta Jewish Times. There’s no mention either of the “hit” option, nor the intended apology on his website.
Mainstream Jewish groups hammered Mr. Adler.
Calling the “hit” option, “shocking beyond belief,” Dov Wilker, director of American Jewish Committee in Atlanta, added: “How could he even conceive of such a twisted idea?”
But some see Mr. Adler’s musings as a rare public reminder of the usually unspoken and viciously hostile view of a President many regard as anti-Israel.
“Adler’s crazy and criminal suggestions are not the ranting of some loony-tune individual,” opined Chemi Shalev, a political analyst at the leading Israeli newspaper Haaretz, “They were not taken out of thin air. Rather, they are the inevitable result of the inordinate volume of repugnant venom that some of Obama’s political rivals, Jews and non-Jews alike, have been spewing for the last three years.”
Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill…
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"Everybody wants war because it’s exciting…to depressed and empty people, violence is a thrill. If you send them a bill for that war right away, they suddenly become much more able to put down their guns, because they realize that they are shooting at their own bank accounts. But if you go into debt, then people get the thrill of war without the costs of war…"
Stefan Molyneux
(Source: laliberty)