"That Rug Really Tied the Room Together"

I have been a communist all my life, but now I’ve seen the realities of Communism, and it is a failure — mismanagement, corruption, privilege, repression. My ideals are gone.

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—	Dương Quỳnh Hoa

Che presided over the Cuban Revolution’s first firing squads. He founded Cuba’s “labor camp” system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims.

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—	To all you cool Marxists/socialists/OWS hipsters in your Che Guevara t-shirts… (Source: The Cult of Che by Paul Berman)

Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

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—	Samuel Adams

Guns don’t kill people. Tyrants who disarm their populace kill people.

My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

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~ John F. Kennedy

(via american-writer)

“In a much quoted passage in his inaugural address, President Kennedy said, “Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.” Neither half of the statement expresses a relation between the citizen and his government that is worthy of the ideals of free men in a free society. The paternalistic “what your country can do for you” implies that government is the patron, the citizen the ward, a view that is at odds with the free man’s belief in his own responsibility for his own destiny. The organismic, “what you can do for your ‘country” implies the government is the master or the deity, the citizen, the servant or the votary.

To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them. He is proud of a common heritage and loyal to common traditions. But he regards government as a means, an instrumentality, neither a grantor of favors and gifts, nor a master or god to be blindly worshipped and served. He recognizes no national goal except as it is the consensus of the goals that the citizens severally serve. He recognizes no national purpose except as it is the consensus of the purposes for which the citizens severally strive.

The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather “What can I and my compatriots do through government” to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom?

And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect?

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp.” - Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom.

I’m going to have to agree with Milton Friedman on this.

alonmg-politics:

antigovernmentextremist:

Ice-T on Gun Control: “It’s the last form of defense against tyranny, not to hunt. It’s to protect yourself from the police.”

THIS IS WHY I LOVE OLD SCHOOL RAP! THE RAPPERS HAD BRAINS!

THIS! EVERYONE OF YOU WATCH THIS NOW!!

My three greatest concerns.

So here are my greatest concerns.

My greatest concern isn’t the power of the government but the mindset of individuals. The lack of personal responsibility I see that plagues our society.

My greatest fear is not having to fight for liberty, but not having anyone to fight for liberty with. People are too concerned with “what’s happening on reality shows?”, “when that next album is going to be out?” “When they can buy that new phone or ipod?”

Rather than read some of the great works of the enlightenment, my generation is too focused on video games, movies, and sex. Liberty and Freedom are just words they hear in Call of Duty. They don’t know what those words mean.

They don’t question the government. They are just trying to get as much as they can from it. They feel entitled to services and property. They expect everything to be handed to them on a plate. They don’t know the meaning of a hard days work or the feeling of satisfaction when you make your own money.

I fear a politically correct society. Where people believe they have a right not to be offended. Where they shutter at the thought somebody might disagree with them. Where they confuse thinking with feeling.

That is the society I fear. Not a government attempting to destroy our freedom. I fear people simply casting their freedom and liberty away like a pair of worn out shoes.

So I’ve been seeing a lot of Civil War postings.

Speaking of Civil War heritage.

My great-great-grandfather served in the 70th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Under William Tecumseh Sherman.

So he participated in the Savannah Campaign otherwise known as Sherman’s March to the Sea.

Recently found that out. Just thought I’d share. I’m thinking about trying to join Sons of Union Veterans.

I had family on the Southern side too so I’m also researching that right now.

This is Yuri Bezmenov. He is a former KGB informant who defected to the United States. In this video he explains what happens to a lot of leftists after destabilization of a country has occurred.

I hope all my followers watch this. It is an important lesson to learn from history.