“The stupidity of the average man will permit the oligarch, whether economic or political, to hide his real purposes from the scrutiny of his fellows and to withdraw his activities from effective control…
The American business oligarchy is not as hereditary as European landed aristocracies, but is for that reason neither more virtuous nor less tenacious in clinging to its power and privilege.”
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
‘I tell you the truth, my son, that the best of all things is freedom. Never live under the bondage of slavery’.
William Wallace Memorial
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.”
Victor Hugo
Just in case anyone’s interested in following the immigration / border crisis, here’s an update from Oath Keepers:
In the interview Rusty describes Border Patrol intercepting Muslim men from Somalia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and says “when they [Border Patrol] take them in, they’ll disappear – they’ll take them somewhere – and even the records will disappear. And I asked one of them ‘what’s the deal on the records’ and he said ‘that’s an order from way up the line, up in DC – they don’t want anybody to know how many are coming through’…they [the local Border Patrol agents] keep records but the records disappear, out of the mainframe – out of the computer – and the paper records too.”
A lot more over at the Oath Keepers site: http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2014/09/04/texas-border-ranchers-fear-for-their-lives-and-families-appeal-for-help/
All the better to allow some kind of attack, which will justify more government control & taking away of rights, & will scare the shit out of the sheep in the USA.
The more incompetent government is, the more the idiots want government to protect them. Round & round the idiocy goes until it collapses…