On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange.
Moments later, the Department of Justice released a statement charging Assange with computer hacking “conspiracy” for allegedly working with US Army soldier at the time, Chelsea Manning.
Assange was in handcuffs when he was brought out and as he was being dragged from the embassy, he managed to grab the book, Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State. As he was shoved into the van, Assange held the book facing forward so that it could be seen by the camera.
For those who may not know, Gore Vidal was an American author who has studied the actual history of the United States—not the propagandistic chest pumping horse manure taught in schools—but the very real, violent and corrupt history of the United States government.
Vidal was born inside this system, educated in expensive private schools in Washington DC and grew up, quite literally, surrounded by the elite. His father was a high ranking official in the Franklin Roosevelt administration and his grandfather was US senator Thomas Pryor Gore (D-Oklahoma). He was incredibly smart and would eventually become a best-selling author.
In his 30s, after writing a series of mainstream novels, Vidal decided to try his hand at historical fiction. This decision would set him on a path to waking up to the atrocities carried out by the United States dating back to Abraham Lincoln.
Vidal was one of the first public figures to question the motives and wisdom of Lincoln—and he was lambasted for it. Despite bipartisan attacks on all fronts for his critical skepticism of the United States, Vidal’s six-volume “American Chronicle” series of historical novels about the United States became best sellers.
As the years went on, Vidal became outspoken about the rise of the military industrial complex and predicted the very situation we find ourselves in today.
“USA belongs to a handful of men who also control the media. Look at General Electric. It produces nuclear weapons for the Pentagon and also owns the NBC News cable channel, which is a very sophisticated censure apparatus, intrinsic to the system. It’s genius. It’s like an electronic cage around the nation which blocks information from getting through.” ~ Gore Vidal
In the book Assange was pictured holding, Vidal explained how the United States established the “massive military-industrial-security complex” and the “political culture that gave us the ‘Imperial Presidency.’”
The book was written by Vidal and The Real News Network senior editor Paul Jay. In it, the two dissected the apparatus that would eventually facilitate Assange’s arrest. Through propaganda and manipulation, the establishment has tricked the masses into accepting their corrupt order as the norm. Both Vidal and Assange knew this.
“It doesn’t actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they’ve had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.” ~ Gore Vidal
In the book, Vidal explains the false history of the US and how this false history is used to manipulate people into supporting mass murder and corruption.
“I think everybody should take a sober look at the world about us, remember that practically everything that you’re told about other countries is untrue, what we’re told about ourselves and our great strength and how much we are loved – forget it,” wrote Vidal.
“Our strength is there, but it’s the kind of strength that blows off your hand while you hold up the grenade; it’s a suicidal strength as well as a murderous one.”
Although Vidal died before realizing the plight of Julian Assange and the attack on the freedom of the press that it represents, he saw it coming decades in advance.
WikiLeaks Founder Charged in Computer Hacking Conspiracy
Julian P. Assange, 47, the founder of WikiLeaks, was arrested today in the United Kingdom pursuant to the U.S./UK Extradition Treaty, in connection with a federal charge of conspiracy to commit
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Glenn Greenwald
✔@ggreenwald
The DOJ says part of what Assange did to justify his prosecution – beyond allegedly helping Manning get the documents – is he encouraged Manning to get more docs for him to publish. Journalists do this with sources constantly: it’s the criminalization of journalism pic.twitter.com/GXNjWlkFZw
Sadly, not many people heeded Vidal’s words and we are witnessing a full scale attack on true independent journalism as we know it, and we are seemingly powerless to stop it. This is likely the reason Julian Assange grabbed that book and made sure we saw it as he yelled out through dozens of cops that we “must resist.”
Though Vidal had become somewhat cynical in his final years, his wisdom can help to free us from our self-imposed slavery of worshiping corruption and statism.
Julian Assange is a hero. His actions helped to expose horrifying crimes carried out by the US government, including mowing down innocent journalists with a .50 cal. His persecution by the UK and the US is retaliation and punishment for exposing these crimes and their actions, as Assange said, must be resisted.
If this established behemoth of media, government and tech giants are allowed to persist and snub out the independent press—as they are currently doing—we may soon realize George Orwell’s prediction of a boot stomping on a human face—forever.
Like Vidal, Assange wanted people to know true history as this is the path to peace. “If wars can be started by lies,” Assange so eloquently noted, “they can be stopped with the truth.”
“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.” — Gandhi #FreeJulian
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In case readers are wondering why we posted this seemingly irrelevant current affairs news story on a science-focused website, let me explain: PSI’s core mission is to defend the scientific method from corruption. Such corruption is rooted in the System itself and helping our readers make that connection is an important public duty.
If your goal is to defend the Scientific Method from corruption than you should reject 99% of your posts. Rarely, if ever, do your contributors offer any resemblance of the scientific method. Most are just unsupported crackpot ideas with little support. You should look more closely at the terrible ideas on your blog.
You are somewhat delusional John. What I’ve seen, John, is that like almost everybody else you comply with the scientific method when it fits your agenda. In other words, you apply the scientific method discriminately.
You wanted support for my statement. Well here it is. You have this fanatic Joseph Postma (total lunatic incapable of rational thought, only supports blind belief of a very tiny sycophants). He posts: “The experiment was the global massive increase in oil prices which caused the massive decrease in global oil consumption which occurred about ten years ago. There are charts you can find out there which show the global consumption of oil taking a massive downturn as the price per barrel continued to rise and rise to quite absurd levels.”
Then you look at some actual data to go with his unsupported declaration.
Hi Norman,
You are using the total oil consumption as the amount being converted to CO2 when a large portion of the oil is being used in the chemical industry to produce paints, plastics, etc. which are not converted to CO2. I would not consider a chart from a financial organization trying to sell you something as reliable scientific data. The smooth slope of the graph shows the data has been massaged to make a point.
Have a good day,
Herb
As you criticize John O’Sullivan, the editor of PSI, you are pretending you are the qualified scientific gatekeeper of what is published (posted) at the PSI website. This as the editors of many scientific journals consider they are the qualified gatekeepers of what articles they publish in their journals, which clearly, in recent history, seem not to want to publish articles which challenge the conventional science being written about in their journals.
I believe you understand that these other editors are just as wrong as you claim that John is. But John, as an editor, is different from you and all these other editors. He is not highly selective about what he posts.
I ask you and the readers of PSI articles: Who is the better editor? The very selective ones who pretends they know what is important and what is not or John who seems to have few standards about what he posts for readers to read? Unless we can read what others write we cannot know what others you make the effort to write down about what they have seen, experienced, pondered, read etc.. You and others can choose what you read, but I cannot read what any editor chooses not post.
There is a problem with real science and that problem is that us humans get our values from our beliefs. The fictionalization of the atmospheric sciences–including global warming and all that it entails–is an attempt to reconcile this shortcoming of science.
John is motivated by a deep belief in a christian God. Same with you Jerry.
You guys are only pretending to be committed to the scientific method, just like global warming advocates.
Thanks for the thoughts. I am not trying to be the “gatekeeper” of ideas. I think posting all types of ideas is fine. My point is that many articles posted on this blog are not supported with any science nor use the scientific method at all. They are just ideas people come up with. They can be interesting and stimulate thought but they are not based upon the scientific method. Most established science is based upon the scientific method. Gathering data, doing experiments, some rigorous mathematical proofs.
Thank you for your comments and I agree with much you have just written. But, I find this apparent nonsense stimulates my pondering and I begin to see things I did not see before.
Usually my essays do not generate many comments but now (https://principia-scientific.com/extreme-temperature-of-venus-surface/) has generated 45 comments and most of these have nothing to do with what my essay was about. But finally I saw (remembered) what James McGinn repeats over and over has a basic observation which refutes his idea. So I am waiting for his reply. For based on my reading, James seems to be one of the very, very few, anywhere, who in the context of the earth radiation balance system, recognizes that water has its unique properties because it is a molecule which can ‘hydrogen bond’ with other water molecules. And I believe, but do not know, he has pondered the natural formation of low pressure volume of atmosphere which causes the circulation of parcels (both very tiny and very large) of the earth’s atmosphere.
Which ideas are being hindered by his wrong idea that the atmosphere does not contain water molecules. Wrong ideas always hinder progress in this thing we term science.
Rationality, logic, and science make comprise a really, really bad religion. The human mind is programmable. And religion is the means thereof.
I was brought up roman catholic. And I am grateful that I was raised in the context of belief in God. It has been instrumental in me being a person who gets along with others and all the good that that entails. If this had not been the case–if, for example, my parents brought me up as an atheist–I might now be a sociopath and I might not have been afforded many of the other things that being well programmed involves, like getting a higher education.
I remember the day in high school when my teacher, a marianist brother, described the deterministic nature of reality. Eventually this realization brought me to the conclusion that belief in God was but a very useful delusion. I would also eventually realize the central irony of human existence along the lines that only through belief can one gain the education to eventually realize that beliefs are just useful delusions.
Since delusions are essential to survival, the human mind goes to great lengths to preserve these delusion. We struggle (subconsciously) to maintain belief in models that harbor these delusions. We lie to ourselves.
Jerry, your belief that you have seen evidence of gaseous H2O in the atmosphere is functionally no different than people who claim to see the virgin Mary on water stains on trees or windows.
I am waiting to read your response to the fact of the Mass spectrograph of earth’s atmosphere at my essay about the extreme temperature of the Venus surface.
Hi Jerry,
A mass spectrometer converts the material being tested to a gas in order to test it. According to the article they took condensed samples of Athenian air, collected over time, then performed the test. How does this show that the water was ever in the form of solitary molecules?
Have a good day,
Herb
Gosh Norman, you can agree or disagree with anything here, but implying after the fact censorship is for little kids to dwell on.
Try telling J Harlan Bretz, that his “crackpot idea of a repeated ending glaciation flooding of Eastern Washington is still Crackpot today, or that Alfred Wegener’s “crackpot” idea that continents move apart. is still a crackpot today, Or Semmelweis, or ulcers still caused by stress or spices and so on…………………
Maybe you should reconsider your unsupported hostile claims you made here?
Hey Norman, do you know how to use your little browser thingy to browse the “internets”? .. I suggest you use it to browse away from here. Nobody forced you to come to this website and present yourself as such a fool. Run along now…
Gore Vidal was not this paragon of virtue. He was a hater of the U.S. Gov’t and Western Civilization, although he benefitted economically because he was Homosexual and did not like the way he and others were treated. Thus, he threw the baby out with the bathwater, supported more communist forms of gov’t and society.
This article has little to do with science or defending the scientific method from corruption or even about free speech but everything to do with politics and politicking. The odious Vidal’s writings and the odorous Assange’s plight are not scientific issues and, therefore, don’t really belong on PSI.
Assange’s predicament is entirely self-inflicted and a purely legal matter. It is alleged that Assange conspired with Manning to commit computer intrusion. “Hacking” is a crime for which Assange has been found guilty in the past. He’s a convicted criminal who has form.
The bail-skipping and alleged shit-smearing Assange, described as “a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests.” and an “egomaniacal sexist creep”, has also been accused of sex crimes. While he should obviously be afforded the presumption of innocence, he should also have to answer the “rape” charges in a Swedish court.
Julian Assange is a brave man. That makes him a hero. His ‘crime’ is nothing other than revealing to the public, war crimes committed by the US military. Assange must be set free. Freedom of speech and telling the truth are not crimes. Suppressing them is a crime.
“Freedom of speech and telling the truth are not crimes.”
How one accesses one’s information can be a crime. Even law enforcement in the USA is limited how it can access its information. People in the USA have the right to privacy also. And that right includes the USA government relative to the National Security for which it is responsible.
“Julian Assange is a brave man. That makes him a hero. His ‘crime’ is nothing other than revealing to the public, war crimes committed by the US military.” It seems Julian Assange assumes he can break known laws of the USA as he as acts as a judge and jury who is not constrained by any laws. Which makes him an anarchist by definition. Anarchism: The theory all government is an evil.
Why does nobody ever seem to recommend the Swiss system of CIR democracy?
I guess because it cuts right across the incumbents which in Australia include big industry, big government, and big unions – otherwise known as IGU.
DON’T BELIEVE “On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange.” THE POLICE WERE INVITED IN!
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John O'Sullivan
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In case readers are wondering why we posted this seemingly irrelevant current affairs news story on a science-focused website, let me explain: PSI’s core mission is to defend the scientific method from corruption. Such corruption is rooted in the System itself and helping our readers make that connection is an important public duty.
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If your goal is to defend the Scientific Method from corruption than you should reject 99% of your posts. Rarely, if ever, do your contributors offer any resemblance of the scientific method. Most are just unsupported crackpot ideas with little support. You should look more closely at the terrible ideas on your blog.
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John O'Sullivan
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That’s an unsupported statement, Norman.
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James McGinn
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You are somewhat delusional John. What I’ve seen, John, is that like almost everybody else you comply with the scientific method when it fits your agenda. In other words, you apply the scientific method discriminately.
https://www.quora.com/What-meteorologically-causes-tornados-to-stop-Do-the-conditions-that-sustain-them-simply-cease
James McGinn / Solving Tornadoes
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Norman
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Mr. O’Sullivan
You wanted support for my statement. Well here it is. You have this fanatic Joseph Postma (total lunatic incapable of rational thought, only supports blind belief of a very tiny sycophants). He posts: “The experiment was the global massive increase in oil prices which caused the massive decrease in global oil consumption which occurred about ten years ago. There are charts you can find out there which show the global consumption of oil taking a massive downturn as the price per barrel continued to rise and rise to quite absurd levels.”
Then you look at some actual data to go with his unsupported declaration.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/world_oil_consumption
Where is this “massive” downturn of global oil consumption 10 years ago?
This is what I am talking about.
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Herb Rose
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Hi Norman,
You are using the total oil consumption as the amount being converted to CO2 when a large portion of the oil is being used in the chemical industry to produce paints, plastics, etc. which are not converted to CO2. I would not consider a chart from a financial organization trying to sell you something as reliable scientific data. The smooth slope of the graph shows the data has been massaged to make a point.
Have a good day,
Herb
jerry krause
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Hi Norm,
As you criticize John O’Sullivan, the editor of PSI, you are pretending you are the qualified scientific gatekeeper of what is published (posted) at the PSI website. This as the editors of many scientific journals consider they are the qualified gatekeepers of what articles they publish in their journals, which clearly, in recent history, seem not to want to publish articles which challenge the conventional science being written about in their journals.
I believe you understand that these other editors are just as wrong as you claim that John is. But John, as an editor, is different from you and all these other editors. He is not highly selective about what he posts.
I ask you and the readers of PSI articles: Who is the better editor? The very selective ones who pretends they know what is important and what is not or John who seems to have few standards about what he posts for readers to read? Unless we can read what others write we cannot know what others you make the effort to write down about what they have seen, experienced, pondered, read etc.. You and others can choose what you read, but I cannot read what any editor chooses not post.
Norman, be careful what you criticize.
Have a good day, Jerry
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James McGinn
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There is a problem with real science and that problem is that us humans get our values from our beliefs. The fictionalization of the atmospheric sciences–including global warming and all that it entails–is an attempt to reconcile this shortcoming of science.
John is motivated by a deep belief in a christian God. Same with you Jerry.
You guys are only pretending to be committed to the scientific method, just like global warming advocates.
Norman
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Jerry Krause
Thanks for the thoughts. I am not trying to be the “gatekeeper” of ideas. I think posting all types of ideas is fine. My point is that many articles posted on this blog are not supported with any science nor use the scientific method at all. They are just ideas people come up with. They can be interesting and stimulate thought but they are not based upon the scientific method. Most established science is based upon the scientific method. Gathering data, doing experiments, some rigorous mathematical proofs.
jerry krause
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Hi Norman,
Thank you for your comments and I agree with much you have just written. But, I find this apparent nonsense stimulates my pondering and I begin to see things I did not see before.
Usually my essays do not generate many comments but now (https://principia-scientific.com/extreme-temperature-of-venus-surface/) has generated 45 comments and most of these have nothing to do with what my essay was about. But finally I saw (remembered) what James McGinn repeats over and over has a basic observation which refutes his idea. So I am waiting for his reply. For based on my reading, James seems to be one of the very, very few, anywhere, who in the context of the earth radiation balance system, recognizes that water has its unique properties because it is a molecule which can ‘hydrogen bond’ with other water molecules. And I believe, but do not know, he has pondered the natural formation of low pressure volume of atmosphere which causes the circulation of parcels (both very tiny and very large) of the earth’s atmosphere.
Which ideas are being hindered by his wrong idea that the atmosphere does not contain water molecules. Wrong ideas always hinder progress in this thing we term science.
Have a good day, Jerry
James McGinn
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Rationality, logic, and science make comprise a really, really bad religion. The human mind is programmable. And religion is the means thereof.
I was brought up roman catholic. And I am grateful that I was raised in the context of belief in God. It has been instrumental in me being a person who gets along with others and all the good that that entails. If this had not been the case–if, for example, my parents brought me up as an atheist–I might now be a sociopath and I might not have been afforded many of the other things that being well programmed involves, like getting a higher education.
I remember the day in high school when my teacher, a marianist brother, described the deterministic nature of reality. Eventually this realization brought me to the conclusion that belief in God was but a very useful delusion. I would also eventually realize the central irony of human existence along the lines that only through belief can one gain the education to eventually realize that beliefs are just useful delusions.
Since delusions are essential to survival, the human mind goes to great lengths to preserve these delusion. We struggle (subconsciously) to maintain belief in models that harbor these delusions. We lie to ourselves.
Jerry, your belief that you have seen evidence of gaseous H2O in the atmosphere is functionally no different than people who claim to see the virgin Mary on water stains on trees or windows.
James McGinn / Solving Tornadoes
Moist Air Convection Myth
http://www.thunderbolts.info/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16462
jerry krause
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Hi James,
I am waiting to read your response to the fact of the Mass spectrograph of earth’s atmosphere at my essay about the extreme temperature of the Venus surface.
Have a good day, Jerry
Herb Rose
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Hi Jerry,
A mass spectrometer converts the material being tested to a gas in order to test it. According to the article they took condensed samples of Athenian air, collected over time, then performed the test. How does this show that the water was ever in the form of solitary molecules?
Have a good day,
Herb
sunsettommy
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Gosh Norman, you can agree or disagree with anything here, but implying after the fact censorship is for little kids to dwell on.
Try telling J Harlan Bretz, that his “crackpot idea of a repeated ending glaciation flooding of Eastern Washington is still Crackpot today, or that Alfred Wegener’s “crackpot” idea that continents move apart. is still a crackpot today, Or Semmelweis, or ulcers still caused by stress or spices and so on…………………
Maybe you should reconsider your unsupported hostile claims you made here?
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Squidly
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Hey Norman, do you know how to use your little browser thingy to browse the “internets”? .. I suggest you use it to browse away from here. Nobody forced you to come to this website and present yourself as such a fool. Run along now…
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Lloyd
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Gore Vidal was not this paragon of virtue. He was a hater of the U.S. Gov’t and Western Civilization, although he benefitted economically because he was Homosexual and did not like the way he and others were treated. Thus, he threw the baby out with the bathwater, supported more communist forms of gov’t and society.
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Andrew Tilley
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This article has little to do with science or defending the scientific method from corruption or even about free speech but everything to do with politics and politicking. The odious Vidal’s writings and the odorous Assange’s plight are not scientific issues and, therefore, don’t really belong on PSI.
Assange’s predicament is entirely self-inflicted and a purely legal matter. It is alleged that Assange conspired with Manning to commit computer intrusion. “Hacking” is a crime for which Assange has been found guilty in the past. He’s a convicted criminal who has form.
The bail-skipping and alleged shit-smearing Assange, described as “a narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests.” and an “egomaniacal sexist creep”, has also been accused of sex crimes. While he should obviously be afforded the presumption of innocence, he should also have to answer the “rape” charges in a Swedish court.
In both cases, let the courts decide.
https://www.wired.com/story/julian-assange-arrest-indictment-hacking-cfaa/
https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/4/12/18306901/julian-assange-arrest-wikileaks-rape-sweden-embassy
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Steve Crothers
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Julian Assange is a brave man. That makes him a hero. His ‘crime’ is nothing other than revealing to the public, war crimes committed by the US military. Assange must be set free. Freedom of speech and telling the truth are not crimes. Suppressing them is a crime.
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Squidly
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Right you are Steve, right you are. Freedom of speech is perhaps the most valuable of all human rights. Without it you are surely a slave.
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jerry krause
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Hi Steve and Squidly,
“Freedom of speech and telling the truth are not crimes.”
How one accesses one’s information can be a crime. Even law enforcement in the USA is limited how it can access its information. People in the USA have the right to privacy also. And that right includes the USA government relative to the National Security for which it is responsible.
“Julian Assange is a brave man. That makes him a hero. His ‘crime’ is nothing other than revealing to the public, war crimes committed by the US military.” It seems Julian Assange assumes he can break known laws of the USA as he as acts as a judge and jury who is not constrained by any laws. Which makes him an anarchist by definition. Anarchism: The theory all government is an evil.
Have a good day, Jerry
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Robert Beatty
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Why does nobody ever seem to recommend the Swiss system of CIR democracy?
I guess because it cuts right across the incumbents which in Australia include big industry, big government, and big unions – otherwise known as IGU.
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LLoyd
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The Swiss also helped hide Nazi Assets and stolen property. Methinks they are not this great example of freedom and equality in Gov’t.
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Penguinite
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DON’T BELIEVE “On Thursday, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange.” THE POLICE WERE INVITED IN!
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