[CanGyrene]

NOT everyone will agree with this somewhat supercilious (to me) and arguably elitist set of remarks from an atheist and major figure in the financial world. Yet the content is challenging, particularly where he takes to task the "Contract With America" and its latest permutation, as well as briefly and compellingly suggesting the route out of this mess. I do NOT agree with all he says, but his points bear serious consideration. "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!" - Not.

[Texas Fossil]

Adversity employs great talents; prosperity renders them useless and carries the inept, the corrupted wealthy and the wicked to the top

May they bear in mind that virtue often contains the seeds of tyranny

May they bear in mind that it is neither gold nor even a multitude of arms that sustains a state but its morals

May each of them keep in his house, in a corner of this field, next to his workbench, next to his plow, his gun, his sword, and his bayonet

May they all be soldiers

May they bear in mind that in circumstances where deliberation is possible, the advice of old men is good but that in moments of crisis youth is generally better informed that its elders

Denis Diderot

Apostrophe to the Insurgents, 1782

[CanGyrene]

Whooops!
That is Whiskey & Gunpowder
Sorry

[Texas Fossil]

"Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God"

Thomas Jefferson & Ben Franklin

First Great Seal Committee – July/August 1776

http://www.greatseal.com/committees/firstcomm/

[februus]

Times of disintegration follow a non fatal blow such as America experienced on 9/11. After the futility of a foreign war out of which no cohesive conclusion could be drawn(I follow the Hellenic credo that one should never engage in war against an enemy one would not want to have as a citizen)- we tried to arrest the disintegration by resorting to a futurism (”Hope & Change!”) and next will be an archaism (a return to a simpler and more pure past). Of course, our Founders were men of the Frontier, hardened by experiences on a new continent. Quite unlike the desk bound slaves swimming in red ink we have become. If we discover we cannot arrest the disintegration we will collapse, but at least we will have found the answer we sought about our own worthiness to govern ourselves through a time of troubles at last.

[Billthedrill]

The one that really gets me, and not just from Americans but from people all around the world, is: “My country, right or wrong!” That means you’re willing to support what you know is wrong. It’s pathological.

It's also a misquotation. Stephen Decatur deserves better. And these two are ignoramuses. The Real Story.

[mas cerveza por favor]

Doug Casey: The bottom line is that the Tea Party is just a hodgepodge of discontent and grumbling. Tinged with some inchoate rage around the edges. It stands for nothing. It’s simply a reaction.

Casey does much fault-finding but provides little in the way of positive alternative suggestion. He thinks the TP is deficient because it lacks a structured order but the need for leaderless resistance dictates the form of the TP. The problem then is a noxious elite that habitually targets any identifiable leader for genuine reform. Casey is either ignorant about the problem or is himself tied to the elite. The TP must neutralize the lethal power of the elite before it can come out with identifiable leadership and a comprehensive program.

[Mayr Fortuna]

Weeeelll Americans...

Quote:

“L: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. But why the Republicans in particular? Isn’t the stupid party as bad as the evil party?

Doug: As you know, I’ve always distinguished them this way: the Democrats definitely don’t believe in economic freedom, but they say they believe in social freedom, while the Republicans definitely don’t believe in social freedom, but they say they believe in economic freedom. Neither believes in both – that would make them libertarians.”

What the jackass calls "social freedom" is anarchy. The jackass does not recognize conservatives on principle. One can always spot the Revolutionary Mind can´t he?

This guy uses the French Leftist Revolution to compare it to what is going on with the politics in your country.

The main point is he is defending the institution of a third, and a fourth parties, what would no doubt favor the communists democrats.

This is revolutionary tactics in it´s best form, divide to conquer. PS: The jackass has never heard of a man called Ronald Reagan, nor have never noticed the Founders of USA!

[grey_whiskers]

If he's an atheist, by definition he doesn't get it.

"Endowed by their CREATOR" doesn't work *without* a Creator.

Cheers!

[Slyfox]

All the false hope this Tea Party movement is creating impresses me as similar to what was going on in France in the late 1780s…

This guy has never studied the French Revolution. I studied Alexis de Tocqueville's writings in college and he would be the first to say that what is happening right now is a distinct repeat of what happened in America in the 1770s.

Whom to believe? Doug Casey or Alexis de Tocqueville?

[Slyfox]

"Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite!"

[Dr. Thorne]

One more utopian libertarian telling the Tea Party how to think. Regardless of my tagline, don’t buy anything from Doug Casey.