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Most of our previously well-thought of knowledge, information and award sources have been corrupted beyond belief: NYT, Pulitzer Prize, The Lancet, Nobel Prize,Atlantic Monthly.

I recall, as a child, looking at an old printing press and thinking, “I don’t know anything that would merit being printed and having people be told that they have to believe it or even should believe it.”
Well, that was true - except for that very thought itself. That was proper humility. And thus, wisdom.
The reality is that the printing press, and the speaking voice, are instruments of persuasion. Propaganda, in a not-necessarily-perjorative sense.
Claiming to be objective is arrogance. So journalists have the vice of arrogance as one of their defining characteristics. And, alas, it isn’t only journalists who fall into that trap.

the leaders of the American revolution went back into history to study past governments and ascertain what were the worst behaviors and try to create a government that would not be subject to them and to acknowledge that human beings had a different and better place in the world than brutal and powerful kings and dictators had allowed them.

To me the defining characteristic of the Constitution is expressed in the phrase of its preamble,
and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
That is appealing to the longest view you can manage. What will be good for your great grandchildren whose circumstances you cannot predict?

Frédéric Bastiat was a French economist, statesman, and author. And he witnessed how the events surrounding the French Revolution of 1848 had caused the rise of "legal plunder", a government that had lost sight of its mission to protect liberty and the rights of private property.

Bastiat's The Law, published in 1850, is still the simplest to understand and most compellihng essay describing the idiocy of socialist tendencies and the lawless society it creates.

Here are a few paragraphs from the Law. See any parallels to DiBlasio's looters and corrupt city officials robbing New Yorkers blind?

In fact, history shows that governments twist the law so that it often acts in direct opposition to its own purpose.

It often destroys justice instead of maintaining it, and the law limits rights it is supposed to respect.

The law often puts collective force at the disposal of the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the person, liberty, and property of others.

It has converted plunder into a right, in order to protect plunder. And it has converted lawful defense into a crime, in order to punish lawful defense.

I created an abridged and lightly edited version of The Law based on a translated English version. Download it in MS Word here: The Law.

Thanks for the post; ping; thread. Free speech? GONE (the platforms are rapidly disappearing). On the other hand...Free programming/propaganda...WAIT...WE HAVE BREAKING NEWS!

Even paying to be deceived/programmed through fascist cable companies.

Hey Jim that U.S. post office was closed in the lobby. Silly me. Instead that $100.00 money order was Western Union from the local grocery story, Meijer. As has been said, “the check’s in the mail”. Thank you, sir.