The year 2020 in United States will be studied 100 years from now...

The year 2020 in United States will be studied 100 years from now as the rise of boldfaced Tyranny upon two decades of inhumane warmongering abroad, massive surveillance, monstrous torturing, widespread arrests of whistleblowers, unprecedented monetary expansion (ever in world history), and now another politician elected to ensure the 21st century presidents as the most heinously despicable in the aforementioned ways unaware to citizenry well naïve, ignorant, presumptuous, arrogant and certainly covetous.

I hope and pray 2021 will not continue to be so. However my hope is not founded on evidence nor recent history obviously. My prayer and faith is definitely not placed on US government, state/local governments nor the American people. 

Not until enough individuals reason observably, logically, ethically then consistently towards understanding, practicing as well respecting, regarding the singular human right to consent or dissent on all matters, any hope or prayer will be for naught. God will not intervene nor Perchance haphazardly if to insist and persist transgressing natural law(s) instituted since the human specie first reasoned. My apologies.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Prince Michael von Liechtenstein interview by Claudio Grass...

"I still hope, but I am not very confident, that the Rubicon has not already been crossed. Power is a drug and a technocracy that receives power will be reluctant to relinquish it. " --- Prince Michael von Liechtenstein 

AGREED!!! Much appreciation for both interviewer and interviewee per their continual outspoken critiques. My compliments, well done! See link for entire interview.

In United States, the Rubicon was crossed long ago in my assessment whether one points to the beginning of the US numerous wars against (allegedly) terror and the massive surveillance, the war on drugs in the early 1970s, the FBI/CIA activities extremely ramping up from 1940s to1960s here and abroad, or since 1913 with the passage of Federal Reserve Act as well 16th and 17th Amendments (although I argue much earlier).  

Certainly the year 2020 was a Rubicon crossing boldfaced, tyranny gravely elevated unexcused, unapologetic and unashamed.

https://claudiograss.ch/2020/12/the-real-danger-comes-from-massive-state-dependence-part-ii/

Glenn Greenwald as interviewed by Nick Gillespie of ReasonTV...

Nothing Trump Did Compares to the 'Moral Evil' of Bush's and Obama's Wars. 

Glenn Greenwald as interviewed by Nick Gillespie of ReasonTV...

"George Bush and Dick Chaney started new wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama started new wars in Libya and Yemen. What new wars did Donald Trump start? If you go down the list and look at things like the destruction of Iraq, and the implementation of a torture regime, what has Donald Trump done that even remotely compares in terms of moral evil to any of that? Nothing! And yet no, we're suppose to treat George Bush and Barack Obama like morally upstanding statesmen, and Donald Trump like the literal reincarnation of Hitler."

Personal Note:

Although there is plenty to critique the Trump administration like the continuation of Bush/Obama's policies as militarism, imperialism, police-statism, interventionism, cronyism, corporatism, monetarism and more, racism is not one of them nor expansion of US warmongering with new wars. 

To additionally note, upon the completion of Trump's first and only presidential term, the Obama two-term administration still holds the record for using and abusing the Espionage Act of 1917 by indicting several times more whistleblowers than ALL administrations combined.

Van Morrison's "anti-lockdown" crusade now joined by Eric Clapton...

Government's tech and news cronies (the censorship whores and press-titutes) have an interesting dilemma as Van Morrison's "anti-lockdown" crusade now joined by Eric Clapton gain traction online...

No more lockdown
No more government overreach
No more fascist police
Disturbing our peace

No more taking our freedom
And our God-given rights
Pretending it's for our safety
When it's really to enslave

Who's running our country?
Who's running our world?
Examine it closely
And watch it unfurl...

Note:
Two among the very few celebrities and artists with the fuckin' gumption to say "No more!" to tyranny.

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

Concisely, preceding all harm...

"Concisely, preceding all harm as individually perceived is covetousness as individually conceived."

D.C. Quillan Stone

Note:
Statement per No. 150 from my soon published 11th book...
https://cafeperq.blogspot.com/2018/11/more-proems-poems-on-peculiar-human.html

Christmas Eve message, as well quote by D.C. Quillan Stone...

Fuck government's tyranny and have a Merry Christmas nonetheless, because...

"At end of day, regardless who we are, the color of skin, place of origin, lot in life, preference of identity, persuasion of politics, level of education, choice of profession, pursuit of philosophy, prayer of faith and more, deep within us all there screams with all passion that could be mustered, with all knowledge that could be studied, with all logic that could be observed, with all ethic that could be confirmed, with all consistency that could be affirmed, with all urgency that could be defended; MY LIFE MATTERS!"

D.C. Quillan Stone

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Note:
Quoted text taken from my forthcoming 11th book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

Fuck government's tyranny and have a Merry Christmas nonetheless!!!

Fuck government's tyranny and have a Merry Christmas nonetheless!!!

Mike Rowe plainly, correctly assesses...

Mike Rowe plainly, correctly assesses, "There's a new word for 40 million people in this country: non-essential... (that's) one click away from unimportant or worthless... During this pandemic I've seen firsthand, everybody is essential to somebody... There is something going on here that's fundamentally upside-down. And the fact these policies are now being instituted by leaders who shown themselves to be the very definition of 'rancorous hypocrisy', is going to lead us to a place where I'm afraid will be very difficult to get the poop back in the goose."

US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks boldly, truthfully, ethically...

US Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky speaks boldly, truthfully, ethically against the current stimulus bill...

"The next time you see Republicans in high moral dudgeon, claiming and complaining about spending by Democrats and Socialism, remind them. Remind them if they supported this monstrous bill, that really the difference between the parties is less Adam Smith versus (Karl) Marx and more (Karl) Marx versus (Friedrich) Engels." 

Earlier, Mr. Paul rightly disses further his fellow Republicans for their hypocrisy...

"Republicans like to mock Modern Monetary Theory. The idea that government can print money with impunity, that government can spend whatever it wants without the need to tax. Modern Monetary Theory is basically the 'Dick Cheney deficits don't matter' crowd trussed up with a new fancy title. Most Republicans rightly lampoon this quackery, that is, when they are not practicing the quackery themselves."

Rand Paul's senate speech will be as memorably noteworthy as his father's congressional farewell speech in 2012.

INDIVIDUALISM is...

INDIVIDUALISM is exercising the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on ALL matters as manifested per the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason, while consistently regarding and constantly respecting others' same right thus ability.

It is that concise. It is that simple. For quite subjective even destructive to the aforementioned sole right, morality and ethic are all other notions toward lists or bills of rights, moralities, ethics as well books or volumes of laws, regulations, taxes, policies arbitrarily covetous, presumptuous, arrogant and violent upon the dissent by merely one, two or more persons in society.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

The exiting President should pardon Assange, Manning and Snowden...

The exiting President should pardon Assange, Manning and Snowden. They have unconstitutionally suffered enough for merely telling the truth...

"If you (Trump) grant only one act of clemency during your time in office, please: free Julian Assange. You alone can save his life."

Edward Snowden

As a reminder, more whistleblowers were arrested during the Obama/Biden Administration than all prior administrations combined. No surprise if President-Elect Biden continues in Fascistic lockstep...

"Truth is treason in an empire of lies."

Ron Paul

Personal RACISM versus Political RACISM

Personal RACISM ethically, inevitably dims and dulls one's eyes and mind, while far worse political RACISM covetously, ultimately titillates and intoxicates...

True, some recently, socially disenfranchised DID NOT observably, logically thus ethically understood the RACISM they now suffer by others newly empowered. Although equally true, some recently, politically empowered DO NOT observably, logically thus ethically understand the RACISM they now exact upon others newly disenfranchised.

"O the speck and splinter fester graver per critical eyes
Cynically 'The ayes have it!' thus vied finically the guise
Mystically the ruse the racket per the excuse slightly tacit
Though logically flaccid, academically plain upon placid"

Verse taken from Proem & Poem No. 147 - John Locke and Francis Schaeffer / Part 1 per my forthcoming 11th book.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Andrew Yang suggests a barcode as proof of vaccination...

Andrew Yang, former presidential candidate and possibly Biden's nominee for a cabinet position, suggests a barcode as proof of vaccination towards I assume some resemblance of normalcy (see link below)...

Ladies and Gentlemen who still critically think, there will be no normalcy in our future, merely further tyranny upon today's tyranny upon yesterday's tyranny. 

If Vice President Pence's public vaccination proves anything however dramatical and farcical, the year 2020 rightly arrived per bipartisan contribution to governmental expansionism incrementally or exponentially over the decades, years even months of late.

Yang's Twitter comment...

https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1339987988718206976

The DESPOTS as governors and mayors are MONSTERS...

The DESPOTS as governors and mayors mandating economic shutdowns from their luxury homes and fine dining restaurants underwritten by taxpaying serfs they inhumanely trample are nothing more than MONSTERS!!! This is NOT about a virus NOR science, this is about TYRANNY!!!

Oracle moving their headquarters from California to Texas...

Oracle moving their headquarters from California to Texas, as others have fled and continue to flee towards any state less expensive and far less oppressive. A similar exodus occurring elsewhere; New York, Illinois, etc. In response, some Fascist politicians propose higher taxes as well an exit tax even a 10-year post exit tax amid indefinite economic lockdown equating to martial law.

WTF!!!

A lovely Fascist Christmas message from Michigan's Obergruppenführer Gretchen Whitmer...

A lovely Fascist Christmas message from Michigan's Obergruppenführer Gretchen Whitmer...

American Christianity whored herself in Government's bed for decades...

Per recent proposals to intrude further into parental affairs regarding children's education (public, private, home), vaccination, adoption, abortion and more, as well to impose further upon religious activities...

American Christianity whored herself in Government's bed for decades, supporting militarism, supporting wars on terror and drugs, supporting police-statism, supporting extensive surveillance, supporting neo-conservative version of socialism as well supporting various laws, taxes, regulations, policies and programs intrusive into private and economic affairs, and now surprised by the same unrestrained power exacted upon her. 

Coveting whatever perceived benefit by such adultery, American Christianity foolishly long considered Government as her friend then lover, while the latter intended to covertly use and overtly abuse per convenience and expedience.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

The far more devastating virus; monetarism...

The far more devastating virus; monetarism...

"The central bank continues to engage in a wide variety of unprecedented efforts to 'stimulate' the economy and provide income to unemployed workers and to provide liquidity to financial institutions. Moreover, as government revenues have fallen considerably, Congress has turned to unprecedented amounts of borrowing. But in order to keep interest rates low, the Fed has been buying up trillions of dollars in assets—including government debt. This has fueled new money creation."

Ryan McMaken

See link for entire article...

https://mises.org/wire/us-money-supply-was-37-percent-november

Quote by Tulsi Gabbard... "Identity politics is having an incredibly destructive effect..."

"Identity politics is having an incredibly destructive effect on our country rather than recognizing what connects all Americans. It’s being done to help people and parties get in power and stay in power by pitting individual Americans against each other."

Tulsi Gabbard... she will depart US Congress with character intact.

Bare market shelves, vacant strip malls, mass unemployment and more... neo-American norms!

Bare market shelves, vacant strip malls, mass unemployment amid economic depression, monetary deflation along with prevailing censorship, governmental decrees, widespread (unofficial) martial law as well endless warmongering, boundless surveillance and more; these neo-American norms apparently will perpetuate well into 2021 perhaps 2022 if not indefinitely. Yet, polity and citizenry squabble and bicker over partisan subtleties and trivialities.

Consequently, one could rightly apply the 19th century quotation by Lysander Spooner (1808-1887) regarding the US Constitution to both Democrat and Republican parties...

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Apparently it is not enough to massively censor ...

Apparently it is not enough to massively censor any legitimately academic, scientific, medical, social, political and judicious opinion contrary to crafted narratives, "they" must also massively censor news coverage of demonstrations and civil disobediences in United States and around the world, some quite large and most nonviolent. 

The "Ministries of Love, Peace, Plenty and Truth" remain unselfishly vigilant of course for the common good.

They love their servitude...

"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."

Passage taken from the 1932 book Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963). The below passage taken from my 10th book 100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters...

"The good citizen, the obedient subject and the sacrificial patriot are always the objectives of government, thus externally generous as internally anxious to educate the youth, the preferred means to the coveted ends. For truly coveted are individuals’ life, liberty and property, so much so, government will forcefully take them from individuals or cleverly convince individuals to give them up quite willingly. Hence effective, publicly funded institutions of all educational levels have transformed political objectives into social even religious virtues, that is, to be good, obedient and sacrificial towards policies and privileges arbitrarily, presumptuously contrived and imposed, instead of personal principles and preferences logically, privately concluded and practiced."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

As a homage to The Parlour in Prague...

My favorite spot in my modest home, the gaudy decor as a homage to The Parlour in Prague, a wonderfully quaint below-street lounge, old books, pictures and glassware scattered around, who crafts uniquely mixed drinks per each patron's whim, as well serves and elaborates at the table on the elements and processes...

Elixirs swilled as real, ah logic lost, per anagogic lines
Amongst purrs, slurs, by nightclub felines and canines
Sensuality stirred, garnished by olive, later her lipstick
Rim so smudged, hem then nudged, his usual shtick

Else, lovers’ stints and fits, scents from previous skits
Flicks then devious flits, o’er whiskey’s schizoid-wit
Dirty martini’s android-moods, ah nonetheless broods
Subtly duels, `tween monotony’s psycho-pistol feuds

O lady he so loves, on bar her drink, gun and gloves
Mary sips, to her lips his blood, and their lust thereof
What fuss, hot as musk, fraught the dusk with death
Liken Duncan caught mid thrust, envy and Macbeth

Note:
Verses taken from my 9th book; The Memphis Nightclub Murders & Other Poetic Mysteries.

The widespread acceptance of governmental oversight...

It is FUCKIN' ASTONISHING the widespread acceptance of governmental oversight thus intrusion into individual affairs, compounded by equally widespread tolerance of bureaucratic and crony-corporate censorship thus manipulation of information political, economical, social, environmental, medical and exhaustively more, and exasperated by widespread indulgence towards initial covetousness thus consequential presumption then eventual arrogance...

"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed -if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth."

Passage found in Chapter 3 of the book 1984 by George Orwell (1903-1950), earlier in Chapter 2...

"The three slogans on the white face of the Ministry of Truth came back to him: WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette Packet — everywhere. Always the eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed — no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

There can not be emancipation of Individualism without first recognizing these historical inconveniences...

There can not be emancipation of Individualism without first recognizing these historical inconveniences...

The current unapologetic Despots and unashamed Tyrants among United States' local, state and federal politicians rose not within spans of weeks, months even years, rather numerous decades, that is to say over two centuries incrementally upon the Summer and Scheme of 1787 then 1792 as rehearsed by Washington's March and Madness 13,000-strong against a few West Pennsylvanian Individualists, reiterated by Jefferson's Ruse and Purchase of Louisiana Territories thus Subjugation of Louisiana Inhabitants and again by Madison's Debacle the Encore of 1812, reaffirmed by Lincoln's promulgated Preservation though purposed Damnation of the Union, paralleled by Davis' Confederacy and Heresy of State Rights underwritten hypocritically per the Enslaving and Erasing of the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on all matters, also paralleled by Presidents' Annihilation of the Indigenous then Reservation of the Remnants, expanded by McKinley's Revocation of Spanish Imperialism per Invocation of American Imperialism, of course gravely even inhumanely outdone by 20th Century's Total Wars as well 21st Century's Perpetual Wars... and many more such inconveniences may appropriately exemplify.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

This Country erroneously contended liberties and rights as plural...

In infancy this Country erroneously contended liberties and rights as plural oppose to Liberty and Right Singular, thus ill formed lists or bills immediately exposing any and all unenumerated, unspecified or unclarified. Interestingly perhaps ironically, as Alexander Hamilton's essay Federalist Papers No. 84 perceptively foretold soon later precisely fulfilled.

From that point forward the Federal along with State and Local governments have incrementally eroded, systematically eliminated one liberty after another right until today the unapologetically boldfaced Tyranny. Yet even now Americans remain covetously determined and cretinously devoted to Government as their omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent Primogenitor, Provider and Protector.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Consider Federalist Paper No. 84...

Consider Federalist Paper No. 84, originally published during the summer of 1788 by The Independent Journal, New York Packet and The Daily Advertiser under the pseudonym Publius, otherwise known as Alexander Hamilton, hence the following excerpt…

"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said that the liberty of the press shall not be restrained, when no power is given by which restrictions may be imposed? I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power; but it is evident that it would furnish, to men disposed to usurp, a plausible pretense for claiming that power."

As included in No. 140 - Bill of Right / 1st Reprise, following No. 139 - Bill of Right as posted (pic), both taken from my forthcoming book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

They have become like the Völkischer Beobachter, Pravda or Rénmín Rìbào...

It could be easily argued the information distributed by major corporate cronies whether news agencies or tech companies have become like the Völkischer Beobachter, Pravda or Rénmín Rìbào.

Quote by Natan Sharansky

"I was a loyal Soviet citizen until the age of 20. What it meant to be a loyal citizen is to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told to vote and, at the same time, to know that all this is a lie."

Natan Sharansky (Israeli politician, human rights activist)

Someday quite soon (if not now) a person may say "I was a loyal American citizen... it meant to say what you are supposed to say, to read what you are permitted to read, to vote the way you are told... at the same time, to know that all this is a lie."

Restoring LIBERTY singular is not political rather ethical...

Restoring LIBERTY singular is not political rather ethical, requiring not legislation rather rescission of government powers. If to discuss in terms of LIBERTIES plural, the argument is already flawed thus lost.

For one must first understand INDIVIDUALISM as the prerequisite ism or ideology, simply and concisely defined as the consistent regard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on ALL matters, upon the constant respect for the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason as manifested solely by the aforementioned exercise thereof.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Despot-to-be Biden proposes the edict for 100 days of masks...

Despot-to-be Biden proposes the edict for 100 days of masks so to determine conveniently, publicly the common vassalage to Office and State...

More fines and arrests of course for those trying to run businesses as tyranny widens and deepens (ie. Mac's Tavern in Staten Island among many others). This ironically upon tolerance and support for those who destroy businesses whether politically or riotously.

To be sure, embolden overtly further will be strategies and tactics Hitlerjugend-esque, Sturmabteilung-like even Schutzstaffel-akin if not identical in methodology and severity against any who thinks, speaks and acts contrarily as Individuals. More will be made examples!

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

And this seems to be the final revolution... Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

Disturbingly, eerily interesting perhaps discerning Huxley's emphasis on "pharmacological method"...

"There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution."

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

...and who would have thought, even as late as 2019, that the year 2020 would be concerningly near to his speculation.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Walter E. Williams (1936-2020)... Honorable man, great thinker... He will be missed!

Honorable man, great thinker... He will be missed!

"Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual... Philosopher Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explained that “no one is as hopelessly enslaved as the person who thinks he’s free.” That’s becoming an apt description for Americans who are oblivious to—or ignorant of—the liberties we’ve lost."

Walter E. Williams (1936-2020)

It would be notably incomplete to overlook the fact he often hoped and stated per his love for the work; to have died upon teaching a class. Mr. Williams taught his last economics class on 1 December 2020 at George Mason University, the eve prior to his passing. He truly studied, pondered and labored until his final breath.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

How artistically, timelessly effective would be the cave scene in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society if the same few Welton Academy boys gathered obediently distanced, fearfully masked upon the recited words "to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life"...

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

My countrymen living "sturdily and Spartan-like", putting "to rout all that was not life" during this perverted era of social fear and political oppression? Hardly! We're a nation of goddamn kittens-in-trees pathetically meowing, embarrassingly mewling till governmentally, paternalistically rescued.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

US Constitution's inherent flaw thus inevitable failure...

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist."

Lysander Spooner (1808-1887)

He went on to write in more detail the Constitution's inherent flaw thus inevitable failure...

"If any considerable number of the people believe the Constitution to be good, why do they not sign it themselves, and make laws for, and administer them upon, each other; leaving all other persons (who do not interfere with them) in peace? Until they have tried the experiment for themselves, how can they have the face to impose the Constitution upon, or even to recommend it to, others? Plainly the reason for absurd and inconsistent conduct is that they want the Constitution, not solely for any honest or legitimate use it can be of to themselves or others, but for the dishonest and illegitimate power it gives them over the persons and properties of others. But for this latter reason, all their eulogiums on the Constitution, all their exhortations, and all their expenditures of money and blood to sustain it, would be wanting... The Constitution itself, then, being of no authority, on what authority does our government practically rest? On what ground can those who pretend to administer it, claim the right to seize men's property, to restrain them of their natural liberty of action, industry, and trade, and to kill all who deny their authority to dispose of men's properties, liberties, and lives at their pleasure or discretion? The most they can say, in answer to this question, is, that some half, two-thirds, or three-fourths, of the male adults of the country have a tacit understanding that they will maintain a government under the Constitution; that they will select, by ballot, the persons to administer it; and that those persons who may receive a majority, or a plurality, of their ballots, shall act as their representatives, and administer the Constitution in their name, and by their authority."

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Private Fencepost versus Government Flagpole

Unless the PRIVATE FENCEPOST is constantly respected then consistently regarded as the individual's land and sovereignty thus logically respected then ethically regarded his/her Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on ALL matters relating to one's property as well possession, purse, preference, prerogative, people (family/friends) and person, THEN perversely covetous, arbitrarily presumptuous, violently arrogant even immoral and inhumane the GOVERNMENT FLAGPOLE.

Consequently, the rightful FLAG would be the individual's sweaty perhaps bloody SHIRT-OFF-BACK hung on the same rustic fencepost therefore pledging superiorly to no other.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
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The challenge. The proponents for tyranny have far more resources...

The challenge. The proponents for tyranny, whether per Covid-19(84) or any other "alleged" justification,  have far more resources at their disposal combined with their depraved willingness to wantonly slander, accuse and ruin, the appearance of surmountable odds. With that said, the most they can hope is for citizens to obey, cower and do nothing, the most they fear is for individuals to reason, dissent then shout "NO MORE!"

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Most are misconnecting the dots once again as suicides rise sharply...

Most are misconnecting the dots once again as suicides rise sharply, of course due to Covid-19(84), not the maniacally despotic responses to the "alleged" pandemic; masks of political/social obedience, economic shutdowns, millions out of work, home isolation, Thanksgiving/Christmas restrictions, etc. 

A simple question by comparison, have there ever been a sharp rise of suicides due to the severest of flu seasons in the past? No! However there have been rises in suicides due to government's prolonged wars, government's bubbles-then-busts, government's incarcerations of victimless crimes and more.

I prefer society my way by force per vote...

When some among neo-conservatives or political right have previously shouted down to others "we're taking back the country", or when some among neo-liberals or political left currently shout down to others "we won, so suck it up", it is the same as "I prefer society my way by presumptuous force per covetous vote and f-ck everyone else!" It is logically impossible to discern then derive anything but inhumane disrespect and unethical disregard for individuals' Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent on ALL matters amid such emotional sentiment, irrational rhetoric and violent intent.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Verses taken from my forthcoming 11th book...

Father, forgive thence forget, for often humanity resents
The whetstone your Divinity as well History represents
Besetting the haughty mind, renting the gluttonous heart
Tormenting the boldly depraved by Truth’s fierce darts

Startled as harts per Hunter of souls, Hound of Heaven
Thus shade of His Hand outstretched, dynamic deafened
Law invisible, ever indivisible, an ineludible principle
Politically despised, privately prized; Consent immemorial

Prerogatives headstrong against Presumptions prolonged
The former cyclically outdone by the latter’s plainsong
Till last sustainable rung then flung to ground the schemes
Victims’ dreams too, as such catastrophes usually teem

O the wailing and gnashing of teeth upon Pride’s fall
The inevitable crumbling of all Isms’ truculent kraals
Yet amid the prod-marked people rise the demi-saviors
As flesh revered thus propensity for covetous behavior

D.C. Quillan Stone

Verses taken from my forthcoming 11th book...

https://cafeperq.blogspot.com/2019/02/more-on-human-ability-to-reason-human_17.html

The moral conflict in America society is not LIBERTY versus SAFETY...

The moral conflict in America society is not LIBERTY governmentally defended versus SAFETY governmentally intended, rather the CONSENTED covetously, presumptuously, arrogantly even inhumanely therefore violently insisting versus the DISSENTED preferentially, ethically, rightfully even humanely therefore passionately resisting.

It would be the severest of delusions amid the gravest of errors to consider unrestrained DEMOCRACY as well any other political system as something beyond than this moral conflict innately unavoidable, resolvable consequently dissolvable only by respect and regard for each and every person's Singular Human Right to CONSENT or DISSENT on ALL matters.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Expect more intrusive Fascistic restrictions for Christmas...

Expect a Covid-1984 "Thanksgiving" surge due to disobedient  perhaps un-American citizens, or so go the relentless fearmongering per the usual media cronies as well government potentates. Their point? Expect more intrusive Fascistic restrictions for Christmas.

Prepare for another HUAC era...

Held then by many as patriotic regardless the insidiousness even treachery, prepare for another HUAC era (see note)...

This time, a similarly commissioned perhaps comparably named House Un-American Activities Committee will be far more insidious, far more treacherous, far more popularly patronized per the antecedent fear-mongering thus already implemented despotism. Merely swap words and terms; Communism for Covid-1984, political infiltrators for anti-social contraries, threats to democracy and liberty for threats to tonicity and safety. 

As covetously hoped and expressed in recent weeks and days by some outspoken political oligarchs and media cronies, overt blacklisting will return while most citizens comply, obey, suspect even notify the paternal government regarding neighbors, friends as well relatives. Presumption and arrogance have already inspired voluntary efforts in the degeneracy (ie. public dissing), as many fearfully distance from vocal dissidents. 

Note:
HUAC (1938-1975) often mistakenly associated with Joe McCarthy, though the latter's tactics elicits much deserving criticism, far more so should HUAC per number of people affected and the committee's duration.

See link for more about HUAC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Un-American_Activities_Committee

Have a Happy Thanksgiving as YOU so choose....

As comedian, social critic and satirist Lenny Bruce (1925-1966) pointedly and rightly observed, "Take away the right to say ‘f-ck’ and you take away the right to say ‘f-ck the government."

Thus have a Happy Thanksgiving as YOU so choose and f-ck politicians, officials, bureaucrats as well their supplicants and everyone else.

"To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven... And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of ALL his labour."

Ecclesiastes 3:1,13

"Wearing masks are a patriotic duty" per President-Elect Biden...

"Wearing masks are a patriotic duty" per despotic even fascistic President-Elect Biden...

"Patriotic duty" have been a term thrown around for decades to elicit support, compliance even obedience, a mere political ploy. National Patriotism is another form of Collectivism thus anti-Individualism.

Simply, there is no absolute definition for Patriotism. Soldiers and citizens of other countries, governments and flags are potentially as patriotic, loyal and proud as American soldiers and citizens. If the notion of Patriotism rests on ideas or principles, then who defines, who decides, who determines, and who instructs, insists even imposes such definitions, decisions and determinations. 

If to say Patriotism is about Liberty, then one has created an oxymoronic even unethical dilemma, for the latter is Individualistic while the former Collectivistic. For upon two persons with two different and conflicting patriotic intents, by what logical, consistent thus absolute standard justifies one over the other.

If to be logically consistent and ethical, Patriotism must align with Individualism and no more, that is, the respect and regard for the one natural law, one morality, one ethic therefore the singular human right to consent or dissent on ALL matters. Literally on ALL matters, else in direct opposition to Individualism.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Have we entered a post-science era?

See link for video by Dr Yeadon...

https://www.aier.org/article/an-education-in-viruses-and-public-health-from-michael-yeadon-former-vp-of-pfizer/

21st century presidents; the five worse in US history...

21st century presidents; the five worse in US history. Each succeeding his predecessor incrementally broadening and deepening Federalism/Centralism, Cronyism (first cousin to Fascism), Socialism, Paternalism as well Police-Statism (paramilitary policing, surveillance, etc) and other forms of domestic Interventionism, Expansionism as well Militarism (inhumane warmongering) and other forms of foreign Interventionism, ALL underwritten by wildly increased Monetarism...

President-Elect Biden will merely continue as those before him and more. Consequently, he and his mask are rightly included in the critique...

The presidential transition commences...

The presidential transition from Trump/Pence administration to Biden/Harris administration now commences...

One should not be surprised in the coming years if not months by the overt partisan Fascism, that is to say, the top-down regulatory methodology towards "total" control of the economy thus society.

If surprised then one was unaware of the numerous decades of slightly less overt bipartisan (Fascist-esque) Cronyism, that is to say, the top-down regulatory methodology towards "minimal-to-fractional-to-principal" control of the economy thus society.

Socialism was introduced of course as the bread tossed to the Roman mob for the aforementioned power-exchanges, thus incrementally expanded from administration to administration, well supported by both major parties.

As such, it could be easily argued given the exponential increases in monetary policies, budgetary expenditures and various political powers since the turn of the century, the Bush, Obama, Trump and soon Biden administrations have been most devastating to the wealth and health of Individualism.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

CNN began smear campaign against competitors of Google, Facebook and Twitter...

Government crony corporation CNN already began a smear campaign against rising competitors of government crony corporations Google, Facebook and Twitter. This was expected and will only digress to more fabrications, slanders, accusations even charges in hopes to reduce or remove these alternative sites, else frighten thus prevent potentially new users. For the currently acceptable modus operandi to censor competitive ideas and opinions as well surveil/spy on the masses can work efficiently insofar the citizenry remains corralled and controlled within a very few online platforms.

Now is the time to do what you're told!

"Now is the time to do what you're told!", covetously, arrogantly chortles Mr Fauci. Astonishingly how one presumes his/her (questionable) expert knowledge of medicine converts proportionately to expert knowledge of ethics, economics and other disciplines.

Given the numerous exposed hypocrisies of late, these self-appointed despots among health bureaucrats as well senators, representatives, governors and mayors would do well to lead by example oppose to dictates, while rightfully leaving decisions to follow or not to individuals.

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

Quote by The Rescissionist aka D.C. Quillan Stone

No matter the preferred government thus political system, party, candidate as well ism, ideology, philosophy, morality, doctrine and dogma, fears will not disappear nor dissipate even prayers will not negate nor mitigate per covetously aroused predilection, predisposition and perception towards cretinously espoused intentions, solutions and conclusions, rather accordingly exacerbate upon axiomatically exasperate by the very preferences sentimentally embraced then unethically enforced.

The Rescissionist aka D.C. Quillan Stone

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.

Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Quote by D.C. Quillan Stone

 

Come join me in my parlor at Parler...

Come join me in my parlor at Parler 🙂, link can be found at this site's header... The photo is literally a spot in my modest home, decor'ed as a homage to a wonderful, quite small below-street lounge in Prague called The Parlour...

Books by D.C. Quillan Stone

www.DCQuillanStone.com

So I have started a profile at Parler...

So I have started a profile at Parler. While there is a growing trend to transition (5 million users just in the last few days), I am not encouraged by Senator Ted Cruz's recent endorsement of the site. It merely confirms my suspicion, another upstart social media site with government contracts well in place (i.e. data gathering, surveillance, etc). It is by such contractual relationships that facilitated the type of government partnership (colluding) and partisan censorship (conspiring) by the Big Three tech companies.

These dynamics are classic Fascism's "top-down regulatory" control of economic affairs in part or whole, oppose to Communism's "bottom-up confiscatory" control of economic affairs. In this way, Liberty is not only risked but already trampled.

We shall see how the digression continues.

Meanwhile, I shall parallel post on multiple sites (here as well) until the same sites are no longer beneficial or have been cancelled.

Joe Rogan interviews Tristan Harris...

An interview worth watching regardless your conclusion thereafter regarding big tech companies and social media in general...

The details of this interview are quite interesting, however periodically throughout the conversation there tends to be suggested government as the ultimate solution. I would suggest it is because big tech companies are already connected with government per contracts for data gathering, surveillances, etc, facilitating the very problems discussed.

Perhaps the crux or conclusion, the Bill of Right singular...

Perhaps the crux or conclusion, the Bill of Right singular, midway in my soon-to-be-published 11th book. First 1/2 of the book, I spend time digging the hole as done for the entire 10th book (prequel). At this juncture, I plant a rustic but hardy post, nail to it the shirt-off-my-back sweaty, bloody and long worn as the proper flag (I pledge allegiance to no other), and then spend the second 1/2 of the book filling in the hole, regularly stomping the dirt around the base. I stand and will die by this post and shirt-of-a-flag called INDIVIDUALISM! At end of day so will each and every person regardless the unfounded ism thoughtlessly embraced and proclaimed, well confirmed by their own individualistic actions unaware... For convenience, providing the text below in addition to the posted quote...

BILL of RIGHT

If such understanding forms and foments, then solely amid ceaseless study, ponder and labor, concluding first in part, later in whole, to logically respect then ethically regard, hence fervently declaring then firmly establishing in this manner.

The propensity, preference and persistence upon observable practice by Each and Every Individual since first reasoned the Specie Human and Peculiar above all other species, thus consistently inclining, constantly insisting the Singular Right to Consent or Dissent regarding Each and Every Matter, indeed without exception as exemplified per unwanted prevention, unacceptable prohibition, undesirable preemption, unwelcomed intervention, unwarranted retroaction by persons ever covetous as well parties ever contemptuous whether private, religious, philosophical, economical, social, political, governmental and more.

D.C. Quillan Stone
10 December 2019

NOTE: To read installments Nos 139-141 in their entirety as well others, see below links....

No. 139 - Bill of Right
No. 140 - Bill of Right / 1st Reprise
No. 141 - Bill of Right / 2nd Reprise

... taken from my forthcoming book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters.

Good for South Dakota!

In a statement made to the Argus Leader, a South Dakota newspaper, Gov. Kristi Noem's office said that Biden, as president, would lack the authority to impose a nationwide mask mandate on state governments. "It's a good day for freedom. Joe Biden realizes that the president doesn't have the authority to institute a mask mandate," Noem communications director Ian Fury said. "For that matter, neither does Governor Noem, which is why she has provided her citizens with the full scope of the science and trusted them to make the best decisions for themselves and their loved-ones."... See link for entire article.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/kristi-noem-will-not-comply-biden-mask-mandate

Good for South Dakota! Mississippi's governor as well other governors and mayors should follow Ms Noem's lead, instead of following the arrogance per former President Nixon's statement when interviewed by David Frost in 1977; "Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal."

More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 205

Most likely to be published later this winter of 2020/2021, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 210 - One Last Appeal / Reprise

      If the response continues as “Yes!” either with cautious reservation or vigorous resistance, therefore still questioning or rejecting (see No. 204), then please, explain further with honesty and clarity. Why another’s violation by intervention, imposition, intrusion even invasion upon covetousness, presumption and arrogance of the kind that involuntarily bristles one’s temperament as well spontaneously raise hairs on back of neck per the former’s arbitrary disrespect and disregard for the latter’s person, people (relatives, friends, etc.), propensity, prerogative, preference, privacy as well profession, production, purse, possession, property then pursuit and purpose?

      That is to say, does one question still, perchance reject the individual’s Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent for all matters, the sole manifestation of the individual’s Peculiar Human Ability to Reason? If the response persists as “Yes!” then the ethical dilemma foments and festers probable yet possibly resolvable within the few private and social affairs where government remains uninvolved, but inherently present as well perpetually unsolvable within all political isms and governmental systems.

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Such helter-skelter poorly vindicated, remaining in the pell-mell

Maintaining the proverbial quelled, as violence festers hence swells

Bloodstain’ing walks then gutters, well into colonial streets cobbled

Homes of stubble, houses too of cards marked, downed and doubled

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone

More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 204

Most likely to be published later this winter of 2020/2021, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 209 - One Last Appeal

      Passionately compelled to pose one last appeal, however redundant it may be. Does one question still, perchance reject the observable, logical thus ethical necessity towards a constant respect and consistent regard for each and every individual's person, people (relatives, friends, etc.), propensity, prerogative, preference, privacy as well profession, production, purse, possession, property then pursuit and purpose? That is to say, does one question still, perchance reject the individual’s Singular Human Right to Consent or Dissent for all matters, the sole manifestation of the individual’s Peculiar Human Ability to Reason?

      If the response is “Yes!” either with cautious reservation or vigorous resistance, therefore still questioning or rejecting, then please, explain further with honesty and clarity. Why one’s violation by intervention, imposition, intrusion even invasion upon covetousness, presumption and arrogance of the kind that involuntarily bristles another’s temperament as well spontaneously raise hairs on back of neck per the former’s arbitrary disrespect and disregard for the latter’s person, people (relatives, friends, etc.), propensity, prerogative, preference, privacy as well profession, production, purse, possession, property then pursuit and purpose?

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Ah the Mekong Delta syndicated, played out reruns thus overkills

Gone past the thrills, at last the shrills aft’ mass pills upon anthills

Now mountains (sociopolitical), crumbled too founts of neo-youth

As elitists astound and surround surreal the minds with odd truths

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone

We live in The MISINFORMATION AGE amid The GREAT OPPRESSION...

We live in The MISINFORMATION AGE amid The GREAT OPPRESSION, as witnessed and understood by the critically alert.

For Orwellian speaking, truly War, Freedom and Ignorance have become Peace, Slavery and Strength per the propagandized "awakened minds" of the tempestuously obedient and timorously compliant. 

Upon it's birth, the Information Age paradoxically declined while technologically inclined. The technical advances thus incline go without saying. The decline was and is a simple matter of governments, corporate news and social media determining the tremendous uses then implementing their horrendous abuses. Consequently, the perpetuators of misinformation are the very self-proclaimed protectors of the public per aggressive and destructive dissemination and censorship.

This will not end well, for years in the making thus unstoppable as long the people remain unwilling to support even insist on uncensored, unhindered free speech therefore information accurate or agreeable as well inaccurate or disagreeable.

To note... CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews and fellow cohorts now report many patrons leaving popular platforms (i.e. their sites, F-cebook, Tw-tter, etc) towards alternative online forums and news sources, rendering of course misinformation and censorship less effective. Relentless, these corporations along with governments will cooperate (collude), collaborate (conspire) then soon target, slander, smear and accuse the alternative online forums and news sources with alleged questionable, divisive, harmful even criminal activities. It is digressively inevitable.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

To be consistent, cannot blame the Republicans no more the Democrats...

If to be consistent... One cannot politically blame the Republicans to use the full extent of the law to legally determine the 2020 presidential election (i.e. questionable votes, recounts, etc), no more one cannot politically blame the Democrats for using the full extent of the law to legally determine the 1972 presidential election (i.e. Watergate, as one example).

With that said, if consistency was ethically paramount among politicians, then most laws, regulations, taxes, fees/fines, seizures, prohibitions, sanctions, bans, programs, subsidies, grants, wars, monetization even agencies and departments would be reduced if not rescinded. In this way upon far less power and money in political play, far less among society's perverted and corrupted would bother pursuing or lobbying government offices.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 203

Most likely to be published later this winter of 2020/2021, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 203 - Rights in the Plural / Reprise

      Quite grave the error if to immediately assume Ethics, Moralities and Rights as plural in forms as lists or bills of such enumerations instead of Ethic, Morality and Right singular (see Nos. 19-21, 47, 139-141, 144). Graver still if to subsequently presume discussions on how others should think then act oppose to deliberations on how one hence each and every person preferentially thinks then acts (see Nos. 130-133, 135, 154). 

      In this erroneous way, the worst of isms and systems foster and fester the cursed of communities and societies. It is logically inevitable.

      Interestingly, as one presumes discussions on how others should think and act, lengthier the lists as well bills in direct proportion to the arrogant prolongation. Any temptation lingered and entertained will widen and deepen in scope. Consequently, as presumptions and discussions prolong regarding others’ thoughts and actions, the unchecked narcissism digresses covetously, selfishly further into excited consideration of entitlements, subsidies as conjured rights if not outright thievery, larceny as criminal objectives.

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Lingering the masturbation hence prolonging the erection

Ah narcissistically the consideration, lovely the presumption

Beautifully the arrogance, thus altruistically the violence

Such corpulent relentlessness upon opulent covetousness

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone

The Worst of Isms and Systems

Quite grave the error if to immediately assume Ethic, Morality and Right as plural (lists or bills of such) instead of singular. Graver still if to subsequently presume a discussion on how others should think then act oppose to deliberation on how one hence each and every person preferentially thinks then acts. In this erroneous way, the worst of isms and systems foster and fester the cursed of communities and societies.

See my previous post regarding the Silver Rule as the logical thus ethical base before proceeding to the Golden Rule. 

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Quotes regarding the Silver Rule and Golden Rule

A couple quotes from my books regarding the Silver Rule as the logical thus ethical base before proceeding to the Golden Rule. I have to give proper credit to Henry Hazlitt's 1964 "touchstone" book Foundations of Morality for providing insight long ago on this issue. 

Soon to be published my 11th book; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters...

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Promulgated "moral outrage and retribution" is appalling...

"I truly sympathize with those dealing with losing — it’s not easy — but at a certain point one has to think not only about what’s best for the nation (peaceful transfer of power) but how any future employers might see your character defined during adversity."

As tweeted by CNN journalist Jake Tapper.

Per the collective tweets by Mr Tapper, Ms Obama (see my previous post) and Ms Ocasio-Cortez (two posts ago), I am dumbfounded by the indication else implication regardless the intention; threats of blacklisting, ideological/political cleansing, shrouded by hatefully slanderous labeling. The three are opportunists like many others of the two major parties, perhaps superseding their political peers by their respective arrogances tweeted since the media's premature declaration of election results.

Lets go further...

The promulgated "moral outrage and retribution" is appalling as it is ironic, if to consider Mr Tapper and Ms Ocasio-Cortez having supported (and still do) monstrous warmongering abroad and Ms Obama's husband having expanded the same warmongering from two to seven countries (arguably more), indiscriminately fathering drone warfare while increasing acceptable collateral damage to as high as 40 to 50 civilians for every 1 targeted "alleged" combatant.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Michelle Obama sharply criticizes Trump voters...

Michelle Obama sharply criticizes Trump voters for supporting "lies, hate and division" and says "dignity will return to White House." 

Is not her statement in itself as untrue, hateful and divisive? And what career politician, having accumulated wealth in public office, can proffer any measure of dignity? In addition, who allowed, supported even encouraged (i.e. Ms Kamala Harris during a campaign interview) the rioting, threatening, assaulting, destroying, torching while slandering, cancelling and more?

Additionally and digressively, a temporarily defeated major party will not risk irrelevancy going forward, rather will consider similar strategies in the future. Thus the proactive slander by Ms Obama and preemptive threat by Ms Ocasio-Cortez (see my previous post) in desperate attempts to thwart subsequent retaliations if you will.

With that said, no one is clean hence should not be surprised. For upon nearly 20 years of inhumane warmongering of course bipartisan supported, perpetuated and expanded, such popular acceptance of violence abroad have merely become acceptable here for political/social expediency.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez hoping for political/ideological cleansing?

"Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future." 

As tweeted by Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez.

Drunk on power? Just a tad beyond stupor. And "complicity"? Is the congresswoman implying political/legal retribution for anyone who spoken and voted against the yet-lawfully-determined President-Elect Biden and/or the Democrat Party?

I am neither Democrat or Republican, so I have no dog in the fight (if to popularly ignore other parties and candidates). Graver still, the electoral debacle is still being legally decided, yet Ms Ocasio-Cortez already hopes for political/ideological cleansing. 

Of course, unprincipled individuals while endowed with excessive powers are often fully aware of the silencing effect such threats have on would-be critics. That is the tactic's insidiousness fogged by subtleties and trivialities.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Big-tech/media censorship now emboldened...

Perceived success have emboldened further this last week the big-tech/media censorship, only to worsen in months and years to come. Should the Democrat Party, Deep-State and/or their corporate cronies be blamed? Yes of course! However the Republican Party and affiliates are at fault of equal measure. For little to nothing was done to stop or slow the censorship until directly affected, then the too-little-too-late senate hearing two weeks ago.

But so go unchecked censorship as well excessive, oppressive governance (particularly of late), even longstanding proponents will be eventually censored and governed likewise.

One should prepare to express alternatively.

More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 202

Most likely to be published later this winter of 2020/2021, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 202 - What Is Democracy / 2nd Reprise

      So what is democracy if not majority rule directly by popular election or indirectly by popular representation, either synonymous to ochlocratic thus kratocratic mob rule upon government no longer hemmed strictly by an unchangeable constitution as held scrupulously by an unswayable government. Inevitably else immediately digressed when deemed unnecessary the unanimous consent quite elementary per any notion of ethical justification for governance initially as well continuously.

      Within the aforementioned context unfortunately boundless, United States’ post-elections of recent years then decades even centuries foregoing, per the unprincipled, unrestrained Democracy thus "might-makes-right" Kratocracy, have excited the Consented to perversely rejoice beside the victorious politician(s) and party, all in covetous anticipation to presumptuously, arrogantly even violently reign hence forcefully rule over the Dissented.

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Ah the two grandest of parties then the unfathomable favors

The door prizes galore, raffles and more, so to indeed savor

Of sundry flavors, per the sweat on brows and blood on plows

Thus others’ labor much coveted, oft lifted as depravity vows

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone

Upon this post-election like all others of years, decades even centuries foregoing...

Upon this post-election like all others of years, decades even centuries foregoing, within an unprincipled, unrestrained Democracy thus "might-makes-right" Kratocracy such as United States, the Consented perversely rejoice beside the victorious politician(s) and party, covetously anticipating to presumptuously, arrogantly even violently reign hence forcefully rule over the Dissented.

Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 201

Most likely to be published later this winter of 2020/2021, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 201 - What Is Democracy / 1st Reprise

      As declared by Mr. Biden, former vice president and presidential candidate, "Vote is sacred!", of course all politicians have stated something similar either naively genuine or strategically convenient. The sanctity of the vote, electoral process even democracy or majority rule, along with any other political system, are not sacred inherently nor ethical logically. Such considerations are governmental arrangements at most tolerable perhaps acceptable solely per unanimous consent previously then continuously. 

      On Election Day of 2020 the following correctly assessed like many prior election days. There is nothing honorable about unrestrained democracy, the absolute rule by majority, the malicious struggle for power, the preference then presumption of some coercively imposing upon others, the bestially kratocratic means towards forcefully covetous ends, the consented disrespectfully disregardful lording over the dissented ethically rightful; in a word, Violence!

      Allow this poet state more personally. For those who disagree (as assumed of most people), I do not consent to your preference for majority vote thus mob rule over my person, preference, possession and property. Consequently while my dissent exists, insists until desists, what remains as justifications are merely your motivations, covetousness, presumption, perversion even depravity.

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The consented often celebrate the opportunity to impose

By force of course, so to intrude and intervene as apposed

To confiscate too, although relegated to the hired guns

Government’s Huns and stepsons, thus the dissented undone

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone

More on Human ABILITY to REASON, Human RIGHT to CONSENT - Proem & Poem No. 200

Most likely to be published later this winter of 2020/2021, my 11th book entitled appropriately; More Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters. The following will probably be included upon further editing, and front cover a slightly modified yet appropriate version of the previous....

PROEM & POEM No. 200 - What Is Democracy

      If democracy is fundamentally imperative later indicative of a good and moral society, a noble and virtuous government as often implied even cited however naively and erroneously, then to be arguably consistent, boundless mood swings must be regarded as fundamentally imperative later indicative of a good and moral person, a noble and virtuous character. However, as much a person’s moods therefore emotions should be moderated by constraints reasoned then determined, likewise a government’s democracy therefore kratocracy should be moderated by constraints reasoned then determined.

      Democracy is not inherently virtuous, noble, moral, good nor principled by any measure, simply an amoral method among all others for determining and making decisions within groups of any sort. On its own, democracy is susceptible to societal, political swings as irrationally extreme as unprincipled thus unbridled emotions or unchecked moods, excitably knee-jerking to events, trends, fads, raves, rants as well imaginatively titillating contrivances. Incrementally digressive, the occasional susceptibility degenerates ineluctably to chronic vulnerability then deteriorates inevitably to terminal malignity.

      As such, human instincts of the kind common among all other species are politically empowered hence covetously encouraged by the unconstrained vote, furthered gravely per human reasoning tainted and skewed upon selfishly ignored and/or legislatively mitigated responsibility and risk. At this juncture, democracy made horizonlessly wide the "path of least resistance" towards cozening then confiscating any and all possessions, properties, various resources respectively, rightly owned by governmentally unprotected individuals.

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Upon the emerald hill she lays, then slumbers in saunters

Ponders `tween maunders, liken sages amid tombs and altars

O the mysteries as Love’s epistles and individuals’ passions

Numerous while exclusive to each person’s sacred bastion

Fashioned by Heavenly Hands, breathed until well instilled 

The human peculiarity, the human singularity, the odd will

Reasoning then determining the choice as voiced or gestured

Foisted not else hoisted fraught the rented yet righted vesture

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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.

Copyright © 2020 by D.C. Quillan Stone