“Extremism” as a Ticket to Tyrannize by James Bovard “Extremists” are one of the famous bogeymen that American politicians invoke to sanctify their own power. But the definition of “extremism” has forever been in flux. The only consistent element in definitions of extremism is that politicians always win. In the 1770s, people who suggested that […]
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19th Century Radical Chic: How Transcendentalists’ Swooned Over John Brown
Thoreau and Emerson’s effort to canonize the abolitionist fanatic helped spark the Civil War.
by Jim Bovard
I do not respect anyone who has not been to prison.” Julian Assange once said to Renata Avila, a Guatemalan human rights activist who serves as legal counsel for WikiLeaks. “What he meant,” Avila says, “was that being in prison means that you have made so much trouble for the system that the only way for the system to deal with you is to lock you up and try to silence you.”
Faithful flocks, Santa Fe syncs and sadistic attacks + this day in history w/the Pottawatomie massacre and our song of the day by Chromatics on your Morning Monarchy for May 24, 2018.
The Massacre in Orlando By Michael Hoffmanwww.revisionisthistory.orgOrlando terrorist Omar Mir Seddique Mateen was licensed by the state of Florida to carry firearms. His rifle may even have been part of his job. Since 2007 he has been employed by G4S Secure Solutions, a “global” security firm that provided protection to the London Olympics. Until recently, G4S had an Israeli section with 8,000 employees.
