The raison d'être of Government is to defend our rights & build a Commonwealth. Love your neighbor... Woe to those who make unjust laws,
to those who issue oppressive decrees,
to deprive the poor of their rights
and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people...What will you do on the day of reckoning,
when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you l
eave your riches? Nothing will remain but to cringe among the captives
or fall among the slain. Isaiah 10:1-5 NIV
"For what a person sees and hears depends a good deal on where one is standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are." Lewis
"Wherever the law is, crime can be found." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did & it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to & you have found out the exact measure of injustice & wrong which will be imposed upon them, & these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” Frederick Douglas
"They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
"The Ends do not justify the Means." Immanuel Kant
"A permanent war abroad means permanent anger against the United States by those countries and people that will be devastated by US military actions. Hate will increase, not lessen, and the terrible consequences of that hate will be used, in turn, as justification for more restrictions on civil liberties in the United States." Michael Ratner
"Partisanship, tribalism, fake news, & deceptive labels such as "Left" or "Right" trick people into not seeing what is in plain sight: Financing political campaigns, party organizations, front groups, media & think tanks by Corporate Lobbyists & Billionaires has overthrown our Republic. Corruption is legal & endemic thanks to the Supreme Court's "Citizens United" ruling. Mergers between competitors & the destruction of Unions has turned our markets into rackets. Permanent War & Wall Street have taken most of our nation's wealth, impoverished us & created a Police State. Feudalism, the dominant economic & political system throughout human history, is the agenda of the Elite." Rob Baker
