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“Unfortunately, it is a typical German trait to think that obedience par excellence is a virtue. We need the civil courage to say ‘no’.” Fritz Bauer, hessischer Generalstaatsanwalt “Leider ist es eine typisch deutsche Eigenschaft, den Gehorsam schlechthin für eine Tugend zu halten. Wir brauchen die Zivilcourage, “Nein” zu sagen.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“All power is robbery and all its justification is pure ideology.” Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3. Mai 1469 – – 21. Juni 1527) is a statesman, philosopher and theorist of politics, history and war. “Alle Macht ist Raub und all ihre Rechtfertigung pure Ideologie.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“A ‘war against X’ decreed from above – be it against ‘terror’ or against a pandemic – is never about what is declared to be fought. All that is sold here as a war against a threat must not be successful at all, because its success for the economic and political centers of power lies precisely in not being successful and in remaining as a means of generating fear and securing domination.” Prof. Reiner Mausfeld “Bei einem von oben verordnetem ‚Krieg gegen X‘ – sei es gegen den ‚Terror‘ oder…
“Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.” Marvin Simkin “Demokratie ist nicht Freiheit. Demokratie sind zwei Wölfe und ein Lamm, die darüber abstimmen, was sie zu Mittag essen. Freiheit kommt von der Anerkennung bestimmter Rechte, die nicht genommen werden dürfen, nicht einmal durch eine 99 %-ige Abstimmung.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“The form of constitution that replaced feudalism and absolutism was democracy; the form of government, plutocracy. Today, democracy is a façade of plutocracy: since nations would not tolerate a pure form of plutocracy, they were granted nominal powers, while the real power rests in the hands of plutocrats. In republican as well as monarchical democracies, the statesmen are puppets, the capitalists are the puppeteers; they dictate the guidelines of politics, rule through purchase the public opinion of the voters, and through professional and social relationships, the ministers. Instead of the…
“But that is precisely why I am also deeply convinced that it is right that we have a representative democracy and not a plebiscitary democracy, and that representative democracy gives us the opportunity for certain periods of time to make decisions, then within these periods of time also to campaign for these decisions and thus to change opinions. Looking back at the history of the Federal Republic, we can say that all the major decisions did not have a demoscopic majority when they were made. The introduction of the social…
“It has long been obvious in the Western tribal countries of democracy that the promises inherent in this concept will probably remain unfulfilled: Politics is losing ground dramatically to the power of the markets; supposedly democratic systems are firmly in the hands of powerfully organized interests and have less and less to do with popular sovereignty – if there ever was any. Social inequality and the disenfranchisement and reification of citizens as mere administrative objects or human resources are advancing inexorably – though every step of disenfranchisement is communicated as…
“Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally – perhaps more than equally, because more boldly – rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power.” Lysander Spooner “Mehrheiten als solche bieten keine Garantien für Gerechtigkeit. Sie sind Menschen von derselben Natur wie Minderheiten. Sie haben die gleichen Leidenschaften für Ruhm, Macht und Geld wie Minderheiten; und sie sind ebenso – vielleicht…
“If a man is my servant, agent, or attorney, I necessarily make myself responsible for all his acts done within the limits of the power I have intrusted to him. If I have intrusted him, as my agent, with either absolute power, or any power at all, over the persons or properties of other men than myself, I thereby necessarily make myself responsible to those other persons for any injuries he may do them, so long as he acts within the limits of the power I have granted him. But…
“If I may be completely honest, I always think what an accident it was that this woman became Foreign Minister. Under normal conditions, she wouldn’t even have gotten an internship at the Foreign Office. That someone with this moral fervor tries to explain to a class representative of a world power, a cultural nation, what Western values are, defines them as systemic rivals and virtually paints an escalation scenario on the wall, a values-led foreign policy that is in fact a confrontation-led foreign policy, instead of simply baking small rolls…
“The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.” Zbigniew Brzeziński “Die drei großen Imperative der imperialen Geostrategie sind die Verhinderung von Absprachen und die Aufrechterhaltung der sicherheitspolitischen Abhängigkeit unter den Vasallen, die Aufrechterhaltung der Gefügigkeit und des Schutzes der Tributpflichtigen und die Verhinderung des Zusammenkommens der Barbaren.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“All political entities are violent entities. But the type and degree of the use or threat of external violence against other similar entities plays a specific role in the structure and fate of political communities. Not every political entity is equally “expansive” in the sense that it seeks power externally, i.e., making force available for the purpose of acquiring political power over other territories and communities, whether in the form of incorporation or [of] dependency. The political entities are thus, to varying degrees, outwardly turned entities of violence.” Max Weber…
“Why should freedom of speech and freedom of press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes to be right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinions calculated to embarrass the government?” Vladimir Lenin “Warum sollte die Rede- und Pressefreiheit erlaubt sein? Warum sollte eine Regierung, die tut, was sie für richtig hält, zulassen, dass sie kritisiert…
“More than 50 years of elite democracy have shown us where this road leads. It is the path of destruction. The destruction of community, the destruction of the idea of community, the destruction of life by the millions, the destruction of cultural and civilizational substance – especially in the Third World – and the destruction of our ecological foundations. The beneficiaries of this destruction have no reason to change this path of destruction. The necessary energy for change can only come from below – from us. That is our task…
“A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats.” Charles H. Spurgeon “Es wird eine Zeit kommen, in der die Kirche keine Hirten mehr hat, die die Schafe füttern, sondern Clowns, die die Ziegen unterhalten.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“Tyranny in democratic republics does not proceed in the same way, however. It ignores the body and goes straight for the soul. The master no longer says: You will think as I do or die. He says: You are free not to think as I do. You may keep your life, your property, and everything else. But from this day forth you shall be as a stranger among us. You will retain your civic privileges, but they will be of no use to you. For if you seek the votes…
“If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.” Will Spencer “Wenn deine Antwort auf jedes Versagen des Staats mehr Staat ist, bist du wie ein Alkoholiker, der versucht, sich nüchtern zu saufen. Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“Socialism is: The taking of money (taxes) from some people who work for it and giving it to others who don’t work for it. On a grand scale. The vast expansion of freebies doled out by central government. In order to create and sustain dependence. The government protection of favored persons and corporations, permitting them and aiding them to expand their fortunes without limit, regardless of what crimes they commit in the process. (Monsanto would be a fine example.) The squeezing out of those who would compete with the favored…
“Whoever comes to power has passed through a filter that does not let decent people pass.” Ljudmila Ulitzkaya “Wer an die Macht kommt, ist durch einen Filter gegangen, der anständige Menschen nicht passieren lässt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” George Orwell “Wenn Sie ein Bild von der Zukunft haben wollen, so stellen Sie sich einen Stiefel vor, der auf ein Gesicht tritt. Unaufhörlich.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“Every four years it elects the Bundestag. The lists or persons submitted to it by the parties are already elected beforehand by the parties. The process of this hidden preliminary election, which is the actual election, is convoluted; the names for the constituency lists and the state lists are not drawn up in the same way. But it is always the party committees, never the people, who would be involved in this decisive beginning. One must be a party member in order to participate somewhere in this election and to…
“The holders of authority and those who take advantage of it must convince people of this fiction and put to sleep their realistic, that is to say, critical, faculty of thought. Every thinking person knows the methods of propaganda, methods by which critical judgment is destroyed and the mind is lulled until it submits to clichés that stultify people because they make them dependent, depriving them of the ability to trust their eyes and their judgment. This function, in which they believe, blinds them to reality.” Erich Fromm “Die Inhaber…
“The masses are never militaristic until their minds are poisoned by propaganda.” Albert Einstein “Die Massen sind niemals kriegslüstern, solange ihr Verstand nicht durch Propaganda vergiftet ist.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind simply has not come to a realization of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent.” John Edgar Hoover | Gründer und Ex-Direktor des FBI “Der Einzelne hat das Problem, dass er mit einer so monströsen Verschwörung konfrontiert ist, dass er nicht glauben kann, dass sie existiert….
“When you pay the representatives of the people, you do not arouse in them an interest in performing their functions conscientiously; rather, you interest them only in continuing to secure for themselves the exercise of those functions.” Benjamin Constant | eigentlich Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque “Wenn man die Vertreter des Volkes bezahlt, so weckt man in ihnen nicht das Interesse, ihre Funktionen gewissenhaft zu erfüllen, man interessiert sie vielmehr nur daran, sich die Ausübung dieser Funktionen auch weiterhin zu sichern.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“If the government was replaced by the mafia we’d probably have half as much corruption and twice as much fun.” Klaus Kinski (1926-1991) “Wenn man die Regierung durch die Mafia ersetzen würde, hätten wir vermutlich halb so viel Korruption und doppelt so viel Spaß.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“It may be too late to avert the financial disaster that lies ahead of us, but we must at least prevent the road to financial ruin from also becoming a road to servitude. Let’s talk our heads off and write our fingers to the bone, let’s make ourselves outsiders and ridiculed figures if necessary, but let’s fight to ensure that the basis of people’s freedom, the market economy, is not presented to them as the alleged culprit and executed by the henchmen of power under the false pretext. Otherwise, it…
“Indeed, freedom and the capacity for disobedience are inseparable; hence any social, political, and religious system which proclaims freedom, yet stamps out disobedience, cannot speak the truth.” Erich Fromm “In der Tat sind Freiheit und die Fähigkeit zum Ungehorsam untrennbar, daher kann jedes soziale, politische und religiöse System, das Freiheit proklamiert, aber Ungehorsam ausmerzt, nicht die Wahrheit sagen” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” Tom Clancy (Thomas „Tom“ Leo Clancy Jr. | war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller) “Die Regierung ist gut darin, Steuern einzutreiben, Freiheiten zu nehmen und Menschen zu töten. Sonst taugt sie nicht viel.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…
“Through the inevitable mismanagement of resources and goods at the disposal of the state, all forms of collectivism lead eventually to tyranny.” Friedrich August von Hayek “Durch die unvermeidliche Misswirtschaft der Ressourcen und Güter, die dem Staat zur Verfügung stehen, führen alle Formen des Kollektivismus schließlich zur Tyrannei.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…