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Milton Friedman | Every friend of freedom

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“Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.” Milton Friedman “Jeder Freund der Freiheit muss genauso empört sein wie ich über die Aussicht, die Vereinigten Staaten in ein bewaffnetes Lager zu verwandeln, über die Vision von Gefängnissen, die mit gelegentlichen Drogenkonsumenten gefüllt sind, und von einer Armee von Vollstreckern,…

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Hannah Arendt | those who choose the lesser evil

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“In their moral justification, the argument of the lesser evil has played a prominent role. If you are confronted with two evils, the argument runs, it is your duty to opt for the lesser one, whereas it is irresponsible to refuse to choose altogether. Its weakness has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget quickly that they chose evil.[….] Acceptance of the lesser evil is deliberately used to accustom officials, as well as the population at large, to accept the evil itself.” Hannah Arendt “Bei ihrer moralischen…

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Jessica Hamed | no longer be able to trust Germany’s highest

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“One of the most significant moments for me in my professional career, apart from being sworn in as an attorney, was signing my first – also successful – constitutional complaint. It pains me to no longer be able to trust Germany’s highest court in a fundamental way.” Jessica Hamed (ist Fachanwältin für Strafrecht und Dozentin an der Hochschule Mainz.) “Einer meiner für mich bedeutsamsten Momente in meiner Berufslaufbahn war neben der Vereidigung zur Rechtsanwältin das Unterzeichnen meiner ersten – auch erfolgreichen – Verfassungsbeschwerde. Mich schmerzt, dem höchsten Gericht Deutschlands in…

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Walter Ulbricht | it must look democratic

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“it must look democratic but we must control everything” Walter Ernst Paul Ulbricht (Anfang Mai 1945, zitiert in: Wolfgang Leonhard: Die Revolution entläßt ihre Kinder (1955)) “Es muß demokratisch aussehen, aber wir müssen alles in der Hand haben.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Thomas Sowell | More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa

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“More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.” Thomas Sowell, US-amerikanischer Ökonom und Historiker “Es wurden mehr Weisse als Sklaven nach Nordafrika gebracht als Schwarze als Sklaven in die Vereinigten Staaten oder in die 13 Kolonien, aus denen sie entstanden sind. Weisse Sklaven wurden noch Jahrzehnte nach der Befreiung…

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Aldous Huxley | Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control

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“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.” Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World “Unpersönliche Kräfte, über die wir fast keine Kontrolle haben, scheinen uns alle in Richtung des Albtraums der Schönen Neuen Welt…

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Mahatma Gandhi | The state represents violence

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“The state represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the state is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” Mahatma Gandhi “Der Staat repräsentiert Gewalt in einer intensivierten und organisierten Form. Das Individuum hat eine Seele, aber der Staat, der eine Maschine ohne Seele ist, kann von Gewalt nicht befreit werden, da er ihm seine Existenz verdankt.” Nützliche und hilfreiche Links…

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Prof. Rainer Mausfeld | the illusion of democracy

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“But what could make democracy attractive to the powerful, whose very power it limits and threatens? The answer is quite simple: Nothing! For democracy means precisely to restrict the power needs of the powerful and the rich, in which they naturally have no interest. This now results in a tension between the needs of the rulers to stabilize their status and our need to feel socially autonomous and self-determined with regard to our social situation. In history, this fundamental tension has often been discharged in the form of revolutions. From…

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Steve Jacobson | Political and economic power

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“Political and economic power in the United States is concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the most influential foundations, major private universities and most public utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men, similar in…

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Walter Lippmann | The process by which public opinions arise

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“That the manufacture of consent is capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any shifting of economic power. . . ….

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Tony Cartalucci | Your Real Government

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“These organizations represent the collective interests of the largest corporations on earth. They not only retain armies of policy wonks and researchers to articulate their agenda and form a consensus internally, but also use their massive accumulation of unwarranted influence in media, industry, and finance to manufacture a self-serving consensus internationally. To believe that this corporate-financier oligarchy would subject their agenda and fate to the whims of the voting masses is naive at best. They have painstakingly ensured that no matter who gets into office, in whatever country, the guns,…

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Jacques Ellul | It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale

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“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press, radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed precisely because it creates a constant environment. Mass media provides the essential link between the individual and the demands of the technological society.” Jacques Ellul war ein französischer Soziologe und Theologe. “Durch die Massenmedien kann Propaganda auf die gesamte Gesellschaft angewendet werden. Das Zusammenspiel von Presse, Radio und Fernsehen…

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Lysander Spooner | The Constitution of no Authority

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“It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the Constitution, to pay so much money for so much protection, the same as he does with any other insurance company; and that he is just as free not to be protected, and not to pay any tax, as he…

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George Orwell | abolition of private property

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“After the revolutionary period of the fifties and sixties, society regrouped itself, as always, into High, Middle, and Low. But the new High group, unlike all its forerunners, did not act upon instinct but knew what was needed to safeguard its position. It had long been realized that the only secure basis for oligarchy is collectivism. Wealth and privilege are most easily defended when they are possessed jointly. The so-called ’abolition of private property’ which took place in the middle years of the century meant, in effect, the concentration of…