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Posts from ‘April, 2012’

TSA: The dangerous stranger

In this article the girl had just seen a movie about ”stranger danger” before she got molested at the airport by TSA thugs. So now I have a cool title (or headline) and just need to write the article. When I was a kid, we had the dangerous stranger, but no TSA. It hadn’t been institutionalized yet. [...]

Dear American public, you are mentally ill

by George Sand Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” The image below of MLK and his famous quote have been circulating the internet for some time now. Perhaps MLK did not mean to make such a broad, unqualified statement, but I find this statement to be [...]

A call to action: a dysfunctional government needs active citizenry

Written by Peter J. Denney Franklin Delano Roosevelt once wrote in a private letter written during his presidency, “Presidents are not elected, they are selected.” This moment of candor in Roosevelt’s own correspondence not only illuminates the politics behind the presidency, but the economics as well. Today, the economics manifest as campaign contributions that now [...]

H.R. 347: Criminalizes Protest?

H.R. 347: “Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011″ https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/how-big-deal-hr-347-criminalizing-protest-bill    

Terrence McKenna: “Culture is not your friend”

http://www.forbiddenknowledgetv.com/videos/terence-mckenna/terence-mckenna-culture-is-not-your-friend.html