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Carl Sagan - A thousand years of darkness

If we fail to learn from history, we are destine to repeat it. Carl Sagan explores how the ancient world’s greatest repository of knowledge, the library of Alexandria met its end. Distortion of ethnic, religious fundamentalism, apathy, and the rejection of scientific values may deliver us into a 2nd dark age.Consider the Evangelical Movement of John Hagee

You can not make changes to a party from the outside. It’s like standing outside of a fortress and shouting at the people who have walled themselves up inside.Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, learn how to have a say over who winds up on the ballot Caucus 101

People may disagree with me, but I do not believe a third party can work. Michael Powell, Colin Powell’s son, got rid of media equal access regulations for candidates when he was head of the FCC. (See Orwell Rolls in his Grave.) You can’t get a message out to the sheeple unless you have millions from lobbyist contributions. You can go to your neighborhood caucus and work at being a delegate. That will give you a say in who the sheeple have to vote for.

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Many Republicans stand by Ronald Reagan as an example of a great Republican. I admit I used to think he was a great man myself. Reagan’s public speeches on limited government and personal freedom were inspiring, and still are.

Reagan imposed quotas on Japanese auto manufactures to encourage them to build their auto manufacturing plants in the U.S. hnn.us This worked quite well, bringing jobs to the U.S. This should be an example of why we should be weary of propaganda telling us tariffs are bad.

Where I lost faith in Reagan was The Iran Contra Scandal, October Surprise, and his war on drugs. The Iran Contra Scandal was the CIA selling Arms to Iran to fund the Contra Rebels in Nicaragua. That in it’s self is pretty bad, but the Contras were mass murderers. The Contras were actually running drugs into the U.S. on plains being provided by the CIA. That just sounds crazy doesn’t it? The sad thing is there’s a lot of documentaries and documentation out there to back this up.

How could Reagan support criminals who were running drugs into the U.S. while waging a war on drugs? What the hell was he thinking?

Reagan’s war on drugs violated the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution by allowing the police to confiscate people’s property to pay for his war on drugs:

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

The Future of Freedom Foundation has compiled a list of examples where Reagan’s drug war laws have opened the door for an abuse of property seizures.

For more information watch:

Bill Moyers PBS 1987 documentary Secret Government Constitution in Crisis

John Pilger’s documentary War on Democracy.

Sag Harbor Basement Productions Orwell Rolls In His Grave

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From The Farewell Address to the People of the United States (September 17, 1796)

final speech before he left office, he warned the American people of the dangers of the two party system. No one party holds blame fore dividing the American people. It takes both parties to perpetuate a dispute.

 

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the State, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discrimination. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind. It exists under different shapes in all governments, more or less stifled, controlled, or repressed; but in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purpose of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty.

 

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight), the common and continued mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils, and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the doors to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true, and in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not wit favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame lest instead of warming, it should consume.

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