People should be legally free to argue for any viewpoint, no matter how “obviously” false and even reprehensible, in order to protect society from being enslaved to a popular but untrue belief. ―Robert P. Murphy
Tag: Media
Censorship is really about the state being afraid of the ideas of liberty; they’re afraid that it might catch on and that they will lose all control. —Johnny Adams
It is well known that in war, the first casualty is truth — that during any war truth is forsaken for propaganda. —Harry Browne
If the state loses its grip over your mind, it loses the very key to its survival. —Lew Rockwell
- Secede from intellectual isolation. Talk to friends, family, and neighbors to spread liberty.
- Secede from dependency. Become self-sufficient with regards to food, water, fuel, cash, firearms, and physical security.
- Secede from mainstream media. Ditch cable, ditch CNN, and ditch the major newspapers.
- Secede from state control of your children by homeschooling or unschooling them.
- Secede from college by rejecting mainstream academia and its student loan trap.
- Secede from the US dollar by owning physical precious metals, by owning assets denominated in foreign currencies, and by owning assets abroad.
- Secede from the federal tax and regulatory regimes. Be as tax efficient as possible.
- Secede from the legal system by legally protecting your assets from probate courts.
- Secede from the state healthcare racket by taking control of your health, and questioning medical orthodoxy.
- Secede from your state by moving to another with a better tax and regulatory environment.
- Secede from political uncertainly in the US by obtaining a second passport; or secede from the US altogether by expatriating.
- Most of all, secede from the mindset that government is all-powerful or too formidable an opponent to be overcome.
All of us can play a role in a bottom-up revolution by doing everything in our power to withdraw our consent from the state. —Jeff Deist
- Secede from intellectual isolation. Talk to friends, family, and neighbors to spread liberty.
- Secede from dependency. Become self-sufficient with regards to food, water, fuel, cash, firearms, and physical security.
- Secede from mainstream media. Ditch cable, ditch CNN, and ditch the major newspapers.
- Secede from state control of your children by homeschooling or unschooling them.
- Secede from college by rejecting mainstream academia and its student loan trap.
- Secede from the US dollar by owning physical precious metals, by owning assets denominated in foreign currencies, and by owning assets abroad.
- Secede from the federal tax and regulatory regimes. Be as tax efficient as possible.
- Secede from the legal system by legally protecting your assets from probate courts.
- Secede from the state healthcare racket by taking control of your health, and questioning medical orthodoxy.
- Secede from your state by moving to another with a better tax and regulatory environment.
- Secede from political uncertainly in the US by obtaining a second passport; or secede from the US altogether by expatriating.
- Most of all, secede from the mindset that government is all-powerful or too formidable an opponent to be overcome.
All of us can play a role in a bottom-up revolution by doing everything in our power to withdraw our consent from the state. —Jeff Deist
Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule let us resist in the smallest way: a personal non-participation in lies! —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The intelligencia in the media can decide what to emphasize, what to downplay and what to ignore entirely when it comes to race. These may be individual choices, rather than a conspiracy, but individual choices growing out of a common vision of the world can produce results all too similar to what is produced by centralized censorship or propaganda. —Thomas Sowell
The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them. —from the memoir of a young girl who grew up in the Soviet Union
The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, “Your Welcome” with Michael Malice #198
I viewed the marketplace as a cruel place, where you need intervention by government to protect people. But after watching the regulators work, I have come to believe that markets are magical, and the best protectors of the consumer. It is my job to explain the beauties of the free market. —John Stossel