The state claims and exercises the monopoly of crime. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property be of citizen or alien.
Albert Jay Nock (via haereticum)
Albert Jay Nock (via haereticum)
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The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders, who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others – with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.
Henry Grady Weaver (via haereticum)
Henry Grady Weaver (via haereticum)
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And how they sleep at night? I’ll never know.
Really, I am so discussed with America right now.. Wow
Lizardmen don’t need sleep
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… many of those running around righteously condemning WikiLeaks for the potential, prospective, unintentional harm to innocents caused by this leak will have nothing to say about these actual, deliberate acts of wanton slaughter by the U.S. The accidental release of these unredacted cables will receive far more attention and more outrage than the extreme, deliberate wrongdoing these cables expose.
Glenn Greenwald, Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga - on the recent rift between The Guardian + other media networks and Wikileaks. (via verbalresistance)
Glenn Greenwald, Facts and myths in the WikiLeaks/Guardian saga - on the recent rift between The Guardian + other media networks and Wikileaks. (via verbalresistance)
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