 As to the media, they are protected by the First Amendment, as they should be. |
| I'm tired of living in a police state. |
| I'm tired of being considered property. |
| I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with. |
| Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave. |
| A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft. |
| Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day. |
| The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie. |
| Poverty is a solved problem - all they have to do is abolish taxes and regulations which cripple those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women and destroy their productive capacity, then stand back and watch the economy boom. |
| We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping. |
| Government is waging war against the people. |
| The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful. |
| It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance. |
| Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead. |
| The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent. |
| I'll remind you all, however, that for government, existence is a privilege, not a right. |
| As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. |
| The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners. |
| What happened in America in the 1860s was a war of secession, a war of independence, no different in principle from what happened in America in the 1770s and 1780s. |
| Today, human civilization is drowning in a sea of lies. |
