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Tuesday, January 3, 2012

The Fifth Estate. "The biggest little story of 2011."

"Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all." -- Thomas Carlyle in his book On Heroes and Hero Worship, 1840.

Gunwalker, of course.

In our new age, the old media is slowly and reluctantly learning that they can no longer unilaterally decide what is news and what isn’t. Perhaps more importantly, Issa has reminded us that in a free society, it is the people’s duty to police the fourth estate in order to facilitate the fourth estate’s duty: to protect the people.

So, we're, what, the Fifth Estate?

LATER: No sooner had I written that last sentence when I went to find an illustration that fits and came up with this book cover:

Great minds and all that . . .

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Anonymous said...: "In our new age, the old media is slowly and reluctantly learning that they can no longer unilaterally decide what is news and what isn’t"

If that is the case why, with what we now know of gunwalker, do we not see absolute pandemonium in government, resignations, incarcerations and bodies swinging from bridges?

We still have no access to the average citizen. Their information is still tightly controlled and managed. These are the circumstances sought by those in charge and they now can use the military to track and interdict American citizens on American soil.

It isn't getting better. We are not seeing more freedom and liberty every day but less of it by the hour and it is now only a matter of time before we plummet off El Capitan without a chute.

No where do you see anyone in the public eye stand for freedom. They kill each other to get in front of a camera so they can take the credit for taking more away. The average person is now schooled to take orders and be compliant instead of free. All of it by design, which of course makes anyone pointing it out, a conspiracy theorist. When you point to the videos proving it, their faces, their words, their voices, you're still a nut job without any credibility because they control who has access and the story line.

And that was their plan all along.

Or maybe it's just a happy coincidence of circumstances, leading to a better Marxist world for all. Yeah that must be it!; January 3, 2012 at 10:01 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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