http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America." --Alexis de Tocquevile. <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/1_ch15.htm"><i>Democracy in America</i>, Book I, Chapter XV</a>.<br><br>ennoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Thu, 24 May 2012 23:13:35 PDTBloggertag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248425125http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/quotable-historians-deconstruction.htmlquotationshistorynoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Thu, 24 May 2012 23:07:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-89891159188098526332012-05-24T23:13:35.874-07:000... historians don't just reconstruct the past from documents. They also deconstruct narratives of the past. Deconstruction is a term that often sounds like some sort of trendy, high-theory concept...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/quotable-reality-idealism.htmlquotationsphilosophynoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Thu, 24 May 2012 22:15:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-7672725487847090732012-05-24T22:16:23.383-07:000Reality follows where idealism leads. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Source: Inscription seen May 2012 on a monument on the University of Puget Sound campus.http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/two-excerpts-from-and-one-about.htmlart and literaturequotationsReligionChristianitynoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Tue, 22 May 2012 22:23:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-17613691064464857872012-05-22T23:12:41.197-07:000And the longer and more beautifully the Lion sang, the harder Uncle Andrew tried to make himself believe that he could hear nothing but roaring. Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-if-we-all-stopped-paying-taxes-by.htmlvideowar tax resistancemusicnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Wed, 16 May 2012 22:36:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-8838673000769443612012-05-16T22:36:19.637-07:000This groovy tune is featured in the intro to the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee's excellent video, Death and Taxes. http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/mmmm-human-based-gelatin.htmlcinemaSciencenoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sun, 13 May 2012 23:11:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-33696667064585266172012-05-13T23:15:46.784-07:001Photo of Jelly Babies by Father Jack at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jelly_babies.jpg Remember the scene in the dystopian film, Soylent Green, where Det. Robert Thorn (played by Charlton...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/keynes-on-hayeks-road-to-serfdom.htmlvideoeconomicsquotationspoliticsfreedomnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sun, 13 May 2012 16:09:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-78963471473021168842012-05-14T00:12:22.913-07:000In my opinion it [The Road to Serfdom] is a grand book. We all have the greatest reason to be grateful to you for saying so well what needs so much to be said. You will not expect me to accept quite...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/quotable-purpose-of-lawyers.htmllawquotationsnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sun, 13 May 2012 14:27:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-55073336034325956322012-05-13T16:15:52.861-07:000Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do. -Bankster J. P. Morgan Source: Robert Heilbroner. The Worldly Philosophers (New...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/last-december-f.htmlIsraelSouth Africaapartheidnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sat, 12 May 2012 21:41:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-81568167105426940732012-05-13T14:15:29.238-07:000Last December, F. W. de Klerk, the last president of South Africa under the system of White supremacist rule known as apartheid, confirmed what every informed, thinking person already knew: The...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/below-is-cartoon-that-brought-un.htmlart and literaturethoughtcrimeAbraham Foxmannoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sat, 12 May 2012 20:53:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-17805312484952024812012-05-13T14:15:59.915-07:000Below is the cartoon that brought UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian human rights Richard A. Falk so much grief last year from anti-Semitism tricksters. It's called "Blind Justice" and was penned...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/former-israeli-mp-anti.htmlholocaustIsrael Lobbyhasbaranoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sat, 12 May 2012 20:24:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-66304470240854059842012-05-12T20:25:32.686-07:000Ten years ago, Shulamit Aloni, a former Palmach fighter and Israeli Knesset and cabinet member, gave an interview to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. Below is part of what the interview: Goodman: Yours...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/insight-into-wikipedias-pro-israel-bias.htmlvideohasbaraWikipediamediaIsraelnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sat, 12 May 2012 19:19:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-56892443158672273352012-05-12T19:58:50.263-07:002The video below is from an August 2010 story by the Israeli Zionist media organization Arutz Sheva. If the video disappears you can also try to watch it here.Outside Israel the story seemingly got...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/04/quotable-man-to-fear.htmlquotationshistorypoliticsfreedomnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:54:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-15092249790964872972012-04-26T13:49:54.502-07:001David Atkins seems to be an honest Liberal, he unapologetically says Liberalism is "paternalistic" and an ideology that fully sanctions the use of violence in the name of the "weak and powerless". Of...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/04/on-efficacy-of-various-forms-of.htmlpsychologymedicinenoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:39:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-78001545010311353312012-04-16T21:51:41.617-07:000In Manufacturing Depression: The Secret History of a Modern Disease (Simon &amp; Schuster, 2010) author Gary Greenberg cites studies from 1975 and 1980 and a 1995 Consumer Reports reader survey in...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/03/quotable-how-light-gets-in.htmlquotationspoetrynoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:33:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-6686651660477701622012-03-25T19:43:02.671-07:000Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. Source: Leonard Cohen. "Anthem".http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/03/quotable-opposite-of-sin.htmlquotationsReligionChristianitynoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:22:00 PDTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-40677093194759868662012-03-25T19:33:28.755-07:000... the opposite of sin is not virtue ... No, the opposite of sin is faith, as is affirmed in Rom. 14:23, "whatsoever is not of faith is sin." And for the whole of Christianity it is one of the most...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/02/outrage-over-scout-sniper-symbol.htmlmilitaryAbraham FoxmanAfghanistanJewsnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:37:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-48615169198875627842012-02-10T22:35:18.237-08:000Rabbi Marvin Hier, Allen Falk, and Mikey Weinstein (he of the misnamed Military Religious Freedom Foundation) are all screeching about the photo above--Heads must roll! No, they're not howling...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/us-wars-jeers-to-cheers-in-60-seconds.htmlUnited StatesWarRon Paulpoliticsnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:01:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-27311797013823079252012-03-01T19:59:47.992-08:000Watch the video below to see how Ron Paul at a Republican Party presidential candidate debate last night takes the audience, in less than a minute, from jeers--when he prescribes Jesus' Golden Rule*...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/some-lessons-of-unintended-consequences.htmlcivil libertiesart and literaturegunspolice repressionterrorismviolencenoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:02:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-14929430903182681162012-05-06T21:22:56.891-07:000John F. Ross' novel Unintended Consequences (St. Louis, MO: Accurate Pr., 1996) is an 861-page monster. It is also a disturbing terrorist revenge fantasy that depicts its protagonists carrying out...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/poles-as-pigs.htmlart and literatureholocausthistorynoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:33:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-73696483707276672942012-01-13T23:01:56.117-08:000In "Some Lessons of Maus" I mentioned Art Spiegelman's typology which cast his characters as animals according to their ethnicity. Below are links to three articles which take up Spiegelman's...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/quotable-what-liberalism-is-or-why-im.htmlquotationshistorypoliticsfreedomnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:04:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-34012443937713004752012-04-21T17:00:02.181-07:000Liberalism is and has always been about intervention. ... Liberals understand that power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Left to their own devices, people with weapons and money...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/quotable-lawyers-as-warriors.htmllawquotationsJusticenoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:14:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-30422676775514770382012-01-17T14:18:39.223-08:000So you want to be king? You want to control the greatest nation in the world--perhaps control the world as well? As we’ve seen, you must first own the people, own their minds. You must be able to...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/god-of-adjustment-bureau.htmlReligionHollywoodnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:31:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-61202419925872737562012-01-10T23:14:34.963-08:000The Adjustment Bureau is a 2011 film written, directed, and produced by George Nolfi and starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. The god of The Adjustment Bureau, aka "The Chairman", is a very strange...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/last-words-of-otto-zehm.htmlvideopolice repressioncrimeviolencenoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Sun, 08 Jan 2012 20:13:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-68977060496619878232012-01-08T20:30:37.536-08:000"All I wanted was a Snicker's bar." According to one of the seven police officers who helped killed him, those were the last words of Otto Zehm. Zehm was a 36-year-old mentally disabled janitor who...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/quotable-when-police-are-not-your.htmlcivil libertiesart and literaturepolice repressionquotationsmass murdernoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:24:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-54028327667996458222012-01-17T14:19:32.100-08:000You must realize that when police are ordered to violate your rights, they are not your friends. That brings us to number three: Do not hope police officers will resign instead of carrying out orders...http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/01/imagine-revolution.htmlUnited StatesWarRon Paulpoliticsnoreply@blogger.com (VFPDissident)Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:17:00 PSTtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29839248.post-5871520318252959792012-01-17T19:00:18.376-08:000