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Friday, December 3, 2010

Quote - Wolfgang Neskovic

Barack Obama is not God, able to freely decide about life and death…. Nevertheless he behaves like an Old Testament God who kills people as he sees fit with fire and brimstone.
German MP Wolfgang Neskovic in regard to a bombing in Pakistan by an American drone which killed a German citizen.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Quote - Thomas Jefferson

The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. If it be said, his testimony in a court of justice cannot be relied on, reject it then, and be the stigma on him. Constraint may make him worse by making him a hypocrite, but it will never make him a truer man. It may fix him obstinately in his errors, but will not cure them. Reason and free enquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion, by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation. They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only. Had not the Roman government permitted free enquiry, Christianity could never have been introduced. Had not free enquiry been indulged, at the aera of the reformation, the corruptions of Christianity could not have been purged away. If it be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged. Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now. Thus in France the emetic was once forbidden as a medicine, and the potatoe as an article of food. Government is just as infallible too when it fixes systems in physics. Galileo was sent to the inquisition for affirming that the earth was a sphere: the government had declared it to be as flat as a trencher, and Galileo was obliged to abjure his error. This error however at length prevailed, the earth became a globe, and Descartes declared it was whirled round its axis by a vortex.

Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia: Query XVII: Religion, 1781

Quantitative Easing Explained

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Professor on CBC Calls For Assassination of Julian Assange



What happened to the rule of law? This is the world we live in. The President of the United States does not refrain from assassinating US citizens and now we have talking heads on the news calling for the assassination of a private citizen. Assange is not even being accused of directly harming anyone (but the government), and his life is to be taken without due process for what crime?