Not if they fully informed the patient and then got signed releases stating that the patient wanted X instead of the standard insanely expensive, not very effective, quality-of-life ruining Big Pharma/Big Medical approved course.
Auberon Herbert's writings are a good introduction to Voluntaryism, which is exactly what it sounds like:
As Eric Mack writes, “Carrying natural rights theory to its logical limits, Herbert demanded complete social and economic freedom for all noncoercive individuals and the radical restriction of the use of force to the role of protecting those freedoms―including the freedom of peaceful persons to withhold support from any or all state activities.” (from the Amazon description of the book linked below)
The Right and Wrong of Compulsion by the State, and Other Essays
Back to your comment:
People believe (mistakenly, because of purposeful fuckery) that if we didn't have the type of system of law that we have, there would be "lawlessness," "anarchy," and "chaos." Nothing could be further from the truth
I agree wholeheartedly, and in fact I doubt there is very much that we DO disagree on.
Then again, remember Moses.
That sure a hell NOT what I'm hoping for, but . . . it might be what we get. I don't think even the storied White Hats have complete, total control over what happens in this world (yes, that one's from Captain Obvious).
Excellent, detailed comment, and a great argument for Abolitionism / Voluntaryism (which might not be quite what you're going for, idk, but a truly civil society is the only way to free people from the tyranny you describe).
This post, and the one you did at the same time about 91 rappers suddenly passing away, are real eye-openers. We've been seeing the drip-drip-drip of such posts about individual people dying all over the world and of collections of people who died in a particular week or month, but these two collections of people dying in a given profession are somehow more impactful (at least to me). Great work, BerlinWallCrosser.
No, UK, USA played a very foul ploy (in starting the war, I assume you mean)
Yes, I know that and agree. That's not to say I agree with Hitler's actions leading to the war, including invasion of other countries.
the [fire]bombing orders were unnecessary.
Absolutely. Leveling entire cities, and firebombing entire cities especially, in both Europe and Japan -- not to mention the nukes on Hiroshima and and Nagasaki -- was not just unnecessary but breathtakingly evil.
the continuation of the war AFTER Dunkirk was totally unnecessary . . . A peace proposal with far reaching concessions by Germany was made
Did not know that, but if so, it follows the pattern of the Japanese trying to surrender but America refusing supposedly because the Japanese insisted on keeping the Emperor as a figurehead . . . then after we dropped the two nukes we LET THEM KEEP THE EMPEROR anyway.
Yet, people followed orders. Only a few said no, and were executed, or sentenced to long prison sentences.
Yes, that's always the way with government. Sooner or later, evil and corruption gain control of the mechanisms of Power and shit like that happens: Vile, inhumane, and simply WRONG orders are given and people who refuse are punished. That's one reason I'm an Abolitionist / Voluntaryist; the Ring of Power really MUST be destroyed because it both corrupts the innocent and ATTRACTS the corrupt to itself. It is also Hellishly addicting. And it never ends well; the relatively small ember of Power embedded in the Constitution is what grew to the tyranny we now live under.
You think FDR with his green new deal was a success? Or typically American?
Good Lord, no. MOST American presidents have been wrecking balls, battering away at the (mostly) positive elements framed in the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. As you know, FDR was far from the first; Woodrow Wilson (also not the first) is the one who signed off on the Federal Reserve and the income tax. And even before the avalanche of fiat those horrors unleashed to the Cabal, the US military was used as "thugs for corporate interests in Central America" (and elsewhere) as Smedley Butler put it. In War is a Racket, He confessed that:
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909–1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
A populist is in essence connected to the general senses of the population. He does not try to mold, direct, change, redirect, the morality of the people, but tries to connect to it, embody it. An ideologue, be they Marxist or worse: Straussian or simply: power hungry [Macchiavellian], tries to mold, direct, change, redirect, the morality of the people by repression, distinction, double standards, blowing up the very fabric of society, creating havoc and superimposing his own solutions to the problems he himself created.
Nicely put.
Interesting thoughts, and I'd certainly love to see a large Declass or scandal or whatnot bring high government officials to justice.
But whether Congress is in session is NOT an issue for the arrests.
Article I, Section 6: Rights and Disabilities of Members
The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.
". . . except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace" is a pretty big carve-out, and clearly we are TALKING about the first two especially. Congress members absolutely CAN be arrested WHILE ATTENDING A SESSION OF CONGRESS for such crimes.
The flu vaccine is too deadly to be used and should be pulled from the market -- The Medicare data that the CDC never shows the public makes this crystal clear. I wonder what public benefit there is of hiding this data. Why doesn't anyone want to see it?
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/the-flu-vaccine-is-too-deadly-to
The scourge of commie propaganda and terrorism was rampant.
That's always the way with Communists. Pretty much the same with the Nazis, of course. R.J. Rummel spent his career researching Death by Government (the title of his book, first published in the 1980s). He found the Nazis were #3 on the mass-murder list of the 20th century, behind the Soviets and the Communist Chinese (the Chinese Nationalists weren't exactly choir boys either).
- 61,911,000 Murdered: The Soviet Gulag State
- 35,236,000 Murdered: The Communist Chinese Ant Hill
- 20,946,000 Murdered: The Nazi Genocide State
- 10,214,000 Murdered: The Depraved Nationalist Regime
(etc)
As for Hitler's stupidity: I repeat that launching Barbarossa when he did (or at all, frankly) was probably stupid, even if "something had to be done" at that point in time. For that matter, starting World War II wasn't such a great idea either. If not stupid, then certainly psychopathic; something like 70 million people died and many more than that were injured, orphaned, traumatized, made homeless, or harmed in some other way. And there's no denying that things did NOT go the way Hitler planned or hoped: so probably not a smart choice.
Hitler's "stupidity" wasn't a lack of brain power; it was the kind of stupid that has its roots in emotional damage. Bad choices, warped views, too much action based on old feelings being expressed towards things in the present, and so on. Just my opinion, of course.
What would have happened, had Operation Barbarossa commenced 2 months earlier, as had been the plan?
No one knows, because that's not when the invasion was launched. Two months earlier certainly would have given the Germans more time before the notorious Russian winter got into full swing. But that's not when Hitler chose to go.
And of course the invasion turned a friend and ally into an enemy: the country with the largest land mass of any on Earth and with a huge population was now an implacable enemy with an endless supply of soldiers. As Stalin once pointed out, in reference to the relatively low-quality of most Soviet weapons compared to the finely machined guns (early in the war, at least) of the Germans: "Quantity has a quality all its own."
I don't see any reason to change my opinion of Hitler.
Well, I'll say this: Hitler did not deal with those who disagreed with him the way Trump does. Whatever else you can say about them, Hitler and his National Socialist regime were a tyranny of epic proportions, as were the other Axis powers -- including the Soviet Union, of course, which was a Hitler ally until Hitler stupidly launched Operation Barbarossa.
That's not to say Hitler wasn't fighting the ancient Money Powers and so on; just that none of us here would want to be living in Hitler's Germany (or Japan or Italy etc of the time).
During World War II, Hitler's Germany executed between 15,000 and 77,000 opponents of the regime. The Gestapo arrested and imprisoned up to 800,000 for political reasons. Almost everyone who ended up in its cellars was beaten and tortured.
https://theins.ru/en/history/259425
Also:
https://yandex.com/search/?text=The+White+Rose+resistance
https://search.brave.com/search?q=Soviet+Union+allied+with+Hitler+early+on
You might be right; I'm definitely seeing more of a disturbance among the normies with this Diddler event than when Weinstein got arrested. And the general background now is vibrating with all sorts of scandals and leaks and declass; people are far more distrustful of celebs and "the elite" than they were even a year or two ago, making it seem more likely that a big event like this one could initiate the avalanche.
They Live wasn't the massive commercial hit that the original Matrix was, but it's just as direct (if far less detailed and philosophical) about what's going on. It's a powerful red-pill -- all the moreso because screenwriter and director John Carpenter was, apparently, coming at this story from a left-wing viewpoint:
Carpenter has stated that the themes of They Live stemmed from his dissatisfaction with the economic policies of then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan, as well as what Carpenter saw as increasing commercialization in both popular culture and politics.[8]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Live
Excellent meme!
And my how rapidly the use of AI to gin up images like this has become normalized.