"For this future emancipation, we have to rule out ideologies that aim at reinforcing the state, the police and controls in general, and at reducing liberty."
by:
André Thirion
(1907-2001) French writer, member of the group of surrealists, theorist and political activist
Source:
Éloge de l'indocilité (Paris: Laffont, 1973), p. 326
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 -- Anonymous      
We have to rid ourselves of "ism's". All of them!
 -- J Carlton, Calgary     
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    I agree with that! We must also rule out the current form of funding politicians coffers - there lies the greed and corruption that's got us into this mess.
     -- RBESRQ     
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    As you reduce the power of government you will also reduce the corporate bribery/political extortion. There is no evil that does not concentrate with power and the only way to diffuse the greed and corruption is to take away the power to be greedy and corrupt. More government regulation will never eliminate the bribery and blackmail, it only gives it the opportunity to flourish and the incestuous relationship between government and corporate interests to develop. I thought the left's motto was supposed to be "Power to the People". D's and R's have both demonstrated they don't want the individual to have power. They want it for themselves and they're determined to keep it. If only we'd neuter the politicians, we might find out what freedom is really like. "Free at last! Thank God Almighty! We're free at last."
     -- Ken, Allyn, WA     
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     -- Elisabeth, Astoria      
    YES! Interesting how politicians propose the exact opposite...
     -- E Archer, NYC     
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    The next emancipation will have to come at a greater cost than earlier efforts. Beyond police state enforcements, and religious ideologies (progressivism, socialism, etc.), the occupying statist theocracy infesting this land has purchased the vast majority of helots, serfs and slave through their dole and otherwise entitlements (such inferiors do not know what liberty is while, they are afraid of it and do not want it).
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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     -- jim k, Austin      
    This statement is uncoordinated. We must reinforce the state with reinforcing moral behavior.  The police must be motivated in terms of law abiding behavior. The pyramid or life must be reinforced with a well run state, starting with the the national state at the lower levels of sophistication and culminating in the universal state of developmental immensely advanced sophistication.

     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, Happy April 1st, the theocratic socialists' high and holy day. Of course it is uncoordinated from your perspective (you are all about coordinating the police state as the omnipotent god). In a unity of free people, there is no law to enforce (can one enforce gravity, math, murder or theft? — NO!) Tyranny may be enforced by a well run State — immensely advanced in sophistries. 
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, greetings and salutations. Its interesting and a little frightening that you can categorize natural processes such as gravity, math with clearly unnatural processes of murder, theft.  Whatever the insinuation, this categorized association would get you a lengthy stay in a mental ward in a just world. Good day. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create mental health.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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    Sillik, I smile, almost audibly, while shaking my lowered head. I know how you do NOT like accepting reality on its own terms and your need to change definitions of words and concepts attempts to alter reality BUT, it is what it is — in fact, it is a form of mental illness / disorder to think socialism is anything but antithetical to mental health.
     -- Mike, Norwalk     
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    Mike, Norwalk, reality, you want reality? Gravity speed=light speed in a vacuum. 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+4=8. Murder is a destructive mental, but alterable, disorder. Theft is a destructive mental, but alterable, disorder. Socialism is the challenge of social abilities to create reality.
     -- Fredrick William Sillik, Anytown     
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