הערה: לא ראיתי כ”כ לפני ואחרי. הקורא מוזמן לבדוק יותר במקור.
Whisperers in the ears of the regime (most memorably, N.Y.T.-wits) often advise “mixing concessions with force”.
But when a ruler is told of the wonders of benevolent dictatorship, he doesn’t hear what you and I do. All he hears is this: “BE a dictator, and also TALK about benevolence.”
The ignored half of the NYPD “Broken Windows” theory was to build up relationships with the community leaders blah blah. There’s a reason the other half was ignored, and you don’t need to be a psychologist to figure it out.
You have the same problem with Keynesianism. See, officially speaking, both perfectly wise and perfectly politically-independent (impartial) central bankers ought to either prudently contract or judiciously expand credit to alternately balance out the market’s “irrational” overspending and underspending. Let’s put aside the bonkers logic and the historical fact this crackpot “theory” was created to retroactively justify what Western governments had already decided and begun to do (and more).
The important point for today’s lesson, Boys and Girls, is that only half of the equation is ever obeyed, and you can probably guess which half, all by yourself (funnily enough, the court economists themselves never comment on this curiosity).
Shocking, I know…
Dr. Murray Rothbard rides to the rescue (bolding added):
In the deepest sense, then, the libertarian doctrine is not utopian but eminently realistic, because it is the only theory that is really consistent with the nature of man and the world. The libertarian does not deny the variety and diversity of man, he glories in it and seeks to give that diversity full expression in a world of complete freedom. And in doing so, he also brings about an enormous increase in productivity and in the living standards of everyone, an eminently “practical” result generally scorned by true utopians as evil “materialism.”
The libertarian is also eminently realistic because he alone understands fully the nature of the State and its thrust for power. In contrast, it is the seemingly far more realistic conservative believer in “limited government” who is the truly impractical utopian. This conservative keeps repeating the litany that the central government should be severely limited by a constitution. Yet, at the same time that he rails against the corruption of the original Constitution and the widening of federal power since 1789, the conservative fails to draw the proper lesson from that degeneration.
The idea of a strictly limited constitutional State was a noble experiment that failed, even under the most favorable and propitious circumstances. If it failed then, why should a similar experiment fare any better now? No, it is the conservative laissez-fairist, the man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, “Limit yourself”; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
An inbuilt problem with violent crime — for the criminals themselves! — says the Book of Proverbs, is robbers think they can get a “free lunch”, as do birds eyeing “free” bird feed in a net laid out for them (Proverbs 1:17). They are psychologically incapable of “quitting while ahead” up until they “spill their own blood” (Proverbs 1:18 per Rashi and other commentators).
(If you think government = systemized, socially acceptable violent crime, you may be on to something.)
In fact, anti-communists may get angry at this, but there is some truth in the oft-heard apologia of True Communism never having been tried. No, even if handled by angels, commies would still have the Misesian “Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth” problem, among many others (not to mention it still being unjust, etc.). But the more salient point is, we need a social system custom-built for people, not angels.
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חברת הכנסת מהליכוד, טלי גוטליב, תקפה את ניצב בדימוס יואב סגלוביץ’ מיש עתיד, לאחר שהעיר בכנסת בנוגע לכתבי האישום ולמשפט המתנהל נגד רה”מ בנימין נתניהו: “אוי לבן אדם שסימנתם, יש לכם כוח בלתי מבוקר”
“אתה יודע בתור שוטר איך אתם יודעים לתפור תיקים אם אתם רק רוצים – יש לכם כוח בלתי מרוסן, בלתי מבוקר, כשאתם מסמנים מטרה – אוי לבן אדם שסימנתם”. כך אמרה @TallyGotliv ל-@YSegalovitz שהשיב לה בציניות: “וואו, וואו, מדהים!”@ariyederi @Dovrut_Police @IL_police @10elilevi pic.twitter.com/3k0FU5Vnil
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“אתה יודע בתור שוטר איך אתם יודעים לתפור תיקים אם אתם רק רוצים – יש לכם כוח בלתי מרוסן, בלתי מבוקר, כשאתם מסמנים מטרה – אוי לבן אדם שסימנתם”, תקפה גוטליב.
While we were not watching, conspiracy theory has undergone Orwellian redefinition.
A “conspiracy theory” no longer means an event explained by a conspiracy. Instead, it now means any explanation, or even a fact, that is out of step with the government’s explanation and that of its media pimps.
For example, online news broadcasts of RT have been equated with conspiracy theories by the New York Times simply because RT reports news and opinions that the New York Times does not report and the US government does not endorse.
In other words, as truth becomes uncomfortable for government and its Ministry of Propaganda, truth is redefined as conspiracy theory, by which is meant an absurd and laughable explanation that we should ignore.
When piles of carefully researched books, released government documents, and testimony of eye witnesses made it clear that Oswald was not President John F. Kennedy’s assassin, the voluminous research, government documents, and verified testimony was dismissed as “conspiracy theory.”
In other words, the truth of the event was unacceptable to the authorities and to the Ministry of Propaganda that represents the interests of authorities.
The purest example of how Americans are shielded from truth is the media’s (including many Internet sites’) response to the large number of professionals who find the official explanation of September 11, 2001, inconsistent with everything they, as experts, know about physics, chemistry, structural engineering, architecture, fires, structural damage, the piloting of airplanes, the security procedures of the United States, NORAD’s capabilities, air traffic control, airport security, and other matters. These experts, numbering in the thousands, have been shouted down by know-nothings in the media who brand the experts as “conspiracy theorists.”
This despite the fact that the official explanation endorsed by the official media is the most extravagant conspiracy theory in human history.
Let’s take a minute to re-acquaint ourselves with the official explanation, which is not regarded as a conspiracy theory despite the fact that it comprises an amazing conspiracy. The official truth is that a handful of young Muslim Arabs who could not fly airplanes, mainly Saudi Arabians who came neither from Iraq nor from Afghanistan, outwitted not only the CIA and the FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and all intelligence agencies of US allies including Israel’s Mossad, which is believed to have penetrated every terrorist organization and which carries out assassinations of those whom Mossad marks as terrorists.
In addition to outwitting every intelligence agency of the United States and its allies, the handful of young Saudi Arabians outwitted the National Security Council, the State Department, NORAD, airport security four times in the same hour on the same morning, air traffic control, caused the US Air Force to be unable to launch interceptor aircraft, and caused three well-built steel-structured buildings, including one not hit by an airplane, to fail suddenly in a few seconds as a result of limited structural damage and small, short-lived, low-temperature fires that burned on a few floors.
The Saudi terrorists were even able to confound the laws of physics and cause WTC building seven to collapse at free fall speed for several seconds, a physical impossibility in the absence of explosives used in controlled demolition.
The story that the government and the media have told us amounts to a gigantic conspiracy, really a script for a James Bond film. Yet, anyone who doubts this improbable conspiracy theory is defined into irrelevance by the obedient media.
Anyone who believes an architect, structural engineer, or demolition expert who says that the videos show that the buildings are blowing up, not falling down, anyone who believes a Ph.D. physicist who says that the official explanation is inconsistent with known laws of physics, anyone who believes expert pilots who testify that non-pilots or poorly-qualified pilots cannot fly airplanes in such maneuvers, anyone who believes the 100 or more first responders who testify that they not only heard explosions in the towers but personally experienced explosions, anyone who believes University of Copenhagen nano-chemist Niels Harrit who reports finding unreacted nano-thermite in dust samples from the WTC towers, anyone who is convinced by experts instead of by propaganda is dismissed as a kook.
In America today, and increasingly throughout the Western world, actual facts and true explanations have been relegated to the realm of kookiness. Only people who believe lies are socially approved and accepted as patriotic citizens.
Indeed, a writer or newscaster is not even permitted to report the findings of 9/11 skeptics. In other words, simply to report Professor Harrit’s findings now means that you endorse them or agree with them. Everyone in the US print and TV media knows that he/she will be instantly fired if they report Harrit’s findings, even with a laugh. Thus, although Harrit has reported his findings on European television and has lectured widely on his findings in Canadian universities, the fact that he and the international scientific research team that he led found unreacted nano-thermite in the WTC dust and have offered samples to other scientists to examine has to my knowledge never been reported in the American media.
From Global Research, here.