The Stranglers-- "Always The Sun"...

'When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men,
they create for themselves, in the course of time,
a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.'
Frederic Bastiat, 'The Law'
1850

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"The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
JohnSwinton, 1830-1901, Former chief-of-staff New York Times
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"The bold effort the present bank has made to control the Government, the distress it has wantonly produced ... are but premonitions of the fate that awaits the American People should they be deluded into a perpetuation of this institution (The Bank of the United States), or the establishment of another like it." Andrew Jackson (December 2, 1834)

"I'm the bride at every funeral, I'm the corpse at every wedding..." --Brother Theodore
... and don't blame me-- I voted for Bob Barr in 2008.
Only COWARDS hide behind anonymous Karma.

"I'm the bride at every funeral, I'm the corpse at every wedding..." --Brother Theodore
... and don't blame me-- I voted for Bob Barr in 2008.
Only COWARDS hide behind anonymous Karma.