I wonder how many people shouting from the rooftops it's going to take for the rest of us to finally snap out of our materialistic stupors.

I often wonder how Hans Scholl dealt with such lethargy.

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Law Dictionary: Freedom The state of being free; the absence of restrictions. freedom of association the right to peaceably assemble as guaranteed by the First Amendment. freedom of expression general term referring to the freedom of press, religion, and speech. freedom of press the right to publish and circulate one's views, as guaranteed by the First Amendment. 167 A.L.R. 1447. Closely related to freedom of speech (below). See open court. freedom of religion see establishment clause. freedom of speech the right to express one's thoughts without governmental restrictions on the contents thereof, as guaranteed by the First Amendment. 333 U.S. 507, 509. Law Dictionary. Law Dictionary. Copyright © 2003 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved.

Authoritarianism by it's very nature is hardly conducive to personal freedom

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Authoritarianism Principle of unqualified submission to authority, as opposed to individual freedom of thought and action. As a political system, authoritarianism is antidemocratic in that political power is concentrated in a leader or small elite not constitutionally responsible to those governed. It differs from totalitarianism in that authoritarian governments usually lack a guiding ideology, tolerate some pluralism in social organization, lack the power to mobilize the whole population in pursuit of national goals, and exercise their power within relatively predictable limits. See also absolutism, dictatorship. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. © 2006 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. All rights reserved.

six forms of authoritarian rule

"The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought."

- George Orwell, 1984, Pg.193

Thank God that Larry P. McDonald knew what was going on.

Of course then he was killed.

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Congressman Larry McDonald takes on Pat Buchanan and Tom Braden on Crossfire as they badger him about his new role as Chairman of the John Birch Society. He easily handles them and answers questions concerning the Elite's Conspiracy for a One World Government

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Congressman Ron Paul U.S. House of Representatives June 27, 2002 In a free society, the government's job is simply to protect liberty- the people do the rest. Let's not give up on a grand experiment that has provided so much for so many. Let's reject the police state. http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/c...02/cr062702.htm

Talk about one world government, I started reading The Divine Comedy last night and found this in the introduction:

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"Dante's ideas have long been ridiculed as quixotic, yet history has seen a Declaration affirming man's right to ''the pursuit of happiness,'' the separation of Church and State, education secularized and rendered accessible to the public, while to many today the idea of peace and justice through a world government seems not so much chimerical as indispensable." - MacAllister, Archibald, T. Introduction. The Divine Comedy. By Dante Alighieri (John Ciardi, Trans.). New York: New American Library, 2003. pp 13.

After reading that, I'm beginning to think that maybe it's more than just a coincidence that they erected a statue of Dante in Washington, D.C.'s Meridian Hill Park