-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 01/23/2016 10:41 AM, Rayzer wrote:
rysiek wrote:
It's cute how some think that power only corrupts and brings out evil in people if it happens to have a form of a government agency; and conversely, that no good can ever come from a government agency.
Power corrupts whenever people have unchecked power. Wether or not it is private sector, mafia, government, or civil society, if it has enough power, it *will* corrupt people.
"It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced - in a word, insane." "Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible." - Frank Herbert Our Mr. Herbert was deep into ecology - including what the think tank boys and PsyOps shops call 'human ecology.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert#Ideas_and_themes =================================== Recommended reading: =================================== National Security and Double Government, Michael J. Glennon "U.S. national security policy is defined by the network of executive officials who manage the departments and agencies responsible for protecting U.S. national security and who, responding to structural incentives embedded in the U.S. political system, operate largely removed from public view and from constitutional constraints." Full text, 114 pages: http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf =================================== Rogue Agents, David Teacher A history of what could be termed "The New Right" in NATO block covert influence operations from the Cold War through the 1970s. This quote might influence present company toward reading it: "In February 1959, Van den Heuvel led a study group to America to visit the Society for the Investigation of Human Ecology, a CIA front group founded in 1955 which changed name in 1961 to become the Human Ecology Fund, "human ecology" being at the time the official euphemism for psychological warfare and deprogramming. Both American organisations were funding conduits for the CIA's MK-ULTRA programme of research into mind control and brainwashing (32)." PDF, 564 pgs, most of it in source doc annexes https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Rogue_Agents =================================== Attacking Faulty Reasoning, T. Richard Damer Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. - Samuel Clemens "Good arguments play a particularly important role in helping us to make difficult moral decisions. Not only do they help us to decide what positive action to take but also to avoid actions with harmful con- sequences. False beliefs, to which faulty reasoning often leads, blur our moral vision and often result in actions that cause considerable harm to others. Since we are all re- sponsible for the consequences of our actions, it is incumbent on us to base our beliefs and decisions on the conclusions of good arguments." 257 pgs. Buy online, or inquire with Textbook Liberation and/or your Postman =================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWpUc9AAoJEDZ0Gg87KR0LvLsP/jswCA+us0tLkwNuZ40m9bMf Yt2i9tx7z9kz8e5RDrPK9akpWll0lKcTsT6JuzA6xuN89oD+1EopgkpMifNxldoc sM1Q84byzsW2gv20HN0NGRXkv52DoXeEPCFySuEdv+Qgo+CJDElWuAqdkzVKfR1W jkl0fKKNAeB8IWxGEpj1agpEZtIv3CqYQZzJXyTx/EdbHHi802KQozwYKFk9PjSz zVtxqo0dsH6pWrzfqHEjKY7fKU9ne/+WOGRWYn74WNMKI8B/lMJBRhlH1uCeRNVt X5eY8XY6oQ2FDnugwX4ulTFvRpb98s3Il5r5slvuH7sCRXfJNtEz02x7yWCiTZsf CSDva+ABRJ50Z4PLmf1tiJHjlaAbCF+5a3dgRG3EZ51bMUMLeCb21BPQqcLHUcJ4 N1U3ebmB+w0rRkE1vBy8+J4ZBItxgDKevM2T+tfiK3UzKtzRFEQCI2Us/AdBK8/K 7Z8SzBVHyQ0hywYefRG/3EzB+I4scKcA1fAhVR6lpxgZG2bvOEwI7kfu5p2DnvVc AK8cVXMV8cbh6DGGIUog+djDxk3zWGlvTSfgSiUULW51aemg4WXvcvAozy0cyuzc NKcvrr0M3SMCRiFKYQGhYZxVotr4JL/FWrjvAglXKlz7WHfj9b3tRSbjXWRrctRi Wx4U3wBvO/wxGoWrJ/TA =D3c6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----