‘Tyranny Unmasked’ Archives
National Popular Vote is Bad Idea
U.S. CONSTITUTION, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Moving quietly without any publicity is a plan to change how U.S. Presidents are elected. It would bypass the procedure spelled out in the U.S. Constitution which has been used successfully for over two centuries. The Constitution prescribes how we elect our Presidents. It is a mirror image of the Great [...]
“Tippecanoe & Tyler too” and the FORGOTTEN Inaugural Address
American Minute with Bill Federer "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" was the campaign slogan of 9th President William Henry Harrison, born FEBRUARY 9, 1773. He was the first President to die in office, serving the shortest term of only 30 days. The son of Benjamin Harrison, a signer the Declaration of Independence, he was also the grandfather of [...]
Bill Before President Authorizes Spy Drones over U.S.
BIG BROTHER, NEWSROOM AMERICA The use of drones in skies over the United States would increase dramatically if a bill passed by Congress last week is signed into law by President Obama, as expected, giving pause to privacy advocates who say they could be used to spy on Americans. Besides paving the way for more use of unmmaned drones, the [...]
Reagan on Freedom v. Tyranny, Good v. Evil, God v. Atheism
American Minute with Bill Federer A graduate of Eureka College, IL, 1932, he announced for radio stations in Iowa. He married Jane Wyman and had children Maureen and Michael. He was a Captain in the U.S. Army Air Corp during World War II, then became an actor, appearing in over 50 films. He was President of the Screen Actors Guild, [...]
No “Constitutional Rights Issues” in Violating Religious Liberties?
White House doesn't get it Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, was asked about the recent announcement from HHS that religious institutions, such as religious schools and hospitals, would have to include abortifacient drugs, sterilization, and contraception in their [...]
CFPB Wields New Powers with Director
DIANE KATZ, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Within hours of Richard Cordray assuming the role of director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), agency officials began exercising their newly expanded powers. Their immediate target is all manner of “nonbank” financial services used by millions of households. While proponents contend that [...]
The American Panopticon
By Dennis Behreandt In 1787, philosopher and economist Jeremy Bentham proposed a new plan for a jail that would allow a very few officials to continuously monitor the inmates. He called his plan the panopticon. "The essence of it consists, then, in the centrality of the inspector's situation, combined with the well-known and most effectual [...]
Unconstitutional Recess Appointments
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama's latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was NOT in recess. He appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), plus Richard Cordray to head the newly created Consumer [...]
Stop Internet Censorship
TEXAS STRAIGHT TALK WITH RON PAUL Although Congress was back in session for scarcely more than a day last week, private citizens across the country managed to cause an uproar felt across Capitol Hill. The uproar took the form of hundreds of thousands of phone calls to both Senators and Representatives, urging them to oppose two draconian new [...]
Democrats Have Selective Memory
By Henry Lamb Democrats like to say: "The worst thing we could do is to go back to the very same policies that created this mess in the first place." They are absolutely correct; we do not ever want to see again the policies that created the current economic mess. But we will, if Obama is re-elected. Democrats want their audiences to believe [...]
Antalcidas Crushes Liberty by Deceit: Adams’ Defense No. 42
Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 42 Ancient Democratical Republics: ANTALCIDAS Dear Sir, IN the year 1774, a certain British officer, then at Boston, was often heard to say, "I wish I were Parliament: I would not send a ship or troop to this country; but would forthwith [...]
The Old Totalitarianism vs. the New Deceitful Kind
By Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #33 Still ON TARGET: October 20, 2000 Gus Hall, Arvo Kusta Halberg, was born in Virginia, Minnesota, in 1910, one of 10 children of Finnish immigrants. His father was a union organizer who headed the local chapter of the Communist Party. Minnesota's Mesaba Iron Range has plenty of good things, including [...]
Regarding Ancient Greek Tyrants, Modern Elites, & Manly Duty
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell Writing in his classic "A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States," regarding the Greek monarchy at Ithaca, American Founding Father John Adams observes: That the Grecian kings, claiming from Jupiter and supported by their auguries and bards, thought themselves absolute, and often punished the [...]
Muslims, Hindus, and Jews: Setting Ron Paul Straight
By Brad Fregger The question: Is Ron Paul ignorant about history or just ignoring the lessons of history because they don’t fit with his core belief system? It appears that his strong belief in individual freedom shapes his agenda to the point that he believes that countries, too, should be free to go about their business without the [...]
Defense Authorization Bill Still Savages the Constitution
By Dennis Behreandt Despite a tremendous, last-minute outcry from both sides of the political aisle, the U.S. Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 by a vote of 93 to 7 on December 1. Civil libertarians on both the left and the right opposed passage because the measure contained language allowing the [...]
Tyranny Unmasked: Defense Bill Will War Against Americans
By Steve Farrell It seems incredible, but Big Brother advocates in both parties, led by Senators John McCain (R-Ariz) and Carl Levin (D-MI), approved by a 61-37 vote (only two Republicans voted against it) a new Defense Authorization Act (see video link below) that empowers the President of the United States, or the U.S. Military, to arrest [...]
Useful Idiots
By Jack Kerwick The Occupy Wall Street movement appears to be growing. And it is growing ever more disruptive. From the losses suffered by many a small business to the desecration of property, from the destabilization of communities to violent clashes with law enforcement officers, the phenomenon simply known as “Occupy Wall Street” [...]
Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds vs. The Stewards of the Darby
by Diane Alden The NewsMax Years #31 Still ON TARGET: August 18, 2000 It is called by many names, including sustained development, eminent domain, ecosystem management, biodiversity, or whatever term du jour collectivists are using at the moment. By whatever name it is called, however, it is still a pagan utopian dream rooted in the [...]
OWS: The Revolutionaries, Their Plan and Liberty’s Last Stand
By Robert F Beaudine The “occupying” protests here in America have been characterized as spontaneous and leaderless. Protesters, politicians, and the mass media have compared it to the so-called spontaneous uprisings of the Arab Spring. In reality, neither has been spontaneous nor leaderless. The Arab Spring was planned years ago and then [...]
Walter Williams: Hoping the Goat Will Die
Tyranny Unmasked, Walter E. Williams When you recognize that celebrities earn salaries that are some multiples of CEO salaries, you have to ask: Why is it that rich CEOs are demonized and not celebrities? A clue might be found if you asked: Who's doing the demonizing? It turns out that the demonizing is led by politicians and leftists with the [...]
Jose Ortega y Gasset on Bolshevism and Fascism
Daily Dabble in the Classics/Tyranny Unmasked, José Ortega y Gasset Both Bolshevism and Fascism are two false dawns; they do not bring the morning of a new day, but of some archaic day, spent over and over again: they are mere primitivism. And such will all movements be which fall into the stupidity of starting a boxing-match with some portion [...]
Rousseau on Keeping Up Appearances
Tyranny Unmasked, Jean Jacques Rousseau Let believe that he is always in control, though it is always you who really controls. There is no subjugation so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom, for in that way one captures volition itself.... Source: Jean Jacques Rousseau. "Emile," 1762.
Karl Marx’s Ten Planks to “Win the Battle of Democracy”
Tyranny Unmasked, Karl Marx: 1848 We have seen ... that the first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of [...]
A Decade Later: Now What?
By Dennis Behreandt Everyone who can has been pontificating on the meaning of 9/11 during the last week. Establishment types, led by the likes of John Yoo, have been claiming that the Bush years were amazingly successful. We beat back the barbarian terrorists without sacrificing our open society too much, they claim. “easonable [...]
China Plans to Legalize Disappearances
By Dennis Behreandt The extrajudicial disappearance of Ai WeiWei, China's most famous artist and architect, reminded the world that the Chinese communist police state apparatus is alive and well. As a result, it brought intense international criticism down on the regime in Beijing. Ultimately, Ai WeiWei was released. But instead of reforming [...]
Karl Marx Defines Political Power
Tyranny Unmasked, Karl Marx Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. Source: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
Barack Obama: Administrator
By Henry Lamb Edward Mandel House wrote a terrible novel titled “Philip Dru: Administrator.” The book is a vision of how House believed government should operate. As Woodrow Wilson’s “alter-ego,” he did everything he could to bring about his vision during Wilson’s Presidency, including the design and creation of the League of [...]
A Commandment to the Early Missionaries
Christopher S. Bentley, Intro to Hidden Things of Darkness: An Expose of the Enemies of Christ (cont.) Some ten months after the Church was organized through the instrumentality of the Prophet Joseph Smith, he received a revelation known as “the law” of the Church (D&C 42:2). In that revelation, the Lord first set forth the manner in [...]
Hidden Things of Darkness: An Expose of the Enemies of Christ
By Christopher S. Bentley Introduction to Hidden Things of Darkness: An Expose of the Enemies of Christ Keeping All Of The Commandments “Who am I that made man, saith the Lord, that will hold him guiltless that obeys not my commandments?” --D&C 58:30 Obedience to God’s Commandments The importance of obedience to God’s [...]
The Myth of Global Warming
A primer on the myth of global warming and the international forces behind it. By Robert F. Beaudine In 1908, an amateur archaeologist discovered old bones in a gravel pit in England. In 1912, the scientific community trumpeted this evidence, called Piltdown man, as the missing link between man and apes, proving that Darwin’s theory [...]
Juries: A Double Edged Sword
Tyranny Unmasked with Steven Montgomery A short history of the right of a jury to decide matters of law as well as fact. And the obligation that rests upon society to apply this right properly. According to well established Common Law, man's law which violated natural law or God's law was null and void. And, according to the Founders, two [...]
The Sole Aim of Alliances with the West
Tyranny Unmasked with Steve Farrell Josip Broz Tito, former Secretary-General (later President) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939–80), one of the founders of the Cominform, and the Prime Minister and later President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, (1) revealed this about the so-called WWII 'alliance' between the [...]
Without Return to Gold: Fight Against Socialism Is Futile
Tyranny Unmasked, Professor Walter E. Spahr It should not be surprising that apparently all who would socialize our economy are opposed to the restoration of a redeemable currency in the United States. Either because they understand the relationship between an irredeemable currency and the processes of socialization or because they simply note [...]
Monetary Treason: No Subtler, No Surer Means
Tyranny Unmasked with Steve Farrell For too many years, both Republicans and Democrats have flippantly stated regarding the national debt and the debasing of our currency through monetization of that debt, "We owe it to ourselves!" No, 'We owe, we owe, we owe! ... as will our children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren! ... if this [...]
The Real Internationalist
Tyranny Unmasked with Steve Farrell Here's the real problem with internationalism or Internationalists, the problem the novice or the willfully blind does not know or care to know; or the sympathizer and the dedicated propagandist will not say they know; but which an open, dedicated Communist, or men like P.E. Vyshinsky, occasionally will [...]
Comrade to Comrade About Spontaneous Revolutions
Tyranny Unmasked with Steve Farrell As we contemplate what the media and "experts" are calling a "spontaneous revolution" occurring throughout the Middle East, a little honest insiders insight from comrade to comrade by Vladimir Lenin might take our minds on a different turn. Quoting from Lenin's 1902 work "What Is to Be Done," we read in [...]
Cool, Calm, Scientific Revolutionaries In Spectacles
Tyranny Unmasked, Garet Garrett In the naive American mind the word revolution had never grown up. The meaning of it had not changed since horse-and-buggy days, when Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles." It called up scenes from Carlyle and Victor Hugo, or it meant killing the Czar with a bomb, as he may [...]
The Intellectual Revolutionaries of 1932
Tyranny Unmasked, 1953, Garet Garrett The damage to the foundations might have been much slower and not beyond simple repair if it had not happened that in 1932 a band of intellectual revolutionaries, hiding behind the conservative planks of the Democratic party, seized control of government. After that it was the voice of government saying [...]
The Economic Crimes of Government: Behreandt
By Dennis Behreandt There are many ways in which governments can become dangerous to, or even the enemy of, the people. Some of them are quite overt and easy to identify. Others are a bit more circumspect. One of these is economic in nature: undermining the independence of the bulk of a nation’s people by using either fiscal or monetary [...]
Government and the Black Plague of the 20th Century
By Dennis Behreandt People seem infatuated with the “miracle” of government, and their infatuation grows if their government calls itself a “democracy.” As a result of their infatuation, people far too often believe romantic notions about its benevolence. In the United States, the last two years have seen high-profile examples of [...]
The Abolition of the Family!
Tyranny Unmasked, 1848, Karl Marx Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists. On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds [...]
Education Should Be Universal and Compulsory
Tyranny Unmasked, 1919, Nikolai Bukharin Before anything else, it is necessary to make education universal and compulsory. Under the new organization of life, on new foundations, it will be necessary for those young in years to become accustomed to useful labor. The pupils in the schools must therefore become accustomed to various kinds of [...]
What Are the Origins of May Day? Rosa Luxemberg
Tyranny Unmasked, 1894, Rosa Luxemberg The happy idea of using a proletarian holiday celebration as a means to attain the eight-hour day was first born in Australia. The workers there decided in 1856 to organize a day of complete stoppage together with meetings and entertainment as a demonstration in favor of the eight-hour day. The day of [...]
Wisconsin Labor Unions and the Marxist Fallacy of Surplus Value: Behreandt
By Dennis Behreandt Tens of thousands of state employees gathered at the Wisconsin capitol in Madison in mid-February to protest budget cuts and restrictions on collective bargaining “rights” in a bill proposed by Republican Governor Scott Walker and supported by Republican lawmakers holding an elected majority in both the state Assembly [...]
Spontaneous? I Think Not
by Steve Farrell From the mouth of university professors, U.S. State Department officials, and the media we repeatedly hear the mantra that socialist and communist revolutions are brought about by "the spontaneous actions of oppressed peoples." In one sense, there is nothing false about this; that is in the only sense possible, that Marx and [...]
Mask Our Atheism as Philosophy: Karl Marx
Tyranny Unmasked, Karl Marx, 1842 ... religion in itself is without content, it owes its being not to heaven but to the earth, and with the abolition of distorted reality, of which it is the theory, it will collapse of itself. Finally, I desired that, if there is to be talk about philosophy, there should be less trifling with the label [...]
Two Ideologies Only; Third Ways Formulated By Communists
Tyranny Unmasked, Vladimir Lenin Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology formulated by the working masses themselves in the process of their movement, the only choice is – either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle course (for mankind has not created a “third” ideology). (This does not mean, of course, that [...]
Life is a Corrupting Process
Tyranny Unmasked, Saul Alinsky Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruptions fears life. ________________________ Source: Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals," as quoted in Barbara Olson's "Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of [...]
Breaking Down National Barriers
Tyranny Unmasked, Vladimir Lenin The development of capitalism, however, breaks down national barriers more and more, does away with national seclusion, and substitutes class antagonisms for national antagonism. It is, therefore, perfectly true of the developed capitalist countries that “the workingmen have no country” and that “united [...]
Ideas and Guns are Dangerous Things
Tyranny Unmasked, Joseph Stalin "Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas." So said Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (1878 – 1953) served as the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in [...]
