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New Guy- Hello
#1
Hi, all.
I am pleased I found this forum. I have spent the last year sort of wandering in the wilderness…I used to have a podcast on iTunes that was very popular among “small ‘L’ libertarians.” Those are the folks who are idealogues about freedom, personal ownership and are basically anarchists in the best sense of the word. I still see myself as one of them, and I have learned to reconcile that with my increasing revulsion for the political process. My podcast was called “Radio Free Liberty”. I used the psuedonym Cato Craft. It’s still out there (thanks to my loving daughter who keeps renewing the domain…I would have scrapped it some time back) at www.radiofreeliberty.com .

The thing is, almost everything I said was predicated on the idea that we can change things through the political process…I thought that if enough of us who believe in freedom got together and voted the right way, we could bring this country back to where it belongs. Stupidly, I thought that the only thing between us and our freedom was a majority at the polls. But my disillusionment with politics becomes almost palpable in the later episodes. I began to realize that you can vote yourself free about as well as you can spend yourself rich.

I stopped my podcast abruptly after I realized that politics is NOT an option. I did a program on WTC 7. It was the first time I had learned of the collapse of the “Third Tower” and the implications it leads to. Boy, did I get blasted. I can’t understand how so many of my “libertarian” listeners who seemed to have such a deep distrust of government could possibly have such an angry reaction to my questioning of the Government’s position on 9-11. I got emails accusing me of offending the victim’s families, of being duped by “conspiracy theorists”, and of just being an idiot. I had lots of folks pull their funding of my podcast…people who readily accepted my position on free markets, government lunacy,Homeland Security, and the fact that we are on our own in this world.

Well, now I know…my listeners were not interested in the truth. Most of them wanted to be reinforced in a paradigm of a world that allowed them to believe that votes count and public servants try to do the right thing. And if they are presented with irrefutable facts that blow away that paradigm, their reaction is to try to destroy the messenger.
So what now? I don’t know…other than to continue to try to promote the truth. Thanks to you all for what you are doing. I will enjoy hanging out here and learning everything I can. I hope to actually contribute some day.

Best,
Bruce (Cato)
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#2
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. --Arthur Schopenhauer


The Greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. --Stephen Hawking


Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. --Rev. Denny Brake


He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. --Tryon Edwards


There are two ways to be fooled: One is to believe what isn't so; the other is to refuse to believe what is so. --Soren Kierkegaard


etc.etc.etc.
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#3
Welcome Bruce! I'm really pleased also that you have found us. There is lots to read and learn about here and some great members too and we look forward to your posts.

We have all gone through a similar process of disillusionment and enlightenment at some point in our travels and once through that doorway there is no going back to Pollyannaland. But truth is liberating in a way that illusions are not. 9/11 is something of a litmus test for many. I know I don't have the answers myself but I sure know that the official fairytale is not the whole story by a long shot.
"The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." Karl Marx

"He would, wouldn't he?" Mandy Rice-Davies. When asked in court whether she knew that Lord Astor had denied having sex with her.

“I think it would be a good idea” Ghandi, when asked about Western Civilisation.
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#4
Welcome Bruce

I'm new here too. Lurked for a while and noted that there are some seriously committed and very knowledgeable people posting - committed to unearthing the realities behind the shallow, simplistic theatre of 'for public consumption' politics that is - so I joined.
Peter Presland

".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn

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#5
A hearty welcome also Bruce.

It's a frighteningly dirty and corrupt world out there and whether you view it with eyes fully open or wide shut doesn't change that fact one jot.

But it does make it easier to govern if more eyes remain wide shut than fully open.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14
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#6
Welcome Bruce. Thank you for joining us and for introducing yourself. Refusing to recoil from the truth is very isolating. I feel like this forum, in addition to facilitating the sharing of information and research, can help alleviate that isolation.

We're a young forum and I feel confident that we'll continue to progress. Especially if we keep attracting new members like you.

Myra
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