Mike Rivero on Activism and Justice
Michael Rivero is the news aggregator at whatreallyhappened.com
- The discouraging thing about opposing war is that there is never going to be a time when you can say you have succeeded, only those horrible times when you know you have failed.
- The good must find the courage to do right, because the bad always find the courage to do evil!
- One should not wave the flag so furiously before ones face that it becomes a blindfold!
- We do not seek revenge. But neither must it be forgotten that there is a great deal of deterrent effect in a basket full of severed heads!
- Voting for the lesser of two evils is still evil, and a damned stupid way to run a country.
- This revolution will not be won with guns. This revolution is being won with keyboards.
- Let's say there is a pizza joint and a taco stand right across the street from each other. Every day after work the people who like pizza eat at the pizza joint and the people who like tacos eat at the taco stand.--But let's say that while you are sitting enjoying your pizza someone walks in through the door and starts complaining about pizzas and extolling the virtues of tacos. --Has that ever really happened to you? Of course not. --Would you be very suspicious of the motives of a professed taco lover standing in the middle of your pizza joint insulting pizza eaters? --Probably. --Would you suspect that the professed taco lover standing in the middle of your pizza joint insulting pizza eaters is secretly working for the taco stand?--Definitely.-- This is how we spot the paid infiltrators in our blogs.
- We cannot spend so much time worrying about whether we are discriminating against others to the point where we fail to see that we ourselves are being discriminated against!
- We have a political system that awards office to the most ruthless, cunning, and selfish of mortals, then act surprised when those willing to do anything to win power are equally willing to do anything with it.
- The US government uses torture but says I can't use bad words on the radio, to prove we are a just and moral nation!
- The right of free speech, the right of free thought, the right to retain the fruits of one’s own labors, and the right to say 'no'. We call these human rights not because they are the rights of humans, but because without these rights, one cannot be a human. Without rights, you are property, you are chattel, you are a slave!
- The purpose of the Second Amendment is to reserve to the people arms identical to those held by the government. The reason to have a population armed with military weapons is not to shoot back at the government but do discourage the government from starting to shoot in the first place.
- There is more to being a patriot than simply killing on demand.
- There is no freedom without the freedom to say 'no'.
- There is no pretence about it; the purpose of the Second Amendment is to allow the people to kill as many of the government as the government kills of We The People.
- There is no racism in America. The government treats everybody as if they are a Muslim terrorist!
- The fastest way to bring down a dictatorship is to force it to act like one where everyone can see it!
- The least corrupt governments in history are those who spend their first day in office cleaning their predecessors' blood stains out of the carpets.
- The first lie of banking, religion, and government is that one cannot live without them.
- The enemy of the Constitution is my enemy.
- The downfall of every society starts when promises to the poor are deemed less binding than promises to the rich.
- The downfall of humanity came when individual humans stopped deciding for themselves the difference between right and wrong and allowed others, such as religious leaders and governments, to do it for them. The result has been endless wars, slavery, and human suffering. Maybe it is time to stop letting these others tell us what is right and wrong and go back to deciding for ourselves.
- We live in an age where the government punishes innocent people and calls it "Security." I call it "Persecution", like when the Nazis refused to allow certain people to travel because of their names.
- The common man's patriot is the tyrant's traitor.
- The curse of our society is that we have way too many people whose only sense of self-value is that they can find something to be offended by. But there is and never has been any guarantee that you will not be offended and in a society that values free speech, one must accept things that one finds offensive as the price one pays to say things that others may find offensive.
- The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are only as strong as We The People are willing to make them be.
- The Constitution was intended to free the people by enslaving the government to the people.
- Terrorists are just Freedom Fighters pointed back at us.
- That history is uncomfortable does not stop it from being history.
- The 12th Commandment: Those who favour war must fight it themselves.
- In a free society, all is allowed unless explicitly prohibited by the government. In a slave society, all is forbidden unless explicitly authorized by the government.
- The biggest government conspiracy of all is the claim that there are no government conspiracies!
- Suing gun makers for gun crime is like suing the Boeing Aircraft Corporation for 9-11.
- Supporting government when it is wrong is not the duty of a citizen but of a slave.
- Taser: Police brutality with all the modern improvements!
- Sociopaths are born with the essence of barbarism. Sadly, it is contagious to the masses.
- 'Revolution' is not a four-letter word!
- Revolutions are not against governments so much as they are against the baser nature of the humans within that government.
- Part of the skill of rousing the rabble is knowing what the rabble are ready to listen to and what they are not.
- People with money can be controlled by those with the power to take that money away. People without money are free to be courageous, moral, and just.
- One does not start a successful revolution by trying to create one. One must hold back the push for revolution until the public demand for revolution is so great that it cannot be stopped by anyone
- Obama gave military weapons to ISIS and Al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq, and also to Mexican drug criminals through the "Fast and Furious" gunwalking program, but think law-abiding American citizens should be disarmed, and defend their homes by calling for the police, who can take anywhere from 15-22 minutes to respond to a 911 call, steal more from the American people than criminals do using civil forfeiture laws, and after being trained by Israel, murdered more innocent Americans last year than terrorists and mass shooters combined! --What is wrong with this picture?
- Most people prefer to believe their leaders are just and fair even in the face of evidence to the contrary, because once a citizen acknowledges that the government under which they live is lying and corrupt, the citizen has to choose what he or she will do about it. To take action in the face of a corrupt government entails risks of harm to life and loved ones. To choose to do nothing is to surrender one's self-image of standing for principles. Most people do not have the courage to face that choice. Hence, most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at all.
- Joining a party is a great way to feel involved with politics without actually investing the careful thought the process actaully requires.
- Keeping people confused and unsure about who they are is essential to removing resistance to tyranny. Every dictator in history has played that same game!
- It is not the duty of a patriotic American to listen to the government's lies. It is the duty of a patriotic American to listen to the government's lies, and shout 'BULLSHIT' at the top of their lungs!
- It is the very nature of power that it attracts the very sort of people who should not have it. The United States, as the world's last superpower, is a prize that attracts men and women willing to do anything to win that power, and hence are willing to do anything with it once they have it. It is racist to assume that tyrants appear only in other nations and that somehow America is immune simply because we're Americans. America has escaped the clutches of a dictatorship only through the efforts of those citizens who, unlike the Germans and Russians of the 1930s, have the moral courage to stand up and point out where the government is lying to the people.
- I was planning to vote anarchist, but they don't seem to have any candidates.
- I will have a truthful government, or I will have no government at all.
- I am not here to make friends. I am here to set humankind free. I realize that is a loss for those who need and take pride in their chains, but slavery has never set well with me."
- I am opposed to violence. Violence only helps the tyrant justify more oppressive crackdowns. On the other hand, making the tyrant think you might just disagree with me on this matter can be a powerful motivator!
- If we are going to be forced to fight, we have the right to choose for ourselves who the enemy is.
- If we do not choose to fight against the warmongers now, we will soon have no choice but to fight for them from now on!
- If you do not choose to fight against the dictator now, you will soon have no choice but to fight for him from now on!
- In times past, women led the protests against wars. Mother's Day was originally an anti-war statement. The militant "All Men Are Rapists" feminism of the 1990s was created to trick all women into hating all men; to destroy any sympathy by women for men, to make it easier for the government to send men off to die by the thousands in the wars we see before us today.
- I think every member of the US Government who is a 'friend of Israel' ought to be loaded onto a plane and flown there non-stop, one-way, and never allowed back. America needs leaders who put America first, second, and third.
- I don't understand why we still celebrate the 4th of July. We are no longer independent, and they won't let us play with high explosives!
- I can think of no human activity more pointless than to murder each other over myths and legends.
- In a corrupt society, only the corrupt prosper!
- In a free society, only actions are crimes. In a slave society, thoughts and words are crimes.
- I never vote. It only seems to encourage the bastards!
- In the age of the internet, a single human can change the future.
- In the age of the internet, the average life expectancy of a government lie can be clocked with an egg timer!
- Greatness is too often purchased with blood.
- History would be a lot more fun if we didn't have to kill so many people making it!
- Free people can say 'no'. Free people can refuse demands for their money, time, and children. Slaves cannot. There is no freedom without the freedom to say 'no'. If someone demands that you do something and you can say 'no' and refuse to do it, then you are a free human being. If you can be forced to do something or surrender something that you do not wish to, then you are a slave. No other test need be applied.
- Freedom is never given, it must be taken.
- Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to lie.
- Fear is a very foolish way to rule a nation, because fear is very tiring over time. No matter how tyrannical the despot, no matter how great the imposed terror; there comes a time when the people simply lack the energy to be afraid any longer, Fear vanishes from the population, and all that is left is blind uncompromising unquenchable rage.
- Even the mightiest lion aims for the elk with a limp!
- Because we are taught to see history as events that happened long ago, people often do not realize it when they themselves are caught up in historical events. It is only years later, looking back at the results of their actions (or inactions) that it is possible to see ones place in history.
- As goes the campaign, so goes the elected official!
- A rage long in building is long in cooling.
- Why go on working within the system when the system isn't working.
- If gun makers are responsible for murders then the Federal Reserve is responsible for robberies!
- If there is one victory we can claim here on the internet, it is that we have forever removed the ability of government to lie to their people with impunity. Absent that, there will be fewer wars.-- Already we see the elites trying to roll the world back to pre-internet days, much as the elites in Gutenberg's time tried to roll back his making books affordable to the middle classes. But like that previous effort, the attempt to reverse progress is doomed to fail. The elites will have to adjust to the new reality of a public aware and on the lookout for their lies, or they will stop being the elites.
- Action for the sake of action is a fool's agenda if that action is the wrong action at the wrong time.
- Contrary to the propaganda being put out by the money-junkies and their pet presstitutes, the Occupy movement are not "commies". They are not Marxists. They are not "Drugged out Hippies". They are not lazy. They do not "hate the rich"--The Occupy movement are men.. They are women.. They are gays.. They are straights.. They are Black.. They are White.. They are Red.. They are Yellow.. They are Brown.. They are young.. They are old.--They are you.. And they are me.--The Occupy movement is not trying to take over the country.--The Occupy movement ‘is’ the country, taking itself back.
- When they have nothing left to lose, is when men are their bravest!
- Anything that can be used for nefarious purposes WILL be used for nefarious purposes!
- You do not end injustice by being unjust. You do not end racism by being racist. You do not end hate by being hateful. You do not make people free at the point of a gun. You do not bring peace by making war.
- You don't need to organize people to tell the truth. You only need to organize them to tell lies.
- When you take a stand on principle and follow it through to the end, half the world will hate you. If you abandon principle and try to please everybody, the whole world will hate you.
- We live under a government that passes unconstitutional laws, then drags its feet when hauled before the Supreme Court to test that law's Constitutionality. But under Marbury v. Madison, the US Supreme Court ruled that any law that violates the Constitution is automatically void. And under John Bad Elk vs. United States, any citizen has a right to resist with lethal force any violation of their civil rights by the application of unconstitutional laws.
- Why do I need thirty rounds?--Because the 2nd Amendment wasn't written so we could go deer hunting!
- Belief in the divine right of bankers makes as much sense as belief in the divine right of Kings!
- We The People need to understand that rule by compound interest is no more real than rule by divine right or rule by chattel ownership of our bodies. All three are artificial constructs to trick us into unquestioning obedience. All three are outmoded social concepts destined for history's waste bin.
- Election Fraud doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Election Fraud.(with apologies to John Harington)
- A lot of people talk about the desirability of a global government, with themselves inevitably at its head, but the truth is a global government has already emerged, one that is the purest expression of democracy possible. The new global government is the people of planet Earth sharing the collective consciousness of the internet, finding out for themselves what they need to know, and then deciding what to do about it. Sadly, along the way, we have been forced to look into a mirror to see the true nature of those who wish to be our leaders and it is not a pretty picture of human nature. We have learned that with precious few exceptions, politicians are all corrupt, corporations sell us useless and often dangerous products, bankers exist to loot us, and the clergy are diddling the little boys.
- Save the trees. We need them to hang the politicians.