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Or take the right to vote. In principle, it is a great privilege. In practice, as recent history has repeatedly shown, the right to vote, by itself, is no guarantee of liberty. Therefore, if you wish to avoid dictatorship by referendum, break up modern society's merely functional collectives into self-governing, voluntarily co-operating groups, capable of functioning outside the bureaucratic systems of Big Business and Big Government.The single event that changed my life more than any other was TARP, aka the banker bailout. The unfairness, extreme greed and selfishness with which the status quo bailed out financial criminals while leaving the public high and dry changed me forever. When it comes to shaping American history, it is equal in importance to the attacks of 9/11.
-Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World Revisited (1958)
Comment: It does indeed herald a bleak future for our continent, maybe if Western powers stopped bombing middle eastern countries and fueling their phony war on terror, refugees would stop fleeing and 'contaminating' Western civilizations. If the French people are looking for anyone to blame it should be their psychopathic leaders who have torn their country apart.