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"Thomas Jefferson anticipated that at some future date the government of the United States would devolve into tyranny by committing legislative, executive, and judicial powers into single hands, recognizing that tendency to be an historic, recurrent pattern that would bring with it abuse and corruption.10 Like Jefferson, Madison believed that without an eternally vigilant commitment to preserve the separation of, and limits on, power, the Constitution could not be counted upon as a defense but would become a mere "parchment barrier." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "Thomas Jefferson in his Notes on the State of Virginia (Query 13) (1784) and in his Kentucky Resolutions (1798), each concurred with Montesquieu and warned against the collocation of the three powers legislative, executive, and judi- cial (or any two of them), recognizing that such concentration would lead to tyranny. John Adams wrote: I think a people cannot be long free, nor ever happy, whose government is in one assembly . . ." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "He explained that the union of those powers would produce tyranny: When a legislative power is united with executive power in a single person or in a single body of the magistracy, there is no liberty, because one can fear that the same monarch or senate that makes tyrannical laws will execute them tyrannically. Nor is there liberty if the power of judging is not separate from legislative power and from executive power. If it were joined to legislative power, the power over the life and liberty of the citizens would be arbitrary, for the judge would be the legislator." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.) "We will instead continue to witness the rise of tyranny and the loss of liberty. Unquestionably we must start the movement back to good government by removing those many corrupt individuals who now occupy positions of power in Congress and in the administrative agencies and commissions. We must replace them with others committed to supplanting the bureaucratic oligarchy that presently rules us with the limited federal republic the Constitution prescribes." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"There is tyranny in the world of research science, and there is also tyranny among orthodox and alternative clinicians 243 and journalists, a tyranny comparable to nothing less than a Czarist police station. And Chekhov was a doctor as well as a Russian who knew police. I know of cancer patients who have been driven to despair, black paralysing despair, by attitudes and arguments that are little more than the tyrannising mindset of a contrary temperament, and that, if recognised as such, may lose some of their power to oppress. Let us take acupuncture as an example." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"Appendix A Killer "Foods" to Avoid If people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their Podies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls who live under tyranny. —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) If you're going to America, bring your own food. —Fran Lebowitz (1950-), US journalist Some "foods" are simply not natural foods for humans. They slowly poison us and are therefore deadly. "But aren't we omnivores?" you might ask. Most of us are omnivores in practice, but that doesn't mean our bodies are omnivorous by nature." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"And that is a tyranny; it's not just a misunderstanding, it's a tyranny that rules right now and I think you can free yourself from it. The radical truth is there is enough right now, right this minute, but you have to let go of trying to get more to see 'enough.' When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need, which is what most of us are scrambling to get more of, it frees up oceans of energy to pay attention to and make a difference with what you already have." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Our hard-won, hard fought-for rights will be lost, not overtly in the beginning but covertly and we will end up with a tyranny dictated by a small group of people who can decide about our future. The worst is not yet said. The true side effects, and by far the most dangerous ones, will be CONTROL OF THE MEDIA and thus CONTROL OF THINKING. Already today, people believe that drugs can fix everything; that drugs are the universal solver. Bombardment with seductive pictures is already a reality. Tomorrow, politicians can no longer say what they want." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"As my friend Harry Cayton has written, "If we can remember to acknowledge the complexity and multiplicity of the many narratives of dementia and the stories of individual lives which make them up we can diminish the tyranny of dementia." The responsibility for modernizing along with technology is not just yours. I strongly urge the drug and health-care industry in general to enrich their business models by diversifying into the realm of information technology." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) "When we abdicate our democratic responsibility, we risk exposing ourselves to the tyranny of those who hold power over us. The same holds true in medicine: When we give too much power and responsibility to our doctors, we risk disempowering ourselves and limiting the story that we and our loved ones come to live by. It is not surprising that Plato, when describing his Utopian Republic, emphasized that physicians would be limited in the power they held over the populace. The biomedical view of Alzheimer's disease is the dominant framework in our world today." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"This inflammation occasionally reaches such a high threshold that it overwhelms the rational areas of the frontal lobes, and allows the tyranny of the lower brain to erupt in manic fear and anger. Not many people in the medical community had, at this time, in the early 2000s, heard of PANDAS. However, I'd noticed a blurb about it, had done some research, and had gotten in touch with the physician who had discovered the condition, Susan Swedo, M.D., the Director of Child Psychiatry at the National Institutes of Mental Health." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"As treatment progressed, it became clearer that if Liam were to believe that other members of his family shared his feelings toward his father, then he could see that his anger represented a legitimate reaction to his father's tyranny, and not a sign of a son's disloyalty and ingratitude. The recognition of the father's abuse, however, was followed by Liam's self-loathing for having failed to protect his mother and brothers from the same tyranny. For a long time, it had been more comfortable for Liam to feel shame for his angry feelings than shame for his scared and helpless feelings." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Journal Entry, March 2007 This vision sustains me; without it, I may succumb to the deep despair of present-day living where people suffer from the ravages of war, the social injustices of oppression, the tyranny of economic slavery, when the earth is repeatedly exploited for profit, pushing it to the brink of destruction. I am fortunate because I have plant allies to help support me and give me hope. Even though these may be very challenging times, they are also very exciting times because we are on the verge of a massive evolutionary leap." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Yet, Americans had little doubt that they had liberated the desert tribes of Mesopotamia from "Tyranny," rather than imposed a new tyranny of their own. They managed to support—and applaud—the biggest growth in government spending, debt, and bureaucracy since Franklin Roosevelt, and applaud it, of all things, in the name of liberty. After all, they told themselves, we are in a postmodern age, complete with the Internet, online trading, J-Lo, and Howard Stern. We no longer need to believe in gods or devils. We believe in psychologists and chronic fatigue syndrome." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"The founding of America was powered by the desire to escape tyranny, create a better life for people, and ensure their rights and liberties. The belief in God is used as the moral justification for the American Revolution and the consequent founding of our country. The Bottom Line A belief in God means that God created man. A belief in humanism means any godlike idea is created by humans; thus, humans have no one to answer to as a consequence of their actions." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The tyranny we've created about our collective actions is historically unprecedented and will require innovative solutions, some of which I'll be describing in this book. Transcending tyranny is not new to humanity. The U.S. Declaration of Independence arose out of efforts spanning more than a century of struggling to rise above the tyranny of the English king. Of the 56 courageous souls who signed that inspired document, about half were to meet unfortunate fates, including violent deaths and destruction of property." - Brian O'Leary, Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths (Get the book.)

"The recognition of the father's abuse, however, was followed by Liam's self-loathing for having failed to protect his mother and brothers from the same tyranny. For a long time, it had been more comfortable for Liam to feel shame for his angry feelings than shame for his scared and helpless feelings. Liam has remained completely free of TMS for more than three years, despite having experienced a series of tragic events during that time. According to Liam, "I can now feel shitty, without feeling like I'm shit." And because Liam can merely feel "shitty," he doesn't experience back pain." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"Thomas Jefferson said 'liberty is a boisterous sea, meeker men prefer the calm of tyranny.'" "Tell him I agree with him." The men calmed down as a huge, charred bush pig with a pole up its rear and out its chest was carried in. Large corrugated sheets full of yams, taro, fruit, and vegetables I couldn't identify were laid before the assembly. Dinner time. Iggy said that as the guest of honor, I should cut the pig for everybody and put it on their plates or in their hands. He handed me a foot-long, homemade carving knife. I looked at the pig. The pig looked at me." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Bush has had only seven years of practice in high office. tyranny has been rehearsing for centuries. But while the President and his merry band of freedom fighters may claim they are jousting on behalf of democracy, it is not really the vote that they want to spread so much as their own favorite vision. After all, Hitler won elections. So did Mussolini. And Genghis Khan ... and even Montezuma. No, what the world improvers want is a globe as familiar as their own boudoirs. If other people have other tastes and other ideas, well, they must be uneducated ... or evil." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "Fifty million people in Afghanistan and Iraq have been liberated from tyranny, and our homeland has been made more secure," said George Bush in his year-end message in 2003. "Our tax cuts returned money to people who earned it. They have put it to work in our economy, which is growing again and beginning to generate new jobs, but we won't rest until everybody who wants to work can find a stable, productive job." Thus, Americans at the beginning of anno Domini 2007 were a fat, happy, and contented race—in revolt against fate." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Fundamentally, this is simply another manifestation of that familiar conflict between the utilitarian benefit of the many and the dignity and freedom of the individual, which has persisted throughout history as each successive Utopian dream has degenerated into tyranny. The dream of perfect health is the contemporary Utopia and comes, as always, accompanied by coercion.40 The Di Bella affair A backlash against coercion was precisely what the Italian health ministry came up against in the extraordinary Di Bella affair of the late 1990s." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"Breaking the bond of tyranny with food results in freedom from all things. I can still remember how trapped I felt, how hard I worked, and how sad I was. I'd be driving home at midnight, catch sight of a Carl's Juniors, and I would pull in. I would eat that hamburger and fries, which made me feel better temporarily, but very soon I felt awful because I was eating the wrong foods. I was so addicted to fast food! Then a shift occurred. Dr. Brantley told me that if I would take responsibility for what I put in my body, I would undoubtedly see a change." - Timothy Brantley, The Cure: Heal Your Body, Save Your Life (Get the book.)

"We are a country founded on the escape from tyranny and taxation without representation. Today, we find ourselves mired in debt and heavily taxed in one form or another—and as citizens we seldom feel that we have any true representation in the matter. The elite find themselves profiting quite nicely by this arrangement. Multinational companies and bankers earn billions. The wealthy are busy investing in foreign markets, not in America. Jobs are headed overseas. Trade deficits are at record highs. The middle class is becoming a lower middle class—headed in the wrong direction." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"The narcissistic character of the contemporary cult of health reflects the anxieties of an increasingly atomised society,' argues Dr Michael Fitzpatrick, a London GP, in his book The tyranny of Health: Doctors and the Regulation of Lifestyle. And an obsession with illness is the perfect means to raise the profile of medicine. By selling the illness, you naturally push up sales of the treatment, sometimes very significantly, especially when the consumer can be persuaded to ask for it by name, as happens in the US." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"In the movie The Mask of Zorro, a nineteenth-century Mexican nobleman, disguised as a masked swordsman, is the champion of the people against the tyranny of Spanish rule. Zorro (the Spanish word for "fox") is a thorn in the side of the ruthless governor of California. He is constantly harassing the Spanish troops. Unfortunately the governor discovers Zorro's secret identity. The Spanish guards attack his home, capture him, abduct his baby daughter, and accidentally kill his wife in the raid." - Ray Dodd, BeliefWorks: The Art of Living Your Dreams (Get the book.)

"In the Age of Man, popular democracy would run amok and lead to tyranny and empires, which would finally end in chaos.6 Then, of course, the whole cycle would start up all over again, with the age of the gods. NOBLE ROT And so it goes on from eon to eon, these inevitable cycles, said Vico. Man learns to use his reason to master the world around him, only to turn it on himself. He strives to discover truth and instead concocts the delusory spectacles with which he destroys himself." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Done that," whispers the old doge. THE tyranny OF THE LIVING Who cares? Each generation needs to be there to do that, too. Though happy to turn on an electric light invented by a dead man, the living—in love, war, and finance—believe nothing they haven't seen with their own eyes, except when they want to. "Avoid foreign entanglements," cautioned the father of the country. But corpses have no voice and no vote, neither in markets nor in politics. George W. Bush is undoubtedly better informed than George Washington." - William Bonner, Addison Wiggin, Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis (Get the book.)

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