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Our Fear of Fear
• Lewrockwell.comPerhaps the most truthful words ever spoken by FDR.
Feardom: How Politicians Exploit Your Emotions and What You Can Do to Stop Them, by Connor Boyack.
The Enemy Within, The Weapon, Witch Hunt, and Freeze, lyrics by Neil Peart (my choice for the musically most beautiful and creative of these, Freeze, is here; the story behind this four-part trilogy is also worth a read).
And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us…
Connor Boyack's book describes fear: the fear that drives us, the fear that politicians exploit to control us, the fear that causes us to rabidly support all manners of abuse and exploitation – abuse and exploitation both of us and of others.
| Things crawl in the darkness |
| That imagination spins |
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1 Comments in Response to Our Fear of Fear
Fear of fear is one of the reasons that we don't learn to use court for our advantage any time we have a problem.
If a neighbor or co-worker offends us slightly, we talk to him about it. Why don't we talk to a cop who offends us, say, by giving us a ticket, and then take the man to court for wronging us by writing us a ticket when we didn't harm anyone or damage anyone's property? Isn't it fear that keeps us from learning how to easily do this?
Watch these 10 videos where Karl Lentz talks about the issue of how to stand up to the man in court rather than the officer, a right that is open to all of us if we do it correctly. The last video is the longest, but shows how Karl did just that in court when a cop wrote him up for traffic violations. In this video, the cop lost, didn't know why he lost, the attorneys didn't know why they lost, and the judge barely-HIvTXByqjcIZ-D