Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 1941
William Roper: So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!
Sir Thomas More: Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!
Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!
Robert Bolt, A Man For All Seasons
"Many of us like to ask ourselves, 'What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my country was committing genocide?' The answer is, you're doing it. Right now."
Aaron Bushnell
The phoniness of that rally yesterday was a kind of a tipoff that the insiders were planning a smash and grab off the depth and breadth of the tariff announcements.
Stocks melted down.
The tariffs themselves and the method by which they were determined was surreal. But you can go look into that for yourself.
Gold and especially silver got slammed, even as the Dollar cratered.
The Wall Street insiders made a day of it.
We don't need no rule of law, for theft, fraud, gross violations of basic rights including due process and freedom of speech, and in some cases murder.
The problem with lawlessness is that you never know when it turns around and takes you with it.
The madness serves none but itself.
Money and might make right.
Non-Farm Payrolls tomorrow.
Have a pleasant evening.
