Who needs footnotes to know that the government is out of control. Waco and Ruby Ridge, that money missing from your pay check, and the congressional record should be proof enough that the Republicrats and the Democracans ain't our friends. Hell, even the NRA and the national Libertarian Party have fallen from (my) grace. I still vote, but now I'm voting for the worst socialist scum on the ballot, whatever the party. I figure the sooner we go to hell, the sooner we'll clean up the mess.

And I haven't given up on politics completely, I still go to the range once a week.

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe


Spirit of Resistance Still Alive!   December 9, 2001
 11 out of 11 found this review helpful

Today's Americans are as dumb as never before. They don't care for their liberties anymore. There are no more public demonstrations, no more organized resistanse to massive abuse of power going on everyday in America. Compulsory public education has produced its intended results, which are: dumb mass of population, possessing some basic business and industrial skills, but no critical, analytical thinking whatsoever.

Work, booze, TV, game, maybe sex, then work, booze, TV...that's all there is to our Freedom, which we want so passionately our government to defend for us!

Yes, Claire Wolfe is not always fully logical and consistent. Say, she urges everyone to learn to live in poverty, despise wealth, work as little as possible just to be able to satisfy basic needs. And also she suggests to stack up on non-perishable, even military food supplies, refresh those supplies as needed, gather and hide in different places various high quality weapons, support generously some human rights organizations, - all of which require signifficant cash resources.

But the reading nevertheless is important, fascinating and a great refreshment for our media-hypnotized, crazed and dumbed minds. Buy it! Read it! Share it! Also get the "Don't Shoot The Bastards (yet)" by the same author. Find and read Dumbing of America; Justice for None; Race to Incarcerate; Lost Rights: The Destruction of The American Liberty;...

Don't let your soul die before you body does!


A rare and practical commodity   November 19, 1999
 29 out of 33 found this review helpful

A word of caution to readers of "Customer Comments" -- be very wary of reviewers who label Claire and her work as "right-wing". Claire is about as right-wing as she is left-wing as she is chicken-wing. Note that her labelers, as a class, are schizophrenic in their 'philosophy', favoring collectivist solutions as a means of dealing with the problem of the loss of individual liberty.

Whether one agrees with Claire on methods or not, recognize that this little primer is a useful tool for anyone who is just (re)discovering the concept of individual liberty. (One can only hope that someday her detractors here will be able to do so.) The book creates a whole set of useful ideas that can either be acted on, or merely used to expand one's thinking about freedom.

Claire has historically preferred to disassociate herself from -- rather than engage -- the forces of evil. We miss her already "in the field" (she has recently chosen to pursue her own way without sharing further with us her thoughts on 'getting there'). So read her three books, and cherish the ideas contained therein. Who knows when we'll hear from Claire again?