Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 299

The Votes and Who Counts Them

When The New York Times tells you that the United States Constitution is a threat to democracy — As it did on the front page of its August 31 edition — you know that you are in thrall to exceedingly subtle minds. The Times only employs persons, both birthing and other, of the subtlest minds. You can tell because they are credentialed by our country’s finest institutions of educational credentialing.

They come to The Times fully equipped with the armamentarium of advanced, progressive, innovative...

The Way They Were

It’s hard to score goals in professional ice hockey. In a typical season, only thirty of 700 NHL players score more than thirty goals and only three players score over fifty.

About twenty years ago, I read of a defenseman who had just hung up his skates. Though he played effectively for a decade, this player never scored more than five goals in a season. On the day he announced his retirement, a reporter asked the now-ex-player how he’d like to be remembered. He smiled mischievously and said, “A...

BRICS and Its Trade Currency Problem

The half-baked UNIT

Alexey Subbotin, an investor and entrepreneur, and Ji Luo, an investment manager running investment operations for family offices and a computer engineer by training wrote a paper on a proposed BRICS trade settlement currency they called the UNIT

(https://wp.unitfoundation.org/).

It is generally assumed by some of the few western commentators who follow the BRICS story that it will be the basis of a proposal to be put forward at the BRICS summit. A Russian specialist working ...

Police Have the Right to Lie and Slander

To serve and protect, police are allowed to slander and destroy. Cops in many states and localities have acquired the right to lie about their shootings, searches, and practically anything else. Police have routinely planted drugs, guns, and other evidence to incriminate innocent people, while police labs have engaged in wholesale fraud blighting tens of thousands of lives.

From a trickle to a torrent

Supreme Court rulings turned a trickle of police perjury into a torrent. In 1967, the Supreme C...

The Depravity of the Zionist Mind

I am absolutely convinced that until the U.S. Congress and America’s evangelical churches sever their ties with and devotion to the Zionist State of Israel, America will continue its societal, cultural, economic, spiritual and political collapse. I believe a strong case could be made for the proposition that Israel’s demise portends America’s demise—as the American government and Church have become surrogates of the Zionist state.

As many Middle East experts—in and out of Israel—have repeatedly ...

Another September 11th

Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump began their theatrical “debate”), it being another September 11th, I wondered where Dick Cheney was.

And I was still wondering where Elmer Gantry was, having received the previous day a form message from RFK, Jr.’s faith-based engagement team leader, Rev. Wendy Silvers, that she was conducting a “pop-up” prayer service for the great Ciceronians’ debate, with Bobby Kennedy in the press room, rooting ...

Disappearing the Dead

The Cambridge academic Eamon Duffy first published The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 in 1992. The book’s premise is that the Medieval religion of England, including all of the bells, incense, candles, veneration of saints and pageantry of a highly liturgical religion, was still practiced day in and day out throughout England with vigor and belief when a top-down cultural revolution dissolved this essence of English life over a couple of generations. Duffy ex...

Ex-Patois

“Young men make wars, and the virtues of war are the virtues of young men. But the old men who make peace have not the virtues of peace.” — Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness), Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

To my mind, the world is populated by just two kinds of people: tourists and travellers. Tourists want to make the world comfortable for themselves, and travellers are comfortable with the world as it is.

I have lived and worked in six countries, including my home country of Texas. In every case, I hav...

Sound and Fury

For a few weeks, I’ve struggled to find a reason to write. Maybe everything that could be said has been said—in which case, I’ve nothing to regret. Or, maybe my original thoughts were slain and buried by the nonstop stream of digital communication beamed at me through texts and emails. Certainly many beautiful words still survive within the old books that sit on my bookshelves, my rows of neatly-arranged neglect. At any rate, it’s not without some dejection that I’ve been at a loss for words.

Is...

Overthrowing the Constitution: All Sides Are Waging War on Our Freedoms

“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” — Abraham Lincoln

It is both apt and ironic that the anniversary of 9/11, which paved the way for the government to overthrow the Constitution, occurs the week before the anniversary of the day the U.S. Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787.

All sides are still waging war on our constitutional freedoms, and “we the people” rem...