robertanthonypeters

New account after old one was hacked. Support from @X is terrible, and I cannot get my original account back.

STATEMENT: This has been an unconstitutional shakedown from start to finish. Per the First Amendment, federal law, and longstanding precedent, the FCC has no business dictating the editorial choices of media outlets or conditioning merger approval on the viewpoints a network…

A minority is in a very awkward position. The individuals in it can’t afford to be just as good as the individuals in the majority. If they hope to convert the majority they have to be much better; and the smaller the minority, the better they have to be. They have to think…

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. – Haile Selassie

Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors, of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their…

We must make our choice among limited plunder, universal plunder, and no plunder. The law can follow only one of these three. – Leonard Read, "The Sanctifying of Plunder" [1971]

Engaging in intervention or war for the sake of liberty and freedom is inherently contradictory. – @ccoyne1 & Abigail R. Hall, "War: The Dreaded Enemy of Liberty" [2025]

"Between...the post-​totalitarian system and... life,there is a yawning abyss:...life...moves towards plurality,diversity,independent self-​constitution&self-​organization...towards...freedom.The post-​totalitarian system demands conformity, uniformity&discipline." -Václav Havel

Our production of Václav Havel's "Protest" is going to rock America from coast-to-coast. Big news coming soon-ish! libertarianism.org/articles/havel… @stevenschub @bobtonypete @BricolagePGH

The 'Global War on Terror' cost the American people at least eight trillion dollars. It also took the lives of perhaps a million people. – Daniel McAdams, "Global War on Terror" Is Over. Terror Won." [2025]

Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but a spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build; it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only…

I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy ... censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the…

"Eat, drink, and be merry ... for tomorrow, it'll cost you a lot more ... thanks to inflation!" - Alfred E Neuman, MAD #202, October 1978

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. – Frédéric Bastiat

The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security for our republic. – Hugo L. Black

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty. This revolution in the practice of the world may, with an honest praise, be pronounced the most triumphant epoch of its…

Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of anyone ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is…

The essence of the past is experience; the essence of the future is opportunity; and the essence of wisdom is to properly connect the two. – Jackson D. Pemperton

Conservatives who actually believe their mantra about the Constitution, the free market, individual freedom, private property, free enterprise, and limited government should call Trump’s trade policy what it is: incoherent, arbitrary, Soviet-style central planning. – Laurence M.…

Freedom cannot be won without sacrifice. If you set a high value on her, everything else must be valued at little. –  Seneca, Letters from a Stoic [circa 65 AD]