China: it's like capitalism if capitalism were run by Pol Pot and all shareholders are Cambodians needing to be reeducated.

— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) July 8, 2015

No road is easy, but I prefer to be free and poor than some banker's or a German politician's economic bitch slave.

I want all of them to get the f*** out of my country and let me be. I also want all the corrupt politicians in jail. Do I ask too much?

Bottom line: There is little hope for the near future. A lot more ground work is needed with the masses. I'm talking a lot. But we don't want some kind of leader who will create even greater collapse than what we are already facing. There is no way to know what would emerge out of a great collapse, but most likely it would not be good.

If we can't get a clear libertarian candidate,we need a candidate that can be easily hated, will maintain relative stability, but who could attempt to oppress in a manner that the masses would recognize as oppression and cause them in knee-jerk fashion to begin to want less government.

The term “police state” is not a well-defined one, but I think most people would agree that such regimes are characterized by extensive surveillance of the population; a huge number of arbitrary laws punishable by disproportionate penalties; a slow and arbitrary court system in which the outcome of important cases is essentially pre-ordained; a requirement that ordinary citizens carry identity documents everywhere and present them to officials on demand (“papers, please!”); a bloated police force whose powers are limited only by the imaginations of officials and whose members are able to inflict violence upon anyone they choose without any consequences whatsoever or recourse of any kind for the victims; and a powerful bureaucracy which regularly violates the laws which supposedly constrain it and ignores due process when it proves inconvenient. For good measure, let’s throw in worshipful reverence of officials and a media which largely parrots every press release those officials come out with, and I think you’d be hard-pressed to come up with some way in which the US isn’t a police state.