The Nuge speaks to Alex Jones On Guns, Climate Change, The Government, and many other topics.

Sadly agree and I would add that much of the 'Denial' is a symptom of the same. To acknowledge what is happening would require action ... better to stick heads in sand, pretend it isn't and if it is who cares anyway.

I must have missed this thread the first time around. 

So even though it was an Alex Jones interview (I find him to be quite annoying on multiple levels), I gave it a listen.  I think Ted Nugent had it spot on regarding apathy getting us where we are today.  Personally though, I've weighed the risks and rewards of fighting and getting in the government's face in trying to stop the madness, and I concluded for myself that the majority of my time is better spent preparing for rough times ahead.  Obviously this is not an all or nothing type of decision, and I do speak out when I feel I can make a difference and the ones in charge are willing to listen.  But for the stuff that I don't think I'm likely to have an impact (which IMO is a long damn list), I think my energy is better spent finding ways to avoid or mitigate the negative effects.  For example I don't see the current administration or Federal Reserve reversing their current economic policies in time to avert an eventual currency collapse, no matter what the US population demands.  So instead of putting a lot of time and effort into trying to avert that train wreck which I see as inevitable, I'm putting most of my energy into getting off the damn train (i.e. moving away from dollar dependence, reducing debt, buying pm's, etc.).  I realize this comes off as a pretty pessimistic and cynical approach, and maybe some of these things CAN be changed in time to avert total disaster.  But even with the growing public discontent and outrage, I see the odds of getting meaningful change/reform in taxation, healthcare, fiscal policy, etc. in time to make a difference as being depressingly low.  I think we may just have to wait for the system to take a severe beating before enough people wake up to have any of these things to be changed for the better... and hope all the while we can keep any would-be tyrant from using populist rhetoric and public discontent to get into power.

That being said though, I'd still happily join a protest at any of the Federal Reserve locations if I lived near any of them.

- Nickbert

Concur.  If I'm on a train that's speeding down the tracks towards a bridge I know to be out, should I spend the next 30 seconds screaming at the engineers driving the train or should I figure out how to get myself, my family and friends off the train?

Viva -- Sager

Did anyone else notice the part about marijuana?  I thought is was sad that such a fierce defender of liberty could not get over his personal distaste for slacker pot-heads. 

If your idea of liberty is that other people only get the freedoms that you want to grant them, I think you are missing the whole point.  Liberty must begin with self-ownership and therefore you better have a really good reason when you tell someone else what they can/can't do to their own most personal of properties (their own bodies).