U.N. Calls for Power Transfer in Yemen - TIME:
Now that they have toppled Gaddafi, they will push to topple every other country in its path.
The White House said in a statement that the deal sends "a united and unambiguous signal to President Saleh that he must respond to the aspirations of the Yemeni people by transferring power immediately."
Saturday, 22 October 2011
Daily Maverick :: As Mantashe warns of implosions, Youth League plans revolt in October
Daily Maverick :: As Mantashe warns of implosions, Youth League plans revolt in October:
From the same young people who grandly claim to have influenced the revolts that overturned the Egyptian government and others, come plans of mass action on financial institutions as well as the country’s Presidency. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports on the ANC Youth League’s plans for 27 and 28 October.
The ANC Youth League must have known that ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe expressed concerns about their “confrontational and aggressive posture against the ANC” during the ruling party’s national executive committee meeting last Friday and Saturday.
From the same young people who grandly claim to have influenced the revolts that overturned the Egyptian government and others, come plans of mass action on financial institutions as well as the country’s Presidency. CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports on the ANC Youth League’s plans for 27 and 28 October.
The ANC Youth League must have known that ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe expressed concerns about their “confrontational and aggressive posture against the ANC” during the ruling party’s national executive committee meeting last Friday and Saturday.
Global Politician - South Africa: What Future Is There For Whites And Other Minorities?
Global Politician - South Africa: What Future Is There For Whites And Other Minorities?:
The reality in South Africa, let's take stock
South Africa is run by a Marxist regime. They are hell bent on having major black tribes dominating politics and the economy, and will not stop until they have achieved their goals. It is the same thing every other African country has tried to achieve. The inevitable result is:
Total destruction of the economy
Total destruction of food production
Famine
Total destruction and collapse of infrastructure
Substandard education
The eradication of all possible resistance, whites and other minorities through forced emigration, famine or genocide.
A pure Communist state
Zimbabwe-style Communist dictatorship is what the ANC is planning long-term for South Africa. Whether you think it is stupid is totally irrelevant to them. The aim is to stay in power forever. They do not care what they destroy or how many people they brutally kill in the process.
The reality in South Africa, let's take stock
South Africa is run by a Marxist regime. They are hell bent on having major black tribes dominating politics and the economy, and will not stop until they have achieved their goals. It is the same thing every other African country has tried to achieve. The inevitable result is:
Total destruction of the economy
Total destruction of food production
Famine
Total destruction and collapse of infrastructure
Substandard education
The eradication of all possible resistance, whites and other minorities through forced emigration, famine or genocide.
A pure Communist state
Zimbabwe-style Communist dictatorship is what the ANC is planning long-term for South Africa. Whether you think it is stupid is totally irrelevant to them. The aim is to stay in power forever. They do not care what they destroy or how many people they brutally kill in the process.
Global Politician - Can Afrikaners survive in a Mafia state?
Global Politician - Can Afrikaners survive in a Mafia state?:
In democracies it is parliament that makes policies and laws, but in South Africa, policies are made by Luthuli House, the ANC’s Johannesburg head quarters. Parliament merely legitimises the acts.
So, what does the party that governs South Africa look like?
There is compelling prima facie evidence that the ANC is today the largest organised crime syndicate on earth.
In democracies it is parliament that makes policies and laws, but in South Africa, policies are made by Luthuli House, the ANC’s Johannesburg head quarters. Parliament merely legitimises the acts.
So, what does the party that governs South Africa look like?
There is compelling prima facie evidence that the ANC is today the largest organised crime syndicate on earth.
Who next after 'martyr' Gaddafi, ANCYL asks: News24: South Africa: Politics
Who next after 'martyr' Gaddafi, ANCYL asks: News24: South Africa: Politics
The ANC Youth League saluted slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday as an anti-imperialist martyr and wanted to know who would be next.
"Brother Leader was ruthlessly killed by rebels armed by Nato forces, who invaded Libya because of its natural resources," ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu said in a statement.
The ANCYL is the breeding ground for ANC leaders and is where people like Nelson Mandela, the hero of the modern World comes from.
The ANCYL, like the much praised ANC is of course a strong supporter of people like Gaddafi.
But strangely enough the World will keep on cheering and praising their beloved ANC and their Nelson Mandela.
Of course the Zimbawean news agencies also reported on this :
http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com/story.php?art_id=7568&cat=3
The ANC Youth League saluted slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi on Friday as an anti-imperialist martyr and wanted to know who would be next.
"Brother Leader was ruthlessly killed by rebels armed by Nato forces, who invaded Libya because of its natural resources," ANCYL spokesperson Floyd Shivambu said in a statement.
The ANCYL is the breeding ground for ANC leaders and is where people like Nelson Mandela, the hero of the modern World comes from.
The ANCYL, like the much praised ANC is of course a strong supporter of people like Gaddafi.
But strangely enough the World will keep on cheering and praising their beloved ANC and their Nelson Mandela.
Of course the Zimbawean news agencies also reported on this :
http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com/story.php?art_id=7568&cat=3
For $1 billion, one dictator | Exclusive - Yahoo! News
For $1 billion, one dictator | Exclusive - Yahoo! News
Important extracts from the Yahoo article :
Call him the billion-dollar man. One billion for one dictator.
According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi's head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department.
And that's just for the Americans.
The final totals will take some time to add up, and still do not include the State Department, CIA, and other agencies involved or other NATO and participating countries. Vice President Joe Biden said that the U.S. "spent $2 billion total and didn't lose a single life." NATO does not track the operational costs to each member country, but the funds directly taken from a common NATO account for Libya operations have totaled about $7.4 million per month for electronic warfare capabilities and $1.1 million per month for headquarters and command staff, a NATO spokesman said.
Since the operation began on March 31, getting to Qaddafi's final stand required 7,725 air sorties and 1,845 strike sorties, 397 of which dropped ordnance, and 145 Predator drone strikes.
NATO aircraft, including those supplied by the U.S., totaled 26,089 sorties and 9,618 strike sorties through Wednesday.
More than 70 U.S. aircraft have supported the operation, including Predator drones.
NATO flew 67 sorties and 16 strikes sorties over Libya one day before Qaddafi was killed.
The NATO mission also employed submarines, aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, destroyers, frigates, and supply ships—as many as 21 vessels at one time.
Additionally, as of one week ago, the U.S. had sold participating countries in the operation roughly $250 million in ammunition, parts, fuel, technical assistance, and other support, according to the Pentagon.
The Congressional Research Services estimate the Afghanistan war has cost nearly $500 billion so far. With Iraq, the figure easily tops $1 trillion.
Important extracts from the Yahoo article :
Call him the billion-dollar man. One billion for one dictator.
According to the Pentagon, that was the cost to U.S. taxpayers for Muammar el-Qaddafi's head: $1.1 billion through September, the latest figure just out of the Defense Department.
And that's just for the Americans.
The final totals will take some time to add up, and still do not include the State Department, CIA, and other agencies involved or other NATO and participating countries. Vice President Joe Biden said that the U.S. "spent $2 billion total and didn't lose a single life." NATO does not track the operational costs to each member country, but the funds directly taken from a common NATO account for Libya operations have totaled about $7.4 million per month for electronic warfare capabilities and $1.1 million per month for headquarters and command staff, a NATO spokesman said.
Since the operation began on March 31, getting to Qaddafi's final stand required 7,725 air sorties and 1,845 strike sorties, 397 of which dropped ordnance, and 145 Predator drone strikes.
NATO aircraft, including those supplied by the U.S., totaled 26,089 sorties and 9,618 strike sorties through Wednesday.
More than 70 U.S. aircraft have supported the operation, including Predator drones.
NATO flew 67 sorties and 16 strikes sorties over Libya one day before Qaddafi was killed.
The NATO mission also employed submarines, aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, destroyers, frigates, and supply ships—as many as 21 vessels at one time.
Additionally, as of one week ago, the U.S. had sold participating countries in the operation roughly $250 million in ammunition, parts, fuel, technical assistance, and other support, according to the Pentagon.
The Congressional Research Services estimate the Afghanistan war has cost nearly $500 billion so far. With Iraq, the figure easily tops $1 trillion.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Ranking of economies - Doing Business - World Bank Group
Ranking of economies - Doing Business - World Bank Group
Whoever develops this ranking does NOT live in the New South Africa.
If ease of doing business is referring to how easy is is to start selling home-made art along a busy road earning R50 - R100 per day, then certainly we belong in 35th place.
If and starting a business is referring to how easy is is to start selling home-made art along a busy road earning R50 - R100 per day, then certainly we belong in 44th place.
Dealing with construction permits 31st place? Have they ever tried getting construction permits in SA? Do they get this information from our corrupt Regime? They should ask any construction company about this before listing us at 31st place.
Registering a property in the New SA is 100% dependent on how large a bribe one is prepared to pay and even then it would take months to years. That is if the documentation does not get lost along the way.
Getting electricity in the New SA is much easier than starting a business or getting a property registered. Doing business with all the power outages is another problem altogether.
Getting credit with our new Credit Act is virtually impossible and has been killing the economy since coming into place. Add the new Consumer Protection Act and making money becomes a nightmare.
This ranking system is a joke and was obviously compiled by someone that had never set foot in the New South Africa and not even worth any further discussion.
Whoever develops this ranking does NOT live in the New South Africa.
If ease of doing business is referring to how easy is is to start selling home-made art along a busy road earning R50 - R100 per day, then certainly we belong in 35th place.
If and starting a business is referring to how easy is is to start selling home-made art along a busy road earning R50 - R100 per day, then certainly we belong in 44th place.
Dealing with construction permits 31st place? Have they ever tried getting construction permits in SA? Do they get this information from our corrupt Regime? They should ask any construction company about this before listing us at 31st place.
Registering a property in the New SA is 100% dependent on how large a bribe one is prepared to pay and even then it would take months to years. That is if the documentation does not get lost along the way.
Getting electricity in the New SA is much easier than starting a business or getting a property registered. Doing business with all the power outages is another problem altogether.
Getting credit with our new Credit Act is virtually impossible and has been killing the economy since coming into place. Add the new Consumer Protection Act and making money becomes a nightmare.
This ranking system is a joke and was obviously compiled by someone that had never set foot in the New South Africa and not even worth any further discussion.
Daily Maverick :: As Mantashe warns of implosions, Youth League plans revolt in October
Daily Maverick :: As Mantashe warns of implosions, Youth League plans revolt in October
From the same young people who grandly claim to have influenced the revolts that overturned the Egyptian government and others, come plans of mass action on financial institutions as well as the country’s Presidency.
CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports on the ANC Youth League’s plans for 27 and 28 October.
Is this the trial run working towards the New South Africa's revolution?
The New SA has all the signs pointing towards a revolution.
From the same young people who grandly claim to have influenced the revolts that overturned the Egyptian government and others, come plans of mass action on financial institutions as well as the country’s Presidency.
CARIEN DU PLESSIS reports on the ANC Youth League’s plans for 27 and 28 October.
Is this the trial run working towards the New South Africa's revolution?
The New SA has all the signs pointing towards a revolution.
South Africa: Producer of Educated Skilled Labour for the 1st World
Is it rational that a white child is allowed to attend school with Government subsidies, then allowed to enter University and study with Government subsidies, but then once graduated he/she is rejected because he/she is white?
How does this fit in with our supposed non-racist, (supposed) "Democracy"?
Thanks to racist programs like BEE (so-called Black Economic Empowerment) and Transformation South Africa has become a major producer of highly educated skilled labour to the rest of the World. While taxpayers are subsidising the education and training of all nationalities in SA, once graduated whites are unable to enter for the local labour market, yet they are sought-after abroad.
This is not only racist, but irrational. SA is a third-World country that needs educated, skilled labour for development and growth.
Socialism - Remind you of the NEW SOUTH AFRICA?
An economics professor at a university made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
South Africa should take heed this profound lesson from the past.
Stated way back in 1931 and it says it all :
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." - Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
When are we to stop correcting the errors of the past?
The newspapers are filled with articles on racism and discrimination and one thing that tends to stand out is the mudslinging that goes with it. To-and-fro blaming, accusations and insults.
It matters not who was liberal, left or right-wing, how we have changed our political views or not, what is important is what we are going to do to ensure a future for all South Africans.
The World commended South Africa for the peaceful transition in 1994, we were commended for our ground-breaking Constitution. Unfortunately what we have discovered is that it is not what everyone expected or hoped for. Racial discrimination is at the order of the day and not only being supported, but demanded by legislation, which is the cause of much dissension and tension within.
South Africa is THE example to the rest of the World on peaceful Governmental transition, on the successful eradication of Apartheid and white on black racial discrimination, but are we an example to the World on the eradication of racial discrimination in general, no we are not. We have replaced white on black discrimination with black on white discrimination.
What is needed and would it take to level the playing field, to show the rest of the World how a country can be managed in such a way that all forms of discrimination, not only racial discrimination, is eradicated. If South Africa really wants to achieve anything in future we need to build on the achievements that led to the founding a new democratic non-apartheid based South Africa.
We need to interpret and apply our Constitution as it is written and without creative interpretation to find loopholes with which to continue the propagation of a discriminatory system in new and revised form. BEE and Transformation are no more than synonyms for Apartheid.
Discriminatory legislation and systems are often born from fear, fear of being overruled, fear of losing control, fear of being unable to compete on a level playing-field, etc.
What is it that black South Africans need to fear, that Government or the ruling party needs to fear that prevents them from leveling the playing field? Besides the promises to the masses and the fear of losing at the voting stations next time round, what is there to fear from such minorities?
We also need to keep in mind that this is not a white forum for discrimination against whites, because not only are the whites being discriminated against, but also Coloureds, Asians and other minorities are being refused equal opportunities. BEE and transformation is not about reversed discrimination, it is discrimination against all minorities particularly those not classified as black.
The excuse for this new form of discrimination is often given as being a means to address the wrongs of the past. One needs to question when does the past begin and when does the past end and how long does one continue correcting the errors of that past.
If South Africa is still in the transition phase of correcting the errors of the past it means that this is not yet the new South Africa, this is South Africa in the interim phase working towards a New South Africa.
The New South Africa is envisaged as a matured South Africa without discriminatory legislation and systems, it is a united South Africa that HAD corrected the errors of the past and IS working towards development of the nation and country as a whole as one singular colourless, genderless united all-equal nation.
How do we achieve this? We can only achieve such maturity by guts, conviction and determination. We achieve that through strong leadership, with leaders that are beyond reproach, ethical, moral, honest, without baggage, without debts to friends, with leaders that will have the guts to lay down the cut-off date for redress and call the closing date of this interim period during which the errors of the past are to be corrected.
How could we ever correct the errors of the past of we cannot even acknowledge the errors of today? We are so "Politically Correct" that no problems seem to exist. "Political Correctness" is the language of the weak, of those too scared of offending or standing up for what they believe in. The language of the pretentious hypocritical appeaser who blesses his decapitator after having sold-out everyone else. The "Politically Correct" are to be feared more than the enemy & than the Devil himself. "Political Correctness" is a disease, a virus that destroys truth & denies reality.
As long as legislation is in place that demands of business, industry and employers to redress the imbalances caused by the old regime, companies are compelled to comply with such legislation and we shall remain in this interim immature void.
Pressure needs to be applied to Government to call the closing date of this interim transitional period of redress so that the current legislation demanding compliance with transformation and BEE may be abandoned and we as South Africans can start building the New South Africa of the future, equal, united, together.
How does this fit in with our supposed non-racist, (supposed) "Democracy"?
Thanks to racist programs like BEE (so-called Black Economic Empowerment) and Transformation South Africa has become a major producer of highly educated skilled labour to the rest of the World. While taxpayers are subsidising the education and training of all nationalities in SA, once graduated whites are unable to enter for the local labour market, yet they are sought-after abroad.
This is not only racist, but irrational. SA is a third-World country that needs educated, skilled labour for development and growth.
Socialism - Remind you of the NEW SOUTH AFRICA?
An economics professor at a university made the statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class.
That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.
The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.
All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A.
After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.
The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.
As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too so they studied little.
The second test average was a D!
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around, the average was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame and name-calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else.
All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great but when government takes all the reward away, no one will try or want to succeed.
South Africa should take heed this profound lesson from the past.
Stated way back in 1931 and it says it all :
"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it." - Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931
When are we to stop correcting the errors of the past?
The newspapers are filled with articles on racism and discrimination and one thing that tends to stand out is the mudslinging that goes with it. To-and-fro blaming, accusations and insults.
It matters not who was liberal, left or right-wing, how we have changed our political views or not, what is important is what we are going to do to ensure a future for all South Africans.
The World commended South Africa for the peaceful transition in 1994, we were commended for our ground-breaking Constitution. Unfortunately what we have discovered is that it is not what everyone expected or hoped for. Racial discrimination is at the order of the day and not only being supported, but demanded by legislation, which is the cause of much dissension and tension within.
South Africa is THE example to the rest of the World on peaceful Governmental transition, on the successful eradication of Apartheid and white on black racial discrimination, but are we an example to the World on the eradication of racial discrimination in general, no we are not. We have replaced white on black discrimination with black on white discrimination.
What is needed and would it take to level the playing field, to show the rest of the World how a country can be managed in such a way that all forms of discrimination, not only racial discrimination, is eradicated. If South Africa really wants to achieve anything in future we need to build on the achievements that led to the founding a new democratic non-apartheid based South Africa.
We need to interpret and apply our Constitution as it is written and without creative interpretation to find loopholes with which to continue the propagation of a discriminatory system in new and revised form. BEE and Transformation are no more than synonyms for Apartheid.
Discriminatory legislation and systems are often born from fear, fear of being overruled, fear of losing control, fear of being unable to compete on a level playing-field, etc.
What is it that black South Africans need to fear, that Government or the ruling party needs to fear that prevents them from leveling the playing field? Besides the promises to the masses and the fear of losing at the voting stations next time round, what is there to fear from such minorities?
We also need to keep in mind that this is not a white forum for discrimination against whites, because not only are the whites being discriminated against, but also Coloureds, Asians and other minorities are being refused equal opportunities. BEE and transformation is not about reversed discrimination, it is discrimination against all minorities particularly those not classified as black.
The excuse for this new form of discrimination is often given as being a means to address the wrongs of the past. One needs to question when does the past begin and when does the past end and how long does one continue correcting the errors of that past.
If South Africa is still in the transition phase of correcting the errors of the past it means that this is not yet the new South Africa, this is South Africa in the interim phase working towards a New South Africa.
The New South Africa is envisaged as a matured South Africa without discriminatory legislation and systems, it is a united South Africa that HAD corrected the errors of the past and IS working towards development of the nation and country as a whole as one singular colourless, genderless united all-equal nation.
How do we achieve this? We can only achieve such maturity by guts, conviction and determination. We achieve that through strong leadership, with leaders that are beyond reproach, ethical, moral, honest, without baggage, without debts to friends, with leaders that will have the guts to lay down the cut-off date for redress and call the closing date of this interim period during which the errors of the past are to be corrected.
How could we ever correct the errors of the past of we cannot even acknowledge the errors of today? We are so "Politically Correct" that no problems seem to exist. "Political Correctness" is the language of the weak, of those too scared of offending or standing up for what they believe in. The language of the pretentious hypocritical appeaser who blesses his decapitator after having sold-out everyone else. The "Politically Correct" are to be feared more than the enemy & than the Devil himself. "Political Correctness" is a disease, a virus that destroys truth & denies reality.
As long as legislation is in place that demands of business, industry and employers to redress the imbalances caused by the old regime, companies are compelled to comply with such legislation and we shall remain in this interim immature void.
Pressure needs to be applied to Government to call the closing date of this interim transitional period of redress so that the current legislation demanding compliance with transformation and BEE may be abandoned and we as South Africans can start building the New South Africa of the future, equal, united, together.
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
A Man Ahead Of His Time
Translated 9400 pages of science text in 29 years. Published more than 2200 printed pages, which included translations, original works & essays, completed 10 volumes on clinical trials, published 70 original works on chemistry & medicine, four 1500 page repertories & numerous articles
He translated 17 medicial, chemistry and scientific books from the English, 6 from the French, 1 from the Italian, and 1 from the Latin, totaling over 9400 pages of text in 29 years, which amounts to 324 pages per year, or approximately 1 page every day for 29 years.
His four volume set entitled 'The Pharmaceutical Lexicon', was one of the standard pharmaceutical reference works of his day.
In his day he was a highly respected Medical Practitioner, Scientist and Chemist. He was spoken of as "this celebrated chemist," "One whom chemistry has to thank for many important discoveries."
The leading physician of the day, Dr.Hufeland, spoke of him as "one of the most distinguished physicians of Germany, a physician of mature experience and reflections."
His publications were described as "no ordinary work, but written with an unusual degree of knowledge, reflection and original thought." His wine test first appeared in van Sande's 'Signs of The Purity and Adulterations of Drugs', of which he wrote the greater part of the essay. His wine test was greatly praised in chemical and scientific journals and Trommsdorff's Journal of Pharmacy stated that 'ignorance of his Wine Test was damning evidence of the incompetence of many apothecaries.'
Does he sound like a highly intelligent individual, someone few could compete with, even to this very day?
This same highly gifted (probably one of the most intelligient people ever to have walked this planet, in the same league as Nikola Tesla) super intelligent man went on to publish a work so profoundly different from current thinking that no average medical scientist could understand it, even to this day. That single publication led to him having been ousted, as every other super intelligent scientist in history. So profound was that publication that it changed the course of medicine forever.
His name was Samuel Hahnemann, the discoverer of the mot powerful, most effective and most advanced system of medicine known to Man, HOMEOPATHY!
Studying his history is more interesting and impressive than any other person I've ever studied or read about in my life.
Many a great man had been ousted for having gone against the popular opinion of the day.
The following quote, from almost a century ago, provides a possible cause for this sickness:
Public opinion where "Assent becomes a duty"
Something was said first by one, then by two, three and so on, and now it has become what some call a 'public opinion', an opinion of the majority.
Let anyone read the words, "Assent becomes a duty." (V. II., p. 390) in Shipman's Grauvogl:
"What is commonly called public opinion is, plainly speaking, the opinion of two or three persons, and we should convince ourselves of the truth of this, could we but see into the mode in which this public opinion originated.We should then find that there are two or three people who first assumed or decided or affirmed that such and such a thing was so without taking the trouble very thoroughly to examine it. Taking for granted that these had sufficient capacity of judgement, a few others also accepted their opinions; three again are believed by many others, whose indolence rather inclines them to believe it at once than to take the trouble to test it.
Thus grows from day to day the number of such indolent, easily believing adherents; for if the opinion had only gained a goodly number of advocates, those who adopted it afterwards attributed its prosperity to the quasi fact that those already accepting it would have done so only on account of weighty reasons. Others were now constrained to accept what everybody else accepted, lest they might pass for restless souls who were setting themselves up against generally received opinions, and for malapert hinds, who would be wiser than the rest of the world. Assent now becomes a duty.
Now the few who are capable of judging must be silent; and those who are permitted to speak are those who, perfectly incapable of forming their own opinion or judgement, are the mere echo of the opinions of others; nevertheless, they are all the more zealous and intolerant advocates there of. For they hate in those thinking otherwise, not so much the diverse opinion they hold, as the arrogance of daring to judge for themselves; something, by the way, which they never venture themselves, of which they are at least conscious.In short, very few can think, but all claim the right of having opinions; what else then remains for these latter, since they cannot make opinions for themselves, but to adopt the ready-made opinion of others? As this is the case of what avail now are the voices of a hundred million of men?"
"Dico ego, tu dicis, sed denique dixit et ille; dicta que post toties nil nisi dicta vides!" - D.V. Grauvogl
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