Thomas Knapp's Columns
"What I will no longer do, however, is spend hours poring over stacks of paperwork so that I can account for every dime that my muggers might want to rifle my pockets for. Not no way, not no how. Naturally, the thieves are going busily about finding other ways to get my money. And they probably will. What they won’t get, however, is my cooperation in portraying their theft as anything other than what it is." Column by Thomas Knapp.
"They're
the ones who asked for a drug war. They're the ones who have fought that war,
decade in and decade out, at our expense. They're the ones wearing ski masks,
carrying submachineguns and terrorizing innocents, just like their spiritual
siblings in al Q'aeda.
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
"The popular history reduces Thoreau to an eccentric character whose principal interests ran to eastern religion and experiments in hermitage. Small reference is made to the proximate cause of Thoreau’s discomfort with the America of his time: the State." Column by new Root Striker Tom Knapp.