"The armed citizen is the root of Democracy." --Queen Serenity, August 1995 % "I will not stand by while innocent, relatively, anyway, people are killed for corporate profits, when I can do something about it." --Queen Serenity, January 1996 % "The U.S. has been fucked by this election. They can either realize this, and do something about it, or they can suffer. I refuse to suffer with them.' --Queen Serenity, January, 2001 % "It is the job of the government to protect the people from each other, not themselves." --Queen Serenity, March 1994 % "Of course the U.S. doesn't want us in Afganistan. They would prefer to be the only power, and for their corporations to be able to run roughshod over the entire world. Until the U.S. starts treating everyone as people, I will oppose their policies and their government." --Queen Serenity, November 2001 % "It quickly became obvious why Bin Laden hasn't been found. He is in the U.S., with Bush and his CIA buddies, crowing over how well they've pulled the wool over the eyes the American people. I appologize to the people of Afganistan, and will continue to rebuild our newest state." --Queen Serenity, January 2002 % "Of course Baby Bush won't meet me, or any of my viceroys. He knows he won't be able to lie in front of me, or them, and that he is responcible for the September eleventh attacks." /"Responcible how? Did he plan the attacks, request them, or just provoke them?"/ "He at least requested them, and I would not be surprised if he chose targets as well." /"Why?"/ "Because of money, and power, and the fact that he was losing his grip on the nation, it was sliding into depression and despair, and he could not get it out, because he has no idea how to run a country, or anything more complex than a fundraising party." --Queen Serenity, interview with The Port Arthur Times, 22 January 2002. % "Why am I not promising to give Afghanistan back to the Afghanis? Because they can't hold it on their own, because they can't protect their people on their own. If we leave, the multinationals and the Americans will have them bent over the proverbial desk without any lube." --Queen Serenity, December 2001 % "How many people has the U.S. killed over the last fifty years? Directly and through U.S. trained or organized death squads, approximately eight million. Through poverty and starvation brought on by U.S. destablilization, add millions more. All the small terrorist groups combined have barely one percent of that number to their credit, unless you double-count the ones working for the U.S." --Queen Serenity, December 2001 % It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. --JAY, Federalist Paper #4 % Wisely, therefore, do they consider union and a good national government as necessary to put and keep them in SUCH A SITUATION as, instead of INVITING war, will tend to repress and discourage it. That situation consists in the best possible state of defense, and necessarily depends on the government, the arms, and the resources of the country. --JAY, Federalist Paper #4 % Let candid men judge, then, whether the division of America into any given number of independent sovereignties would tend to secure us against the hostilities and improper interference of foreign nations. --JAY, Federalist Paper #5 % misericordia est pro validus "Mercy is for the Strong" --Dark Kingdom Motto