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“Insan-insan celeng atau celeng-celeng itu sekarang ada di mana-mana. Malah sekarang, untuk menjadi celeng, mereka tidak perlu lagi datang berguru pada raja celeng. Insan-insan celeng sudah diperanakkan dan berkembang biak dengan sendirinya. Maklum, udara sudah kotor dengan udara celeng. Dan nafsu tinggal diturut, dalam sekejap celelng-celeng sudah diperanakkan. Maka dalam waktu singkat, jumlah mereka meledak dengan amat banyak. Lembaga-lembaga pemerintahan dan lembaga-lembaga perwakilan rakyat dipenuhi dengan insan-insan celeng. Di lembaga-lembaga itu apa saja bisa dicelengkan. Jabatan diperjualbelikan secara celeng, anggaran dirancang dengan perhitungan celeng, proyek-proyek pembangunan diselewengkan dengan transaksi celeng. Bahkan politik pun diuangkan dengan celeng. Sebenarnya sudah tersedia kata atau istilah untuk para pelaku semacam itu, yakni koruptor dan politikus kotor. Sedang istilah untuk praktik mereka adalah korupsi dan politik uang. Namun rakyat kebanyakan menyebut mereka celeng. Mungkin karena bagi rakyat kebanyakan, sebutan celeng lebih mudah ditangkap, dan lebih menggambarkan kejahatan dan keserakahan mereka daripada istilah koruptor atau politikus kotor. Mungkin juga karena rakyat ingin mengatakan tentang mereka sebagai apa adanya. Koruptor atau politikus kotor itu biar bagaimana masih manusia atau ada manusiawinya. Sedangkan celeng ya celeng, binatang yang memang tidak mengenal harga diri, rasa malu dan tidak mempunyai nurani. Tapi lebih daripada itu semua, sebutan celeng bisa menerangkan apa yang tidak bisa mereka terangkan.”

“First, our enemies were the natives, then they were the Nazis, then after a while it was the communists. Finally, at the pinnacle of what we’re calling civilization, our enemies are the Islamic terrorists. Our enemies seem to change over the course of history along with our ways of fighting them. But what hasn't changed is government profit; politicians and leaders seem to always be getting richer by the blood of our soldiers. Makes you wonder who the real enemy has been all this time.”

“If a politician obtained a great wealth after he has been elected, his being an immoral corrupt man is not a possibility but it is a self-evident reality!”

“Religious fanatics and Political fanatics, yet we want Nigeria to be developed. A nation filled with blind people. See developed nations dealing on facts and figures, discovering cures for diseases, building people with great minds through science, proposing theories, debating over them, testing them and proving them thus using such theories to invent and innovate technologies. Here in Nigeria, we are deceiving ourselves, fasting and praying. Pointing fingers at people who won't make heaven yet they don't wanna die. A place where asking questions is a crime and a sin. They act as if they are holier than the pope. Greedy and blind people.”

“With the birth of the Internet, Clinton’s critics began chronicling his scandals—which were entirely ignored by the reliable mainstream press— and even came up with a colorful term to describe the untidy truth that an inordinate number of those connected to Bill or his wife, Hilary Rodham Clinton, had met unnatural deaths—the Clinton Body Count.”

“Like Beji, our country is a nation whose citizens has employed crooked means of survival, lives in the expense of others, cares the least about their compatriots, and are ever more than willing to do anything conceivable to plunge every vulnerable life into a pitch-dark abyss! It is, you will realize, a lovely den of hungry wolves whose ugly claws often extend a cold handshake to every beggar in the next turn...”

“In effect, the large bureaucracies of the powerful subsidize the mass media, and gain special access by their contribution to reducing the media's costs of acquiring the raw materials of, and producing, news. The large entities that provide this subsidy become "routine" news sources have privileged access to the gates. Non-routine sources must struggle for access, and may be ignored by the arbitrary decision of the gatekeepers. It should also be noted that in the case of the largesse of the Pentagon and the State Department's Office of Public Diplomacy, the subsidy is at the taxpayers' expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”

“Frequent mobs, seditions, and at last civil wars, became common, while a few leading men on whom the masses were dependent, affected supreme power under the seemly pretence of seeking the good of senate and people; citizens were judged good or bad, without reference to their loyalty to the republic (for all were equally corrupt); but the wealthy and dangerously powerful were esteemed good citizens, because they maintained the existing state of things.”

“Capital sees politicians as a means to their ends, just another employee, or a potential bankable asset. And politicians, whoring themselves to the highest bidder, write their laws for a seat at the table. Some politicians aren’t directly on the take but, it’s hard to imagine, that, while on the public’s dime, they’re at least not on a job interview. Capital rewards their loyal underlings with no-show jobs for their idiot relations.”

“Our investigations revealed Donald Trump’s willingness to further the malign interests of one of our most formidable adversaries, apparently for his own personal gain. They also showed his willingness to accept political assistance from an opponent like Russia, and it follows, his willingness to subvert everything that America stands for. That’s not patriotic. It’s the opposite.”

“Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.”