— By the way, what would you say is the definition of anarchism?
— It's a denial of government and authority, but different from flat-out chaos and disorder.
— That's right. It's about denying an inhuman control system and building a more human system.
No need for professional technology or high-end equipment, just a love for life and you can shoot motion.
There isn’t anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can’t believe it.
Justice. Wrong none, by doing Injuries or omitting the Benefits that are your Duty.
Chastity. Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation.
— You escaped from jail seven times.
— What do you want to know?
— How you escaped when no one else could.
— Balls and a little luck. No prison in the world is airtight. Each one has a key. You just have to find it.
— How do you do that?
— A lot of looking. Especially at things that break up the daily routine. Guards get comfortable doing the same thing day in, day out. Something happens, that's when they make mistakes. When you see it, you have to be ready. You have to have the entire plan already in place, even before you know how you're going to get out of jail. Escaping is easy, the hardest part is staying free. You have to know where you're gonna go and how you're gonna get there. You have to know how they plan to catch you, where and when.
— Well, how the hell are you supposed to know that?
— You pay off someone who knows. And a lot depends on if the prison is in the country or the city.
— City.
— Where are you from?
— Pittsburgh.
— Pittsburgh's tough. So many bridges and tunnels they can block off. From the time they make the call, the police can have the center of the city
sealed tight in 15 minutes.
— How can they be so exact?
— After 9/11, Homeland Security made every city have a lockdown plan. Downtown Pittsburgh, Philly, Boston, Minneapolis, 15 minutes.
They can do D. C. in under 10. Within 35 minutes, they can have cops at every tollbooth on the interstate and be running rolling stops on the secondary roads. They won't have your photograph yet, but they will have your description.
— What if you can't get out? Thirty-five minutes is not a lot of time.
— Then surrender. Because they will shoot you on sight, along with anyone else you're with. Stay far away from the train and bus stations. Forget the local airports. Leave from another state. Second, identity. It's easy to find fake papers, harder to find ones that will get you through an airport. You'll need a passport, a driver's license and a social security number. If you have to rent a car, find a place that will take a cash deposit. They'll still run a credit check,
so use a real person's name on the ID. Third, destination. You want somewhere that doesn't attract American tourists. Think Yemen, and you get the idea. And money, you'll need a truckload of it. Everything's expensive, hotels, travel, information.
— How much?
— Enough to last at least five, six years. You run out of money, you run out of friends. But before you do anything, you have to ask yourself if you can do it. Can you forget about ever seeing your parents again? Can you kill a guard? Leave your kid at a gas station? Push some nice old lady to the ground just because she gets between you and the door? Because to do this thing, that's who you have to become. And if you can't, don't start, 'cause you'll just get someone killed.
— How did you get caught?
— I gave myself up. I couldn't take wondering when someone was gonna come through the bedroom door.
When you're learning, what you want to do is study something. Study it hard by focusing intently. Then take a break or at least change your focus to something different for awhile. During this time of seeming relaxation, your brain's diffuse mode has a chance to work away in the background and help you out with your conceptual understanding. Your, your neural mortar in some sense has a chance to dry. If you don't do this, if instead, you learn by cramming, your knowledge base will look more like this, all in a jumble with everything confused, a poor foundation.
After the Soviet Union withdrew the Red Army from Europe and split into 15 nations, and Russia held out its hand to us, we slapped it away and rolled NATO right up onto her front porch. Enraged Russians turned to a man who would restore respect for their country. Did we think they would just sit there and take it? How did bringing Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia into NATO make America stronger, safer and more secure? For it has surely moved us closer to a military clash with a nuclear power.