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July
30, 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News,
21 - 28 July, 2007 Heart of the summer is here, and the news seems to be heating up. It’ll peak and the dog days of summer and the silly season (for news, at least) will be upon us. Except that the silly stories are already here. Not only did I screen out a steady diet of 2008 Presidential Campaign news (and what a waste of time THAT is), but listening to news broadcasts this week again seemed more like reading headlines while standing in line at the supermarket checkout. The 21-year-old drunk who hadn’t even been graduated a week from her alcohol abuse class, the latest news about a decade-old “princess,” a pathetic excuse for a mother who has turned her son’s death into a form of celebrity for herself, and the phenomenal news of a new sighting (or was that, statue) of Eeelviiis” in Hawaii are all items that didn’t make my news list this week. Home
front: Of course, _everybody_ noticed the sudden increase in retail trade in the stores as a result of all these folks getting paid that additional 70 cents an hour! Or will notice it next week at end of month payday, with millions now able to take home more. You didn’t? You won’t? What, you don’t think our leaders are right? Oh, dear. Mama's Note: And, of course, nobody thinks to include the OTHER relevant statistics that go along with this bountiful gift from government... the longer lines at the unemployment office, the jobs that now will not be created, the jobs that will remain unfilled... And nobody even knows how to count the amount of crime and suicide this benevolence creates - while everyone cries over the fact that young people - especially minorities in the inner city - can't find jobs!! Prosperity can't be legislated any more than can the weather... (Read the rest here) [Two full pages!]
Considering the absence of constitutionally mandated responsibilities, it should be clear that at least from a regulatory and legal standpoint, there's little to nothing a vice president can do wrong; he has, basically, no executive branch functions. And it is for this reason that Congressman Dennis Kucinich's House Resolution 333, seemed at first, to be a wrong-headed exercise in partisan politics hand wringing. But that was before the Washington Post launched its four-part series. The Post is a nationally recognized bastion of the American mass media. It is the paper of Watergate fame, the paper of Bradlee, Bernstein and Woodward. And considering all that the Cheney-Bush regime has done to launch NWO, the attempted legalization of Mexican illegals, the private "negotiations" between Bush and the heads of Canada and Mexico to dissolve totally our borders to create a North American Union, the United States' unilateral abolition of the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties ensuring and protecting the sovereignty of independent nations, why would Graham's Washington Post now attack Bilderberg's "dream team?" (Read the rest here)
"Government
of the People, by the People and for the People" -- or Not? When President Abraham Lincoln uttered these 11 words in his Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863, he could not have known they would be transformed into the popular perception of the Constitution for the United States. This perception has become so ingrained in the minds of modern Americans that it is almost sacrilegious to question it. Since the federal government derives all its power from the Constitution, and that government claims it was granted unlimited power over the lives of the people, the true nature of the Constitution should be important to every American. Therefore, the author decided to construct a simple 2 question quiz to help the reader determine if this perception is fact or fiction. (Read the rest here)
Peter
DeFazio and the Portland Nuke A false flag attack is one in which you attack your own people, then blame it on a group of people you want to attack. It's a radical stratagem for instantly creating hatred, and it's common, historically speaking, all the way from ancient to modern times. As
I pointed out in my column last week, Next
9/11, Summer 2007?, Operation Noble Resolve, to be conducted in August,
will involve extensive mobilization of Homeland Security and U.S. military
forces to simulate a wide range of catastrophic terror events in Oregon.
The grand finale will be the simulation of a ten kiloton atomic bomb in
Portland.
The
System For several years we have been trying to alert, mostly rural folks, to the damage being wrought upon their land and their livelihood, by government excesses and abuses. Some have responded to our warnings, but the majority have not. As we researched and learned more, we finally realized that we were up against a dictatorial "closed system." A system so tightly woven that the average American cannot penetrate it, at an individual level. This system "feeds" off of the hard-earned dollars of taxpayers. Most Americans have been sucked into the system without even realizing it. They put up with licenses and permits for everything. Those licenses and permits come with hefty price tags that "feed" the system. The price can get really high of you violate or ignore the license and permit procedures and get caught. (Read the rest here)
Rarer
than Rabies: The Legacy of Michael Nifong Soon after prosecutor Michael Nifong was disbarred by the North Carolina Bar Association, the National District Attorneys Association issued its take on the case. "Nifong's case is rarer than human rabies," claimed Joshua Marquis, vice president of the group. "The defense bar is piling on and trying to claim this is typical behavior," he bitterly complained. So was Michael Nifong merely a "rogue" prosecutor, a feckless bad-apple amidst a scented orchard of ethical and civic-minded district attorneys? (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives In the introduction of this book, we learn that a hologram is something ephemeral that only appears to be solid. It is Kenneth W. Royce's contention that the US Constitution itself, revered by many, is just that: a mere hologram of liberty. Whether that idea surprises you or disgusts you is immaterial to the facts that are then set out, one by one and chapter after chapter, to prove the point. (Read the rest here)
The
Independent Institute According to the educated guess of military researcher John Pike, the director of GlobalSecurity.org, U.S. forces have expended at least 250,000 small-caliber bullets for every insurgent killed in the present wars. That's a lot of misses, for which the people of Iraq and Afghanistan are no doubt grateful. With better marksmanship, U.S. forces could have already slain a large fraction of the people residing in those unfortunate countries. Of course, medium- and heavy-caliber bullets, artillery and mortar shells, rockets, and bombs have also killed many people in the present wars, their vastly greater force compensating for the smaller numbers expended. The application of overwhelming firepower in lieu of alternative tactics has long been the American way of fighting a war. In World War II, U.S. factories cranked out, along with mountains of other munitions, about 41.4 billion rounds of small-arms ammunition, enough to permit the users to take about ten shots at every man, woman, and child alive on earth at that time. Military historians tell us that the U.S. warriors actually concentrated their fire somewhat, so some of the earth's inhabitants were spared exposure to that particular risk. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation In the Wall Street Journal recently, Randy E. Barnett, a law professor at Georgetown University, wrote that a libertarian can support the invasion and occupation of Iraq. His aim was to show that Rep. Ron Paul, the only anti-war Republican and libertarian in the presidential race, doesn't speak for all libertarians on the war. There are two problems with Barnett's thesis: (1) historically, war and preparation for it have been the biggest stimuli to the growth of government, which libertarians philosophically oppose; and (2) the Iraq war is an aggressive war, which libertarians also oppose. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Why
Government Can't Make Decisions Rationally 'On the rare occasions when governments consider curbing their expenditure on some service — or, more likely, consider curbing the rate of increase in spending — they are invariably called upon to undertake discussions with relevant "stakeholders" and members of the community. This process is ostensibly undertaken to determine the views of those who are to be affected by the proposed decision, to gauge the mood of the electorate our political masters are sworn to serve. Of course, if one were to undertake a proper scientific study into the attitudes of the community to some such proposal, one would solicit the views of a random sample of community members. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles In the year of Uzziah's death, the Lord commissioned the prophet to go out and warn the people of the wrath to come. "Tell them what a worthless lot they are." He said, "Tell them what is wrong, and why and what is going to happen unless they have a change of heart and straighten up. Don't mince matters. Make it clear that they are positively down to their last chance. Give it to them good and strong and keep on giving it to them. I suppose perhaps I ought to tell you," He added, "that it won't do any good. The official class and their intelligentsia will turn up their noses at you and the masses will not even listen. They will all keep on in their own ways until they carry everything down to destruction, and you will probably be lucky if you get out with your life." Isaiah had been very willing to take on the job – in fact, he had asked for it – but the prospect put a new face on the situation. It raised the obvious question: Why, if all that were so – if the enterprise were to be a failure from the start – was there any sense in starting it? "Ah," the Lord said, "you do not get the point. There is a Remnant there that you know nothing about. They are obscure, unorganized, inarticulate, each one rubbing along as best he can. They need to be encouraged and braced up because when everything has gone completely to the dogs, they are the ones who will come back and build up a new society; and meanwhile, your preaching will reassure them and keep them hanging on. Your job is to take care of the Remnant, so be off now and set about it."(Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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