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August
06, 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News,
29 July - 04 August, 2007 Our
right to defend ourselves: As Mama Liberty and I discussed this, two things are clear. One, why should the police be delaying so long in deciding not to charge her? Second, why should she be “devastated” in a situation where if she hadn’t shot him, she’d most certainly be dead herself? Mama's Note: Seems to me that this "devastation" is a PC reaction - or something. I hope I never have to harm or kill anyone, but I don't think I'd lose any sleep over it if I had to do it to save my own or someone else's life from a violent attack. We just have to make up our mind which life is more precious: ours, or that of a criminal who would kill us. (Read the rest here) [Two full pages!]
Quick
Brown Fox – Lazy Yellow Dog Isn’t it increasingly obvious that it is We the People who are really being targeted because it is surmised that we hate our government’s “wealth and freedom?” Isn’t it becoming clearer by the day that we are being brought democracy by the flash of a badge and the muzzle of a gun? Isn’t it abundantly clear that BOTH the “administration” and the Congress are working together to destroy the American people’s dream of individual freedom and its limitless opportunities for personal wealth and yet more freedom? Isn’t it clear that BOTH the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are working towards these ends together as well? (Read the rest here)
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Dawning Dictatorship? (911-2B & NSPD-51) Half
of the American people believe that the Bush administration is on the
hunt for Al-Qaeda for the 9/11 attacks. Another half believe that 9/11
was a Bush administration inside job, attributable not to Al-Qaeda, but
to "Al-CIA-duh." Both halves, though, agree on one thing, and
aren't shy about saying it: This summer we are likely to suffer another
terror attack, a "911-2B."
"We Are Almost Powerless Without Money" There are a couple of ways to win a war and make no mistake, we are in a war against government tyranny. You either have more bodies that you can hurl at the enemy, or you have more money to buy what you need to defeat the enemy by every legal means. This is a story of a man who has the money to defeat the enemy, using the "system" to beat them at their own game. There is no guarantee that he will win, but he will "test" them dearly. If he does win, and he has a good chance, the rest of us will win as well. Even if he doesn't win, they, the enemy, will be put on notice that more lawsuits will follow. Eventually, someone is going to win. They can "beat" you and I up mercilessly, but woe be the government official or employee that takes on a man with money and denies him his constitutional civil rights. This is the story of a builder, one Jeffrey Sneller, who had permits to build two houses on Bainbridge Island in Washington State. (Read the rest here)
Misandry in the Least Likely of Places Dial up your local Country and Western station and you may soon find your fingers tapping out the beat of Carrie Underwood's latest hit, Before He Cheats. Underwood suspects her boyfriend is probably cheating on her (in matters of infidelity, I guess "probably" is proof enough). This how she extracts her revenge: "I
dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped-up four-wheel drive,
The
Independent Institute LONDON—Is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey’s recently re-elected prime minister, a closet fundamentalist waiting for the right opportunity to dismantle the legacy of Kemal Ataturk, the architect of his country’s secular republic? Or is he the man who will set a model for the Muslim world by reconciling Islam with Western-style rule of law, the separation of state and religion, the market economy, and the European Union, which he wants Turkey to join? There are strong arguments to justify both views—hence the extraordinary importance of what is going on these days in a country that could be more pivotal even than Pakistan for the West’s relationship with Islam. Before he was first elected prime minister in 2002, Erdogan did little to hide his Islamist convictions. His Justice and Development Party and many of his voters were clearly intent on rolling back the frontiers of the secular state built after World War I and letting religious dogma infiltrate Turkey’s institutions. But since gaining power, Erdogan has been careful, for the most part, not to give ammunition to the Westernized intellectual elites and the middle classes terrified of Islamization. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 The uncertainty of the future is already implied in the very notion of action. That man acts and that the future is uncertain are by no means two independent matters. They are only two different modes of establishing one thing. We may assume that the outcome of all events and changes is uniquely determined by eternal unchangeable laws governing becoming and development in the whole universe. We may consider the necessary connection and interdependence of all phenomena, i.e., their causal concatenation, as the fundamental and ultimate fact. We may entirely discard the notion of undetermined chance. But however that may be, or appear to the mind of a perfect intelligence, the fact remains that to acting man the future is hidden. If man knew the future, he would not have to choose and would not act. He would be like an automaton, reacting to stimuli without any will of his own. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) entered into force in 1994 and has been ratified by 153 countries. The treaty created the International Seabed Authority, giving it complete jurisdiction over the oceans and everything in them, including the ocean floor with all its resources, along with the power to regulate 70 percent of the world's surface. If the United States ratifies LOST, then we would have the same vote in the International Seabed Authority as Cuba, which would represent a surrender of U.S. sovereignty, independence of action, and potential wealth. Even worse, the treaty gives the International Seabed Authority the power to levy international taxes, under the guise of “assessments,” “fees,” “permits,” “payments,” or “contributions.” (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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