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August
20, 2007 Libertarian
Commentary on The News,
12 - 18 August, 2007
This ties in with the story from Massachusetts about drop in licensed weapons owners, but in this case, we can be relatively sure that they aren’t going without permits. The VPC and other hoploclasts are joyful, of course. The rest of us need to be very, very concerned and attentive. (Read the rest here) [Two full pages!]
911-2B: American
Nightmare & Neocon Fantasy I don't know whether Stu Bykofsky, neocon columnist for Philadelphia Daily News, has been reading my last four weekend columns, warning of a Bush administration false flag 911-2B attack this summer, but in his August 9 rendering, "To save America, we need another 9/11," he makes it clear that such an attack would suit him just fine: "America's fabric is pulling apart like a cheap sweater. What would sew us back together? Another 9/11 attack... It will take another attack on the homeland to quell the chattering of chipmunks and to restore America's righteous rage and singular purpose to prevail." His thoughts are hardly novel. They are a variant of a July 9, 2004 column by Washington Post quasi-Nazi Charles Krauthammer, the neocon Dr. Strangelove. In "Blixful Amnesia," Krauthammer lambasted UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, French 9/11 investigator Thierry Meyssan, filmmaker Michael Moore and Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney for thought crimes as simple as lefty paranoia, or as awful as conspiracy theory. By failing to follow through on the Global War, and forgetting the post-9/11 reality, they were setting us up to be struck again: (Read the rest here)
Newark
Triple-Murder Reveals Need for Fathers City Journal commentator Steven Malanga reveals the social pathology that lies behind those murders: "An astonishing 60 percent of the city's kids are growing up without fathers. Studies have also found that about 70 percent of the long-term prisoners in our jails, those who have committed the most violent crimes, grew up without fathers." Just hours before Mayor Booker was venting his outrage, Robert Pedersen, divorced father of two, was preparing to depart on a 700-mile bicycle trek from Lansing, Michigan to Washington, DC. His objective: to share his story at an August 18 rally in honor of Family Preservation Day. (Read the rest here)
From
The Archives Do you like the "A-ha!" experience? "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and thus clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -H.L. Mencken Code named Operation Northwoods, the plan, which had the written approval of the [Joint Chiefs] Chairman [Lemnitzer] and every member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked. Using phony evidence, all of it would be blamed on Castro, thus giving Lemnitzer and his cabal the excuse, as well as the public and international backing, they needed to launch their war [against Castro's Cuba]. (Read the rest here) (Editor's Note: This kind of thing has been going on for a VERY long time.)
The
Independent Institute If a restaurant, dry cleaner, or home repair business provided inferior goods or shoddy services, it is likely that the concern would go belly up. Yet when the U.S. government makes a blunder, the more its citizens reward its failure with further money and authority. For example, after the Bush administration exacerbated the worldwide threat from Islamic terrorists by invading and occupying two Muslim nations, spied on Americans without warrants—which is both illegal and unconstitutional—to “urgently” combat such terrorism, and then saw its Attorney General dissemble about the espionage program, Congress has actually rewarded the administration for its actions. Afraid of being labeled “soft on terrorism” after an administration report cleverly stoked public fear by hyping al Qaeda’s regrouping, the legislators not only granted the administration legal authority for such warrantless domestic spying, but widened it to include cases in which terrorism is not suspected. (Read the rest here)
The
Future of Freedom Foundation The opponents of the Bush wars and the accompanying expansion of government power have been disappointed countless times before. Just the other day the Democrats in Congress acquiesced in the Bush administration's heavy-handed bid for the power to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on American citizens and residents in the name of fighting terrorism. We've come to expect Democratic cave-ins by now, but I confess I was disheartened to hear the presidential aspirant Sen. Barack Obama say he would invade Pakistan if he knew Osama bin Laden was there and President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan did nothing. Although Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq from the start, he evidently missed a key argument against that folly, for it would apply to the invasion of Pakistan too, namely: the U.S. government cannot throw its military might around the Muslim world without making things far worse than they are. (Read the rest here)
Individual
Liberty - 101 Forgotten
at the Door I met William Graham Sumner's Forgotten Man — actually forgotten woman in this instance — while shopping at a local supermarket a couple of months ago. There is theory, and then there is reality. To those who adhere to the Austrian School of economics, theory and reality are the same. Yet to many, the separation between theory and reality is the gulf that drowns in anonymity those such as this eighty-year-old woman. You see, the forgetful ones — the officeholders, bureaucrats, and rent-seekers — have no concern for this woman. Sure, they pay lip service to their beloved concept of community, but they are only concerned with the community of tax recipients; the taxpayers be damned. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
External Articles The
Padilla Precedent The former – seizure of Padilla despite an acquittal – may happen. The latter – a righteous armed uprising – will not, precisely because it is the course of action that would be chosen in such circumstances by the patriots who created our republic. With a scant handful of precious exceptions, we are not worthy heirs to the Founders' legacy. As the Monitor observed: "Although civil libertarians protested Padilla's detention without charge, there was no significant public outcry." A likelier outcome would be a guilty verdict of some kind, with the jury thereby validating the Imperious Commander Guy's claim that he can declare any of us to be an un-person outside the law's protection. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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