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01, 2008 "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." - Claire Wolfe, 101 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution Libertarian Wolfe made her famous observation above in the mid-nineties. Now here we are more than ten years later, even more isolated and politically disenfranchised, and we must ask the question: how far do we have to go to get past "awkward?" In the light of recent events such as the Olofson case, it seems plain that our own "awkward stage" may be perilously close to drawing to an end. There are those who still insist that such unconstitutional outrages perpetrated under color of law deserve nothing more than verbal condemnation or further attempts at legal redress in a "justice" system rigged against us (as if these thugs pay attention to the law anyway). Used to inaction and afraid of even voicing the threat of justifiable self-defense, these timid souls, these "summer soldiers and sunshine patriots," would have us wait for true tyranny before acting. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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Commentary on The News 23 - 29 November, 2008 Countdown
to Tyranny (D-57) Happy Thanksgiving. Rejoice and give thanks. Eat well, remembering that enjoying God's gifts are part of being thankful. And then, if you must, repair to your football games and playtime and even work. But refresh your spirit by thanking Him who is the Author of all good things for the blessings we have and the curses we do NOT have. The idea of Thanksgiving is irrevocably tied to our liberty as the American people: it is traced back to multiple origins, including AmerInd, Spanish, Mexican, Cavalier, Roundhead (Puritan), Celtic, and other sources: all part of the vast stream of history and culture and struggle for LIBERTY and FREEDOM: the perfect example of a goal of PEACE AND PROSPERITY. It is, in my family and many others, the preeminent feast-day and holiday of the year; it crosses religious and cultural lines - or blends them together. (Read the rest here)
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Articles As you may have already heard, HS Precision Rifles, a South Dakota gun maker, has been marketing their wares using the endorsement of a hired murderer. As bizarre and demented as it sounds, the HS company has a "testimonial" about their products on the back of their catalog from none other than Lon Horiuchi. Although they have a civilian market, they clearly are willing to throw civilian gun owners under the bus to get a little government business. Let's face it, gun owners are under siege. We have never faced a President who is as openly hostile to gun rights as Obama. So, when "our" people are using government assassins to sell guns to the government, we must take stock. HS Precision is advancing an agenda that says it's ok for government agents to murder people because they are gun owners and all they want is to practice their religion and to be left alone. HS has so far refused to respond to questions about their outrageous use of a murderer to endorse their products. Now they need to hear from you. HS can be reached here: (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
What can be more insane than mankind’s continuing insistence upon playing out the simple-minded notion that the intricacies and variability of our complex world can be fully comprehended and rendered manageable by wise leaders. In a world caught up in the madness of wars, genocidal campaigns, economic depressions, and the resort – by some – to the despair implicit in suicide bombings, there is no better occasion for us to consider a major paradigm shift in our thinking. "Desperation" may well be the best word to describe our current responses to the ubiquitous malfunctioning of social systems premised on the necessity for vertically-structured, top-down, command-and-control organizational forms. Western civilization collapses all around us, and yet most of us continue to insist upon a renewed commitment to variations of the Platonic vision of a world made orderly by philosopher-kings. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Squad –
"Rubicon" They may have been chased unceremoniously out of the state of Alabama, but ATF had not given up on finding their ten missing agents. Nor had they given up on finding Charlie Quintard. Barton Meigs' replacement as regional director of the ATF was everything AD Atherton could have wanted. This was probably because Atherton himself had hand-picked her. Dody Saako was just perfect for the job. She evinced a certain predisposition to the slavish obedience of orders, combined it with a vicious disdain for the legal niceties in carrying them out and possessed on top of it all an insatiable appetite for advancement. For Atherton's purposes, Dody Saako was just what the tyrant ordered. (Read the rest here) Sample of another chapter of "Absolved" Kids
'n guns A home invasion has been repelled. And guess by whom: "A break-in at an Ashtabula home forced a teen to open fire, and a man accused of breaking in is recovering after being shot. The suspect was shot by a teen who was home alone with his brother and police said the young man did the right thing." Now hold the phone a dang minute here. What happened to all that "expert" advice we're being fed? What happened to keeping the gun separated from the ammunition and separately locked away? For that matter, if we're to believe these same experts, why did the homeowners even have a gun in the house in the first place? What happened to kids taking a pledge never to touch a gun as part of their "education"? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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Syndrome made me do it (satire?) Satire portion of this report: To find out more about this newly discovered phenomenon eagerly endorsed by law enforcement worldwide, Channel 99 BlabberCast News at Noon GroupScoop Correspondent Blythe Ayrhead and a camera crew were sent to the Dallas city jail where a young man had reportedly died in a jail cell under mysterious circumstances. Officer Chuy Donutz was interviewed. "That's the seventh little pansy-ass sign-waving anti-war protester in three years that just up and died on me right after I subdued, uh, took him into protective custody. I guess these perps, or is it vics, I never can remember my TV cop show slang, these geeks just all suffer from SDAA. You know, Sudden Death After Arrest Syndrome." (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
Attack
of the Mommy Monster Lots of people today claim we are living in a Mommy State. We're children to be scolded, smacked, ordered around. Wear your seatbelt, lose weight, be nice to everyone. It´s worse than annoying. It can drive you batty. It's like being in kindergarten all your life, or being forced to sit at the little kids' table during Thanksgiving when you're 35 years old. I am also reminded of Bizarro World, where the cars have square wheels. Things there do go, but they don't go very well. They don't go very far, either, before they break down. There's a lesson in that. (Read the rest here) The
Future of Freedom Foundation The story of socialism at Plymouth Rock is one that few Americans are taught in their public (i.e., government) schools. On landing at Plymouth Rock, the Pilgrims established an economic system in which all their crops would be owned in common and whose harvest would be distributed to each family in accordance with its needs. The colonists felt that such a socialist system would be consistent with their deep religious convictions. There was one big problem, however, with this spread-the-wealth economic system: starvation. When everything was owned by everyone, people would look for excuses to avoid working in the fields and the harvests were not sufficient to keep everyone fed. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
The
Independent Institute WASHINGTON—The opposition made important gains in the recent state and local elections in Venezuela. It will now have some political strongholds from which to resist attempts by Hugo Chavez to seek a constitutional referendum that would make him president for life. Although the government won 17 of the 22 governorships in play, the opposition won in four of the five most important races: oil-rich Zulia, the industrial powerhouse of Carabobo, the Miranda region around the capital city, and Caracas, the capital itself. Add to that the other states where the government lost—Tachira, next to the border with Colombia, and Nueva Esparta—and it is quite clear that the opposition, which is not represented in Congress and was until last week confined to two states, will now have something of an institutional power base. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
From The Ludwig von Mises Institute Second, there is no non-arbitrary way to determine whether a government program makes a profit or a loss. Indeed, government typically does not "talk" in those terms. If a private company is making losses for whatever reason, it must change and innovate in order to make a profit or it will continually make losses and go out of business. But with the government, if a program is labeled as failing, it receives more money—just think of FEMA, the current bank crisis, or, no doubt, Obama's future jobs program. In contrast, when private companies fail it is not a proof of market failure; on the contrary, it is proof the market is working. It is eliminating failure; in sharp contrast, the government promotes failure: if you want more of something, subsidize it. Government's solution to government failure is consistent with Mises's theory of intervention: government meddling seems to require more government involvement (and more money). And there is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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