The Price of Liberty

Libertarian Commentary on The News 16 - 22 August
By Nathan A. Barton © 2009

Health Panic of 2009 – First Citizen’s Ministers
Administration appears ready to drop "public option"
Anniston Star
"Bowing to Republican pressure and an uneasy public, President Barack Obama's administration signaled Sunday it is ready to abandon the idea of giving Americans the option of government-run insurance as part of a new health care system. Facing mounting opposition to the overhaul, administration officials left open the chance for a compromise with Republicans that would include health insurance cooperatives instead of a government-run plan." (08/16/09)

No doubt too many people will believe this garbage. But as Mama pointed out last week, we HAVE NO FREE MARKET and NOTHING that the Congress will put together will give us one – which the First Citizen wouldn’t sign anyway. Now, I’m a fan of cooperatives – the cooperative movement is normally a good thing. But there are already cooperatives that do try to provide health care insurance, and there are other cooperatives that could and would provide health care funding and savings – and they are not allowed to do so without even more government regulation than for-profit companies do.

Mama's Note: There is only ONE thing government could do to clean up this mess - get out of our lives and business altogether. You know they're not going to do that willingly. In the meantime, all this other stuff is just smoke and mirrors to distract the people from their ultimate slavery. (Read the rest here)

Open Carry As A Political Act
by The Hunter

I wonder if any of the hoplophobes running around screaming the sky is falling have realized that they have quite successfully spent the last week showing the public that open carry is legal and safe. Not to mention making the point that even in the presence of the Anointed Saviour of the Universe President Barack Obama, we "mere" citizens retain all our unalienable right. The subtext that there are lines the government crosses at their peril seems to have really been driven home pretty firmly, too.

I'd be willing to wager that the number of people who realize that open carry is even still legal has gone up astronomically thanks to their hysteria. MamaLiberty and a lot of other folks on the web have worked for years to raise awareness about open carry, but Chris Matthews and the other raving hoplophobes in the lamestream media probably informed more people in the past week than everything they've managed to do in the past decade. (Read the rest here)

The Constitution does not Grant the Federal Government
the Authority to Establish a so-called National Health Care Program
By Robert Greenslade © Nitwit Press

President Obama, in concert with his ass kissers and boot lickers in Congress, is preparing to stuff a so-called national health care program down our throats in spite of the fact that there is no constitutional basis for the legislation. In response, many freedom loving Americans are engaging in some good old fashion civil disobedience and protesting this massive power grab. Unfortunately, as I stated in: “The Tea Party Movement Needs a Shield and Some Tactics,” many of the protestors are making a huge tactical mistake that opens the door for them to be attacked by minions of the nanny state.

Stop Debating the Merits and Details of a Usurpation of Power

Opponents of the proposed health care plan need to stop debating the merits and details of this health care scheme and focus on the core issue—the Constitution does not grant the federal government the authority to establish this program within the 50 united States. Period end of the debate. When the American people do not oppose federal usurpations of power on constitutional grounds, they validate the power grab because the debate is reduced to a discussion of the details and constitutional questions are ignored or become secondary considerations. (Read the rest here)

External Article
A Chance to Reboot History
by L. Neil Smith

I have been known to say, on occasion, that anyone who opposes the concept or actuality of individual liberty is either evil, stupid, or insane. To point out a single, unfortunately common example, there are no circumstances in which chaining people up—enforcing evacuations or curfews, stealing their means of transport or self-defense, forcing them into camps or "emergency shelters"—is likelier to get them through a mess than leaving them free to act. There is no "emergency clause" in the Constitution permitting it to be set aside, nor is there any exigency that morally justifies suppressing individual rights.

Everything good that happens in human society is initiated by individuals and accomplished by them. Government can only blunder in, jog their elbows (while they're doing brain surgery), trample through the fresh food and water, and steal everything that isn't nailed down. If you don't believe me, ask any local cop who's ever had to deal with FEMA, or the women in the Third World raped by UN "peacekeeping" personnel. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Secession, Five Years Later
by William Buppert

Former Governor Lutrin was hard to find. Having served out his single term after shepherding Idaho from the corrupt and tyrannical claws of the rulers in DC and their agents throughout the land, he had quietly retired to his ranch near Sandpoint, ID in the northern panhandle in Year One of the Free State Alliance (FSA). The Alliance had expanded to embrace the former states of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Eastern Washington, Nevada and British Columbia joined two years later by Saskatchewan, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. The Alaskan Republic maintained very close ties with the FSA. Utah had gone her own way and established a Mormon theocracy. The West Coast states formed Pacifica but the Green Coalition which maintained tight control on the economy caused a brain-drain and economic collapse that splintered the coalition. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return)

Our Right To Defend Ourselves
RKBA Resources

PBS host and U.S. News & World Report contributing editor Bonnie Erbe goes right into an attack dive on gun owners with an insulting headline: "Letting Gun Nuts Pack Weapons Near Obama Is Insane"

So she starts right off with name-calling and a lie. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Does Feminism Portend the Rise of a New Master Race?
By Carey RobertsBy Carey Roberts

Consider the millions of dollars spent for “women’s health” programs, even though men die 5 years sooner than women. And ponder the irony of colleges that sponsor “women’s studies” programs, while the number of men in higher education continues to dwindle.

So is it far-fetched to countenance the quest for a new Master Race based on neo-eugenic feminist ideology? Columnist Jonah Goldberg offers this terse, if sobering answer in his recent opus: “The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.”

[Editor's Note: Just one question... how many men vote for the people who think up and impliment such programs? Far too many women do, of course, but they can't do it on their own. Instead of expecting government programs to be "fair" or eliminate the problems, why don't men take personal responsibility for themselves, and their families, and stop supporting government altogether?] (Read the rest here)

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
Governments should fear the people...
By Kent McManigal

There are risks that go along with seeking power over the lives of others. It is only right that there should be. If you want that power, but are unwilling to face the risks, you should consider getting an honest job instead. Whether you are a judge who wants more "security" for the courthouse, or a congresscritter who doesn't like facing angry voters "back home", or a president who is worried about armed protesters in your vicinity, if you can't stand the heat, stop feeding bodies into the furnace. Heat, and risk, goes with the territory.

Carrying a gun is not "a threat" unless you are intending to attack the gun owner. Having a gun with you is not "using force". It may offend you, but you have no right to not be offended. None. I have not heard of any real threats made or attempted. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Anchorage Libertarian Examiner

Apprehend a criminal, get fired for the effort - otra vez
By Kevin Wilmeth

In the "punish independent thought and action at all costs" category, we now find two Best Buy employees terminated for the unconscionable offense of apprehending an actual criminal.

This is yet another topic that has already come up recently (any more examples and I'll be tempted to call it "trendy"), but it bears attention--and, truth be told, it wasn't that long ago that I lived in Colorado. I know this store personally. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Dallas Libertarian Examiner
Misfires and pratfalls – losing hearts and minds
By Garry Reed

While the U.S. military drops bombs on piles of poppy seeds, Afghan government antinarcotics teams attack fields with sticks, knocking the flowers to the ground and destroying the crops. Destruction of the Poppy crop is necessary, according to the U.S. State Department, to stop Afghanistan's insurgents from profiting from the opium and heroin made from the poppies. "Also, it is part of winning the hearts and minds of the population because in some cases they are intimidated into growing poppies," says a State Department spokescrat. From Fox News: Crops like wheat, barley, mustard and melons won't grow where the tough opium poppies grow with little water or fertilizer. With families in debt and starving, and village economies destroyed, "...the poverty created by getting rid of opium may be stoking terrorism." "Of course we're angry at the government," says one farmer. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Features From The Last Issue

9/11 Truth KO's Vibrant Response False Flag

By Captain Eric H. May

Feminists Endowed with a Superiority Complex
By Carey Roberts

External Article
Memorandum on Arms and Freedom
By Brian Puckett

Many Gun Owners, the State and Media Agree; 2a Is No Longer Relevant
by Michael Gaddy

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