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Libertarian Commentary on The News 06 - 12 September
By Nathan A. Barton © 2009

Due to work load, this may be a much briefer commentary than usual. This week, we have seen still more fracturing of both our economy and society. Even while it is evident that the measures taken to date have failed, the First Citizen and his Servants (both official ministers and the slavish public and "non-government" types) have launched new initiatives to create MORE regulation and MORE bailouts and MORE destruction of the dollar and economic sectors. Even while we remember the 9th anniversary of the Bloody Tuesday attacks, we take actions (or fail to take actions) that would protect us from such attacks - whatever their origins - in the future. More and more of us are condemned as evil fascists and racists: ironic indeed when the cause for the accusations is people pointing out that the First Citizen and his Ministers and supporters are Transnational socialists and Communists (International Socialists) and Nazis (National Socialists), based on their actions and words, and racists who play the race card daily in response to criticisms virtually identical to those made by themselves against GOP and even libertarian candidates and office holders in the past.

Still, millions more have learned about the evils of government-run schools which give the First Citizen a free propaganda outlets, have been encouraged by even a corrupt Congressman who is willing to tell the First Citizen to his face in public that he lies, and have been able to join in yet another series of gatherings to put the lie to Congress and Executive and Judiciary - nationally and in fifty sovereign states - and realize that something MUST change. And soon. (Read the rest here)

They Count on Your Greed to Trump Your Compassion
By Iloilo Marguerite Jones © 2008

Compassion is a human characteristic. Even the Neanderthals, our human ancestors, cared for their elderly and infirm. It is one of the means we can use to evaluate if the organism is human: do they care for their old, infirm, and crippled? Do they have the characteristic of compassion? Do they give of themselves to help others?

No, that is not what the politicians are doing. They grow rich by stealing your money and giving only a little of it to those in need. Mostly, they keep the money to build their own comfortable nests, while we struggle to make ends meet with what is left of our wages after government takes more than half. Look again at the health care plan before you. Look very closely. They are telling you another lie. It's there, and you can read it. Look again. They are telling a real whopper this time. They want to steal more from you to keep their scheme going, and only give back a little. But it gets worse. (Read the rest here)

External Article
Health-Care “Reformers” Duck the Hard Questions
by Sheldon Richman

The most outrageous claim that Obama’s supporters make is that all opponents of “reform” are satisfied with the status quo. That’s nonsense. The strongest critics of Obama-ism are those who argue that the current system is objectionable precisely because it is a government-business cartel built on anti-competitive regulation, rigged tax laws, licensing, patents, and other privileges. While the “reformers” accept this status quo, proposing only marginal adjustments, the economist-critics demonstrate that free-market competition — the separation of medicine and state — is the only way to lower costs and improve service while protecting liberty and privacy. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Killing America's Kids
by Fred Reed

Photographs are death to a war, boys and girls. They can asphyxiate a war faster than roadside bombs can even dream. Gates does not want the sprawling somnolent inattentive beast, the public, to see what his wars really are.

In wars, there are many enlightening things to see. For example, the Marine with a third of his face and half a lung, going ku-kuk-kuk as red gunk rolls out of his mouth and he drowns in his blood. Ruined or dying teenagers whimpering the trinity of the badly wounded, Mother, wife, and water. The brain-shot guy jerking like an epileptic as he tries not to die. Ever see brain tissue from gunshot? I have. It makes a pink spew across the ground. Like strawberry chiffon. Gates does not want you to see this. You would puke, buy a bottle of bourbon, and take to the streets. He knows it. CBS could end these wars in a week if it aired what really happens. Gates cannot afford to let the dam break. PR is all. (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

Last Wednesday we looked at a group of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives employees who are fed up with corruption and incompetence. On Thursday, we saw a convenient way we could demand hearings into ATF corruption allegations.

But here's the thing: the "authorized journalists" in traditional media outlets don't even appear to have this story on their radar, and very little is likley to happen without the exposure they can provide. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Rep. Joe Wilson Calls Out the Liberal Lies
By Carey Roberts

Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina infuriated millions of smug liberals Wednesday night when he yelled out during President Obama’s congressional speech, “You lie!” To which I heartily respond, “Representative Wilson, you are one red-blooded American hero.”

Peddling his healthcare plan to an increasingly skeptical electorate, Obama claimed, “The reforms I am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.” The truth is, Obama’s healthcare reform bill contains no mechanism to verify whether persons are U.S. citizens before they receive government benefits. So the president’s statement was, a-hem, highly misleading.

For years, conservatives have been unfailingly polite and duly respectful when confronted with the standard array of leftist slanders, half-truths, distortions, and outright prevarications. (Read the rest here)

Albuquerque Libertarian Examiner
9/11- Governments lie
By Kent McManigal

There are a lot of conspiracy theories concerning the events of September 11, 2001. Regardless of what those on both sides say, you and I will never know the absolute truth of exactly what happened on those planes or in the destroyed buildings- or anywhere else we weren't. Never. Not unless time travel becomes possible (don't hold your breath) and you can personally go watch the events for yourself with no interference. And even then, how could you ever be sure that people with their own time machine and an agenda haven't meddled before you got there? Enough with the fantasy scenario.

The fact that so many people doubt the government version of events shows that a lot of people recognize the simple fact that government employees will lie to protect the status quo, or to advance the cause of a more powerful government- every time they get the opportunity. Governments always lie to the boss. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Anchorage Libertarian Examiner

More from the experts
By Kevin Wilmeth

Remember now, the Brady Bunch continually remind us that police and military are the "Only Ones" professional and competent enough to be considered safe with firearms in public. The rest of us would be at best dangerous loons, putting everyone in our general vicinities at great risk of injury or death. And how about this zinger:

Nelson, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, 10 counts of reckless endangerment and one count of negligent discharge of a firearm.

I'm sorry: "involuntary manslaughter"? For Pete's sake, that's not even comprehensible English. Exactly what part of pointed a pistol at a human being's forehead, issued a verbal challenge, and pulled the trigger in response can be called involuntary? (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)

Dallas Libertarian Examiner
Libertarianism 101: What's the libertarian position on Education?
By Garry Reed

For children, education is an issue between their parents and the instructors they choose for them. For adults, education is a matter between student and teacher. Education is never the business of government; brainwashing is the business of government. All tax-funded education falls under the definition of brainwashing because taxation is coercion. Voluntary education is not brainwashing because, by definition, it doesn't involve coercion. Contrary to the coercive public education monopoly (where are those "Trust Busters" when you need them?) banishing government from all classrooms would cause opportunities for education to explode. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return

Features From The Last Issue

Libertarian Commentary on The News (September 07/09)
By Nathan A. Barton © 2009
(The ACTUAL link for the commentary of 31 August)

External Article
That Government Is Best That Governs Not At All

by John Sampson

The Praxeology* of the Drug War: Who Knew?
by Wilton D. Alston

National Gun Rights Examiner
'No fly list' will ground not just guns, but freedom
by David Codrea

USA Today Rejoices in Man-cession, Hails Rise of Gender Equality
By Carey Roberts

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