You cannot convince us.
You cannot intimidate us.
You can try to kill us, if you think you can.
But remember, we'll shoot back.
Your move.
-- Mike
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September 28, 2009  Libertarian Commentary on The News 20 - 26 September By Nathan A. Barton © 2009 In the last week, we've seen a lot of evidence
that the entire system of government and society is breaking down more
quickly than anyone would have thought, even two years ago. And
people are worried, especially because so many people are telling them
not to worry. I am talking to people who are more and more
pessimistic and more frustrated than ever. And this is not just
"conservatives" and "libertarians" - the "progressives" are also more
frustrated, and sure that the rest of us are out to destroy them!
Are YOU prepared for what we are going to be seeing in the next two to
four years?
MONDAY The First Citizen Obama: It's only a tax increase if I call it one CNN "President Obama insists that requiring Americans to get health insurance does not amount to a tax increase. In a testy exchange on ABC's 'This Week,' broadcast Sunday, Obama rejected the assertion that forcing people to obtain coverage would violate his campaign pledge against raising taxes on middle-class Americans. 'For us to say you have to take responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase,' Obama said in response to persistent questioning, later adding: 'Nobody considers that a tax increase.'" [editor's note: Except, of course, for the people whose taxes will be increased by it - TLK] (09/20/09) What on earth can I say? The man is acting like he is running for office - indeed, I'm not the only one to notice that - and if it were not for certain Articles of War, I'd say a lot more. What is increasingly obvious is that this administration is demonstrating a lack of skill approaching that of the Carter administration. Mama's Note: We are seeing the results of Orwell's "new speak" that has all but overcome our language. War is peace, hate is love... Health Care Reform, tax free by Carl Bussjaeger I can take care of health care reform, tort
reform, insurance
rescission, product liability, libel, slander, and a host of other
problems in one swell foop. And I can do it without a penny of tax
money.
Re institute dueling. Really.
The
Parable of the Taxman This is a story of why the world is as it is, the story of a great land and the time long ago when it was free and green and happy. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a state that reminds me an awful lot of a certain place I have grown rather fond of. People lived there who were much like my neighbors. And, lo, others came to live there, much as the flatlanders we get in these parts, moving in and trying to ruin the place. I guess some problems are universal. So anyway, in this wondrous place that couldn't
possibly be
like anyplace I've ever lived (just an amazing simulation),
some damn flatlander got the idea they could tax us... er, I
mean them... on their property. No idea what moment of
weakness or insanity resulted in that being legal, it seems
rather out of character. (Read
the rest
here)
The Constitution: The God That Failed (To Liberate Us From Big Government) by William Buppert Much like the Wizard of Oz, the man behind the
curtain is a fraud. In this case, for all the sanctimonious
handwringing and the obsequious idolatry of the parchment, it sealed
the fate of our liberties and freedoms and has operated for more than
200 years as a cover for massive expansion of the tools and
infrastructure of statist expansion and oppression. Among the many
intellectual travels I have undertaken, this is one of the most
heart-breaking I have ventured on. I want to acknowledge the
compass-bearers who sent me on this journey: Kenneth W. Royce (aka
Boston T. Party) and his seminal book, The
Hologram of Liberty and Kevin Gutzman’s Politically
Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. For most of the political
spectrum in America, the document represents their interpretation of
how to make this mortal coil paradise. Even in libertarian circles, it
is taken as an article of faith the Constitution is a brilliant
mechanism to enlarge liberty and keep government at bay. That is a lie.
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PIZZACRACY
Majoritarianism Versus Unanimous Consent by L. Neil Smith For some time, I've meant to write various
legislators, bureaucrats, and other sucklers at the public jugular to
say, "Congratulations, bird-brains – beginning with the most decent,
livable culture in history, in just two centuries you've managed, with
taxation, regulation, and conscription, to turn it into a prison whose
best and brightest inmates, whatever disagreements they may cherish
among themselves, are of a single mind when it comes to escaping from
it." Everybody wants out: the condition's so uniform and universal
hardly anybody sees it, let alone recognizing anything strange about it.
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the rest
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Everybody now understands that economic central planning is doomed to fail; the problems of cost calculation and producer incentives intrinsic to such planning are common fodder even for economists in upscale institutions. Yet, somehow, these same economists seem incapable of understanding that the Fed, which is a central planning body working at the very heart of the economy—its monetary order—cannot produce money and set interest rates better than free-market institutions can do so. It is high time that they extended their education to understand that central planning does not work—indeed, cannot work—any better in the monetary order than it works in the economy as a whole. It is also high time that the Fed be not only audited and required to reveal its inner machinations to the people who suffer under its misguided actions, but abolished root and branch before it inflicts further centrally planned disaster on the world’s people. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.) National Gun Rights Examiner There was a fitting response to the stacked panel at Virginia Tech that we talked about on Wednesday. People who actually knew what they were talking about showed up: Good. That sure beats the one-sided propaganda event the gungrabbers had planned. (Read the rest here) (Read the entire article at the source website. Use the back button to return.)
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Falls from the Tree, Will Abuse Shelters Come Next? ACORN, the liberal activist group, was stripped of its funding by the House of Representatives Thursday following release of undercover videos showing lurid and criminal activities. One tape showed an ACORN employee named Tresa Kaelke of San Bernardino, Calif. bragging how she had murdered her husband: “I shot him. And he died. Right there.” To perfect her alibi, the ACORN worker declared how she had gone to a local domestic violence shelter where she “pleaded my case.” Following release of the video, a red-faced Kaelke claimed she was just playing along with the Candid-Camera gag, and local police reported her former husbands were alive and well. (Read the rest here)
Albuquerque Libertarian
Examiner How do we tell "right" from "wrong"? When I
ask this I am not talking about choosing the "right" color of car, or
what to eat for lunch, where one choice was determined to be "right"
and the other "wrong" based upon your mood or values. Rather, I
am talking about "good" and "evil".
Anchorage
Libertarian Examiner
By Kevin Wilmeth I'm certainly fond of pointing out that the state--no matter what its form--is and always has been nothing more than "legitimized" theft and violence. I'm a huge fan of the quote "just shut up and pay your taxes and nobody gets hurt". And so on. The topic has certainly been well discussed in this forum. Sometimes, though, it's someone else who just
says it better, and this is one of those cases. From its very
title--The penalty is always death--right through to the end, author
Mike Gogulski minces no words: (Read
the rest here) (Read the entire article
at the source
website. Use the back button to return.) An Unofficial History of Political Name-Calling By Garry Reed At some point, people who called themselves
Liberals from the time America was hatched (individualism and self
sovereignty were very liberal ideas) came to realize that they couldn’t
call themselves Liberals any longer because that name had been stolen
by American Socialists, Socialism being the exact opposite of what
Liberal originally stood for. (Read
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Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News (September 21/09) By Nathan A. Barton © 2009 Gun Locks And Gun Safes: Sensible or Stupid? Russell D. Longcore External Article Withdrawing Consent - Power to the People? How about power to no one? by James Leroy Wilson Limited Government, An Impossible Dream by John Sampson Want to be pen pals? By Debbie Harbeson Obamacare and the Constitution "You don't have the power, Barack!" By Brian Wright National Gun Rights Examiner IL state police self-defense advice for women: vomit by David Codrea Culling Out the Population, the Enlightened Liberal Way By Carey Roberts PLEASE let me know
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