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February 07, 2011 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 Houston
Gun Dealer: ATF approved sales to Mexican gun owners
FOX, Houston Houston gun dealer Carter’s Country has been singled out by the Washington Post and other investigators as a major source of US guns going south of the Rio Grande, and an example of a bad (if not just evil) corporate citizen. But the company’s new attorney, Dick Deguerin, tells a different story: that Carter’s County reports suspicious buyers to the BATFE and actually follows buyers to the parking lot to get license plate numbers and information on associates, at the specific instructions of the ATF to complete the suspicious transactions so that the ATF can track the gunrunners. In other words, the BATFE is not just watching the shipping of guns south, but is ENCOURAGING it and then turning around and stabbing the gun shops in the border states for doing what they are told. Gun shops know that if they DON’T do what ATF says, that at the least they can expect months or years in court and legal fees that are shocking and often bankrupting. They try very hard to stay on the right side of the law AND the BATFE, but usually accept that it is better to stay on the right side of BATFE. So the hoploclasts trash them. We ASSUME that ATF is doing this at the instructions of the Secretary and ultimately the White House - what else CAN we assume? Mama's Note: For a complete list of articles detailing this story, see David Codrea's National Gun Rights Examiner page. (Read the rest of the Commentary here) Preaching
To The Choir
By Susan Callaway, Editor I finally broke down and got a Facebook account
a little while ago,
just in time to read more than I ever really wanted to know about what
people have for breakfast, what movies and songs they like, the
economy, the latest TSA insanity, and now the newest crises in the
Mideast. But I did get to talk to my grandchildren again, since they
seem to have forgotten how to use ordinary email or the telephone.
Unless you “text,” of course. And I don't even HAVE a cell phone. Poor
granny.
But I digress – already. The most striking thing I found about Facebook was renewed and much broader exposure to the ideas and concerns of people with a wide range of philosophies and convictions. Watching video on Al Jazeera in English was pretty shocking too. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) External Articles Egypt! by Karen Kwiatkowski Instead of what is discussed within the stale
and frightened halls of our own stultified government, Americans ought
to reflect on the words of Saint Augustine, a man quite familiar with
the Mediterranean and North Africa, as well as extreme state thuggery:
"An unjust law is no law at all." De La Boetie observed that to reject
unjust laws and the unjust state that enforces them, a people need not
be exceptionally courageous, but rather to simply withdraw their
consent. He wrote, over four centuries ago,
…there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant, for he is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement: it is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing; there is no need that the country make an effort to do anything for itself provided it does nothing against itself. It is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) The Myth of "The Rule of Law" By "Brainpolice" The theory of a republic is essentially that,
in contrast to democracy in which there is tyranny of the majority and
in contrast to monarchy in which there is the rule of a single man or
oligarchy, the law itself is what rules rather than men. In essence, a
republic is supposed to be a model for government that avoids being
both both democracy and monarchy, and allegedly replaces the
adminstration of men over men with the adminstration of the law itself
over men. In a republic, the law is supposed to restrain the lay public
from creating tyranny of the majority (I.E. a democracy) and
simultaneously restrain the institutional agents of the state from
functioning as an elite of rulers imposing their will on the lay public
(I.E. an oligarchy).
But a basic understanding of how human beings work and a rational analysis of how the state functions as an institution, including so-called republics, renders this theory of government as a rather blatant absurdity. How can a law be self-enforcing? By definition, a governmental law is drafted by men and must be enforced by men. No political system can escape the rule of men, for all political systems are created and run by men. At the same time, no political system is the result of the decisions of everyone within a society, for at a fundamental level all political systems are oligarchies in which a small percentage of the overall population are those with direct control over the state apparatus, those who actually make and enforce the laws. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.)
Israel
Has No Right To Exist I have been watching with horror as the current
escalation of violence between the government of Israel and Hamas
thrusts itself upon the consciousness of the world. It has prompted me
to consider the oft repeated canard about Israel's "right to exist."
Based on the principles that have come to inform my political
philosophy I am forced to conclude Israel has no such "right."
Now before you brand me as antisemitic let me explain what I mean. From my perspective no nation has a "right to exist" because nations do not have rights, they are artificial legal constructs, much like corporations. [Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise] (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.)
National Gun Rights Examiner “[F]ederal law enforcement sources have confirmed that two guns, part of a series of purchases that were being monitored by authorities, were found at the scene of the firefight that killed a U.S. Border Patrol agent in southern Arizona,” The Los Angeles Times reported on February 2, corroborating allegations raised on the CleanUpATF website last December. Since those early discussion, and following allegations and
reports made at the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog and in this column,
the number of estimated guns involved has risen dramatically, from
“500” in the December entry, to a new estimate, posted early this
morning: Libertarian
News Examiner
Jury rights group challenges judge’s "unlawful" order By Garry Reed After reminding His Honor that "the US Supreme
Court has ruled that an inferior law contradicted by a superior law
holds no weight or effect as law" the flyer concludes that failure to
clarify FIJA’s request constitutes "acknowledgement that the referenced
Administrative Order was inferior to superior law, thus fraudulent and
an attempt to use power of office to damage American citizens by
denying them their rights, calling into question the current legitimacy
of the officers of the courts of Florida."
(Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2010 External Articles America Needs Community, Not Collectivism By Giordano Bruno Why We Couldn't Abolish Slavery Then and Can't Abolish Government Now By Robert Higgs The Unintended Consequences of Political Action By Debbie and Carl
National Gun Rights Examiner Brady anti-gun ‘faith’ coalition fails to stir evangelical fervor in multitudes by David Codrea
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