Ramping up the lies and everything else

Abort the tyrannical government!

Every time we think that we’ve maxed out on how insane and stupid our so-called government leaders can get, the news headlines prove we again have underestimated the capacity of the politicians, bureaucrats and other forms of parasitic life to make life miserable. As the American (and European, and world) economy continues to melt down; as the various wars and push to wars continue, as more and more crazy ideas slip through the legislatures and Congress, it is easy to sympathize with the artist of this cartoon:

Sent by a correspondent/contributor to TPOL

Of course, in an era where those protesting and occupying the Capitol (“the insurrectionists”) – and that guy down the street at the White House – are seriously being accused of seeking to overthrow the FedGov, posting the above cartoon is no doubt treason. So be it.

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The rot just won’t go away – and now they boast of it

There comes a time when people have been so seeped in evil, so corrupted, that they no longer hide it in darkness. Instead, they boast of how corrupt, how rotten, how evil they have become. Deborah Birx is an example of that. We must remember that is NOT an exception to how people in government do things – it is the STANDARD.

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The price of silence

We here at The Price of Liberty, and indeed most people in North America (even Mexico) do not have a gut understanding of what the price of liberty actually can be – actually has been. But even more, we do not understand the price of silence – the nigh-absolute silence imposed by totalitarian tyranny on every member of society – even the very top echelons of their government and other institutions.

Perhaps we can get something of a feel for that price by listening to (and watching) a recent video interview of Dr. Jordan Peterson of a lovely young lady who is an escaped “enemy of the state” from the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea – North Korea. Her tale is both encouraging and enlightening, and terrifying.

But are we willing to learn from her tale – and the story which was part of her personal pathway to liberty? That among other things, silence is the ally of tyranny, and that the price of silence is staggering and often measured in part by blood and tears?

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Our fragile communications and economy

Over at Agora Financial, a libertarian investment and publishing firm based in Baltimore, their editors and writers have been sounding alarms about the signs of the FedGov (and the EU and others) pushing a “cashless society.”

One in which plastic cards, chips (RFID etc.) and other technology, has replaced the funny money we all have grown accustomed to: little green pieces of paper with pretty (or ugly!) pictures and numbers; tokens of base metal with a tiny amount of copper, pretending to look like silver (or even gold – remember the Susie B Anthony dollar coin back in the 1980s?).

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Killing us softly…

C. S. Lewis may have said it best: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

Events of the last 2+ years prove the wisdom of his words. That little thing called coronavirus.

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Moving to the sounds of the guns…

I am told that the statistics here in the States are pretty clear. When police forces end shooting and killing sprees, the average toll of dead is 14.3 people. When a private, armed citizen is the one who stops the killing, the death toll averages just 2.3.

We seem to have seen that happen this week in Indiana, when a 22-year-old man carrying concealed ended the would-be career of a mass murderer by killing him. Because the savior of perhaps as many as a dozen more people had his pistol with him, he put down another young man who came prepared to kill or wound dozens. So just three people (and a mad dog) died. The police showed up to manage the site. And for once, the police and others recognized and honored the man who was just doing what he thought he should do as a neighbor. “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the Son of God taught, was the second great command. On the media reporting it, he has been dubbed the “Good Samaritan after that story of Jesus.

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More about Texas and Uvalde – and the American police state

Yesterday’s commentary was and is a condemnation of the State of the former Republic of Texas. And of the County of Uvalde. And the City of Uvalde. And of the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District. But we want to point out, as several have to us, that it is NOT just those specific governments that stand condemned and must be held in part responsible for the murder of 19 children. As recent videos, reports, and investigation have revealed.

The Texas Tribune explains why: “… the overwhelming majority of responders were federal and state law enforcement: 149 were U.S. Border Patrol, and 91 were state police — whose responsibilities include responding to “mass attacks in public places.” There were 25 Uvalde police officers and 16 sheriff’s deputies. Arredondo’s school police force accounted for five of the officers on the scene. The rest of the force was made up of neighboring county law enforcement, U.S. marshals and federal Drug Enforcement Administration officers.

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Is Uvalde the event that brings the whole charade down?

The charade of how government “protects” us? How “taxes are the price we pay for civilization?”

Ever since that murdering madman went into a government-run, tax-funded (“public”) school in Uvalde, Texas, the questions and the revelations have be tumbling out in various ways. And with each discovery of more FACTS – not suppositions, not lies, not spin – the story becomes more and more grim.

The later, discussed in the Texas Tribune, describes AND TRIES TO EXCUSE the complete failure of our system of “public peace officers” and “law enforcement” that supposedly exists “to serve and protect” the people of the States. A brief 77-page report of investigation by the Texas State Legislature reveals incredible findings that condemn virtually EVERY level of government.

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Constitution?

A recent “news story” on MSN explained why the US Constitution is so bad. And why it, and not SCOTUS should be blamed and hated for recent decisions that partially restored our right to defend ourselves by keeping and bearing arms, reduced the power of the EPA, and – at least some of us believe – rejected a supposed “constitutional right” that will save many lives.

Not that the writer and talking head (seen at the website) was reticent about bashing the Nazgul. Of course, that is something that we here at The Price of Liberty are prone to do, as well. As are many lovers of liberty, if for different reasons.

But everything in that article about how bad the Constitution is seems to be things that lovers of liberty – and especially minarchists, think are GOOD points about the Constitution.

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Tyranny is a many-hued thing

In a suburb of Houston, Texas, an elderly couple is being driven from their home. No, not by BLM or the taxman or local “government” but by their local Homeowners Association (HOA).

Why? They committed a crime. What? Enslaving someone to clean their place? Attacking their neighbors? Failure to pay fees and taxes? No.

For feeding ducks. That’s right. They feed ducks, and their neighbors don’t like it. Okay! So their neighbors exercised their power as a claimed majority to take action in their HOA.

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