Apparently the consensus of “experts” (hmm… political scientists?) and cops is that some people demonstrating with someone else hanging in effigy is a hate crime.
In a previous commentary we noted the current effort to make lynching people a “federal hate crime.” Apparently it is closely related to this.
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From ideas by Ari Armstrong
Bad as the US Congress and the House of Commons in London, Ottawa, and Canberra are, many State and provincial legislatures are just as bad. We can argue that some (California and Ontario come to mind) are even worse.
Many people, with the best of intentions, run for state and provincial legislative seats. And win and go to Denver, or Regina, or Pierre, eager to make a difference.
And fail. They get sucked into the system – the “good ole boy” network. The politics-as-usual. The idea of compromising to get things done, of “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.” But the major problem is the same reason that they run – idealistically and eager to “serve.” The belief that government is the best (if not only) way to solve problems.
Continue readingOur apologies for a week-long absence, but we are still here and still going strong.
As is the planet. The wars and rumors of war meter have spiked the last week or so, but the big missiles aren’t flying, and the warmongers haven’t sucked us into yet another war.
And due to other work, we here at TPOL have had a chance to see that things aren’t totally collapsing in our part of the world. And we’ve learned from a lot of people scattered around the States and even from the Great White North and other places. What? That they are not in places that are falling apart around them. Often because of them and people like them: responsible, exercising their liberties despite the constant restrictions and battles, and with hope that they are making a better future for themselves and others.
Let me explain.
Continue readingAs I write this on a holiday I am coming more and more to despise – “President’s Day” (bow down and worship!) – the wheels seem to be coming off.
Three weeks of the truckers’ Freedom Convoy in the Dominion of Canada have again severely wounded the Supply Chain here in North America, and therefore the world. Today (Wednesday, 23rd February 2022) will likely see another wound inflicted. Starting in Barstow, California, the US version of the Freedom Convoy will make the 3000-mile journey to that “wretched hive of scum and villainy” that is Washington, DC (District of Criminals – after all, can’t use “Columbia” since that guy was a racist, imperialist, colonialist perpetrator of genocide, right?)
These two events are hardly the first blows, and may not be the final, fatal blow that causes the collapse towards which governments have been pushing the world and especially the States for two years. Both economic and social collapse.
Continue readingWorking on a commentary about “silly science” and government, one of the staff here at The Price of Liberty made a crack about “political science” as being an example of silly science and an oxymoron.
So let us talk for a bit about political science. There are thousands of courses labelled “Political Science” in American and worldwide universities and high schools.
Wikipedia states: “Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and laws.”
It’s been at least a dozen hours since Russia recognized the independence of two predominantly-Russian districts of Ukraine and ordered Russian troops to go in and carrying peacekeeping missions.
I think we’ve heard this before. No, not the Sudetenland, but far more recent than that: a dozen or so former French colonies in Africa in the past thirty years or so. And of course, the fracturing of the former Yugoslavia. And based on some of the photos I’ve seen, maybe even last weekend in Ottawa: those “insurrection” breakers look a lot like regular Canadian troops (with lots of UN “peacekeeping” experience, no doubt) that Ontario Provincial Police. Though the horsemen and ‘women trampling protesters both appear to be RCMP, and based on their bravado and boasting on social media, are.
But back to Ukraine.
Continue readingThe accusation of “domestic terrorist” has become as ubiquitous as the the screamed cries of “fascist” in today’s political world.
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About a year ago, I asked the same questions:
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How stupid do you have to be, to be a senator?
A United States Senator, of course. But it no doubt is a question to ask of every Canadian Senator and every Senator of every one of the Fifty States. (Yes, even Nebraska has Senators in their unicameral legislature.)
Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican-South Carolina, has set a new standard for stupid. On the Hannity television show on 3 March 2022, he called for Putin’s assassination:
He repeated this again, on a Tweet, the next morning. It is no surprise to hear both left and right, east and west condemning him for urging this. It goes along with a $1,000,000 bounty placed on Putin’s head by a Russian businessman and TV personality.
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