We watch the increasingly shrill (and violent) attacks on anything and everything that can possibly be labeled as “racist.” This is exploding from the Twenty-Dollar Revolt over the killing of Minneapolis criminal George Floyd by a “racist” obviously abusive jack-booted thug in blue (while a mixed-race collection of other cops watched).
The mob – both physical and virtual – is baying like hounds as they race to destroy all record, all evidence, of “white supremacy.” One target was that bastion of science and scholarship, Princeton University. Their target? The evil Woodrow Wilson.
It was just a quick note on a recent Agora Financial (Laissez Faire) newsletter, talking about how Anti-Lockdown Protests (TM) are evil but Defund-Police and Black-Lives-Matter Protests are good and create no “public health” problem. Here’s a bit:
No doubt, this headline will result in TPOL being condemned for a “parody” of the nasty Black Lives Matter.
A female student at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas, was expelled within hours for a posting on social media which was meant to disparage those who do NOT take the christian concern for human life seriously regardless of race. In other words, for exercising her freedom of expression.
You live in, or have to be in (even travel) through one of those areas that is disbanding or defunding or abolishing their police forces – or even just setting up “no-go” zones (a la France, Sweden, and certain cities on this continent)? There is a certain amount of preparation that you might want to take – to be safer and help your family and friends to also be prepared and able to cope. Regardless of your skin color, your ethnic or national background, or how high up the economic food chain you are.
What do you do, with no police around? No, not just not worry about an occasional mistake in your speed or failing to signal.
Pahasapa (or Paha Sapa) is a Lakota name for the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
According to a huge number of politicians and “experts” (including way too many in South Dakota and the Black Hills), the glorious fireworks display at Mount Rushmore on Friday the 3rd was going to destroy the Black Hills. Hundreds of fires would be set off by fireworks over the sculpture in the “abnormally dry” Ponderosa pine forests of the National Memorial, the Peter Norbeck Wildlife Preserve, and nearby Custer State Park and the rest of Black Hills National Forest. All supposedly for the vainglory of The Donald.
Over at his website, Ari Armstrong of Colorado provides his six steps towards ending police abuses. Ari is a thoughtful guy, and a prolific writer and interviewer. He is libertarian (of, I believe, a minarchist persuasion).
In the 1960s and 1970s, during the Third (or Fourth, I lose track) Indochina War, the stupidity of LBJ and RMN (and their advisors, and Congress) designated certain areas (like Laos, Cambodia, and China (Guangxi and Yunnan provinces, specifically) as “sanctuary zones.” US and Allied military forces could enter not these areas, which were used by Viet Cong and People’s Army of Vietnam for supply, movement, and housing. For much of the “limited” war, I am told (though I’ve not spoken with anyone who actually saw it) that a VC or PAVN soldier could stand a foot outside the border of Vietnam in those areas, and thumb their nose at the American, ARVN, Aussie, or ROK soldiers inches away – and even SHOOT at those soldiers, who were not allowed to return fire.
Yesterday, we discussed how in the Fifty States, the “consent of the governed” has been withdrawn. And that certain segments of society have demonstrated their contempt for the law – thereby claiming that government and law is illegitimate. They apparently are accomplishing their goal of causing society to collapse, so that they can rebuild it in their own image.
A correspondent pointed out that this attitude is being transmitted to, and accepted by growing numbers of people who have previously supported government and the rule of law. Even if they disagreed with some or much of it.
These are NOT the faces of free people. These are the faces of livestock, obeying the will of their masters, their owners.
Sheep?
Some do it with joy – like dogs. Some do it with distain – like cats forced to. But if they are wearing masks (face-diapers, one correspondent calls them) because they are told to, they are not free.
On this 3rd of July, AD 2020, the last day of Anno Libertatus 444, too many Americans are being told to do so. Florida, Texas, Washington State, California, and else where. These are NOT States in which liberty can still be found. (It’s like the story of the woman offered $5000 to sleep with the man, who then offers $5.00. She accepted the first offer: she is a hooker: the rest is just haggling over the price. They have accepted SOME tyranny – now it is just haggling over the terms of slavery.)
In a couple of hours, 7500 or so people will gather at Mount Rushmore, to enjoy fireworks and see President Trump also enjoy the fireworks. Trump and Governor Noem (also to be present) have been condemned and harassed unmercifully for even having the fireworks, inviting Trump, and for not requiring “social” distancing and wearing of masks. The entire thing (together with the Twenty-dollar Rebellion and the Pandemic Panic and Lockdown) has become a cottage industry. A bunch of idiots have called for (and a few have threatened) the destruction of Mount Rushmore. No doubt the protesters (and perhaps a few rioters and even some looters) are already positioned to block routes, terrorize locals, and make lots of nice video shots for the media.
In South Dakota, unless they try to attack someone, damage something, or trespass, they are free to do so. South Dakota recognizes that is what the Declaration of Independence is about – and what supposedly the Constitution was meant to protect. Along with a whole lot more: free enterprise, free trade, the peace, protection from tyrants, and more.
All of which we have seen stolen away from us, time and time again. Especially this wonderful year of AD 2020. As I’ve asked before, is this an Independence Day to celebrate what we HAD and LOST? Or is it to look forward to a time when we again HAVE those freedoms? That liberty? Or is it just another bit of bread and circuses to keep the yokels happy?
The title of this commentary comes from an old science fiction novel, and should be burned into our minds – and constantly said to the Karens, the Mrs. Grundies, the nannystaters, the politicians and the bureaucrats, and the health enforcers.
YOU and I have the answer to what Independence Day means in 2020. Think well up on it.
TPOL argued recently that in the Fifty States, the “consent of the governed” has in effect been withdrawn. We pointed out the growing refusal to obey the various stupid, even insane, edicts of the Lockdown (due to the Pandemic Panic), AND the lawlessness of the Twenty-Dollar Revolt protesters, rioters, and looters (“in response to” the death of George Floyd and others). This includes more and more Americans from Maine to Hawai’i, and from Alaska to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
As a correspondent pointed out, this is just a response to, and in lockstep with, the loss of legitimacy of government at every level, and growing contempt for ALL law. By more and more people.
The Price of Liberty 
Why education must be liberated – and delivered – from government
It was just a quick note on a recent Agora Financial (Laissez Faire) newsletter, talking about how Anti-Lockdown Protests (TM) are evil but Defund-Police and Black-Lives-Matter Protests are good and create no “public health” problem. Here’s a bit:
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