Part of Colorado is burning. That’s not shocking or unusual. Colorado is a semi-arid region: the original grasslands and most of the montane forest and savanna are fire-climax ecosystems. Fire is an essential part of these environments.
But the fires in Colorado this year are much more than just brush and trees and grass sending clouds of dense smoke drifting with the wind. There are fires in society, fires in government.
Let me explain.
Continue readingMore about dictators – and not just about dictators in (and after) the Pandemic Panic.
As I pointed out in Part A (months ago), dictators are NOT the same as tyrants. At least in the view of libertarians and others who are opposed to the evil called Statism. Tyrants are not just given something close to “absolute power” over a polity; they use and abuse that power they are given (or seize). In ways that are aggression against others and usually to gain more power, wealth, and prestige. You can be a tyrant without being a dictator.
Continue readingIn California, incredibly, a superior court judge ruled that a religious congregation can continue to worship indoors… with conditions, of course. Why is this incredible? In part because the US Supreme Court, by vote of 5 Nazguli, denied an application for injunctive relief from a congregation in Nevada – thereby supporting the tyrannical decree of that State’s governor (or dictator) in denying the free exercise of religion. This was done on 24 JUL 2020, just weeks ago.
But now a judge in Los Angeles County has denied the County (and by inference, the State) has the legal power to prohibit people from assembling in person to worship God. A bold step indeed for a local Nazgul – we know who pays his wages, and guards him, after all.
But it is not the decision, welcome as it is, that I wish to comment on. It is the action and reaction of the preacher for this congregation. As he represents thousands of his (and officially, Christ’s) followers.
Continue readingAccording to many people, the Fifty States, and the American Empire, are washed up. Breathing our last, slipping down ever faster on the downward spiral to cataclysm and destruction. Dozens of reasons are given for this fear – based on the political positions and fears and phobias of the person(s) and institutions screaming about it.
Not everyone sees collapse, but many see major damage and chaos. Agora (Laissez Faire) recently discussed their take on “war games” by a collection of deep-staters (and therefore Anti-Trumpers). Four scenarios were played out – two ending in deadlock and all in a constitutional crisis and a “no one’s really in charge” situation. But Agora agreed with all of them: election disruptions, violence in the streets, widespread allegations of fraud and cheating, and more.
Continue readingAs the Lockdown Rebellion (against the COVID-19 Pandemic Panic) morphed into the Twenty-Dollar Revolt (the current madness triggered by the murder of George Floyd), a key meme emerged: Abolish the Police!!! (Expressed in many ways, of course.)
Many libertarians immediately jumped on the bandwagon. As if libertarians (especially free market, true, anarchists) have not been preaching and promoting this for decades. Libertarians have long argued that a root of tyranny is granting governments police powers, and urged privatizing such social functions.
“All of the sudden” millions of people seem to be screaming for the same thing. But they are not really proposing anything different.
Continue readingConsider something shared by a reader:
The Stand For America website asked readers, if they were president for a day, what their first executive order would be: Getting the most votes was “restoring traditional values to the classroom”. Another response was, “Enact a law requiring a balanced budget.” My reader and correspondent asked, “Don’t we already have that law somewhere in the bloated federal books? Why isn’t it enforced? Because we citizens like free money more than we want our nation to survive?”
The shocking thing about this is NOT what the readers wanted. Despite media claims and the rioters in the streets and the power-tripping, greedy politicians in DC, people want to restore some sanity. And many believe this wild ride of the last half century to be caused in large part by the public schools and a lack of personal responsibility exemplified by the massive spending of the welfare-warfare state.
Continue readingSee here for Part 1, and here for why I’m writing about New Mexico’s history and hostility to liberty.
Mexico’s legacy – its political and cultural DNA – continues to breed true, traced from Iberia and its 700 year fight for liberty against Islamic Moors, the Imperial Spanish regime of conquistadors and the papal missionaries. And it continues to be felt and make up part of the culture and political and social system which New Mexico endures even in 2020. (New Mexico’s state government differs in many ways from “standard” governments of most of the Fifty States.)
Continue readingTo understand the situation in New Mexico, its enmity towards liberty, and its tolerance and embrace of tyranny (currently in the form of MIchelle Lujan Gresham), we have to look at history, going back 1400 years and across the seas.
For more than 700 years, the people of Iberia (today’s Spain, Portugal, and Catalonia) fought against an evil empire which had conquered and basically enslaved them. Finally, in 1492, the Spanish rulers of a united Crown finally kicked the last of the Muslim Moors across the Straits of Gibraltar into Africa.
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When is this going to end?
Listening to the latest news and reading it on-line, this is a question Debby poses. When will the Panic and the Lockdown finally come to an end? How long will the media, the governments, the big corporations, and far too many fearful people panic and react to the Beer Flu (COVID-19)?
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