By Nathan Barton
The headline phrase is one of the many additions to our culture, from the Star Trek franchise. One used both in the cause of liberty and tyranny. It is a meme that government would love for us to accept. That those controllers, those people who fear that all people are like them and fear liberty and freedom, want us to accept.
The reality is of course that resistance is NOT futile, as American and world history shows: Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Back in 2012, following the reelection of a very divisive squatter at 1600 PA in DC, there was a raft of petitions posted to FedGov websites (such as “We the People”) and other venues, petitioning the FedGov to allow various states to secede from the Union (or what was formerly a Union).
Mama Liberty and I commented on this in a posting “The Scent of Secession is in the air” dated 11 November 2018.
Now, more than seven years later, whatever happened?
By Nathan Barton
Over at Firearms News is one of Vin Suprynowicz’s latest columns, “They took the doughboy’s rifle away.” It an excellent, long, and fun read, taking us back over a century and showing Vin’s exceptional reporting skills. (So often lacking in most news media today.) And he raises important points about government stupidity and the irrationality of the liberal (Tranzi and Regressive) mindset.
He points out the incredible evil (my words, not his) of rewriting history and removing key facts in the guise of political correctness and protecting the children and avoiding giving offense or creating fear in people.
Originally posted 27 SEP 2012 by Mama Liberty. When I posted this a few days ago, I did not check the links and found that several no longer exist. Hence this update, with new links and ideas added.
Updated by Nathan Barton
Helping other women (and men) become empowered to accept personal responsibility for their own lives/safety, and that of their families, is a big reason the original Price of Liberty came into being, and has been a focus of my life for a long time. It’s the reason I became a firearms and self defense instructor, and why I hand out hundreds of these cards each year.
Recently, I’ve found two other blogs by women who are informing and empowering others. I’d like to introduce them both to my readers here, and urge you to explore those blogs as well.
By Nathan Barton
The good Regressives (Tranzis) of Laguna Beach, California, seem to be working overtime to tick people off. By slamming their local cops.
According to a posting at Godfather Politics, the “liberals” are slamming the police department in that city for the new red-white-and-blue, US flag based logo on their cop cars, stating that it is “very aggressive” and “didn’t really represent our community.” Not surprisingly, they are getting a lot of negative pushback, from conservatives and even some liberals.
By Nathan Barton
Last week in Phoenix, a horrific incident played out, resulting in four deaths: three from gunshot and one from beating with a baseball bat. To add to the horror, one of the shooting victims was a 5-year-old girl, and the baseball bat beating and killing was of a 7-year-old girl. The victims were the wife, brother, and two children of the confessed murderer. This was reported by AZFamily, a media site, on the 11th and 12th of August.
Why did this NOT show up on national media? Not a hint. Not a single editorial about how we need to do more to prevent gun violence and not a single word about the need for better “red flag” laws in Arizona or nationally. Indeed, I don’t think it was reported outside of Arizona.
By Nathan Barton
Wow! This is Tax Freedom Day, 16 April 2019, just the day after Income Tax Day (may it be remembered in infamy).
Erica York of the Tax Foundation wrote, “Tax Freedom Day, is a significant date for taxpayers and lawmakers because it represents how long Americans as a whole have to work in order to pay the nation’s tax burden.” That’s federal, state and local. Isn’t that incredible.
Note that Tax Freedom Day falls three days earlier in 2019 compared with 2018 — thanks mostly to the much lamented and frequently-condemned Trump-pushed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
Ah well. It seems that Americans spend more on taxes than they do on food, clothing and shelter… (not counting the taxes levied on them).
The threat of slavery in these Fifty States
By Nathan Barton
I can hear it now – Nathan, you are speaking nonsense with this headline. Come on, slavery was abolished years ago. How can it be a threat?
I point the reader to this column by Paul Jacobs. Conservative though he is, he points out a terrible truth: in 2020, there will be people on the ballot right here in the Fifty States who are advocates of slavery.
And not just tax slavery, either. Many disagree with those of us who equate taxation to slavery. So lets not deal with that in this commentary. Nor am I writing about sex slavery, or anything like that.
I’m writing about forced labor, involuntary servitude. Exactly what the Fourteenth Amendment supposedly outlaws. Exactly what that war of 1861-1865 was supposedly about. Slavery. Where a man or woman is forced to do something that they may or may not want to do, for the benefit of those who control them and their bodies.
Continue reading →