By MamaLiberty
This ought to work…
Florida House Passes ‘In God We Trust’ Bill for Schools in Response to Massacre
The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday requiring all public schools to prominently display the nation’s motto, “In God We Trust,” somewhere on campus.
But will it work as well as these?
I don’t think so, and I’m sure the atheists will be all over it soon. Good luck, Florida.
By Nathan Barton
Understandably, you, dear reader, may think I’m being needlessly (or even brashly or offensively) spiritual (religious) by using this term. Yet, in reality, in today’s world we find it necessary to treat statists in a way very similar to how christians treat (or should treat) those who are not.
So whether or not you are “converting” them or “persuading” them or “liberating” them, the process is very similar, and very essential. Let’s discuss it.
Notice that I do not say “converting to libertarianism” or “converting to anarchism” or even “converting to classical liberalism.” Nor do I speak of changing someone’s politics or political affiliation. Such an idea is very much comparable to converting someone to a denomination or a “religion” as defined by the modern world. (And honestly, as worthless.) Rather than helping someone to become a follower of Christ. (From a christian point of view.)
If we truly need and want liberty to change the world; to make ourselves and our community and our world more free, much is required. We need to do much more than getting people to vote for “our” candidate(s) for massa and junior massa and such. (Even if “our” candidates are more “libertarian” than the rest.) We need to do more than get them to score 10/10 on the World’s Smallest Political Quiz and find that they are “libertarian” or even “Libertarian.” We need to do more than just talk or write or nag people. Continue reading
By MamaLiberty
No, the NRA doesn’t speak for me, and never did. Neither the “president,” nor any politician can speak for me either. I do hope Mr. Trump manages to learn that he can’t please everyone, and finds some rational advisers at the very least, but he has zero legitimate authority to dictate anything to me – about anything.
Nobody can speak for me unless I ask them to do so. I have not authorized anyone to speak for me, or to make decisions about my life and safety.
As a human being, I am the only one responsible for my life and safety. As a parent, I took personal responsibility for the health and safety of my children. No government can do that for you, no matter how compassionate and caring they seem to be – or say they are.
None of these people are asking or answering the real question:
Can evil people be prevented from doing evil by making everyone else a helpless potential victim? Do you honestly think that “laws” restricting or prohibiting an inanimate object will prevent evil people from harming others? If so, I’d like to hear exactly how you think that works…
Who owns your life? Who is responsible for your life and safety? If you choose to be subject to the non-voluntary government, do you think others can be/should be forced to go along with it? Can you speak for everyone/ anyone else?
Think about it.
By Nathan Barton
(Note: This, in a shorter version, was originally a response to a comment to my commentary “The Art of the Deal – January 2018.”)
What are the priorities of government? Of government agencies? Of government employees? Of politicians in power in government?
The standard civics class speaks glowingly of “public service” and “serving and protecting” and such nonsense. Some analysts will talk of “enlightened self-interest” and people will talk about defending life and property. It’s babble. (And there is frequently VERY little “enlightened” about the self-interest that states and rulers display.)
Government is, first and foremost, a parasite. The priorities of parasites have little if any relation to the priorities of the host.
Usually, the priority of government (and government employees including politicians) goes something like this:
1. Maximize their agency/government control of people and business.
2. Maximize the employment/income security of the government employees.
3. Maximize their revenues (taxes, fees, grants from other governments, etc.). Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Revelations concerning the failure of the FBI to follow up on published threats by the Florida school killer to do just that – kill people in school – are troubling.
Coming on top of the exposure of FBI (and DOJ) work to first win the election for Miz Hillary, and then to betray the Trump administration, it is more than troubling. Doubly so when the FBI is accusing Russians of trying to “influence” the 2016 election, and when Democrats are accusing the GOP and Trump of politicizing the FBI. When the Democrats were actually doing exactly that.
The complete failure to fire, indict, try, or even demote these evildoers inside the FBI – or even just plain incompetents – for this sort of nonsense points out an obvious fact. At least to me.
We have fresh proof of the corrupt and evil nature of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. To say nothing of its incompetence. Oh, it has been well-known that the FBI started out as a corrupt, meddling, and often incompetent organization, way back in the 1930s under the guiding hand of J. Edgar Hoover. If there was ever a man who needed psychiatric and religious help, J. Edgar was him. For four decades, this man used the Bureau as his plaything, and was indeed a (if not the) power behind the throne (or at least that big desk POTUS uses). Behind a façade of scientific and investigatory prowess and impeccable integrity, it was a steaming cesspool of corruption, ineptness, powermongering, pandering, and worse. Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
It has happened again. Seventeen people are killed by a crazed 19-year-old “child” in and around a school in Florida. A 9-12th grade high school with more than 3,000 students. Or rather, as Tom Knapp accurately characterized it (in Freedom Net Daily) 3,000+ “inmates” in a “government-operated daytime confinement facility.”
The horror of such an event should be obvious. Especially since it appears this “kid” (19 is adult for everything except drinking alcohol and carrying concealed weapons) was well-known as a violence-prone nutcase who was preparing himself for just what he did. And he is NOT a suspect: he confessed to the murders in open court. (His court-appointed public defender says his new client is “sad, mournful, remorseful.” Well, we all know how to tell when lawyers are lying: their lips are moving.)
There are already numerous reports about how people – especially teachers – sacrificed themselves to save the lives of “children” in the school. (Again, I put “children” in quotes because a ninth-grader is at least 15 years old – well past the age of accountability for 95 or even 99% of the population – and therefore historically and religiously considered an adult. Except by modern government, Tranzis, and (sadly) too many conservatives and libertarians.) Continue reading
By MamaLiberty
Yesterday, Feb. 12, was listed on my calendar as Lincoln’s birthday. I didn’t notice it then, even went to the county library – which was open! These past “presidents” don’t get much attention these days, since so many people are working overtime bitching about the current one… but we might all benefit from a critical analysis of those in the past. If we look at the true history, of course. The government indoctrination camps continue to present Lincoln and many others as saints and humanitarians, when they were anything but…
If you want the real skinny on Lincoln, this article is a good start.
America’s Most Deified Politician . . .
By Thomas DiLorenzo
Lincoln was by far the most hated, despised, and reviled of all American presidents during his lifetime, as historian Larry Tagg documents in The Unpopular Mr. Lincoln: America’s Most Reviled President. His deification was the posthumous work of the Republican Party propaganda machine.
Lincoln was very careful with his language when he explained to the world in his first inaugural address and other speeches that he was willing to enshrine slavery explicitly in the text of the Constitution (with the “Corwin Amendment”), but that he would invade any state that refused to collect the newly-doubled federal tariff tax and send the proceeds to Washington, D.C. So-called “Lincoln scholars” lie though their teeth about this, in other words.
Lincoln’s invasion of the “free and independent” Southern states, as all states are called in the Declaration of Independence, was the very definition of treason under Article 3, Section 3 of the Constitution,which defines treason as “only” levying war upon the United States, or giving aid and comfort to “their” enemy. The word “their,” signifying the states in the plural, means treason is waging war against South Carolina, Virginia, etc. Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Warning: This is satirical in the extreme. Be warned.
Second warning: ALL congressmen, even those who claim to be at least somewhat libertarian – minarchists at heart, I guess – are evil to some degree. Evil properly being defined as the absence of good – of godliness. Anyone who believes that it is right to use physical force or the threat of force to make someone do something, or for any reason other than in response to aggression against yourself or someone else, is ungodly to some degree, and therefore evil. Be warned.
Those evil, evil GOP types in Congress. Not content to try to take political control of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice and subvert them to their own evil ends. Not content to pass tax relief bills which provide peanuts in tax relief for 99% and billions for the 1% (or so the Dems claim). Not content to turn the FedGov into a theocracy. Not content to abuse millions of innocent children of illegal immigrants by refusing them free rides for everything. No, these evil monsters with their pockets stuffed full of NRA and Koch cash, while stuffing interns and worse, are now killing good, honest, hardworking American trash workers, and going out from their luxury train to pretend to render first aid while they can enjoy the worker’s death close up. AND using good, American-government-run railroad trains to do it. Continue reading
By Nathan Barton
Mama Liberty sent this story and comment to me the other morning: As Vladimir Putin steals the Russian election, our leaders are shamefully silent.
She wrote: Now, wait just a cotton pickin’ minute here. Washington DC about boiled over with the mere suggestion that Russia “influenced” the US elections… but some seem to think it is perfectly proper to influence an election in Russia? The thing that comes to my mind is that there are probably millions of people like me who see no difference at all between any politicians, anywhere, and wouldn’t “vote” for any of them.
Do I hear an “amen” from the crowd?
Now I, like many others, have been hearing all this accusation about meddling in elections back and forth. My early morning newsfeed included this story (Las Vegas Review Journal) reporting that George W Bush is certain that Russia interfered with the 2016 Presidential election – with the story insinuating that this was yet another attack on Trump by the Bush Family. (Actually, based on that memo and other reports, it could also be that he believes that Russians aided the CLINTON Campaign in trying to interfere with the election.) Continue reading
The Price of Liberty 
Are we’uns stooopid? Too many ‘merkins is, it seems
By Nathan Barton
It is a steady drumbeat. Every day, I get to read a couple – shucks, a half-dozen or more – stories (“news stories?”) in the mainstream media AND the alternative media that point out the stupid behavior of many people.
What kind of people? The media (all types, really) for once. Officialdom. (At all levels.) Criminals. And, sadly, common and ordinary people. And it is clear that the media and officials and politicians and their puppetmasters understand how stupid people can be. Even if those manipulators are themselves stupid.
“Enjoy” some examples with me.
I know that after the Florida killings, people are in a panic and overreact to anything and everything. And when you are stupid, it is even worse: you overreact and then you overreact to the reaction.
And apparently, the people and cops of Oberlin, in Allen Parish, Louisiana, are as stupid as stupid can be. A student was interrogated, and his home was searched by detectives, after a fellow student called in a terroristic threat, as reported in Townhall.com. The student was working on math problems in class when his classmates saw him draw the picture of a gun. Specifically of a pistol. Continue reading →