Breadstick vote nears – Can the UK free itself?

Posted on 2016-06-17 by TPOL Nathan

by Nathan Barton

Author’s Note: I wrote this before news came that an MP had been assassinated in her own constituency, supposedly by someone who was a supporter of “LEAVE” in the Brexit vote. (Or “breadstick vote” as one person thought someone said.) Although polls indicated that support for the UK to leave the EU was growing and a majority (in a non-binding vote, I might note), this killing (gun and knife, both supposedly “Under Control” by the peelers, according to the powers-that-be) may change that. My points in this story remain valid.

Sometimes, you just shake your head. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is well-known as a strong Tranzi, involved in all kinds of chicanery and name-calling on both sides of the Atlantic. And yet, he has now formally and publicly come out IN FAVOR of The UK’s exit from the EU, coming up for a vote next week. In an article in the Daily Telegraph he states his reasons for doing so. Continue reading →

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California – the choice is yours

Posted on 2016-06-16 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

California is an extreme example, a radical example, of how evil government can be. So extreme measures to restore liberty to the poor people of that state are called for.

Increasingly, the major difference between the ruling class of California and that of North Korea is that not all the powers-that-be in California have a family name of Kim. The Washington Times has an editorial about the arrogance of the California State Legislature, whose 120 members subscribe to the philosophy that what is good for us (the powers-that-be) isn’t good for the people; the scum which let the legislators live in luxury. The major point of the editorial is that California legislators have exempted themselves from at least SOME of the laws which are designed to disarm more and more Californians and visitors to that state. But it goes on to talk about all the ways the Legislature (together with many state officials and employees) are a ruling class with exemption from many laws that bedevil the rest of us; everything from not having to pay tolls or fines from red-light cameras to free cars and gasoline (having the taxpayers “pay” for some of the highest taxes on fuel in the nation). Continue reading →

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Orlando Massacre and Guns – A Few Thoughts

Posted on 2016-06-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

What do the events leading up to, and the Orlando Massacre itself, teach us? Self-defense is both a right and a responsibility. Defense against violence is a need that cannot and will not be met by government. And government is both instigating and enabling such massacres. Indeed, most mass killings of this size in American history have been done by government: it is NOT the solution.

It has been several weeks since I gave up on both the Libertarian Party and my long running “Libertarian Commentary” here at the Price of Liberty. After writing nearly a thousand commentaries, it is hard to get out of the habit of looking at news stories and immediately typing out a few hundred words, but the stress is less and I don’t intend to go back to doing that anytime soon. So I didn’t and don’t intend to immediately jump into the opinion fray concerning the “worst mass killing (shooting) in US history.” At the same time, it doesn’t hurt to point out a few things. Continue reading →

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Keeping, Bearing, and Wearing Arms in Texas

Posted on 2016-06-14 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Please read the commentary “Carrying Concealed” is NOT a right…” first, to better understand my comments here.

As I said in the earlier article, the entire business of carrying concealed has been controversial for a very long time, and fought over constantly. We looked at Colorado. Now let us go on to Texas. It is a sad history. It is interesting, and seldom reported these days by either side.

For more than a century, Texas’ constitution specifically did not recognize the right to carry a concealed weapon. And the legislature failed to fix some bad laws, and the judicial system, the Nazgul, failed to protect the rights of Texans by failing to act against the legislature, while continuing to send innocent men and women to jail and prison for committing a “crime” that was not. The Texan Supreme Court, in a case called Masters v State, in essence said the same thing as the Ninth has regarding California. It is valuable to understand that, and how Texans were denied their God-given liberty for so many years. This was taught as “the right to keep and bear arms does not construe any right to carry a concealed weapon (to “wear” a weapon that is concealed). (Similar to Colorado.) And that “reasonable regulation” is acceptable. Continue reading →

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“Carrying Concealed” is NOT a right guaranteed by the US Constitution, but…

Posted on 2016-06-12 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

The infamous Ninth Nazgul, that FedGov collection of terrorists and thugs and autocrats (by appointment of His Grace the Tyrant) has struck again. As reported by JPFO and PrisonPlanet which seems to have the most interesting take on it, including the scream of protest from yet ANOTHER elected chief thug (the Governor of the once free nation of Texas), Seven of the Eleven of the Ninth have declared that the Second Amendment to the US Constitution does not allow concealed carry as a right. “The right of a member of the general public to carry a concealed firearm in public is not, and never has been, protected by the Second Amendment,” their ruling says. Continue reading →

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The arrogance and overreach of human government

Posted on 2016-06-10 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

How much power do human governments have? And specifically, how much power do SOME human governments have? I think that it is clear that too many people, not just those IN these various governments, think that government has a lot more power than it really does, and even more than any government should have.

Consider this article in Raw Story. It seems that a private company, Moon Express, wants clearance by the FedGov to fly to the moon in 2017. “U.S. government agencies are working on temporary rules to allow Moon Express to land a spacecraft on the moon next year, while Congress weighs a more permanent legal framework to govern future commercial missions to the moon, Mars and other destinations beyond Earth’s orbit, officials said. Plans by private companies to land spacecraft on the moon or launch them out of Earth’s orbit face legal obstacles because the United States has not put in place regulations to govern space activities, industry and government officials said. … The issue is coming to a head in part because of a request by Florida-based Moon Express for permission from the U.S. government to land a spacecraft on the moon in 2017. So far, only government agencies have flown satellites beyond Earth’s orbit.” Continue reading →

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Baker’s Dozen ™ Human Rights

Posted on 2016-06-08 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan A Barton

Please think about this. Here is a list of thirteen groups, thirteen “kinds” of people who do NOT have rights.

1. Women do not have rights. Nor do men.
2. Christians and Muslims do not have rights.
3. Students do not have rights.
4. Labor union members, and workers/employees, do not have rights.
5. Soldiers do not have rights.
6. Immigrants do not have rights.
7. Welfare recipients do not have rights.
8. Voters do not have rights.
9. Homosexuals (male or female) do not have rights.
10.Consumers do not have rights.
11.Transgender and cross-dressers do not have rights.
12.Workers/Employees do not have rights.
13.Business owners do not have rights. Continue reading →

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Defining national government

Posted on 2016-06-07 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton,

The following quote was part of the daily e-mail newsletter from Liberty Quotes, and caught my attention. “A national government is a government of the people of a single state or nation, united as a community by what is termed the ‘social compact,’ and possessing complete and perfect supremacy over persons and things, so far as they can be made the lawful objects of civil government. A federal government is distinguished from a national government by its being the government of a community of independent and sovereign states, united by compact.” — Black’s Law Dictionary, Source: Piqua Branch Bank v. Knoup, 6 Ohio St. 393. [Black’s Law Dictionary, Revised Fourth Edition, 1968, p. 1176]

As a christian and as a person who seeks to be a self-governor and loves liberty, I have a number of points of contention with this, as well as a number of positive comments about the definition. Moreover, I believe that this definition should be helpful in understanding what we can do to reestablish and preserve liberty as a people and a society. Continue reading →

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Guns and media: Who do we believe?

Posted on 2016-06-06 by TPOL Nathan

by Nathan Barton

(Or, “Guns and the Power of the Media”)

According to Newsweek and a blogger from the London School of Economics, the reason that gun sales have soared in the past decade or so is because of – get this – Fox News! Them and the rest of the television networks – the media. Americans are so propagandized that every time Fox News (or NBC or ABC or whatever) runs a news story about a White House initiative to “control gun violence” or “limit guns on the streets;” about some new Congresscrittur or wannabe Congresscrittur with gun control on their agenda, about some mayors or moms or monks against guns protest, more and more people rush out and buy guns, therefore doing exactly the opposite of what all those people are against: further arming Americans. Continue reading →

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Government and… (Examples of Why “Government is Bad”)

Posted on 2016-06-04 by TPOL Nathan

Nathan’s Rants: Living Free

Government (and by that I mean mandated, nonvoluntary, “monopoly (or near-monopoly) of force” government), is bad for people. History demonstrates that government and its actions have violently killed and caused directly or indirectly more premature deaths of humans in the six thousand or so years of recorded history than ANY other cause. From Nimrod and the various kings of Mesopotamian and Canaanite cities through Pharaoh and Assyrian and Babylonian and Persian kings right down to the present regimes in places like DC and Kiev and Peking, governments are bad. Bad for people and society and other institutions and technology and health and everything else. Even for the people who RUN government and supposedly benefit from it, from absolute monarchs and tribal chiefs and elders to “we, the people.” It is NOT “government gone bad,” it is “government IS bad.” Continue reading →

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