Why do we bash some places more than others?

Posted on 2025-04-08 by TPOL Nathan

The Price of Liberty is an independent voice for lovers of liberty. Established by Susan Calloway (Mama Liberty or Lady Susan), this work is carried on by the Barton family of the Pahasapa, the Black Hills. We lost Mama Liberty in an untimely way to cancer, and attempt to carry on her work. But the show love for everyone, even those we find are evil, enemies, and just plain stupid. We love them but not their actions. Although we know it is a low-probability outcome, we seek to educate them as much as we do novice and experienced lovers of liberty. We do not reject “electoral” libertarianism, but gave up on it long ago. Part of our chosen work of education – dare we say enlightenment – has always be to call a spade a spade.

More than once various people, including some in California, ask us this question: why do we hit on some places a lot more than others? It isn’t just California. We do the same for Colorado, New Mexico, and other “liberal” (or as we prefer, Transnational Regressives, or Tranzis) States. But we even bash States like Texas and Florida and Wyoming now and then: all supposedly “red” conservative States.

There are several answers. Let us look first at California: the “People’s Republic” or Left Coast or the “Bare Everything” State. California is known for its “out-of-pocket” behavior (see the short list of California slang to see what we mean.) But specifics are possible:

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Constitutional rights and powers – and penalties?

Posted on 2025-04-07 by TPOL Nathan

Some yahoo asked a question the other day: “Where in the US Constitution is gun ownership a protected right? I can’t find it.

Silly claims aside, let us see at least one answer to that question.

Let us compare this to another claim about the US Constitution: Where in the Constitution does it say there must be a separation of church and state? I can’t find it. Oh, wait, that’s right. It’s not there. It says “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” That means, at the very least, that the FedGov cannot restrict anyone’s ability to practice their religion.

Is it not perfectly clear (from the writings of the Founding Fathers) that the intent of this clause was to prevent the government from intruding on people’s religious freedoms?

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The Federal land grab – a quick history (part 1)

Posted on 2025-04-04 by TPOL Nathan

A frequently discussed issue in libertarian and free-market anarchist circles regards the fact that there is NOT constitutional power or permission given to the FedGov to own anything except for specific military and naval properties. And that only with the specific permission of the States in which those properties are located.

The constitutional citation is clear: Article I, Section 8: The Constitution grants Congress the power to “exercise exclusive legislation… over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings.”

Of course, this power has been stretched beyond any reasonable recognition. Indeed, the evidence is that the language is ignored. Blanket approval of a State’s legislature is assumed to be granted, and no Federal agency that we are aware of in the past 130 or so years has ever asked for “consent” for a purpose. Needful or not.

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Solving the world’s problems

Posted on 2025-04-03 by TPOL Nathan
Buckminster Fuller once wrote:
If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if you took all the politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the moon, everyone would get along fine.

We, as fans of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, call this the “B Ark solution.” Especially if we add the corporate, government, and religious bureaucrats and politicians to that group. For example, the UK’s House of Commons, portrayed in an X posting:

Why? Most of these groups actively seek to stymie human progress. At best, they hinder it. At worst, they destroy progress for the sake of their own power and gratification. The 280+ days of the political campaigns and the month-long election “day” we endured in 2024 demonstrate this danger.

(We shudder to think what the 2028 campaign will be like: long, nasty, and brutal, no doubt.)

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Faker’s Dozen ™ Stories about Osama bin Laden

Posted on 2025-04-01 by TPOL Nathan

As we learn more and more about the truly amazing ways that American governments have lied, lied, and lied some more, it brings back some memories.

So here is a bit of fun – calling up (with suitable updating) a spoof/sarcastic remarks from 2011.

  1. There was NO Osama bin Laden: he was invented by (choose one or more):
    ¨House of Windsor (British Royal Family)
    ¨ Knights Templar or Society of Sion
    ¨ US Government
    ¨ Muslim Brotherhood
    ¨ Adolf Hitler III, hiding in Paraguay
    ¨ Soviet KGB scientists in underground Siberian cities
  2. There was an authentic Osama bin Laden but he was killed in Afghanistan in 2001 by (choose one):
    ¨ captured christian slave girl/concubine 
    ¨ secret SAS raiders
    ¨ Saudi Salafi commandos
    ¨ The Donald
  3. Osama bin Laden had extensive plastic surgery and replaced the man who was actually elected US President in 2008, while that person was in turn surgically modified to take bin Laden’s place, and then killed because he got tired of goat meat and wanted to come out of the cold.
  4. Osama bin Laden was a (chose one or more): ¨ CIA operative ¨ Mossad operative ¨ KGB operative ¨ FSB (Russian security) operative ¨ MI-6 operative ¨ INTERPOL operative ¨ Gestapo or Neue Gestapo operative ¨ Chinese operative, who turned rogue and finally had to be taken out. ¨ all of the above.
  5. Osama bin Laden was not killed in 2011; he was captured and is in rendition on an unmarked merchant ship while his brain is being vacuumed; the video and photos of the raid were staged and photoshopped so that everyone thinks he is dead.
  6. The Osama bin Laden killed in 2011 was an out-of-luck actor hired to pretend to be Osama and was (chose one)
    ¨ killed instead of getting paid off,
    ¨ replaced by a clone and now living in luxury in Monaco with a good shave,
    ¨a masochist who thought his lovers would eat his body after he was killed, or
    ¨ the accidental victim of an overly-complex script and friendly fire.
  7. Osama bin Laden was the (chose one of the following):
    ¨ reincarnation of the Prophet Mohammad (pbuh)
    ¨ Twelfth Imam and Mahdi, ¨ Messiah returned,
    ¨ Messiah first coming,
    ¨ a reincarnation of Balaam’s donkey, and was taken up to the Fifth Heaven by Allah. 
  8. So his death had to be staged by (chose one or more):
    ¨ Pakistani intelligence (ISI),
    ¨ Israeli intelligence (Mossad),
    ¨ CIA,
    ¨ The Sinaloa Cartel,
    ¨ Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream (Clandestine Division).
  9. Osama bin Laden was the illegitimate great-grandson of Rasputin the Mad Monk, and the center of a KGB plot to overthrow the United States that didn’t get the word to stop when the Soviet Union fell, and finally got tired of the game.
  10. Osama bin Laden was Howard Hughes, who faked his own death after he went through a secret rejuvenation process and became an enemy of the United States because they wouldn’t give back his Spruce Goose.
  11. Osama bin Laden is a cousin of the White House resident (2009-2017) and is now living in a shack in a sub-basement of the Chicago City Hall and is a janitor for the nearby Presidential Library; everything was faked.
  12. Osama bin Laden was killed but it was a fake, prepared body that was buried at sea and the real body was sent to Atlanta to be examined but stolen by secret Islamic deep-cover agents and taken to Paraguay to be reanimated in Hitler’s secret laboratories by Joseph Mengele.
  13. Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 but rose out of the water three days later and is now executing forty years of terror to destroy the West.

© 2011 and 2025 by Simon Jester Media.  May be used with attribution.

Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to laugh at the garbage that governments try to pull. As long as we remember to question everything that they do and say.

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SCOTUS and lesser Nazgul – powers and corruption

Posted on 2025-03-31 by TPOL Nathan

American government and society have been irretreivably warped – twisted – by the so-called justice system. The federal judicial branch and system established by the US Constitution and then changed and frankly corrupted by Congress and the influence and desires of the judges themselves.

As a result, in 2025, the American federal court system is a monstrosity that the Founding Fathers never envisioned and would not have tolerated. And because the various State systems are modeled largely on the current FedGov model, they too are tainted – and often downright corrupt.

Like the wicked judge of Jesus’ sermon, sometimes even a corrupt system and the people in it can do the right thing. At least now and then. But that is not what right, moral, or needed by a free people. And as time goes on, the corrupt nature gains more power and causes more harm.

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We expect too much of government

Posted on 2025-03-29 by TPOL Nathan

One reason that government reform fails, going all the way back to Babylon and Egypt and ancient Chin, is because people refuse to look at the basics. One of those is answering the question, “What should governments do?” What is the function of government? What do we want, what should we want government to do? In ancient and even fairly recent times, even the most tyrannical and totalitarian governments tried to perform all the functions that modern “civilization” expects them to do.

The liberated American State governments of 1776 and their new FedGov in 1787 did virtually none of the tasks we pile on them today – or which they grasp in a lust for power and money.

Is it any wonder that government agencies fail more and more in doing everything we expect them to do?

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Deep-six the income tax

Posted on 2025-03-28 by TPOL Nathan

Yahoo posted a fascinating clickbait article with all kinds of numbers. What would upper-middle-income wages and salaries be like if the FedGov income tax disappeared? Depending on the various income levels in the States, working folks would take home anywhere from $1200 to $1800 every two weeks. That is an average of more than $30,000 per year per taxpayer.

Government is expensive. The FedGov is more expensive. And what do we get for it?

Well, libertarians and lovers of liberty have long advocated the abolition of this nasty method that the government uses to steal money from the people it supposedly works for. This gives us one more really neat talking point in getting people to at least consider that what we have done for more than a century is a really bad idea—not just expensive but stupid.

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Multi-level marketing: government style

Posted on 2025-03-27 by TPOL Nathan

Although government agencies (and the legislative branches) are past masters at scams and double-dealing, we do have to remember that the governments are not the only con artists out there.

While it is possible for multi-level marketing to be on the up-and-up, we know that many organizations which employ multi-level marketing strategies are in reality con jobs. Various forms of Ponzi schemes, fake come-ons, and other tactics are far too common. Of course, any form of business organization can be twisted and used for ill-gotten gains.

Generally, though, the attractions of multi-level marketing – and its attractiveness to scumbags who prey on others – isn’t able to be used to their advantage by governments. But…

Has the FedGov found a way? The daily AUSA (Association of the US Army (a private membership organization) recently published this little tidbit:

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American schools – more and more are little but a joke

Posted on 2025-03-25 by TPOL Nathan

Schools are supposed to educate – to teach people (especially children).

Public schools, that is, government-run, tax-funded, schools are constantly demonstrating that they are generally incapable of doing so. Oh, there are exceptions to this. Schools which have outstanding, loving, and skilled teachers who can educate those that they teach. Some administrators who understand their role to support parents, teachers, and students. But more and more, the quality of schools across the Fifty States is declining.

The attempt to abolish the US Department of Education is in large part driven by understanding this. The decay has gone on for so long, the rot is likely unrepairable. As we have written elsewhere, there comes a point when a system must be abandoned. Broken up for scrap so that anything worthwhile can be put to wise and beneficial use. We believe we are at that point.

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