Three-hundredth Post: The “messiah” strikes again and again

Posted on 2013-08-24 by TPOL Nathan

Home front – The “messiah”: Obama wants police to search smartphones
(News story (from NPR) via Godfather Politics)… Obama wanting to give police throughout the country the right to search someone’s smartphone without having a warrant.  … guest commentator on the subject, John Miller, former assistant Director of Public Affairs for the FBI, share his views on the subject.  He said that what the FBI does is seize the smartphone and hold it until they obtain a warrant allowing them to search through the phone.  He then explained that what Obama wants is to allow a police officer who believes he/she has probable cause to not only seize the person’s smartphone, but have the legal right to search through it on the spot without having to first obtain a warrant.

David: What was interesting is that neither Miller nor anyone else even brought up the Fourth Amendment which states: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” I believe that giving the police the right to seize and search someone’s smartphone is a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment.  As much as I’ve supported law enforcement over the years, I also know that there are some police officers that are less than honorable and probable cause to them could mean almost anything.  Probable cause can also be at the discretion of a judge if the matter goes to trial.

Nathan: Unlike David, I’ve NO reason (and haven’t for many years) to support law enforcement in MOST of their activities.  Yes, I will support peace officers, and like Paul, I will use them as necessary to defend myself and others, but that is NOT what passes for “community policing” these days.  The fact that the “messiah” wants to “grant” police these powers just proves things are getting worse.  You would think, given his claimed racial orientation, that the LAST thing he would do is want to give cops more power over people because the minorities always seem to get the worst of it. But no, not here and now!

He actually seems to be using this as a way of buying the cops’ support: he is going to bill himself as the “law and order” king – oops, chief executive, sooner or later.  His “stand” against medical marijuana is another example.  Public employee unions, including the police unions, are a more and more critical part of the Democratic base and fund source.  And trashing the Constitution seems to be a surefire way to get support from the Tranzis which inhabit these unions and similar organizations, and way too many law enforcement agencies.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-32B: Stupidity and economics

Posted on 2013-08-21 by TPOL Nathan

Stupid feral govmint tricks
Federal Remapping of Sandy-Damaged Areas May Curb Coastal Development
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Oh, yes, of COURSE it will: just like it keeps people from building in floodplains. Insurance companies should do this – not government.  This, like so much else, should be a free-market solution, and COULD be if not for government bailouts and programs.

Stupid feral govmint tricks
State Dept. Panel Advises Gay Foreigners in Civil Unions to Get Married
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: More hypocrisy:  They won’t accept polyamorists, especially not those Muslims with four wives (much less those Amazons with four hubbies), but they want this?  Seriously, the US government is dictating (directly AND indirectly) to other nations what is “acceptable” – even if it is immoral.

Mama’s Note: Dictating anything is the problem, whether anyone considers it moral or not.

Theft by government – Congress in action
Congresswoman: High Corporate Tax Rate in Current Law ‘Just a Suggestion’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: All the laws are “just suggestions” to Congress and the Administration; it is only peons that they force the laws on.  Theft?  Not THEIR problem, except when the level of theft is too low to sustain their every whim.  Amazing that corporations can survive with this sort of thing.

Stupid Tranzis
African Anglican Bishop Plans to Seek Legal Counsel After Dismissal by Dartmouth
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Of course he can’t work at Dartmouth: by definition he is bigoted and homophobic and hate filled.  So much so that his skin color can be ignored by the Tranzis that run places like Dartmouth.  What an evil place.  And so little competition for Dartmouth and its kind.

The “messiah” – ObummerCare (Abominable Act)
Obamacare Website Misleads on Abortion-Inducing-Drug Mandate
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And this is new and different HOW?  The lies about the Abominable Act started before it was even written, much less “passed” so that we could know what it said.  In a free-market health system (which we haven’t had for 3/4 of a century), this would not be so dangerous to gullible people as it is in our condition.

Stupid Tranzis – Hoplophobes and hoploclasts
Seattle Mayor Invites Businesses to Post ‘Gun-Free Zone’ Signs in Their Stores
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Gee, think of all the signs that we can give away from JPFO and Simon says and all the other pro-self-defense organizations!  He isn’t stupid, he knows how well this will go over.  I assume he is a silent partner of most of the fences in town.  Seriously, let them: it will tell people who own and carry guns to defend themselves and those around them to take their business elsewhere.

Stupid Tranzis – New religions: global warming
Dem to GOP: Climate Change Threatening America’s Coastline ‘From Sea to Shining Sea’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Oh, boy, I can’t wait to see what the new coastline of the Great Salt Lake (or do we revert to the old name of Lake Bonneville?) will be like.  Really, though, we’ve got more panic over imaginary things than we do over things we can control.  When is enough enough?

Stupid Tranzis – Old religions (state type)
Church of England Won’t Condemn Fracking
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Incredible.  First they won’t condemn homosexuality, and now they won’t condemn fracking.  What is religion coming to?  Of course, the CoE is a product of anything BUT a free market in religion – which benefits as much or more than a free market in goods and services.

Stupid Tranzis
MSNBC’s Jimmy Williams on Obama Rodeo Clown: ‘Modern Day Lynching’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Insanity in the media, as usual.  Wonder if this entire hurricane in a teacup would have made news if it were a totally private venue instead of a “State Fair.”

Home front – Nazgul
NYC Police Commissioner: Our Stop-and-Frisk Law Saved 7,363 Minority Lives
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: An insane and outrageous claim.  Is the Commish sipping the same Kool-Aid as Jimmy Williams?  Of course, now Detroit is trying it, even though a judge with some sanity and ethics found NYC’s program illegal.

Mama’s Note: These folks fall all over themselves denying that just having a self defense tool “might” save lives, but it’s the same argument. We don’t know the numbers, even close, but the facts we do know certainly don’t demonstrate that unwarranted, random searches and detention is either wise or beneficial to anyone.

Islamic wars: Persian front – Stupid US tricks
Iranians, Invoking CIA’s 1953 Iran Coup, Say U.S. Still Interfering in Egypt
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yes, of course, and what else is new?  We can go back to FDR, to Wilson, and find that the US has been doing this for a LONG time.  In some places (like Iran) they never stopped.

Economics
Troubled Teens Are More Likely to Be Successful Entrepreneurs
(Wall Street Journal) Self-employed workers with incorporated businesses were almost three times more likely to engage in illicit and risky activities as youth than were salaried workers…

Nathan: This does not mean they are criminals, but just troubled and on the edge.  History shows this is the case in more than just business, but this reminds me very much of the old Horatio Alger stories: troubled youth indeed in most of the stories.  Adversity, even if self-inflicted, is the mother of invention and achievement:  one problem I think we have today is that the vast bulk of people live lives (especially as children) that are placid and without any real challenge, especially given the condition of schools and sports.  Scouting, for a while, provided some of that, but today, it is sanitized and dumbed down as much as school and sports.  And these are “fake” – our lives and health and future generations do not depend on whether or not we get an Eagle, or even whether or not we get a diploma: government is “there” to care for us.

Mama’s Note: Few children are raised with serious responsibility (meaningful work), or are required to live with the consequences of their decisions and choices, good and bad. That has to start early to develop a self governing character. For most children, of all ages, the “safety nets” are what they rely on, and scream they are victims when those fail.

Economics – GRTF schools
College Costs Too Much Because There’s No Competition
(Washington Examiner) The nation’s six regional higher education accreditation agencies have restricted entry to the market, limiting the supply of degree granters and thus forcing tuition costs higher…

Nathan: This is especially the case when the public schools, supported in very large part with money stolen from the taxpayers, is used to compete with every other sort of school.  Economic law applies as much to education (including higher education) as it does to selling beans or cars or land or your services.  This is no different than NYC taxi cab medallions or licenses for barbers and engineers.  Government prevents the competition from being free and open, and we all pay one way or another.

Economics – Theft by government
Economist Says Real U.S. Debt $70 Trillion
(Fox News) University of California, San Diego, economics professor James Hamilton says the U.S. debt is $70 trillion — not $16.9 trillion, as reported by the federal government…

Nathan: Or even the 17 trillion now being reported.  The key, of course, is all the unfunded obligations: retirement, Medicare, Medicaid, all the new Abominable Act costs, and everything else.  But that is all pie in the sky: all the current crop of scumbags in DC figure that they’ll be dead by the time these things come due: and remember, they have a hard time looking past the next election!  The amazing thing about the American economy for the past century is that it has even survived and prospered to some degree, given the humongous weight of government and debt it has had to support.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-32A: Commenting on Commentaries

Posted on 2013-08-21 by TPOL Nathan

Home front – Self defense
California: Deputies: Riverview man shot dead while beating girlfriend
(TBO.com) Rock, who was armed with a .45 caliber handgun, went outside to investigate and found a Daniel S. Robertson beating his girlfriend, Cristy Vasilakos, 40, with a metal object, deputies said. Rock yelled at Robertson to stop, but when Robertson turned and began attacking Rock, she fired the gun at least once, deputies said. Deputies later arrived to discover Robertson dead in the parking lot.

Mama’s Note: Good GIRL!! And an extremely clear case of self defense, I’d think. Can’t imagine any DA thinking about charges. Crazy.

Nathan: Too bad they had to clean up the body; a lesson learned by others who have gotten away with this kind of behavior too much.

History – Home Front
No Justice, no Peace: The Other Reparations Movement
By Thomas DiLorenzo (Lewrockwell.com) Jack Kershaw of Memphis, Tennessee, wants to file a class-action lawsuit against the US government for reparations. Not on behalf of the descendants of slaves but on behalf of Southerners of all races whose ancestors were the victims of the US government’s rampage of pillaging, plundering, burning, and raping of Southern civilians during the War for Southern Independence.

Nathan: Thanks to Scott for this one, commentary of course.  DiLorenzo as always does an excellent job of skewering our misunderstanding (and misteaching) 0f history.  The real reason to note this is that we are seeing the way in which the Feral Guvmint WILL behave in the near future as the Second War between the States – or a general uprising in support of the 1776 Revolution – breaks out.  All in the name of serving and protecting the people (and our liberties) both liberties and many people will be exterminated.  Which reminds me, have you heard about Medicare Plan E – the next addition, courtesy of the Abominable Act (ObummerCare): E for “elimination” or “eradication” or “easing of the cost burden.”

Home front – Local tyranny
Police State Stage 2
(Godfather Politics) …police across the country are using automated license plate scanners to record the movements of millions of drivers on a daily basis. … scanners are now being affixed to bridges, buildings, traffic signs and telephone poles — in short, anywhere that they can get a clear view of traffic. The information is recorded, then uploaded into police databases, where it is kept for years or sometimes indefinitely. The information can be correlated by computers to effectively track individual cars. This gets around the Supreme Court, which ruled in 2012 that police had to have a warrant to track a car’s GPS.

Nathan: More like stage five or six, frankly.  But Tad DOES make a very valid point: it is not that cops have “always” observed and occasionally recorded license plates and makes/models of cars, it is the automation now that is different: the ability to read, recognize, record, collate, and then generate reports without human involvement, which humans can then use to track down anyone:  your girl friend’s other boy friend, your in-laws, the guy that owes you $1000, the guy that stole your girl friend in high school.  And of course, “to err is human, to really mess up takes a computer.”  If Joe’s car has license XS-3838 and Sam’s plate is XS-3338 and the APB goes out for Joe but with a typo, so that the ten cop cars converge and fill Sam’s car, and Sam, full of bullet holes.  Or if the camera reads XS-3338 as XS3838 because it is muddy and finds it parked in front of Sam’s house so does a SWAT assault on Sam and fills his house, him, and his family with holes.  People, criminals, especially those in blue, are canny and cunning and can do all sorts of nasty things with databases and the computer systems.  But even if they could not, it is just plain WRONG – a police state indeed – to track ANYone without probable cause and a warrant issued by a FAIR and IMPARTIAL judge (or better, jury).  Sure, there are work-arounds: from changing plates to hiding them to hacking – but it is critical that we NOT be forced to do this:  that is fine for the Underground or the Resistance in 1940s Germany or France, but NOT freedom.  Not liberty.  We must end this sort of thing NOW and not later.

Big Nasty Urban Battlefields – Home front
Vigilante Detroit residents attack suspected rapist after police fail to act
(Rawstory.com) Residents in southwest Detroit took matters into their own hands after local police delayed prosecution on a suspected rape in their neighborhood.  According to the Detroit Free Press, a group of residents twice attacked the unidentified 43-year-old man on Aug. 5, believing him to be responsible for raping a 15-year-old girl who has Down’s Syndrome, leaving him with wounds on his legs and head. No arrests have been made in either attack against the alleged rapist.

Mama’s Note: And then…. very interesting.

Nathan: Vigilantes?  Perhaps more self-defense militia, identifying and dealing with a known threat against which no “official” action was taken.  But then, maybe they were acting like cops: abuse and attack with nothing but accusations and “smell” to support them.  WHERE was the local or state government to protect this disadvantaged child?

Islamic wars: Arab street revolt – Saudi tribal thugdom
Saudis Warn the West: We Won’t Forget Your Stance on Egypt
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: If so, exactly what do we have to worry about?  The Saudis might send people to steal control of airliners and attack us?  They might convince stupid people to set off bombs in their shoes or their underwear?  They might cut off oil supplies?  Laissez Faire reports that although the US has only 5% of proven oil reserves, we have 22% of RECOVERABLE oil reserves:  we need the Saudis, the WORLD needs the Saudis less than at any time since the 1960s.  And the Saudis DO need Amis and Brits and Frogs and Fritz to run their oil system:  they treat machinery the same way they treat marksmanship:  “As Allah wills.”

The “messiah” – Abominable Act
Obama: ‘Health Insurance … Is Your Right’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: The man acts so stupid.  If health insurance is my right, why do I have to pay for it, and why do I have to pay a fine/tax if I do not buy it?  Voting is a right, and I don’t have to pay for it.  Free speech is a right and I don’t have to pay for it (or at least not some kinds).  No, we are seeing the man do his demagogue routine again, trying to rile up the 49% to further enslave the rest of us.

Mama’s Note: You can call voting a “right” just as long as your vote doesn’t impose something or steal from another person. And that can actually only happen within a voluntary association.

The “messiah’s” minions – Abominable Act
HHS Launches Video Contest to Attract Healthy, Young Obamacare Subscribers
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Cute, no?  Like the ads we see about signing up for food stamps, and the mini-dramas to get the moms to sign up for WIC and TANF?  Government touting its own services because the more “service” that they provide to more people, the more power that they have.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-31D: World wars: Islam and Tranzis

Posted on 2013-08-18 by TPOL Nathan

Islamic war: South Asian front
Sri Lanka: 12 injured as Buddhist mob attacks mosque
(Times of India) “A Buddhist mob attacked a mosque in Sri Lanka’s capital and at least 12 people were injured, the latest in a series of attacks on the minority Muslim community by members of the Buddhist majority. A mob of Buddhists, who are mainly ethnic Sinhalese in Sri Lanka, threw stones at a three-storey mosque and nearby houses in a central Colombo neighbourhood during evening prayers on Saturday, residents told Reuters. Later, hundreds of Muslim residents took to the streets, some clutching sticks, to prevent any further attacks on their community, witnesses said.” (08/11/13)

Mama’s Note: I really wonder what’s going on here. The “reports” don’t actually tell us much. I studied Buddhism, along with many other religions long ago, and their basic principles simply don’t support attacks on others like this and at least always seemed to be one of the more non-violent religions. Seems their nutty Islamic neighbors may have pushed even them too far.

Nathan: Even some of the most dedicated of pacifists can be driven to the point that they will seek to defend themselves and their families and friends.  But that is rare, and I wonder if the news story is in fact accurate, or if it was nothing but an excuse to justify the mob of Muslims.

Home front
TSA Expands Duties Beyond Airport Security
(New York Times) The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States. … With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is happy.

Nathan: The NYT and its understatements: cute, huh?  The TSA looks and smells more and more like the Gestapo these days, because “after all, we aren’t the Airport Security Administration.”  No, indeed, and this isn’t our grandfather’s country, either:  Funny how with Germany, Japan, and a number of other countries after our hides – or the USSR and Red China and all their satellites – we didn’t need 100,000 uniformed, jackbooted thugs running around in squads and “cooperating” with local police, but today we do?  And more, “inspecting” (harassing and illegally searching) people AFTER they leave the train or bus or whatever.  Vipers need to become a name as much hated as “Stasi” and “Gestapo” and “Cheka” long before the same levels of fear are associated. (Though that time may be limited, people!)

Home front – Politics 2013 – War on some religions
Catholic Bishop Leaves Democratic Party for GOP; 2012 DNC Was Last Straw
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Are there any RC Bishops who are libertarians?  Going from the DNC to the GOP sounds like just jumping from one boiling pot to another one.  But knowing the hierarchy and how the priests are educated and experienced before getting their miter, I suspect that any radicals that might be even minarchists are flushed out, the way Dernyi were found out in Gwynned (the Camber series).  There is no question that the GOP is marginally better in SOME things (at least on the surface, but not much better.

Mama’s Note: In all my years with the church, I only met one priest who truly understood the non-aggression principle and advocated individual liberty and self responsibility. He was a very old man then, who had been born and raised in Austria. He had been outspoken all his life, and was finally sent to our remote desert parish until he could be forced to retire. The bishop was a happy socialist, and that was that.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-31C: Stupid governments

Posted on 2013-08-18 by TPOL Nathan

Abominable Act – Crash of 2009
ObamaCare Is Lowering Part-Time Workers’ Hours
(Investor’s Business Daily) The number of individuals working 25-29 hours per week in their primary job rose by 119,000, or 2.7 percent, from a year ago; the number clocking 30 to 34 hours a week fell by a monthly average of 146,500, or 1.4 percent…

Nathan: Was this one of the goals of the Abominable Act?  It certainly is helping drive people into the arms of a single-payer health system, and is pushing more and more people to the edge.  It may give the part-timers a bit of an edge when the layoffs come, but otherwise, I can’t think of an upside.  Our evil, criminal government just pushes more and more, and we all can see it – and do nothing about it.

Mama’s Note: Unfortunately, most people don’t have a clue what they might be able to “do” about it. They’ve been brainwashed for generations that “voting” is the only remedy, and that “letters, calls and faxes to the representatives” or “marches” are the only possible ways to object. But the situation will, eventually, come to a head and the solutions will present themselves. Those who discover and act on them will survive. The rest will remain the turnips being crushed in the vain hope of extracting just a bit more blood.

History – Tranzi roots
Edgeleft: Notes on The March on Washington
(kissell.org via yahoogroups) On August 28th there will be the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Many of you are planning to go down to take part. … These notes are a few personal reflections on having been there in 1963, and some comments around events related to the March. Increasingly I realize, at 83, that there just aren’t that many of us around who were there that August day fifty years ago. I knew Bayard Rustin – chief organizer of the March … and like many of us in the War Resisters League, the Socialist Party, and virtually all “left” organizations, was involved in the organizing for the event.

Nathan: Apparently, it is not a joke…  the people that never grew up.  People today tend to associate the protest movement of the 1960s with the assassinations of Kennedy, King and Kennedy, and the growth of the American involvement in the war in Southeast Asia (the Seventh Phase of the Great Asian-Pacific War, 1929-1976).  But in reality, the protests started well before that: following the usual Progressive-Liberal-Tranzi practice of claiming to be for things that their activities actually destroy, like jobs and freedom.  It hasn’t changed, just as these proto-hippies of 1963 (morphing from beatniks to hippies, I think) still view themselves as “anti-establishment.”  I agree with them, to some degree: the “establishment” at the time still paid more than lip-service to both economic and personal liberty but was busy destroying them rapidly by destroying last remnants the “OLD establishment” of Franklin and Jefferson.  These people just didn’t want the counter-revolutionaries to get control; they wanted to have it for themselves.  And WE, individuals and families and companies, suffer as a result.

Islamic war: Arab street revolt – Stupid US
U.S. warns crackdown will make transition more difficult
(Washington Post) The Obama administration strongly condemned Wednesday’s bloody crackdown on political opponents of Egypt’s military-backed government but refused to say whether the United States might yank financial or political support for a longtime Mideast ally.

Nathan: Meanwhile, of course, the “messiah” continues to send billions of dollars in aid and weapons to Egypt, and continues to kiss up to the Muslim Brotherhood AND the rump government.  Because we are STUPID and think that at least some of the lies that all the groups are telling may be true, some of the time.  No wonder people are wondering just what blackmail the MB and the military and their civilian allies are holding against the coup leaders in DC.

Theft by government – Government-run, tax-funded schools
White House calls broadband initiative a ‘no-brainer’
(Washington Post) The White House on Wednesday called a $4-6 billion proposal to expand high-speed Internet access to 99 percent of schools a “no-brainer,” but said the idea ultimately requires approval by the independent Federal Communications Commission.

Nathan: Seems to me like it OUGHT to require approval by Congress, fifty states, and a few hundred million independent voters.  And that NONE of them should give approval.  More robbing some to pay to others, and we don’t need it.

Mama’s Note: I’m sure you’d agree that “NEED” really has nothing to do with it anyway. I don’t care how much people “need” something. Theft and coercion is not the way to get it.

Islamic wars: Home front
Million Muslim March Planned in DC on Anniversary of 9-11
(Breitbart.com)    Yet our Government either sits idly by and does nothing to protect our freedoms or it exacerbates the problem with its constant war on terrorism in Islamic countries, congressional hearings on Islam in America, and its changes to the NDAA law.      These lies told to the American population has made it impossible for us to do true Dawa. Why do we have to defend our religion while doing Dawa? Why can’t we just share the perfection of the Quran and the beauty of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SWS)?

Mama’s Note: This ought to be interesting… What is “Dawa?”

Nathan: Dawah (as it is usually spelled in English) means “the call” and refers to preaching and bringing converts to Islam.  If I understand this, they claim that the government is so opposed and lies so much about Islam that they cannot really “call” Americans to become Muslims.  A bit bizarre.  Especially since they are having this march on the anniversary of Bloody Tuesday.  And never mind that the “war on terrorism” is conducted as much against Americans at home (if not quite so blatantly bloodily) as it is in Muslim countries.

Mama’s Note: I see… well, even as screwed up as most Americans are, they are unlikely to be attracted to a “religion” that requires rigid and absolute obedience to the “leaders,” and the Sharia “law” would be a total turn off to the rootless, self indulgent and even criminals, especially in the big cities. They can see the police state growing around them now, and I can’t imagine any wanting to trade one for another. Really hard to sell ice cubes to Eskimos.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-32B: Congress and more

Posted on 2013-08-15 by TPOL Nathan

Just a short update on a few items this noontime.

Criminal Government – Congress in action
Illinois: Ex-Rep Jackson and Wife Sentenced
(Chicago Tribune) Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. was sentenced today to 30 months behind bars and his wife, Sandi, got a year in prison for separate felonies involving the misspending of about $750,000 in campaign funds. The Jacksons will be allowed to serve their sentences one at a time, with Jackson Jr. going first, based on the wishes of the family as expressed by Dan Webb, an attorney for Sandi Jackson. Jackson Jr. will report to prison on or after Nov. 1, the judge said.

Nathan: Well, a few months in a country club for a man who only stole a few thousand bucks from his own political supporters and betrayed his constituents… unlike someone who did really nasty and sold coke or swiped an auto.  And custom scheduling, to boot.  He must not have screwed all his constituents enough or he wouldn’t have had to resign from Congress: his daddy’s influence and that of the Chicago Machine would have kept him shielded from this.

Islamic wars: Arab street front – Aggression
Islamists Turn on Egypt’s Churches Amid Violent Crackdown in Cairo
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Why is this NOT unexpected?  Egyptians have been killing and abusing christians and burning their meetinghouses since the first Arab Muslims rode out of the desert and destroyed the East Roman empire.  It is going to get worse: it always does.  The Crusades, for example, were NOT the naked aggression that people want to make them out to be. They were a response to the Muslim armies and people beating up, robbing, and enslaving peaceful pilgrims going to the Holy Land – when it was under Egyptian control.  With virtually no more Jews left in Egypt (at one time there were more Jews in Egypt than in “Palestine”), the christians are the favorite prey of the mobs.  Especially since they are disarmed by the Egyptian government.

Home front – Politics 2013 – War on some religions
Catholic Bishop Leaves Democratic Party for GOP; 2012 DNC Was Last Straw
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Are there any RC Bishops who are libertarians?  Going from the DNC to the GOP sounds like just jumping from one boiling pot to another one.  But knowing the hierarchy and how the priests are educated and experienced before getting their miter, I suspect that any radicals that might be even minarchists are flushed out, the way Dernyi were found out in Gwynned (the Camber series).  There is no question that the GOP is marginally better in SOME things (at least on the surface), but not much better.

War of some drugs – Local cops
Seattle Cops Plan to Hand Out Munchies at Dope-Smokers’ Hempfest
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: With the surveillance cameras running constantly, for the time when they can again round them up and bust them all, after the courts declare that Washington and Colorado can’t neutralize or nullify the federal law.  And of course, letting them gather intelligence about anyone who might be using something still illegal in Olympia’s eyes.  Sorry, I just don’t believe that the leopard can change its spots.  Individual cops (Tony Ryan comes to mind), yes, but not big inner city departments.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-32A: America’s King Cannot Be Mocked

Posted on 2013-08-14 by TPOL Nathan

The “messiah” – Enemies list
Rodeo clown mocks Obama at Missouri State Fair – CNN.com
(CNN) A rodeo stunt at the Missouri State Fair has come under criticism after a clown donned a Barack Obama mask and stuck on a broom that …

Nathan: The thug that claims to rule this nation dare not be mocked:  his skin color and part of his ancestry make him sacrosanct, like some Roman god-emperor or some absolute French monarch.  And we must do NOTHING but bow down before him – a demand accepted and enforced even by those who claim to be his political enemies, like the GOP administration in Missouri who accepted the ban of this rodeo clown FOR LIFE.  There is no free speech at the Missouri State Fair – and don’t you forget it!

Self-defense
Raleigh resident shoots, kills armed intruder
(Guns.com) he told the dispatcher that a man had broken into his apartment and held a handgun to his face. However, Bellamy was able to pull his own gun and shot the intruder,

Mama’s Note: Ok, good for him. But I’d like to watch a video of this as it took place. I’m wondering how in the world the man could draw and fire a gun effectively, without getting shot himself, if the intruder was holding a gun to his face!! It either misfired, or the intruder simply didn’t pull the trigger for one reason or another.

Nathan: I had training years ago, on how to fight someone who is stupid enough to stick a gun in your face at close range (one reason that if you have to hold someone at gun point, it needs to be (a) out of arms reach if possible, and (b) from the side or back, NOT directly in front. It was part of SERE (Survival, Escape, Resistance and Evasion) training done back in the late 1970s.  So it IS possible, but it obviously is a great risk:  the key thing is to knock the weapon and weapon hand UP and to the side, not down, and while making eye contact and doing something to distract the person’s attention.  It is not the same as the technique used with someone threatening you with a knife. Just a quick check shows a lot of garbage and nonsense on line about doing something like this.  But most DO agree that training is needed.

Mama’s Note: Yes, but there is no indication this is what he did. Instead, the “report” merely states that he got his gun and shot the guy. If he could knock the other weapon aside while he drew, I can see it. And yes, I suspect one would have to train rather well to accomplish it. I’m not sure I could even forcefully LIFT my arm in such a terrifying situation. Hope I never have to find out.

One of the things I stress in my self defense classes is the idea that one should NEVER allow an attacker to get to within arms length for any reason if at all possible. And the thing that has been drummed into me, over and over in my own training, is that if my attacker has a knife, I WILL be cut… no matter what I do or how fast I can draw. The trick then is to minimize the damage if possible.

Women, and especially older women, simply do not have the arm and upper body strength to be very successful at this sort of defense – however long they train. The discussion of situational awareness takes on new meaning once we get to talking about what a man can do to a woman once he gets his hands on her… armed or not.

Abominable Act (ObummerCare)
Does Obama need OprahCare?
(The Hill by Elise Viebeck)  Could Oprah sell ObamaCare to America?

Mama’s Note: This woman is very dangerous to freedom… She’s got all the money she could ever use… so if she gets a taste for political power, she could really screw things up even worse. sigh.

Nathan: Oprah and her cult-worshippers have already done a lot to sell the “messiah” and Tranzi policies to the nation, and her following seems to be growing, as witness the brohaha about a Swiss sales clerk not wanting to show her a $40,000 purse.  She is part of the “circuses” part of bread and circuses, and is probably responsible for knocking several points off the average national IQ just by herself.

Mama’s Note: Something really squirrelly with this story. You know Oprah didn’t walk in there looking like a bag lady. I can’t imagine any clerk who would take the slightest chance of offending someone who offered to buy a “purse” for the price of a very nice new car.

Homeland Defense
Air Force nuclear missile unit fails safety & security test
(TheBlaze.com) An Air Force nuclear missile unit failed a safety and security inspection this week, the second wing of its kind to stumble on tests this year. The latest involves the 341st Missile Wing at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, which operates about a third of the 450 Minuteman III nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, according to an Air Force statement. The wing received an “unsatisfactory rating” after making “tactical level errors” during one of several exercises conducted as part of the inspection.

Nathan: Contacts with current and retired friends in the Air Force tell me that this is the tip of the iceberg. Training and morale are nosediving, and political issues are working to tear things down still further.  People are hoping desperately to retire or find a way to make a living and get out.  And distrust of Congress and the Pentagon and its bosses (in the “messiah’s” administration) is climbing higher than ever.  Meanwhile, the senior command are smelling and looking more and more like the “messiah” and his sycophants.  Each service has its different troubles, but it is the Air Force and the Submarine Service that have the wherewithal to really mess things up, because of the nukes.

Islamic wars: Arab Street revolt
Egypt: Junta’s forces launch deadly crackdown against Morsi camps
(CBC News)”Egyptian security forces, backed by armored cars and bulldozers, swept in Wednesday to clear two sit-in camps of supporters of the country’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi, showering protesters with tear gas as the sound of gunfire rang out at both sites. At least three members of the security forces were confirmed to have died during the morning crackdown in Cairo, while the Health Ministry said nine protesters were killed and over 80 were injured.” (08/14/13)

Nathan:  The next scene opens in this current act.  Egypt’s cesspool is again exposed to the world.  The entire world needs to get OUT of Egypt and let them tear themselves apart.  Maybe once it has been reduced to smoking ruins, it will be safe to try and do something.  Egypt has always been a mess, and centuries of attempts by the Turks, the Brits, and even the French (briefly) have never succeeded: the Egyptians are their own worst enemies.  Enough is enough.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-31C: Stupid people

Posted on 2013-08-12 by TPOL Nathan

Guest commentary, from the ever-wonderful Carl B:

Your Tax Dollars At Work ON Vacation
First dog Bo is airlifted to Obama holiday home
(The Telegraph)

Carl: Bo, the president’s Portuguese Water Dog, arrived separately on one of two MV-22 Ospreys, a hybrid aircraft which takes off like a helicopter but flies like a plane. Arriving in the idyllic coastal retreat of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, Mr Obama left him behind in Washington DC.

It was a national security issue. Couldn’t put him on the same plane as Michelle. You know how dogs fight.

Nathan: I wonder how many attendants the First Dog needs. After all, you have to keep up appearances.  Wonderful how the occupant of 1600 PA behaves just like his predecessors:  Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Louis XIV, Charles II, and so forth.  Might be better if we had a “legitimate” royal family: at least in the British model, they are expected to pay part of their own way. But we Americans are too stupid to do something like that.

Stupid people – NOT Self-defense
Memphis cookie store owner in hot water after firing at robbers who took off with his cash
(Guns.com) A small business owner may find himself in a legal battle after shooting at three men who robbed his cookie store inside a Memphis mall on Wednesday, local media reported. The three men took off with $45, but not before the store owner chased them out and fired several shots from his 9mm, and in turn put him in the hot seat as he violated the mall’s no firearms policy.

Mama’s Note: First problem is shooting at fleeing criminals. Dumb, and pointless in most cases. Not self defense. Second, why in the world would he want to have his business in a place that forbids self defense? The crime rate is climbing there? No kidding.

Nathan: Third, $45 isn’t worth the risk of shooting up someone ELSE’s business or hitting a bystander, especially when he was stupid enough to work where he did.  And the Memphis crime rate IS climbing: the blacker and more liberal the city becomes, the greater the crime rate is.  Although “white America” is blamed for it, 90% of black people who are murdered (2012 data), are murdered by other black people.  The percentage of whites (including Anglos and Hispanics and Europeans) and other ethnic groups – except AmerInd – which are murdered by their own ethnic group is much lower: in large part because many of them are murdered by – you guessed it, blacks.  It appears at a quick glance that not just murder, but MANY crimes against black people – and especially black business owners and employees – are committed by blacks.

Of course, this isn’t really black people’s fault, is it?  Aren’t they forced to do that, because all white people do is enslave them and hate them and attack them?  Well, actually, it IS black people’s fault:  I suppose there are a few Fagans out there, but nobody forces the typical black gangbanger to go out and hold up a convenience store or mug someone, or go gun down a brother or some poor child by shooting up their house.  Far from it.  So yes, I blame the man (or woman) who commits the crime, NOT some “sick society” or some pre-1865 slaveholder or even some pre-1965 KKK or Dixiecrat.

Mama’s Note: “…$45. isn’t worth the risk…” What does the dollar amount have to do with it? NO amount of money is worth seriously endangering innocent bystanders with uncontrolled shooting at a fleeing thief. The answer, of course, is for the gun owner to be well armed, well trained and conscious of the difference between self defense and committing careless aggression. All of which is moot if one chooses to do business in a place that prohibits either the gun or self defense itself.

OPINION:  Lovers of Liberty
Voluntaryism Revisited
(Wendy McElroy via Freedom’s Phoenix) “As Voluntaryists, we reject the Libertarian Party on the same level and for the same reason we reject any other political party…”

Nathan: That is fine, and I wholeheartedly support their choice to do so.  Voluntaryists (and those who may not accept the title but share the idea) do not agree with those lovers of liberty who DO work in and with the Libertarian Party – even some who are free-market anarchists, and not just minarchists, too.  Again, that is fine.  But there are too many (Wendy is NOT one of them, I think) who want to become little political cops, and attempt to intimidate people they don’t agree with – but ONLY inside the “libertarian community.”  They do not practice what they preach, and this (surprisingly) makes me very frustrated and even angry.  Consistency is critical, whether it is in the “political” realm or is “anti-political.”

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-31B: Stupid government and Islamic war and Stupid Americans

Posted on 2013-08-11 by TPOL Nathan

Stupid government – Islamic wars: worldwide actions
‘Credible’ Terror Threat: List of US Embassy Closures Now Includes Some in Sub-Saharan Africa
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Monday was, of course, the day that World War Three started with massive, bloody attacks on two dozen US embassies across the Islamic world, resulting in hundreds of American deaths and tens of thousands of local native deaths, followed on Tuesday by MORE attacks against soft American targets in the Homeland… NOT.  Once more, the net effect of supposed “credible” intelligence about threats to US outposts  seems to have been disruption of daily business and inconvenience and increased oppression of Americans and lots of other people.  The little boy has cried “wolf” once again.  Isn’t it time for a change?

Mama’s Note: Indeed, just like the nationwide bloodbath of racial conflict pushed by the media and threatened by a few others who like to cry “wolf.” Of COURSE there are wolves at the door, but they mostly wear police and SWAT uniforms.

Stupid government – Islamic wars: worldwide actions
Sen. Graham: U.S. Embassy Closures Show ‘We’ve Learned From Benghazi’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yes, it IS time for a change: time to get rid of people like this man and the next one, who rake in money directly and indirectly and dispense favors (power) and money stolen from the taxpayers.  The man (sadly) is not really an idiot, no matter how much he acts like one: his act is very much to his benefit and that of his family and friends.

Mama’s Note: No real difference between these two and all the rest of them. The only real change that would actually benefit the remnant of productive and self governing people in this country would be the elimination of all three branches of “government,” at every level.

Stupid government – Islamic wars: worldwide actions
Sen. Chambliss: ‘Most Serious Threat That I’ve Seen in the Last Several Years’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yeah, sure it is…  if you don’t care to do anything but believe in the garbage that the current administration feeds you.

Politics 2013
Limbaugh’s Favorite Republicans? Those Who Are ‘Fearless’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Well, we know that he pretty much HAS NO “Favorite Republicans” as even ones like Rand Paul have shown a wee bit too much fear of the “messiah” and the various agencies of the police state, now and then – even his father has shown that.  I don’t know if I really blame them, but they are NOT our friends or the people who will rescue us.

Stupid US tricks
$71M: Russia Triples Price to Fly U.S. Astronauts to Space Station
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Hey, when you are the only game in town, you charge what the market will bear: a lot, in this case.  Part of the collapse of the American Empire; the frontier of space has been surrendered to anyone who can.  This frankly stinks.

Mama’s Note: Or at least until there is private competition for the flights… But I suspect that will have to wait until the flights have some actual, practical purpose and some hope of an economic payback. The Russians are really dumb if they’re accepting payment in FRNs, or even worse, regular IOUs. 🙂

Self-defense
ILLINOIS: Woman fires at invader
(WIFR News) “A Rockford woman takes matters into her own hands after police say a burglar tried to break into her home. The incident happened just after 10 p.m. Sunday night …. Detectives say the woman pulled out a gun and shot toward the suspect while he was trying to get into her mobile home. Detectives say the man ended up running from the scene and remains on the loose.” (08/05/13)

Mama’s Note: Definitely a good thing for this lady, and I’m delighted she had a gun. Just sounds like too much lead being sprayed around. Doesn’t say how many shots fired. I suspect there are many more guns in Illinois than we even suspect. 🙂  Those 300+ million firearms have to be somewhere, and I sure don’t have them all. LOL

Nathan: Nor do I!  Or even my family, though we DO try.  The media still is stupid: the crack about “matters into her own hands” makes it sound like she refused police support or something.  The media was stupid, she was at least not stupid, just a bit excited.  Am I the only person who worries about a shot going wild or through someone and breaking something in my house or car?

Mama’s Note: Absolutely, you are not alone. When I talk to women about self defense, we take some real time to discuss the importance of good shot placement – both because it is the best way to stop the threat, and because an innocent bystander is far less apt to be harmed. We discuss the various size guns and ammunition, and how each might relate to those things. The best gun and caliber to carry or use is the largest one the shooter can reliably and consistently CONTROL – including shot placement, especially under stress. We even train under stress, just to make sure.

Opinion: Stupid government
Washington Thinks You Are Stupid
(Personal Liberty.com) There’s the old saying that if the government fears the people, there is liberty; but if the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The criminals in Washington not only do not fear us, they do not respect us. Washington looks upon Americans as stupid sheeple.

Nathan: Sadly, too many Americans ARE, which is one big reason that the government doesn’t fear us (in groups or individually) enough to keep a low profile and not do so many stupid things.  Still, this opinion piece has a lot of things to say – things that we should not need to hear and heed IF we got rid of this sick and evil institution called government.  But think how long it took to get rid of kings and how long it took to get rid of slavery (as well as how insidiously they sneak back when we aren’t looking): taxes and government will indeed eventually go away, but we are a long ways from it yet.

JUDGING

The following was received from a good friend, now “retired” and doing fishing and hunting guiding and running his family’s farm in Arkansas.  He makes a good point.

“We are told NOT to judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics.”

BUT…

We are encouraged TO judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics”

Nathan: The only people who are consistent in this matter are a very few libertarians who do NOT judge these two groups as groups, but as individuals.  The problem is not just the one Daryl talked about, but those who refuse to believe that a group (like Muslims, or cops, or attorneys) overall may be tainted so that many, most, or even the vast majority of them ARE threats to a larger or smaller degree. And that sometimes, the mere “membership” someone holds is reason to consider them dangerous:  Some members of the KKK may be very nice and loving; some Communists may be really great people who wouldn’t harm a fly or a human (I’ve met one of two of them), but that doesn’t mean it is reasonable to assume they all are.

Mama’s Note: Absolutely, Nathan. I’m careful to judge people as individuals, but part of that judgment is the company they keep and the values or principles their actions demonstrate. That those values or principles may be grounded in the culture or history of certain groups of people and may lead to an unfortunate judgment on my part sometimes, I can’t deny. But the alternative is to trust where no trust is earned, and that is not a good idea at all.

Luke 7:43
“A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit.”

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-31A: Politics as usual, stinks

Posted on 2013-08-08 by TPOL Nathan

Goodness!  Did I really publish 9 different commentaries last week? My usual goal is to do five:  A through D and one “rant” but I appear to have exceeded my expectations, or my frustration at government.  So this week, I’m slow in posting, but here it is!

Abominable Act – Congress in action
Paul Ryan: ‘There Are More Effective Ways’ to End Obamacare Than Defunding–But Doesn’t Say What
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yeah, but not necessarily palatable to most people:  “And it’s up against the wall, scumbag suckers…”  See Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:  “Voted most likely to be the first up against the wall…”

Mama’s Note: Oh, I can think of at least a dozen very effective things congress could do to eliminate Obummercare and so much more. Grow a spine and some balls, pass bills to repeal AND defund immoral and illegal “acts” of both president and congress, impeach the criminal in chief – and put him in a jail cell for life, along with all of his enablers and criminal minions. Of course this will never be “palatable” to most of those empowered to deal with it. There was only one member of the house who even proposed such things, and he never went far enough.

Congress in action
Rep. Holt: Conservatives’ ‘Psychological Disconnect’ Over Being Part of Government is Causing Gridlock
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Let them believe that; more and more people realize that it is just the opposite: the demand for more and more government, more and more spending, more and more taxes, and more and more control is what causes gridlock because people are getting sick and tired of it.

Mama’s Note: Gridlock is GOOD, especially when the action otherwise is evil. This idiot Holt is singing the same song the rapists and their apologists do… lay back, relax and enjoy the experience.

Islamic war – Stupid government
Carney: ‘No Question’ Al-Qaeda On the Run
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Consider the source – and ignore it.  The man is as big a crook as his boss.  And that is saying something.  Blame it on a lack of good parenting – good parents would have strangled this guy in his crib.

Theft by government -Stupid government
USDA Paid ‘Improper’ Subsidies to 1,799 Dead Farmers and Proper Ones to 28,613 Dead Farmers
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: As with voting, the dead CAN do well as far as government is concerned. One more handicap being overcome thanks to the FedGov.

Theft by government
USDA Assisting PBS Stations with $2.7 Million for Digital Conversion
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And speaking of the dead – Public Broadcasting IS dead – as dead as the Constitution.  It just hasn’t stopped moving yet.  Let us see how much more money can be wasted supporting this boondoggle.

The “messiah” – Lies and more lies
Obama Says Immigration Reform Would Boost Home Values
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And whiten your teeth and freshen your smile!  Liar, liar.  You want to see what immigration – border jumpers who aren’t interested in coming to America to be free – does to home values?  Look at Detroit. folks.  Look at the border cities and look in the barrios and colonia.

Mama’s Note: The immigration status of the people in those areas is not the only problem, by any means. Something about a lack of a free market and freedom in general certainly comes to mind. Without the insane non-voluntary government, those who didn’t want to be free — well, they probably wouldn’t come, or at least they wouldn’t stay.

The nanny state – Stupid government
Gov’t Advisory Group Recommends Community-Level Obesity Watch
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: One more role for your local nanny-police state.  Another excuse for daily surveillance.  “Oh, look, Mrs. Jones must have put on another five pounds, look how she’s waddling across the intersection.  See how much heavier she looks than she did last month on the cameras? Tell Officer Smith he needs to issue her another fat ticket, pronto.  And notify the health care budget boards that she is getting another downcheck.  Someone else can have that liver.”

Crash of 2009 – New technologies and stupid business
Single-Copy Magazine Sales Fall 10 Percent in First Half of 2013
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Duh.  Look at the store shelves and the internet, and you will know why.  For one thing, the prices of single copies are farther from subscription prices than ever.  For another, there are tens of thousands of magazines competing, each zooming in on narrower and narrower markets.  For a third, the cost of ink and slick paper is astronomical, so despite the high issue prices, they are barely getting by.  More and more supermarkets and big box stores (including the book store chains) are on the edge and cutting back.

Mama’s Note: Outside of sitting in a rare waiting room, I don’t think I’ve picked up a paper magazine in better than 20 years. I have not subscribed to one for at least 40 years. Used to write for a few, long ago, but I’ve had no interest in them since the internet became available. I can see and read just about anything I want, and don’t have to store the paper or figure out how to get rid of it.

Theft by government – Corruption and lies
Competing Tax Groups Praise, Pan Obama’s Corporate Tax Reform Plan
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: If you hear someone praising this piece of garbage, don’t turn your back on them – not if you carry your wallet in your back pocket.  And if you don’t wear some body armor on your back.  Bad enough that they steal from us, but the lies get worse and worse.

Mama’s Note: Just a pack of thugs arguing about who gets to rob the tourists…  But, increasingly, the tourists are getting wise.

Stupid people tricks
Slow-Roasted, Milled Crickets Pitched As ‘First Viable Solution’ to Global Food Crisis
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is majoring in minors and mistaking effects for causes.  The major problem that causes the “global food crisis” is government:  we have the ability to produce enough food for all of us, and could if (a) the markets were free, fair, and open, and (b) if taxations, regulations, and wars didn’t prevent farmers from growing and logisticians from transporting the food from willing sellers to willing buyers.

Mama’s Note: If anyone wishes to eat crickets or grasshoppers – slow roasted or otherwise – they are more than welcome to come up to my place and catch every one they can get their hands on. I’d be delighted to be rid of them. But I much prefer to eat beef and antelope myself, thanks.

Culture wars: killing babies – Mainstream media
Late-Term-Abortion Advocate Gets Standing Ovation at National Press Club
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Of course: it is called preaching to the choir.  These people have been taught that it is evil to bring life into the world, and that an unborn baby is a worthless lump of flesh, or worse, a parasite inside a woman’s body.  They are one step away from Canaanite infant sacrifice and Roman-Greek style exposure of newborns, they are monsters in human form.

Stupid politicians – Home front
National Gang Task Force in the Works
(Guns.com) CHICAGO — The Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois raised the specter of Chicago gangster Al Capone on Monday in calling on the federal government to become more involved in fighting modern-day street gangs nationwide. Mark Kirk appeared with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in Chicago, where both men endorsed legislation that would provide $20 million for a national anti-gang task force. The federal government should exert the same focus toward breaking up street gangs that it exerted in helping to bring down Capone nearly a century ago, said Kirk, who is running for President Barack Obama’s former Senate seat. Kirk faces Democrat Alexi Giannoulias and other candidates in November.

Mama’s Note: Why, of course. Everyone knows we need another alphabet soup gang of thugs roaming America looking for victims.

Nathan: Gagggghhh!

(1) If the FedGov exercised the “same focus” as they did against Al Capone, they’d cut current manpower and spending on feral “law enforcement” by about 98%.

(2) This NAGTF (Nag-tiff?) would be one more seed pod of a true national police force, or Fe(de)ral Law Enforcement Agency (FLEA) – joking aside, this is just a size-15 boot in the doorway.

(3) This is one more example of how the GOP tries to outdo the Democratic Party in catering to the various lobbies, especially the FOP and all the other cop and bureaucratic unions.

(4)  This man, Kirk, appears to be another liberal in “conservative” or middle-of-the-road sheepskin.

An interesting side note: Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office fired its ONLY “drug cop” for “misconduct” this week; they may or may not replace him.  Among other things, the local DA refused to use the guy’s testimony because he was so much in trouble…

Another interesting side note:  Al Capone may have gotten caught, tried, convicted, and imprisoned, but it was for “tax evasion” – and today, his spiritual successors RULE Chicago and suck the blood of the third largest city in America.  Raum Emmanuel has far more in common with Big Al than with an honest businessman or even a normal, typical, corrupt “civil servant.”

Local Tyranny
NYPD to purge stop-and-frisk database of names
(Chicago Tribune)”The New York City Police Department has agreed to purge a database of names and addresses of people stopped by police under the NYPD’s controversial stop-and-frisk program but later cleared of criminal wrongdoing. The department will scrub the information as part of a settlement ending a lawsuit filed in 2010 in state court by the New York Civil Liberties Union, which announced the agreement on Wednesday.” (08/07/13)

Mama’s Note: If you believe that, do you want to buy a bridge?

Nathan: Of course they will purge the database – AFTER they back it up in a half-dozen places.

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