Libertarian commentary on the news, #13-27B: Idiots in charge of a decaying regime

Posted on 2013-07-12 by TPOL Nathan

Busy week – for me and a lot of other folks.  But apparently the government is incredibly busy destroying everything it can – and itself.  We can see that in the very LOWEST of venue:

Stupid government – Demogogues
Obama: The Government Is Us, And We’re Doing Things Right
(Personal Liberty.com) President Barack Obama wants Americans to focus less on government failings and more on where it makes things better. The government is us, according to the President, and we’re doing things right.

Nathan: I am so totally disgusted at this man and his stupid comment that I’ve tried to write commentary on this five or six times and not been able to really start.  I want to pick this to pieces, but at the same time, I want to cover my ears and run screaming from this government and the idiots who claim to be in charge.  We are seeing this nation, and most states of it, deteriorating into stinking slime, in front of us, day-by-day.

Mama’s Note: Of course it’s a silly statement. There is absolutely nothing that can be “done right” with theft, coercion, lies, fraud and murder. Fortunately, more and more people are noticing that very thing.

Home front – War against some religion
Rep. Pitts: ‘First Amendment Does Not Restrict Religion to Places of Worship’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And why not?  Why do all the people have to be bothered by these street preachers and people being disgusting by worshipping in parks or stores or wearing crosses or funny hats or all that gross stuff?  Well, because the First Amendment does not CREATE a right to worship God (or gods or elephants or even science): it “merely” recognizes it and supposedly prohibits government from interfering with it.  The right to practice a religion is inherent: built into every human being, whether by nature or by nature’s God.  Too bad MORE politicians and bureaucrats don’t understand this.  Sadly, the FedGov has been attacking SOME religions for 180 years, (as some states have been since the 1600s, just in different ways) and there is little hope that it will do anything but get worse.

Stupid government tricks – Africa’s collapse
New Duties for Holder and Kerry: Combat Wildlife Trafficking in Africa
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: I am SO GLAD that they are finally tackling what tens of millions of Americans view as the most critical issue on which the Federal government must take action today.  Americans have been demanding for decades that hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent to keep this from happening, and that if the choice is between this and letting Mexico take over the US, then Mexico is welcome to it.

Government spying and the end of liberty – Europe’s fall
Belgium:  Government to Spy on Emails “Legally”
(De Standaard via PresEurop) The Belgian government has requested that the country’s parliament hold an urgent vote on a bill presented at the end of June, which will oblige telecoms operators to keep a record of emails that transit their networks for a period of one year, reports De Standaard. The daily points out that in compliance with the European directive of 2006, which is currently being reviewed by the European Commission, state security services and the courts will have access to the records, but that these will not include information about the content of emails.

Nathan: Certainly the Belgian government (or ONE of the Belgian governments, or all of them) has been doing this – perhaps subcontracting to NSA’s contractors to gather them.  But now, suddenly, they want to be legal, fearing the sort of feedback the NSA is getting in the US.  (Which is NOT, after all, the kind of feedback that the NSA needs to get in the US:  large mobs with torches, pitchforks, tar, feathers, rails and hemp nooses, for the NSA and ANYONE who stands up for the NSA doing this.)

World trade
Bern and Beijing sign free-trade deal
(Le Temps, via PressEurop)

Nathan: This could be pretty neat IF either the Swiss or the Chinese really know what constitutes “free trade.”  I’d like to think that the Swiss do understand, but indications are that it is as much a joke as NAFTA.

Self defense
Pennsylvania: Trespass leads to assault, gunfight
(WNEP News) “Robert Drust punched 75-year-old Larry Papach in the face, which lead to a violent shootout. ‘Before the police even got there, that’s when the fight started,’ said Franks. ‘There was an argument, there was a pushing, shoving, fist-fight type thing, and then there was the shooting.’ Detectives said Nicholas Drust fired 14 rounds from a semi-automatic handgun at Papach in the shoulder and hand. The criminal complaint said Papach was able to return fire, shooting six rounds from a pistol. The bullets from Papach’s gun hit Robert Drust in the thigh, as well as the alleged trespasser’s sedan. Franks said both men are expected to recover from their injuries, and that Papach fired in self-defense of the trespassers.” (07/04/13)

Nathan: Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, that NONE of these people were armed, but that Robert and Nicholas were intent on beating up or even beating to death Mr. Papach, 75 years old.  WITHOUT a firearm, Mr. Papach would probably be dead, with NO opportunity to defend himself.  Apparently, Papach was more accurate than the teenaged Nicholas Drust.  AND the cops even in PA once in a while recognize self-defense!!

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Consent of The Governed

Posted on 2013-07-11 by MamaLiberty

Would you consider it reasonable if one of your neighbors went down to the local car dealer and signed a contract to buy a car, using your credit and name, obligating you to pay for it while he drove it around? Would you think it reasonable if he were able to force you to pay for all of the gas, maintenance, insurance and even repairs when he wrecked it? And, of course, when he wanted another new car, would you cheerfully agree to a repeat performance of the above, again and again, forever? Would it help if he let you drive the car for a block or two now and then?

Furthermore, would you think it acceptable for him to put you in a cage or kill you if you refused to pay for any of this, or even seriously objected to it?

I didn’t think so.

Would it be more reasonable and acceptable if two people did this to you? Ten? A hundred? I can’t imagine it would, and yet that’s exactly what is happening all over the country right now. It’s just set up a little different and called something else.

Every single level of the present non-voluntary government does exactly this. Every penny they spend is stolen from me and you. They steal it from us in a thousand ways, and use our name and credit to sign the bogus contracts that will steal from us and our children for long years to come. They pretend that they have some legitimate “authority” to do this, and that being a “citizen” means that you consent to it all.

Did you consent?

Some people seem to think that you consent to these things by voting, and by being a part of electoral politics in any way. Some people think you consent merely by not objecting, not finding some way to fight them or avoid the theft.

Some people may be right. What do you think? Do you consent?

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-27A: Crash of 2009 continues

Posted on 2013-07-09 by TPOL Nathan

Crash of 2009 – Economic disaster Home front (3 stories)
101M Americans Get Food Aid from Federal Gov’t; More Than the Number of Private Sector Workers
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: It has been headed this way for a long time.  Continued “depression-level” unemployment (real, not just reported as the next story talks about) is part of the reason for this.  Of course, the administration is working on boosting the number of private sector workers by getting employers to convert fulltime to part time jobs (see the story after next).  But we also have to remember that for several years, the administration has been actively promoting food stamps (SNAP) and other federal food aid (such as to schools and other institutions) to boost numbers dependent on the fedgov for food and a lot more.

Mama’s Note: Yes, and all the while doing everything they can think of to make natural, wholesome food more and more expensive and harder to find. The absolute avalanche of regulations, taxes, land use and “environmental” restrictions and so forth make it a real miracle that anyone still wants to farm or ranch.

54 Months: Record Stretch of 7.5%+ Unemployment Continues
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is of course the “official” unemployment – the REAL unemployment rate is insanely higher than this, and even the OLD “official” unemployment rate (which the government used to calculate) is a lot higher: the country’s economy may not be in a RAPID death spiral, but is still spiraling down.

Mama’s Note: And the “real” unemployment rate, by any measure, does not take into consideration all of the people who have joined the black and gray market, offering their goods and services outside the definition of employment altogether. This is actually a good thing, as people are pressed to find ways to trade that do not involve government “permission” and, while certainly subject to heavy handed punishment when detected, gives rise to the old entrepreneurial spirit that actually built the best of civilization down through the ages. Rather than honoring and emulating the “statesman,” we need to respect the smugglers and blockade runners.

Number of ‘Involuntary’ Part-Time Workers Jumps 332K in June
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: What a boon to the Administration:  Full part-time employment can increase steadily, and they can continue to fool too many people.  The hours can get cut from “just under 30” to 25 to 20 to 15, and maybe at 8 hours a week, EVERYONE can be “employed” and STILL collect all the wonderful government benefits like “free” food and cell phones and all the rest.  So that all the businesses will work (directly or indirectly) for the government. Then the Crash of 2009 can be a PERMANENT depression but not have to be called one.

Mama’s Note: Ah, but nothing is truly permanent, no matter how hard they try to make it so. The only thing in life that never, ever changes is the fact that all things change.

Theft by government – Broken promises
Social Security Personal Accounts: Prosperity for All
(Heartland Institute) To pay for all of the promised Social Security and Medicare benefits would require almost doubling the current total payroll tax of 15.3 percent to nearly 30 percent, says Peter Ferrara, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis…

Nathan: We ALL can pretty much figure than anyone under the age of 55 or so today AIN’T gonna collect stinkin’ Social Security ‘lessn they’s got privileges and know someone.  It is broke, it just is still wiggling around a little bit.  But personal accounts?  Only so that when the time comes the government can steal them, too, as is already being discussed about 401k and IRAs.

Home Front: Chicago War
67 72 Shot in Chicago in Wave of Holiday Weekend Violence
(NBC Chicago) The survivors were not cooperating with detectives, authorities said. …Twelve men were killed and at least 60 other people were wounded in shootings throughout Chicago during the holiday weekend, including eight people who were shot in a West Side attack Saturday.

Mama’s Note: Now, wait a minute! It’s illegal to carry a gun in Chicago. I guess they’ll just have to make it MORE “illegal.” Funny thing, though. It IS legal a lot of other places where NOBODY was shot over the holiday…

Nathan: The numbers went up even after Mama Liberty sent me this story this morning.  This is almost as bad as Egypt this weekend!  Sadly, this is just a drop in the bucket of Chicago’s population.  Although a lot of people don’t understand, there is a definite correlation between severity of gun control laws which keep normal people from having guns for self-defense, and the number of gun crimes committed.

Theft in general – Broken free market
Rethinking Which Accounts Qualify for Deposit Insurance
(Mercatus) Uninsured brokered deposits reaffirm market discipline and increase stability, making banks rely on a stable deposit base to finance their lending activities…

Nathan: Sounds pretty good.  But what sounds even better is REAL insurance, where private firms have to determine what the risk of loss is, and the premium is really affiliated with the cost and risk for a particular bank, so that it is not a license to do stupid things.

Mama’s Note: The banker (and everyone else) needs to be personally liable for their decisions and business practice. If you can play games with other people’s money, then walk off when things go bad, lots of things can go bad quickly. I’m sure the idea of tar and feathers, or outright hanging, kept many a banker in line in years gone by.

Islamic wars: Arab street revolt
Muslim Brotherhood Claims Early-Morning ‘Massacre’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This “massacre” was as much the fault of the Muslim Brotherhood as it was of the Army, but that is what the MB wants: blood in the streets to fling into the news screens and front pages of European and American papers to get them to restore Morsi (or some other MB stooge) to power.  The MB cares no more for the Arab in the Street than the Army does: they see the normal people as pawns and tokens to be spent for power.  Yes, the Army pulled a coup – with some good reason to do so, and apparently in compliance with at least some “constitutional provisions” – of a constitution that had already been rendered null and void.

A pox on BOTH (or ALL) their houses: let the Egyptians continue to kill themselves as they have done for six or seven thousand years.  Stop wasting Western treasure and lives trying to stop it, or to “establish democracy.”  Indeed, this is where the West came in: when French and British troops intervened in an Egyptian mess because the leaders were killing the people and the people were trying to kill the leaders – and EVERYONE was killing the “christians” and the “foreigners.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-26C: Arab street revolt and US stupidity

Posted on 2013-07-08 by TPOL Nathan

Islamic wars: Arab street revolt – American interference and stupidity (2 stories)
Egypt: Chief justice sworn in as interim president
(AP) “The youth had the initiative and the noblest thing about this glorious event is that it was an expression of the nation’s conscience and an embodiment of its hopes and ambitions.” The revolution must continue, …”

Nathan: It is my way of thinking that there is little to desire between the Egyptian military and the new Supreme-Court-Justice-turned-temporary-President and the Morsi cabal, for the people of Egypt or the world.  The one exception to that (although contested by the likes of Stephen Lendman, who thinks that ANYthing the US is involved in is automatically evil, and that the US is involved in everything, including the overthrow of Morsi) is that deposing the Pharaoh Morsi is a slap in the “messiah’s” face and the opposite of what DC wants; as the next story relates.

Arab journalist reports US Ambassador pressuring Egypt
(RaymondIbraham.com via Freedom Outpost) …Anne Patterson is turning up the heat and vowing to apply pressure: Evidence that the Obama administration is unhappy with the Egyptian people’s liberation from Muslim Brotherhood rule continues to emerge.  As reported today by Youm 7, according to Muhammad Heikal — “the Arab world’s most respected political commentator” and for some 50 years a political insider — soon after the overthrow of Morsi, U.S. ambassador Anne Patterson assured Hisham Qandil, who hours ago was Egypt’s Prime Minister, that “there are many forms of pressure, and America holds the keys to the Gulf.”

Such blatantly pro-Muslim Brotherhood assurances by Patterson are consistent with many of her other actions in Egypt, which have led most Egyptians, including politicians and activists, to refer to her as a Brotherhood stooge.  Among other things, in the days leading to June 30, she called on Egyptians not to protest — including by meeting with the Coptic Pope and asking him to urge the nation’s Christian minority not to oppose the Brotherhood, even though Christians have naturally been the most to suffer under Morsi, especially in the context of “blasphemy” accusations. Thus, and once again, the Obama administration makes indubitably clear that its primary interest in Egypt is to see the Muslim Brotherhood stay in power, the Egyptian people’s will — the will of tens of millions of secularists, liberals, moderates, and Christians — be damned.

Nathan: Of course, the “messiah” and his minions have no problem with ignoring the will of millions of Egyptian voters and citizens: they have had lots of practice ignoring the will of the American people on issues across the board.  Supposedly, Ms. Patterson is hated by Egyptians third only to Morsi and the “messiah” himself.  There are rumors floating that she is not a “stooge” of the MB, but that she is herself a member of MB and part of a sleeper cell.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/us-ambassador-to-egypt-vows-to-apply-pressure-to-support-muslim-brotherhood/#ixzz2YMjewJOe

Home front – Hoplophiles
Toy Gun March On Washington Draws 2nd Amendment Supporters
(Personal Liberty) While there’s no sign that remnant supporters of the dubious, now-cancelled July 4th armed march on Washington, D.C. are coalescing near the capitol with loaded weapons, 2nd Amendment supporters did turn out Wednesday to stage a legal demonstration – using toy guns.

Nathan: Actually, according to some reports, Adam Kokesh DID show up in DC and commit a number of felonies by loading and unloading a shotgun, but without being arrested.  The toy gun protest drew virtually NO media, of course.  I hope that they had fun, because otherwise they wasted the day.  As did the people who tried to “Restore the Fourth” and other political actions.  Guy Fawkes Day seems to mean more today than Independence Day does.

Home front – Tyranny and spying
The Feds Are Spying On Your Snail Mail Too
(Personal Liberty) Amid reports of the National Security Agency’s sweeping surveillance efforts centered on collecting electronic communications data, many Americans have expressed concern about their privacy on the technological front. A new report indicates that the government is spying on snail mail too. Read More…

Nathan: I don’t know how long it will take for this to sink into the public consciousness, but this is definitely 1984 and Brave New World level police state actions.  Every piece of mail (don’t know if it specifically includes the junk mail – photos of every bogus “this key may fit the car you can win” promotion flyer  or just the bills and birthday cards and the like) every day?  Even in small local post offices?  The sheer volume of data is insanely high, which makes me wonder if this is a fake claim.  But I don’t know enough about the modern workings inside post offices to support or deny it.  But even if it is only 10% of the mail, is it not one more proof that the Constitution is dead and the FedGov is a police state tyranny to be ranked with the Third Reich and Soviet Russia?

Home front – Media madness
MSNBC Analyst: Paula Deen Should Apologize Until Media Approves
(Personal Liberty) Food Network star Paula Deen has been attacked for a racial slur that she admitted to using 30 years ago. She has been rebuked by the media and lost $12.5 million in sponsorship deals. But still, MSNBC pundits believe that she should suffer further. Watch…

Nathan: This Deen controversy is seemingly another dog-days-of-summer type story, but it is obvious that the viciousness of the mainstream media is growing as their overall power wanes.  Like the dying snake that strikes out and poisons its attacker – or whatever is closest, the media cannot help but do so: it is its nature.

Home front – Local tyranny/stupid cop tricks
Police Chief Tries To Shoot Dog; Shoots Owner Instead; Ignores Victim; Gets Sworn In
(Personal Liberty) A North Carolina woman was hit by a ricocheting bullet meant for her dog, after Winston-Salem police chief in-waiting Barry Rountree got scared of the dog last week and tried to shoot it.

Nathan: I haven’t had a chance to talk with any trained or retired law enforcement professionals about this, but suspect that they would NOT agree with hiring this idiot as police chief: even a chief requires a bit of courage, some common sense, and some pretense of gun skills.  The problem here is NOT with the police department or even Rountree himself as much as with the city fathers of Winston-Salem who collectively are brain dead, and the idea that government at any level can be trusted with anything more deadly than a peashooter or a wrist-rocket with a really CHEAP rubber band.

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What Goes Up, Must Come Down

Posted on 2013-07-07 by MamaLiberty

Boy killed by stray bullet fired in celebration of July 4
(The Raw Story)

Police in Chesterfield County Virginia are seeking information that could lead to the arrest of whoever fired a shot into the air that struck and killed 7-year-old Brendon Mackey on July 4. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the boy was walking with his father in a parking lot when he abruptly fell to the ground lifeless.

Every year we read about such tragic events, and while gun owners and even some experts don’t always agree on the details, this is a very even handed description of what happens when a bullet is fired straight up into the air.

It seems obvious, however, that most bullets fired into the air, for whatever reason, are NOT aimed straight up. I would imagine that most people shooting this way take at least some care to aim away from people and buildings they can SEE, but they quite obviously do not understand the speed and trajectory of the bullet. They are obviously not thinking about the person or object that may be on the other end of that trajectory. Most importantly, however, they have chosen to ignore one of the absolutely imperative rules for safe gun handling.

ALWAYS point the gun in a safe direction. KNOW your target, and what is behind it.

You are always responsible for every single bullet that fires from your gun. Every bullet fired has to go somewhere. It WILL hit something. You are responsible for what it hits. You remain responsible if you “didn’t know,” or if you did not intend to fire the gun at all. So, firing a gun into the air, with zero idea where the bullet will land or what it will hit is not an “accident” in any rational sense of the word. An accident is an event that happens without intention, and without any reasonable warning. It is something unforeseen and, often, unavoidable. A great many things that are called “accidents” are truly incidents of negligence, by one or more people.

So, while the actual chance of killing someone is probably very low, the very act of firing a gun into the air, without a clear target and knowledge of where that bullet will land, is simply criminal negligence whether you hit the side of a building or kill someone’s prize bull. If your bullet kills a person, you are guilty of at least manslaughter. I can’t imagine any “celebration” being worth taking that chance.

Those who truly care about safety, and their reputation as responsible, rational people, need to take the one step necessary to avoid this negligence. Don’t shoot your guns into the air.

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Independence Day

Posted on 2013-07-05 by TPOL Nathan

It is the fourth of July – commonly celebrated as “Independence Day;” the day that the Declaration of Independence was publicly proclaimed, although it had been adopted on the second of July.  237 years ago, about a million Englishmen (or so they were considered, although they were Scots and Irish and even Dutch and German and even some Manxmen and Frenchmen), one in three of the three million who had settled in thirteen small colonies along the Atlantic seaboard, decided that enough was enough and tried to take another step forward to claim the liberty that is God’s gift to EVERY man and woman.

For years, I celebrated it, with my family, my friends, my fellow soldiers and fellow lovers of liberty and fellow children of God – and not just Americans (either born or by choice) but with friends from other places not blessed directly by those distant events.

But I just can’t this year.  Just cannot, for it is now just another historic event in time and place that (though it shaped our world) has no more meaning than celebrating the day that the Maccabees liberated the temple, that Octavius defeated Marc Anthony, that the Pueblo revolted against the Spanish, or any other of the thousand events that people have commemorated over the centuries and millennia.

That act of disobedience to tyrants (and therefore, obedience to God) did not fail; the War of Independence already under way did not fail; and although the Articles of Confederation DID fail it is hard to say that the Constitution, deeply flawed though it was, failed immediately.  No, the successes were ultimately compromised and destroyed by actions that on their face are contrary to the spirit and words of the Declaration, and indeed, contrary to the spirit of the Lord which in part motivated the actions so long ago.

Today, people place undue emphasis on that day in 1776; it did not start or stop a war, it did not restore liberty or freedoms or sustain them, it did not make a nation where there had been none before.  It was merely a convenient symbol and an arbitrary assignment in time and place of those events.  To remind us, and therefore celebrate what we had.

But in this Year of Our Lord 2013, this Anno Libertalis 237, I do not have the heart to celebrate any more.  The liberty for which my spiritual and physical and social ancestors gave so much, including lives, is gone: wasted by those who benefited most from it.  My chosen professions are tainted and corrupted by the tyranny which has replaced it in great and small things.  My friends and clients are constantly harassed and weakened and punished and made poor(er) by those who hide in the red, white, and blue and now meaningless words, cloaking their evil in them to prey upon us.  My brothers and sisters in Christ are subject to growing persecution, all too often not realizing what they have lost in their liberty to worship God, and instead worship (in effect) the state, which has usurped God’s place.  But we allowed it to be done:  we wasted our liberty and traded it for security and safety. Or what we were convinced was security and safety.

Weep for what once was, and is no more. Don’t celebrate it, mourn its absence.

The best thing we can do in this time of evil is to pray and plan and prepare for what is necessary to once again “Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land and unto All the Inhabitants thereof.”  And prepare to pledge and give our “lives and fortunes and sacred honor” for that: blood and sweat and tears to be shed.  It won’t be the people of all of these formerly united States who will ever again enjoy liberty, but we can pray that as many of our families and friends and coreligionists and neighbors CAN eventually regain the liberty which is our right as humans.  And when that is done, THEN we can again have something to celebrate.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-26B: Lies and more lies – “messiah” style

Posted on 2013-07-04 by TPOL Nathan

The “messiah’s” minions – Lies and more lies
Clapper: I gave ‘erroneous’ answer because I forgot about Patriot Act
(Guardian (UK))Intelligence chief tries to explain false Senate testimony by saying he ‘simply didn’t think’ of NSA efforts to collect phone data

Mama’s Note: Of course he just forgot… the “head” of all this snooping certainly can’t be expected to remember all the silly details of the “law” that supposedly justifies it all… even when giving sworn testimony. Thing is, just why did he think he could get away with such obvious lies? Proof that these morons are not omnipotent, for sure.

Nathan: Of course, the other excuse that he can use is that there are SO MANY spy efforts that he can’t remember even all the major ones.  And I might even accept his excuse…. BUT Supposedly, that is why big government thug-bosses have staffers, to REMIND them of inconvenient things (like the truth). It is like giving a presentation on elephants, and thinking “I’m not going to mention elephants!”  Man should be punished for perjury and contempt.  Best punishment?  FIRE HIM.

Tranzi tricks – Culture wars: homosexuality and “marriage”
Bill Maher: Jesus ‘Bitched’ About the Rich, But Not Homosexuality
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Filthy, disrespectful language aside, Jesus did NOT single out homosexuals for mention Himself directly.  He didn’t need to: He made it clear that ALL of the old Law (the Law of Moses) was in effect and that sin was sin, even if it could be forgiven (the example being the woman found in adultery).  He also had Peter, Paul, and the other New Testament writers clearly condemn it (even if the King James Version translators botched the translation).  More germane to the point, the Lord defined marriage as one-man-one-woman, not any combination of two or more, and anything outside of marriage as “sin” (that awful old word), so that by definition, homosexual activity is a sin.  Those who want a new-age Jesus with a big umbrella will have to try something else.  but for this column, the political impact is clear:  Despite Maher’s efforts to “defend christianity” (sarcasm here, folks), the SCOTUS decision and its language make it clear that christians who believe, teach, and practice what Jesus taught and what is found in the New Testament of the Bible are “enemies of the human race” and therefore “enemies of the state.”  No matter how much they protest that Romans 13 or any other scripture says that they are to obey the king.  “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” – even if that “god” is the state.

Home front – Stupid people, stupid government
Odd Loaded Gun Trend Leaves TSA Officials Scratching Their Heads
(TheBlaze/AP) — Several times every day, at airports across the country, passengers are trying to walk through security with loaded guns in their carry-on bags, purses or pockets, even in a boot. And, more than a decade after 9/11 raised consciousness about airline security, it’s happening a lot more often. In fact, the increase is stunning. In the first six months of this year, Transportation Security Administration screeners found 894 guns on passengers or in their carry-on bags, a 30 percent increase over the same period last year. The TSA set a record in May for the most guns seized in one week — 65 in all, 45 of them loaded and 15 with bullets in the chamber and ready to be fired. That was 30 percent more than the previous record of 50 guns, set just two weeks earlier. Last year TSA found 1,549 firearms on passengers attempting to go through screening, up 17 percent from the year before.

Nathan: I personally think that this is a good sign.  The more of us that carry, the more likely some of us are to forget we are carrying.  People always make mistakes – and note, no information on how many of these are “law enforcement” and therefore used only to jack up the numbers.  But this means that a LOT more people are carrying – even if carrying concealed.  So criminals (including jack-booted thugs) have more to worry about on the streets and in the businesses of the nation.  Still, it is a fun story to read, and if sometimes enough to make you angry, an interesting perspective.  I was surprised to find out that TSA does not AUTOMATICALLY arrest you for carrying one (or so they claim, but again, this IS TSA), and sometimes don’t even steal the gun.  And the data in the story does pretty much match what I thought otherwise: more in the West and South, the excuse “I just forgot” usually not believed, and the fact that when you are undressed unless you ARE properly armed, you don’t think of it as much.  Especially given the way more and more of us (including gun owners and carriers) are brain dead so much of the time.

Mama’s Note: I find it very hard to believe that people found with guns in an airport are not arrested and persecuted every single time. The way the TSA carries on over a little bottle of water or a keychain “knife” would seem to illustrate their utter insanity and determination to prohibit as many things as possible. I keep waiting for them to decree that all passengers must board the aircraft stark naked. Personally, I can’t imagine forgetting that I’m carrying a gun, at least to that extent.

The “messiah” – Stealing children
Obama: ‘My Neighbor’s Child Is My Child’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Not if I can help it, and if I’m armed:  we have a word for this kind of person out west: gallows fruit (well, most modern folk would use “lead sponge” something similar for this kind of child molester.  None of my kids, none of my fellow church member’s kids, none of my relatives or neighbors’ kids belong to this thug. But clearly this man and his consort lack acceptable parenting skills, as the next story tells us about her.

The “messiah’s” consort – Lies and more lies
Michelle Obama Praises ‘Way to Sneak New Vegetables Onto the Kids’ Trays’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is precisely the tactic I was warned NOT to use on my children by my parents and other elders.  But exactly what I would expect out of a liar’s wife who is herself a Tranzi lawyer (or ex-lawyer).  How can you tell when a lawyer isn’t telling the truth?  When their mouth is open.  Their poor children.

Mama’s Note: Never had to trick my sons into eating vegetables. They ate anything I put in front of them. Just worked on ways to get them to slow down and enjoy it more. Unfortunately, so many of today’s parents grew up on soda pop and junk “foods,” and that’s all they know – so that’s all their children know as well. The good news is that many are looking at healthy diets and getting rid of the junk. But they have to want to do that, of course. It can’t be legislated or forced.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News, #13-26A: Wars on religions, Twitting government

Posted on 2013-07-03 by TPOL Nathan

Islamic wars: Arab street revolt – War on some religions
Syrian Rebels Behead Catholic Priests in Public Execution
(The Blaze.com) While earlier reports suggested Murad may have been shot to death, Catholic Online reported Saturday: “The Vatican is confirming the death by beheading of Franciscan Father, Francois Murad, who was martyred by Syrian jihadists on June 23.”  See also:  Reported Beheading of Syrian Priest Comes Amid Rising Fear for Christians’ Safety (CNSNews.com)

Nathan: The situation turns even more nasty, as the US regime makes its alliances (or desired alliances) more clear.  We are so fortunate that the Religion of Peace ™ is present in all these countries to keep the mayhem down. I am sure that the FedGov keeps a close eye on this sort of thing to give them ideas for dealing with the upstarts and troublemakers here in the US, like the next story relates:

Home front: war on some religions – Abominable Act: ObummerCare
Obama’s Final Word: Catholics Must Buy/Provide Coverage for Abortion Drugs
(CNSnews.com)

Nathan: Was there any question otherwise?  Even those who do NOT believe in modern “humanist/evolutionist” religion must support its sacred rituals and sacraments.  There is no exception, apparently.  Of course, there is “justification” galore for this, according to the administration.

Home front: war on some religions – Abominable Act: ObummerCare
Final Reg: Mandatory Free Contraceptives, Sterilizations, Abortion-Inducing Drugs Will Prevent ‘Employee Absences’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This reminds me of excuses given in both the Third Reich and the Soviet Union for more than just these things:  the state (or the “businesses” that are more and more an integral part of the state) cannot be denied the full effort of the members of that state.

Culture wars: war against marriage
Rep. Gohmert: What’s Next – Legalized Polygamy?
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: I’ve seen multiple reports, both before and after the SCOTUS decision, indicating that proponents of polyandry or polyamory (not just polygamy) have already begun planning for the campaign for that.  Not just Muslims (who have tacitly been practicing polygamy in several jurisdictions in the US) and “Fundamentalist” LDS/Mormons, but various other groups have stated very clearly and reasonably publicly that this is the next item on the agenda: get government to recognize these relationships and then force the rest of society to both accept and promote them.  They want more than tolerance and freedom to practice their desires in these things.

Again, as I have written often,  it is NOT up to government or any other organizations to define what marriage is.  Any more than it should be allowed for government to define what liberty or freedom is.  The real issue here is the “right” to government benefits (privileges). This issue was created by government rules and regulations and laws which take away the freedom of people and their businesses and other associations.  The solution to all of this would in large part be rejecting ANY government authority to define “marriage” (or anything else), which we know is not going to happen.  If peaceful people want to have any sort of domestic arrangement, short of forcing or aggressing against others to either participate or “accept” their style of life, let them go off and do it any way they want.  But let us stop this using force (governmental or anything else) to make people not just accept but “affirm” these things, or give special privileges and  pay benefits or anything else to support some lifestyle or actions which they do not believe right.

Stupid government tricks – World war
All Countries Gather Foreign Intelligence, DNI Spokesman Says Amid EU Protests
CNSNews.com

Nathan: Funny, this comes about the same time that the “messiah” says that he doesn’t need to spy on American allies, all he has to do is call THEIR supreme leader (whomever that President or Prime Minister might be) and ask them for the answers.

Hoploclasts and hoplophobes
Colorado: Giving away 30-round magazines before they are banned
(Personal Liberty)

Nathan: Fun to read, apparently great fun to have done.  I know this park in Glendale (a small town surrounded by the City and County of Denver) and it is great to see its mayor tweaking the nose of the government and the thugs that currently make up the General Assembly of Colorado, a legislature as evil and power-hungry as the Parliament in London.  Of course, as of the 1st of July, it is illegal to buy or sell anything larger than a 15-round magazine in Colorado (although 55 of 62 sheriffs are refusing to enforce the law – or so they claim, I wouldn’t push it, though).  Not only did they give away several thousand, they sold as many as 18,000 magazines (“flooding the streets of Colorado”) with the total proceeds going to several prominent recall campaigns against some of the General Assembly thugs.

Federal tyranny – Hoploclasts
California:  Sheriff strips USFS state law enforcement authority
(Personal Liberty)

Nathan: This is El Dorado County, in the Sierras on the Nevada border, and it is totally different than what we’ve come to expect from the People’s Republic.  The story has been coming out in dribs and drabs, and the sheriff claims both that he has attempted to get the USFS “law enforcement rangers” to stop harassing not just his employers (the citizens of the County) but visitors (cash cows) to the County.  It was only later that it came out that the thing which really frosted people was that the “rangers” were demanding to know whether or not they were carrying weapons.  More information here.

More government power – the Nanny State and Government-run, tax-funded schools
Gov’t Unveils New Snack Standards for Schools: Donuts Out, Fruit Cups In
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Once more, we find the government (and media and seemingly almost everyone else) assuming that the Fedgov has the power to dictate this.  The only justification for such power is that the FedGov steals the money from whomever they want and gives it to schools, directly and indirectly, with full strings attached.  “He who has the gold makes the rules.”  This will continue until people revolt and take educating their children away from government functionaries and thugs.  Until they do, this “power” will grow and grow: it will go (through “charter schools” and private schools and even home-schooling) to dictate what parents feed their children 24-7.  Once more, “its fa da chilluns” will be an excuse for more tyranny of the most petty sort.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #13-25C: Nazgul, Other Evils, Fear and Funny

Posted on 2013-06-29 by TPOL Nathan

Nazgul in chief – Culture wars
Kennedy’s Former Clerk Calls Him ‘First Gay Justice’
(CNSNews.com) The DOMA decision did not require all states to recognize gay marriage; it only required that federal benefits go to same-sex couples if they were married in one of the 12 states that recognized homosexual “marriage.” [In the 5-4 ruling in the United States vs. Windsor, Kennedy wrote the majority opinion that said the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)  “singles out a class of persons deemed by a State entitled to recognition and protection to enhance their own liberty.”]  In a separate case on Wednesday, Hollingsworth v. Perry, the court ruled 5-4 that the defenders of California’s Proposition 8 did not have standing, effectively killing the 2008 voter initiative to recognize only traditional marriage in the state because the state government did not defend the law. It also effectively legalizes homosexual “marriage” for California, a right bestowed on homosexual couples by the state Supreme Court. [In the 1996 Romer v. Evans case, Colorado voters approved a law to prevent any city, town, or county in the state from making homosexuals a protected class. The Supreme Court struck down the Colorado law in a 6-3 decision written by Kennedy.  In 2003, in another 6-3 vote, Kennedy wrote the opinion for the Lawrence v. Texas case, striking down the Texas anti-sodomy law.]

Nathan: So it is not because Kennedy IS actually a homosexual, but because he is writing the opinions that so favor homosexuals – at the expense of the liberties of ALL Americans.  None of the people in California have any standing about whether or not they (the people) can amend their constitution; they are nothing but subjects, even if they elect their masters.  Coloradoans could not amend their own constitution.  Texans cannot make an abhorrent and medically-dangerous practice illegal – even if it is illegal for all persons regardless of sexual orientation.  Kennedy did not do any of these things on his own, of course, he had four or five fellow Nazgul as conspirators: participants in his assault on a once-great Republic. Kennedy may or may not be “gay” but he is certainly an example of judicial tyranny, the stench of which will drift down the ages.

Let me add a bit more.  One of the major problems with Kennedy’s written decisions for the majority is the way in which he attacks those who were on the losing side of the court cases: the majority of citizens, voters, and/or representatives in all three cases.  That isn’t my opinion, but that of his opponent Nazgul in this latest case:  Justice Scalia who pointed out that the majority has condemned as evil anyone who would oppose same-sex “marriage.” Scalia wrote that the majority, “accuses the Congress that enacted this law and the President who signed it of something much worse than, for example, having acted in excess of enumerated federal powers—or even having drawn distinctions that prove to be irrational. Those legal errors may be made in good faith, errors though they are. But the majority says that the supporters of this Act acted with malice … to disparage and to injure same-sex couples. It says that the motivation for DOMA was to ‘demean,’ to ‘impose inequality,’ to … brand gay people as ‘unworthy,’ and to ‘humiliat[e]’ their children.” Scalia cited evidence for his argument, accusing the anti-DOMA five of passing moral judgment on all who supported DOMA. “In the majority’s judgment, any resistance to its holding is beyond the pale of reasoned disagreement. To question its high-handed invalidation of a presumptively valid statute is to act (the majority is sure) with the purpose to ‘disparage,’ ‘injure,’ ‘degrade,’ ‘demean,’ and ‘humiliate’ our fellow human beings, our fellow citizens, who are homosexual… It is one thing for a society to elect change; it is another for a court of law to impose change by adjudging those who oppose it hostes humani generis, enemies of the human race.”

It goes beyond just the narrow limits of DOMA (which I oppose for the simple fact that government has no moral, legal, or constitutional power to regulate marriage, whether there is a God or not).  The Supreme Court of the United States, by a five-four ruling, considers ANYONE who does not believe that homosexuals have MORE rights, MORE liberties, MORE privileges than any other humans is an enemy of the human race.  Indeed, it goes beyond that: homosexuality, and homosexual acts are a GOOD thing and therefore anyone who does not agree that they are a good thing (for instance, anyone who considers such acts to be a sin) are themselves sinning, immoral, and enemies of the human race.

Congratulations, Mr. Justice Kennedy.  Your writing is more than likely going to be the basis in the future for outlawing Christians and Jews in the same way that pedophiles and rapists are outlawed today. (Somehow, I think Muslims will continue to get a pass, but then, I’m cynical.)

And congratulations, readers. You are reading writings that are as evil as Mein Kampf or the Protocols of the Elders of Sion.  Enjoy!

One final comment:  This ruling does not change the real definition of marriage any more than the Dred Scott decision in 1851 took away the human status of black people, or than a court decision saying that a tail is a leg would give a dog five legs.  No matter what Kennedy or anyone else claims, the Court, the Nazgul, do not have that power.

Theft by government – Tyranny
IG: IRS Targeted 100% With ‘Tea Party’ in Name; 30% With ‘Progress’ or ‘Progressive’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: It really does not matter whether it is targeted to a particular group or not, it is the fact that the IRS is being used (and relishes its use) as a weapon of politics.  End the IRS.  End the FED.

World Wars
Putin Succeeds in Getting Kyrgyzstan to Close a Key U.S. Airbase
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: At least SOMEone is pushing back against this regime.  Even while American and Russian troops establish closer ties (China, anyone), the Russians are pushing on Iran, Syria, and the illicit and unconstitutional American military presence in places like Kyrgyzstan. The headline is wrong: there is no way this can truly be a “key” air base for the US.

Stupid Tranzi – Nanny-state tyranny
Sebelius: HIV Testing Necessary to ‘Make Good Decisions About Your Health’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Complete nonsense, of course, but exactly the kind of logic that Tranzi tyrants like this evil woman use.  This is based on their assumption/hope that everyone in the nation does it like rabbits and that there is no such thing as self-control.  This is the same logic that they use when it comes to guns: they cannot believe that people are able to restrain themselves, and that given the opportunity and the tools, will not go out and kill everything/everyone that they can.  People can and do go without sex or any sort of “intimate contact” for their entire lives.  And people do not all have blood transfusions or trade needles.  Not in the real world.  But in the Tranzi universe, even the elite overlords must be watched and controlled and tested constantly.  It is, after all, for their own good.

Stupid government – Abominable Act
Obama Administration Exempts American Indians from Obamacare Mandate
(CNSNews.com) New rules clarify that people who are eligible to receive medical care through the federal Indian Health Service will be exempt from the requirement to have health insurance or face fines from the Internal Revenue Service. The Indian Health Service, a division of U.S. Health and Human Services, oversees a network of clinics that are required through treaty obligations to serve all patients of Indian ancestry, even if they cannot document their federal tribal status.

Nathan: This just expands the original exemption.  I find it ironic that the law, the Abominable Act (ObummerCare) which started shoveling dirt over the face of the dead Republic, making the Constitution totally null and void (de facto), is using the Constitutional provisions regarding treaties to expand the federal welfare state and pay off political allies.  SOME AmerInd tribes are entitled to “free” medical care as the result of specific treaty provisions, just as they are entitled to protection of their land and resources, and in some cases entitled to “free” food and clothing and housing – having paid for those “free” services through (mostly involuntarily, or under duress) giving up their land to those settlers, companies, and the federal government itself.  But MANY tribes, and therefore many people with AmerInd heritage who are enrolled in the tribes, do NOT have treaty rights – instead, seeking to expand its socialism, the FedGov has simply granted the privilege of these things to everyone in every federally (or state-) recognized tribe:  the vast majority of 6 or 7 million AmerInd people in the US.  What a wonderful country!

Abominable Act (ObummerCare) – Economy
Small Business Owners Fear the Affordable Care Act
(CNBC News) Forty-one percent of businesses surveyed have frozen hiring because of the health care law known as ObamaCare…

Nathan: All I can think is that the reason these numbers are not higher is because some people just don’t realize what is going to happen.  I heard a discussion a few days ago about how that the new immigration act would exempt those in their “trial period” to becoming “legal” immigrants from the requirement to have health insurance AND exempt the employer from paying the fine during that period.  Seems to be an overt attempt to encourage businesses to hire illegals that are “becoming legal.”  And thus trigger another round of employment convulsions.  But there is a LOT more than just the fines and expenses, and a LOT more than just freezing hiring.  More and more employers are finding every way possible to cut work hours for as many employees as possible to under 30 hours per week.  Why?  Because that is the threshold for the insurance mandate.

And just think, Ms. Pelosi, our own quaint little mix of Marie Antoinette, Imelda Marcos, and Agrippina the Younger (Nero’s vicious mom) wants us to celebrate “Health Independence Day” on the Fourth, to celebrate a year since this filthy evil law was upheld by those enemies of liberty and decency, the Nazgul Nine (SCOTUS).

Mama’s Note: The financial mess and job loss part of this is only the tip of the iceberg, unfortunately. It is important for everyone to understand that having “insurance” has little or nothing to do with actually getting medical care, especially competent and timely care. Medical professionals of all kinds have been leaving for a decade or more; finding other ways to make a living, retiring early, or limiting their practice to cash. Fewer and fewer young people are seeking medical careers, and fewer graduate every year. Who will provide all this “free” care in the long run? Nobody… trust me.

Stupid People – Theft by government
Government Can Be Efficient
(Economic Policies for the 21st Century) Government allocates enormous resources to responding to problems in an ad hoc and non-strategic manner…

Nathan: What are they smoking? This isn’t the Onion, is it? “Can be” -yeah, right, but only where the laws of probability allow you to roll a million snake-eyes in a row, and where you regularly get monkeys to type out ALL of Shakespeare’s plays, completely accurate again and again and again.  The problem is stated right in the blurb: “Government allocates enormous resources…”  Government should be forced to depend on nothing but voluntary donations for specific purposes – and even then, you can be sure that their spending would be inefficient, wasteful, and cause mischief.   Where do people get these ideas?  What’s next, someone telling us that government can be compassionate?  frugal? logical?

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Nazgul and the death of law in America

Posted on 2013-06-28 by TPOL Nathan

Nazgul and Culture Wars: homosexual “marriage”
Supreme Court Ruling To Make Big Impact
(Political Outcast) Homosexuals across the land are celebrating in force as the US Supreme Court voted 5-4 to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, thus opening the door to nationwide same-sex marriage. In the Court’s ruling, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote:

“DOMA’s principal effect is to identify and make unequal a subset of state-sanctioned marriages. It contrives to deprive some couples married under the laws of their state, but not others, of both rights and responsibilities, creating two contradictory marriage regimes within the same state. It also forces same-sex couples to live as married for the purpose of state law but unmarried for the purpose of federal law, thus diminishing the stability and predictability of basic personal relations the state has found it proper to acknowledge and protect.”

Justice Antonin Scalia disagreed with the ruling and in his dissent wrote:

“We have no power to decide this case. And even if we did, we have no power under the constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation. The court’s errors on both points spring forth from the same diseased root: an exalted conception of the role of this institution in America.” [Emphasis NAB]

Chief Justice John Roberts also disagreed with the court’s decision and wrote in his dissention:

“I think it … important to point out that its analysis leads no further. The court does not have before it, and the logic of its opinion does not decide, the distinct question whether the states, in the exercise of their ‘historic and essential authority to define the marital relation,’ … may continue to utilize the traditional definition of marriage.”

Nathan: There is a LOT to be said about this, but the first thing I want to point out is that these Nazgul Nine have demonstrated time and time again that they are no lovers or supporters of liberty.  For people to claim this as a victory for libertarian principles is foolish and wrong. Principles of liberty are clear: government has NO authority to decide the legitimacy of homosexual marriage any more than it has to decide the legitimacy of traditional marriage.

At the same time, those who claim (as does the writer of the above article, which goes on to predict disaster) that this decision has or is destroying America need to wake up and smell the napalm:  the Republic is DEAD and has been for a long time: at best, things like this are just ensuring that every single cell and organism in the rotting corpse is also dead.  American immorality runs rampant, but it can’t kill what no longer exists: American society and liberty and a republican form of government.

Kennedy supposedly went with and wrote the majority opinion in an attempt to moderate the ruling: I find that hard to believe.  At the same time, in a narrow way, he makes sense: the law creates conflicts in states and nationally that are not in accordance with the Constitution.  As if that still mattered, frankly.  Of course DOMA was flawed: Congress is incapable of passing an unflawed law.  Totally incapable.  The idea that the obligation of one state to recognize the actions of another state in a situation like this (definition of a basic human institution) is stupid and dangerous.  If one state (say, New Jersey) redefines rat poison as milk and therefore suited for human consumption, is Colorado or South Dakota obligated to allow the poison to be imported and sold as milk?  Of course not.  If a New Yorker is wanted for putting 15 rounds in a 15-round magazine by the State of New York, is South Dakota going to “recognize” the legitimacy of the New York law by extraditing the supposed felon?  You better believe that they won’t.  (Not yet, at least. Colorado will, starting on Monday – at least the General Assembly and the Governor and Attorney General will – the majority of the counties might not.)

Roberts also made some sense with his dissent, but he should have been more blunt.  Marriage was not created nor defined by government, local, state or federal – or indeed by any human institution, including the Catholic Church or any other denomination or organization.  The States stole their “authority” to define marriage, and now the FedGov tried to steal it from the States.  He should have demanded that ALL federal laws regarding marriage were unconstitutional, because NO ONE gave the FedGov that authority.

But I feel the most sympathy with Scalia and his very VERY angry condemnation of the majority decision.  The Nazgul, as a GROUP – a gang of nine, have exceeded the hubris of even such people as King Saul and King George III.  “Too high an opinion” indeed.

Some commentators have pointed out a number of possibilities.  First, what does this open the window to?  Polygamy, certainly – indeed polyamory in any combination, whether Muslim one man and four women or old LDS-style one man and one to a dozen+ women/girls or the feminists’ dream of a dozen men and one woman, or the equivalent of a pick-up team for football…  And yes, there is a possibility that age restrictions and the end of statutory rape is not too far down the path, as well as the various forms of bestiality and necrophilia and who knows what else.  But don’t expect the laws to be disappeared: that is too simple and too likely to provoke a backlash:  it is just enforcement that will go away.

And that is the thing I note of particular interest.  The Nazgul have, intentionally or not, presented another grave disservice to the suffering people of this nation.  By declaring even a part of DOMA unconstitutional (you know that the general public will consider ALL of it to have been voided), they have given a free pass to that swarmy black-face, would-be Himmler minion of the guy who hangs out in 1600.  He (obviously with the support of his massa and his massa’s massas) on his own decided to stop enforcing DOMA years before this decision.  I suspect that he will simply broaden his activities of refusing to enforce more and more laws.

Never mind the gunrunning, never mind the voter fraud and intimidation and other voter rights (the one part he DID enforce was the part ruled unconstitutional as well, this week).  never mind the NSA and IRS and DOJ violations of laws: ANY law that is in someone’s way – as long as that ‘someone’ has any clout or can pay enough – will be enforced or ignored at will.  It will appear to be whimsical, but it will not be: it will be done based on some very simple criteria:  (a) is it good for me?  (b) is it good for my family?  (c) is it good for my patrons or buddies? (d) is it good for my clientèle (in the Roman sense)?  Don’t worry, religious or traditional American morality won’t play any role in the decision, and now we are definitely back to Caligula and Nero – not just tyranny, but cruel and vindictive tyranny.

We were warned – shucks, we have been warning people a lot.  And we just slide farther and farther into the abyss.  Government should have NOTHING to do with marriage, but that isn’t going to happen with this government: I cannot see any circumstance except total overthrow of this ersatz regime that would end that interference.  Until then, this (like government meddling with divorce and parental responsibility before it) will just speed up the already rapid decay of society, “civilization,” and liberty – while pretending to “liberate” us.  Shades of Iraq and Afghanistan, eh?

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