Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-04B: Other news (and more on guns)

Posted on 2013-01-23 by TPOL Nathan

Well, the “messiah” has been again coronated, and made a tiny little 2,000-word speech.  Several people have characterized it as “political” or “partisan” but my own thought is that it is best described as “ideological.”  He has laid out his Four-Year-Plan to begin the transformation of the former free, open/free market nation into the transnational socialist-progressive utopia in the world of tomorrow.  Everything he didn’t do in the last four years, will be done in the next four.  And if you or I are in the way…

Theft by government
First Term: Americans Collecting Disability Increased 1,385,418—Now 1 for Each 13 Full-Time Workers
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: This is similar to Social Security: the ratio of beneficiaries to payers is getting smaller and smaller.  It is not sustainable: collapse is inevitable.  Disability is often in the eye of the receiver: I’ve known a LOT of people eligible for disability that didn’t take any, or only a small part of what they COULD have gotten, but for many, it is “get what you can while you can” because they figure nothing will be left sooner or later.

The “messiah” (First Citizen version 2.0)
Gallup: Obama’s 1st-Term Approval Rating Among Lowest of Post-WWII Presidents
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: If you want to believe Gallup and opinion polls in general.  But obviously, either (a) the electorate believed he was better than the alternatives, or (b) the election was cooked and stolen.

Congress in (in) action – Theft by government
Schumer: Senate Dems Will Pass Budget for First Time in 4 Years
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Don’t hold your breath, folks.  And we won’t like it IF they do.

Hoploclasts – Hoplophobes
Vatican Wrongly Supports Obama’s Gun Grab
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Be careful whom you support.  This article reminds the Roman Catholic Church of Jesus’ words in Luke 22:36: ” “If you don’t have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”  They forget that the RC Church, with the recent exception of the fight against the Abominable Act (ObummerCare) has long been on the side of the tyrants: the Divine Right of Kings is NOT a Biblical doctrine, but a Catholic one.  The RC Church has supported Emperors and Kings and Princes and Caudillos and Dictators and smarmy little councils and juntas and more.  Among those “Heroes of Liberty” that it supported are Kings Charles I and II of England, Louis XIII, XIV, and XVI of France, Francisco Franco, and more.  It may be disgusting, but perhaps they are doing this to try and woo favor on the health-care problems.

Stolen liberty – Stupid people
Andrea Mitchell: 2nd Amendment ‘Can Be Infringed’ Because ‘1st Amendment Is Infringed’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: AND BOTH ARE WRONG!!! Pratt explained why in the interview, and how the infringements differ.

Self-defense – Stupid Congress in action
Schumer: Assault Weapon ‘Would Not Help’ Single Women Living Next to Crack House
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: So just what do you recommend, Senator?  Sit back and enjoy it?  Prayers (silent, of course)?  Just as he (and others) claim that no “civilian” ever stopped a mass shooting, he lies about this as well.  Indeed, an “assault weapon” (a semi-automatic carbine with a big magazine and the  ability to put a light or a laser on a rail, with a short, adjustable stock) might be the PERFECT weapon for a woman in such a situation – or a six- or ten-round semiautomatic shotgun.  This reminded me of a classic western novel, “Temporary Duty” by Wade Everett: a funny but gory and gritty scene in which the heroine of the story (a young officer’s bride) finds that her next-door neighbor is a bordello and one of her husband’s enemies decides that she is ripe for “plucking” – but she’s well-armed and knows how to use what she is carrying.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-04A: Guns and more guns – even pink guns

Posted on 2013-01-20 by TPOL Nathan

NEWS BRIEFS: The following stories not just illustrate the paranoia evidenced by the Tranzis, but the reason to GET THE CHILDREN OUT of government-ruined, theft-funded schools:

Hoplophobes-Hoploclasts-Stupid people:
Pennsylvania: Five-year-old with pink bubble gun suspended
(The Daily Item)

Nathan: A five-year-old interrogated for three hours without parents, suspended from school for making a “terroristic threat” in a line waiting for a school bus one morning.  The story is sickening; the twisted evil in the minds of the administrators and the informers is insane: she will have to go through psychological testing before being allowed to return to school.

Hoplophobes-Hoploclasts-Stupid people: 
Nerf gun prompts three-hour school lockdown in NJ
(Fox News)-A lime-green Nerf gun (a toy that shoots foam “darts”) and a black backpack and jacket seen by a Mrs. Grundy in Nassau County, who called the Police, caused a lockdown and a SWAT team invasion of a school.

Nathan: As the LRC blogger said, this isn’t an “abundance of precaution” but “an abundance of stupidity.”  The WOMAN who called in the “threat” to police is the one that needs psychological testing and probably treatment, together with the school administration, the police leadership, and the SWAT team, who didn’t have the guts to stand up to their leaders and say this is “nuts.”

Hoplophobes-Hoploclasts-Stupid people:
Maryland: Two children suspended for playing cops and robbers – at recess
(Fox News) – There’s controversy at a Talbot County school after two 6-year-old boys were suspended while playing cops and robbers during recess and using their fingers to make an imaginary gun.

Nathan:  Insanity – these people belong in a straitjacket and NOT teaching six-year-olds or anyone else.

Hoplophobes-Hoploclasts-Stupid people: 
Danny Glover: “right to bear arms” was to put down slave revolts
(PoliticalOutcast.com)

Nathan: The “genesis” of the 2nd Amendment was to defend against slave revolts and “Native American” uprisings, according to that well-known historian and amateur actor, Danny Glover.  Like all his Tranzi ilk, the truth does not matter: he seeks to make self-defense and guns a racial issue.  How stupid can you get?  You are further denigrating and angering the very people you need to get on your side, unless you WANT to trigger an open rebellion.

Stupid cop tricks
Chicago police chief predicts officers will shoot lawful gun owners
(Personal Liberty)

Nathan: Considering that the Chicago Police regularly gun down innocent people, this is an absolute certainty, with or without the concealed carry being allowed.  This is yet another fear tactic, for the most part, however:  just as virtually EVERY one of the last half-dozen or so states that finally accepted the personal right to carry a weapon for self-defense have cried and moaned over and over that the new carry would turn every town into Dodge City 1870.  Hasn’t happened.

Mama’s Note: Too bad that didn’t happen. Dodge City and Tombstone, at their worst, were far safer and saner places than Chicago has ever been.

Our right to defense
Gun show attendance way up “in fear of Obama”
(PoliticalOutcast.com)

Nathan: Fear?  Well, maybe not fear, just frustrated and expecting Congress to roll over and play dead.  Clearly, a LOT of people have reached their line in the sand.  For many of us, this is NOT the time to buy, if only because we already did (maybe and maybe not) and because with demand spiking, so are prices.  A visit today to a local gun shop where a friend and neighbor works showed that while there were good supplies (and prices) on Springfield 1903 and Mauser 1898 and LOTS of shotguns and .22-cal (even in pink, but not lime-green), and lots of revolvers, the selection of good (or even not so good) semi-automatic long arms and handguns was pretty pathetic, and the prices clearly in favor of the seller!  Even the .22-cal AK-47 models were almost gone.  Worried, yes, preparing, yes, but anything BUT fearful.  People are smart enough that they are not going to take offensive, aggressive action against ANYone from the White House on down to the local ranger station or sheriff’s outpost, but they ARE prepared to stand their ground if someone comes calling, knocking, or breaking down the doors.

Hoploclasts – The “messiah”:
Obama track record on 2nd Amendment and guns: no way
(Freedom Outpost)

Nathan: This article is an excellent summary, including information from John Lott, on the “messiah’s” statements, votes, and actions on guns and the 2nd Amendment, including his changing rhetoric without any real change in his position:  He is very much against PRIVATE ownership of guns for any reason except hunting and target shooting (sport) – if that.

Self-defense:
San Antonio homeowner stops thief with shotgun
(PoliticalOutcast.com)

Nathan: This is great, because there is video of the bad guy getting stopped.  No, it is not self-defense: the man and his girl-friend were not being threatened.  But they WERE being good neighbors and surprisingly, both cops and media took it as acceptable.  But notice the shotgun: it is one of those EEEEVVVILLLL “assault weapons” – looks nasty to the perp.

Mama’s Note: My 20 gauge pump shotgun isn’t one of the “evil” looking ones, but would probably  impress any home invader. Unfortunately, the time I had to shoot a man to save my life, I only had a single shot .410 and the attacker was not at all impressed with it. He continued to come toward me even after it was pointed right at him. At the last minute, I had to pull the trigger.

Home front – Stupid people:
Second newspaper-outed home ransacked of weapons in NYS
(Newsday) Police in Clarkstown, New York have reported that a home was broken into and ransacked by burglars.  The thieves managed to open two safes and stole a third safe from the third floor in the home.  The stolen safe contained a .45 Colt revolver and a .22 Iver Johnson handgun along with the two pistol permits to own them. The home, like that of a seventy year old man in White Plains, had the home owner’s name and address identified as a pistol permit holder on the interactive map posted online by The Journal News.  In this case, burglars used a ladder to break through a window on the upper floor.  Their target was his gun safe.

Nathan:  This is really sad – I am sure these homeowners really are trying to be law-abiding and play the game, even when it is rigged against them.  But at the same time, that is what they get for playing the game: taken for a ride.  They were SUCKERS.  The REAL point for the rest of us is that what these two gangs did is EXACTLY what the BLUE GANGS are expected to do, starting in NYS.  Now that “assault weapons” and magazines with more than 7 rounds capacity are OUTLAWED, the cops – NYPD right down to the smallest village’s constable, know EXACTLY where to go, and THEY could do it in broad daylight (though I’ll bet on night: evil HATES the light).  How many people will DIE because of this?  Will this be the spark that ignites rebellion?

Mama’s Note: No, not in NYC. Not in Chicago or Pennsylvania or even Vermont. Unfortunately, the controllers already know that they will not face much, if any real resistance in those places. But if they try to bring it West of the Mississippi… to Alabama, Arizona, Texas, Utah, Wyoming, or even most of Colorado… I think they may find that they won’t have it quite so easy. Will even THAT spark a rebellion? I don’t know. All I can do is prepare for that the best I know how. And pray.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-03F: Stupid Congress, Stupid Minions

Posted on 2013-01-20 by TPOL Nathan

Theft by government – Abominable Act
A Health Scare for Small Businesses
(Wall Street Journal via Daily Policy Digest)  Even though the rule doesn’t go into effect until early 2014, a business could be subject to the so-called employer health care mandate if, during 2013, it averages 50 or more full-time equivalent employees…

Nathan: Of course, the Administration (and Congress) will consider cutting hours or laying off people to be nothing but tax evasion.  So they can seize the business, lay EVERYONE off, and put them on Medicaid.  How nice!

GUN APPRECIATION DAY???
Got this e-mail recently, from one of the various pro-gun groups: Your immediate help is needed to make our voices heard across the     nation AND on Capitol Hill. We are urgently demanding that our     Congress pass an EMERGENCY Resolution in DEFENSE OF THE SECOND     AMENDMENT, BROUGHT FOR A VOTE IN TIME FOR NATIONAL GUN APPRECIATION DAY!

Nathan: This thing on Saturday sort of bothers me – too much like that April 19th shoot-em-up day: too many things to go wrong.  What do you think?

Mama’s Note: All of these things are merely begging “master” for a little more gruel. Any “demands” are going to be laughed at. And none of these people seem to realize that the “second amendment” is not the real issue, of course.

Every day is “gun appreciation day” at my house. I go to the range at least once a week, and gun stores/shows as often as practical. One day isn’t going to cut it, people.

The task, as I see it, is to help people understand self ownership, self responsibility and non-aggression as the best way to live in peace – which I believe is the goal of all rational human beings. There will always be irrational and aggressive people, and they must be dealt with from a position of moral and ethical strength. The guns alone can’t begin to accomplish that, of course. It takes moral and ethical individuals, willing to use these excellent tools and many others, to make it happen.

The real issue is self owner ship or slavery.  And yes, ANYTHING like this can, probably, be used against us.

Stupid “messiah” minion – Hoploclast
Biden Blames Violence on ‘Coarsening of Our Culture’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And just whom do we have to blame for this coarsening?  He can look in a mirror for one of the culprits, of course.  He and his ilk have turned the formerly united States of America into a cesspool, at the same time making it harder and harder for people to defend themselves against the wildlife that live and thrive in the cesspool and make it one.

Stupid legislature in action – Hoploclasts/Hoplophobes
Connecticut Dem Proposes Federal Tax Credit for Surrendering ‘Assault Weapons’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Hmmm, a Demo who doesn’t want to just steal them?  He is not long for that party, not in THAT state.  He refuses to see that ONE major reason that 28 people died in the Sandy Hook fiasco was BECAUSE of gun laws that didn’t let teachers and staff arm themselves, so a cowardly murderer (probably on a witch’s brew of PRESCRIPTION drugs ACTUALLY given to him by “care providers”) was able to invade a “open hunting preserve” (A school) and kill all these people.  No, he wants MORE people to surrender their defenses so that THEY too can be killed.  Is Carl right about the anti-human intent of these nut cases?

Economics 101 – Government meddling
Prices of TVs and PCs Plummet as Prices of Newspapers and Textbooks Climb
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Of course: both are examples of old technology, and both have to suffer from millions of government laws regulating and taxes (and “protecting” them and their content).  Have you priced whale oil or buggy whips recently?

Abominable Act – Theft by government
11 States Getting $1.5B to Set Up Obamacare Exchanges, but Half the 50 States Won’t Do It
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: More pork, welfare, and just plain bribery.  These state legislatures (the 11, not the “half the 50”) need to be impeached for corruption.

Home front – Need for self defense
NYC Gang (not cops) brutally beat tourist
(The Blaze) A tourist visiting New York City over the weekend took in more than mere sights and sounds. Kevin McCarron, 24, was brutally attacked by seven men who brandished a tire iron and a baseball bat. In the assault, which was captured on film, they inevitably [sic] beat him unconscious. The incident unfolded in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, a popular area in the city. The Andover, Mass., resident, who sustained a fractured skull, is now recovering in a local hospital.

Mama’s Note: Why would anyone need/want a gun? Especially one with more than 10 rounds… (/sarcasm) Of course, I suspect he’ll never want to be a “tourist” in NYC again…

Nathan:  Of course, the NYC mayor and thugs in blue would say that he lives because of “gun control” – none of the thugs just shot him.  Of course, this wasn’t about robbing him, it was obviously all about beating him nearly to death: a fun sport to be inflicted on lesser creatures who are NOT natural denizens of the Big [Rotten] Apple.  You would think that someone from Andover would be close enough to hear the deadly news from NYC but this man was naive and “lawful” enough to obey NYC’s evil gun control laws.  Now, would he have really needed ten rounds?  This pack of hyenas might have been sent running just by him pulling a big, nasty pistol out of his belt, but if they were high or hyped enough, or really a pack of fighters, and/or if he showed fear?  Well, tactical training on replacing a spent magazine in combat is a VERY good thing.

Dar Al-Islam
Op-Ed: Pakistani NAB refuses to arrest PM, official found dead
(Digital Journal) Islamabad – The NAB, National Accountability Board, has refused to carry out the order to arrest PM Raja Ashraf on corruption charges. The Board said that there was not enough evidence to justify the arrest. An official working on the case was found dead today.

Mama’s Note: Just no chance at all he was simply knocked off. Har har…

Nathan: I see this is an “op-ed,” perhaps because it was critical to the NAB.  Organizations like the NAB are fronts for the politicians, like “public oversight boards” for the big-city cop gangs: all hat and no cattle.  Frankly, remember that Ashraf is a Muslim, and while there MIGHT be (at least theoretically) honest Muslim politicos, they are surely just heretics.  Mohammed (peanut butter und honig) did not have to include any commands for rulers and politicians to be greedy and corrupt and ambitious and power-hungry in the Koran or the Haditha: that would be like having a command to breath and eat regularly.

Stupid Congress types – Hoploclasts
Sen. Leahy: ‘We Ought to Be As Protective of Our Children As Our Deer’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  A lot more deer get killed in this nation than do children: intentionally AND unintentionally.  And no, you don’t need a license to kill a deer – just be in the wrong place at the wrong time in a car.  Some of us have had to kill deer quite often – but have not “gone hunting” in years.  If that is to be our standard, there are going to be a LOT more dead children.  This idiot is – just idiotic.

Mama’s Note: Not to mention that much of the “protection” of the deer results in diseased herds due to overcrowding and overgrazing by the deer themselves. Not a good comparison with children, by any means.

Congress in action – Theft by government
Conservative Leaders to House GOP: No Hike in Debt Limit Without Deal to Balance Budget
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Sorry, it is too late for compromise: they will just buy onto another scheme that appears to balance the budget but in reality allows them to do whatever they want and spend us further into oblivion.

Mama’s Note: “Compromise,” in this case, would simply involve the amount or method of the continued theft and fraud. Hardly worth bothering with.

The “messiah” (massa?) 3 stories:
Obama Supports Congressional Representation for D.C.
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And a chicken in every pot…

Obama’s Campaign Organization Turning Nonprofit to Promote His Agenda, Bash GOP
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And you got to admit, the way he spends, they sure ain’t gonna make a profit, anyway.

AP: Obama ‘Doesn’t Have Control of Day-to-Day Weather’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: But he is a real spectacle when it comes to getting the tide to obey him and not come in.

The “messiah’s” minions – Theft by government
Interior Secretary’s $220,000 private bathroom
(ABC News) The personal bathroom used by the secretary of the Interior is so swanky that its renovation cost $222,000. No detail was overlooked: It has a $3,500 sub-zero refrigerator (hey, if you’re going to have a fridge in the bathroom, it might as well be a good one) and a $689 faucet. At least the “vintage tissue holder” was cheap: just $65 bucks.

First off, this is old news: happened on George W’s watch: which makes it just as despicable as if it had happened last week, and one more proof that the GOP is no better than the Demos when you get down to it.  Sick, stupid, and shows just how we are viewed: as livestock to be fleeced again and again and again.  A system that outgoing Interior Secretary Ken Salazar (whom I bet does NOT return to the San Luis Valley in Colorado) knows and uses to his advantage.  His home ranch didn’t cost as much as this bathroom did.  Do you think he is suitably grateful?  At least some of his neighbors in the San Luis Valley still have to use outhouses.

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Guest Rant – Hoploclasts who hate America and Americans

Posted on 2013-01-19 by TPOL Nathan

GUEST COLUMN:  by Bear – An answer to a Scumbag (WARNING: LANGUAGE)
Mark Ridley-Thomas: The National Rifle Association Is Correct: I Do Want Your Guns

In a word… _two_ wor…  Oh, heck; SIX words. Hell NO, you mother-humping, microcephalic, municipal moron.

Look at your own District, dumbass: Violence. Lots of it. What you’re doing isn’t helping. Doing more of it will just “not help” even more.

1+1 not= Eleventy-gajillion

Pi not= 3.0000000

The ends do not justify the means.

You don’t stop speeding drunk drivers by taking car keys from teetotallers.

And disarming the honest folks does not end violence.

Well, at least not until the violent CRIMINALS have killed off all of us and themselves. I’m beginning to think that’s exactly what suicidal loons like Ridley-Thomas want. Anyone know if this lunatic is formally associated with these people?

OK, Marky. You want my guns. Come get them. No, that’s not a take on “Molon Labe”. I mean you — you personally, Mark Ridley-Thomas, no jackbooted proxy — show what a great “disciple” you are and knock on my door and steal my guns. Send me an email, I’ll give you my address, since you’re too stupid to figure it out on your own.

Gandhi didn’t _choose_ nonviolence, you historically ignorant butt-humping buffoon. Gandhi regretted that the Brits disarmed the people forcing him to adopt a less effective tactic. King did, but it got him killed by a crazed psychopath (the sort who _initiate_ force).

Bear

Nathan:

This guy -as with you, Bear, words fail me – you aren’t nearly harsh enough on this Mark Ridley-Thomas.  Nor on King or Gandhi or Chavez: these “saints” were plaster saints with corruption and vile evil hidden by their “non-violent” shells.  Here is my comment posted in answer to Ridley-Thomas’ column:

You filthy scumbag, you disciple of a Communist, you user and promoter of armed violence by the LAPD and all your security agencies against the people, you murderer-by-proxy of hundreds of victims in Los Angeles.  You can’t even get your facts right, you lie and twist statistics and you claim to have the upper moral hand.

So Gandhi succeeded, did he?  When tens of thousands die in India and Pakistan each day, and when yet, once again, two of the three nations he founded stepped back from nuclear armed carnage and where women, unable to defend themselves, are raped and beaten to death on street-cars.  Right, nonviolence.  Gandhi was as much a hypocrite as the other two.  His followers are despicable monsters who apparently enjoy watching young women and young men die.  On his hands and those of his followers is the blood of every victim in Mombai, every woman raped and murdered and mutilated in India and Pakistan because of “honor” and lust and just plain cruelty, and every soldier and civilian who has died in Kashmir and the Northwest Frontier and the rest of Pakistan and India.

King preached nonviolence and chastity and spiritual matters while he violated virtually every commandment of God: a typical “sky-pilot” who  proved once again the hypocrisy of most so-called clergy and “men of God.”  King would have gotten nowhere if only the cops had had guns back in the 1960s, and he and his followers depended on armed defense constantly.  And they dabbled with armed aggression more than once, and did not hesitate to let OTHERS’s arms protect them.  He was an expert in advocating and promoting communism while saying all the nice words that the press reported.  Gee, you really ARE his disciple, aren’t you?

And Chavez?  His UFW goons used violence continuously against their opponents (including those farm workers who would not join them and Mexican immigrants seeking work in the US) – mostly unarmed people unable to defend themselves. What a FINE example of “non-violence.” But then, that is the same sort of “nonviolence” that you and your fellow “Supervisors” (Capos?  Gauleiters?) tell the LAPD to use against anyone who doesn’t lick your boots often or well enough.

Thomas, you are too old and not stupid enough to NOT remember the Rodney King riots:  I assume that based on this, you wanted the Korean-American (and other) shopkeepers in South Central to be disarmed so that the looters and rioters could kill them and loot their stores and burn their property.

It is precisely men like Mark Thomas-Ridley that our God-given right to keep and bear arms is to protect us from: tyrants and evil monsters who lie and hypocritically whinge and wail over those dead because of their failed policies and greedy, corrupt, and power-mad actions.    Of course you want to take our guns away.

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The Coming Storm

Posted on 2013-01-18 by MamaLiberty

I’ve been called a pessimist – and much worse, of course. As much as I would love to see the hopeful future come, the reality of ever increasing evil and injustice stands squarely in the way. Each day the news – what we are allowed to see – tells of more and more encroachment by government on our privacy and liberty, property and productivity.

Each new outrage brings cries from the hopeful that “this time” the people will awaken and begin to fight the tyranny, but those who actually even protest are few and far between. Those who continue to trust in the law and constitution are many, and it is hard to imagine the depths of slavery they will endure before they finally admit that they waited too long. We are already tied hand and foot and resistance by isolated individuals is inspiring, but futile in affecting any change in the tyrants.

What would it take to turn things around? Just what does that really mean anyway? Turn around to what? Read the history of this country and try to put your finger on the point where liberty and justice for all was the norm instead of the exception. The native Americans, the slaves of various races, and many of the immigrants found little or no justice or liberty, even at the hands of the much revered “Founding Fathers” of the Constitution. Is that what we want to “return” to?

Let’s be realistic. Human beings are not fit to rule each other. History proves it, over and over again. A small group of people can rule themselves through voluntary association and mutual cooperation, but the ultimate “rule” for each person must rest on their own acceptance of personal responsibility for their actions and choices. The moment people divorce themselves from that responsibility, tyranny begins.

We’d all like to have someone else protect us and remove the dangers of difficult choices, but the price for that is ultimately death and destruction, slavery and misery. Liberty and irresponsibility are mutually exclusive. You can’t have it both ways.

Can we still isolate the infection and restore health to the whole body? Or can we continue as we are now and not progress to total slavery? Will our economy sustain us much longer, even in abject poverty? How can we prepare for a future like that? Is there anyplace on the planet where we can simply be left alone to live our lives as we see fit? If so, how do we find it and how do we get there? How do we defend it against those who would consume our lives and very souls?

There is only one way I know to find it. Take personal ownership of and responsibility for your life seriously, right now, and for always. It’s not easy. If you are not used to it, you will have to develop both tools and the will to carry it through. Ultimately, the alternative is slavery and death.

If we keep doing what we have been doing, we will keep getting what we have been getting. To expect otherwise is the essence of insanity.

What have you been doing lately, and what have you been getting? If what you are getting isn’t freedom, isn’t it time to do something else?

Your comments are most welcome…

And I’m proud to republish this essay from a friend at The Mental Militia.

Who Owns You?

Think about this concept for a minute or two.  Who Owns You?  Who is entitled to the product of your hands, head or heart?  Who has first claim on your life?  To whom do you have to answer for decisions that determine your direction, you plans, your dreams and goals?

Some of you reading this will have given over at least some portion of your life to a personal Savior.  Others will have given over some of their life to a significant other.  But what is the true answer?

The true and honest answer is, you own you.  The cases mentioned above are legitimate only with voluntary relinquishment of control, and even then you are still the final arbiter of your thoughts, words and deeds.

Important note:  you own not only your thoughts, words and deeds, you own the results, both the production and the consequences.

Here’s a heads-up:  the government, any government at every level, thinks it owns you.  While some of us protest the government’s hand in our pockets, vast numbers rely on the government owning the consequences of their actions.  Big bank and corporate bailouts, generations of welfare recipients whose only productive activity is gaming the system, you know what I’m talking about.

Some governments, we usually refer to them as totalitarian or dictatorships, implement this practice openly.  This is what happens with a disarmed populace.  Other governments, usually referred to as democracies or republics, pretend you have a modicum of control over your own life by periodically holding what are loosely termed  elections.  This is where a majority of the votes, gathered either legally or illegally,  are used to determine what shall be done with your life.

And this is what is going on in the United States of America right now.  More and more special interest groups believe they have a claim on your life, your earnings, your savings, even your personal protection.  And if they can garner enough votes, they get it.

While democracy may seem a reasonable alternative to totalitarianism, it more honestly can be called the tyranny of the majority.  Remember, for many decades in the United States, slavery was completely legal.  Doesn’t say much for majority rule, does it?

Have you ever heard someone say ‘If you don’t vote, you can’t complain’?  Unfortunately, the exact opposite is true.  If you vote, you buy in to the process that whoever gets the most votes wins, and therefore you cannot complain about the outcome.  Remember, if your side had won, you would have been imposing your will on the minority.

So, who owns you?  Is it your neighbors,  your alleged representatives, or an administration deciding they know what’s best and writing executive orders?  No.  You own you, and you alone are responsible for all of your thoughts, words and deeds.   Anything taken from you aside from voluntary agreement is theft.   The consequences of your actions aren’t included because you cannot abdicate that responsibility.  The ‘I was only following orders’ defense doesn’t hold water.

I am trying to create a meme around the question “Who Owns You?”  Some of you will see this on Facebook, some of you will see this in an email, others will see it on one or more of a few forums I frequent.  Please pass it along if you think it worthwhile.  I’ll know I have succeeded when I see it returning to me from quarters I didn’t expect.

Who Owns You?

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-03E: guns and government – Disarming America has begun in NY State

Posted on 2013-01-18 by TPOL Nathan

Hoplophobes and hoploclasts – Stupid government – Our right to self defense
NY: Cuomo signs victim disarmament bill
(New York Daily News) “New York on Tuesday took the lead in the national fight against gun violence [sic] when Gov. Cuomo signed into law a sweeping package of gun-control measures — including a major expansion of the state’s assault weapons [sic] ban. The governor signed the bill just before dinner time, minutes after the Assembly sent it to his desk on a 104-43 vote.” (01/15/13)

Nathan: Reports are this was rammed through the Assembly in the dark of night, and outlaws “assault weapons” (apparently any semi-automatic long-arm), magazines able to hold more than 7 rounds (more about that later), and a whole host of other requirements.  Of course, long lines of felons and other, unindicted criminals formed in front of every police station in New York State immediately (or by the next morning) to surrender their now-illegal weapons; New Yorkers are well-known for their obeying the law.  And in the last forty-eight hours, there has not been a SINGLE HOMICIDE in the whole state!  Amazing.

Mama’s Note: Amazing indeed. The criminals all must have laughed so hard their ribs hurt too bad to do anything but sleep for a while.

Congress in action – Theft by government
Portman: Obama ‘Misleading’ Americans by Saying We Ought to Pay Our Bills
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: The headline comes across a bit weird:  Portman is saying that the “messiah” is hypocritical: claiming we ought to pay our bills, while he can’t and won’t pay his own and makes sure that the nation doesn’t and can’t either.  Unfortunately, even the opposition in Congress still doesn’t understand what is happening.

Home front
L.A. Mayor: Keep ‘Non-Serious Criminal’ Aliens in U.S.–It Will Make Us Safer
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Oh, sure.  Set a thief to catch a thief?  Really?  So the taxpayers can continue to support them?  And what constitutes “non-serious?”  Violent crime that doesn’t include killing?  Traffic tickets?  Identify theft?  Why do governments from the FedGov down to local cities and towns give border jumpers a pass when legitimate residents are hit with the full force of the law?

Mama’s Note: A lot of politicians are “non-serious criminals.” They laugh all the way to the bank.

Stupid government – Our northern neighbor|
Canada: Prime Minister Harper, Launches First Nations ‘Termination Plan’ Friday
(RumorMill News)…the Harper government clearly signaled its intention to:1) Focus all its efforts to assimilate First Nations, into the existing federal and provincial orders of government of Canada; 2) Terminate the constitutionally protected and internationally recognized, Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty rights, of First Nations. Termination in this context means the ending of First Nations pre-existing sovereign status, through federal coercion of First Nations into Land Claims and Self-Government Final Agreements, that convert First Nations into municipalities, their reserves into fee simple lands, and extinguishment of their Inherent, Aboriginal and Treaty Rights.’ …

Nathan: Sent by a friend who asked to remain totally anonymous.  This is fresh news because the legislation has apparently been brought up in committee in Commons.  This is particularly interesting because a lot of folks I know wax eloquent about how much better it is for AmerInd up in “Grandmother’s Land” (Canada) with no BIA hassles.  Folks, it doesn’t matter whether they claim allegiance to Her Majesty or the Constitution, government is bad for you, your family, friends and neighbors, small children and furry animals.

Should AmerInd (First Nations) nations/tribes be sovereign?  Of course!  As should ANY community which wishes to remain or become independent of any existing human government, right down to those Canadian municipalities and townships, and right down to local neighborhoods and communities in American cities and towns and townships and counties.  What should NOT be is that OTHER people: on a national, state/provincial, or local basis, should be forced to subsidize or pay for these independent (sovereign) communities – nations.  Treaty provisions, even those signed centuries ago, should be honored as much as possible, including purchases (cash or in-kind) of land and travel rights of way and hunting rights and all the rest.  Just because you signed a really stupid contract doesn’t mean you should be able to wiggle out of it.  You can try to renegotiate, but both sides must agree.  But it is wrong to turn treaty rights into welfare, and wrong to expect a free lunch forever.  And wrong, dead wrong, for a trumped-up Parliament OR Congress to ram unilateral and mandatory changes down anyone’s throat: whether your skin is red or white or black or yellow or brown.

Stupid government – theft by government
NASA beams Mona Lisa to Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the moon
(Eureka Alert) Your Tax Dollars At Work. After 54 years of technology and communications advances, NASA has reached a remarkable milestone: transmitting a 152×200 pixel grayscale low resolution “Mona Lisa” at the blindingly fast rate of 300 bit/sec. NASA scientists achieved unprecedented image quality by developing a bleeding edge error correction algorithm (quite coincidentally known as Reed-Solomon error correction when deployed in common CDs and DVDs) to clean up transmission errors.
When asked if this wasn’t the same data rate produced by the Hayes Smartmodem 300 more than 30 years ago, NASA researcher Sun said, “Sure. But this is _light_; that’s green, you know. We plan to improve the process by inventing something called a Bell Photophone and using completely renewable solar resources to communicate with our space probes. But it’s possible we simply won’t be able to support the bandwidth, so one of our teams is trying to invent a 50 word per minute teletype.”

Officials did not not have figures available regarding the cost of the project, but assured reporters that the expense was unlikely to adversely impact Mrs. Obama’s 2013 vacation plans.

Nathan: Thanks to Bear for this one – Take all of the above with a grain of salt, but it is clear that NASA is desperate to prove their relevance in today’s world.

Africa’s Collapse – Stupid government – Islamic wars
Mali War: Algeria ends desert hostage situation by killing many hostages
(News 24)

Nathan: What is worse than being held hostage by a bunch of crazed Islamist rebels?  Being “freed” from captivity by a bunch of crazed Islamist government troops.  Of course, the reason for being taken captive was in revenge for French military forces coming to the aid of its satellite dictatorship fighting against crazed Islamist rebels (even though the government itself is considered by many to be “tame” Islamists). For more details, see this story.

And on Friday, we have this: Europe’s invisible hand
(La Tribune) A week after launching operations against the Islamists who are in control of the north of Mali, the French are still the only Western forces with boots on the ground. But the bloc, which has renounced a joint military capability, is there on other fronts – just more discreetly.

Nathan: So we have secret Euro operations to support the French Empire, probably with the knowledge, agreement, and support of DC.  What could possibly go wrong?

The “messiah’s” minions-to-be
Obama’s ATF Nominee Criticized for Seeming to Discourage Whistleblowers
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Sounds like a match made in heaven.  Just the kind of person to preside over the disarming of the American people.

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“Stupid government spending”???

Posted on 2013-01-18 by TPOL Nathan

An article entitled “It’s not government spending, it’s stupid government spending,” totally misses the mark.  ALL government spending is dangerous, undesirable, and wasteful – indeed, stupid.  There MAY be an argument that some government spending is still necessary – some small, very small, amount of dollars that produces something useful and reasonably priced.  Even then, the question must be asked: could voluntary free enterprise produce that “something” more efficiently, more economically, without coercion or fraud? And secondly, is that “something” so critical, so useful, so beneficial that it justifies theft in order to pay for it?  A starving person may resort to theft and obtain mercy for their theft, their violation of another person’s property: whether it is money, bread itself, or even a vehicle or tool to obtain such.  But they are still lawbreakers, still sinners, still aggressors against others.

Once upon a time I believed that there were a few things – very few, admittedly – that government could do, either because there was no alternative, or because it was cheaper, better, faster, more properly.  It took much of a military career to realize that I was wrong.  There is NOTHING that government does that cannot be done better, cheaper, faster, more properly, and resulting in more opportunity to promote and maximize life, liberty, and property (the pursuit of happiness), by private enterprise: not necessarily for-profit enterprises, but private: without the monopoly, power and liabilities of government.

The problem is that ALL government spending is stupid, and that too many people think that while it is wrong for individuals to rob someone else of their money, it is okay for government to do so, just because they are “government.”  This state of mind (or mindlessness) has got to end: although governments may have (or so they claim) the power to scour life from the earth, it is their power to make life miserable for those on earth that demands their abolition.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-03D: This and that

Posted on 2013-01-17 by TPOL Nathan

The “messiah” – Our right to self defense
WH: Obama Is Committed to the Second Amendment
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yes, committed.  To gutting it, outlawing it, sentencing it to Devil’s Island AND Siberia, to sending it for massive  plastic surgery followed by a lobotomy, and killing it.

State-level tyranny – Our right to self defense
NY Gun Law May Discourage Mental Health Therapy for Those Who Need It
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: And PREVENT those who need to defend themselves from doing so, based on one-size-fits-all laws which probably do not have anything to do with the medication that makes possible so much of these evil events.

Stupid Government Tricks
HHS’ Sebelius: Despite Opponents, ‘We Will Set Up An Insurance Marketplace in Every State’
(CNSNews.com

Nathan: Including those where the citizens and their legislatures have already decided that they don’t want it.  And their “marketplace” is going to resemble an East German store for those who are NOT high-ranking Communist officials or wealthy tourists.  A LOT of freedom and federalism is shown here, you can tell.

Mama’s Note: Good analogy. The shelves will be mostly empty, and what is available will be both poor quality and very high priced.

Stupid People tricks
Wedgie-spree at Florida theater lands prankster in jail
(Miami Herald) Deputies say Ross was at Royal Palm Theater Sunday night with a friend and began grabbing people by their pants and pulling them up hard, causing discomfort.

Mama’s Note: Just like the shoe camera, this would not likely ever happen in an armed society.

Nathan: In a society where common courtesy and respect were taught by parents, this would not happen, either.

Mama’s Note: Indeed… and I think they very much go together. 🙂

Africa’s Fall – Europe’s stupidity
War in Mali: The Europeans aren’t fit for purpose
(Süddeutsche Zeitung) France’s war in Mali is a fight for all of Europe that France is fighting alone, writes the Brussels correspondent of the SZ. Brushing Paris off with a few aircraft isn’t just shirking on the part of its European Union partners, it’s a fatal blow to a common European defence.

Nathan:  The French intervention in Mali is yet another instance in which France continues to terrorize the empire it supposedly liberated in the 1960s and 1970s.  With a very few exceptions (Algeria and Indochina) France’s overseas empire remains just that, and the SDZ wants Germany to help France?

Europe’s Collapse – Stupid government tricks
Slovenia: Democracy or kleptocracy: What’s it to be?
(Delo) The divorce between the political class and the Slovenian population is expanding at the same rate as the revelations about corruption. Now that the head of government himself has been caught up in the scandals, Slovenian society stands at a crossroads.

Nathan: If by “political class” they mean the Tranzi elites, when was there ever a marriage?  The elite (whether they are kings and nobility, commissars, or military thugs or police thugs) just come in and take over from the real people, and are corrupted before they DO take power.  There is virtually NO CHANCE that the little ant-path called “liberty” off to the side will be noticed by anyone.

Australian Gun Ban Results UNsatisfactory
(Godfather Politics)Nathan: The same lies we hear about the UK and Canada, and which can’t be hidden for Mexico.  YES!  Let’s disarm Colorado and make it another NYC or Philadelphia or Chicago. JUST what the Tranzis need as an excuse for MORE control: a vicious, downward spiral of dictatorship.  Not that we aren’t already WELL down that!

Islamic war: Afghan front
72% of U.S. Casualities in Afghan War Under Obama’s Watch
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  If anything, he cares less than Bush, and most people know it – and obviously, most voters didn’t care.

Self Defense – Politics 2013
NRA: Membership Has Grown by 250,000 in One Month
(US News) A quarter of a million people have signed up for new NRA memberships ahead of the White House Task Force’s findings

Nathan:  This is up from only – ONLY – 100,000 in the first fourteen days after the killings at Sandy Hook – an incident that seems to be raising questions very, very quickly.  With the New York coup, with all the hype and the first round of Congressional bills, with the Colorado legislative agenda now coming to light, and once (tomorrow as I write this) the “messiah” opens the stone tablets in front of all the children, then we’ll see just what happens to NRA membership.  While belonging to the NRA might be better than belonging to the Brady Handgun Campaign or Handgun Control Inc., they are still statists and compromisers: far better to look at Second Amendment Foundation, Second Amendment Sisters, Pink Pistols, Gun Owners of America, or Jews for Preservation of Firearms Ownership.  But NRA is better than standing there doing nothing, I supposed, and it SO infuriates the Tranzis.

Gun-haters/fearers – Stupid government
DHS to ‘Expand and Formalize Coordination’ on Gun Control Efforts
(Weekly Standard)  “Janet Napolitano, head of the Department of Homeland Security, released a statement Wednesday saying she is “proud to support” the Obama administration’s efforts to ‘combat gun violence in our country.’ ”

Thanks to Bear for this one.  His thoughts: (Yes, I have retreated into full snark, since I’m too burned out to otherwise care anymore.) Leaving aside the [-giggle-  -snort-] fact that DHS was supposedly established to fight “terrorism” [-snicker-] (Is Al Qaeda du jour really going to comply with US gun control edicts? Will the ATF run guns to them, too?), I’d much prefer that Big Sis stick to her core competency: Struggling to figure out which end of the pencil (no, Janet, not the Bic) to stick in the sharpener. Without mangling her fingers. Umm… “combat violence”…Ok, Sis, go ahead and stick your finger in the electric pencil sharpener. You’ll just have to wait until your boss pulls his d*** out.

Nathan:  Bear, I think we are all pretty burned out.  But Big Sister gives a face (not a human face, maybe) to the enemies of our freedom, our liberty.  It is time to remember.

Mama’s Note: I always enjoy the mental images I get from Bear’s contributions. 🙂 That last one is a classic.

The “messiah” – Congress in action – Theft by government
Obama on Congress: ‘They Order Me to Spend’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yeah, right. Every night he does a conference call with the 535 men and women and begs them “Please don’t make me spend any more, brothers and sisters, please don’t stuff more money in my pockets.”  He ignores a lot of OTHER orders from Congress, but this one he goes above and beyond the call of “duty” to spend and lie and spend.  And how does this compare with the next several stories?  Who is whose servant?

Tyranny – Imperator! – The “messiah” – Hoploclasts and Hoplophobes
Obama: ‘Executive Action’ on Gun Control ‘Within My Authority as President’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: When you read “president” as being equal to “king” and “dictator” and “emperor” and “warlord” and “Leader” (as in Der Fuehrer), and all of the rest of the sick, murderous excuses for tyranny in this worlds history.

Mama’s Note: But you do notice that he, once again, promised far more than he delivered.

Tyranny – Imperator!
Bloomberg: Obama Should ‘Go Around Congress’ to Appoint ATF Director
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Bloomberg once more shows us that his preferred and recommended modus operandi is that of the Third-World Dictator who treats the legislature (and the people) with contempt and as little more than a loincloth to hide his naked aggression and tyranny.  And he wants and supports the “messiah’s” attempt to do it the same way, as discussed in the next story.

Tyranny – Imperator!
Obama Can’t Just Rule by Decree, Const. Law Experts Say
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: “Can’t legally” or “Can’t actually do it.”?? Presidents have done it before, and a lot of what the “messiah” is doing or having his minions do right now sure smells like this. It may not be legal, but with courts and cops and an executive branch like his, what does “legality” matter? These “experts” seem to believe in some sort of mystic and mythical power, as though laws are spells, and magically enforce themselves.  He HAS and WILL ignore whatever laws he wishes to, until the people rise up against him and those things.  And I don’t see that happening.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-03C: Ripe news: guns, theft, stupidity

Posted on 2013-01-17 by TPOL Nathan

The news is uniformly ripe this week!

Gun-haters/fearers – Tyrannical States
NY State Senator: Gun Bill Passed In Middle Of Night Turns Law-abiding Citizens Into Criminals.”
(Prison Planet)  “Members were forced to vote on a bill they had not read”

Nathan: The smell of Berlin 1933 – stench, rather, is in the air.  Again. Meanwhile, real life goes on – life in which people need to defend themselves against meaner, stronger, faster, larger people who don’t understand “my freedom stops where your nose begins” and “what is mine is mine, what is yours is yours.”  As the next story relates.

Self Defense
Shawnee Woman Thwarts Home Invasion
(News 9)Pam says police are going to try to use imaging technology to see if they can enhance the pictures of the suspect. For now though, police are still looking for the three men.

Mama’s Note: I’m going to assume she had a .32 revolver… and I do hope she will get some training and a better gun. With three intruders, the little wheelgun would not have helped her much if they had attacked. But I’m so glad she had A gun, and went to get it.  And this gives the horse laugh to those who insist we only need a few rounds at most. Oh yeah.

Nathan: Well, clearly, it is people like this woman we need to disarm.  She was clearly in the minority when they voted on what was hers and what was going to be theirs: 3 to 1, but she cheated, with a gun.  But as Mama Liberty points out, she HAD A GUN.  A choice the next, older retired man in Maryland cannot have.

Nazgul – Gun haters/fearers – Stupid government
Appeals Court: Veteran can’t have gun because of 44-year-old misdemeanor fine
(Politico.com) A federal appeals court says a Maryland veteran can’t own a gun because of a misdemeanor assault conviction more than four decades ago. … Maryland did not have a maximum prison penalty for misdemeanor assault. The appeals court agreed Schrader could have been given more than two years in prison, and so he is ineligible to own a gun.

Nathan: Thanks to Darryl for this one.  THIS is how we lose our liberty: nickel and dime stuff – the water torture or boiling frog routine.  How many tens of thousands of people will not be able to arm and defend themselves because of something like this?  And how many LEOs and DAs and Nazguli will use this opportunity to deny people this liberty?  There are tens of thousands of “crimes” that can be made misdemeanors with POSSIBLE terms of two or more years, even though they may get off with NO jail time or probation, and a fine. Are YOU or your old uncle or parent or someone else next?  In many states, he could try for a pardon or remission, but Maryland?  It’s not DC or New York, but I don’t think he has a chance. How many people in Maryland will stand up for him?

Mama’s Note: The important reality is that everyone has the basic right to self defense, regardless of any such things in their past. Anyone who truly can’t be trusted not to intentionally harm others with a car, a match, a screwdriver OR a gun has no business being loose at all. They need a cage or a keeper, or to be dead at the hands of their intended victim.

Self Defense
East Ridge home intruder stopped by armed residents
(WRCB-TV)

Mama’s Note: The “warning shots” could have gotten them killed. Always a BAD idea.

Nathan:  Absolutely. Especially if you can’t have more than seven rounds in the weapon.  And who knows how many of these armed neighbors/residents might be NEXT on the list to have their weapons stolen by government goons if these various laws being “demanded” pass?  Of course, not just guns kill, as the next story reminds us.

Killing for profit, legally – Europe’s Collapse
Belgium:  Doctors euthanize twin brothers who were going blind
(Digital Journal) Brussel – A case involving two identical twin brothers who requested to be euthanized by doctors in Brussels prompted officials with the Belgium government to postpone a proposed amendment to the country’s euthanasia laws.

Mama’s Note: This bothers me. If these two wanted to end their own lives, I’d have nothing but pity for them, but to ask others to do this… I think it is evil – and a perfect stepping stone to elimination of anyone who becomes inconvenient.

Nathan: This is incredibly evil and sickening: I had not realized that Belgium had become even more evil than the Netherlands in matters like this.  You are correct in where this is leading – and the only good thing about this is that it may have (for now) kept the Belgians from expanding the killing (the proposed amendment would have extended this “right” to minors).  These “doctors” and the “hospital” have so much to answer for, and certainly no one can trust them in any significant way.  At the same time, maybe it is the drugs that these doctors used to kill these two men that are more dangerous than the guns that Belgium has already banned.  In less than 3/4 of a century, Belgium is now where Germany was in the 1930s.

Europe’s Collapse
No common front in the fight against joblessness
(Alternatives économiques) The latest figures are grim: unemployment has soared to record levels in the eurozone, with 11.8 per cent of the workforce unemployed. So far, however, European countries have been unable to harmonise their social policies in an effort to get out of the crisis.

Nathan: Europe is nearly done: stick the fork in.  Far FAR better to have 25 or 30 small, independent states, even if most of them were not free, but based on the Swiss (and NOT the American) model.

Stupid government – Crash of 2009
Krugman: More Government Spending Would Revive Economy in Two Years
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  “There will be pie in the sky by and by.”  “I’ll fix the roof tomorrow.”  “Manana.”  “The State will wither away and we’ll all live happily in a true communist society.”  “On the Big Rock Candy Mountain!”  Rather: “Beating a dead horse.”  “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results THIS time.”  FIVE YEARS NOW, IDIOTS.

Mama’s Note: As I’ve said so many times, “you can’t spend yourself rich any more than you can vote yourself free.”

The “messiah” and gang – Hoplophobes and Hoploclasts
Obama Surrounding Himself With Children to Announce Gun Control Measures
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  After all, it is “furr tha chilluns” is it not?  Of course, he will make sure that these children do not have to be threatened by the presence of people with guns when they make this announcement, right?  So the Secret Service and White House Police and everyone will NOT be carrying, right?

Tyranny – Stupid government
Marine Honorably Discharged 31 Years After Deserting and Becoming a Woman
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  We are a nation of men (or whatever this creature is), and NOT of laws.  Since 1982, there have been DOZENS if not hundreds of men AND women who have been convicted of deserting (or some similar offense) and put into prison, fined, and otherwise punished.  And this thing gets not just a get out of jail card BUT the same benefits as millions who really DID serve honorably.

Tyranny – Stupid government
Sen. Vitter: EPA Email Dump Is ‘Incredibly Fishy’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Wow!  Like the whole agency isn’t?

Stupid government – Crash of 2009
Krugman: Food Stamps Are the New Soup Kitchens
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Duh!  That has been the case for decades, but SNAP doesn’t DO AWAY with soup kitchens; just reduces their visibility.  Meanwhile the SNAP rolls go up, the soup kitchens are growing, AND the food banks are hard-up to meet demand.  There are not enough Boy Scouts to collect enough “care-and-share” food for the people that GOVERNMENT POLICIES have condemned to economic failure – and helped them get there.

Killing people
Sr. Carol Keehan: Sandy Hook ‘Separate Issue’ But ‘Abortion Takes the Life of an Innocent Child’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Yes, it does.  But never mind: the FedGov and MOST of the state governments do not care about killing children unless it gives them an opening to take freedom away.  Gun laws kill school children just like abortion laws kill infants and euthanasia laws can kill the poor, the discouraged, the sick, and the frail.  And the way Medicare and ObummerCare kill the elderly and Medicaid kills the welfare drones.  AND Congress’ foreign policy kills American soldiers AND ten times their number of “enemy” civilians and combatants.  Government: killing R us.

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Libertarian Commentary on the News #12-03B: More guns, more tyranny, more stupid government

Posted on 2013-01-17 by TPOL Nathan

By Nathan Barton

Self Defense – War on Some Drugs
Texas: Far North Dallas shooting self-defense?
(Dallas Observer)  Police didn’t arrest the shooter but say they plan to forward the case to a grand jury to determine whether to file charges. The weed and cash were seized and taken to DPD’s property room.

Nathan:  I am sure this happens now and then: two men, at least one armed, break into an apartment to steal a half-pound of marijuana and $2,000 in cash.  The resident is armed and shoots and kills one of the invaders, the other runs away.  But while he has no doubt protected his life, it is the COPS that steal what the invaders came to steal.  What “public safety” is done here?  The cops didn’t keep the two thugs from breaking in, and they complete the task the invaders started! By the way, where is “Far North Dallas?  I’d have thought that was either Oklahoma City or Wichita, but apparently not.

Self defense – Gun haters/fearers
Gallup: More still satisfied than not with current gun laws
(CNSNews)  The bottom line, according to Gallup: After a decade of little change in Americans’ overall level of satisfaction with the nation’s gun laws, significantly more now express dissatisfaction and want laws to be stricter. It’s yet another sign that the tragic events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in December have given Americans pause on the issue, at least in the short term.

Nathan: Evan Gallup is trying to spin this into a national mandate to steal weapons – but has to admit this is probably (as such things have been in the past) a short-term reaction.  The difference this time is that we have a lame-duck in 1600 PA who is an ideologue, and a lot more media pressure.  They figure they are on a roll: they got him reelected, consider that the trashed the GOP in November, and have everything going their way.  And too many defenders of freedom and lovers of liberty seem to be buying into it.

Oddly enough, just three days later, a NEW poll claims that a majority of Americans now “demand” more gun control laws, including a new “assault weapons” ban.

Mama’s Note: And all of these “polls” are too biased to be worth the electrons they are reported with. In the first place, they only ask the people who are most apt to give them the answer they WANT and then let their imaginations do the math. The REAL “poll” has been going on in gun shops, gun shows and the internet sources for guns and ammunition. The extreme shortage and back orders for all those guns, magazines and ammunition they don’t want us to have tells the real story.

Oath-breakers – Islamic wars: Arab street revolt
Colin Powell on Clinton and Benghazi: ‘We’ll Have to Wait and See How the Testimony Goes’
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Can’t trust a word this man says: he betrayed his officer’s oath a LONG time ago.  And he didn’t have the excuse of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. Jackson: his reason is his own power and his loyalty to race instead of liberty and the Constitution.  As for Benghazi, obviously, even the Tranzi’s allies will be betrayed and allowed to die whenever it is expedient.  Even liberals are starting to understand that, as with Caligula and Nero and Stalin and Mao – EVERYONE is a potential target, as we see in the next story.

The “messiah” – World wars
MIT’s Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Running a ‘Global Assassination Campaign’(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  If Chomsky can see it, NO one is safe.  How long will this madness go on?  Will it have to expand to every county in the Fifty States?

Home front
DOJ: Children of Unmarried 3.8x More Likely to Be Victims of Violent Crime
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  This is more than just the fact that a single mother is less able to defend herself and her children. This extends to attitudes and moral values (usually a LACK of moral values) and to the fact that MOST black children (and those in the poorer and more violent communities) are born out-of-wedlock.  Remember, this used to be frowned upon, and NOT just because of some Puritan standard, but because the mother and child are in far greater danger.  If even the “messiah’s” and Holder’s department admit this, how bad is it, really?

Islamic wars:  Afghan front
Obama, Karzai Call for ‘Taliban Office’ in Afghanistan
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  This is of course based on the example of past liberal presidents.  Everyone remembers how Wilson personally invited Count von Totenkampf, a cousin of the Kaiser, to set up a special “German Imperial Office” in DC in 1917, and how Roosevelt had his cousin Theodore Roosevelt Jr. give a personal invitation to Hitler and several other high-ranking German officials to set up the “National Socialist German Workers Party” Offices in every country in Europe and Canada, the US, and Mexico in 1941.

Self-Defense
Gun Rights Advocate: If Blacks Had Gun Rights from Day One, Slavery Might Not Have Happened
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  And you know how many people will believe this.  Of course, this is an oversimplification.  Indentured servants in 16th and 17th Century America didn’t have guns taken away from them: that came later.  The early slaveholders in Virginia Colony INCLUDED black people, and they were armed: everyone was.  But later…  Just as colonies, the Brits, and then DC worked hard to disarm AmerInds.  And on and on.

Home front – American front – Stupid government
144 Border Agents Charged with Alien, Drug Smuggling and Corruption Since 2005
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Scum is scum.  I am sure that there are some honorable people working for DHS and ICE and the Border Patrol, and I’m sure one of these days I might meet some.  But these are just the ones that got caught. (Supposedly, only 50% of speeders actually photographed in Maryland got tickets, and it was estimated that only 10% of speeders were photographed: that is 5% of these “criminals.”) If this applies to border agents, that means that there are 1440+ lawbreakers in these agencies.)  No wonder more and more internal Federal agency policing employees are armed (next story).

Home front – Occupation forces
DOJ: Inspectors General Employ 3,501 Workers Who Can Carry Guns/Make Arrests
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan:  Do we really know just how many federal employees DO carry guns and have police powers?  Talk about an occupying army!  Keep in mind, “inspectors general” are in essence INTERNAL policing and investigating agencies and personnel:  so these people are threatened not by criminals off the street but corrupt FEDERAL employees.  If even their own agency’s people are endangered, what about the poor peons?

Theft by government – The “messiah’s” minions
Treasury Says It Balanced Budget in December—But Borrowed $96B on Dec. 31 to Hit Debt Limit During Fiscal Cliff Negotiations
(CNSNews.com)

Nathan: Like their masters (the “messiah” and Geitner), they lie a lot.

Defending others
Ohio School Board 5-0: Custodial Staff to pack heat
(Toledo Blade)  “The Montpelier Exempted Village Schools Board of Education has approved the carrying of handguns by its custodial staff. The 5-0 vote of the board Wednesday night to allow handgun training for four custodians to be able to tote weapons at the K-12 campus at the Williams County school came after last month’s deadly shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. School officials say that having armed personnel – believed to be the first for any school system in Ohio – is designed to thwart incidents of violence and prevent what happened in Newtown, Conn., from occurring here. ‘Sitting back and doing nothing and hoping it doesn’t happen to you is just not good policy anymore. There is a need for schools to beef up their security measures,” Supertendent Jamie Grime told The Blade today. ‘Having guns in the hands of the right people are not a hindrance. They are a means to protect.’”

Nathan: Good stand for what is right – but I have to wonder if they will stick to their guns (pun intended) when the hoploclasts find a couple of hoplophobic families to sue about the “danger” to their children in the school. (Thanks to Godfather Politics for this story.)

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