American cities: “organized” chaos?

Posted on 2023-11-30 by TPOL Nathan

The recent commentary on the accelerating speed of collapse of American cities elicited some comments and responses.

One in particular is of note. Is this chaos actually something planned and orchestrated by someone? If so, what is its purpose? Hence our question: is the situation in more and more American cities the result of organized action to create chaos?

There are many reasons to believe this is the case. Both in the massive urban areas: those ant-hills of humanity. And in smaller cities: places like Rapid City South Dakota and Durango Colorado. Every city is different, of course. Yet the challenges seem to be much the same. Why?

Is this chaos the intended result of specific actions by various groups? Is it even actually coordinated?

Or is it merely a coincidence?

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Wards of the FedGov – emergency declared

Posted on 2023-11-29 by TPOL Nathan

Socialism, colonialism, Wokeism, and the attitudes and conditions that those isms produce are horrific. No question about it. Here is an example right here in the States – in South Dakota, specifically.

A series of treaties between the Lakota (and other tribal nations) in the mid-1800s included a clause that the United States (the FedGov) would protect the people of the tribes from “bad men.”

Jump forward in time a century and a half. As reported in the Rapid City Journal, on 18 November 2023, Oglala Sioux Tribal (OST or Oyate) President Frank Star Comes Out declared a State of Emergency until 1 January 2025: 13+ months.

Why? The crime rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the OST, a sovereign (but dependent) nation, is screamingly high. And has been for years. It has been 16 months since OST applied for additional funding for law enforcement from the FedGov, in July 2022, by filing a lawsuit in federal court against the US Department of the Interior and its agency, the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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Tyranny in New York State: Court-approved

Posted on 2023-11-28 by TPOL Nathan

Western Journal was one of several media outlets to report that a superior NYS court of appeals had reinstated Supreme Empire Leader Hochul’s Rule 2.13, allowing the State to seize and detain anyone suspected of, and not able to prove otherwise, that they might have COVID-19 (or perhaps any disease) without such niceties as warrants, courts, judgments, or self-defense.

It is all, of course, about “public safety” – and about expanding the power of the State over those unfortunate enough to live in or have to go through New York State.

As we understand it, the Court which made this ruling is the equivalent of most State’s Supreme Court. The people who brought the suit which was found to be justified by a lower court or two have a few choices:

  1. Obey the next time State or local goons (or their agents and contractors) show up and tell them to go into Coventry or House arrest.
  2. Resist physically – and presumably have a very high risk of dying or more time in a cell.
  3. Appeal to the US Supreme Court to overturn this. (Assuming that Albany and Supreme Leader will even listen to the Nazgul.)
  4. Overthrow the tyrannical government there in Albany and replace it with something that is pledged to protect, not steal, the rights of New Yorkers. Or with nothing (the best value).
  5. Emigrate to a free nation. That might be a New England State – at least the upper three. Or someplace down South or out West (but not too far west).

Of course, there are, at least legally and morally, several ways of overthrowing Hochul and her thugs, goons, and allies. Voting is a theoretical possibility. So is a peaceful campaign of civil disobedience (though the reader is asked to refer back to item 2 above). And then there is the course of action New Yorkers chose back in 1775 and 1776: rebellion, revolution, and civil war.

It’s Hobson’s choice, of course: all of them have really serious downsides.

And New Yorkers who chose option 1 – and it is expected a majority will – can expect to see more and more of the same. Tyrants are seldom satisfied. Much less sated.

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Uncle Joe – two strikes and the pitcher is winding up!

Posted on 2023-11-24 by TPOL Nathan

We aren’t much into sports allusions, but it appears that Dear Beloved 81-year-old “Leader of the Free World” (or is that Fee Whirled?) now has at least two big strikes against him.

As far as both his Democrat foot soldiers AND voters AND powers-that-be, that is. The ones that count in the warped, corrupt world of Democratic Party politics in DC and the key States for the 2024 election.

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Welcome to Greta Thunberg World (TM)

Posted on 2023-11-23 by TPOL Nathan

As many of us give thanks to God for the blessings of another year – and some give thanks to something, we should spend a few seconds thinking about how we are blessed. Whether by God or nature or the efforts of other men and women. Which raises the idea of what if we were not blessed in some ways? So…

From an anonymous correspondent: “What would happen if Greta woke up in a petroleum free world? Something for us all to think about.”

One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.

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Dallas six decades ago

Posted on 2023-11-22 by TPOL Nathan

How many people today recall that event?

For many, those few seconds on a street in Dallas holds a horrific fascination. Others consider the moments to be a turning point in American history. One commentator even called it the most critical event in the United States in the 20th Century. (We at TPOL do not agree.)

For readers too young to remember, we are talking about 22 November 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and later died, while Governor John Connelly of Texas, riding in the presidential “bubble top” limousine with Kennedy and his wife, was wounded.

(That is the 22nd. Not the 23rd, as a regional radio talk show host repeated several times. Today, not Thanksgiving Day this year, is the anniversary.)

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The Whitehead solution?

Posted on 2023-11-21 by TPOL Nathan

What are we going to do? Government at all levels is increasingly dysfunctional and unstable. Even as it grows more powerful, more greedy, more tyrannical and more totalitarian. Even and especially in the States.

John Whitehead, a long-time libertarian/conservative activist and commentator, suggests that we need to “recalibrate the government” in his recent commentary.

John is a thoughtful, careful analyst and writer. We at TPOL value his thoughts, his points, his suggestions highly. We are indebted to him in many ways. He makes us think!

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Solar power and demand in the States- liberty is possible

Posted on 2023-11-20 by TPOL Nathan

This is a technical article with a political and libertarian bent. Just warning you!

The FedGov Energy Information Administration (EIA – bureaucrats galore!) tells us: “Total U.S. electricity consumption in 2022 was about 4.05 trillion kWh, the highest amount recorded and 14 times greater than electricity use in 1950.”

4.05 trillion kWh or kWhr (kilowatt-hours) sounds about right. After all in 1950 we only had about 160 million people but now about 340 million or so today.. The average American home only used electricity for lights and maybe a radio and an iron back them. (Remember irons? radios?).

That 4.05 trillion is 4,050,000,000,000 kWhr, just to make it clear and easier to understand as we here at TPOL get older. FYI, for grins, the average cost is 23 cents/kWh. So that means that Americans paid $931.5 billion for electricity last year. That is only 1/7 of FedGov spending that year! What a bargain! Especially for something far more useful than the FedGov.

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Politics and Catholicism

Posted on 2023-11-19 by TPOL Nathan

Warning: the publishers of The Price of Liberty are christians, and that is perhaps the major reason we are lovers of liberty – free market anarchists. This commentary is very disparaging towards a denomination that believes itself to be part of “Christendom.”

The current pope, Francis II, again has created waves of controversy with remarks regarding a whole bunch of moral and ethical issues. The mainstream media, of course, is careful to publicize this. It is, admittedly, news. But it also gives the MSM yet another reason to bash so-called conservative Catholics and Catholics who love liberty. They are not with the program of the Vicar of Christ!

And even more recently, the pope has issued a pink slip to a bishop in southern Texas. Strickland is not only critical of Francis II, he is also an advocate of many conservative positions: against abortion, against homosexuality, against so-called gay marriage, and against divorce. How grateful Uncle Joe and the American political hierarchy should be that Francis II is so supportive of their political and religious agenda! That is clearly worth many battalions of internal security troops, to coin a phrase.

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Our masters and kill switches

Posted on 2023-11-18 by TPOL Nathan

Many people have hopefully seen Tom Woods’ commentary from last week about the next totalitarian mandate sliding down the slippery slope of the FedGov’s ever-more burdensome regulatory state. If not, read the whole thing here. You can ignore Tom’s usual sales pitch at the very end. But pay close attention to the parts of the debate on trying to get yet another foolish and dangerous mandate canceled.

Massie of course failed. So in the 2026 model year, all new cars (and presumably SUVs, pick-ups, and similar vehicles will have kill switches installed. These will be programmed to monitor a driver’s performance and behavior and shut down the vehicle if the software determines (based on auto manufacturer and government decisions) that the driver is unsafe. For more detail, see Eric Peters’ series of articles, and go back two years to the Daily Caller article by Bob Barr.

This isn’t something installed to keep a drunk driver from starting and driving off in a car. This isn’t a warning “assistance” system to make us more alert behind the wheel, or warn us of a hazard.

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