Texas ups the ante!

Posted on 2024-02-02 by TPOL Nathan

No, it is not a “constitutional crisis” – it is a real demonstration of the lack of faith that Uncle Joe and his rogue regime (administration) has created in Texas and many other States in 2024, as we careen down to the November elections.

MSN and Microsoft posted the story about the “in-your-face” action of the Texas National Guard raising the Gonzales Flag in front of the State Area Command Headquarters in Austin. But the idiots of MSN and Microsoft didn’t even have the guts to actually show the evil flag – just a lot of pix of the current Texas Lone Star Flag. Fortunately, the Military Times did have the moral courage to do so.

This is a version: there were many:

There are a lot of messages carried by this little banner, and we shall give history lessons soon. But it is indeed “up your nose” to Uncle Joe. It compares him – correctly, in our opinion – to Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana, generalissimo and president and dictator of the United Mexican States. The nation which Texas rebelled against and seceded from the first time. An arrogant, power- and money-mad man who was totally opposed to liberty.

Hurrah for Texas! Hurrah for liberty! Hurrah for independence.

More, much more, later.

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Leader of the “free” world

Posted on 2024-02-01 by TPOL Nathan

Publisher’s note: An end-of-the-month business trip through the wonders of mostly-free Wyoming and into “growing more free” (in many ways) Utah put publishing on hold for a few days. Coupled with workload and some family illness! Thanks for your patience.

“Leader of the Free World.” Never has that label been more wrong than during the regime of Uncle Joe. First, because the world is becoming increasingly unfree during his tenure. Second because when it comes to leadership, the guy is probably outshone by a 12-year-old Scout Patrol Leader.

But he apparently takes the title seriously, and shows that he considers DC to be the capital of the entire world – and probably the Solar System. His arrogance (or that of his controllers) grows constantly, and is already beyond belief. Latest example of this is punishing “Israeli settlers” for their violent response to the October Hamas attack on so-called Palestinians in the West Bank (once known as Judea and Samaria).

According to USA Today, he punished four Israeli citizens by “sanctioning” them – by issuing an imperial decree (he calls it an “executive order”) for fomenting violence and attacking people and property.

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Instigators and entrapment – so fun!

Posted on 2024-01-29 by TPOL Nathan

The entire purpose of the FedGov appears to be to turn as many people as possible into criminals. Is that more than just seeking power? Can we suspect those who are in charge – and their minions – get perverse pleasure from doing this?

The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) frankly should be better labeled as the Financial Crimes Encouragement Network.

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Get us out? My oh my!

Posted on 2024-01-28 by TPOL Nathan

Is a movement in Congress to get the FedGov out of the United Nations real, or just a dog-and-pony and false hasbara show?

Commentators have been touting or condemning this movement, apparently led by Senator Lee (R, Utah) and Representative Chip Roy (R, Texas-21). As might be expected, those who claim to be conservative are more likely to support it, and the usual Woke, so-called progressives try to make it another strike against the GOP and Trumpistas. It is a plot (in their eyes) to ensure that The Donald can become dictator – another Hitler. (After all, they will remind you that the Third Reich was not in the United Nations!)

This was recently published on substack – obviously, anything from that source should be carefully examined:

Information about HR 6645 and its companion Senate bill, S 3428.

congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-… and congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate…

I have had no involvement in support, research or drafting for these two bills and do not work with campaign organizers listed at preventgenocide2030: Rima Laibow and James Roguski. I have contacted Laibow and Roguski about the omission discussed below.

These are bills allegedly aimed at withdrawing the United States from the United Nations, which is a goal I endorse. However, the bills as introduced do not include a provision to repeal the actual Senate vote that ratified the UN Charter on behalf of the US, which occurred on July 28, 1945. See p. 2, column 1, “Executive F.” library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/file.php

Instead, both HR 6645 and S 3428 begin with provisions to repeal a December 1945 Congressional act that established procedures for appointing representatives to the UN. I don’t know why repeal of the July 1945 Senate ratification vote is not included in HR 6645 and S 3428. The bills — introduced by Rep. Chip Roy and Sen. Mike Lee — can be withdrawn, revised to include repeal of the Executive F ratification act by the Senate, and then reintroduced.”

This odd omission is what prompts our question. It is suspicious that Mike Lee, in particular, would have his staff draft something like this if he truly were serious about getting the FedGov out of the international organization. Something is definitely fishy.

What do you readers think?

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Free speech – not on my watch?

Posted on 2024-01-27 by TPOL Nathan

A recent court case regarding free speech in public (government-run, tax-funded) schools has been settled in favor of the student denied free speech. The girl had been punished for wearing a tee-shirt with a New Testament citation stating “Homosexuality is a Sin – 1st Corinthians 6:9-10” to school. Except for court costs and attorneys’ fees, the penalty paid by a Tennessee school district was ridiculously low: $101.

Although the school district did not have to admit its guilt in violating the First Amendment, the teachers are required to be trained on the First Amendment and free speech. Are we being nasty to wonder about the success of that, given the apparent lack of knowledge in the various normal schools – now called colleges and universities – that provide “professional training” to teachers?

Will it just be an excuse to preach the Woke definition of “free speech” as including nothing that is offensive to some group? Perhaps. Parents should keep an eye out. And again, TPOL urges people to get your children OUT of the government-run, tax-funded schools.

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Can more counties follow the lead of an Alaska borough?

Posted on 2024-01-26 by TPOL Nathan

Self-defense is not just a right, but an obligation. That is a fundamental part of The Price of Liberty’s philosophy. One established by our founder Mama Liberty (Lady Susan). And which we share with many lovers of liberty and those who not just study but try to apply biblical principles and the lessons of history.

Indeed, this has been the situation throughout history. Starting with Cain bashing his brother Abel with a rock, we have needed to defend ourselves, our family, our friends, our neighbors, and our communities. And of course, not just against humans: critturs from rattlesnakes to wolves and mountain lions are threats in the wrong place and time.

One of the most recent local governments to recognize this need and right in concrete terms is in Alaska, as related in this story. The Matanuska-Susitna Borough Assembly (located northeast of Anchorage) urges its citizens to have adequate arms and ammo and be prepared. Not just to defend themselves and their homes and businesses, but to be the actual first responders in case of emergency.

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War between some States and the FedGov approaching?

Posted on 2024-01-25 by TPOL Nathan

It seems that the State of Texas (nee Republic of Texas) is rejecting the decision of the United States Supreme Court (a 5-4 ruling) that everyone understands will allow the Border Patrol to cut barbed tape at a 47-acre park in Eagle Pass, Texas.

In a story in the pro-FedGov Texas Tribune, it is claimed that Governor Abbott provides no proof that Uncle Joe and his regime is failing to enforce federal laws by allowing and assisting tens of thousands of people – migrants – to jump the border (river) and enter the State of Texas. Clearly, the media supports the “supremacy” of the FedGov over the States, even when the FedGov refuses to enforce its own laws. And indeed, breaks its own laws.

A lot of folks (including that same Texas Tribune) are saying the defiance of the Nazgul by Texas is reaching a crescendo that will result in a new Battle of Eagle Pass. A violent confrontation between FedGov agents – possibly even military – and Texan troops.

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Tax system threatened by SCOTUS

Posted on 2024-01-24 by TPOL Nathan

Another attack on the evils of the Supreme Court – from the Woke “left” (and not lovers of liberty) has popped up. It features a case called Moore v. US, about post-ex-defacto action by Congress to steal still more money from taxpayers (from overseas) than ever. The law (2017 Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA)) is a nasty one that let the FedGov steal an additional 340 billion dollars in just five or six years.

But the article claims the wrong decision will destroy the entire FedGov tax system.

Yes, please stop cheering, dear reader, long enough to finish reading this commentary! We agree!

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Hate crimes and hate speech in 2023 and now

Posted on 2024-01-23 by TPOL Nathan

Do you know what a “hate crime” is? When you hear (or read) something, can you determine whether it is “hate speech?” A school in California is not concerned by some students telling Jewish students that all Jews and Israelis should be killed. The educrats investigated and determined that was not “hate speech” but just political speech. How did they determine that? How would you, dear reader, decide?

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Are we enemies of the state?

Posted on 2024-01-22 by TPOL Nathan

Take a good long look at yourself in the mirror. Look at your family with objective eyes. Stop and look at the people you talk to at your local hangout, in your congregation’s meetinghouse, and any groups you belong to. And ask. Am I an enemy of the state? Are these people enemies of the state?

Are we?

Maybe. The Feds seem to be concerned that extremists must be watched carefully by banks and credit-card companies. The report is that following on the pandemic panic and the chaos at the Capitol on 6 January 2021 the Treasury Department asked banks to search customer records for clues to “extremism.”

Specifically, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) told banks to look for clues to who might be threats to the FedGov and involved in or planning to follow up on the so-called insurrection in DC that day. Clues? Using words like “Trump” and “MAGA” and buying religious texts (Bibles, Qurans, Book of Mormon, perhaps the Bhagavad Gita?), as well as “suspicious” purchases of transportation services and, of course, guns and ammunition,

This information came as the result of several congresscritturs trying to investigate this action and others by FinCEN. They ask if this is an indication that FinCEN is not respectful of “fundamental civil liberties.”

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