A tribute to Stephen Lendman

Some people are wont to make you want to throw things when you read their commentary. Even if you don’t agree with them. Why? Because then you are upset that you didn’t think of the point that they made.

Steven Lendman of Freedom’s Phoenix was one of those people. Agree or disagree with him, he made those who read his commentary think.

Courtesy of the Hancocks, we and thousands of others were allowed to share Mr. Lendman’s thoughts, and his influence will be missed. Here is the notice from Freedom’s Phoenix.

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Stephen Lendman, contributing author on Freedom’s Phoenix, has passed away. He was 89
Donna Hancock
   Stephen Lendman passed away on May 9, 2023 in Chicago, IL. He wront on justice issues that impacted many. He had a generous following and his sincerity was always present in his writing and his demeanor. We are blessed to have known him
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At this point, we here don’t have much that we can think of to add. Not having him writing things definitely shortens our workday!

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Situational awareness and armed defenders in 2023

Mama Liberty constantly preached the need to be careful to be as aware of the situation in which we find ourselves. Whether armed or not, situational awareness is essential to survival in any unsafe condition. It is first critical to avoid any unsafe act, but you cannot do that if you are not aware of your surroundings and of the potential for things (usually bad things) to happen.

This is particularly true when the unsafe condition is due to a human being intent on doing harm to others. Not just with a firearm, of course: knives, vehicles, clubs and many more tools – including muscles and fists and boots – present a threat.

Even the most peaceful situation can suddenly become unsafe due to human error and especially evil intent. This is clearly one major reason to be armed, both at home and in public.

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All the emperor’s men have no clothes

Finally there are some details about the pretend “deficit deal” released, days after it was supposedly negotiated between Uncle Joe and the Republican House leadership.

It is easy to see why they delayed as long as they did before sharing the details. It is not raising the debt ceiling. Rather, it is razing the ceiling. It is “suspending the debt ceiling” according to Reuters. While promising pie in the sky by and by through supposed reductions in spending and therefore borrowing over almost a dozen years.

But Congress – at least most of them – is able to lie to themselves as well as to the American people and the world. Will we pretend to believe it? Or will there be some innocent child to proclaim “but he’s naked!”

The nonsense is enough to make any sane, literate, liberty-loving man or woman puke. Repeatedly.

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The tragic, fatal illness of San Francisco

Elon Musk is both being condemned and defamed in a recent article about how he is seeking to save San Francisco (the city) from the Woke leftists that have destroyed it – made it the poster child for the zombie apocalypse.

Yes, San Francisco is inflicted with evil – indeed, about as many evils as the demoniac of Gerasene had demons (Luke 8:30f). But the evil is not destroying the city – it has destroyed the city. Compare it to what you will: Sodom or Gomorrah, Babylon, Nero’s Rome, whatever. The one city of ancient times it cannot be compared to is Nineveh. Why? When Jonah preached there, they repented.

Babylon by the Bay shows absolutely no sign of such an action. We can applaud Musk’s efforts without expecting him to succeed.

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Cashless society – a question answered

A long-time correspondent and friend recently asked us this question: Are world leaders pushing digital currency to replace cash in order to deliberately push citizens into buying metals – gold, silver, etc? How does that help the elite become wealthier? What am I missing here?

Good question.

No, I don’t think it has anything to do with driving up the price of precious metals. Inflation and fear do that.

I think it is purely and simply a matter of knowledge and therefore control.

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Government stupidity is paid for by real people

It appears that Arizona is facing a water crisis. It has many facets, but here are some that are worth considering, both for people in Arizona and elsewhere. This is the case even if the FedGov-pressured grand agreement between Arizona and a half dozen other States actually goes into effect. (And if you believe that agreement will really solve anything, I assume you also believe the GOP debt-limit proposal will save the nation.)

But back to water in Arizona.

A Saudi company is leasing thousands of acres of State land and buying up thousands more of private farmland in the southwestern Arizona, along the Colorado River Valley and several tributary streams. That is desert… The Saudis appear to have unlimited rights to pump everything they can (if we believe CBS) and use it to grow alfalfa. Which is then shipped to Arabia to feed to milk cows. Why? Because it is illegal to grow alfalfa in Arabia because it requires so much water.

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Really? The idiotic hypocrisy of American politicians

… and government.

The following headline appeared at Breitbart on 17 May 2023 (Wednesday).

We here at The Price of Liberty are suffering mixed emotions about this. Given our distaste for the FedGov, it is hard not to be sympathetic to an American State government who thumbs his nose (or threatens to) at SCOTUS. After all, it should not just be POTUS who ignores the Nine Nazgul, right?

At the same time, when idiots like Murphy claim that abortions – and abortion pills – save lives, it is a flat lie. Both science and most religions agree that an unborn child is a human – they have a life. EVERY abortion takes a life. Sometimes abortion can save a life – a mother’s life – but only by sacrificing another life.

We are specifically speaking of chemical abortions – using pills that contain drugs that will kill the child in the womb without the need for an actual invasive procedure in which the woman’s womb is entered and mechanical means are used to kill, usually dismember, and remove the child within. The point is, a child – a human – is being killed. An innocent life is being intentionally, deliberately taken.

Murphy and his Woke and so-called liberal supporters refuse to accept this. And New Jersey is home to many so-called intellectuals and activists who advocate for even killing children after birth if they are deemed “damaged” or “unwanted.” It should come as no surprise that a New Jersey leader would choose to defy SCOTUS on an issue like this. This tyrant and would-be mass-murderer wants to somehow purify the race, or some other hideous excuse for allowing (and paying for) killing babies.

But then, many politicians subscribe to the infamous words of politician and militia leader Colonel John Chivington. He justified his mass murder of Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne in southeastern Colorado Territory in 1864 with the statement “Nits make lice.”

(Here is the full quote: “D*** any man who sympathizes with Indians! … I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians. … Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice.

It is a sentiment that such notable (and honored by Woke and lovers of government and environists) people as Margaret Sanger, Rachel Carson, Nancy Pelosi, and of course the various POTUS dwellers at 1600 PA share, based on their actions.

Government is NOT the solution: it is the problem. Or at least a big one.

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Can we learn any lessons from the past?

Publisher’s note: A rapid trip, 400 miles each way plus “ion-and’around” an area of the West new to us, both delayed postings and triggers these thoughts.

The Wind River Basin of Central Wyoming is one of the great beautiful places in the State. It is a wonderful mixture of lush mountains, rivers and canyons, grazing and irrigated cropland, beautiful lakes, desert, and opportunity.

It is not nearly as well known as it should be, in a State full of natural and human-made wonders.

But it is also the home of a sad story of government stupidity. A story which should teach everyone important lessons about how governments conspire and just plain cooperate to make life miserable for thousands and millions of people. For generations.

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Is Canada’s “MAiD” part of a slippery slope?

Like more and more States and other nations around the world, Canada now has legalized “MAiD” – medical assistance in dying. That, of course, is a politically correct euphemism for euthanasia, or assisted suicide.

But according to a recent survey in Canada, many people want more. Indeed, more than 1/3 of polled Canadians are fine with homeless and “unbearably poor” people requesting (at government expense, natch!) to be put down – to be “assisted” in dying.

Indeed, we think that we are seeing the same slide into depraved murder (under the guise of compassion) in Canada that has been done in the Netherlands and elsewhere. (We believe that a human does have the right and should have the power to kill themselves, even though we believe it is wrong to do so. But our problem is with getting someone else to do it – or being pressured into doing it. Or accepting having it done. Or forcing someone to do it to you.)

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Corruption, democracy, and courts

Readers know that we here at The Price of Liberty have little truck with those who believe that democracy is the only acceptable form of government. Shucks, we don’t believe in human mandatory government. Similarly we have serious problems with government-appointed and -paid courts and judges and all the rest of the adjudication system.

We read that the head (chief judge?) of Ukraine’s supreme court has been arrested (and presumably suspended or removed) for “corruption.” One specification claims he took $2.7 million in bribes on a single case. Now, compared to the FedGov, this guy is a piker: look at the godfather now in DC. And too many past and present members of Congress. But still, it is more proof that democracy is always corrupted by bribery – either legal or illegal.

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