Yuma, Arizona – poster child for the “Invasion” of 2023

The Daily Mail reported last week that several hundred border jumpers were roaming the streets of Yuma, Arizona, after being released “without full processing” by Customs and Border Protection. At the time, CBP supposedly held 28,000 or more migrants in holding areas. No one knows how many migrants which had already been “processed” had been released in the area and are located in the city of 100,000 people.

And there is no more news on how many more than that 300 or so unvetted border jumpers have been released in the last week. But Yuma did make the national news this week with a “mass shooting” in which 2 were killed and 6 wounded at a party. There is no indication that the city’s hosting the border jumpers had anything to do with this incident, and at least in the past, Yuma had less crime than average for Arizona. However, we also were told recently that medical facilities in Yuma had about $26 million dollars in costs treating migrants just in the past year that has not been paid for (yet).

This, and other incidents at the Mexican-US border, remind us more and more of the situation in 1916, particularly in and around a small town called Columbus, New Mexico, like Yuma a very few miles from the border. Then, too, it was seen as an “invasion.” Was it?

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Theft by government – a reminder to us all

This marquee appeared down in Texas, I understand, put up by a brave businessman or woman.

We here at TPOL have no idea whether the gal or guy is a true lover of liberty and believer in free markets, or just a disgruntled “conservative” statist who is grumping. But whatever they be, they are echoing a message that we here, starting with Lady Susan (Mama Liberty), have been explaining for a very long time.

Today, we note that more and more people are spreading more and more truth like this. And we applaud it.

Because the truth is pretty nasty when it comes to “taxpayer’s money.”

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FedGov good at micromanagement – but…

An MSN story appeared on 15 MAY 2023, explaining how Uncle Joe’s Regime is coming out in favor of religious freedom in public schools.

Now, we here at TPOL are as always highly critical of ANY presidential regime, as we see “massa” as being noting but a (supposedly) elected tyrant, and mostly a front-man for the powers-that-be.

So to us, this is just more confirmation of the same-old-same-old malarky.

As the document is described by the usual regime shill, it reminds us of the insanity called “Free-trade agreements” which take thousands of pages of detailed instructions that are supposedly necessary to have free trade between people and companies in various countries.

Thus we see that Uncle Joe graciously tells staff, teachers, students and parents that “Students may, for example, bow their heads and pray to themselves before taking a test.” How wonderful! Notice that they can “pray to themselves” not to God – or even to Satan or their ancestors!

Seriously, we suspect that the main impact of these “guidelines” will be to assure even more steady employment for attorneys, more opportunities for anti-religion activists to complain and put even more pressure on school boards, administrators, and voters. In other words, a Woke dream.

Because while there are few things the FedGov (and most all State and local governments – lest we offend anyone) is good at, micromanagement and making a bad situation worse are two of those things. Together with wasting money, immorally squeezing money out of anything and anyone they don’t like, and coddling criminals who are not politically incorrect.

Adding insult to injury, we still can find absolutely nothing in the United States Constitution that authorizes ANY branch of the FedGov to have anything at all to do with education, whether we are talking pre-pre-preschool or post-graduate programs. Nothing, nada, nicht! For the FedGov to intervene in any matter of public or private education is at best a violation of the 9th Amendment, if not both the 9th and 10th.

But never mind: that clause has been ignored since not long after the War Between the States. Indeed, there is no authority for the FedGov to have provided education as one of the “benefits” of all of the treaties signed with various Indian tribal nations – even the ones that the Feds had to create to have someone to “negotiate” with. The enabling acts which admitted States to the Union were filled with interference by Congress on the powers of States to provide for public education – assuming that the State’s people actually even wanted that. And which Congress itself promptly ignored and broke by giving what in essence were franchises to various denominations to run schools for AmerInd children and have exclusive missionary rights to a given people and region.

No doubt as we write this, the various education unions and State and local administrations are busy pouring over these “guidelines” to see how to bend them to accomplish their goals of destroying American culture, further crack down on religion, and (of course) give them more money and power.

The solution is simple and is growing in popularity since the Pandemic Panic and the Lockdown. Get the children OUT of the government-ruined, theft-funded schools and teach them at home or in private schools that do NOT try to milk government for money and benefits by kowtowing to the thugs. Your own, your other family children, your neighbors’ kids, the children of your fellow church or civic club members and fellow employees. Teach them to reject the evil that is government.

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What went wrong in Farmington?

Farmington is a city of 45,000 in Northwestern New Mexico, the closest large city (well, in TPOL’s eyes) to the famed Four Corners, and the largest city in/near the Navajo Nation’s “Big Rez” and several other AmerInd tribes. Unlike the major New Mexico cities (Albuquerque and Santa Fe) it is generally conservative and with a mixed economy based on oil and gas, irrigated farming, ranching, and formerly coal mining and electrical power production. It has more in common with Texan cities

On Monday the 15th, in broad daylight, an unidentified 18-year-old starting walking up Dustin Street in an older residential area just north of downtown, apparently shooting at random at cars and houses. He killed three people and wounded six, including two responding police officers (one local, one State) who responded and killed him.

We here at The Price of Liberty are familiar with Farmington and San Juan County, with friends and clients in the area. (None that we know of were involved directly, though we called to make sure.)

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Fighting “the Man” with humor

Recently a professor at a California community college was suspended for sharing “HerShe” and “HeHim” chocolate bars at an event. (Spoiler: the HeHim bars contain nuts, the HerShe do not.)

Seems the homosexual history professor stepped on some sensitive Woke toes, eh?

(The “gendered” (sexed) chocolate bars were the brainchild of Jeremy Boreing of the Daily Wire, and are funny if a bit crude. But he claims that Hershey’s (a Woke company indeed) came up with the basic idea and he just ran with it, NOT to Hershey’s liking.)

(More asides: We don’t make a dime for showing off Mr. Boreing’s products.

And more: Perhaps someone should start a chocolate company called “Hishimey’s Chocolate” to make a point? Their advertising could harken back to the old booze commercials, all James Bondish and such. One thing would could be sure of is that Hershey’s and other Woke companies would have cows. Whether they are male or female!)

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At last – common gun law found unconstitutional

Many of us have known and stated for years that federal gun laws (and many others) were unconstitutional. It does NOT take a constitutional lawyer to see that any law that restricts the freedom of 18-20 year olds is a direct and blatant violation of equal protection under the law.

As reported by the Washington Examiner – and amazingly, dozens of mainstream media outlets, including state-affiliated NPR – a federal judge in the State of Virginia has issued a 71-page ruling demeaning that the federal prohibition is unconstitutional – and therefore null and void.

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Oklahoma crazy?

Last week, the governor of Oklahoma vetoed State funding for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, the State’s local Public Broadcasting System (PBS) affiliate. According to the story, he had multiple reasons. His major one is the more and more strident indoctrination of LGBTQ+ themes aimed at children. But there were others: he believes the need for state-supported broadcast media (beginning in 1957) is no longer needed or justified in today’s world of internet, a really diverse media control (as compared to just three national TV networks then), and a need to save money.

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“Incompetence is the main attribute of government”

Our commentary headline is a quote from the estimable Paul Craig Roberts in his brief recent commentary pointing out that – political and bureaucratic proclamations to the contrary – the destruction of San Francisco’s First Republic Bank is not the end of the banking crisis.

A crisis fostered by government. Yes, TPOL realizes that the Federal Reserve is technically not a government entity, is theoretically owned by the member banks, and all that Creature from Jekyll Island stuff. The reality? It is part of the federal tyranny we live under.

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Is California a bad neighbor?

A recent news story featured in Freedom’s Phoenix tells how people along the lower Colorado River in western Arizona are angry about Californians dumping hazardous waste in a couple of their landfills, instead of disposing of the waste in California (where it comes from).

The story is exaggerated: there are at least 660,000 pounds of waste containing some heavy metals and other hazardous materials that is reported. Sounds like a lot, until you realize that is just 330 tons: or what just 13 or 14 semi-trucks would haul if it were sand and gravel. And while they point out that under California law, stricter than either Arizona or federal law, much of the waste isn’t considered hazardous, they also do not point out that California’s laws and regulations are not just stricter than other law, their laws are ridiculously strict and represent “science by election” more often than not?

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Too bad: you’re Dutch

A few years back, several of us here at TPOL had the opportunity to work with a number of Boer farmers. In Eastern Colorado, of all places.

The Boers, of course, are descendants of Dutch settlers in what is now Sued Afrika: better known today as Afrikaaners in part for how their dialect of Dutch has drifted in almost 400 years. Many of them, like British colonials in the 1600s and 1700s, and Australian “immigrants” in the 1700s and 1800s, fled from persecution in the Netherlands (as British-American and British-Australians fled from Britain). Or were “transported” as criminals.

Today, we see that potential again, as the EU authorizes/orders the Dutch government to forcibly buy out 3,000 Dutch farmers and eliminate their livestock production, together with milk and cheese and everything else. Why? To prevent/reverse air pollution, or so we are told. Indeed, Her Majesty’s Netherlands government is determined to slash the country’s livestock population by 30% — to meet European Union targets for nitrogen-oxide pollution.

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