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16
Jul

Setting Regular Republicans Straight About Liberty

By libertyvini 1 Comment
Categories: 2008 Presidential Race, Austrian Economics, Constitution, Ron Paul, US Constitution, commentary, economics, fascism, liberty, police state, politicians, recommendations, terrorism and war

Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register columnist and Friend of Liberty, wrote a column for Independence Day that was less than completely reverential toward our Gargantuan Imperial Military. Chip Hanlon, writing in Red County, took off after Greenhut, viciously smearing him, libertarians in general, and incredibly but oh-so-predictably Ron Paul.

Scores of commenters wrote back defending Greenhut, so my addition was probably piling on, but I really like it as a statement of Liberty;

Does Chip Even Read What He Writes?

What you write, repeatedly, is that libertarians (and by implication, incredibly, Ron Paul) are all kooks, because sometimes they make statements that are at odds with your well-entrenched beliefs. You even pull quotes out of context that seem to support your position, but you have made absolutely NO attempt to understand, much less attempt to honestly and intelligently refute them. Your debate techniques are the same ones used by all but one of the Republican candidates, including the eventual nominee.

You see where that has got us. Ron Paul told us all in the debates that if the Republican Party didn’t get serious about reversing the Bush welfare-warfare-torture- spying state, and cutting back on spending and empire, we were not only going down to defeat in November, but that the party would subsequently self-destruct. You don’t have to be crazy to see and understand that he was 100% right.

Look, I accept that not everyone is ready to keep peeling away at the onion of government. Over my political life’s journey, I have been at first shocked by many principled libertarian positions. Then, after mulling them over, I often come to see that in many instances (e.g., drug prohibition, gay marriage, pre-emptive war, central and fractional reserve banks, taxes, governmment spying), and putting aside my merely personal feelings, I have come to understand that the libertarian position logically and morally flows from the fundamental principle of freedom. The libertarian non-aggression axiom is the purest expression of the ideals, if not always the actions of the founders.

A standing military, particularly one as aggressive and imperial as ours, would absolutely shock and dismay many of them.  Steve Greenhut isn’t speaking a Republican heresy, he is simply stating his (in my view correct) opinion that the military establishment is out of political, strategic and financial control, and needs, not to be lauded for its unconstitutional size and scope, but rather reined in, hard. Any honest person, who takes a look at the trail of wreckage left behind by the US military over the past, well, century or two, has to see this.

What we need in this country is a return to the ideals of the founders, minus the bigotry. What we need is a DRASTICALLY smaller government.

What we need is Liberty.

12
Jul

Ban Smoking In The Military? Are You Kidding Me?

By libertyvini 3 Comments
Categories: Constitution, US Constitution, commentary, economics, fascism, liberty, mercantilism, police state, politics, regulation, socialism and war
Apparently Torture Isn't The Only Thing Lynndie England Ruined For Everybody

Apparently Torture Isn't The Only Thing Lynndie England Ruined For Everybody

The missus relayed a CNN report that a study commissioned by the Pentagon has recommended the military ban the use of tobacco entirely.

As a never-smoker, who personally despises cigarette smoke and all of the things it does, I am nonetheless absolutely appalled that the military is even considering this breach of basic human liberty. Ok, scratch that, I’m still appalled, but on grounds of utility rather than principle. Are the quasi-conscripted enlisted to be spared nothing? Look for mass mutiny if this is ever enacted.

Of course, I am preemptively invoking Godwin’s Law by pointing out that both the motivation and the apparent receptivity of senior military brass for banning the vile weed from America’s sainted Imperial legions echo another old soldier’s logical enthusiasm for banning tobacco.

03
Jul

Obama O-verload

By libertyvini 0 Comments
Categories: 2008 Presidential Race, Constitution, Philadelphia, Uncategorized, comedy, commentary, economics, education, energy independence, environment, fascism, foreign oil, liberty, philadelphia local stuff, police state, politicians, politics, reference, regulation and socialism

We have ridiculed taxpayer-paid campaign materials before, as have many others, so it probably shouldn’t be a surprise that such attempts are made as to try to make them less obvious. Here, on a stretch of I-295 where commuters were just over being tortured by a reconstruction product, is one of the first fruits of the “porkulus” - a sign announcing a new, unspecified, undoubtedly expensive impediment to use;

The Porkulus Comes To South Jersey

The Porkulus Comes To South Jersey

But look closely at logo at the lower left - it looks vaguely familiar;

Look Familiar?

Look Familiar?

30
Jun

Wake Up Call - The Movie

By libertyvini 0 Comments
Categories: Constitution, US Constitution, Uncategorized, economics, education, environment, fascism, foreign oil, liberty, mercantilism, monetary policy, police state, politics, protectionism, reference, regulation, socialism, technology, terrorism and war

I blame Bob Murphy for this. Ignore the simple, inadequate theories of the mechanics (but NOT the politics) of the WTC collapses, and pay attention to the rest - cuts from “Zeitgeist”, “Loose Change”, “Freedom To Fascism”, and more, intercut with Alex Jones, John Taylor Gatto, and David Icke explaining in detail how we are constantly being manipulated to do the bidding of the elites. It’s fascinating, powerful, and, despite the odds, it works.  Check out Joh Nada’s “Wake Up Call”.

15
May

CIA Agent: The Bad Man Made Us Torture

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Categories: Constitution, Uncategorized, comedy, commentary, economics, fascism, liberty, police state, politicians, politics and terrorism
Lynndie England and unnamed victim. Not pictured: contractor who made her do it

Lynndie England and unnamed victim. Not pictured: contractor who made her do it

Listening to NPR, National Propaganda Radio in the mornings like I do, I hear some pretty amazing apologies for the state on an almost daily basis, but this is a new one on me;

“on Wednesday, a former FBI interrogator testified that CIA contractors were the people on the ground who pushed hardest for abusive interrogations in 2002.

Former interrogator Ali Soufan helped question Abu Zubaydah — the first high-value detainee in American custody.

“The interrogation team was a combination between FBI and CIA, and all of us had the same opinion that contradicted with the contractor,” said Soufan. “The contractors had to keep requesting authorization to use harsher and harsher methods.”

Soufan’s written testimony said contractors used nudity, sleep deprivation, loud noise and temperature manipulation against Zubaydah, even before the Justice Department provided legal permission in writing.

Soufan said the contractors did not have any experience in interrogations. They reportedly came from a school where the Army trained American personnel to resist torture.”

This is the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard -  that the CIA, with its 60-year history of murder, assassination, violent subversion, torture, and rendition, is now trying to pin responsibility for torturing people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere on…contractors that worked for them.

06
Jan

The Destruction Of Gaza - Obama’s First War, or Bush Valedictory?

By libertyvini 0 Comments
Categories: 2008 Presidential Race, Constitution, US Constitution, Uncategorized, commentary, fascism, foreign oil, liberty, police state, politicians, politics, terrorism and war
Obama: "No Comment."

Obama: "No Comment."

Look through these photos (WARNING: The above photo is the LEAST bloody) and try to square them with all of the pro-Israel spin on this horrible piece of business in the major US media. You can’t. It’s cold-blooded mass murder, and the network bobble-heads are calling it “self-defense”. It is exactly analogous to responding to a prison riot with F-16s and cluster munitions.

We harbor no illusions - the Israelis are equipped, trained, and funded by the US, and they do nothing without the dictator’s say-so. So what do our current and future Duce have to say about this atrocity?

President Bush: “I understand Israel’s desire to protect itself,” Bush said in the Oval Office. “The situation now taking place in Gaza was caused by Hamas…Instead of caring about the people of Gaza, Hamas decided to use Gaza to launch rockets to kill innocent Israelis,” Bush said. “Israel’s obviously decided to protect herself and her people.”

Uh-huh. Funny, we don’t hear about the innocent Arabs (yes, Virginia, there are women and children in Gaza, despite what The Ministry Of Truth says)

Future President Obama: “There was no immediate comment on the Israeli air strikes on Gaza from Obama, who is vacationing with his family in Hawaii, or his staff.”

Clearly, Bush has decided to let the Israelis have their head, to attack Gaza when they have really wished to attack Iran.

And Obama’s tepid response indicates not only that he has no problem with this, but that perhaps he is allowing Bush to test the waters for steering America in a new foreign policy direction.

No, not a peaceful one, silly, but a policy where the US simply funds, equips, and trains the soldiers of other countries to do our dirty work. Hmm, I wonder where that’s been tried before?

24
Dec

The Right Way To Think About Corporate Media

By libertyvini 2 Comments
Categories: 2008 Presidential Race, Austrian Economics, comedy, commentary, economics, education, fascism, liberty, mercantilism, police state, politicians, politics, protectionism, reference, regulation, socialism, technology and terrorism
SNL Isn't So Funny Now, Is It?

"Friends" Isn't So Funny Now, Is It?

Some friends and I were just discussing this - we all agreed that the proper way to think about NBC, MSNBC,  CNBC, or anything else connected to General Electric is that it should generally be treated as if it were being beamed to earth from the Death Star;
“The Death Star was the code name of an unspeakably powerful and horrific weapon developed by the Empire. The immense space station carried a weapon capable of destroying entire planets. The Death Star was to be an instrument of terror, meant to cow treasonous worlds with the threat of annihilation. While the massive station is evidence of the evil that was the Galactic Empire, it was also proof of the New Order’s greatest weakness — the belief that technology and terror were superior to the will of oppressed beings fighting for freedom.”

Also see this hilarious “Schoolhouse Rock” -style parody about corporate media;

Conspiracy Theory Rock

09
Dec

When The Emperor Moves

By libertyvini 0 Comments
Categories: Philadelphia, commentary, fascism, foreign oil, liberty, philadelphia local stuff, police state, politicians, politics, technology, terrorism and war

On Lew Rockwell’s blog today (YAY!);

re: More Pentagon Homicides

Posted by Lew Rockwell at 12:04 PM

Writes Vince Daliessio:

Saturday was the Army-Navy game here in Philadelphia.. I was taking my son to karate practice at about 9:45 am, when he yells “DAD, LOOK AT THE BIG PLANE!” When I looked, I saw Air Force One approaching from the Southwest and banking steeply above us at no more than 4,000 feet. The plane then swung crazily around, and back West toward the airport. All I could think of was how cavalierly the plane was being operated, and the likely carnage on the ground that would have ensued if the pilot had made a mistake. The old saying “a fish rots from the head” comes to mind. I had little thought for the passengers on board, who were no doubt the instigation for such behavior.

A couple of days prior, we were overflown by squads of military helicopters, and of course during the game we could hear F-18s overhead.

UPDATE: This was the reaction of the father come home to find his family all killed by the government;

“I believe my wife and two babies and mother-in-law are in heaven with God,” Yoon said at a news conference afterward. “Nobody expected such a horrible thing to happen, especially right here, our house.”

Yoon said he bore no ill will toward the Marine Corps pilot who ejected safely before the jet plunged into the neighborhood two miles west of the runway at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar. “I pray for him not to suffer for this action,” Yoon said. “I know he’s one of our treasures for our country.”

Maybe Mr. Yoon is a better man than I - I really don’t know. But my reaction would be much different.

02
Dec

Consensual Sex Is None Of The Government’s G-ddamn Business

By libertyvini 1 Comment
Categories: Constitution, Philadelphia, US Constitution, Uncategorized, commentary, economics, fascism, liberty, philadelphia local stuff, police state, politicians and politics

Yet they continue to insist on making it so;

Cop ‘john’ testifies at hearing for ‘mom/daughter’ hookers

The two women touted themselves on the Internet as a sexy mother-daughter team, and at their Northeast Philadelphia home they offered themselves up for sex - at a price, authorities said.

The ad on the craigslist Web site featured the mother, Traci Young, 38, and the daughter, Tami Smith, 22, sitting on a plush sectional couch in tank tops. It read in big, bold letters: “Make the right choice and call us.”

An undercover cop, posing as a john, did just that.

In Municipal Court yesterday, that police officer, Donald Paxton, testified that he had made an appointment to go to the women’s home on Ditman Street near Benner, in Wissinoming, in the early afternoon of Oct. 2.

In the basement, the two women negotiated to have sex with him, including oral sex, for $200, Paxton, according to Assistant District Attorney Richard Fuschino, who spoke after a preliminary hearing in the case.

Paxton testified that Smith told him that he would ” ’start with mom and finish with me [the daughter],’ ” the prosecutor recounted.

At the end of the hearing, Judge Joseph J. O’Neill held Young for trial on all charges, including prostitution, criminal use of a communication facility and conspiracy.

First, this is called ENTRAPMENT, an immoral but increasingly popular tactic among the jackbooted thug community.

Second, WHOSE BUSINESS IS IT WITH WHOM AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS THEY HAVE SEX ?????

These “laws” are unconstitutional, immoral, and arbitrary.

It is perfectly legal for a woman to offer her favors for a $200 meal at Buddakan, but not for $200 cash. Gross.

The cynic in me tells me that one reason for this is that the elites don’t like middle-class people getting their freak on the way they themselves do.

And since middle-class people can’t afford mistresses, or to join high-end clubs for that sort of thing, they have to hire them in per diem, which the elites then have outlawed.

Am I off base here?

02
Dec

A VAT Tax? Are We To Be Spared Nothing?

By libertyvini 0 Comments
Categories: 2008 Presidential Race, Austrian Economics, Constitution, Ron Paul, US Constitution, commentary, economics, education, fascism, liberty, mercantilism, monetary policy, police state, politicians, politics, protectionism, socialism and war

As if the $8 Trillion being stolen from us as I write this wasn’t enough, this jackass is touting a Eurostyle VAT as the solution to reducing the malignant, metastasizing Federal deficit, set to get even worse under the new Obama regime;

It’s called a value-added tax, or VAT, and it’s been used for decades to pay the bills and sustain the immense growth of governments around the world, from France to Mexico to Australia. Created in 1954 by a French economist, the VAT is the most potent, efficient machine for revenue generation yet invented.

And if there’s one thing the U.S. government needs as the federal budget balloons, it’s a ton of new revenue. “The bottom line is that the income tax cannot support the level of spending that’s projected, something other countries faced years ago,” said Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center, a non-partisan research institute.

Number one, this idea, if ever enacted, will rapidly collapse the US economy.

Number two, it won’t matter anyway, because inflation will render the dollar meaningless. Since the feds won’t recognize commodity money, most of the remaining economy will revert to barter and black markets.

Number three, they won’t repeal the income tax, but will simply impose the VAT atop it. Just the thing to do in the face of a Depression. Thanks, President Hoobama!

If this is ever seriously considered and or passed, the US government will have to destroy the last remnants of the Republic in a futile effort to collect it.

Ron Paul, please call your office!

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