Jake Towne, Constitutional Candidate

h/t Liberty Pulse

Federal Prosecutor Targets Anarchists

“Everyone thinks we’re moving toward a greater recognition of civil rights under Obama. Instead we’re going backward – all the way back to the sedition laws, and the political inquisitions of Joseph McCarthy.”- Attorney Ben Rosenfeld

U.S. Attorney Clifford R. Cronk III is using his office’s investigation of an alleged 2004 animal rights-related break-in at the University of Iowa to harass and punish targets whom he claims identify as anarchists, a political ideology dating back to the early 19th Century. To date, neither his superiors in the Department of Justice, nor the federal courts, have done anything to curtail his abuse of power. In behavior reminiscent of the darkest days of the McCarthy witch hunts, Cronk argues in court documents that anarchists are domestic terrorists who should be locked up for posing a threat to civil society based on nothing but the prosecutor’s unfounded political bias.

Civil Liberties Monitors Charge That Federal Prosecutor Is On Personal Crusade Against Anarchist Ideology


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Vincent Bugliosi on the Crimes of George W. Bush

The Former Liar-in-Chief should be prosecuted for his crimes. It would set a great precedent for later prosecuting the current Liar.

Military thug waterboards 4-year-old daughter

Because she couldn't recite the alphabet. Conservatism taken to its logical conclusion, folks.

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Jon Stewart on Keith Olbermann

Joe Sobran: The Reluctant Anarchist

Hans [Hoppe] argued that no constitution could restrain the state. Once its monopoly of force was granted legitimacy, constitutional limits became mere fictions it could disregard; nobody could have the legal standing to enforce those limits. The state itself would decide, by force, what the constitution “meant,” steadily ruling in its own favor and increasing its own power. This was true a priori, and American history bore it out.

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As Hoppe argues, this is the flaw in thinking the state can be controlled by a constitution. Once granted, state power naturally becomes absolute. Obedience is a one-way street. Notionally, “We the People” create a government and specify the powers it is allowed to exercise over us; our rulers swear before God that they will respect the limits we impose on them; but when they trample down those limits, our duty to obey them remains.

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Other things have helped change my mind. R.J. Rummel of the University of Hawaii calculates that in the twentieth century alone, states murdered about 162,000,000 million of their own subjects. This figure doesn’t include the tens of millions of foreigners they killed in war. How, then, can we speak of states “protecting” their people? No amount of private crime could have claimed such a toll. As for warfare, Paul Fussell’s book Wartime portrays battle with such horrifying vividness that, although this wasn’t its intention, I came to doubt whether any war could be justified.


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For most people, anarchy is a disturbing word, suggesting chaos, violence, antinomianism — things they hope the state can control or prevent. The term state, despite its bloody history, doesn’t disturb them. Yet it’s the state that is truly chaotic, because it means the rule of the strong and cunning. They imagine that anarchy would naturally terminate in the rule of thugs. But mere thugs can’t assert a plausible right to rule. Only the state, with its propaganda apparatus, can do that. This is what legitimacy means. Anarchists obviously need a more seductive label.

“But what would you replace the state with?” The question reveals an inability to imagine human society without the state. Yet it would seem that an institution that can take 200,000,000 lives within a century hardly needs to be “replaced.”

The Reluctant Anarchist

Eisenhower on the Military Industrial Complex

Dwight Eisenhower was succeeded by a President who, in spite of his 1960 "missile gap" campaign rhetoric, may have been assassinated because of his turn toward peace. LBJ and every other warmongering President followed.

Impossible

It is now mathematically impossible for the U.S. government to pay off the U.S. national debt. You see, the truth is that the U.S. government now owes more dollars than actually exist. If the U.S. government went out today and took every single penny from every single American bank, business and taxpayer, they still would not be able to pay off the national debt.

It Is Now Mathematically Impossible To Pay Off The U.S. National Debt


h/t to Liberty Pulse

What Happened to My Plans for This Afternoon

In my last post I gave you a brief run down of my plans for today. Here's what actually happened. I did end up at Walmart after briefly flirting with a visit to the local version of Safeway. I got my bottled water. I also regrettably bought a few other items I should have resisted (Fritos Corn Chips and Bean Dip, for starters).

The BBQ idea? Out the window when I actually counted my cash. I decided to get some eats on the cheap and ended up at the Taco Bell drive-thru ordering two 99¢ bean "burritos". They weren't too bad after I squirted some hot sauce into them.

As for the Bud Light, it wasn't cold after all. It sat unrefrigerated off in a corner. I had some other cheaper beer, but I was barely able to consume two cans before throwing in the towel.

I was for some unknown reason rooting for the Colts, and they lost to the Saints, who did indeed go marching in. I can't agree that this means that New Orleans is "back", which is just silly. These kinds of wins are great for millionaire team owners and players (subsidized in most cases by the state, with publicly financed stadiums and other taxpayer funded perks) but they don't really mean much for anyone else. However, if the Colts had won I might be singing a different tune right now, but for no discernible reason. I don't even like the Colts and I don't dislike the Saints. I just don't care, I guess.


h/t to Liberty Pulse for the Jones video.

Here is the Mark Dice video mentioned by Alex Jones.

My Plans for This Afternoon

Go to Walmart or similar stuff store, buy some more politically incorrect and environmentally "unfriendly" bottled water as I'm down to my last 16.9 ouncer. This doesn't usually happen, but I've been away from my usual water buying venue this week, and have had a work schedule that departed from my accustomed days, which frankly threw everything off.

I'm eager for more bottled water as we had someone we had to listen to this week during some training who made a point of disparaging plastic bottles when he was offered one upon expressing to us his urgent need for hydration. So, he turned down a free bottle of cold water and asked instead where he could refill his aluminum water bottle. For the rest of the training I thought I noticed a disapproving glare every time anyone set a disposable plastic bottle of water on the table where he could see it.

While at the store, especially if it's Walmart, I'm thinking the temptation for a Fritos corn chips and bean dip purchase might be hard to resist.

After the store my plans are less certain. Maybe a quick stop at the BBQ for a couple of beef sandwiches. And then, Superbowl!

By the way, no need to stop anywhere for beer. I've got an eighteen pack of Bud Light waiting in the fridge.