Rand Paul, Fake Libertarian

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) angered many of his father’s supporters by voting for the 2013 NDAA. Doug Stafford, Paul’s chief of staff, stated that Sen. Paul believes that “the full panoply of due process rights should apply to all persons, not just American citizens.” Sen. Paul, however, still voted for the passage of the NDAA.

The NDAA has passed 51 years in a row. The 2013 version of the monolithic bill includes not just funding for the military operations of the country, but also harsher sanctions for Iran. The military will be purchasing Strykers, Chinooks, Black Hawks, and many other machines of war in 2013, all approved by Sen. Rand Paul.-Sen. Rand Paul voted yes for the $650 billion 2013 NDAA

Right to Bear Arms Means Shooting Cops

Whenever a law is passed, or a mandate issues, or an order given by a government official of some kind, you have to keep in mind that they are all to be followed on penalty of death.  I know that most people who break the law don’t ever get a death sentence, but that is what the ultimate penalty is for any crime committed or disobedience to government.

Think about this clearly: if you break a law and then resist being arrested, you will be subdued.  If you try to flee at any given moment, you will be subdued.  If you fight back, you will probably be tasered, beaten, or shot at, depending what kind of law enforcement officer you are dealing with.

I bring this up because there has been a lot of talk lately about the right to own guns, which is really a subset of property rights.  Most people on the right and within the libertarian wing of the political spectrum are largely arguing for gun rights because they wish to defend themselves against criminals and to tyrannical governments.  While the former is understandable, the later is something which most people lack the courage to use guns for.

This is because defying tyrannical governments will ultimately involve shooting police officers and possibly military soldiers, both of whom are the favorite of the right-wing.  Law enforcement officers, by and large, obey orders handed down from above.  When the chips are down, they will defend the people in power rather than the common man.

What this ultimately means is that gun owners wishing to defy the government have to be prepared to shoot police officers.  As all laws are backed by the full force of the government that decrees them and you are willing to fight back against them, then you have to be willing to use your guns against them in response to tyranny.

Now I’m not saying that the use of deadly force should be your first response to tyranny.  Obviously it hasn’t come to that yet.  But you need to be aware of the severe responsibility that comes with the second amendment and that is the taking of the lives of law enforcement officers.

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Sick and tired of watching celebrities who protect themselves with armed guards, calling for the government to outlaw your guns?

More Guns, Less Crime

Gun sales are up in California and, contrary to what politicians and the media say, gun deaths and injuries in the State are down sharply.-Gun Sales Up, Crime Down

The Problem is Always People, Not Systems

Louis Michael Seidman recently wrote a New York Times Opinion piece about we should give up on the Constitution.  I find it particular interesting to read, but fairly predictable.  I’m not really interested in dissecting his work piece by piece, but it occurs to me that there is a fundamental premise that Mr. Seidman (or Professor Seidman?) seems to miss.

Throughout the op-ed piece, he talks about how the system established by the Constitution is not working, yet he fails to recognize that human beings, especially those who aspire to be politicians, are prone to dominate.  While correctly pointing out that the history of our nation under the Constitution is one of people flaunting it for their own preferences or gain, he doesn’t seem to understand that it is because of man’s own desire for power is what drives men in power to override the will of the people they are supposed to represent.

The fact is, we must always be aware of the Libido Dominandi or “Lust to Dominate” that is inherent in all of us.  For many, it just happens to be a larger desire than most others.  In some cases, this manifests itself in a customer tormenting a barista at a Starbucks for not getting the temperature exactly at 140 degrees, even though the barista has science on her side due to having the thermometer.  But for a small percentage of us, there is a huge desire to either “fix” the rest of the dumb masses or to simply cash in the easy way by getting the dumb masses to vote for them.

This is the primary driving force behind many of the politicians you’ll meet today, even at the local levels.  They desire to fix us to meet their own tastes and desires or they simply are looking for an easy job.

While the Constitution does have some arguable flaws, if all the men who were elected to high office took their oath seriously, we wouldn’t see much of the large messes we are seeing today.  But men are not angels and so we always look for our own angles and advantages, especially when it comes to those in power.

There isn’t much that can be done to remedy this.  Changing human behavior is like changing the location of the moon.  It can be done, but it takes an enormous about time, energy, and resources.

Demand A Plan? Demand Celebrities Go F*ck Themselves

These self-serving whores of the 1% love guns and violence as long as they can line their pockets. Hey these hypocritical assholes "probably" voted for and support Obama...how many kids has he killed with his toy drones and foreign policy? When you elect leaders that commit mass murder, don't be surprised when the citizens follow suit. These fucks can stand on their soapboxes all they want...just as long as they wrap an extension cord around their necks and jump. Fuck You: Jamie Foxx, Jason Bateman, Paul Rudd, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Beyonce Knowles, Amy Poehler, Jeremy Renner, Amanda Pete, Jon Hamm, Carla Gugino, Jessica Alba, Reese Witherspoon, Rashida Jones, Will Ferrell, Sarah Silverman, Aziz Ansari, John Legend, Olivia Munn, Kathryn Hahn, Julianne Moore, Busy Phillips, Jennifer Garner, John Slattery, Nick Offermann, Chris Rock, Cameron Diaz, Courtney Cox, Christina Applegate, Zooey Deschanel, Steve Carrell, Adam Scott, Ellen Degeneres, Mark Ruffalo, Kate Hudson, Peter Dinklage, Jennifer Aniston, Elizabeth Banks, Max Greenfeld,Gwyneth Paltrow, Conan Obrien, Aubrey Plaza, Debra Messing, Megan Mullaly, Jennifer Westfeldt, Selena Gomez, Michelle Williams, Chris Paul, Victor Cruz-http://youtu.be/k1SZurGArxE

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Celebrating a Century of Tyranny

Happy New Year everyone!  I would’ve preferred to have celebrated the new year in Spring, but the majority (and the Catholic Church) has spoken, so I guess we have to celebrate it on the coldest season of the year, rather than a much warmer season.  This, combined with the passing of the Christmas season and vacations, will mark the days that follow as some of the most depressing days of the year.

But I have other reasons to depress you.  This year marks 100 years of the beginning of new tyrannies and the reign of the progressive movement.  Now, it could be argued that President Theodore Roosevelt was the first progressive president, and indeed he did start a policy of foreign intervention, government regulation, and majority rules, but this year marks four significant changes in United States policies that have largely destroyed this country.

First of all, the US House of Representatives was limited to 435 seats.  This meant that the Constitutional requirement of having 1 representative per 30,000 people was essentially invalidated.  Now, it has been argued that Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 was merely establishing the initial ratios of the House.  But that’s a stupid argument because I see no language in that section to indicate that this was the initial intention as it reads “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative”.  So today, we should have 10,000+ members in the House that represents the majority.  Because it has been so diluted, your vote no longer counts as it is only one in about 700,000.

In conjunction with the first problem, we have the ratification of the 17th amendment.  This replaced the selection of Senators by their respective state legislatures to direct voting of Senators by the people of their states.  Unfortunately, this has a similar effect to the first problem in that the individual’s vote is diluted and the only people who are able to influence those representatives are those with lots of money.  Indeed, these days, if you were to approach any representative of either hallowed house of Congress, you’d better have either lots of money or a very influential group of moral busybodies with you.  And good luck getting enough people to follow you.  In short, this year marks the dilution of the individual vote in Congress and the rise of the elite, political class we all know and hate.

Another thing that happened was the ratification of the 16th amendment, which allowed Congress to tax the productive income of responsible, hard-working citizens.  While whole books have been written on how this was wrong, I’m going to dumb down the long-term effects of this: when it was first passed, it was assured to the people that it would only affect the rich.  These days, it affects roughly 50% of Americans and has helped create an elite group within the power structure who take liberties with the tax code in order to avoid paying taxes at the expense of the middle class and their descendants.

Finally, and probably the most insidious and nasty, was the passage of the Federal Reserve Act.  This, in effect, created a monopoly of the supply of currency in America just two decades or so after the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.  Again, books have been written on the effect of the Federal Reserve on the value of the dollar and its effects on the economy, but I’ll sum it up for the dumb masses: the Federal Reserve was officially created to prevent depressions and recession in the economy.  Two decades later, the country suffered the greatest economic depression to date, one that we only escaped by bombing Europe, Japan, and allowing our allies to be bombed into a temporary stone age.

I know I’ve discussed these things before, but I think it is high time we reflect on what the results of these events have been to our society and nation in the past century.  These were not insignificant events as they have all worked together to rob the people of their everyday rights.  Indeed, many of the current tyrannies committed by our ruling class against the common man can be traced to these four events.

So remember the anniversaries of these events and understand their effects on all of us.

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