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You Have Already Seceded

Let me ask you: how many people do you choose to have no relations with? No personal or financial relations with? These are people with whom you have chosen secession. Of course not technically because you never were part of some club with them, but the state you are in is the same state as if you had seceded.

To form a union with these people, on your personal level, would be silly and stupid and lead to nothing but partisan bickering, wasted money and horrible committee decisions. And yet, what is the United States? It’s that stupid club writ large.-All Nations Party: You Have Already Seceded

Mutually Reinforcing Reasons for Skepticism About Proposals for Gun Control

1. Gun control measures reduce the popular capacity for armed resistance to tyranny and invasion.
2.  These measures limit opportunities for self-defense against thuggery.
3.  They deny people the benefits of the deterrent effect exerted by the widespread belief that most members of a given population are armed.
4.  They increase people's dependence on state authorities who would otherwise be seen as irrelevant and unnecessary.
5.  They leave state authorities more willing to violate people's rights with impunity.
6.  The implementation of these measures increases the power of the state and provides excuses for state authorities to intrusively surveil people's nonviolent activities, thus compromising privacy and autonomy.
7.  The implementation of these measures involves forcible interference with nonviolent conduct—at minimum the imposition of fines and the confiscation of property, and, if the criminal law is used, the subjection of people to criminal penalties. This is objectionable for the same reason the criminalization of nonviolent conduct generally is objectionable.-Gary Chartier: Some Problems with Gun Control

The Conversation

95-Year Old Vet Dead After Resisting Medical Treatment, Tased and Shot With Bean Bags By Cops

Why Do We Cry?

With three types of tears, basal, reflex and emotional tears.

Costumed Thug Shoots Old Man

I thought about my dad when I read about this travesty of justice. My dad is elderly and has a hard time getting around these days, and though he recently began using a walker, before that he always had his cane with him. I can imagine him in this sort of situation, even though I can count on one hand the number of times he's been pulled over by a government clown-costumed thug with a badge driving an evil, decorated clown car with lights and sirens.

It last happened a few years ago when an asshole in a uniform stopped him for going 34mph in a 30mph zone. It was a stretch of road where it was very hard to maintain such a slow speed. My dad is a slow driver anyway, he's never been an impatient motorist or a leadfoot, so I know he wasn't driving irresponsibly or endangering anyone. In fact, it was a lazy afternoon and no other cars were even on the that road. Did this POS cop give my dad a break or a warning? No, the asshole wrote him a ticket that he could ill afford to pay on his fixed income. I'm just glad my dad didn't reach for his cane, though I wouldn't have been sorry to see that cop have a cane make hard contact with his skull.

York County deputy Terrence Knox pulled over Bobby Canipe for an expired license tag. When Canipe got out of his pickup trick and reached for his cane, officer Knox fired multiple rounds, believing him to be grabbing a long rifle.-Cop Shoots Old Man Reaching For His Cane

So this deputy gets a paid vacation while waiting for the usual verdict of "appropriate response", as in the statement by the Sheriff's spokeman: "It does appear, at this time, that Deputy Knox’s actions were an appropriate response to what he reasonably believed to be an imminent threat to his life."

Shot for the made-up "crime" of having an expired tag. All cops and ass kissing cop lovers ("law" enforcement supporters who go around with "support our police" stickers and such) should do peaceful people a favor and just shoot themselves instead.

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Your Thrift Habits

A co-worker was discussing how much money he wastes in a year. When he finally began keeping track, he realized it was thousands of dollars in unnecessary spending.

Harry Reid the Un-American Statist

Did you know that the Koch brothers are supporters of civil liberties (they opposed things like the Patriot Act) and it seems they are against crony capitalism and in favor of real free markets as well. In other words, true libertarians with real values. Yet, asswipe Harry Reid calls them "UN-American": Reid: Koch brothers are ‘un-American’

Fuck Harry Reid the asshole statist!

"He [Charles Koch]criticizes business leaders who say they believe in a free-market system, but do their best to manipulate that system by working to impose regulations on their competitors or going for “smash and grab, short-term profits.” -Charles Koch: business giant, bogeyman, benefactor and elusive (until now) -- exclusive interview

h/t to T.C.