End the War on Freedom - Links and Commentary from my Crypto-Anarcho-Libertarian Perspective

To all modern Sons of Liberty: THIS is your time. Break their windows. Break them NOW.

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:15:38 +0000

Mike Vanderboegh is advocating damaging the property of politicians who support Nancy Pelosi's Intolerable Act. Don't know if it will work, but breaking windows is certainly preferable to civil war.

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The Imperial Democrats do not care what you think. They will not hear you. They are every bit as arrogant and isolated as King George the Third was from the liberty-loving American colonists in 1775.

And yet, if we are to avoid civil war, we must get their attention BEFORE the IRS thug parties descend upon us each in turn -- when we will be forced into dozens of defensive slaughters and then, to end it, forced yet again to call Pelosi and the other architects of this war upon their own people to final account.

We are the law-abiding of this country, yes. We always have been. But when the "law" is distorted and twisted into an unconstitutional means of oppression, backed by the entire weight of the federal Leviathan, it is not "law" at all, but mere illegitimate force.

John Locke said it best:

"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience."

When the law becomes a deadly tool of tyranny, it is no longer a good thing to be obedient and "law-abiding." It is, in fact, suicidal.

Yet, given the federal mandarins' willful ignorance of our very existence and conviction that we have no opinions that they are bound to respect, is there anything that can be done to prevent civil war?

Yes, there is.

We can emulate the Sons of Liberty of old.

We can break their windows.

The Aristocracy of Action

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:40:41 +0000

Anarplex.net is hosting a new essay in the veign of A Declaration of Separation. We can talk and theorize forever, and nothing will change. We can beg and plead and run candidates and vote forever, and nothing will change. If we want a new world, a world where individual liberty is central, we have to build it. Mirrored here.

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Read carefully - if you do not act, nothing will be. If you do not implement your dreams, if you do not work for your goals, they will never come true. And even if they would - you would have no say in them, you would not own them. You would just be a free rider - and we despise free riders.

Anarplex.net

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:12:06 +0000

Anarplex.net "is the operator of GammaDX and a provider of darknet services for various crypto-tribes and Phyles. Our mission is to create a home for tribes-people, their affiliates and associates by providing superior communications and processing services." I've been chatting on their IRC server for quite a while now, but there was no web home page until now. I wish them success in their business! [grabbe]

Land of the Mostly Free, Home of the Occasionally Brave

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:44:28 +0000

Bill Whittle tells Wendy Buckley, proprietor of carbonfootprint.com, which I will not bless with a link, to Pound Sand, and asks Harrison Ford, a fellow pilot, who Dr. Buckley has extolled to stop touching God whenever he wants, to join in the chorus. I'll join it. Wendy Buckley, Pound Sand!!

I've changed my mind about that link, but I'm going to do it as a Google Bomb. So join with me, if you have a web site, and link to carbonfootprint.com as Pound Sand.

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From Dr. Jones to Dr. Buckley: just say, “This is none of your business! It’s a free country!”

Remember that little expression? “It’s a free country!” Remember when that was a common response to these petty tyrannies? Remember when any time anybody tried to tell you what you could and could not do we didn’t just whimper and apologize we used to turn to them and say, “Who died and made you king? This is a free country! I’ll do what I damn well please!”

Does this matter? Yes it does. Because freedom of action and personal responsibility are welded together, two sides of the same coin. When we are free to do as we please we become the kind of independent, self-reliant people who will step up in emergencies. And when we surrender our will to other people who live to tell us what to do, we then become dependent on being told what to do all the time.

My brother Steve is a year younger than me. Right around age 13 Stevie used to take a tent, his dog and a shotgun and hitchhike from our home in South Florida out into the Everglades. He’d usually be gone or two or three days. Did my mom worry about him? Yes she did, but on some level I guess she preferred to raise an independent boy who was living his life to the fullest rather than perpetually trying to defend a life-long infant.

A few months ago I heard in passing that Steve had been on his way to work one morning when he passed a car that was on fire with the driver still inside. He pulled over, grabbed his crowbar, smashed the window and with the help of another passing citizen pulled her out and saved her life. He never thought to mention this to me. I found out about it second hand a few days afterward.

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Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:51:02 +0000

"If your state does not require me to do or pay anything, except voluntary fee for service, and does not forbid me from doing anything that does not harm a non-consenting person or their property, I have no problem with it. Not really a state then, though, is it?" -- Bill St. Clair

A Bad Case of Liberty

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:33:34 +0000

J. Neil Schulman - commentary on McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Second Amendment case currently before the Supreme Court.

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The Supreme Court of the United States is the mediator between a nation of potential revolutionary maniacs and an establishment that exists — no shit, really — only by their sufferance.

I am not the one making this threat, Chief Justice Roberts. I’m just a reporter. Don’t shoot the messenger.

But pay attention. However you decide the balance of power between the federal government and states and localities, it had better have as its object the maximum preservation and protection of what the American people see as their natural and obvious Constitutional rights.

An earlier Supreme Court made a mistake about this once in a case called Dred Scott v. Sandford. Somewhere between 600,000 and 700,000 Americans died because of that mistake.

No Trespassing. Really.

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:14:56 +0000

From tmm:

If you can read this, you're in range

Re: Will you Participate in the Census?

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:10:44 +0000

Tahn at The Mental Militia Forums - an account of a truly glorious encounter with two boys doing the US census. [tmm]

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“Well, you’re too late I says. “You have already been here and recorded my position.”

“Oh, we are just here to hand deliver your census questionnaire.”

“Well, I thought they came in the mail?”

“We are just trying to make sure they get delivered.”

“Well”, I says, getting right to it, “I can tell you the answer”.

“The answer”? the thin one asked.

Yep, I say’s, the answer is ONE.

19 April 2010: Bring Your Sidearms and Longarms To The Banks of the Potomac

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:15:28 +0000

Concerned American at Western Rifle Shooters - an invitation to the 19 April, 2010 Restore the Constitution armed rally at Ft. Hunt National Park, VA, just across the Potomac from Washington, DC. Mike Vanderboegh and Stewart Rhodes will be among the speakers. The email notifying me of this post said that I previously referred to this event as "another Bonus March". Well, I hope I was wrong, and everything remains peaceful. Though it can't be another Bonus March. The good guys will be armed this time.

How the organizer intends to dress for the event

Obama at the Bat

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:41:45 +0000

TheDepartment7 at YouTube - a moderately entertaining take-off on an old standard.

Be Reasonable

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:42:59 +0000

I was imagining talking to an IRS representative today, something I've never, praise Eris, done, and wondered how I would respond to a request by said functionary to "be reasonable". This is what came to mind.

Reasonable, sir, would be for you to research all the income tax I've paid over 30-some years of employment, and all the social security and medicare tax I and my employers have paid, and for you to immediately refund every penny of it. Even more reasonable would be to add five or ten percent interest and five or ten percent penalty.

Anything short of that would just be a thug, you, pointing a gun at my head and me trying to convince you to reduce the amount of money you're demanding that I pay to keep your protection racket from denying me protection from you and your fellow thugs.

Barring immediate refund of my stolen money, I think lots of reasonable people would be unsurprised if I were to cut out your liver and feed it to my dog.

Sensawunda!

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:20:26 +0000

George Potter has had his childish sense of wonder reprimed by Karl Schroeder's idea for a Verne gun. Cool, indeed. Just get the socialist wastes of air out of power and free men & women will do this and a whole lot more.

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Put 1.5 terawatts of clean solar power into orbit with less than ten launches. Obsolete coal and petroleum power production with green baseline power, using less than a 10th the number of solar cells as you’d have to install on Earth to capture the same amount of sunlight.

Orbit an entire space elevator with one launch. Set it up, retire the gun, and get on with a clean space age.

Do the same thing with an orbiting greenhouse infrastructure. Drop solar-powered mass drivers on the moon to feed a continual stream of building material to the building sites.

Orbit fuel depots to drop the price of conventional rocketry to orbit through the floor. One shot and access to space for NASA becomes 10 times cheaper.

Send up a telescope so big that it can image the continents of planets circling other stars.

One Term President

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:48:35 +0000

OneTermPresident.net features a rap video by the Wolverines and sells "OTP" merchandise, including caps and bumper stickers. Cool.

Paypal SARs Cryptome?

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:29:20 +0000

Cryptome's Paypal account, which John Young uses for donations, has been locked by Paypal. He thinks they're filing a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), due to a surge in donations following their recent short-lived web site shutdown by Network Solutions in response to a copyright claim by Microsoft.

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Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:31:20 +0000

"My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" -- Harry S. Truman