I am an anarchist because I believe in voluntarism, common law, and do not have the desire to be rule others. Anarchy…. It’s not just a philosophy on life it IS life. It is pure chaos it is pure genius and everything and nothing all at once. It holds no judgements. AND it is a positive force! Anarchy is the word for something that we don’t want to give a word to, that would just belittle it and us. So people call it different things, I think it is most like acquiring a TRUE RESPECT for yourself and all other life. Respect to the core of your soul, for yourself and the passion and determination to refuse to settle for anything less than being who YOU originally were, before the bullshit started. And don’t think you can’t go back completely, cause we can. no one is too far gone. Truth is the only light we need. It is very dark, but it’s never too late. Even if just one of us doing it, it helps us all. But we have millions waking up to seek the truth to find “the way” home. It’s not even as if it’s a back or forward way either, that to (time) is something we were unconsciously slipped into our minds, that there is time at all. There is only NOW. And Maybe this is the 3rd-4th dimensional transfer everyone talks about. It will just happen, you can’t stop it. So do your processing to find who you really are, because sometime soon we are going to need all the “pure souls” REAL humans, the Objective and Honest ones to show the others in the world who they too once were and show them how to find their way home too and stop all this madness. Yep, I think that’s the plan. lol. And we are going to need some help to achieve this in the amount of time we have. We are doing good, but not good enough.” – Libertarian Ann Archist
I like it that Sarah Palin talks about smaller government, and that her very existence makes the lying incumbents in Washington nervous. I like that she cultivates a persona of simple straight talk – even innocence. But the problem with Sarah is that, like so many Americans, she’s never really thought too deeply about the State. In actual fact, her life, rogue or not, is the story of state subsidy, state employment, state redistribution of wealth, state corruption and state centralizing power. Children of the 60s are the special children of both the warfare state and the welfare state, that scientific bureaucratic corporate state that Ike warned of in 1961 fifty years ago. And Sarah Palin, bless her heart, is devoted to her parents. Her human parents had careers in the public school system. Dad was a science teacher, and mom a school secretary in Idaho, and in Alaska as well. They believed in public schooling. Sarah and her siblings were schooled by the state, as were and are Sarah’s kids. It likely never occurred to the Palins to do otherwise, even though in Idaho and Alaska, home and independent schooling is very popular. In fact, Alaska is the best state in the nation for home schooling. The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) reports:
There is no government oversight of home education in Alaska. This means that there is no prescribed curriculum, no state testing or other evaluations, no minimum number of days of instruction, and no teacher qualifications. Parents are not even required to notify state officials that they intend to homeschool their children.
But Alaska is a state where there may be too few people for the central state to worry about educating, when in fact it already controls so many of them. In terms of U.S. military spending, since World War II, Alaska has been a major recipient of defense spending and construction. In terms of federal real estate, Alaska is nearly 70% federal property. Only Nevada has a greater percentage of federally owned land, at close to 85%. I lived in Alaska between 1983 and 1986, courtesy of my military assignment. We loved the place, and bought into the idea that people could live as they pleased in the last frontier. But that was more an ideal than a reality. Most high-paying jobs there were state or federal, and private companies were often dependent on state and federal subsidies for health, education, natural resources or at the time, construction and maintenance of the Alaska pipeline. Among military transplants from the lower 48, there was a sense that if you or your spouse didn’t have a government subsidized job or a retirement check – you might be living at a subsistence level in a place that is cold and dark for half the year. By subsisting, I mean living without the comfort and consumptive variety that most Americans take for granted. By subsisting, I mean a decrease in the overall economic benefit that comes from specialization and trade, due primarily to a geographic scarcity of non-government employed people actually producing useful things. This is Alaska – a state of contradictions, a place where a vision of lovely freedom is contrasted by the reality of high per capita government activity and employment. So when liberty lovers watch Sarah Palin, and are inspired by some of the things she says, we must recognize how she was made. The chatter this weekend relates to something Sarah said on FoxNews. As Gomer Pyle would say, "Surprise, surprise, surprise." It’s more war. In figuring out how Obama could be a better, more popular President, Palin suggested, "[He could decide] to declare war on Iran or …to come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do." Some will say she’s ignorant, others that she is genius. Certainly, the Christian right and the Israel lobby together demand that statements like this be made early and often, and it is they who help make $500 a plate dinner speeches possible. But I think that the problem with Sarah is simply that she just hasn’t thought enough about the state, how it lives (parasitically) and why it survives (redistribution and fear). Growing up as a member of the great publicly employed in Alaska is probably the worst way to critically understand the welfare and warfare state; no matter how bad they are, you always love your Mommy and your Daddy.
She learned that freedom looks like government protecting you. She learned that liberty means doing what is good for the state. As a Republican (in Alaska, there are mostly libertarians, independents and Republicans, and she gravitated to the most statist option), she likes the idea of small government and non-interference. But as a child of the warfare-welfare state, she will build bridges to nowhere at home, and repeatedly blow them up overseas, without a hint of irony. Sarah Palin has said publicly that she loves to read C.S. Lewis. Lewis, a believer, posited the state and the individual through a lens of Christianity. He wrote,
Congressman Ron Paul fears that the agenda behind the Flight 253
bombing incident is to expand the war on terror into Yemen while stripping
Americans of more liberties, warning that it’s time people woke up and realized
that the government cannot guarantee their safety.
The Congressman highlighted how the bombing attempt followed
geopolitical turmoil in Yemen in the form of attacks in the country launched by
the Saudis with the endorsement of the U.S. – and how sectors of the media and
politicians were now calling for Yemen to be a new front in the war on terror as
a consequence of the Christmas Day incident.
“It seems ironic that there is so much excitement about this and
now talk about attacking Yemen,” said Paul, adding that it was the United
States’ presence in Yemen that represented a threat to America, not the
purported presence of Al-Qaeda members in Yemen.
Paul raised the question of how a $75 billion dollar a year
intelligence gathering structure failed to stop a dangerous man who had no
passport and was on a terror watch list from boarding a plane.
“It really scares me because we do so much already – we spend $75
billion dollars on intelligence gathering in this country in order to protect us
and make us safe, so with $75 billion dollars we weren’t able to detect this
individual where there’s a glaring warning sign,” said Paul, citing the fact
that the bomber’s father tried to warn the U.S. that his son was a threat a
month ago.
Paul labeled the nature of the incident, “Either awful stupidity
or there must be an agenda….I am concerned what they are going to do to the
American people,” citing how the 9/11 hijackers were also known to the
authorities, who were warned that they were only training to learn how to fly a
plane and not how to land, but that nothing was ever done about it.
Paul said the people punished for the incident would not be those
who failed to stop the terrorist, but the American people.
“They’ll add some more security on to us – first they make us take
off our shoes and then our belts and then small bottles of water and put our
computers in a tray and on and on so something else is going to happen, they
won’t let us get out of our seats or look at our bags….thinking that’s going to
make us a lot safer,” said Paul, adding that security should be managed by
airline companies and not the government.
“The bigger the problem and the more the fear is built up, the
more they take away our personal liberties and turn us all into zombies and the
American people go along with it and say as long as it makes us safer I guess
it’s OK to go along but it’s time the American people woke up and started
realizing that there’s a bit of propaganda going on and quite possibly this
incident will not only undermine our personal liberties but will also accelerate
our intervention and the violence occurring in the Middle East,” concluded the
Congressman.
As if getting in between us and our doctors wasn't enough, promoters of socialized medicine have added a bit of unintended comedy to the bloated and unconstitutional health bill.
Via Politico:
For critics of the Democrats' $849 billion health care bill, this
may be the ultimate irony: millions of dollars set aside so the
government can help teach citizens how to handle their own money
better. The funding is part of a broader, $375 million program aimed
at promoting responsible lifestyles - a five-year plan to fund state
efforts to educate adolescents on abstinence, contraception and other
"adult preparation subjects" such as healthy relationships, increased
child-parent communication and "financial literacy." More...
If it weren't so dangerous, it would actually be funnier. But this
sort of thing is no laughing matter, this whole bill needs to fail.
Who Wants War? by Ron Paul
If anyone still doubted that this administration’s foreign policy would bring any kind of change, this week’s debate on Afghanistan should remove all doubt. The President’s stated justifications for sending more troops to Afghanistan and escalating war amount to little more than recycling all the false reasons we began the conflict. It is so discouraging to see this coming from our new leadership, when the people were hoping for peace. New polls show that 49 percent of the people favor minding our own business on the world stage, up from 30 percent in 2002. Perpetual war is not solving anything. Indeed continually seeking out monsters to destroy abroad only threatens our security here at home as international resentment against us builds. The people understand this and are becoming increasingly frustrated at not being heard by the decision-makers. The leaders say some things the people want to hear, but change never comes.
One has to ask, if the people who elected these leaders so obviously do not want these wars, who does? Eisenhower warned of the increasing power and influence of the military industrial complex and it seems his worst fears have come true. He believed in a strong national defense, as do I, but warned that the building up of permanent military and weapons industries could prove dangerous if their influence got out of hand. After all, if you make your money on war, peace does you no good. With trillions of dollars at stake, there is tremendous incentive to keep the decision makers fearful of every threat in the world, real or imagined, present or future, no matter how ridiculous and far-fetched. The Bush Doctrine demonstrates how very successful the war lobby was philosophically with the last administration. And they are succeeding just as well with this one, in spite of having the so-called “peace candidate” in office.
We now find ourselves in another foreign policy quagmire with little hope of victory, and not even a definition of victory. Eisenhower said that only an alert and informed electorate could keep these war racketeering pressures at bay. He was right, and the key is for the people to ensure that their elected leaders follow the Constitution. The Constitution requires a declaration of war by Congress in order to legitimately go to war. Bypassing this critical step makes it far too easy to waste resources on nebulous and never-ending conflicts. Without clear goals, the conflicts last forever and drain the country of blood and treasure. The drafters of the Constitution gave Congress the power to declare war precisely because they feared allowing the executive unfettered discretion in military affairs. They understood that making it easy for leaders to wage foreign wars would threaten domestic liberties.
Responses to attacks on our soil should be swift and brief. Wars we fight should always be defensive, clearly defined and Constitutional. The Bush Doctrine of targeting potential enemies before they do anything to us is dangerously vague and easily abused. There is nothing left to win in Afghanistan and everything to lose. Today’s military actions are yet another futile exercise in nation building and have nothing to do with our nation’s security, or with 9/11. Most experts agree that Bin Laden and anyone remotely connected to 9/11 left Afghanistan long ago, but our troops remain. The pressures of the war racketeers need to be put in check before we are brought to our knees by them. Unfortunately, it will require a mighty effort by the people to get the leadership to finally listen.
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the game runs sometime against us at home, we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake." Thomas Jefferson
If the socialism abortion spending bill passes, this may give us some hope.
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