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Friday, 24 August 2012

  • "The Devil" on Politics

    Anyone who's been following politics abroad might have noticed that American politicians seem to view British policies as worth copying by the Congress – the Romneycare-Obamacare thing isn't an isolated incident.

    "Progressives" have been yammering away since Lyndon Johnson for victim disarmament ("common sense gun laws") and nationalized / socialized "single payer"  health care, while "conservatives" apparently see the British Empire as worthy of emulation.

    For example, the recently-required graphic labels on cigarette packs have a precedent in British "law" in that their Health Secretary claimed the "authority" to micromanage cigarette packaging and advertising back in 2009.

    The British political scene mirrors the American scene in another way in that there are a few libertarian bloggers who are sick of this bad-cop-worse-cop routine from " 'both sides' of the aisle." For example, "The Devil" sounded off on this very issue of tobacco regulations –

    The power to "dictate the colour of cigarette packs, their shape, the trademarks displayed on them and any labelling" was handed to the Health Secretary solely back in 2009.

    And you poor fucks think that we live in a democracy.

    The consultation on this matter – just like the "consultation" on the display ban – is simply a democratic fig-leaf: the government simply wants to pretend that it is, in any way, answerable to the people.

    Anyone who believes that our democracy is in any way "representative" is an idiot.

    Successive governments have passed what your humble Devil called "mini-Enabling Acts" for years: the NuLabour government may have been the greatest transgressors, but that hasn't stopped the Freedom Coalition making full use of those functions.

    When you are a disgusting authoritarian bastard, why would you not?

    No, "The Devil" isn't Jesus' nemesis from the Christian mythology – he's just a pissed-off Brit of the libertarian mindset, who also enjoys a smoke on occasion. He updated the post I linked to above:

    The intention was to highlight the fact that successive governments have quite deliberately attempted to neuter Parliament, and remove themselves from democratic oversight.

    But, surely, we have the right to throw these bastards out – that's the point of democracy, is it not?

    Well, yes and no. As you might have noticed – if you have taken an interest in politics over the last few decades – the ratchet only seems to go one way, i.e. in the removal of our freedoms. And I don't give two shits about the colour of the rosette worn by the scum who do so.

    So, if Lansley has the power to impose plain packaging on tobacco, then he will do so. And the next government will not remove that power.

    If you doubt what I say about the freedom ratchet, simply compare the Coalition's liberties-championing rhetoric immediately after the election with their actual record in government.

    So what about it, Americans? How can we say that we're freer than the Brits when politicians on this side of the Atlantic behave in just the same sort of cretinous, dishonest chicanery?

    Didn't Obama promise in the 2008 election to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, and to have the DEA back off from medical-marijuana clinics in states that passed those sort of referenda?

    What sort of "limited-government," "fiscally-restrained" Republican signs off on anything resembling Medicare Part D? Heather Wilson used it as the centerpiece of her 2002 re-election campaign to the U.S. House, and George Bush signed it into "law" with enthusiasm.

    Copyright © 2012 Mike Blessing. All rights reserved.

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Thursday, 07 June 2012

  • "Accomplishments" and Candidates

    Current mood: excited

    If nothing else, please forward this on to someone who can use this information.

    Sylvia Bokor [ http://sylviabokorcomments.blogspot.com/ ] wrote:

    The word "accomplishment" refers to an action that results in a value, offers a benefit or enhances the enjoyment of life. It is an accomplishment to learn to play the piano. It is an accomplishment to be able to provide for one's family by earning a living. It is an accomplishment to create a lovely garden.

    It is not an accomplishment to take from those who earn their living and give it to others. That's called looting.

    It is not an accomplishment to force men to waste their time filling out paperwork, or to force them to take actions over which they have no say and with which they do not agree. That's called enslavement.

    It is not an accomplishment to pretend you have done work you have not done, to make false statements, or to make claims to property that is not yours. That's dishonest. It's called cheating.

    If the Left's intention in publicizing Obama's "accomplishments" was to show how wonderful Obama is, they miscalculated. The lists actually show the extent to which his Administration has violated individual rights, throttled businesses, straight-jacket banking operations, interfered with overseas investment, intruded upon private enterprise compensation practices, established offices of soviet-style czars to harass and control hundreds of business activities.

    In short, they constitute a clear picture of what the Left is after: statism.

    Statism is the most corrupt of political ideas because it holds that might makes right, that men are slaves born only to serve and enrich their rulers, without benefit to themselves, without recognition of their rights, without recourse to law or justice.

    The Left's ideas are destructive. But come November they could win if those who can fight them and should fight them refuse to fight them.

    If you are in a leadership position in a political party and you withhold money from deserving candidates who have major grassroots support, who champion de-regulation, free markets and individual rights, you are refusing to fight the Left's destructive ideas, statism.

    If you are a voter that deplores Obama's policies but do nothing to support those who oppose those policies, you are refusing to fight the Left's destructive ideas, statism.

    I agree one hundred percent.

    So I take it you'll be supporting the true Tea Party candidates in the general election:

    Gary Johnson for president – http://garyjohnson2012.com

    Jon Barrie for U.S. Senate – http://jonbarrieforsenate.com

    Anything else really is a wasted vote.

    I've been "Tea Party" since 1996, when I started publicly stumping for individual rights, Constitutionally-limited government and fiscal restraint in the public sector.

    Gary Johnson has been "Tea Party" in the same sense since 1994.

    Johnson spent eight years as Governor of New Mexico supporting "Tea Party" values – he kept the state in the black for all of that time, while managing to get re-elected in a state that's 2-to-1 of the opposing party.

    During those eight years, Johnson never treated gun owners (or any other group, that I could tell) as a political soccer ball, to be kicked around from the bully pulpit at a whim.

    There's a reason they call it the bully pulpit.

    This stands in stark contrast to any other of the candidates for the presidency that I've seen. Most of them like to rhetorically stomp on one group or another for political brownie points. Not so with Gary Johnson. None are as . . . presidential as Johnson.

    As for the other "big two" – both are anti-gun-owner bigots at heart, and the one who was a governor signed off on a plan to take over health care that was plagiarized on the national scene by the staff of the one who was a senator.

    The big differences between them don't seem to be of philosophy or ethics, but of severity and priorities.

    Concerning the U.S. Senate seat from New Mexico that's up for grabs – New Mexicans can play eenie-weenie-mighty-mo with the two socialist candidates who won the primaries last night. Or they can vote "Tea Party" by supporting Jon Barrie.

    I've never met Jon, but I'd like to. He's campaigning as a Christian conservative, yet was recommended to me by a long-time libertarian who's an enthusiastic pot smoker and atheist.

    Jon appears to be running his campaign the way a campaign should be run – by volunteers on a shoestring budget. Thus he needs all the help we can give him.

    To start, Jon needs signatures on nominating petitions to get on the ballot. For those inclined to help, he's got the paperwork all ready to go on his site.

    That will be all for now. Thank you for reading.

    Mike Blessing / http://mikewb1971.xanga.com / Phone – 505-515-7015

    Who owns you? Who runs your life? Who should – you or someone else?
    Freedom is the answer – what's the question?

    "If you wanna live long on your own terms
    You gotta be willing to crash and burn"
    – Motley Crue, "Primal Scream"

    Copyright © 2012 Mike Blessing. All rights reserved.

    Produced by KCUF Media, a division of Extropy Enterprises.
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