Who or What is he?

If he didn’t know that his plan to "liberate" people who hadn’t asked to be liberated, to bring democracy to people who hadn’t asked for democracy, would lead to the deaths of thousands of people, he is not only incompetent and unfit to hold office, he is surely psychopathic and needs to be incarcerated.

Only a psychopath would stand in the midst of thousands of security guards and speak of "the force of human freedom."

Only a man so insulated from the real world by palace sycophants, by little Napoleons filled with utopian fantasies, and by callous, ambitious schemers to whom the lives of others mean nothing – only a man so insulated could possibly speak of "the expansion of freedom in all the world."
Only a man with no link to reality could start a war that destroys lives and families and then say, "Every man and woman on this earth has rights, and dignity, and matchless value, because they bear the image of the Maker of Heaven and earth."

Only a snake oil salesman can rain missiles and bombs on other countries and then say that no "human being aspires to live at the mercy of bullies."

Only a man divorced from human reason can imprison people – possibly for life – without due process of law and then say that "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."

Only a liar can proclaim that he will decide which countries must be remade and then say, "No one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave."

Only a devious schemer can announce a goal of "ending tyranny in our world" while he is imposing a new tyranny in his own country – our country.
So you tell me: what kind of a President do we have?
And what has he given us other than wars, fear, and a state of siege?

-Harry Browne

Label for my beer coming this summer 2005! 

Beautiful Maui 

Deep sea fishing in Maui. 

NEO 

Government 

Is there a problem with freedom?

Should the fact that if I become injured by not wearing a seatbelt or sick from eating and smoking too much, and become a burden on taxpayers, determine whether I'm free to not wear a seatbelt or puff cigarettes and gorge myself? Is there a problem with freedom? I say no, it's a problem of socialism. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO MORAL CASE FOR GOVERNMENT'S TAKING ANOTHER AMERICAN'S EARNINGS, THROUGH TAXES, TO CARE FOR ME FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER. Dosing so is simply a slightly less ofensive form of slavery. Keep in mind that the essence of slavery is the forceful use of one person to serve the purposes or benefit of another.

-Walter Williams

The Bush Tax Cuts

Many conservative friends of mine support president Bush and the Republican party based on values and the tax cuts passed by the Bush administration. It really is sad that very few of the issues dealing with values, i.e. gay marriage will actually be dealt with this year by congress. What will happen this year will be the passage of more and more government programs and more and more spending to fund these new and bigger programs. To my conservative friends I say that the tax cuts MEAN NOTHING IF THE SPENDING DOES NOT STOP! Because the money for the spending must come from somewhere if not through direct taxes, then through the hidden inflation tax of the government printing press. When the government prints money to pay for its' boondoggles it devalues all the money held by everyone. This is one of the dirty little secrets of the new right. They will give a puny tax cut here and there, but they will continue to spend like a drunken sailor running up huge deficits and inflating the money supply so as to debase all the dollars held by everyone. This hurts primarily the poor and middle class. Yes, inflation is caused by government. They cause inflation simply by inflating the money supply. President Bush is no small government conservative, he is a big government, taxing conservative who thinks he can live your life for you better than you can. So I ask you who owns your body? You or presidend Bush? More on that later.

Government Schools

I must say that the reason I claim to know what you were taught in government schools is because I was likewise educated in government schools. I don't know why my parents allowed me to be educated by the government, but they did and as a result I will try my hardest to keep my child or children out of the hands of the government for his or her education. Why in the world would anyone send their kids to the government to be educated? What type of marketing/survival skills could possibly be taught by an organisation that relys on force and fraud to survive? Answer: none at all. Since the government needs the people to be dependent on it in order to ensure its' own future, it needs people to be stupid and worthless when it comes to competing in the market place. Why in the world would the government want teach you that your can enter the market place and rise as high as your determination permits when the government has everthing to lose from that idea. Governments need a citizenry that is dependent upon them for their every need in order to remain legitimate in the eyes of the people. If the people realize that they can manage their own affairs without government infringement on their lives then they will withdraw their consent from the government and finally realize true liberty.

Thinking of Government

A simple way to think of government is to consider government as any other business or organization. There is only one exception that separates the government from every other business. Can you guess what that exception that happens to be. FORCE. Yes, only the government has the ability to use force to accomplish its' goals. All businesses in the private sector must use different types of marketing techniques to persuade individuals to conduct business with them. Only government can use force in the market place to conduct its' business. Force to generate revenues through taxes imposed upon the individual whether he or she consents to the tax or not. This is a very important concept to graspt. The private sector is the voluntary sector, while the public (read: government) sector is the coercive sector.

This may be a point of view you have never heard of before. That is ok, this point of veiw is the non-statist view. Most of what you were taught in public (read: government) school was from a statist point of view.

"Constitutional Chaos"

I bought a really wonderfull book by Judge Andrew Napolitano called, "Constitutional Chaos." Judge Napolitano presents story after story about government agents repeatedly and habitually breaking the law and getting away with it. Police officers lying under oath to convict innocent people to jail. Narcotics agents creating crime where crime was difficult to find by falsely posing as private citizens and finding others to start up meth labs with, then only to turn around afterwords and arrest the individuals they entered into agreement with. That's right. In one particulare story a government agent knocks on an innocent man's door posing as someone who has the connections to get ahold of a very hard to get ingredient of methamphetamine. The man agrees to start up a lab with the help of the agent, of-course not knowing the man is working for the government. The agent from the government actually at one point aides in the process of making the drug and then buys some of the drug for himself. After this lab has been going for a few weeks the agent returns with other government agents to arrest the man for illegally make meth in his home. The lengths the government will go to in order to create crime, to create reason for more of their intruding agencies to exist is outrageous and must be stopped.

I reccomend this book to all who do not fear the U.S. government simply because thier personal rights have not yet been violated. The time to rise up is now not later, because by the time they come for you there may not be anyone else left to speak out against their (government's) wrongfull actions.

I think the population in the country lack character out of ignorance. They don’t know anything differently. They think what is, is what was supposed to happen. They think the government is supposed to take care of them. Give me a house if I need it. Give me food stamps if I need them. Give me medical care if I need it. They are not deliberately evil. They have lost their way, lost their concern and lost their character.

It is felt that if someone needs something, they can get help from government. They never ask the question who in thunder is the government! They assume that government has that money to give. They separate the government from where the source of the wealth comes from and that, of course, is the people who do things, and produce things. The government is nothing more than some group that is stealing from the producers. They are willing to use government to steal and think it is proper.

- Dr. Ron Paul

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/johnston6.html

The Republicrats and the Two party Monopoly

My favorite line, and I'm paraphrasing here, "listening to President Bush talk about fiscal responsibility is like listening to Tony Soprano talk about law and order," said John Kerry. I got a great laugh out of that coming from the so called most liberal senator in Washington. Of-course he is absolutely, positively 100% right. Mr. Bush has yet to veto a single spending bill passed by congress. Government has grown about more under 4 years of the Bush administration than under all 8 year of Clinton. When is the GOP going to actually live up to its' failed promises if smaller government and stop wealing and dealing our rights away? When are they going to fullfill Ronald Reagons promise to abolish the Department of Education and the Department of Energy? Those are just a couple of examples of empty promises, bait and switch tactics, to hook the voters into supporting and endorsing them. Both parties are equally guilty of trying harder each year to run your life for you. They do not believe you are responsible enought to take care of your own affairs, to be free from your families biggest burdon... TAXES. The American people live in slavery disguised as freedom. Most Americans working the first four months of the year just to pay for our overbloated big government before they can beging working for themselves is all the evidence you need to know we are slaves of the government. Should you decide to not pay your taxes, you will see what happens. Eventually the guns will come out. Men with guns from the government will come to take you away. You are a slave. Don't get me wrong about America. We still live in the freest society perhaps in the world and we are all very lucky to be here, but what is going on in other parts of the world is not the stick with which I use to measure the freedoms we are losing over here.

On election day I see only two sensible choices. To send a message to the two party monopoly, a message that will really resonate with them. Vote libertarian or don't vote at all. Because if you vote for the two party monopoly, then you have no right to complain and the horrible things that they do will be done in your name with your stamp of apporval.

Debate Round 2: Who can best controll your life?

I wish for one second that candidates would speak the truth. Just for one question I wish they would say, "Charlie, in this particular area I would be the best man to dominate, intimidate, and control the lives of the American people." Why don't they speak honestly to the viewers and forget about the same old mantras we keep hearing over and over again. If I was able to ask a question at that town hall style debate tonight, I would have simply asked either man what qualified him to run my life instead of me. By what right, by what standard does he claim ownership over my body? Too listen to George Bush talk about apointing justices that would uphold the Constitution was laughable. Mr. Patriot Act I and II. John Kerry came out swinging against the Patriot Act, then admitted to voting for it, then claimed it was necessary for our security all within the confines of the same thought. A little known fact among the sheeple is that all members of congress who voted for the Patriot Act voted for it before reading a single word in it. Of-course that kind of business in Washington has become commonplace. The Constitution has become a document that "lives and breathes" (read: doesn't really matter any more).

My Honeymoon in Hawaii 

Democracy

We’ve been taught to believe democracy is synonymous with liberty; the truth is they aren’t always compatible. Democracy is based on majority-rule, which, ultimately, amounts to mob-rule. I can’t hope to explain this any better than Jonah Goldberg, who wrote that, “in its purest form,” democracy means “51 percent of the people can pee in the cornflakes of 49 percent of the people.”

In other words, majority-rule means the rights and opinions of those in the minority can be tossed in the garbage like so many hanging chads before them—all in the name of the greater whole. And when I refer to “those in the minority,” I don’t necessarily mean ethnic minorities, though that’s certainly one example. But I am also talking about economic minorities here—rich and poor alike. And I am talking about any other types of minorities you can think of. It doesn’t really matter which group you choose. When I say “those in the minority,” it even includes those in the majority who are forced to cater to those in the minority—which is where political correctness often comes in.

http://www.readjdm.com/main/jdm/more/195/

The Bush / Kerry Fake Debate

The Bush / Kerry "debate" was held tonight. It's really a shame that millions of viewers were subjected to two men reciting memorized scripted lines instead of real live dialogue. The bigger shame is that the American people were not afforded the privilege of seeing the real debate that took place between Libertarian Party candidate Michael Badnarik and the Green Party candidate David Cobb, which was held across the street from the Bush / Kerry debate in Coral Gables, Florida. Most Americans who no longer watch the presidential debates probably made that decision due to fact that debates are now scripted and boring. Viewership has dropped dramatically over that last 20 years. Or maybe people are just turned off with politics in general.