Feeding the Beast
Posted in Carolinus by R Lee Wrights on September 30th, 2007 by R. Lee Wrights
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857
There are laws regulating everything from the color you can and cannot paint your house to the kind of sex in which two consenting adults are allowed to engage. Why is it like this? Crime is big business, that’s why. In fact, crime is government’s biggest industry. Moreover, there is incentive for legislators to create new laws purely for the purpose of raising revenue. Thus they continue to engorge an already dangerously bloated bureaucracy. Elected rulers have birthed and nurtured a beast that feeds on the pocketbooks and rights of the very citizens they have sworn to protect.
BELLEVUE, WA - A federal district court in Georgia has denied a request by attorneys for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to transfer a lawsuit filed against the mayor and others by Adventure Outdoors, a Georgia retailer, to a federal court in New York State.
A troubling moral question for Libertarians is when does retaliation become aggression? The question of whether or not the “War on Terrorism” is justified rests on this moral issue. I am not speaking of the War on Terrorism as camouflage for the multitude of criminal and unconstitutional acts against us by our government. I am asking rather, in the very narrow sense of whether or not there is any true moral justification in the response to aggression that we have been engaged in since 9/11. The division in the Libertarians rests solely on this. There is no division on the criminality of our government against our rights since 9/11. If we are truly justified in our response, does that justification extend to attacking Iraq? I believe in both cases, the answer is a qualified yes. 
For the past forty years, I have witnessed a federal invasion of fifty sovereign states and the dismantling of our Bill of Rights by politicians and judges behaving in an unconstitutional and rebellious manner. I am angry and fed up! I will no longer be governed by officials with ambitions unworthy of defense, not one virtue to share with the people, and no shame for their betrayals. Their game of totalitarian chess has continued far too long, and it is time for the people to checkmate these elitist bastards.
I’m the most religious guy in the Libertarian Party. At least that’s what my friend, Charlie, decided. I don’t know if his bit of insight was meant to be a compliment or a mere observation. Either way, I suppose there are others more deserving.
Oregon State Sen. Ginny Burdick’s plan to sponsor legislation designed to make female teachers more vulnerable to abusive ex-spouses by specifically stripping away their right of self-defense on school campuses is a “new low in gun control extremism,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
When truth no longer matters, America - and Mankind - are doomed.
Oh, boy. It’s the (urp!) final stretch of the political season.
“COPS SAY LEGALIZE DRUGS-ASK ME WHY,” blared the T-shirts on a dozen volunteers as I walked into the Drug Policy Alliance national conference at the Long Beach Marriot Hotel last November. And they all looked like cops too, big burly guys with short hair, except for a few cop wives and a couple of guy who might have been undercover narcs.
“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”
