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Judge Napolitano hits Congress.
Sigh!
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http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/11/21/the_greatest_generation
The Greatest Generation
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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The “greatest generation” is a term sometimes used in reference to those Americans who were raised during the Great Depression, fought in World War II, worked in farms and factories and sacrificed for the war effort while maintaining the home front. Following the war, these Americans, many of whom were born between the turn of the century and 1930, went on to produce a level of wealth and prosperity heretofore unknown to mankind.
There’s no question that this generation made an important contribution. Let’s look at what else that generation contributed that might qualify them for the generation that laid the foundation for the greatest betrayal of our nation’s core founding principle: limited federal government exercising only constitutionally enumerated powers.
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Williams correctly removes the “greatest generation” label from the “Depression / WW2” people. They really screwed up by letting the gooferment, who created the Great Depression with the Smoot Hawley Tariff, “save” them by the removal of the gold standard buried among all the “recovery programs”. That single event allowed the gooferment to grow exponentially, run up a debt, and effectively tax every dollar holder by inflation. At least. the French Kings had to shave the French Franc to pay for their excesses.
Short of a Ron Paul presidential victory, I don’t see how we get our liberty back. The American Republic ended with the War of Northern Aggression. It’s been downhill ever since.
One wonders what will touch off the the Third American Revolution?
And, just how bad it will be?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund23.html
The Failure of State-Sponsored Schooling
by Per Bylund
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The common argument in the libertarian movement against public schools is that they fail to educate our children. Actually, according to this argument, public schooling is like any monopolized business: expensive, inefficient, and utterly unable to provide the services wanted and needed.
This is true, public schooling doesn’t work. But the proof of this is not the thousands of kids managing to go through nine or twelve years of schooling without even learning how to read and write. The proof of the failure of the whole schooling system, i.e. not only the public schools but also the private schools operating in a government controlled and licensed environment, is the small number of radicals managing to escape the brainwashing of centralized school plans.
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It’s hard to find a bigger example of gooferment failure. Have you talked to a child lately? It’s scary.
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/morales1.html
>If politicians were capable of actually caring for the welfare of the general population, then they would not pass such reckless restrictions.
You left out that the politicians, and the other vocal liberal, usually have an armed body guard, I laugh at the libel icon NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg who takes the subway. The pics and video carefully photograph around his armed security detail of four cops. Sigh. Of course, he’s for “victim disarmament”; he’s at no risk!
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http://burnedbygovt.com/blog/2007/nov/musings_nature_government_1
Burned By Government
Musings on the Nature of Government #1
Mon, 11/12/2007 – 20:16
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Compare that to reality, in which there was a government for Pol Pot (and the other mass-murderers I mentioned above) the grab control of, and use to lend an aura of legitimacy to their killing.
Guns don’t kill people–Governments do.
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Gooferment is truly the meme that can kill us. And, it’s an illusion. A gang wrapped in an aura of legitimacy that pretends we are important. The Dead Old White Guys had that pegged. When you think about it, that gang puts “to protect and serve” on their “police” cars. But just who are they “protect and serve”-ing? Sure not us. As a matter of fact, another of their illusions, the gooferment courts have held there is no such duty. In “Warren v. District of Columbia”, the court stated it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.”
OK, so now, are you at least unbrainwashed about the “government” meme?
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance126.html
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Why? Why do most Americans hold veterans and current members of the U.S. military in such high esteem? Why is there such a military mindset in the United States?
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Dear Mr. Vance:
I don’t know about “most Americans”; which I would quibble includes Canada and Mexico. Assuming that by “Americans”, you mean to use the label to create a collective of all those under the thumb of the gang in WashDC. I still don’t “know”.
But perhaps it is because the country “asked” and these boys and girls stepped up.
Now maybe “asked” is too nice a word; “drafted”, seduced, fooled, propagandized might be better. And, maybe we can question if they were out of their minds to do it. Or, we can see now with the clarity of 20/20 hindsight that the American people have been being duped by their politicians for eons.
But, I honor vets, not because I am one, but as Heinlein put it, “The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war’s desolation.”!
We can argue about rightness or wrongness; we can search for wisdom or whizdumb; we can all vie for the title of who’s “the bigger fool”; we can examine in excruciating and exhaustive detail about if they were brainwashed, deluded, or truly heroic.
But, at the end of the day, the fact is they “stepped up” and put themselves in Harm’s Way on the belief that they were protecting the liberties of their fellow citizens.
That’s Heinlein’s “civic virtue”.
And, I think that answers your question.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day
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Veterans Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans. Both a federal holiday and a state holiday in all states, it is celebrated on the same day as Armistice Day or Remembrance Day in other parts of the world, falling on November 11, the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War I. (Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 with the German signing of the Armistice.)
Veterans Day is largely intended to thank veterans for their service, to acknowledge that their contributions to United States national security are appreciated, and to underscore the fact that all those who served – not only those who died – have sacrificed and done their duty.
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Where ever one stands on the political spectrum, one has to stand awe of the men and women who “took one for the team”. We have a duty to ensure that not one of them died in vain. Sadly, I’m not so sure we can say that today.
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RISKS-LIST: Risks-Forum Digest Weds 31 October 2007 Volume 24 : Issue 88
ACM FORUM ON RISKS TO THE PUBLIC IN COMPUTERS AND RELATED SYSTEMS (comp.risks)
Peter G. Neumann, moderator, chmn ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
This issue is archived at <http://www.risks.org> as <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24.88.html>
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Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 10:54:11 +0100
From: Martyn Thomas
Subject: A computer-related fatality
A Texas judge, Sharon Keller, refused to keep her court open for 20 minutes to receive an appeal from the lawyers representing Michael Richard. He was executed later the same night.
His lawyers had suffered a computer breakdown and said they were unable to file the appeal within regular working hours. They had begged Judge Keller for more time and she refused.
Her decision might have gone unnoticed had the supreme court not announced, on September 25, that it was reviewing a challenge to the legality of lethal injection.
The announcement set off a flurry of appeals from death-row inmates and it is believed Richard’s execution most likely would have been halted, to await the supreme court decision, had he been granted a hearing. Two days after Richard was executed, the supreme court blocked a lethal injection in Texas. Judges in Alabama and Kentucky have also stayed executions, bringing in an unofficial moratorium on the death penalty.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,2199596,00.html
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This is disgusting! That judge should be impeached.
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