I think that if we are to have a draft law standing by, then the draft age should be the age for everything.
As a little L libertarian, I wonder if people will realize the contradiction of the draft and slavery?
Argh!
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Tag: slavery
LIBERTARIAN: A natural, inalienable right of self-ownership
Arguing What Was Never Argued
By Eric – October 12, 202
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As a libertarian, I argue that every adult human being has a natural, inalienable right of ownership over his or her own body – which strikes me as self-evident – and from this premise flows the argument that no one else has any right to force another human being to put anything into their body.
The latter constituting both rape and slavery, in terms of the fundamental principle at issue.
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Seems like a simple and unarguable principle!
Now tell that to the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats. As well as the covidNazis!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Gooferment “welfare” traps everyone in a cycle of poverty
http://nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-kevin-d-williamson/page/0/3
JANUARY 9, 2014 4:00 AM
The White Ghetto
In Appalachia the country is beautiful and the society is broken.
By Kevin D. Williamson
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In effect, welfare has made Appalachia into a big and sparsely populated housing project — too backward to thrive, but just comfortable enough to keep the underclass in place. There is no cure for poverty, because there is no cause of poverty — poverty is the natural condition of the human animal. It is not as though labor and enterprise are unknown here: Digging coal is hard work, farming is hard work, timbering is hard work — so hard that the best and brightest long ago packed up for Cincinnati or Pittsburgh or Memphis or Houston. There is to this day an Appalachian bar in Detroit and ex-Appalachian enclaves around the country. The lesson of the Big White Ghetto is the same as the lessons we learned about the urban housing projects in the late 20th century: The best public-policy treatment we have for poverty is dilution. But like the old project towers, the Appalachian draw culture produces concentration, a socioeconomic Salton Sea that becomes more toxic every year.
“The government gives people checks, but nobody teaches them how to live,” says Teresa Barrett, a former high-school principal who now publishes the Owsley County newspaper. “You have people on the draw getting $3,000 a month, and they still can’t live. When I was at the school, we’d see kids come in from a long weekend just starved to death. But you’ll see those parents at the grocery store with their 15 cases of Pepsi, and that’s all they’ve got in the buggy — you know what they’re doing. Everybody knows, nobody does anything. And when you have that many people on the draw, that’s a big majority of voters.”
Her advice to young people is to study for degrees that will help them get jobs in the schools or at the local nursing home — or get out. “I would move in a heartbeat,” she says, but she stays for family reasons.
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Reading this article makes me crazy.
Gooferment “welfare” is design to keep people “poor” and hopeless.
How many generations of human beings will we allowed to thrown away?
I don’t want to pay for that! Do you?
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POLITICAL: The Lincoln Movie
http://lewrockwell.com/thornton/thornton53.1.html
The Lincoln Movie
by Mark Thornton
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Steven Spielberg’s epic movie Lincoln is truly a masterpiece. As an historical drama it portrays Lincoln in the final months of his life and the final months of the Civil War. More than anything, it shows Lincoln attempting – against all odds – to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution abolishing slavery.
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With Lincoln, of course Abraham Lincoln was president during the American Civil War, Mary Todd Lincoln was the first lady, they had sons, etc. All the supporting cast did exist including all the politicians, cabinet members, generals, etc. The 13th amendment to the Constitution banning slavery did pass, Lincoln was assassinated, and the Union did defeat the Confederacy.
It is also true that Lincoln did work to promote the passage of the 13th amendment. However, as Thomas DiLorenzo has shown, Lincoln worked for the passage of the 13th amendment in 1861 That 13th amendment would have banned the federal government from interfering with states that permitted slavery if it has been ratified. Furthermore, he shows that there is no hard evidence that Lincoln worked for the passage of the 13th amendment in 1865 which prohibited slavery in all states.
As you can see, the real version of events would not have made for a good movie. In fact, the real Lincoln would not make for any kind of pleasant movie. He was a loser politician married to a crazy woman, who unexpectedly found success because the nation splintered into four political parties, handing him the election.
Lincoln was famous for telling people what they wanted to hear. He would often claim to support one position on an issue to one group of people and claim to support the opposite position to another group of people. He was the classic flip-flopper often supporting numerous positions on an issue over his political career. No good material for a movie here.
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Wow, who would have thought a politician is a flip flopper telling people what they want to hear?
Lincoln is far and away on the top of my worst President list. No one in the second tier is even close.
He was the ultimate crony capitalist as a “railroad lawyer”.
I find it bemusing that the Black Community reveres him.
Not that I’m a proponent of slavery, Jim Crow, or racism, but he was the opposite of their image.
Toss in on top that the rest of the world was able to eliminate slavery without a war. Slavery was uneconomic and, ten more so, when the mechanization of America. Human labor is too valuable to waste in slavery. (Ever try and get a human to do something that they don’t want to do? As children, we learn at an early age that no one can make us do ANYTHING ever. Even poop!)
Argh!
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LIBERTY: A one-party system called by two names
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed225.html
Vote?
by Fred Reed
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Having a one-party system called by two names is a technically slick way of disenfranchising the public without their noticing. In a parliamentary system all manner of politics would gain expression in proportion to their prevalence in the population. With two identical parties, no dissenting view can ever gain office. A masterly dodge, this.
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What a masterful plot to pull the wool over the eyes of “We, The Sheeple”!
Tweetle dum and tweetle dumber.
Ron Paul is the only one with a significant difference between the candidates. Scratch that, “ANY difference”.
I’m gradually coming around to what most folks in the USA do — NOT vote.
ERP!
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RANT: Capitalism needs someone to “take out the dead”
http://libertyslifeline.com/2012/01/11/most-people-like-to-fire-the-same-people-romney-does/
Most People Like to Fire the Same People Romney Does
by Bill O’Connell on January 11, 2012
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To turn these remarks into Rick Perry’s “vulture capitalism,” and Newt Gingrich’s “predatory capitalism,” is shameful. It’s about ObamaCare, stupid. I want to fire Obama and I would like to do so as soon as possible. If I could recall him along with the Chevy Volt he supported with our tax dollars and he was filmed driving, I would gladly do so.
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Argh! I agree. I can’t understand the disgust with an “undertaker”. Maybe they don’t like funeral directors either?
If you’re going to take the benefit of the process we call “capitalism”, then you have to accept the aspect of “creative destruction” subprocess. Someone has to deliver the BAD news! Someone has to take out “the dead”. Someone has to recycle the assets from unproductive uses to productive ones.
And, they are making the “recycler” the bad guy?
Argh!
How about making the previous leaders of the failing company the bad press?
And, there might not even be a “villain” in this “morality play” about capitalism!
If you assume that capitalism is the economic process by which human beings are induced to cooperate with one another to satisfy the needs, wants, and desires of other human beings.
(Read “I, Pencil” to understand how complex that process is.)
We can either use “greed” (a pejorative label for the perfectly human emotion about satisfying ones perceived needs) to induce cooperation voluntarily or we can use various levels of force (i.e., taxation; “company store”, indentured servitude, slavery) to compel cooperation. I vote for “greed”.
Sad as it is to say, failing enterprises must be “put down”. We must allow labor to be reassigned to “better” uses. It’s not “your” job EVER. A “job” only exists as it satisfies someone else. Those “certificates of appreciation” that get passed around tell you how well those needs are satisfied.
It’s all part of that complex real time calculus we call the free market.
Money is NOT the root of all evil. It IS the essence of human wisdom about what is important.
Ants leave chemical trails to communicate; humans use money.
Argh!
Politicians are really dumb!
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GUNS: Christmas spike; guns as gifts?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=375989
Peace on Earth, now buy a gun
Posted: December 09, 2011
Patrice Lewis
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So when firearms sales spike in anticipation of our annual celebration of peace on earth and goodwill toward men, I find nothing in the slightest bit contradictory in that concept. An armed society, as they say, is a polite society. But more than that, an armed society is a peaceful society. A nation whose citizens are armed stays relatively peaceful. It will never turn into a tyranny.
Remember, a free man cannot be defeated. He can only be killed. That becomes much easier if you’ve disarmed him first.
So to maintain peace on earth and goodwill toward men, I urge you to buy a firearm this Christmas and learn how to use it. Support the Second Amendment. Keep peace on earth … or at least in our country.
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There’s no doubt that guns are a tool that keeps the peace.
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
The politicians and bureaucrats are NOT the friends of the People that they pretend to be. They want to exercise power over us.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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Reinke Faces Life 