[LE2] TLE #534 now on the web

Author: Ken Holder
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Subject: [LE2] TLE #534 now on the web

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T H E L I B E R T A R I A N E N T E R P R I S E
A FEATURE OF NetPlanetNews.com
Issue 534
August 30, 2009
http://www.ncc-1776.org/
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"Ding Dong the Drunk is dead!"
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"A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right,
under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human
being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act
consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they
realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are
not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim."
-- L. Neil Smith
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

THE WEEKLY CARTOON
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The UN Insult to Americans

EDITORIAL MATTERS

A MESSAGE FROM THE PUBLISHER

Of the dead, speak only the truth.

Life has its rewards, sometimes. It never occurred to me that mine
would include writing Senator Edward M. "Teddy" Kennedy's obituary.
The world is a cleaner place without him, and we are all vastly better
off.

I can't think of a single instance in his 47 Senate years of Teddy
taking the same side of an issue that most of this journal's readers
or I would. As for the Constitution, the contempt in which this
nation's founding fathers would have held him is beyond my power to
describe. Even Alexander Hamilton would have lifted one eyebrow and
sneered.

The man came from a family that was utterly without principles or
scruples. The fact that their fortune was founded on Prohibition-era
liquor smuggling is the only point in their favor I can think of. The
patriarch, Joseph P., was a funny-looking little guy whose financial
support for Franklin Delano Roosevelt bought him an appointment as
Ambassador to the "Court of St. James" -- an appointment that was
later withdrawn when it developed that the Ambassador was allegedly
leaning toward the National Socialist side of the ongoing argument in
Europe.

I had a neighbor once -- and no, I can't back this up, it's simply
a story the guy next door told me about something that had happened to
him personally -- who had lived, as a kid, just down the road from the
Kennedy "compound" at Hyannisport. Sometimes he and his siblings would
play with the Kennedy children, On one occasion, when it was time to
go home, Teddy took my friend's bicycle with him. When my friend's dad
confronted Old Man Joe, the latter automatically began to write him a
check.

"It's not about money. That's my son's bicycle, and he wants it
back." Apparently it took several iterations to get this across to the
former Ambassador; he never really understood the principle involved.
Later, Teddy was caught cheating in school, but I figure that was only
par for the course for a guy, not terribly bright, whose famous older
brother basked in the lifelong glory of award-winning ghost-written
books. No wonder the youngest brother embraced socialism. Someone with
so little ability would wish desperately to receive according to his
needs.

Of such stuff is the American "aristocracy" fashioned. This poor,
sad country doesn't need a royal family, even figuratively speaking.
As a people, we are all too inclined to be awed by celebrities, most
of whom, in fact, are just barely hanging onto what's left of their
humanity with their teeth and nails. I've often thought the British,
once they got a good idea of what kind of blathering cretin Prince
Charles is, should have visited Madame Tussaud's and broken out the
guillotine.

It would probably be against the law to make the same observation
about our own "princes", a maudlinity I've heard all too often in the
last few days. So much for the First Amendment. Enough to say that
Teddy has left us, exactly as he left Mary Jo Kopechne, trapped in the
wreckage he helped to make of America, gasping our last few precious
breaths of liberty as the cold, black waters of socialism rise around
us.

L. Neil Smith
Publisher and Senior Columnist
The Libertarian Enterprise_

THE EDITOR'S NOTES

Ding Dong the Drunk is Dead!
Which old Drunk?
The Wicked old Drunk!
Ding Dong the Wicked Drunk is Dead!

Hi-ho the derry-oh!
Sing it high!
Sing it low!
Ding Dong the Wicked Drunk is Dead!

Thanks to Dangerous Pat who saw the first line of the above rewritten
song on the Browncoat's Forum, posted by TOTUS. All hail TOTUS!

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Ken Holder
Editor
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ARTICLES

1. Letters to the Editor
from MamaLiberty, Nydra Karlen, Bo Fredricsson, A.X. Perez, and
Crazy Al

2. They Never Paid Attention Until We Started Yelling
by L. Neil Smith

3. Some Parts of Ted Kennedy's Life
by Jim Davidson

4. Lysenko's Revenge
by L. Neil Smith

5. Slavery = Segregation = Minority = Socialism?
by Andrew G. Eggleston Sr.

6. Concealed Carry Issues
by Michael Gaddy

7. Mitigating the Risk of State Abuse
by Rob Sandwell

8. Or is it a Dinosaur?
by L. Neil Smith

9. The Nude Economy
by Jim Davidson

10. Communication
by A.X. Perez

11. Atlantea The Beautiful No. 39
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May

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A R T I C L E S
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1. Letters to the Editor
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Note: All letters to this address will be considered for
publication unless they say explicitly NOT FOR PUBLICATION.

Letters to the editor are welcome on any and all subjects. Sign your
letter in the text body with your name and e-mail address as you wish
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Letter from MamaLiberty

Re: "Letter from Sean Gangol" which was
www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle533-20090823-01.html#letter2
Re: article "Republic? What republic?" by Paul Bonneau
www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle532-20090816-03.html

<quote>
Theoretically our representatives are supposed to act in the best
interests of the people. Unfortunately, most of our representatives only
care about their own interests.
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Sean, please define "our best interests." Can you determine that for me
or me for you? How can that be? We are each one responsible for ordering
our own lives in non-aggressive, voluntary cooperation with those around
us.

No legislative body, however well meaning or benevolent, can decide
these things for us -- and certainly has no right or legitimate authority
to even attempt it. Not to mention that all such legislation has been a
disaster throughout history -- always implemented by violence and theft.

I reject the idea of "republic" every bit as much as I do the
monstrosity of "democracy."

MamaLiberty
Individual Sovereign

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Letter from Nydra Karlen

Re: "Mayo Clinic vs Veteran's Hospital" by Dennis Lee Wilson
www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle533-20090823-03.html

Investigate what a century of Uncle Sam's 'care' has done for the
residents of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation. It's described in
the linked article as 3rd world health care and has an infant
mortality rate more than double the surrounding area. Odd, isn't it,
that Daschle (touting himself as a health care expert) was their
Senator for years?

How would America's rating change for longevity and infant mortality
if those dependent on the government today were eliminated from the statistics.

Ever since reading America's 30 Years War by Balint Vazsonyi, hearing
the word eliminate gets my attention. In Vazsonyi's experience, when
the government uses the word eliminate, watch out. He is not the best
author you will ever read and he sometimes repeats himself but his
points are valid and you will be surprised how many politically
correct terms and social justice were mainstays of his life under
Hitler and Communism.

Nydra Karlen
nydra1@???

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Letter from Bo Fredricsson

In a civilized society all transfers of ownership are voluntary.

Now, what should we do with the barbarians?

Bo Fredricsson
bogunnar@???

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Letter from A.X. Perez

Government Price control

Re: "Because That's How They Roll" by Rob Sandwell
www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle533-20090823-05.html

Having read Rob Sandwell's comments on government managed health care
I cannot deny they are undeniably correct, no one has the right to
force someone else to pick up his tabs, whether in the form of taxes
to pay for health care or thinning tobacco and cotton to increase production.

That said, too many people cannot wrap their head around the
essential evil of stealing someone else's wealth. They simply point
to the suffering of a third party. Their excuses for stealing is
"It's for the poor, it's for the children." some of them are
essentially tyrants, too many have been brainwashed by hearing this
cant over and over again so many times they can't imagine it could be
fallacious.

So let us give an example of how government health care failed. A few
years ago El Paso got left without a pediatric surgeon because
Medicaid and CHIPS did not pay enough in this town for doctors in the
field to earn a living after paying malpractice insurance. Now
reliance on government subsidized health care is a consequence of
poverty and brainwashing, but we were free to cough up the money to
pay for a pediatric surgeon to come in or travel to where one was.
What happens when the only health care is what the government pays
for and there are no outside specialists to call in or go to?

And this inefficiency does not occur only with health care. In the
mid 1990's the price of making tortillas in Juarez rose over the
price set by the Mexican government. The government would not allow
the tortilla factories to raise their prices to cover their expenses.
The factories stopped making tortillas and the people of Juarez had
no choice but to buy less tasty and much more expensive (even
compared to the price raise the Juarez tortilla factories had asked
for) tortillas made in El Paso.

Enslaving others to pay your bills is wrong. Artificially setting
prices too low by government fiat is wrong, just as setting them too
high by using the government to get rid of competition is wrong. It
is wrong because it is evil. If you lack the ability or data to
distinguish good from evil, it is also wrong because it doesn't work.

The devil has taught tyrants and other con men that you never give
your victims what they paid for, you give them less or nothing. And
government health care is one of those con jobs.

A.X. Perez
perez180ehs@???

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Letter from Crazy Al

This line is totally out of context. On the other hand in my humble
opinion as its author, it's true and funny enough to stand alone.
Thanks to Ted Ball for discussion it came up in.

It's not so much that tyrant's blood is the natural manure of
the tree of liberty, it's that they are so full of manure that
their blood takes on many of that substance's qualities!

Crazy Al
Somewhere in West Texas

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Letter from Marc V. Ridenour

Ode to dumb America!

To the Congress:

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The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775 -- you have had
234 years to get it right; it is broken.

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Social Security was established in 1935 -- you have had 74 years
to get it right; it is broken.

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Fannie Mae was established in 1938 -- you have had 71 years to get
it right; it is broken.

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The "War on Poverty" started in 1964 -- you have had 45 years to
get it right;
$1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to
"the poor";
it hasn't worked and our entire country is broken.

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Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965 -- you've had 44
years to get it right; they are broken.

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Freddie Mac was established in 1970 -- you have had 39 years to
get it right; it is broken.

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Trillions of dollars were spent in the massive political payoffs
called TARP, the
"Stimulus", the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009... none show any signs of
working, although ACORN appears to have found a new b***h: the
American taxpayer.

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"Cash for Clunkers" was established in 2009 and went broke in
2009! It took cars (that
were the best some people could afford) and replaced them with high-priced and
less-affordable cars, mostly Japanese.. A good percentage of the profits went
out of the country. And the American taxpayers take the hit for Congress'
generosity in burning three billion more of our dollars on failed
experiments.

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So with a perfect 100% failure rate and a record that proves that
"services" you
shove down our throats are failing faster and faster, you want Americans to
believe you can be trusted with a government-run health care system?

20% of our entire economy?

With all due respect,

Are you crazy!?

Forget The Tea!

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Throw The Government Overboard!

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Right Now, Which Looks Better To You?

The Supreme Court??

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With Their Newest Member

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Or
 The "Supreme Noose"

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The most effective political catharsis in
times such as these is the squeak of a
new rope being stretched by a traitor

Marc V. Ridenour
marcvridenour@???

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Another Letter from A.X. Perez

The death of Edward Kennedy will undoubtedly lead to all sorts of
commentary in TLE. I refuse to speak ill of the dead ( why should I
deny someone else the pleasure?), neither will I heap him with
unearned praise. Like all true left or right wing ideologues he
leaves a legacy of a very few libertarian goals achieved and a whole
bunch of actions ultimately harmful to liberty. with very few
exceptions. few men are all good or all evil. Let us save the good
and find some way to expunge the evil.

Ted Kennedy was the last political leader of stature of his
generation, a combination of the undeniable charisma of his clan,
great talent (please do not say he was not talented. It was this
talent in the service of statism that made him so dangerous to our
cause), media hype, and clever politicking. There are no leaders of
left or right in his league and it will be a damn long time before
we'll see his like again.

Ave atque vale Edward Kennedy, and may the next man in public
office of your caliber be a better and more effective friend of
liberty than you ever were for your causes, both good and evil.

A.X. Perez
perez180ehs@???

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2. They Never Paid Attention Until We Started Yelling
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@???

Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

I'm just like everybody else.

For several weeks I've been listening to and watching these "town
meetings", originally put together in the home districts of various
senators and congressthings simply and transparently for the purpose
of rubberstamping Barack Obama's obsessive Marxist lust (an obsessive
lust he shares with Hillary Clinton and many another tired, threadbare
old collectivist) to nationalize an institution that they refer to as
"healthcare".

I dislike that term intensely, "healthcare".

Somehow it makes me think of a bowl of room-temperature softboiled
eggs delivered by some idiot wearing a Winnie-the-Pooh suit. Me, I'm a
63-year-old diabetic with high blood pressure and a history of heart
failure. My life has been saved -- extended -- time and again by a
legion of straight-edged, robust doctors and nurses along with the
ever-improving technology, the hardware and medicine, that backs them
up.

What we should be calling it, instead, is "death prevention", but
the countryside-clearing, arcology-building _nomenklatura_ don't dare
call it that. Thanks to brave souls like Sarah Palin, we now see that
death is an important and desirable element in our Marxist masters'
agenda.

But I have digressed, as usual.

Somehow, astonishingly, the town meetings haven't gone quite the
way our elected representatives (and I use both terms loosely) desired
and expected. It quickly became clear that a majority of the people in
this country don't want the government to have anything to do with
where, how, or from whom they get their medical attention, or anything
else.

It would be even more astonishing if observers and commentators on
every side of the issue remembered that public speaking and personal
confrontation always show up on surveys -- separately -- as items that
the average individual fears more than death. Those who speak out have
to overcome both fears to face politicians and tell them where to get
off.

I didn't know we still had it in us, as a people.

History will someday record that the American system of democratic
governance eventually devolved to a point where nobody with a trace of
intelligence, decency, or sanity could get elected. We are ruled by
those among us who are stupid, evil, and crazy; the system selects for
them.

Those who "represent" us know exactly who and what they are. They
don't give a damn about what their constituents want. They don't give
a damn about the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They don't give a
damn about right and wrong. (A city councilman once asked me -- it was
clear he sincerely wished to understand -- if I didn't feel unduly
restrained, limited by having principles. Note: he was a Republican.)
The only thing that they really fear is not getting reelected, being
deprived of their absurd overpayment for the "service" of destroying
America, missing their shot at the next rung on the ladder to absolute
power.

As I've been saying for decades, there is enormous anger simmering
just below the surface of America's Productive Class. Year after year,
decade after decade, century after century, they have labored hard to
supply everything necessary and good in our society -- from diesel
fuel to lemon meringue pie, from the wheels that get us from one place
to another, to the homes in which we find our refuge and comfort --
only to have the rewards of their labor snatched away by rapacious
parasites intent on controlling every moment and aspect of their
lives.

Yet it is they, the Productive Class, who are the first to be
blamed, by elements of the Non-Productive Class who couldn't tell a
cotter pin from cottage cheese, for everything, real and imagined,
that is said to be wrong with that society, from bad taste in color,
cars, and clothing, to air pollution, depleted ozone, and global
warming.

To the average politician, newspaper columnist, hairsprayed TV
commentator, or Hollywood airhead, suburbia is a kind of despicable,
disgusting, fetid swamp to be crawled out of, rather than as close to
Utopia as humankind has ever come, the locus of all the wishes, hopes,
and aspirations of a people whose only wish is to be left the hell
alone.

And all these idiots can think of -- congressthings and others of
the so-called "dominant culture" who believe they own us -- is how to
suppress that anger for another year, another decade, another century.
They desperately want to deny that their opposition is significant and
serious. They want to dismiss it as right-wing racism and childish
ingratitude. It would never occur to them to consider what that anger
might be about, or that it might be justified. They simply want it
_managed_. It's probably too late for that, but they'll be the last to
know.

During a week I've been enjoying immensely, my glee has been
marred a trifle by various radio pundits. Not those, mind you, who
favor medical Marxism and, acting either as good propagandistas for
their side, or, at the least, useful idiots, have been calling their
opponents "brownshirts" or "Nazis". No, by presumed conservatives who
started evaluating the town meetings not in terms of the principles
painfully enunciated there by nervous but valiant individuals, or the
utter stupidity, insanity, or villainy exposed, but in terms of the
restrained decorum -- or its absence -- demonstrated by those who
don't wish to become human sacrifices, slaughtered on the altar of
collectivism.

This, I maintain, is obscene.

Haven't you noticed, all you conservative radio pundits who were as
surprised as I was at the revolt, that they never paid attention
until we started yelling? Get yourselves a spine, radio pundits, some
_cojones_, some guts, and a sense of historical proportion. Compared
to the life and death issues before us, "decorum" is of less than no
concern.

I will admit that I worry, having attended my last town meeting
more than 20 years ago (the one in which the city councilman asked me
about principles) that it might be arrogant to include myself among
that "we".

Except that I've been there before, and I'm there in spirit, now.
It's my job is to write essays like this one and fling them out as far
as I can into the world. I proudly stand beside the young military man
who overcame his nervousness to curtly order a congressthing to leave
his children alone, and who demanded, having kept his own oath and
been disabled for it, whether the congressthing even intended to keep
the oath he took. If I had one to give, I'd give him a medal just for
that.

And I've been saying for more than 40 years, as frequently and
loudly as I can, that America's Productive Class has always been
compelled to suffer for its excessive -- and self-destructive --
politeness.

Perhaps that era is at long last ending.

 Four-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith has
been called one of the world's foremost authorities on the ethics
of self-defense. He is the author of more than 25 books, including
The American Zone, Forge of the Elders, Pallas, The Probability
Broach, Hope (with Aaron Zelman), and his collected articles
and speeches, Lever Action, all of which may be purchased
through his website "The Webley Page" at
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3. Some Parts of Ted Kennedy's Life
by Jim Davidson
planetaryjim@???

Special to The Libertarian Enterprise

He died this week, so I thought to look at some of the events in his
life that made Teddy Kennedy who he was. On the whole, I didn't like him.

His sister Rosemary was given a lobotomy on orders from their father,
Joseph Kennedy, when she was 23. The surgery left her in a feeble
minded condition. Later, the surgeon who lobotomised her would lose
his license when one of his patients died from the treatment. Teddy
would later use her situation to justify his votes on health industry
interventions and the Americans with disabilities act.

Teddy was a very marginal student. So, of course, he was admitted to
Harvard. There he was mainly interested in athletics. He was a big
dumb jock. He played offensive/defensive end. And he was so foolish
he got someone else to take his Spanish exam for him, so he wouldn't
lose eligibility for athletics. Harvard surprised everyone by doing
the right thing and expelling him in 1951.

So he enlisted in the Army. To no one's surprise, his father's
political connections kept him out of Korea. Instead, he was trained
to be in the military police.

In 1953, Harvard let him back in. So he got a degree and went to law
school at the University of Virginia. There he was charged with
reckless driving and driving without a license.

He married in 1958 and had three children with his wife. After he was
severely injured in a plane crash in June 1964, his wife Joan did all
the campaigning for him. In return, he womanized and by the mid-1960s
she became alcoholic, presumably in response to his cheating on her.
They would separate in 1977 and divorce in 1982 after he had spoiled
his run for the presidency.

In 1962, the political machine in Massachusetts made Teddy their
Senator. He would hold that job for the rest of his life, proof that
the political class exploits the system to make incumbents into
permanent overlords.

In 1965 he was involved in an effort to end the poll tax, which was
defeated. He also helped end racist immigration quotas with his work
on the immigration and nationality act. These were good things.

But he was gung ho about the Vietnam war with "no reservations." So
he voted repeatedly to send American soldiers to their deaths, and
for funding to slaughter people all over Southeast Asia. Rather than
opposing the military draft on principle, Teddy thought it should be
reformed a little bit.

His brother Bobby was assassinated before the convention, so it is
perhaps no surprise that Teddy took no role in opposing the
militaristic authoritarianism that characterised the Chicago police
treatment of protestors and frequent attacks on crowds. Just another
case of Teddy doing nothing about something. Abraham Ribicoff would
call the police rioting and beating of protesters and extreme abuse
of power as "Gestapo tactics on the streets of Chicago." And Teddy did nothing.

In July 1969, Teddy was involved in the wrongful death of Mary Jo
Kopechne. He had been partying on Martha's Vineyard with "the boiler
room girls" who had worked for Bobby's presidential campaign. There
were six women and four other men at the party. We may presume he was
drinking, as he often did, though he denied it. And he was driving
with this young woman, Mary Jo, in his car. She was 28. Although he
later told the inquest into her death that he was returning her to
her hotel at her request, she left her purse and hotel room key at the party.

We won't ever know what his intentions were, romantic or otherwise,
toward her. And he wasn't available at the scene of the accident to
determine if he was drunk. We do know that a sheriff's deputy saw a
car like Kennedy's with a man driving and a woman in the front seat
which stopped at a private cemetery road when he approached, and that
it drove away rapidly. We do know that Teddy drove off Dike Bridge
into the Poucha Pond inlet. We know that he was able to escape from
the vehicle unharmed.

It seems very likely that she survived the immediate trauma of the
accident in the air pocket inside the car. The diver who rescued her
said he found her body pressed into the space where such an air
pocket would have formed. Based on his knowledge of the situation, he
concluded that she lived for two hours after the accident.

In September 1969, a district attorney attempted to gain an order to
exhume the body because of blood found on her skirt and in her mouth
and nose that would not be consistent with drowning. The family
refused and the court denied the request. (Of course, we don't have
to suppose Teddy beat her, she would likely have hit her face on the
dashboard when the car hit the water.)

What else? Teddy claims that he tried several times to dive down to
help her. He claims that he went back to the party and returned to
the scene of the accident with friends to try to help her. It is
clear that he did not call the police or try to get professional help
in rescuing her. After he saw the car being hauled out of the water
the next day, he turned himself in at the police station.

He was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident and his license
was suspended for negligent driving. He received a suspended
sentence, meaning he spent no time in jail for his crime, because he
was a member of the political elite.

In the early 1970s, Teddy became interested in supporting the Irish
in Northern Ireland in their fight for liberation from British
oppressors. He caught some heat from the British, of course.

In 1974, Teddy was involved in so-called campaign finance reform,
actually incumbent protection. The 1974 federal election campaign act
amendments started the nonsense of public financing for campaigns and
set arbitrary limits on contributions to rule out the effectiveness
of challenges to incumbents. Teddy was a big fan.

In 1975, Teddy went to the Soviet Union where he made nice with his
buddies in the Kremlin. He was also a big supporter of busing of
schoolchildren in Boston.

In 1977 Teddy went to China to make nice with his buddies in Peking.
The next year he went back to meet with his buddies in the Kremlin.
Also in 1978 Teddy had a falling out with Jimmy Carter (then
president) over nationalised socialised health care. Carter objected
to the $60 billion cost and Teddy's comment about sailing the party
against the winds of opposition to the proposals.

Three days after the Iranian hostage crisis began, Teddy announced
his primary challenge to upset president Carter and replace him as
the Democrat nominee for president in 1980. Such an insurgent
campaign was not widely appreciated, especially after the Soviets
invaded Afghanistan in December 1979. Carter played it cool in the
Rose Garden and whipped Teddy's ass at the convention.

Ever the self-centered jerk, Kennedy tried to pull a fast one at the
convention to get a rule passed which would let delegates committed
by primary voters to screw the voters and vote for Kennedy. He needed
such a rule change because Carter had clinched the win before the
convention. Kennedy was not a gracious loser.

On the final night of the convention, Teddy arrived late. He shook
Carter's hand but did not raise it high in the traditional show of
party unity. Of course, Carter had his own problems in winning in
1980, but Teddy didn't help matters.

In 1980, the senate and the presidency were won by Republican
majorities. Kennedy focused on social programs. His support for
voting rights and gay rights were arguably good. His concept of
forcing universities to fund women's athletics with complex financing
rules has left a legacy of bizarre rules that often prevent schools
from fielding athletic teams.

His 1985 work against apartheid in South Africa and in support of
refuseniks in the Soviet Union was good stuff. He also became a heavy
drinker. In one incident with Chris Dodd, the two were involved in an
incident of unwelcome physical contact with a waitress.

His efforts to screw with the free market for health care services
continued in 1988 with the passage of the COBRA act. He also opposed
Reagan's appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, and
succeeded in blocking the nomination. I would mark this in the good
column. He was also involved with passage of the Americans with
Disabilities act and the Ryan White Care act, both of which further
interfered with the private sector health industry. I would mark each
as a mixed bag. In 1989 he would be photographed having sex on a motorboat.

In 1991, at Easter, Teddy was out boozing with his son Patrick and
his nephew William Kennedy Smith. Patrick returned with Michelle
Cassone who later reported that Teddy walked in on them dressed only
in a nightshirt with a weird look on his face. Smith returned with
Patricia Bowman who later reported she was raped by Smith. Kennedy
family sources began pushing negative information about Ms. Bowman,
and the press published her name. (Publishing the name of a rape
victim is regarded as inappropriate due to the potential for
additional difficulties for the victim.)

This incident certainly helped Clarence Thomas win confirmation from
the Senate, since the Anita Hill sex scandal broke later. Teddy was
not perceived as having a reputation on which to stand in criticising Thomas.

His support of Americorps in 1993 suggests that he had never given up
his fondness for conscription. Teddy also supported the passage of
NAFTA, the north american free trade agreement, which might better be
called a managed trade agreement.

Teddy voted for every minimum wage increase ever brought before him.
Of course, he hated the free market and wanted poor people to be
unemployed so that his union buddies would get more money.

His 1996 work on health insurance motivated further consolidation in
that industry to comply with the endless regulations of the health
insurance portability act. He was also involved in the state
children's health insurance program (SCHIP) passing. This used
abusively high taxes on tobacco to fund more interference in the
health care market.

Of course, when Clinton was accused of high crimes and misdemeanors,
he could count on Teddy to vote against impeachment. Lying to the
American people? Perjury? Not exactly things Teddy ever showed much
concern about.

Teddy was a big supporter of George W. Bush in his "no child left
behind" act. (One wonders about the child's right behind.) He also
supported and voted to fund the war in Afghanistan -- though what
role the Taliban government played in the events of 11 September 2001
is still poorly stated.

Continuing his push to consolidate and nationalise the health care
industry, Teddy was big on the prescription drug benefit. He was also
big on up-armoring vehicles in Iraq and other expenses for that war.

In 2004, Teddy pushed hard on the Massachusetts legislature to pass a
law requiring a special election. That way, if John Kerry had won the
presidency and had to give up his senate seat, the Republican
governor Mitt Romney could not appoint a successor. In 2009, the
hypocrite wanted the opposite result, demanding that the governor
appoint a replacement in the event of Teddy's death so that the
"important work" of screwing over the health care industry could be
carried on. Also to make sure there would be an incumbent senator in 2010.

Kennedy was a great enthusiast for gun control, which makes him an
evil elitist who hates individual freedom. (He was one of only 16
senators who voted against the Vitter amendment that would prohibit
gun confiscation in the event of a disaster.) He had a marginal
record of 84% from the American Civil Liberties Union, and a
consistent F from the National Rifle Association.

In defiance of constitutional limitations on titles of nobility
(including the amendment providing for political exile for those
taking such titles) he accepted a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II
of the Hanoverian usurpation.

Altogether, I would say Teddy was a very mixed bag. His personal
actions were often negligent and indecent. His political actions were
frequently elitist, anti-freedom, pro-war, and socialistic.

Therefore I cannot regret his passing.

Jim Davidson is an anti-war activist involved in the divestment
project detailed at divestfromdeath.wordpress.com. He is also an
author and entrepreneur. Two of his current projects involve
financing films, one a documentary about destination resorts in
orbit. See www.11at40.com for details.

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4. Lysenko's Revenge
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@???

Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

It isn't the fact that people go on and on reinventing the wheel
that I mind so much, as their idiotic insistence on reinventing it
_square_.

A case in point: one Trofim Denisovich Lysenko -- and I should add
that I owe this insight to my good friend and cherished colleague
Albert Perez -- was a peasant lad who attended a local university and
quickly rose to become the supreme galootie of Russian agriculture,
all because of a theory of his that clicked with certain aspects of
Marxism.

A theory that -- like Marxism itself -- was completely bogus.

And wasn't really his to begin with.

About the time of the American Revolution, a bright young fellow
with the unenviable monicker of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet,
Chevalier de la Marck, a poor but proud aristocrat and one of the
world's original thinkers about evolution, determined somehow that it
proceeded through the inheritance of acquired characteristics. In
short (no pun intended) if you cut off the tails of a sufficient
number of generations of rats, new rats would start being born without
tails.

This theory was disproven by the later work of Gregor Mendel and
others. At the time, it was considered leading edge, and was favored
even by Charles Darwin as an explanation for what he was seeing in the
field. Lysenko appears to have come along and revived it, denouncing
Mendel and every geneticist that followed the good abbot as hopelessly
bourgoise (for which read "Productive Class") and therefore counter-
revolutionary.

In the ordinary course of events, Lysenko would have been ignored
as a psychopath or a charlatan. But this was Sovietized Russia, under
Joseph "Stalin" Djugashvili, the god-emperor himself of psychopaths
and charlatans. Marx had decreed that having lived a sufficient number
of generations under the "dictatorship of the proletartiat", a kind of
human being would emerge -- later known as "New Soviet Man" -- who
would automatically live his life for others, giving to them according
to his abilities and allowing them to receive according to their
needs.

This might be possible, if acquired traits -- that is, traits
forced on unwilling individuals at bayonet-point -- were inheritable.
The trouble was that they are not. Mendel and his intellectual heirs
-- indeed the entire field of genetics -- became anti-Soviet heresy,
punishable by arrest, exile, and death. More than one of Russia's
foremost scientists were shot, or starved or worked to death in
Siberia. Hundreds of them paid the penalty for their allegiance to the
truth.

Supported by transparent fraud and naked brutality, Lysenkoism
reigned supreme within the Soviet Union from the 1920s until 1964,
stunting the growth of science, holding back progress, and through the
repeated failure of Lysenko's crackpot agricultural theories, starving
millions to death for decades. And regrettably, as we are beginning to
see here in the West, this is exactly the kind of catastrophe that can
happen at any place, at any time that science and politics get mixed
together.

"Manmade Global Warming" is a collection of ideas that have been
thoroughly discredited by real science for years. Yet you would never
know it by observing the behavior of politicians, media personalities,
and certain corrupt academics and scientists. There is not now, nor
was there ever any scientifically respectable evidence for global
warming. Like Lysenkoism, it is a complete and total fabrication, a
hoax.

Yet it continues to have a strictly political life because, just
as Lysenkoism served Stalinism by backing up Marx's flawed notions --
Global Warming serves today's collectivists by offering them an excuse
to seize control, not merely of the means of production, but of each
moment, every aspect of the lives of every individual under their
thumbs.

To be absolutely certain the opportunity isn't missed, dissenters
-- meteorologists and others willing to dismiss Global Warming as the
crock it happens to be -- have found themselves intimidated, denied
funding and tenure, even fired. Here and there you'll even see demands
that "climate change deniers" be prosecuted, imprisoned, or executed.
Somewhere, the ghosts of Stalin and Lysenko are having a huge laugh
together.

Here are a couple of other thinkers who have seen the connection:

Americanthinker.com: "'Global Warming' as Pathological Science"
http://tinyurl.com/2locug

Global Warming Politics: "Guest Essay: Lysenkoism And GW"
http://tinyurl.com/mn83kv

And now we see exactly the same method being applied to promote
another con-game called "socialized medicine". The reputation for
failure that this bonnet-bee has acquired since it was first tried out
in Prussia in the 1880s should be enough. And yet anyone who objects
to having it imposed on them by force is denounced by its proponents
-- moral and intellectual bankrupts who are unable make any rational,
coherent arguments in its favor -- as "brownshirts", "racists", or
"Nazis".

There's really only one cure for this societal disease, and that
is a Constitutional amendment that, once and for all, will mandate a
formal separation of science -- especially medicine -- and state, in
effect, denying government funding to _all_ scientific endeavor,
leaving progress to the market, instead. Government funding has always
been a corrupting influence in any case, skewing the pursuit of
knowledge in directions it wouldn't have taken without political
pressure.

Naturally, this will lead to calls for the abolition of corporate
taxes (which are paid by individuals like you and me through prices
that are higher than they would be otherwise) so there will be money
for corporations -- and individuals -- to invest in genuine scientific
endeavor.

It's long past time that we rid ourselves of "Lysenkoism American
Style", junk every bit of legislation inspired by the discredited
theory of Global Warming, along with the corrupt politicians guilty of
ramming it down our throats, and get on with the business -- which
seems beyond the average Marxist's ability -- of living in a free
society.

 Four-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith has
been called one of the world's foremost authorities on the ethics
of self-defense. He is the author of more than 25 books, including
The American Zone, Forge of the Elders, Pallas, The Probability
Broach, Hope (with Aaron Zelman), and his collected articles
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5. Slavery = Segregation = Minority = Socialism?
by Andrew G. Eggleston Sr.
whitesage12@???

Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

You thought Slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the
constitution? Nope. Here is the actual text of the Amendment that
merely abolished the slave trade;

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly
convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
subject to their jurisdiction.

Section 2. Congress shall have the power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.

That's ANY crime for which anyone is duly convicted; violation,
misdemeanor or felony, speeding, drunk driving, violation of the
basic rule, operating a business without a license, possession, drunk
in public, or homicide. For my peace of mind the sentence underlined
above should be removed, as it gave the former slave owner the
ability to put blacks in jail for; lookin' wrong at a white woman,
not having gainful employment, being without identification, or any
of a hundred other pretend offenses; and then renting them from the
County in the form of prison work gangs, which in the end was cheaper
for the former slave owner anyway.

Today most people don't see the slavery around them, don't understand
how it still exists today as it always has, just in a different form.
The enslavement hasn't changed despite the efforts during and after
the Civil War, where before the War Between the States, Cold Iron
bound a human to an owner; after that Late Unpleasantness there were
'Black Codes' that could get a man jailed for those pretend offenses
mentioned earlier. This would eventually lead to Segregation, Slavery
with another name and separation as had been done to the Native
Tribes, for though the actual buying and selling of people had been
stopped, the use of them as unpaid labor had not. The only gain made
by Negroes would be the ability to form family units and maintain
them 'till death do you part' rather than 'till death or distance do
you part'. Throughout the 98 years following the American Civil War,
Black Americans would fight tooth and nail for what they realized
they had not been given' equality.

To some extent Native Tribes fought for the same equality, however
they were lulled or bullied into submission upon their reservations
by; money, alcohol, brutality and 'privileges' that were their
sovereign right to begin with, a state of affairs that has not been
corrected to this day.

In the mid 50's, black people again stood against the tide of
injustice and inequality, only they were no longer alone, the
majority of America stood beside them, proclaiming that ALL people
are created equal. Again there was bloodshed, the blood of Americans
on American city streets; protesters, civil rights activists, clergy,
children, mothers, war heroes, and many others would die for Freedom
and Liberty of ALL people. Once again their blood was shed in vain,
once again the politicians mitigated and marginalized the issue until
President Lyndon Johnson gave the movement status with his voice and
took away that equality with his pen. In 1964, after ten years of
revolution the American Political Machine again ground the gains of
Freedom loving people into hamburger, the creation of the Welfare
State changed Segregation into a Minority designation. Again the
system would have a new name, however the only gain that had been
made was that All people could vote and own their own land. (For many
poor white sharecroppers this would be their first taste of freedom
as well, for previously they were not allowed to vote either.)

Today there are more and more people falling under the designation of
Minority; the handicapped or disabled (including Disabled Veterans)
would now share the designation. The Minorities would be enslaved by
a different set of chains, by the marginalizing of the Minority with
programs to house, medicate and feed them while preventing them from
advancing; now our chains are made from money instead of cold iron or
separation. A new theory arose in the 1960's that Economics could be
used as a weapon to subjugate and keep people in place ' some lucky
few would escape, but the majority of those so controlled would
submit. Once proven as an effective weapon through testing on the
American people, the weapon would be turned against the Soviet Empire
in an effort to win the Cold War of escalation between the 'Super
Powers'. Proven effective against Communism the weapon of Economics
is now turned against the American People again; to prove its ability
to do to Capitalism what it did to Communism, this time to destroy
the last remaining scraps of Freedom and Liberty still available to
American Humans.

The Minority does not exist! The race known as Homo-Sapiens has no
sub-species. There are no scientific facts to prove that one part of
humanity is different in basic structure than any other part, to a
scientific certainty of 99.9%. All Humanity bleeds red iron-based
blood, this blood comes in four differing types all equal to each
other; O, A, B, and AB. All humanity can eat omnivorously, though
there are people who chose to be Herbivores, it is not strictly
necessary for survival from a scientific standpoint. All Humanity is
capable of; compassion, generosity, kindness, and gratitude, emotions
that many other Mammals and Cetaceans have shown a capacity for. What
is unique to the Human Mammal is that we prey upon each other; little
by little and piece by piece, most of the time in response to
conditioning or training that one group is better than another, this
has no basis in scientific fact. It belies a moral judgment upon our
fellow humans.

The regime that was "elected" to the offices of the U.S. Federal
Government are openly trying to socialize every aspect of Our
country, from healthcare to the automotive industry our "elected"
officials are working against We The People to make us All Slaves to
a system which will only result in our becoming passive servants or
liquidated terrorists.

The majority of the laws we are already required to adhere to, were
created without a vote, it's the same as the 'Taxation without
Representation' that we fought against England in the creation of
this country. This country was founded upon; Freedom of Speech,
Freedom of the Press, Freedom to Keep and Bear Arms, Freedom of the
pursuit of Happiness, and a hundred other freedoms that fall under
Life, Liberty and Property. Obama is a puppet, pure and simple,
feeling that the collective dumbness of the state is smarter than We
The People. That ruling the country is not in the hands of We The
People but in the National State and that all individuals and
associations exist only to help create the power, the prestige, and
the well-being of the State.

<blockquote>
"Did you really think we want those laws observed'" said Dr. Ferris.
"We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's
not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and
we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any
government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when
there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many
things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live
without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens'
What's there in that for anyone' But just pass the kind of laws that
can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted ' and
you create a nation of law-breakers ' and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon -- that's the game, and once you
understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with." (Excerpt from
'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand, 1957)
</blockquote>

The evil concept of Statism discounts Individualism and praises the
Nation as an organic body headed by the Supreme Leader and nurtured
by unquestioning unity, force, and discipline.

Our Leader's handlers insult our intelligence with these pogroms,
initiatives and un-approved laws and taxes. Individuals can, and have
proven to be more effective when initiating change than any
government ever could be. The best assistance I have received in the
last 16 years as a disabled minority has been from caring individuals
and groups of caring individuals, in privately funded charities.
Individualism, we have learned from history, gets crushed under the
boot-heel of the State at the insistence of its party leader' in this
case Obama, because individualism seeds dissent and revolt -- like a
horse that remains unbroken and unwilling to be saddled, makes other
horses skittish when it moves close, encouraging in them the basest
Freedom Loving Animal in their nature.

Unfortunately, with a Democrat ruled Congress, impeachment is out of
the question, and the barring of the voters collected voice for a
recall election is the job of the Electoral College which was a
mistake to create in the first place. Which leaves us with only two
courses left;

* Term Limits for any and all Senate and House seats, imposed by
those that are represented, let every voice be heard by those who
would ask to represent us or have them vacate the office by a vote of
the people. Let them emplace the equipment necessary to receive the
vote of the people on a daily basis, from web polls and emails and
other such appliances as become available. Let them be answerable for
their votes before the House. Let them again understand what the term
'service to the constituents' means.

* Audit the Federal Government, openly and publicly for all
interested, Transparency the politicians call it. Let Every agency of
the Republic fall under the oversight of the represented, their
expenditures of the American Credit to be viewed by all who would
care to look. Their Gross Negligence and Theft exposed for All to
see, and for We The People to prosecute them to the fullest extent of
their own laws.

The current Regency in power would shiver in dread fear at the
thought of being subject to their own laws, and well they should, for
them to be subject to those laws and the laws of Humanity would be
more than mere flesh could bear. The giant reset button needs to
pressed on this program we mistakenly call the United States of
America, to do any less is to reject our Rights and Duties as People
of the Republic.

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6. Concealed Carry Issues
by Michael Gaddy
michael.d.gaddy@???

Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

"...That the general government is the exclusive judge of the extent
of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of despotism; since
the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the
constitution, would be the measure of their powers..."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Kentucky Resolution, Approved 1799

While the response to my previous articles elsewhere has been by majority
positive, I appear to have ruffled a few feathers of those who have chosen
to beg the state for permission to exercise their 2A rights. The central
theme of their objections is they fear being arrested and going to jail
if law enforcement personnel find them with a concealed weapon. While this
is certainly a concern, I believe it fails to address the central issue.

All concealed carry permits have their limitations; the great majority
ban concealed carry in schools. Now, let me see, have we ever had a
school shooting in this country? Why are the only people permitted to
have guns in school, police or criminals? Will anyone ever forget the
scene of hundreds of law enforcement personnel standing outside the
building at Columbine while students and teachers inside were being
terrorized and killed by psychopaths?

Although police tactics for mass shootings changed after Columbine,
at Virginia Tech, another madman with a chain and a lock on the doors
of the killing zone, decreed the police impotent again. Students and
teachers faced death unarmed, and therefore, unprotected. They died
because they trusted the state to protect them.

All gun violence ends with a gun; when a firearm appears to stop the
killing depends on who is armed and capable of ending the madness, or
the whim of the killer. The arrival of the police at both Columbine and
Virginia Tech mattered not at all in the overall death toll. So much
for "To Serve and Protect." Always remember, when you need the police
in seconds, they are only minutes away. Numerous mass shootings prove
my point.

People do not understand that a right is not inalienable because it is
written on a piece of parchment; a right is only inalienable when a free
people claim it and by their actions demand it. Begging the state for
permission transforms an inalienable right into a privilege, not only
for the person doing the begging, but for all others as well. Those who
place themselves as subservient to the state have no right to confer
their status as servants on those who wish to remain free.

Equally absurd is the discussion of "open" or concealed carry. Is a
weapon more dangerous because it cannot be seen? Does it shoot straighter
or hold more rounds? Did Klebold, Harris and Seung-Hui Cho have their
weapons concealed or visible before they shot their teachers and fellow
students? Did they have trigger-locks they removed before killing their
victims or perhaps detachable magazines? Did the weapons they used
fit the term, "assault" weapons? Whether they fit the government's
definition or not ceased to matter once the first shot was fired. When
these madmen entered the respective schools, everyone inside became an
unarmed, helpless target, thanks to the state!

We have allowed politicians and bureaucrats to cloud the issue with
meaningless dialogue and definitions while the core issue remains
unresolved: do individuals have the right to defend themselves and
their loved ones, anytime and anywhere, without permission from those
who render them helpless with illegal laws and restrictions?

Dr. Suzanna Gratia Hupp makes an ironclad case, not for concealed carry,
but for unrestricted carry by a free society. Dr. Hupp was forced to watch
helplessly as her father was shot as he charged the gunman unarmed. The
gunman also shot her mother as she came to the aid of her father; all
these deaths because criminals in our government decreed it unlawful for
an honest citizen to carry a firearm into a restaurant. These laws did
not stop the madman as he went about his heinous activity. The law did
not matter that day, nor will it ever matter to the criminally deranged
who commit such carnage.

This incredible lady confronts the criminals in their lair; she tells
them straightforward the intent of the Second Amendment. How can anyone
dishonor the courage of this brave American by begging the very criminals
she nailed to the wall for permission to defend themselves?

Acquiescing to, or compromising with criminal government is analogous to
being the victim of blackmail; the criminal/blackmailer demands more and
more until it reaches the point the victim can no longer pay. The TARP
bailouts, the Fed and Obamacare, not to mention decades of criminal
laws and regulations, have brought us to that point in our history:
we can no longer afford to pay the price of out-of-control government.

This Ponzi scheme called government will eventually collapse of its
own weight. This will lead to chaos like that seen in New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina. Those in government are aware of this and are
currently doing all they can to fill their pockets and the pockets of
their supporters before time expires on their criminal enterprise.

Americans are going to be forced from their comfort zones when this
chaos occurs. Then they will rue the day they compromised their right
to own and carry the necessary means to defend their lives and property.

The government does not avidly pursue gun control because they are
concerned for the common citizen, they continue in this illegal agenda
because they fear many more will awaken to the reality of what Dr. Hupp so
fearlessly stated: "the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting...it
is about all of our rights to be able to protect ourselves from all of
you guys up there."

AMEN.

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7. Mitigating the Risk of State Abuse
by Rob Sandwell
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Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

Cops are cracking down.

The "War on Drugs" has pulled another dangerous criminal off the
street. Donald May was driving home from work when he was pulled
over, arrested, and imprisoned for three months on charges of
possession of crack cocaine and tampering with evidence. During those
three months he lost his job and his apartment, and the police sold
his vehicle at auction. Make special note of that last one. Before he
was convicted of a crime, the police confiscated his vehicle, and
sold it for their own gain.

In the end, it turned out that the crack cocaine seized by the
officer at the scene was actually a breath mint. Oops! Sorry. You're
free to go. You can read more about the incident here.

The officer at the scene claims he checked the mints and they tested
positive for drugs. He claims he saw Donald May buy the drugs at an
intersection prior to pulling him over. He claims May admitted at the
scene to possession of cocaine. He claims May waived his miranda
rights. May claims none of that ever happened.

Of course, this isn't the only time something like this has happened.
There are a number of cases of people being arrested on accusations
of drug possession or distribution, which have turned out later to be
false. Substances as benign as soap, cookies, chalk dust, and
deodorant have all been at the heart of similar cases.

Putting aside the fact that there is no moral justification for the
"War on Drugs." Ignoring the vast number of people, both here and
abroad who have been slaughtered in its pursuit. Forgetting about the
innumerable violations of freedom and liberty it was created
specifically to effect. Disregard the fact that it is at its heart
nothing more than the claim of men with guns to regulate what you do
with your body and your property.

Above and beyond all that, the cops are simply unreliable,
untrustworthy, and incompetent.

And more and more people are running into these harbingers of malady every day.

Old women are getting tazed. Young men are getting shot to death.
People are harassed, beaten, robbed, sexually assaulted, kidnapped,
and tortured every day in this country by the fine men and women who
make up the many law enforcement agencies of your government.

Carry too much of the only legal currency allowed by law? You're
probably a criminal and they can seize your money on suspicion of
drug activity. Prove they're wrong. Don't talk fast enough during an
interrogation? Prepare to get a lamp shoved into an orifice not
specifically designed for that activity. Hair too long? Skin wrong
color? Name spelled funny? Prepare to be "detained" and harassed for
hours, or days, or months, or in the case of some Guantanamo
detainees, years. All at your own expense by the way. All in the name
of "justice."

If you are a regular reader of websites like the Libertarian
Enterprise, you know why this sort of thing happens. Because the
police aren't really there to serve and protect. They are there to
make sure that everyone does as they are told, and to mercilessly
apply force against those who do not.

All of which gave my wife an idea. We were discussing the case of
Donald May, when she said, "Someone should offer insurance against
that kind of thing."

Genius! After all, here is a man who was perfectly innocent, who due
to government misconduct, lost his home, his car, and his job. The
ramifications of those losses could last years. Imagine if he had a
family, how much would they also have lost? Imagine what brutalities
he may have been victim to while in the government's "care." And this
sort of thing is becoming increasingly common.

I have had a law enforcement officer threaten to blow my head off
because I had a bb pistol in the car with me. Not because we pointed
it at them. Not because we threatened them with it in any way. Just
because it was there. I have had a law enforcement officer threaten
to "sling some led through my windshield" because I followed him half
a mile down the road, and he interpreted that as a threatening
action. Many of you, or your loved ones, will come in contact with
law enforcement in an unjust manner throughout your lives. Maybe all of you.

Just imagine if someone was offering "Government Abuse Insurance."
For a low monthly premium, you could be insured against any losses
you incur as a result of the government abusing your rights. Some
plans could have riders which stipulate that if you are actually
found guilty of a crime, the insurance policy doesn't pay off. Other
plans could include insurance against losses incurred as a result of
non-violent, tax, or drug crimes. Over time, the marketplace would
choose which policies it wanted.

Of course, as things get worse, and they will, premiums would
naturally rise. Because as government agencies become more and more
desperate, they will inevitably become more and more violent and
intrusive, which increases the risk to the insurer.

Given the option, wouldn't each of you choose to insure your
families, homes, and financial futures against the risk of government abuse?

I think there would be a huge market for this. I think many people
would want to take advantage of such a product.

But the real question is, how would the government respond. I am
guessing that they would never even allow such a product to come to
market. After all, they would argue, that simply encourages illegal
behavior. It eliminates the threat of consequences in the mind of the
criminal. If someone did begin to offer it, I'm sure steps would be
taken to outlaw it.

No, they can't allow "Government Abuse Insurance."

After all, the payouts alone would require another insurance industry bailout.

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8. Or is it a Dinosaur?
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@???

Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

People enjoy seeing cartoons in their heads.

A popular one, lately, seems to be "the elephant in the parlor",
the idea being that there's this enormous pachyderm taking up space,
and yet those in the room with it refuse to acknowledge that it
exists.

The choice of an elephant is appropriate. I won't say that no
other party has been as deeply mired in denial as Republicans are
today, but they're far enough gone that any hope they may entertain of
stopping the Democrats in their march to Marxism is sadly self-deluded
foolishness.

They created the current situation (by which I mean "mess"). They
lied about what happened in New York on September 11, 2001. They lied
about what happened at the Pentagon. They lied about what happened in
that field in Pennsylvania. Worst of all, they lied about _why_ it
happened, claiming it was because "they hate our freedom" instead of
the truth: they're sick and tired of being pushed around and messed
with.

Do you suppose it might have had a little something to do with the
Bush-Clinton-Bush blockade that, according to Amnesty International,
resulted in the deaths -- mostly from lack of food and medicine -- of
half a million innocent Iraqi children? Think of it as Waco writ
large.

To "retaliate" for the attack on the towers, the stupid, evil,
crazy bastards invaded two countries, not because either of them had
anything to do with it, but because one lay in the path of an oil
pipeline they'd wanted to construct for ten years previous to 9/11,
and the other sits on top of the world's second largest ocean of
petroleum.

Prosecuting these illegal and immoral wars, the Republicans then
smashed international law to bits, along with the Constitution they
claim at other times to revere. They kidnapped individuals and hid
them, without due process, in secret prisons. They tortured helpless
prisoners and denied, in the most infantile terms, that what they'd
done to them was torture. They continue that sort of nonsense to this
day, shrill hysteria their only defense against the unpleasant truth.
Anyone employing more than half of his brain has to recoil in sheer
disgust.

Meanwhile, here at home, a useless, cowardly congress passed the
so-called "USA Patriot" and the "Military Commissions" acts without
reading them -- just as they tried to pass Obama's medical Marxism
scheme -- attempting to erase the Bill of Rights. Happily, as many a
Supreme Court justice has established, these putrid, misbegotten items
of legislation, contravening, as they do, the Constitution under the
authority of which they were written, are automatically null and void.
Their enforcement is a criminal act we will all remember when the time
comes.

Can you say "Nuremberg II"?

I thought you could.

And now, a new and openly Marxist "Democratic" administration is
trying to finish the job of reducing us "under absolute despotism",
building on a foundation carefully constructed for them by the GOP. As
Ricky used to say to Lucy, Republicans "got a lot of 'splainin' to
do".

If they want to take away Obama's control of congress, if they
want, eventually, to evict the god-emperor himself, Republicans will
have to make amends, supply restitution, for the harm that they have
done. At the very least, they have to repeal every bit of legislation
passed since 9/11 and undo the damage inflicted on the country since
then.

They will discover, as others have before them, that it's easier
to destroy things -- a Constitution, an economy -- than to rebuild
them. We libertarians can show them how: an immediate tax amnesty; a
year-long tax holiday; liquidation of all illegally-held government
property; recall of our troops, not just from Afghanistan and Iraq,
but from the 150-odd other countries where a military presence is
maintained.

Abolition of each and every "alphabet agency" unmentioned by the
Constitution.

A great many other reforms are called for -- you may get a clue by
consulting the writing I've been doing for the last 30 years or so;
start by clicking on the "Back Issues" button on _TLE_'s front page --
but that would make a fair beginning. If Republicans are unwilling to
undertake these tasks, then there is no reason for anyone to prefer
them over Obama's orcish hordes, no reason to vote for Republicans at
all.

Do you get that, Republicans?

Unless you change your ways, confess freely to the many crimes of
which your party stands accused (and which everyone knows perfectly
well it's guilty of, no matter how much you wriggle and whimper and
squeal), stringently enforce the Bill of Rights, and restore America
to what it was once supposed to be, then there's no reason to vote for
you.

At all.

All the hate mail in the world won't change the mess you've made,
Republicans, so take your sweaty fingers off those keyboards and face
the music. Although I've spent my entire adult life trying to prevent
such a disaster, we might as well ride out whatever Obama tries to do
to us and see what develops, rather than put misplaced trust in you
again.

The scholar of history and human nature within me suspects that
Obama won't like the way that turns out in the end. And it's better
than enduring what we did, all over again, under Bush, Clinton, and
Bush.

Get that, Republicans?

Get it?

 Four-time Prometheus Award-winner L. Neil Smith has
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9. The Nude Economy
by Jim Davidson
planetaryjim@???

Special to The Libertarian Enterprise

Do you remember the "new economy" back in 1998? Amazon was trading at
$331 per share (28 December 1998). But where were the earnings? There
were none. People were swept up in a stock mania to rival the Dutch
tulip mania of the early 17th Century. Companies like Yahoo were
trading at 320 times projected earnings for the coming year. A more
normal valuation would be 18 times trailing earnings. But in many
instances there were no earnings.

We were told that was okay. There was a revenue model. Fool.com would
<a
href="http://www.fool.com/portfolios/RuleBreaker/1998/RuleBreaker981218.htm">report</a>
that a CIBC Oppenheimer analyst had projected a stock price of 15
times projected revenues and had plugged in a 2000 forecast of $1.5
billion to come up with a "strong buy" recommendation for Amazon. Why
would anyone expect a stock at $240 to go to $400? Because they were
crazy, that's why. And after a 3:1 stock split in early 1999, the
forecast came true, anyway.

At the height of the Dot.com bubble there were zombie companies
trading at ridiculous stock prices. And everyone was swept up in the
mania. It was a new economy. Earnings didn't matter. Anyone could
play. Simply bet on a company with a business model you didn't
understand based on revenues that were barely available and earnings
that might arrive in a future decade.

One is reminded of the little girl in the Poltergeist sequel saying
"They're back!" Welcome to the nifty world of 2009. Instead of wacky
entrepreneurs like Jeff Bezos, now it is AIG. Yes, AIG.

You remember AIG? They were this gigantic insurance and re-insurance
company. They took enormous risks on behalf of Goldman Sachs and
other Wall Street slime. Then it became clear in September-October
2008 that they wouldn't be able to meet their obligations. Their
before tax income for 2008 was a loss of $108,761,000,000. Very
nearly 109 billion. That works out to a per share loss of $669.44.

Now AIG is trading at $50.23 per share. Huh? Do...what?!

How does that make any sense? Well, from a price to earnings ratio
perspective, it doesn't. But "past performance is no indication of
future profitability." Uh, right. So all their problems are in the past?

No, clearly not. In fact, the new CEO (who spent one day on the job
and then took a vacation) is apparently consulting with Hank
Greenberg, the old CEO who got AIG into this mess. You know, the one
who recently settled with the SEC on securities fraud charges for
millions? He paid up $15 million. And even with the recovery, <a
href="http://www.thestreet.com/story/10591949/1/aig-whats-driving-up-the-stock.html">one
analyst</a> estimated that his shares are worth 90% less than a year ago.

How does this work? The government props up the company with $180
billion of taxpayer money and takes an 80% ownership position. And
then what? Magic? Razzle-dazzle?

I think it works this way. Most of the money now being invested on
Wall Street is "other people's money." So stock brokerage firms have
billions of dollars to invest. They buy positions, then make
recommendations. The positions go up on their recommendations. Or,
worse, they get trading orders on a daily basis, trade their own
positions first, and then the orders from their clients. Magically,
they make more money.

Is the government strong-arming the brokerage houses? Demanding that
"we're all in this together" and in some cases having a stock
position to back it up -- so coercing the buying of government held
securities? We'll know, one day, after the empire falls and the
archives are opened. Maybe.

What of the broader markets? Why was the S&P 500 trading at a price
to earnings ratio of nearly 150 earlier this month? No reason.

Check out this image from Casey Research:

<img src="http://www.caseyresearch.com/images/1250943682-20090821.gif">

Kinda nutty, huh? Why are stock prices so high compared to earnings?
They've never been this high.

Part of the answer is inflation. The government has created trillions
of dollars of new money through borrowing. The Federal Reserve has
created trillions of dollars of new money through ...well, magic. The
Fed says there is money, and there is -- no printing press required.
Where does all that money go?

Much of it is going into financial stocks to create the ersatz rally
we are now seeing. Some of it is going into the broader market.

Consider foreign central banks. They have huge positions in the
dollar. So do a lot of foreign individuals. They don't want those
dollars to become worthless. But they don't exactly want to hold onto
all of them either. So they are using those dollars to buy into the
stock market rally now going on. And so are Americans, often through
their 401K or other pension portfolio, often without any control
individually. Portfolio managers buy and everyone else hopes for the best.

How is it going to end? The same way it always ends. Look at the
chart again. The bubble we're in now didn't start in 2009. It didn't
start in 1999. It goes all the way back to 1982 when stocks were last
seen reverting to a mean price to earnings value, and the long "boom"
or, as it will come to be know, the "fake boom" began. Greenspan
inflated. Bernanke is inflating faster.

It won't last. Oh, sure, it may last weeks or months or even years.
Speculative bubbles are market manias, generally push up by monetary
inflation. Doug French has done some wizard analysis going all the
way back to the aforementioned Tulip mania. (That one was monetary
inflation caused by new gold and silver coming in shiploads from the
Western hemisphere, mostly from slave labor camps run by the Spanish
and Portuguese.)

The bubble will collapse. The currency will be destroyed. Its had a
good long run for a purely inflationary currency. The dollar used to
be gold and silver (see 1792 Mint Act) but that ended in 1971. The
silver was taken out of the coins. The option for foreign banks to
redeem dollars for gold was removed (by the hated villain Nixon).
Currencies, to quote my friend Clyde Harrison, have not been
floating, but have been sinking at different rates ever since.

So should you buy AIG? I wouldn't. But, I sold GenCorp in the mid
1980s because I didn't understand its valuation then. I don't
generally buy things that have valuations I don't understand -- why
should I own something that has value because of what other people
think? What evidence have I ever had that other people do think? And
how could I possibly know when they start thinking something else?

During the Dot com bubble people talked about how it was a "new
economy." And I thought about that as a title for this piece. But, I
really think "nude economy" works better. The emperor has no clothes,
so why should the economy?

Jim Davidson is an anti-war activist involved in the divestment
project detailed at divestfromdeath.wordpress.com. He is also an
author and entrepreneur. His latest book comes out this Autumn at 623
pages plus notes. Two of his current projects involve financing
films, one a documentary about destination resorts in orbit. See
www.11at40.com for details.

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10. Communication
by A.X. Perez
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Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise

If you are old enough you can remember some extremely racist WWII
propaganda cartoons. While the cartoons aimed at the Germans were
bad, those aimed at the Japanese approach mean spiritedness. However,
most kids in the post WWII "got it" that the cartoons were aimed at
an enemy during war, the result is that while the cartoons may have
reinforced preexisting bigotry, they did not create bigotry. As the
US became more closely tied economically to Japan after WWII the
truly vicious cartoons went off the air, especially after Sony bought
the studios that owned the rights to them.

We no longer communicate to people that anti Japanese and anti
Chinese (especially Han and Manchu) bigotry are acceptable, no longer
reinforce these images. Similarly, racist images of Black people, the
Dineh and other tribes, Mexicans and other Latin Americans are no
longer pushed in the media. We communicate that racism is no longer
acceptable (except against members of ethnic groups that have a high
percentage of Muslim fundamentalists that become terrorists).

Instead we try to communicate that inclusion and tolerance are
necessary virtues, especially the government sponsored politically
correct kind. We have communicated to us and our kids that the
government should deal with the swine flu (which may or may not be as
deadly as people think) and that the government is responsible for
getting H1N1 vaccine out to people who need it. We have communicated
to us that the government is responsible for dealing with how health
care is paid for, even if it is by putting it in the "private hands"
or existing Medicare, related programs, and insurance companies that
also own parts of the government. We have communicated to us that
government is responsible for determining fair prices, be it for
gasoline, cola, candy bars or tobacco.

We get it in the news media, in kiddy stories, in television, shows
in movies, in the pronouncements of celebrities. We get the message
that the government is the main instrument to deal with problems from
right wing calls on banning porn to left wing calls for "health care
reform." We get it at all levels of cognition recognized by
educational psychologists.

Perhaps it is time to increase communicating libertarian ideals. We
need children's books communicating our ideals in every Barnes and
Nobles' and every Mom and Pop bookstore (both of them) left in
America (and Britain and Germany and..). we need more TV shows, more
books, more newscasters communicating our ideals. We need more
teachers unafraid of the spiritual contamination working in public
schools (and private schools for that matter) spreading our message.

Last week I apologized for using a sophomoric rhetorical trick in an
article. However we need to make sure that our ideas are communicated
at every level of mentation from infant to adult, including the
sophomoric. It does us no good for us to condemn statism if we
surrender to statists the power to instruct the minds of people, to
inform their consciousness. We can't let them take over the minds of
kids, we can't let them have a free shot at converting adults.

It won't be easy, our Esteemed Publisher has told us enough of his
troubles with establishment publishing houses to make it clear that
it won't be easy. That said, our comments on the ignorance, folly,
madness and flat out evil of our opponents will be meaningless if we
can offer no alternative.

Right now our opponents are able to shape political discourse into,
"which tyrant do you wish to submit to to be saved from the others?"
We must communicate that the real alternative is "who the frak said
anything about submitting to tyrants?"

Or else we will continue the current cycle of trading Democrats for
Republicans, Conservatives for Labour, fascists for socialists, left
and right, then back again every few years instead of creating truly
free societies.

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11. Atlantea The Beautiful No. 39
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
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image: http://www.ncc-1776.org/AtlanteaTheBeautiful/atlantea0039.jpg

Number 39 of a weekly cartoon series.

Atlantea The Beautiful: An Explanation (or a Poor Excuse):
www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle503-20090125-09.html

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