Friday, April 28, 2006

Quote of the day


It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the late Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much ... to forget it.
James Madison

Where they stand

The people of California, the American citizens, are fortunate to have been informed exactly of where their government stands. Sadly it isn't with the citizens of California, but with the legion of illegal aliens who, with every second of their presence, break this country's law.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Some Democratic state lawmakers are planning to walk off the job Monday - just as millions of others around the country are expected to - in support of immigrants' rights.
The Democratic-controlled Senate, on a party-line vote, approved a resolution supporting the May 1 "Great American Boycott 2006," which supporters say will serve as a warning to Congress to avoid punitive immigration reform.
Organizers believe the boycott, in which large numbers of students also are expected to participate, will show just how vital immigrants are to America's major cities and the nation's economy.
"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation," said Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys. "What a good time this is when people can express their anger, their frustration, desires, hopes and dreams, all for the purpose of becoming American. That's a good thing."


All Americans, in fact, are fortunate for this stand by the lawbreakers, I mean lawmakers, in California. We finally get to see who is on the side of law and justice and just who is on the side of illegal aliens who don't follow the laws of this land. Not that we didn't know before. It's just nice to have them broadcast it for all the country to see.

Once again I must reiterate my stand on the immigration issue. This article I wrote sums it up very succinctly.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Do it Yourself

Minuteman border watch leader Chris Simcox has a message for President Bush: Build new security fencing along the border with Mexico or private citizens will.
Simcox said Wednesday that he's sending an ultimatum to the president, through the media, "You can't get through to the president any other way," to deploy military reserves and the National Guard to the Arizona border by May 25.
Or, Simcox said, by the Memorial Day weekend Minuteman Civil Defense Corps volunteers and supporters will break ground to start erecting fencing privately.
"We have had landowners approach," Simcox said in an interview. "We've been working on this idea for a while. We're going to show the federal government how easy it is to build these security fences, how inexpensively they can be built when built by private people and free enterprise.


When the entire nation cannot get their government to represent them, what choice is left except to do it yourself. The "Minutemen", those horrible vigilantes as described by Senor Bush, the second president of Mexico, are really embarassing the federal government. They are shooting holes into the federal's excuses as to why the government is unable to do anything about this alien invasion. Now it's time to cheaply build a border fence anathema to the ruling parties. The Minutemen are going to construct a fence cheaply, quickly, and much to the chagrin of the federals. God bless em'.

While I usually agree with most of what the Minutmen do and say, I can't bring myself to agree with this statement by Simcox,"You can't get through to the president any other way."

Don't be ridiculous Simcox. There is no getting through to the president.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Just another in a long list


This article, "Politics Should Be Local" by Jeff Adams is just another in a long line. Of what? Of articles that shouldn't have to be written.

Part of the genius of how the framers of the U.S. Constitution set things up was that the Constitution divided and dispersed authority and power. By creating a limited, bottom-up form of government that left the majority of power in the hands of the member states of the union, elected officials were more accountable to those whom they represented. The late Tip O’Neill, former Speaker of the House, was famous for saying, "All politics is local." While in a sense this was true, it doesn’t seem so today. Over time, our form of government has been literally turned on its head. We have an ever-centralizing, top-down government that claims unlimited authority and power. Elected representatives appear to view themselves as unaccountable to those they are supposed to represent (the citizens of their district, state, county, city, etc., that vote), and seem to represent special interests that finance their campaigns and lifestyles. So what to do about this?

Every child who attends those government schools is taught, because even though they try so damn hard to hide the fact, our country was founded on the principles of smaller, localized government. You just can't spin the American Revolution to have the Colonials fighting for a strong federal government. It just ain't possible. Hell, even when as young as I was the first time I heard about The Articles of Confederation, I knew the basic premise of our government. All states are separate, and plan on staying that way. It is a sad indictment of the failure of the United States government that articles like this fine piece by Mr. Adams must be written. If we were true to our laws and our founding, we would find pieces like this in an encylopedia. Not a book on ancient history and these united states wouldn't be in the dire straits we were forced into by those who bend and break the laws in Washington DC.

And take this poll all you Southern patriots. It may help us drill some sense into the scalawags who are our current representatives.


http://www.senseofthesouth.com/

Friday, April 14, 2006

Quotes of the day

Quotes of the day in www.theolddominion.myblogsite.com

4/29/05
Robert E. Lee made the following statement to Governor Stockdale (who had been the Confederate Lt. Governor of Texas) in August 1870.
"Governor, if I had foreseen the use those people designed to make of their victory, there would have been no surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; no, sir, not by me. Had I foreseen these results of subjugation, I would have preferred to die at Appomattox with my brave men, my sword in this right hand."
Robert E. Lee
5/2/05
It is our true policy to steer clear of entangling alliances with any portion of the foreign world. George Washington
5/3/05
”See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them and gives it to other persons to whom it doesn’t belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish that law without delay.”
Frederic BastiatFrench economist and statesman, The Law, 1850:
5/4/05
I'm a Virginian. Virginians are the most conceited people on earth. There is nothing higher to aspire to.

Lady Astor

5/5/05
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government -- lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."-- Patrick Henry
5/6/05
"The sole object of this war is to restore the union. Should I become convinced it has any other object, or that the Government designs using its soldiers to execute the wishes of the Abolitionists, I pledge youmy honor as a man and a soldier I would resign my commission and carry my sword to the other side." Gen. U.S. Grant
5/9/05
"The Principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form."
President Jefferson Davis, C.S.A.
5/10/05
Democracy is the road to socialism !
Karl Marx
5/11/05
A liberal will sell his soul to the devil to get into heaven.
Jeremy J. Luzier
5/12/05
"The future inhabitants of the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better."
Thomas Jefferson
5/16/05
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
Robert E. Lee
5/17/05
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
5/18/05
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Boneparte
5/19/05
The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.
Bill Clinton
5/20/05
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
George Washington
5/23/05
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
Lord Acton
5/24/05
"[How] to check these unconstitutional invasions of... rights by the Federal judiciary? Not by impeachment in the first instance, but by a strong protestation of both houses of Congress that such and such doctrines advanced by the Supreme Court are contrary to the Constitution; and if afterwards they relapse into the same heresies, impeach and set the whole adrift. For what was the government divided into three branches, but that each should watch over the others and oppose their usurpations?"
--Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1821. (*) FE 10:192
5/25/05When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.
Niccolo Machiavelli
5/26/05
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"
Patrick Henry
5/27/05
"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience"

Albert Camus
5/29/05
People are beginning to realize that the apparatus of government is costly. But what they do not know is that the burden falls inevitably on them. Frederic Bastiat
5/30/05
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge
5/31/05
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
6/1/05
"This overthrow of the rights of freemen and the establishment of such new relations required a complete revolution in the principle of the government of the United States, the subversion of the state governments, the subjugation of the people, and the destruction of the fraternal Union. The work has been done. Will it stand? Have the eternal principles of the Declaration of Independence been hid from our sight forever? Or will they again come forth, "redeemed, disenthralled, regenerated," and rally the reunited people to shout in thunder-tones for sovereignty of the people and the unalienable rights of man?
"It has been shown in previous pages that the state governments were instituted to be the special guardians of these unalienable rights of man; henceforth, however, they must be sworn defenders of the government of the United States, not of the Constitution and laws enacted in pursuance thereof, but of such interpolations and perversions of them as, in case of necessity, that government should find it convenient to make. Whenever it pleases, it can set them aside; whenever it wills, it can destroy them. Unalienable rights are unknown to this war-begotten theory of the Constitution. The day has come in which mankind beholds this government founding its highest claims to greatness and glory upon deeds done in utter violation of those rights which belonged to its own citizens in every state, North and South. The palladium of the freeman, the bills of rights, the limitations of power, the written constitutions, have all lost their sacred authority, and not a man or a state dare, single-handed, gainsay the will of the agency which, feeling power, has forgotten right. ... When the cause was lost, what cause was it? Not that of the South only, but the cause of constitutional government, of the supremacy of law, of the natural rights of man."
From "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government" by Jefferson Davis
6/2/05
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin
6/3/05
It would be a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their income.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richar's Almanac 1758
6/5/05
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from the government.
--Thomas Paine 'The Rights of Man' c.1792
6/6/05
"To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right." ~Confucius
6/7/05
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law.
Frederic Bastiat
6/8/05
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man. George Washington
6/9/05
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
6/13/05
If the North triumphs, it is not alone the destruction of our property; it is the prelude to anarchy, infidelity, the ultimate loss of free and responsible government on this continent. It is the triumph of commerce, the banks and factories. We should meet the Federal invader on the outer verge of just and right defense and raise at once the black flag. No quarter to the violator of our homes and firesides!
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
6/14/05
Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns --Thomas Jefferson—
6/15/05
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that, if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that too."-- William Somerset Maugham, 1941
6/16/05
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. --H. L. Mencken
6/17/05
Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.- Percy Bysshe Shelley
6/20/05
"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideashe disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."
Thomas Jefferson
6/21/05
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. ... This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.
-Alan Greenspan-
6/22/05
But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. William ShakespearePericles Prince of Tyre (Pericles at I, ii)
6/23/05
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken
6/23/05
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence
John Adams
6/24/05
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt
6/27/05
"I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races [applause]: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I, as much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
-- Reply by Abraham Lincoln to Stephen A. Douglas in the first joint debate, Ottowa, IL; 21 Aug 1858
6/29/05
Well I know you are brave, and I am far weaker.True - but all lies in the lap of the great gods.Weaker I am, but I still might take your lifeWith one hurl of a spear - my weapon can cut too,Long before now its point has found its mark!"
From Homer's Iliad Book 20, lines 492 - 496
6/30/05
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
7/1/05
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
-Joseph Addison-
7/6/05
"We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle"
-Winston Churchill-
7/7/05
"The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper."
-Thomas Jefferson-
7/8/05
"Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad"
Attributed to W.C. Fields
7/11/05
The Fourteenth Amendment has had precisely the effect that its nineteenth-century Republican party supporters intended it to have: it has greatly centralized power in Washington, D.C., and has subjected Americans to the kind of judicial tyranny that Thomas Jefferson warned about when he described federal judges as those who would be constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric. It's time for all Americans to reexamine the official history of the Civil War and its aftermath as taught by paid government propagandists in the public schools for the past 135 years.
-Thomas J. DiLorenzo-
7/12/05
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.
-Thomas Paine-
7/13/05
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
-Benjamin Franklin-
7/14/05
We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before; and it changed for the better; so I trust it will again; If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times. --George Washington
7/15/05
What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
Thomas Jefferson
7/18/05
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
-John Jay-
7/19/05
"We cannot but be astonished at the ease with which men resign themselves to ignorance about what is most important for them to know; and we may be certain that they are determined to remain invincibly ignorant if they once come to consider it as axiomatic that there are no absolute principles."
-Frederic Bastiat-
7/20/05
"We are grateful to the Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
-David Rockefeller-
7/21/05
There is no such thing as a good tax!
-Winston Churchill-
7/22/05
"The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states."
Charles Dickens, 1862,
7/25/05
"[Our situation] illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established."
-Jefferson Davis-
7/26/05
A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined. but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
George Washington
7/27/05
"Waiting periods are only a step. Registration is only a step. The prohibition of private firearms is the goal"
-Janet Reno-
7/28/05
The Army of Northern Virginia was never defeated. It merely wore itself out whipping the enemy.
-General Jubal Early –
7/29/05
The war between the North and the South is a tariff war. The war is further, not for any principle, does not touch the question of slavery, and in fact turns on the Northern lust for sovereignty.
-Karl Marx, 1861-
8/1/05
Up, men, and to your posts! Don't forget today that you from Old Virginia! --General George Pickett, Gettysburg, 1863
8/2/05
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H.L. Mencken
8/3/05
Ultimately, property rights and personal rights are the same thing.
-Calvin Coolidge-
8/5/05
"I am concerned for the security of our great nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insideous forces working from within."
-Dougls MacArthur-
8/9/05
Dixie's Not Down yet! She lives and thrives through her history and those who love her history will save it so that others can bring some of it backto life.
Maury Morris, a Virginian-
8/10/05
"Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest."
-Mahatma Gandhi-
8/11/05
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Samuel Longhorn Clemens-
8/12/05
Presidential farewell address "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."- George Washington
8/15/05
"Under it we won our victories and its glory will never fade. It is enshrined in our hearts forever"Varina Howell Davis
8/16/05
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the UN Charter to which we will henceforth pledge our allegiance."
-George Bush-
8/17/05
I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents
-James Madison-
8/18/05
Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, but our country, right or wrong
-Stephen Decatur-
8/19/05
"We can't allow science to undo its own good work."
World Controller Mustapha Mond, Chapter 17, pg. 227 from Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
8/22/05
"I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none."
-Robert E. Lee-
8/24/05
The South, he said, belongs to all Southern people, not just black or white. "This was our homeland," he says. "I'm not here to defend institutional slavery, just our homeland. When I see the Confederate battle flag, it makes my heart start pumping because I know that is the Southern flag. That flag says black folks like me earned a place of honor and dignity in history."
H.K. Edgerton
8/25/05
"Let men not ask what the law requires, but give whatever freedom demands." ---Jefferson Davis—
8/29/05
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what tohave for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759
8/30/05
Congress is like the drunk who promises to sober up tomorrow, without the slightest intention of doing so. The voting public is like the battered wife who somehow keeps believing the promises.
Dr. Ron Paul
8/31/05
"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it"
-Frederic Bastiat-
9/1/05
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
-Thomas Jefferson-
9/2/05
Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike

-Homer, The Iliad-
9/6/05
"A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader."
-Samuel Adams-
9/7/05
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation."
-Vladimir Lenin-
9/8/05
A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?
-Cicero-
9/9/05
The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage to keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property.
-Thomas Paine-
9/12/05
Politicians "are seldom if ever moved by anything rationally describable as public spirit; there is actually no more public spirit among them than among so many burglars or street walkers. Their purpose, first, last and all the time, is to promote their private advantage, and to that end, and that end alone, they exercise all the vast powers that are in their hands."
--H.L. Mencken--
9/13/05
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war"
-James Madison-
9/14/05
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
-Edward R. Murrow-
9/15/05
The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him. He can not only forgive; he can forget; and he strives for that nobleness of self and mildness of character which imparts sufficient strength to let the past be put the past.
-Robert E. Lee-
9/16/05
It was not a normal hurricane -- and the normal disaster relief system was not equal to it. Many of the men and women of the Coast Guard, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the United States military, the National Guard, Homeland Security, and state and local governments performed skillfully under the worst conditions. Yet the system, at every level of government, was not well-coordinated, and was overwhelmed in the first few days. It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces -- the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice.
-George Bush-
9/19/05
Those who submit to such consequence without resistance are not worthy the liberties and rights to which they were born, and deserve to be made slaves. Such must be the verdict of mankind."
Pres. Jefferson Davis
9/20/05
"Though I was but little more than a youth during the period of Reconstruction, I had the feeling that mistakes were being made, and that things could not remain in the condition that they were in then very long. I felt that the Reconstruction policy, so far as it related to my race, was in a large measure on a false foundation, was artificial and forced. In many cases it seemed to me that the ignorance of my race was being used as a tool with which to help white men into office, and that there was an element in the North which wanted to punish the Southern white men by forcing the Negro into positions over the heads of the Southern whites. I felt that the Negro would be the one to suffer for this in the end. Besides, the general political agitation drew the attention of our people away from the more fundamental matters of perfecting themselves in the industries at their doors and in securing property. "
-Booker T. Washington-
9/21/05
"The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property."
-John Locke-
9/22/05
"It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long"
-Homer-
9/23/05
"Herdsman, I make you out to be no coward and no fool: I can see that for myself. So let me tell you this. I swear by Zeus all highest, by the table set for friends, and by your king's hearthstone to which I've come, Odysseus will return. You'll be on hand to see, if you care to see it, how those who lord it here will be cut down."
Odysseus Book 20, lines 250-7
9/26/05
Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
--Margaret Mitchell Gone with the wind--
9/27/05
"The jury has a right to judge both the law as well as the facts in controversy"
--John Jay--
1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
10/3/05
"If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours."
-Belle Boyd-
10/4/05
"'Do you believe the enemy have sailed away? Or think that any Grecian gifts are free of craft? Is this the way Ulysses acts? Either Achaeans hide, shut in this wood, or else this is an engine built against our walls.... I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.'"
The Aeneid Book 2, lines 60-70
10/6/05
Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State."
--Heinrich Himmler--
10/7/05
Liberty is not a means to a political end. It is itself the highest political end.
-- Lord Acton --

The Nanny and the Government

The Nanny and the Government

I’ve been watching two nanny shows on TV recently. One is “Super Nanny” and the other is “Nanny 911”. I admit they are fluff and I should spend my time on more intellectual and self-improving pursuits; I do not, I watch the nanny shows. Like most, I despise the nanny state intrusions on people’s lives that a nanny state produces and expects. But this missive has nothing to do with the nanny state and her tyranny, so let’s drop any association with that term right now.
The nanny shows I have been watching stress an important aspect of child raising and discipline. Children need both defined standards of behavior and concrete, clearly defined consequences to those expected behaviors when they are not followed. What does this have to do with government you ask? Americans are under a false interpretation of the constitution in relation to the child/parent relationship. Most think our elected representatives are the parents and we are the children when, in fact, the converse is true. We elect them (bring them into the world), and we donate to their campaign and insure our future votes (support) because they support our interests and ideologies (are our future). But that paradigm has been very much abused.
Now we have a situation where the lesser of two evils has become the only, seemingly viable option. Republican senators and legislatures know they are the only choice for the voters in those states who elected them to office. Who wouldn’t take one of the most moderate republicans over a liberal/socialist democrat? What recourse do the voters have when faced with this situation, a third party? That would be ideal, but it doesn’t look like it is happening. So we walk the same path which has led us, well, you know where it has led us.
The reason this behavior is acceptable is because the voters do not do what the nannies do. Nannies lay out the rules to their charges from the very beginning. The nanny posts on her rule board (NO BITING). If a child in the house bites he goes to time-out or some other previously defined consequence to his breaking the rule of NO BITING. Our representatives are never given any clearly defined rules that will result in their ouster if broken. If a body of voters were to say to their state representative,” You will not make any deals on judges with the democrats. If you do, the people of this state will automatically remove you from the possibility of reelection the next time your seat comes up for a vote. We will not abide your presence in the senate, no matter what the opposition candidate may have over another politician in our party, you will not be chosen by this party to run for the senate or the legislature again.” Sadly, we do not have any voters saying these things when representatives are elected. Instead we have a situation where the rep. votes in direct opposition to the will of their constituents and later the people complain about the votes that were made on their behalf. Even later the people forget that the rep. voted in direct opposition to their will and, when looking at the democratic candidate, will elect them again to go and do the same thing.
The people can’t really blame the rep. for his behavior. Can you blame a child for biting when no one told him not to? You can expect the child to know that biting is not permissible. Both you and the child know that he knows biting is unacceptable, but there is not reason to punish him for it. No one ever told him it was against the rules and he should not be punished if has bitten someone. A child will get away with anything he can get away with. That is a child’s nature. A politician will take as much power, vote in his own personal interests, and perform all manner of betrayal to his constituents. That is a politician’s nature. We expect both children and politicians to act in this manner.
What can we do? We can set concrete, well known rules before the representatives are elected. We need a blackboard with rules and clearly defined consequences in our states that our politicians will follow and fall prey to if they violate. The people of this state don’t want a national ID card. If you vote for an ID card, we will not vote for you in the next election. The people of this state do not want to be a part of the United Nations. If you do not vote with Ron Paul on this issue, we will refrain from lending you our support in the next election, and we don’t care how bad the democrat over there is. If the democrats pick up a seat in this election, that will only teach the republicans the consequence of breaking our clearly defined rules.
Give these politicians something to fear. As of this moment, they have nothing to fear except bad press, and that is not adequate protection against their betrayal.

NO BITING MODERATE REPUBLICANS, OR YOUR CAREER WILL GO TO TIME-OUT, HENCEFORTH
By Jeremy J. Luzier

A few found things from the original theolddominion

Template for Liberal Reporters Covering Confederate Flag Stories.

Today in (Southern City and State Name Here) the (Southern City Council, High School, or other government entity, (note: if the NAACP or SPLC have stirred up the issue please make sure to place their name here.) took/confronted (up) the issue of

a. the Confederate Battle Flag flying
b. confederate themed clothing
c. Confederate cemetery
d. Confederate monument
e. any other unmentioned Confederate situation

The Confederate battle flag is a divisive symbol that some say represents the (proud) history and heritage of the South (never mention the Southern ‘people’, it gives them too much influence) while others maintain that the symbol is a reminder of oppression and slavery. Note: If you wish to add a dash of good ole’ boy to your column and some cultural knowledge please use the term ‘Stars and Bars’ when referring to the Confederate battle flag. The ‘Stars and Bars’ and the Confederate battle flag, however, are two different designs and the statement is historically and factually incorrect, but don’t let this deter you from using the term. These articles are not about truth as much as inciting divisiveness and creating the desired effect.

Note:

It is always important, especially if the article deals with the flying of the flag to mention (The Confederate Battle Flag began flying in response to civil rights legislation of the 1960’s. Under no circumstances attempt to offer proof of this as it will only lead people to question the paper and its accuracy)

After giving a general overview of the situation at hand, these sources are appropriate for all articles dealing with the modern Confederate movement.

Progressive sources include:

The SPLC and their Intelligence Project which tracks hate groups across the country
The SPLC offers no proof of any accusation associated with Confederate groups except a man who knew someone who did something when, eventually tracking them to a hate group like the Klan or Neo-Nazis. It is of the utmost importance that you do not quote the SPLC too lengthily. Take quotes if at all possible from Morris Dees or Heidi Beirich without any documentation. The fact that the esteemed SPLC says something is gospel when concerning supposed hate groups and should never be questioned.

The NAACP is the oldest civil rights organization in the country for African-Americans and their word is even more respected than the SPLC. They can always be counted on to create controversy about the Confederate battle flag or join once that controversy has already been created. Under no circumstances mention the resolution against all things Confederate that NAACP put out in 1991 as it will only diminish the effectiveness of your column. Lately the NAACP, especially its leaders, has been associating the Confederate Battle Flag with the Nazi swastika. We suggest you use this tactic when and if at all possible.

Jesse Jackson: Jesse Jackson isn’t a very good source really. He has been dishonored recently with allegations of corruption in his Rainbow Push coalition and funds used to pay for the upkeep of his illegitimate children. But Jesse Jackson can always be counted on to battle the Confederacy whenever and wherever he sees it as advantageous. If you offer him media exposure or money he will be an invaluable asset to your article.

Al Sharpton: Al Sharpton is an almost more disreputable figure than Jesse Jackson. We suggest you only use Sharpton when all other sources have been exhausted.

You will eventually have to find Confederate organizations to denigrate in you article and these sources are excellent. They can be called racist and neo-confederate with out any proof (see SPLC above).

Confederate Sources include:

The League Of the South: The league of the South is an organization who wants to reinstate the constitution as intended by the founders. They no longer believe that their dreams can be realized through the government of the United States and advocate secession.

But be careful: A columnist named Jeremy King recently quoted the League straight from their website and unfortunately used this quote.

The League posted a statement on racism dated June 21. Following is a paragraph, copied verbatim.
"We believe that the last thing the South's enemies want is to see black and white Southerners sitting down together to determine their common destiny and work for authentic harmony, a just social and economic order, and an independent South.
"We can't foretell precisely what that order will look like, but it certainly will not make room for diversity police and political correctness.
"Rather, we hope it will bring the greatest freedom for the greatest number of all races, and good will among them all."
As you can see this staff writer directly quoted the league’s website and inadvertently proved that the league is not a racist organization that wants to reinstate slavery and Jim Crow laws. This is the chance you take when you quote the League of the South directly. It is a better strategy to quote the SPLC than to directly quote Confederates or their movement as shown above.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans: the SCV as they are called cannot be relied on to give racist quotes. They have members of all races in their group and their only qualification is ancestry to a member in the Confederate Army. If you want to throw some dirt around about the SCV it is advisable that you discuss the recent take over by radicals that want to take the organization in a racist path. Look up SSCV, an organization that stated they were trying to save the SCV from becoming a racist organization. This isn’t true, but it matters not when you have a movement called the SSCV. This accusation by former members of the SCV gives the writer of these kinds of articles license to throttle the SCV.
Historical references:
Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln is the trump card of these articles. Whatever he said is gospel. Mention the Emancipation Proclamation that freed all the slaves. Warning: Do not listen to the Confederates who are trying to defend Dixie when they try to tell you that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave. We cannot have Lincoln’s character and acts questioned.
Ft. Sumter: Always mention that the Confederates fired on Ft. Sumter and started the War. Give no historical context as to why the Confederates did this. If questioned, only mention pride.
Nathan Bedford Forrest: He was the founder of the Klu Klux Klan. Do not fear when the Confederates offer you historical references and truths that point out his true nature. When speaking of Forrest mention the Fort Pillow massacre. Do not be scared to use this example even though his actions were proven not to be a massacre.
Robert E. Lee: It is best not to mention Robert E. Lee. If the situation arises where you have no other choice but to mention him, do not speak about his character, especially in relation to Sherman and Grant. This will only bring sympathy to the Confederates and make people question their pre-programmed emotional responses to Confederates.
Grant: Always mention Grant in a good light and as a saver of the Union. Never mention his slaves or his burning of the South her treasure and the murder of her people.
Jefferson Davis: Say he was president of the Confederacy. Under no circumstances relate the tale of his black adopted son.
Tone: The tone of these articles must be one of total truth. Remember, all things discussed in this article are settled history and are never to be questioned. If you were to discuss the flag flying over the state house in South Carolina, say that it was done in response to civil rights legislation (see above). Do not mention the anniversary of the Confederate states. This is settled history. Always quote the SPLC and the NAACP as if they are beyond reproach. Never mention any of their reasons for starting these battles, it is not advantageous. Their motivations are not to be called into question. Try to find a quote by a Confederate supporter that is benign if that is the tact you want your article to take. If you want an explosive one, we refer to the above, only quoting the SPLC and the NAACP. Always be derisive toward the supporters of the Confederacy if you mention them at all. It is best to not let their voice be heard, but if you feel you must then a tone of contempt at their audacity is best.
With this template you should be able to cull the information, sources, and historical facts necessary to create the proper derision of Confederates and their dislike for modern American statism. After this article you should be well on you way to making a name for yourself in liberal circles and will soon start climbing the journalistic ladder.
By the Assassinating Press, August 2005

Thursday, April 13, 2006

That just about sums it up

Eric Phillips, in writing about the socialization of medecine in Massachusetts and the eventual socialization of all medecine in these united states, gives us this run down of how governement gets unconstituional programs implemented.

The pattern rarely changes. First, publicity grows about some social ill, real or imagined. Experts appear on CNN and Fox News decrying the present situation; pundits, activists and now, bloggers demand action. Politicians propose a massive new bureaucratic program to fix the problem. Moderates and so-called Conservatives, exploiting an opportunity to stand up for the shrinking number of Americans who still oppose these socialist ideas, call for a market-based solution or some sort of compromise. Usually, a compromise is, in fact, reached. What this means is that government regulations are simply increased – the private system, however handicapped, struggles along. The cycle completes itself when, predictably, increased government involvement brings on the next crisis.

Excellently put Mr. Phillips.

The new Massachusetts law is simply another step in the direction of a completely nationalized health care system. Some opponents are afraid that his law has admitted the principle that the government has the right to intervene in the nation’s health problems. They fail to realize that that principle was admitted long ago with the emergence of Medicare and Medicaid.

When one sacrifices first principle, he is doomed to failure; it does not matter what successes he may trumpet.

Another example of this government process and the sacrifice of first principle is the Kelo vs. New London case. When this unconstitutional ruling was made by the supreme court a legion of pundits proclaimed that the government owns and decides what to do with everyones property now. It seems they have never heard of those pesky things called property taxes.

A familiar refrain

Government Spending Hits Record in March
WASHINGTON - Government spending hit an all-time high for a single month in March, pushing the budget deficit up significantly from the red-ink level of a year ago.
In its monthly accounting of the government's books, the
Treasury Department' reported Wednesday that federal spending totaled $250 billion last month, up 13.7 percent from March 2005.
Government receipts also were up, rising 10.6 percent from a year ago, to $164.6 billion. That left a deficit for the month of $85.5 billion, a record imbalance for March.
Treasury Department officials said that half of the growth in outlays for March represented a $15 billion shift in payments for certain government benefit programs, including Medicare, into March rather than April. The benefit payments were made early because April 1 fell on a Saturday.
The March outlay record of $250 billion surpassed the old mark of $232 billion set in February
When will this madness end?

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Who makes American foreign policy?

The CFR. That's who

LONDON — Western defense sources and analysts told a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations that Britain and the United States are preparing for the prospect of air strikes against Iran's nuclear facilities in late 2006 if diplomatic efforts at the United Nations Security Council are not succesful.

"In just the past few weeks I've been convinced that at least some in the administration have already made up their minds that they would like to launch a military strike against Iran," Joseph Cirincione, director of the Washington-based Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said.
At an April 5 seminar by the Council on Foreign Relations, Cirincione said he based his assessment on conversations with those with "close connections with the White House and the Pentagon.


Do I need ask you why the CFR is informed about foreign policy before the American people? I shouldn't. Do you even know what the CFR is?

Monday, April 10, 2006

I pity you brave anti-illegal alien journalist

I have the highest pity for people who write on the immigration debate, day in and day out. Let me rephrase that. I have the highest pity for those who are not trying to fuse Mexico and these united states together who write on the illegal aliens issue day in and day out. I hold such pity for a very simple reason. The issue is settled, and when an issue is settled and one must still continue to create new and exciting perspectives on a settled issue a mental fatigue can only be a side effect.Unlike those Ivory towered journalists and political power players, I don't feel the need to pander to any base and never have to worry about 'the emerging Hispanic' vote. I don't need to analyze every thought on immigration to come up with a fact here of there in those vast volumes of material to support my pre ordained position. I can see the forest and the trees, and they're telling me the forest is on fire.

These are inconvenient facts for those who deny reality.

1. The American people don't want a guest worker program (politicians are a different sort, but the people don't want a guest worker program. Not that our politicians care what we say anyhow, "we live in an interdependent global economy" and other such mish-mash. I refer you to every poll taken, ever)

2. Illegal Aliens don't improve the economy. They take more out in social services than they add. I refer you to any non-politically motivated study.

3. Illegal aliens don't want to become Americans. I refer you to the protests in the street with far too many Mexican flags.

4. Illegal aliens commit crimes. I refer you to the proportion of illegal aliens in our jails right now.

5. Illegal aliens bring sickness and disease into the country. I refer you to the fact that they are not screened while walking over the border.

6. The border is wide open. Everyone knows that is crazy, especially when you are fighting a war on terrorism (or so they say. If I were the leader of a country fighting a war, what would be the first thing I would do? That's right. Close the border down. )

7. Illegal aliens smell. Whether it is sweat or cheap perfume and cologne, as a rule illegal aliens smell.

8. Illegals invest the money they earn here in Mexico, not these united states. I refer you to one of the largest portions of Mexico's economy, (American money)

9. Do you really need any more proof? No, but if you disagree, it is your resistance to seeing the nose on your face, or that your wife sneaks out of bed every morning at 2:00 for about two hours so she can go to bible study.

10. If you disagree with this settled argument, you have an agenda.

11. It's settled.As a general practice, I don't like to think of arguments as settled. But this one is settled. I can't deny it, even if it does fit in with my agenda.