A WORD FROM THE PUBLISHER
Elsewhere in this issue,
you'll discover an article of mine about
the federal government's ecofascistic attacks on the Gibson Guitar
Company.
My average non-musician reader may think this issue isn't very
important, and perhaps I am a bit prejudiced: I've been a musician
longer than I've been a libertarian. As nearly as I can recall, I
started learning to play the ukulele, my first stringed instrument,
the summer before the school year (1962) in which I first read Atlas
Shrugged.
So this is an issue I feel close to and, perhaps because of the
passion involved, I left out one or two points that could prove to be
important.
The first is that the loonies in the agency that's been unleashed
by what historians will refer to someday as the Barack Insane Obama
Administration, want to make their ban on importing "endangered" woods
retroactive—meaning they might just come around wearing ski masks
and black Kevlar, carrying automatic rifles and recordings of Nancy
Sinatra's greatest hit, to collect the ancient Washburn your great
grandmother brought west with her in a covered wagon, and throw you in
prison.
The second is good news: this could be the issue that breaks the
camel's back, unites gun-toting rednecks in flyover country with urban
hillbillies who work at Starbucks and major in the humanities. They,
and everybody in between them, either play guitars themselves or
listen to them. For every M1A or FN-FAL or M16 variant out there, you
can bet your granny's dentures there's a Gibson or a Martin or a
Fender.
Third, under the heading of what to do, our first objective—the
topic we must bring up every time—is abolishing the Environmental
Protection Agency, not just whistling in relief when we make them back
off on this one point. Even the ecocrazies who want to stop developers
from building new homes for families or constructing dams to prevent
floods, store water, and provide recreation, will cheerfully murder
every snail darter on the planet and uproot every furbish lousewort,
if saving them requires tearing the bridges and fingerboards off their
guitars.
So—and remember you heard it here first—act locally, think
musically.
L. Neil Smith, Publisher and Senior Columnist
L. Neil Smith's The Libertarian Enterprise
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