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Letters to the Editor
from A.X. Perez
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Let Slip the Pigs of War
by L. Neil Smith
Everywhere you go at the moment, the radio, TV, the Internet are
full of establishment Republicans—the morons who enthusiastically helped the
Democrats get us into this mess—attacking what they call Ron Paul's "isolationism",
a slur first invented by the Franklin Roosevelt Administration (whose economic policies
had only made the Depression worse, and which was desperate to get into a war that would
cover up its failures) to insult Robert Taft and others who saw no reason for America to
get involved in what became the Second World War.
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Crony-Socialism
by Chris Claypoole
America, like Rome, didn't start out to become an empire. Yet, while
America's path to empire, and the kind and structure of America's empire are quite different
from that of Rome, it is what America has become. The United States has a military presence
in well over 100 countries, and has few qualms about expanding that presence to do much
more than meddle. The obvious examples are Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Then there is
the spillover of military actions into Pakistan, which have the potential to get rather
ugly. Go back a bit and remember Bosnia. The point is, despite being the pre-eminent
military power in the world, the United States, like the Roman Empire, engages in
aggression against nations out of fear, despite the vanishingly small possibility
that those nations could attack America here.
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"And So, Ad Infinitum"
by L. Neil Smith
When you get to be my age, time flies whether you're having fun or
not. A while back (it was seventeen years ago, 1995, the year of the Oklahoma City
bombing) I had written, within a few hours of the event, an article called "Bill
Clinton's Reichstag Fire" in which I didn't say that Waco Willie was responsible for
the destruction of the Murrah Building, only that he would try to use it to advance
his political agenda. I was absolutely right, of course.
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Is The Spirit of '76 Dead?
by Russell D. Longcore
Americans keep looking for a hero. That's what every Presidential
election is about. Americans are bathed in government from the moment of conception
until long after death. Government surrounds us like the water in a fish bowl surrounds
the goldfish. Government is so much apart of our every living moment that we often
scarcely recognize it. But think about the goldfish. After a while of living in this
closed ecosystem and shitting in the atmosphere in which it lives, the water becomes
toxic. The fish will gradually become sicker and sicker. To save the life of the
goldfish, somebody must change the water. Secession changes the water.
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What We Can Learn from the Greens
by David M. Schmidt
The architects of the environmental movement have induced a sizable
portion of the public to not only support their cause but also to consider themselves
part of the movement. This is something that libertarians, despite decades of effort by
many intelligent, dedicated, and sincere individuals, have never been able to do. We
could profit by examining more closely some techniques that have contributed to the
success of the environmental movement.
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Flash Editorials December 31, 2011
by Russell D. Longcore
The Nation: The mainstream media all have their panties in wads
because Texas Congressman Ron Paul is surging in Iowa polling. Even in polls that are unfriendly,
with carefully crafted poll questions, Doctor Paul is at the top of the list of Republicans. The
GOP bosses cannot abide this, and will do whatever it takes to derail Paul's candidacy. As I have
said previously, if Ron Paul continues defying the power brokers and winning, he had better stay
out of airplanes between now and November 2012. The power elite have no compunction about arranging
an airplane crash to look like an accident. Ask John F. Kennedy, Jr. or Minnesota Senator Paul
Wellstone or Georgia Congressman Larry McDonald. Oh, wait. They died in highly suspicious plane crashes.
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A Maple-Leaf Rag
by L. Neil Smith
As the Libertarian movement's most widely published and prolific
living novelist (there—I finally said it, and I'm glad!) I don't usually respond to
what's referred to (too politely, if you ask me) as "literary criticism". In fact, I
don't even read the stuff.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 157
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 157 of a weekly cartoon series.
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