I see we will publish issue number 800 on Pearl Harbor Day. How about
that.
And in this issue is Number 300 of our "Atlantea the Beautiful".
How about that.
Well, now, we have:
A WORD FROM THE PUBLISHER
First, the good news: despite the best efforts of a hostile
universe, I am alive and relatively well. I had a stroke on
June 28, and spent the next four endless months in various
facilities, recuperating and rehabilitating. I am
continuing treatment at home. Initially paralyzed on my
left side, I can now walk, and am slowly regaining use of
my left hand.
And the gooder news: Brian Wilson, the great voice of
Libertarianism on the radio, has begun recoerding an audio
version of my award-winning Down With Power. We'll keep
you posted.
I cannot adequately express my thanks to the many
individuals who helped me and my family while I was ill.
I will never forget you.
L. Neil Smith
Publisher and Senior Columnist
The Libertarian Enterprise
A note from Terence James Mason:
If you give up your right to self defense, you no longer have a right
to live. You no longer have a right to liberty. You only have the
"privilege" of living at the pleasure of whomever took your right to
self defense. You are a serf, living at the pleasure of the feudal
lord to whom you swore fealty.
What it is all about, explained by a lefty:
A Lefty Explains What the Election Is All About
by John Hinderaker
Rob Stein is the founder of the Democracy Alliance, an
umbrella a group that organizes the funding of left-wing
causes by rich liberals and interest groups. In "The
Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado" by Adam
Schrager and Rob Witwer, at page 7, Stein explains
candidly what politics is all about for the Left:
"The reason it is so important to control government
is because government is the source of enormous power,"
Stein continued. "One president in this country, when he
or she takes office, appoints...5,000 people to run a
bureaucracy, nonmilitary nonpostal service of 2 million
people, who hire 10 million outside outsource contractors— a
workforce of 12 million people—that spends $3 trillion
a year. That number is larger than the gross domestic
product of all but four countries on the face of the
earth."
"So the reason we're doing what we're doing...and
the way we get progressive change, is to control
government," Stein said. "That's what this is about."
This will to power explains why the Left, a clear
minority among Americans, consistently punches above
its weight, politically.
Glenn Reynolds once commented on the seeming paradox of
liberals who are terrified at the prospect that
libertarians might take power and leave them alone.
Actually, liberals probably do want to be left alone; they
just don't have any intention of leaving you alone.
Liberals hunger for power so that they can enrich
themselves, in many cases, but more generally, so they
can remake the world according to their own preferences.
This doesn't mean that they will have to change, but it
does mean that you will have to change. As long as
liberals' hunger for power is stronger than conservatives'
desire to be left in peace, the Left will continue to
dominate our public life.
Read more
For example, the Feds want censorship, and want it now:
Dems on FEC move to regulate Internet campaigns, blogs, Drudge
by Paul Bedard
In a surprise move late Friday, a key Democrat on the
Federal Election Commission called for burdensome new
rules on Internet-based campaigning, prompting the
Republican chairman to warn that Democrats want to
regulate online political sites and even news media like
the Drudge Report.
Democratic FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel announced plans to
begin the process to win regulations on Internet-based
campaigns and videos, currently free from most of the
FEC's rules. "A reexamination of the commission's approach
to the internet and other emerging technologies is long
over due," she said.
The power play followed a deadlocked 3-3 vote on whether
an Ohio anti-President Obama Internet campaign featuring
two videos violated FEC rules when it did not report its
finances or offer a disclosure on the ads. The ads were
placed for free on YouTube and were not paid advertising.
Under a 2006 FEC rule, free political videos and advocacy
sites have been free of regulation in a bid to boost voter
participation in politics. Only Internet videos that are
placed for a fee on websites, such as the Washington
Examiner, are regulated just like normal TV ads.
Read more
Aside from the FEC, there is the FTC. We have been advised
by one of our affiliates that the First Amendment does not
apply to anyone selling anything, and since we feature links
selling things, we therefore must notify people buying things
that ... well ... things are being sold for which we may get
a small payment from the selling thereof. Generally speaking
nobody ever buys anyting from our links, I don't know why I
bother going to the motions, but a feller has to have some
sort of hobby, right? Um... anyway see the FTC Disclosure
Policy:
found here.
(Note: this is a 2,359,896-byte 53-page PDF file!—Warning
from the Federal Bandwidth Commissiioonn (not really)). And
yes, I'm making fun of them by doing this. You knew that.
Wait... is it illegal to make fun of the Feds?
When all three banches of our government are corrupt, what
are we to do? Is it possible then to do anything at all?
When the election process is corrupted how are we to "clean
house" or "throw the rascals out" or apply other traditional
remedies? When the corrupt have backed us into a corner, or
down a blind alley, and now stand off sneering at us, what
can we do?
What say you, reader?
And finally, a double-barrel pump shotgun. Er... a what???:
double-barrel pump
We are a Reader-Supported on-line eMagazine. Click the "Pay"
button here and at the end of most articles to pay the author of what
you just read whatever you want to pay. We all will appreciate it!
Ken Holder
Editor-in-Chief
editor@ncc-1776.org
Holsters and Sheaths from Survival Sheath Systems
Used and recommended by L. Neil Smith
Take a look at:
survivalsheath.com
|