Due to the actions of a madman in Newtown CT, there are increasing calls for gun control.
I fear that new laws will be passed, such as a new Assault Rifle Ban, only with no "sunset clause".
I fear that this will mark the beginning of our nation's decent into becoming a true third world socialist state.
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Thursday, November 8, 2012
You got the Government you deserve.
Well, Obama won a second term. I couldn't believe it when he won the first time. How can so many people be so clueless?
More people voted for the free shit they can get than care about the wealfare of their country.
Hell, less people voted for Romney than voted for McCain 4 years ago. And this time we knew what was at stake.
The path we are on is unsustainable. The budget must be cut. They will do that by gutting the military. But it won't be enough. They will raise taxes on the rich. But it won't be enough. They will tax and regulate business. And businesses will stop growing, or layoff, or close. But it won't be enough.
What will these people say when gas is $8/gallon? Bread is $10 a loaf? The debt is $25 trillion and the Government runs out of money?
Have you seen the news feeds from Greece? That is where we are headed.
I have lost faith in my country. As Wyatt from Support Your Local Gunfighter said "Americans went from the people who defeated Hitler to the people who want their free sh*t."
I have lost interest in politics. It has become a cartoon caracture of itself, with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam promising people more free stuff to get elected.
Elizabeth Warren won and Allen West lost. I fear we are lost. Until the economy crashes, "The People" will continue to vote for whomever will give them more free shit.
Some will say I'm over-reacting. I'm sorry, but I love my country too much. And I believe that this election is the beginning of the fall of Pax Americana.
So now for the big question: Go Galt or Embrace The Suck?
More people voted for the free shit they can get than care about the wealfare of their country.
Hell, less people voted for Romney than voted for McCain 4 years ago. And this time we knew what was at stake.
The path we are on is unsustainable. The budget must be cut. They will do that by gutting the military. But it won't be enough. They will raise taxes on the rich. But it won't be enough. They will tax and regulate business. And businesses will stop growing, or layoff, or close. But it won't be enough.
What will these people say when gas is $8/gallon? Bread is $10 a loaf? The debt is $25 trillion and the Government runs out of money?
Have you seen the news feeds from Greece? That is where we are headed.
I have lost faith in my country. As Wyatt from Support Your Local Gunfighter said "Americans went from the people who defeated Hitler to the people who want their free sh*t."
I have lost interest in politics. It has become a cartoon caracture of itself, with Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam promising people more free stuff to get elected.
Elizabeth Warren won and Allen West lost. I fear we are lost. Until the economy crashes, "The People" will continue to vote for whomever will give them more free shit.
Some will say I'm over-reacting. I'm sorry, but I love my country too much. And I believe that this election is the beginning of the fall of Pax Americana.
So now for the big question: Go Galt or Embrace The Suck?
Sunday, September 11, 2011
TEN YEARS..........
See my post from 2 years ago:
http://politicsgunsredmeat.blogspot.com/2009/09/8-years-ago-91101.html
The memories of that day are still strong, but things have changed.
OBL is dead, but at this point it doesn't mean much.
I believe our current president ( the SCOAMF) has done more damage to this nation than "the terrorists" ever could.
http://politicsgunsredmeat.blogspot.com/2009/09/8-years-ago-91101.html
The memories of that day are still strong, but things have changed.
OBL is dead, but at this point it doesn't mean much.
I believe our current president ( the SCOAMF) has done more damage to this nation than "the terrorists" ever could.
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD.
Osama Bin Laden, RIH (Rot In Hell)
Meh.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the bastard is dead. But after 10 years, it's almost anticlimatic.
Bush and Cheney should get the lion's share of the credit for this, but they won't.
In the meantime our country is still facing financial Armageddon, we're still involved in 3 wars, and gas is still going to hit $5 this summer.
Meh.
Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the bastard is dead. But after 10 years, it's almost anticlimatic.
Bush and Cheney should get the lion's share of the credit for this, but they won't.
In the meantime our country is still facing financial Armageddon, we're still involved in 3 wars, and gas is still going to hit $5 this summer.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Egypt
In case you've been hiding under a rock for the past week you know it's getting ugly in Egypt. What do you think will happen if the Muslim Brotherhood gains control?
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Hear, Hear!
“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” - Ronald Reagan
Tucson
With all the accusations being leveled a Sarah Palin, I feel it’s necessary to remind some people about some facts. Have you forgotten the violent rhetoric of the past 8 years?
Facebook groups calling for the murder of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Sarah Palin. Slogans such as “Kill Bush” and “Abort Sarah Palin”. A movie called “Death of a President” depicting the assassination of a sitting President, George Bush. Celebrities such as Gore Vidal lamenting that he didn’t murder Bush. Madonna screaming on stage that she wants to ”kick Sarah Palin’s a--” and Sandra Bernhard on stage hoping that Sarah Palin gets gang-raped. And I can’t even begin to list the disgusting and graphic protest signs, posters and internet games produced during Bush’s presidency.
All of these things were glossed over or made light of by the media. When conservatives were appalled and called for apologies we were told to “lighten up” and “it’s Free Speech”.
Now, all of the sudden, it’s the Right that is responsible for all the violent rhetoric? Now the Left is trying to blame Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin.
The shooting in Tucson is a tragedy, but the only one responsible is Jared Loughner
Facebook groups calling for the murder of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Sarah Palin. Slogans such as “Kill Bush” and “Abort Sarah Palin”. A movie called “Death of a President” depicting the assassination of a sitting President, George Bush. Celebrities such as Gore Vidal lamenting that he didn’t murder Bush. Madonna screaming on stage that she wants to ”kick Sarah Palin’s a--” and Sandra Bernhard on stage hoping that Sarah Palin gets gang-raped. And I can’t even begin to list the disgusting and graphic protest signs, posters and internet games produced during Bush’s presidency.
All of these things were glossed over or made light of by the media. When conservatives were appalled and called for apologies we were told to “lighten up” and “it’s Free Speech”.
Now, all of the sudden, it’s the Right that is responsible for all the violent rhetoric? Now the Left is trying to blame Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sarah Palin.
The shooting in Tucson is a tragedy, but the only one responsible is Jared Loughner
Monday, April 19, 2010
235 Years Ago: The Shot Heard Round the World
By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old North Bridge, site of “the shot heard ’round the world,” the original one.
British troops retreated 22 miles from here to Boston while getting shot at along what’s now known as Battle Road. Written on a monument:
HERE
On the 19 of April
1775
was made
the first forcible resistance
to British aggression
On the opposite Bank
stood the American Militia
Here stood the Invading Army
and on this spot
the first of the Enemy fell
in the War of that Revolution
which gave
Independence to these United States
In gratitude to GOD
and
In the love of Freedom
this Monument
was erected
AD 1836
Their flag to April’s breeze unfurled,
Here once the embattled farmers stood,
And fired the shot heard round the world.
The foe long since in silence slept;
Alike the conqueror silent sleeps;
And Time the ruined bridge has swept
Down the dark stream which seaward creeps.
On this green bank, by this soft stream,
We set to-day a votive stone;
That memory may their deed redeem,
When, like our sires, our sons are gone.
Spirit, that made those heroes dare,
To die, and leave their children free,
Bid Time and Nature gently spare
The shaft we raise to them and thee.
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Old North Bridge, site of “the shot heard ’round the world,” the original one.
British troops retreated 22 miles from here to Boston while getting shot at along what’s now known as Battle Road. Written on a monument:
HERE
On the 19 of April
1775
was made
the first forcible resistance
to British aggression
On the opposite Bank
stood the American Militia
Here stood the Invading Army
and on this spot
the first of the Enemy fell
in the War of that Revolution
which gave
Independence to these United States
In gratitude to GOD
and
In the love of Freedom
this Monument
was erected
AD 1836
Thursday, April 1, 2010
No This Is Not An April Fool's Joke!
Take note at around the 1:20 mark he says he's afraid Guam is going to tip over and sink! Remember, these people are in charge of our health care! (And pretty much everything else soon)
Now he's saying that he was speaking metaphorically about enviromental issues on the island.................uh huh.
I doubt it, it seems obvious that he really thinks the island could tip over and sink!
Besides, I don't know what he's worried about. The last time that many Marines landed on Guam, it was this way:
Let's See How Close He Is
Iowahawk has the skinny on the Re-publicans agenda for the Health Care Bill
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/03/republicans.html
http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2010/03/republicans.html
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
My Wife's New Endeavor
It's been while since I have mentioned my wife.
She is the most beautiful woman in the world. She is not only smart, and also a wonderful mother to our daughters.
She is starting a new project called "Circle of Trees Retreats" and rather than me try to explain it why not drop by her website.
http://www.circleoftreesretreat.com
She is the most beautiful woman in the world. She is not only smart, and also a wonderful mother to our daughters.
She is starting a new project called "Circle of Trees Retreats" and rather than me try to explain it why not drop by her website.
http://www.circleoftreesretreat.com
Hello, it's me.
Well, I haven't been in the mood to post much here lately. I've been spending a lot of time on Facebook, and probably pissig off a lot of people on my friends list with all my political posts... oh well.
The Health Care Reform bill passed and was signed into law.
This is a sad time for our country, for it marks the true beginning of our decent ito socialism. Many will say that it started long ago, 30, 40, 60, 100 years ago. And in many aspects they are right, but if the car was heading down hill before this, it just went off the edge of a cliff. It is hanging on to the guard rail by the back tires, ready to plunge into the abyss.
There is a chance of rescue, but slim. If enough people gather around, we can pull it back from the edge............
But........I do not believe it will happen.
The problem isn't the Democrats or the Republicans, the Left or the Right, the Liberals or the Conservatives.
The problem is "We The People". Not all of us, but the majority of our countrymen.
In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy said "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country". That sentiment barely survives in our country today. Americans have become more interested in what their government can do for them. We have become a land of entitlements. Those that work the least, want....no...demand the most.
And now our government is going to try and provide everything to everyone. Well, not quite. They will take more and more, at the point of a gun, from those who have, to give it to those who have not. And they will, of course, keep a tidy percentage for themselves, for their pet projects, to reward their supporters, and to pay the increasing numbers of the bureacracy.
I do not have faith that the Republicans will muster enough support to repeal the HCR Act. They will try, but as it gets closer to November, more and more of them will cave in. Good intentions will give way to politics as usual.
The Tea Party movement is a good idea, and I believe our only hope, but I fear is it "too little, too late". I truely fear that the character of our nation has been irreversibly changed.
__________________________________________________
Although our chances are slim, that does not mean we shouldn't try. That would be
un -American.
As Teddy Roosevelt said, "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
234 years ago a small group of people started a fight that most thought they had no chance of winning.
No. We must fight the good fight for as long as we are able. This is a fight for the very soul of this nation. This will be a long fight, and it will not end in November.
The Health Care Reform bill passed and was signed into law.
This is a sad time for our country, for it marks the true beginning of our decent ito socialism. Many will say that it started long ago, 30, 40, 60, 100 years ago. And in many aspects they are right, but if the car was heading down hill before this, it just went off the edge of a cliff. It is hanging on to the guard rail by the back tires, ready to plunge into the abyss.
There is a chance of rescue, but slim. If enough people gather around, we can pull it back from the edge............
But........I do not believe it will happen.
The problem isn't the Democrats or the Republicans, the Left or the Right, the Liberals or the Conservatives.
The problem is "We The People". Not all of us, but the majority of our countrymen.
In his inaugural address, John F. Kennedy said "And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country". That sentiment barely survives in our country today. Americans have become more interested in what their government can do for them. We have become a land of entitlements. Those that work the least, want....no...demand the most.
And now our government is going to try and provide everything to everyone. Well, not quite. They will take more and more, at the point of a gun, from those who have, to give it to those who have not. And they will, of course, keep a tidy percentage for themselves, for their pet projects, to reward their supporters, and to pay the increasing numbers of the bureacracy.
I do not have faith that the Republicans will muster enough support to repeal the HCR Act. They will try, but as it gets closer to November, more and more of them will cave in. Good intentions will give way to politics as usual.
The Tea Party movement is a good idea, and I believe our only hope, but I fear is it "too little, too late". I truely fear that the character of our nation has been irreversibly changed.
__________________________________________________
Although our chances are slim, that does not mean we shouldn't try. That would be
un -American.
As Teddy Roosevelt said, "It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
234 years ago a small group of people started a fight that most thought they had no chance of winning.
No. We must fight the good fight for as long as we are able. This is a fight for the very soul of this nation. This will be a long fight, and it will not end in November.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Advice for Governor Palin
I'm going to copy this in it's entirety simply because I feel it's that important.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/297663.php
Perhaps it's time for another thread.
Most of you aren't going to know who Gary North is, and that's probably just as well. He's a somewhat marginal figure on the Christian right best known for making wild predictions of apocalyptic disasters which always fail to materialize, culminating ten years ago in him going all in on Y2K. North has a smallish band of devoted followers, but most everyone else on the Christian right thinks of him, if at all, as a nutcase. He's kind of like the stereotypical mad scientist. I can well imagine him with a crazy glint in his eye and screaming "Mad, am I!? I'll show them! My theories are sound!" He likes to dabble in things perhaps best left alone and his failed experiments wreak havoc.
His political beliefs most closely resemble those of the paleocon right. He's written many articles that appear at LewRockwell.com.
But just when you're about to write him off completely, he comes up with something that makes such perfect sense that you wonder why it hasn't been thought of sooner.
Therefore, I am intrigued by his views and so I subscribe to his newsletter.
Below the fold, I have cut and pasted North's latest newsletter, which contains his advice for Sarah Palin. I thought it was, well, intriguing, as it is a blueprint for taking back the country, one small step at a time. Discuss among yourselves, if you feel so inclined.
DEAR GOVERNOR PALIN
I am writing this to you on the outside possibility that in this, the world of six degrees of separation -- also known as the Kevin Bacon game -- someone will hand you a print-out of this letter and say, "This guy is kind of weird, but maybe this could work."
Let's clear the deck from the beginning. I am asking you to make some specific preparations. Then, when you have your ducks in a row -- and your trusty 12-gauge shotgun is loaded -- you will hold a press conference. You will deliver a speech.
Here is my suggested draft of your speech.
* * * * * * * * *
Thank you all for coming.
Today, I make two pledges. First, I promise to work very hard to avoid providing any more skit material for Tina Fey.
Second, I am not going to run for President. Ever. No matter what.
Let me tell you why.
I am going to host some tea parties -- a whole lot of tea parties.
I never played tea party in my youth. I preferred to go hunting. Now I am going to play tea party and go hunting, too.
I will not be hunting moose. I am after bigger game: incumbent politicians.
A few years back, I got into politics. I got elected mayor of a small town. Then I got elected governor in a very large state. Not people big -- geography big.
I am going to spend the next 25 years training overtaxed, over-regulated, politician-scoffed-at voters to do what I did.
I have just signed a contract with Fox News. I have agreed not to run for any political office, ever. I will therefore not come under any Federal Communications Commission rules governing equal time. I am here for the long haul on this basis: no equal time. I will get all of it unless I get fired. Then I will do it on some cable channel or on YouTube.
My show will have one overriding theme: grassroots political mobilization.
Until there is a grassroots rebellion, county by county, nothing is going to change inside the Washington Beltway.
Congress never changes. It just makes more promises it can't fulfill. It then spends more borrowed money, trying to fulfill old promises. The Federal government is one giant Ponzi scheme of promises. Over the next decade, the biggest of these promises will be broken.
Social Security will go bankrupt this year. It now spends more money than Social Security taxes bring in. It is quietly siphoning off billions of dollars a year out of the general fund.
Medicare went bust three years ago.
The FDIC, which insures the nation's banks, went bust last September. Same solution: siphon off money from the general fund.
But the general fund went $1.4 trillion in the hole in 2009.
It is expected to go another $1.3 trillion in the hole this year.
And on and on and on it goes; where it stops, nobody knows.
There is no light at the end of this tunnel.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve System just keeps printing more money. The biggest broken promise in America is the promise that the Federal Reserve gave back in 1913 - stable money. The dollar's purchasing power is down by 95% ever since the Federal Reserve opened its doors in 1914.
There will not be reform at the top of the pyramid until there is a political earthquake at the bottom.
It's time for some tea parties.
Locally, taxes are up. Crime is up. Insecurity is up.
Government regulation of our families is up.
The main thing that is down is public high school test scores. The public schools are a disaster and getting worse.
I am going to train people to take America back from the incumbent politicians.
The tea parties will be local. They will be everywhere.
They will be a permanent fixture of the American scene. I will do my bit to provide some training.
I have set up a new organization: County Rights, Incorporated. The doctrine of states rights is way too centralized for me. We need determined voters to take back their counties as a first step to taking back their states.
I'm not saying I won't be talking about national politics and the disasters that Congress and the bureaucrats are overseeing. But my focus will be clear: you can't have a clean sweep of Washington until you control the broom. The broom handle is in the counties.
There are 3141 counties in the United States. Most of them are rural. Most of them can be taken over by a dedicated hard core of voters who have an agenda. I am going to help train voters who have this agenda: resist Washington.
This is a free country. We are allowed as voters to shape politics. I am going to help train those voters who are ready to re-shape politics, beginning in their counties.
That's not to say I'm not in favor of training people to take over small towns. I love small towns. Most of all, politically speaking, I love small towns with low taxes. I intend to help create a whole lot more of them.
You have heard the old saying, "Support your local sheriff."
The sheriff is the armed law enforcement agent of the county government. You had better get control the government that hires the local sheriff. Then support him.
I am going to be on the road. I will do my Fox News show, but I will be appearing all over the country on a regular basis.
I will not be running for anything. I will be training people to run for everything: school boards, county commissions, everything.
When the officers of the Federal government come to town to tell folks what to do, they will be greeted by citizens who know their rights and who are willing to sue the Federal government for any violation of any of the ten amendments. My favorite is the second amendment, but they are all great . . . and they are all being violated by Washington.
I am going to recruit local lawyers who will sue the Federal government. I am going to recruit lawyers to train local citizens to sue the Federal government. I am going to set up a YouTube channel for lawyers to train people to sue the Federal government.
I will have them create downloadable forms for suing the Federal government. Why have just one local lawyer or local agency suing the Federal government? Why not hundreds of lawsuits, from everyone locally who has had his rights violated?
Paper is cheap. Toner is cheap. Let's get those laser printers rolling!
We are going to raise Washington's cost of invading local counties. We are going to meet the bureaucrats with legal resistance. Before some Federal agency sends out a Federal Marshal to start telling a county what to do, it had better set aside a few million dollars of its annual budget to pay the legal fees. This will be good news for lawyers on the staffs of those agencies. It will be bad news for every other staffer.
I believe in the legal system. I believe in using it.
While I'm on the topic of the legal system, I plan to set up a program to train citizens in the rights of juries. The jury system is the backbone of liberty in the United States. When a jury declares "not guilty," that's the end of the case. The law against double jeopardy goes into effect.
Jurors need to know that they are sovereign inside the jury room. No judge can tell them what to do or say. No other government official has a right to be inside that room. In that room, twelve citizens decide.
I am going to recruit lawyers to teach people their rights as jurors. That will make a great YouTube channel.
I love YouTube. The other video hosting sites are great, too. I will use more than one. So will the specialists I recruit.
This is democracy in action inside a Constitutional republic. We still have a Constitution. We still have a republic. Democracy has long been in a coma at the county level.
I think I can help awaken it.
But what about political liberals? Don't they have a say?
You bet! They get to compete, too. The more, the merrier, I say. But they had better compete first at the county level.
They had better decide that their liberties must be defended locally if these liberties are to be preserved from the grasping hand of Congress and the Washington bureaucracies, who are pushing this nation into bankruptcy.
Let the political competition begin . . . in the counties.
Maybe you want to know what my view of government is.
Government comes in four forms: self-government, family government, church government, and civil government.
By far, self-government is the most important. Where it is absent, there is lawlessness. In response, people have to spend more money and time on the other three. When self-government declines, anarchy and tyranny increase.
I have a theory of civil government. Civil government is about inflicting pain. That is its whole purpose: to inflict pain on people who are convicted by a jury of their peers of having inflicted pain on others.
The day that civil government got into the happiness- producing business, it began inflicting pain on people who had not inflicted pain on others. It began taxing people, not to protect them, but to pay off special-interest groups whose candidates won the last election.
Civil government started borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and it has never stopped. One of these days it will default on this debt. Peter will get nothing, and Paul, now addicted to government money, will face a catastrophe.
I am dead set against any view of civil government that tries to make people good. It can't make anyone good. Civil government is hard-pressed these days just to keep people from using violence and fraud against their neighbors.
A civil government that tries to do more than punishing violence and fraud will eventually wind up committing violence and fraud on a huge scale -- way beyond what any local criminal syndicate can impose.
So, that's my message. It can be summarized in five points, like the digits on your hand. The crucial point is like your thumb. It makes all the difference.
Self-government under God
The other four follow:
County rights
Cut taxes
Resist Washington
Use the courts
If you get invited to one of my tea parties, I sure hope you will attend.
And thanks, Tina, for all the great publicity.
* * * * * * * * *
Well, that's it. If you do this, you will inflict more pain on the Washington political establishment than any other ex- governor, including Ronald Reagan.
This is what Washington fears most: grassroots political mobilization. That would threaten the concentration of power, the growth of the debt, and the permanent immunity of the Federal Reserve System more than anything else.
Conservatives for 40 years have talked about the need for grassroots political mobilization, but they always set up money- raising operations inside the Beltway or across the county line.
Why? Because that's where the power is and therefore where the fundraising opportunities are.
What we need is the decentralization of power. We need someone who has a national political reputation to mobilize voters and jurors at the county level. Is this you?
You may not want to appear too extreme. If so, you won't want to use my slogan: "State's rights are for commies." But it gets across my outlook.
On the 2010 bankruptcy of Social Security, click here:
http://LewRockwell.com/north/north790.html
On the 2009 bankruptcy of the FDIC, click here:
http://GaryNorth.com/public/6025.cfm
On the depreciation of the dollar since 1914, click here:
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
On the size of the Federal debt, click here:
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/debt-summary-table.htm
Three more items. First, I wrote about my strategy for local politics 25 years ago. I got it published 10 years ago.
It's called "the dogcatcher strategy." Just search Google. Or click here:
http://LewRockwell.com/north/north21.html
Second, I own http://www.CountyRights.com. I'll give it to you if you want to do something creative with it.
Third, I suggest a logo for you. Every mass movement needs a logo. Yours should be an empty lipstick tube. On one side are these words:
Too many pigs
On the other side are these words:
Too much pork
Hand out one to everyone who comes to your press conferences. Sell them at your tea parties. Sell them on-line at http://www.TooManyPigs.com. I own http://www.TooManyPigs.com.
You can have
it, too.
Sincerely yours,
Gary North
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/297663.php
Perhaps it's time for another thread.
Most of you aren't going to know who Gary North is, and that's probably just as well. He's a somewhat marginal figure on the Christian right best known for making wild predictions of apocalyptic disasters which always fail to materialize, culminating ten years ago in him going all in on Y2K. North has a smallish band of devoted followers, but most everyone else on the Christian right thinks of him, if at all, as a nutcase. He's kind of like the stereotypical mad scientist. I can well imagine him with a crazy glint in his eye and screaming "Mad, am I!? I'll show them! My theories are sound!" He likes to dabble in things perhaps best left alone and his failed experiments wreak havoc.
His political beliefs most closely resemble those of the paleocon right. He's written many articles that appear at LewRockwell.com.
But just when you're about to write him off completely, he comes up with something that makes such perfect sense that you wonder why it hasn't been thought of sooner.
Therefore, I am intrigued by his views and so I subscribe to his newsletter.
Below the fold, I have cut and pasted North's latest newsletter, which contains his advice for Sarah Palin. I thought it was, well, intriguing, as it is a blueprint for taking back the country, one small step at a time. Discuss among yourselves, if you feel so inclined.
DEAR GOVERNOR PALIN
I am writing this to you on the outside possibility that in this, the world of six degrees of separation -- also known as the Kevin Bacon game -- someone will hand you a print-out of this letter and say, "This guy is kind of weird, but maybe this could work."
Let's clear the deck from the beginning. I am asking you to make some specific preparations. Then, when you have your ducks in a row -- and your trusty 12-gauge shotgun is loaded -- you will hold a press conference. You will deliver a speech.
Here is my suggested draft of your speech.
* * * * * * * * *
Thank you all for coming.
Today, I make two pledges. First, I promise to work very hard to avoid providing any more skit material for Tina Fey.
Second, I am not going to run for President. Ever. No matter what.
Let me tell you why.
I am going to host some tea parties -- a whole lot of tea parties.
I never played tea party in my youth. I preferred to go hunting. Now I am going to play tea party and go hunting, too.
I will not be hunting moose. I am after bigger game: incumbent politicians.
A few years back, I got into politics. I got elected mayor of a small town. Then I got elected governor in a very large state. Not people big -- geography big.
I am going to spend the next 25 years training overtaxed, over-regulated, politician-scoffed-at voters to do what I did.
I have just signed a contract with Fox News. I have agreed not to run for any political office, ever. I will therefore not come under any Federal Communications Commission rules governing equal time. I am here for the long haul on this basis: no equal time. I will get all of it unless I get fired. Then I will do it on some cable channel or on YouTube.
My show will have one overriding theme: grassroots political mobilization.
Until there is a grassroots rebellion, county by county, nothing is going to change inside the Washington Beltway.
Congress never changes. It just makes more promises it can't fulfill. It then spends more borrowed money, trying to fulfill old promises. The Federal government is one giant Ponzi scheme of promises. Over the next decade, the biggest of these promises will be broken.
Social Security will go bankrupt this year. It now spends more money than Social Security taxes bring in. It is quietly siphoning off billions of dollars a year out of the general fund.
Medicare went bust three years ago.
The FDIC, which insures the nation's banks, went bust last September. Same solution: siphon off money from the general fund.
But the general fund went $1.4 trillion in the hole in 2009.
It is expected to go another $1.3 trillion in the hole this year.
And on and on and on it goes; where it stops, nobody knows.
There is no light at the end of this tunnel.
Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve System just keeps printing more money. The biggest broken promise in America is the promise that the Federal Reserve gave back in 1913 - stable money. The dollar's purchasing power is down by 95% ever since the Federal Reserve opened its doors in 1914.
There will not be reform at the top of the pyramid until there is a political earthquake at the bottom.
It's time for some tea parties.
Locally, taxes are up. Crime is up. Insecurity is up.
Government regulation of our families is up.
The main thing that is down is public high school test scores. The public schools are a disaster and getting worse.
I am going to train people to take America back from the incumbent politicians.
The tea parties will be local. They will be everywhere.
They will be a permanent fixture of the American scene. I will do my bit to provide some training.
I have set up a new organization: County Rights, Incorporated. The doctrine of states rights is way too centralized for me. We need determined voters to take back their counties as a first step to taking back their states.
I'm not saying I won't be talking about national politics and the disasters that Congress and the bureaucrats are overseeing. But my focus will be clear: you can't have a clean sweep of Washington until you control the broom. The broom handle is in the counties.
There are 3141 counties in the United States. Most of them are rural. Most of them can be taken over by a dedicated hard core of voters who have an agenda. I am going to help train voters who have this agenda: resist Washington.
This is a free country. We are allowed as voters to shape politics. I am going to help train those voters who are ready to re-shape politics, beginning in their counties.
That's not to say I'm not in favor of training people to take over small towns. I love small towns. Most of all, politically speaking, I love small towns with low taxes. I intend to help create a whole lot more of them.
You have heard the old saying, "Support your local sheriff."
The sheriff is the armed law enforcement agent of the county government. You had better get control the government that hires the local sheriff. Then support him.
I am going to be on the road. I will do my Fox News show, but I will be appearing all over the country on a regular basis.
I will not be running for anything. I will be training people to run for everything: school boards, county commissions, everything.
When the officers of the Federal government come to town to tell folks what to do, they will be greeted by citizens who know their rights and who are willing to sue the Federal government for any violation of any of the ten amendments. My favorite is the second amendment, but they are all great . . . and they are all being violated by Washington.
I am going to recruit local lawyers who will sue the Federal government. I am going to recruit lawyers to train local citizens to sue the Federal government. I am going to set up a YouTube channel for lawyers to train people to sue the Federal government.
I will have them create downloadable forms for suing the Federal government. Why have just one local lawyer or local agency suing the Federal government? Why not hundreds of lawsuits, from everyone locally who has had his rights violated?
Paper is cheap. Toner is cheap. Let's get those laser printers rolling!
We are going to raise Washington's cost of invading local counties. We are going to meet the bureaucrats with legal resistance. Before some Federal agency sends out a Federal Marshal to start telling a county what to do, it had better set aside a few million dollars of its annual budget to pay the legal fees. This will be good news for lawyers on the staffs of those agencies. It will be bad news for every other staffer.
I believe in the legal system. I believe in using it.
While I'm on the topic of the legal system, I plan to set up a program to train citizens in the rights of juries. The jury system is the backbone of liberty in the United States. When a jury declares "not guilty," that's the end of the case. The law against double jeopardy goes into effect.
Jurors need to know that they are sovereign inside the jury room. No judge can tell them what to do or say. No other government official has a right to be inside that room. In that room, twelve citizens decide.
I am going to recruit lawyers to teach people their rights as jurors. That will make a great YouTube channel.
I love YouTube. The other video hosting sites are great, too. I will use more than one. So will the specialists I recruit.
This is democracy in action inside a Constitutional republic. We still have a Constitution. We still have a republic. Democracy has long been in a coma at the county level.
I think I can help awaken it.
But what about political liberals? Don't they have a say?
You bet! They get to compete, too. The more, the merrier, I say. But they had better compete first at the county level.
They had better decide that their liberties must be defended locally if these liberties are to be preserved from the grasping hand of Congress and the Washington bureaucracies, who are pushing this nation into bankruptcy.
Let the political competition begin . . . in the counties.
Maybe you want to know what my view of government is.
Government comes in four forms: self-government, family government, church government, and civil government.
By far, self-government is the most important. Where it is absent, there is lawlessness. In response, people have to spend more money and time on the other three. When self-government declines, anarchy and tyranny increase.
I have a theory of civil government. Civil government is about inflicting pain. That is its whole purpose: to inflict pain on people who are convicted by a jury of their peers of having inflicted pain on others.
The day that civil government got into the happiness- producing business, it began inflicting pain on people who had not inflicted pain on others. It began taxing people, not to protect them, but to pay off special-interest groups whose candidates won the last election.
Civil government started borrowing from Peter to pay Paul, and it has never stopped. One of these days it will default on this debt. Peter will get nothing, and Paul, now addicted to government money, will face a catastrophe.
I am dead set against any view of civil government that tries to make people good. It can't make anyone good. Civil government is hard-pressed these days just to keep people from using violence and fraud against their neighbors.
A civil government that tries to do more than punishing violence and fraud will eventually wind up committing violence and fraud on a huge scale -- way beyond what any local criminal syndicate can impose.
So, that's my message. It can be summarized in five points, like the digits on your hand. The crucial point is like your thumb. It makes all the difference.
Self-government under God
The other four follow:
County rights
Cut taxes
Resist Washington
Use the courts
If you get invited to one of my tea parties, I sure hope you will attend.
And thanks, Tina, for all the great publicity.
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Well, that's it. If you do this, you will inflict more pain on the Washington political establishment than any other ex- governor, including Ronald Reagan.
This is what Washington fears most: grassroots political mobilization. That would threaten the concentration of power, the growth of the debt, and the permanent immunity of the Federal Reserve System more than anything else.
Conservatives for 40 years have talked about the need for grassroots political mobilization, but they always set up money- raising operations inside the Beltway or across the county line.
Why? Because that's where the power is and therefore where the fundraising opportunities are.
What we need is the decentralization of power. We need someone who has a national political reputation to mobilize voters and jurors at the county level. Is this you?
You may not want to appear too extreme. If so, you won't want to use my slogan: "State's rights are for commies." But it gets across my outlook.
On the 2010 bankruptcy of Social Security, click here:
http://LewRockwell.com/north/north790.html
On the 2009 bankruptcy of the FDIC, click here:
http://GaryNorth.com/public/6025.cfm
On the depreciation of the dollar since 1914, click here:
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
On the size of the Federal debt, click here:
http://mwhodges.home.att.net/debt-summary-table.htm
Three more items. First, I wrote about my strategy for local politics 25 years ago. I got it published 10 years ago.
It's called "the dogcatcher strategy." Just search Google. Or click here:
http://LewRockwell.com/north/north21.html
Second, I own http://www.CountyRights.com. I'll give it to you if you want to do something creative with it.
Third, I suggest a logo for you. Every mass movement needs a logo. Yours should be an empty lipstick tube. On one side are these words:
Too many pigs
On the other side are these words:
Too much pork
Hand out one to everyone who comes to your press conferences. Sell them at your tea parties. Sell them on-line at http://www.TooManyPigs.com. I own http://www.TooManyPigs.com.
You can have
it, too.
Sincerely yours,
Gary North
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Most Transparent Administration EVVVAAAAAH!!!
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=320943&start=1
‘And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private’
And they're trying to slip this through in the dead of night!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/17/merry-christmas-senate-obamacare-vote-may-come-on-december-24th/
"Because Republicans like McConnell and DeMint are promising to delay by every possible means (even Olympia Snowe wants to slow down, believe it or not), the only way to get the bill to the floor by Christmas Eve is to schedule votes at the first possible moment under Senate rules — which means they could be voting on amendments at 3 a.m. this week. That’s how desperate the most transparent administration ever is to get this done before the next round of polls freaks out even more centrists."
Even better.... the Senate just adjourned until 1 a.m. One a.m.
‘And here’s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader’s conference room has even seen. That’s right. The final bill we’ll vote on isn’t even the one we’ve had on the floor. It’s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private’
And they're trying to slip this through in the dead of night!
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/17/merry-christmas-senate-obamacare-vote-may-come-on-december-24th/
"Because Republicans like McConnell and DeMint are promising to delay by every possible means (even Olympia Snowe wants to slow down, believe it or not), the only way to get the bill to the floor by Christmas Eve is to schedule votes at the first possible moment under Senate rules — which means they could be voting on amendments at 3 a.m. this week. That’s how desperate the most transparent administration ever is to get this done before the next round of polls freaks out even more centrists."
Even better.... the Senate just adjourned until 1 a.m. One a.m.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Nothing To See Here. Move Along.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/06/the-massacre-at-fort-hood-and-muslim-soldiers-with-attitude/
Ft. Hood officials disclose that the murder victims included 12 soldiers and 1 civilian…first responder heroine who shot Hasan is in stable condition…witnesses still being interviewed “all through the night”…they confirm that Hasan was wearing his uniform…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting
Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!"
Ft. Hood officials disclose that the murder victims included 12 soldiers and 1 civilian…first responder heroine who shot Hasan is in stable condition…witnesses still being interviewed “all through the night”…they confirm that Hasan was wearing his uniform…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091106/ap_on_re_us/us_fort_hood_shooting
Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!"
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Sick and Tired
I am a professional firefighter. In my 19 years on the job, I have been injured several times. The city has taken away our pension vesting because of a typo, and says we have to negotiate it back. At present, we have been without a contract since 1/1/09. And the city is trying to take away money, benefits and manning. I bust my ass working, both regular shifts and overtime, because the city won’t fill empty positions, all to support my wife and 2 children. We are not poor, but we are not rich, or even what most would consider well-off.
I risk my life everyday I go to work. In most other places, people appreciate the job I do.
But, not around here. Not in the Lehigh Valley. Here, I am just a low-life civil servant. A piece of shit, bottom feeder.
I am sick and tired :
Of people around here looking down their noses at me, because I’m a firefighter and I don’t make enough money for their tastes.
Of people taking us for granted. Of saying they’ll do something and then don’t. Of saying they’ll be somewhere and they’re not. Of putting everyone and everything ahead of us.
Of people always looking for a bigger, better deal. (ie; “sure, we’d love to come over!” then later, “oh, we didn’t come over because our other friends invited us over, and we knew we’d get drunk over there.”)
Of people who think it’s OK to get drunk, high, stoned, etc. while their children are around. (I was a deputy sheriff for awhile. People get their kids taken away for that shit. all it takes is one thing to go wrong.)
Of people looking down their noses at us because of where we live. We live in a small town where my parents were born and raised, and not in some fancy, ultra-ritzy development.
Of people who put on a big show of being Christian, all ‘holier than thou’. They go to church every Sunday and attend all the right events, and look down on us because we don‘t. BUT, in reality, they are some of the most hateful, horrible people in the world. They abuse their husband/wife/children, cheat on their spouses, and think nothing of it. They tease, bully, or mock others because of their job, income, race, religion, the clothes they wear, the car they drive, the house they live in. And even worse, they raise their children to be the same way.
Of people looking down their noses at my wife because I don’t make enough money.
Of people disrespecting my wife because even though she is smart and has successfully run her own business, she chose to stay home and raise our children.
Of people disrespecting my wife because we believe in raising our children and spending time with them instead of going out everyday and have $6 coffees with the “moms”.
Of people disrespecting my wife because she doesn’t down half a dozen Xanax (insert anti-depressant of your choice) and a pint of gin just to get through the day.
Of people disrespecting my wife because she cares about our children and will fight tooth and nail if she thinks someone has wronged them.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because they are smart and have manners.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because they don’t have the ‘right’ labels on their clothes.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because we don’t buy them the latest, newest, coolest videogame on the market.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because they would rather play outside instead of sitting inside being a lazy bums.
Of people complaining that I get paid too much for hardly ever having to work.
Of those same people running around with their NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL jerseys bragging about their season tickets. Most of the players are making more money in one year, than I’ll make in my entire career, playing a kids game! And they gleefully support them.
BUT GOD FORBID I MIGHT ACTUALLY GET A COST OF LIVING RAISE!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY AND THE STUCK-UP PEOPLE HERE!!!!!!!
I risk my life everyday I go to work. In most other places, people appreciate the job I do.
But, not around here. Not in the Lehigh Valley. Here, I am just a low-life civil servant. A piece of shit, bottom feeder.
I am sick and tired :
Of people around here looking down their noses at me, because I’m a firefighter and I don’t make enough money for their tastes.
Of people taking us for granted. Of saying they’ll do something and then don’t. Of saying they’ll be somewhere and they’re not. Of putting everyone and everything ahead of us.
Of people always looking for a bigger, better deal. (ie; “sure, we’d love to come over!” then later, “oh, we didn’t come over because our other friends invited us over, and we knew we’d get drunk over there.”)
Of people who think it’s OK to get drunk, high, stoned, etc. while their children are around. (I was a deputy sheriff for awhile. People get their kids taken away for that shit. all it takes is one thing to go wrong.)
Of people looking down their noses at us because of where we live. We live in a small town where my parents were born and raised, and not in some fancy, ultra-ritzy development.
Of people who put on a big show of being Christian, all ‘holier than thou’. They go to church every Sunday and attend all the right events, and look down on us because we don‘t. BUT, in reality, they are some of the most hateful, horrible people in the world. They abuse their husband/wife/children, cheat on their spouses, and think nothing of it. They tease, bully, or mock others because of their job, income, race, religion, the clothes they wear, the car they drive, the house they live in. And even worse, they raise their children to be the same way.
Of people looking down their noses at my wife because I don’t make enough money.
Of people disrespecting my wife because even though she is smart and has successfully run her own business, she chose to stay home and raise our children.
Of people disrespecting my wife because we believe in raising our children and spending time with them instead of going out everyday and have $6 coffees with the “moms”.
Of people disrespecting my wife because she doesn’t down half a dozen Xanax (insert anti-depressant of your choice) and a pint of gin just to get through the day.
Of people disrespecting my wife because she cares about our children and will fight tooth and nail if she thinks someone has wronged them.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because they are smart and have manners.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because they don’t have the ‘right’ labels on their clothes.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because we don’t buy them the latest, newest, coolest videogame on the market.
Of people disrespecting, teasing, or bullying my daughters because they would rather play outside instead of sitting inside being a lazy bums.
Of people complaining that I get paid too much for hardly ever having to work.
Of those same people running around with their NFL/NBA/MLB/NHL jerseys bragging about their season tickets. Most of the players are making more money in one year, than I’ll make in my entire career, playing a kids game! And they gleefully support them.
BUT GOD FORBID I MIGHT ACTUALLY GET A COST OF LIVING RAISE!!!!!!!!!!!
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY AND THE STUCK-UP PEOPLE HERE!!!!!!!
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