Men who are free to produce have no incentive to loot; they have nothing to gain from war and a great deal to loose. Ideologically, the principle of individual rights does not permit a man to seek his livelihood at the point of a gun.
Ayn Rand: The Roots of War – 1966
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Today’s paraphrase:
When people are free to make as much money via their livelihood as they want they have no reason to steal from a neighbor.
If it wasn’t so damned funny.
After our newest visitor, or what some would call a troll, Church Secretary, made a number of unsubstantiated accusations, including called yours truly a racist, a homophobe and a fella who needed firearms to compensate for his manhood, I decided to walk on over to his little hole in the wall to see what I might see.
And I found something that made me have to scratch my head and re-read it, due to its unabashed libtardedness.
He quotes Dr. Condi Rice as saying the following,
You can’t allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them, because if they commit the crime, thousands of innocent people die
C-Sec then goes on to comment thusly on that quote,
Hmm… Okay, so she’s our international defender of democracy sans habeas corpus, due process, and all that other, um, democracy stuff.
The reason for my confusion is that here in America, we have a whole slew of laws that make certain conspiracies, such as the ones terrorists might plot, illegal. Maybe he doesn’t want us to be able to prosecute a terrorist before they carry out their murderous plans, but I sure as hell do.
I would hope that he would know that these laws are on the books since we have prosecuted a number of terrorists on conspiracy charges.
At first I thought he might not know what a conspiracy was, but then I remembered that lefties such as himself are quite adamant in their cryptic conspiracy theories such as the oldie but goodie “Bush took this country into an illegal war to kill poor people and minorities and also to make CheneyMcHitlerburton gazillions of dollars”. Also known as the “Bush Lied, People Died” mantra.
So I guess that either he really is a complete ignoramus or he is being purposely obtuse as to the point of Condi’s statement so that he can bash the administration.
Either way, he makes not only himself look like an idiot, but also his commentors as they follow his chowderheaded line of thinking, leading me to believe that they might just have trouble thinking on their own and wait for the idea that fits their mindset to go forward with a train of thought.
With all of the recent murders happening in the Boston metro area, John the Poor Schmuck has an idea,
An upsurge in violence shows that, even after hundreds of years, the police and city government is unable to bring peace to Boston’s troubled streets.
Year after year they sent police out in the streets to quell the violence and year after year they fail. Now might be the time to try something different.
We should apply the lessons that John Kerry, Edward Kennedy and Marshal John Murtha-Petain have learned from the U.S. Senate and set a deadline for the redeployment of all police forces from the city. It has been shown that every report of a crime involves the police in some way. Removing them from the area would be sure to bring down reports of crime drastically.
It is time that the citizens of Boston learned to stand on their own without being propped up by the police department.
We now know that it is more dangerous to be a citizen of Washington DC than it is a soldier in Iraq, I wonder where the numbers for Boston fall?
Say Uncle from yesterday
Went to Kohl’s and Babies R Us the other day to buy boy stuff for The Second. I found a nice little white onesie and on the front in red letters it said:
Tax Deduction
I bought it, of course. I’ve expressed my dissatisfaction that no one markets a Glock, SigArms or AR15 onesie before. But this was good enough.
Maybe we should chip in and buy Uncle some of that printer paper that you can make iron-ons with or maybe a book on screen printing so that he can keep busy during his downtime after New Years?
Laissez-faire capitalism is the only social system based on the recognition of individual rights and , therefore, the only system that bans force from social relationships. By the nature of its basic principles and interests, it is the only system fundamentally opposed to war.
Yet it is capitalism that today’s peace-lovers oppose and statism that they advocate – in the name of peace.
Ayn Rand: The Roots of War – 1966
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Today’s paraphrase:
People who want to make money have no interest in war as it destroys both personal fortunes and national economies.
Some people say that they are against war, but their socialist ideals quickly prove that they’re actual goal is to rule their fellow man at the point of a gun.
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On a point close to this one, Lee at Right Thinking on the Left Coast has written down his thoughts on the anti-war left and their motivation:
The last major war the United States was involved in was Vietnam. The modern Democratic Party leadership all came of age during that war, as did most of the editorial staff in the manistream media. It wasn’t just a defining moment in the modern American left, it was the defining moment, the prism through which the left would view the world from that moment on. Vietnam was justification for every pacifist tendency that every liberal has ever had. When they said that war didn’t solve anything, they could point to Vietnam. When they wanted to show the consequences of war, they could point to Vietnam. When they wanted to show the failure of military force as a tool for political change, they could point to Vietnam. It was the last major war this country was ever involved in. Sure we’ve had military operations, from Grenada to the Gulf War to the Balkans, but Vietnam our last big one, and it was a war we ended up losing. Vietnam has been their de facto answer for everything for the past 30 years.
Iraq threatens their entire belief system.
I think that Lee has it half right.
It is my belief that they have two reasons for opposition to the war. While Lee has hit one x-ring with his thoughts, the other target to be hit is the left’s need to implement socialist ideals in America that was interrupted by September 11th and then again by Bush’s attempts at stemming the tide of radical Islam.
They know that we won’t be listening to, among other things, their rhetoric on socialized medicine while we’re listening to the news about the daily happenings in Iraq. They know that it will be impossible to implement sweeping gun control when we’re thinking about madmen with bomb belts lighting themselves off in the mall or taking an elementary school hostage.
In their minds, if we could just get out of Iraq ASAP, they could get back to telling people how wonderful Canadian medicine is with their taxpayer funded doctors and how crime free Europe is without all those nasty guns.
Now it is classified as ‘Government Help’.
Seventy-five hard-core alcoholics, accustomed to living on the streets and spending nights in emergency rooms, detox centers or jail cells, are about to get an invitation to move into a new apartment building all their own on the edge of downtown Seattle.
After much controversy and a failed legal challenge, the Downtown Emergency Service Center is set to open at 1811 Eastlake Ave. It is an $11.2 million, four-story housing project for 75 homeless men and women who are among Seattle’s worst-case chronic alcoholics. Tenants are being picked from a list of those identified by King County as draining the most emergency and criminal-justice resources  and therefore taxpayer dollars  from the community.
Each tenant of the building, named 1811 Eastlake, will have been addicted to alcohol for at least 15 years and failed at alcohol treatment at least six times. Most will be at least 45 years old, and the chance of ever getting sober is next to nil.
Merry Christmas, drunkards!
The City of Seattle is going to reward you, a middle aged hopeless drunk with no hope of recovery, who has spent more time in the drunk tank and the city jail than earning a paycheck, a rent free apartment paid for by the taxpayers where you can not only get as hooched up as you like, but you can invite your friends to join you.
And all you have to do is keep up with your self-destructive behavior!
You want proof of the utter libtardedness of this whole endeavor? Here you go,
Though it’s not an alcohol-treatment center, Bill Hobson (the center’s executive director) said he hopes tenants will moderate their drinking over time.
Hey Hobson, you put some hope in one of your hands, I’ll shit in your other one and together we’ll be able to see which one fills up first.
People like Hobson haven’t even thought far enough into the future to see what might happen if on of these bums dies of alcohol poisoning on the premises. Can you say lawsuit settlement paid for by the taxpayer? I know I can!
And the final wad of spit in the face of the taxpaying voter,
“We want to work cooperatively (with the DESC) to make it as successful as possible,” said Brent Camann, assistant manager of SpringHill Suites, a hotel with rooms that look down onto 1811 Eastlake’s two smoking decks.
Yes, you read that right!
There will be two smoking decks on the backside of the building. While smoking must be done outside, the decks themselves are in blatant violation of the recently enacted smoking ban’s “25 feet from a doorway, window or air duct” rule since neither of them is more than twenty feet in any dimension.
Proving that government will do what it wants, when it wants, where it wants, and as long as they claim that it is ‘For the Common Good’ the people’s opinion doesn’t really matter.
That Oliver Willis (Occupation: Toole) is praising the possibility of increasing America’s crack cocaine supply.
Another politician in South America with a leftist message wins office.
The South American politician with the “leftist message” in question is socialist, Evo Morales, friend to Castro and Chavez.
His “leftist message”: To become “A Nightmare” to the US by kicking out US drug enforcement advisors and re-legalizing the growing of the coca plant in Bolivia (which would explain the white stuff in the above picture of Evo).
Of course, Evo says he only wants to grow coca for ‘Traditional Uses’.
Kevin Baker of The Smallest Minority Blog was doing something I can barely do, listening to NPR, and heard that they have scheduled a program on gun control for early next year and that they will be asking the panelists questions sent in by listeners.
He has his question posted at his place and is asking for other to do the same. I had a question, but found that not only had Joe Huffman asked it, he stated it better.
Speaking of Joe coming up with good ideas, yesterday he posted facts about shooting on the moon, in case you missed it.
The degree of statism in a country’s political system, is the degree to which it breaks up the country into rival gangs and sets men against one another. When individual rights are abrogated, there is no way to determine who is entitled to what; there is no way to determine the justice of anyone’s claims, desires or interests. The criterion, therefore, reverts to the tribal concept of: one’s wishes are limited only by the power of one’s gang. In order to survive under such a system, men have no choice but to fear, hate and destroy one another; it is a system of underground plotting, of secret conspiracies, of deals, favors, betrayals and sudden, bloody coups.
Ayn Rand: The Roots of War – 1966
I’m having trouble paraphrasing this one.
Anyone and everyone, feel free to have at it. If you can’t get it into the comments, email it to me.
