Archive for April, 2009
Imperial air stunts
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under DownsizeDC, Liberty, News
Kudos to the writer of this LRC blog post for quipping: “…the ambulatory wad of evil known as Dick Cheney.”
Obama and his posse monopolized prime New York airspace for a photo op without bothering to mention it to the mayor. If this had been any other plane, any other pilot, any other passenger, they’d be in prison right now. With 9/11 in the back of New Yorkers’ minds, It’s probably impolite to buzz their city (and the Goldman Sachs building, and the Statue of Liberty) with a 747. But this isn’t new. Bush-era stunts were equally inconsiderate, exploitative and brash. This isn’t how public servants behave. It’s how mentally defective autocrats behave.
But this is how the ruling class sees us. If we want them to stop acting like a bunch of prancing nude emperors we should at least say something.
Astroturf Constitutionalists
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Liberty
You know what? I just might quit calling Republicans Republicans, and calling Democrats Democrats. From now on they’re the Red Team and the Blue Team.
This article, bashing the Republican-commandeered Tea Parties, and this follow-up are an excellent summation of the hypocrisy of the Red Team.
The Reds and Blues take turns being anti-establishment the same way football teams take turns being on defense. With each possession of the ball, each team attempts to score points for expanded government powers (increases in tyranny). The other team puts up resistance to the scoring of points, but never seeks to eliminate points. It’s the way the game is designed. This is why the Blues wanted an end to the wars Right Now when Bush was in office, but now that their team has the ball, their opposition to established Bush policies like torture, bad economics and expansive war has largely dried up. This is also why the Reds were anti-government populists under Clinton, but ran the most profligate and aggressive government in history once their team got the ball.
The people watch, and get to vote on who is on the team rosters like it’s American Idol, but they’re focused on rooting for their team, focused on seeing their team score points at the expense of the other team.
We need to focus on the guys running the game, and get all those points taken off the board. The Red vs. Blue politics we’re taught to accept is just a method of controlling resistance. Both teams work for the same owners. They’re just there to take turns taking the people’s genuine, innate, human resistance to tyranny, and directing that energy into team spirit.
Guns harm this man’s work environment.
Posted by Benjamin J. Thompson | Filed under Linked Videos, Videos
Should they be banned?