tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87608450312016460132024-03-13T01:34:17.850-04:00Nanny State"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
Thomas JeffersonRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-68217395924403547912011-08-21T10:08:00.000-04:002011-08-21T10:08:18.748-04:00Charles "Rad Geek" Johnson chats it up with MHD about Agorism<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/yO9AtSwjV1s?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-82782796909714894682011-06-04T09:25:00.000-04:002011-06-04T09:25:54.048-04:00Living Free in an Unfree World: Stefan Molyneux at Libertopia 2010<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/OLSkhR-ve8s?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-43628084833645231572011-03-22T16:12:00.000-04:002011-03-22T16:12:57.071-04:00Ron Paul on Freedom Watch: Obama Believes In One World Government , Not ...<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/G_J5icnh5js?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-71924007352574320452011-03-06T07:41:00.000-05:002011-03-06T07:41:38.458-05:00Think different<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dX9GTUMh490?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-16216108038859950292011-02-24T18:27:00.000-05:002011-02-24T18:27:17.068-05:00Criminals For Gun Control 1 Home Invasion<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ngsKzdKNAmo?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-21792617779411877892011-02-19T10:55:00.000-05:002011-02-19T10:55:46.084-05:00OFFICIAL Somewhere over the Rainbow - Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/V1bFr2SWP1I?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-14176503689145910972011-01-17T07:31:00.000-05:002011-01-17T07:31:00.364-05:00Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream...to Go to War?!"<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ahI8o9-U7Z0?fs=1" frameborder="0"></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-15943745158053951012010-12-29T07:14:00.000-05:002010-12-29T07:14:53.650-05:00Because of you the world doesn't have to wait any longer<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rDG6qvgQd1U?fs=1" frameborder="0"></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-54135122110051059952010-12-29T06:58:00.000-05:002010-12-29T06:58:26.688-05:00Going on 9 Guantánamo YearsTuesday, 28 December 2010 06:30<br />
By Debra Sweet<br />
worldcantwait.net<br />
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Lost in the flurry of bills passed as Congress ended was the inclusion in the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act of language that forbids any Pentagon funds being used to transport any detainee from Guantánamo to the U.S. for any reason. There’s no evidence that the Obama administration really opposed this language; they’ve accepted that detainees such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed won’t be tried in federal courts. They’ve delineated a group of detainess for indefinite detention for the reason that they’ve been tortured, and such information, from the government’s standpoint, can’t be made public.<br />
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salon.com<br />
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"Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months -- and for two months before that in a military jail in Kuwait -- under conditions that constitute cruel and inhumane treatment and, by the standards of many nations, even torture.<br />
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...What all of this achieves is clear. Having it known that the U.S. could and would disappear people at will to "black sites," assassinate them with unseen drones, imprison them for years without a shred of due process even while knowing they were innocent, torture them mercilessly, and in general acts as a lawless and rogue imperial power created a climate of severe intimidation and fear. Who would want to challenge the U.S. Government in any way -- even in legitimate ways -- knowing that it could and would engage in such lawless, violent conduct without any restraints or repercussions?" <br />
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NYTIMES<br />
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WASHINGTON — In a classic case of shutting the barn door after the horse has left, the Obama administration and the Department of Defense have ordered the hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors not to view the secret cables and other classified documents published by Wikileaks and news organizations around the world unless the workers have the required security clearance or authorization.<br />
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[Fellow froggies, is the water getting warmer?]<br />
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/05/world/05restrict.html?_r=1&hpRoberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-54462302652300004152010-11-26T08:41:00.000-05:002010-11-26T08:41:24.889-05:00The TSA is out of control<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RhkQoiaf7Uc?fs=1" frameborder="0"></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-8475472003647067792010-11-25T07:21:00.000-05:002010-11-25T07:21:23.300-05:00Judge Jim Gray Part 2: 5 Reason To Decriminalize Marijuana<iframe width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/meciIVRznyU?fs=1" frameborder="0"></iframe>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-82809124123379790002010-08-27T23:33:00.001-04:002010-08-27T23:33:04.137-04:00Enslavement<object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xbp6umQT58A?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xbp6umQT58A?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-61211758783083510912010-08-27T22:54:00.000-04:002010-08-27T22:54:57.102-04:00The Sunset of the State<object style="background-image:url(http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/sLCEXtpTNYU/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLCEXtpTNYU?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sLCEXtpTNYU?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="480" height="295" allowScriptAccess="never" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-67707180120711986872010-03-28T07:36:00.001-04:002010-03-28T07:45:11.066-04:00Taking the Tenth, by Fred ReedThe Last Hope <br />
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March 19, 2010 <br />
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Washington is out of control. It does as it likes, without restraint. It spends American money and American lives to fight remote wars for which it cannot provide a plausible reason. It determines what our children will be taught, who we can hire and fire, to whom we can sell our houses, whether we can defend ourselves, even what names we can call each other. The feds read our email and track the web sites we visit, make us hop around barefoot in airports at the command of surly unaccountable rentacops. They search us at random in train stations without even a pretense of probable cause. We have no influence over them, no way of resisting.<br />
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Except, perhaps, to ignore them.<br />
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To maintain complete security, everyone will be required to disrobe in the outer area before entering the check-in area. For privacy and modesty concerns there will be separate lines for males and females.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-30181045928865288512010-02-20T08:52:00.000-05:002010-02-20T08:52:58.274-05:00Ron Paul at CPAC 2010<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="480" height="386" id="utv601901" name="utv_n_973940"><param name="flashvars" value="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=4850701" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/4850701" /><embed flashvars="loc=%2F&autoplay=false&vid=4850701" width="480" height="386" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" id="utv601901" name="utv_n_973940" src="http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/4850701" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" /></embed></object>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-57334424363213646772010-02-08T19:59:00.002-05:002010-02-08T19:59:29.725-05:00FBI wants records kept of Web sites visitedby Declan McCullagh<br />
CNET.com<br />
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WASHINGTON--The FBI is pressing Internet service providers to record which Web sites customers visit and retain those logs for two years, a requirement that law enforcement believes could help it in investigations of child pornography and other serious crimes. <br />
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FBI Director Robert Mueller supports storing Internet users' "origin and destination information," a bureau attorney said at a federal task force meeting on Thursday. <br />
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As far back as a 2006 speech, Mueller had called for data retention on the part of Internet providers, and emphasized the point two years later when explicitly asking Congress to enact a law making it mandatory. But it had not been clear before that the FBI was asking companies to begin to keep logs of what Web sites are visited, which few if any currently do.<br />
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“There went out a decree from Caesar Augustus,” says St. Luke on why Mary and Joseph found themselves in Bethlehem, “that all the world should be taxed.” Joseph had to go to his own city because the tyrannical Roman government was conducting a census. But the information may have been used for more than just taxation. The Roman government’s local ruler later decided he wanted to find the Christ child and kill Him. <br />
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Did the government make use of census data to find out where the members of the House of David were? We can’t know for sure, although a later Roman despot did. But we can know that Joseph made a huge error in obeying the census takers in the first place. They were up to no good. In fact, another group of religious Jews in Judea decided that they would not comply with the Roman government’s demand to count and tax them. The group was known as the “Zealots” (yes, that’s where the word came from). They saw complying with the census as equivalent to submitting to slavery. Many ended up paying for their principled stand with their lives.<br />
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And yet, their resistance arguably made would-be tyrants more cautious. For 10 centuries after Constantine, when feudal Europe was broken up into thousands of tiny principalities and jurisdictions, no central government was in a position to collect data on its citizens. This is one of the many great merits of radically decentralized political systems: There is no central power that controls the population through data gathering and population enumeration.<br />
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And most folks can't understand why many parents prefer home schooling their children.Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8760845031201646013.post-71250091429985739712010-02-02T17:48:00.002-05:002010-02-02T17:48:32.983-05:00Obama's Doublethink Doubletalk (State of the Union Remix)<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cg0n0nIqgrc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Cg0n0nIqgrc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Roberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05627070275910125789noreply@blogger.com0