Corn Starch- The New ‘Terrorist’ Weapon

The powers-that-be in Dallas are in a tizzy after several locations around the area received envelopes of white powder determined to be corn starch. The popular cooking ingredient was said to be accompanied by a “chilling note.” A spokesman reported that the note said “something to the effect of 'Al-Qaeda in the USA.’” Gasp! The Horror! A cold, chilling wave of fear and dread just penetrated my entire body!


It’s interesting that the message was only described in vague terms, rather than the exact text that was written. That tells me the note was some rambling, cryptic, hand scribbled message or that there was no note at all. The reporter shows his incompetence by not insisting on the exact text of the message.

“We took it as a credible threat," said one emergency responder. What threat? Threatening what action? You can’t initiate a threat unless you clearly indicate a future, violent action. Corn starch and a note that says “I’m here” is a threat?

The clueless reporter then writes this gem: “Since 9/11, the postal service has been checking all mail for bio hazards. We can be relatively sure that stuff is not getting through in the mail.”

Oh yeah? Then if corn starch or any other white powder is considered a possible hazard, didn’t that very material just get “through the mail” to at least 13 locations in the Dallas area? Isn’t that just what the reporter has said occurred?

“These 13 cases have wasted thousands and thousands of dollars of local resources. If police catch the person responsible, they can make them pay for all that,” whines one of the Dallas tax eaters.

Pay for what? What’s the crime? Sending corn starch in the mail? Even in a law happy jungle like the US, I doubt there is a single decree that prohibits sending corn starch, sugar or any other cooking ingredients through the mail.

These people are hysterical idiots!

This is such an obvious government inside job, it’s laughable. It’s budget review time for the state haz-mat folks and they want to remain relevant and indispensable. They don’t want to join the 450 tax parasites just laid off by the City of Dallas. The flood of terrorist attacks our rulers have constantly predicted and warned us about have not occurred and there is fear the public may no longer be believers. Government “jobs” are at stake here and no action would be considered inappropriate to save them.

Of course, any white powder is automatically suspected to be anthrax and we all know the 2001 attacks originated not from some foreign or domestic terror organization but from the US Government, itself! That is a fact that has been conveniently forgotten by the public or one they never learned.

This is just another incident of the state inciting fear among its subjects to keep them loyal and subservient to their ruling masters. Obedient and compliant Americans have been conditioned to shiver, sweat, and crap their jammies at the mere mention of the CIA created “Al Qaeda.”

Booga! Booga!

How would we ever survive without the government? Who else is brave enough to protect us from corn starch?

These state gangsters and their supporters seem to have an uncommon fear of any kind of white powder. Buildings are evacuated, chaos ensues, and state “business” is disrupted. This comical disorder is all to the benefit of those sovereign individuals trying to live their lives free of state harassment. The more disruption, the less mischief these gangsters can create and execute against free living individuals.

If every anti-state person sent an envelope of corn starch to DC, what would be the result? No note would be necessary. No need to even write “hello” as even this could be contorted into a threat by these paranoid parasites. Seeing the hysteria that occurred over a handful of these mailings around one metropolitan area, I have to wonder, what would be the result of thousands of these same mailings all targeted at DC? Would the city shut down? Would all government “business” come to a screeching halt? If a sender was caught, what could he/she be charged with- sending an anti-caking and thickening agent through the mail?

I’m not encouraging or suggesting any action here. I’m just speculating about what might occur. You have to admit, sending your congressman a few grams of corn starch would create more effective action (or better, inaction) than writing them a letter begging for their help.

The state will do whatever necessary to deceive people with phony threats and frightening boogey men to keep its protection racket alive. Sometimes, they can even show masterful creativity in composing their nefarious schemes. But inevitably, their designs have just enough flaws, inconsistencies, and goofy, incompetent execution to expose them for the frauds they are.

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“Next to sex, the strongest human instinct seems to be to form groups and hate other groups. I have long suspected that the bulk of humanity has more glands than neurons.”
Fred Reed

“Much would be gained if we could eliminate this pernicious word 'obedience' from our vocabulary of moral and political thought. If we think these matters through, we might regain some measure of self-confidence and even pride, that is, regain what former times called the dignity or the honor of man: not perhaps of mankind but of the status of being human.”
Arthur Silber

“I prefer a world without wars, without taxes, without the systematic injustice that comes from any body of persons insisting that they are sovereign, that is, that they are above the laws. I prefer a world of ordered liberty, the rule of law, and peace. And in that world, there are no states.”
Tom G. Palmer

“Government is structured so those who are most able to access the top levels of policy-making wield political power. Because of this, government responds primarily to the most powerful groups in society, who create solutions that everyone will be forced to follow. Government answers to the political demand of power, not to the diverse demands of individual actors.”
Darian Worden

“Elites may have more brilliance, but those who make decisions for society as a whole cannot possibly have as much experience as the millions of people whose decisions they preempt. The education and intellects of the elites may lead them to have more sweeping presumptions, but that just makes them more dangerous to the freedom, as well as the well-being, of the people as a whole.”
Thomas Sowell

“As the state had no existence prior to the appearance of humans who either created it, or who were conquered by it, it is hard to grasp an argument that would recognize this entity as having any interests that preceded its creation, and that did not derive either by contract or by violence. No evidence exists for any political system having arisen through mutual agreement of those to be bound, and with a fairly universal rejection of the idea that one can legitimately acquire the interests of some through their forcible usurpation, the state has no claim to the exercise of 'rights' that any libertarian would be bound to respect.”
Butler Shaffer

“It is simply not possible to stop all acts of terrorism if potential terrorists have been given a sufficient grievance to motivate their wreaking some form of havoc against Americans. However, it is silly to make the prevention of all terrorist acts the goal. What can’t be done won’t be done, regardless of how many people and how much money one devotes to doing it. We can, though, endure some losses from terrorism in the same way that we routinely endure some losses from accidents, diseases, and ordinary crime.”
Robert Higgs

“The major threat to the modern state isn’t foreign invasion or even armed native insurrection — it’s the increasing ease with which its opponents can disseminate the truth about what government is and what government does. Government withers and dies under the harsh light of disclosure, exposure, transparency.”
Thomas L. Knapp

“If any overarching conclusion emerges from the Afghan and Iraq Wars (and from their Israeli equivalents), it's this: victory is a chimera. Counting on today's enemy to yield in the face of superior force makes about as much sense as buying lottery tickets to pay the mortgage: you better be really lucky.”
Andrew J. Bacevich

“As Voluntaryists we reject the Libertarian Party on the same level and for the same reason we reject any other political party. The rejection is not based on incidental evasions or corruption of principle which inevitably occur within politics. It is based on the conviction that to oppose the State one must oppose the specific instances of the State or else one's opposition is toward a vague, floating abstraction and never has practical application. Political offices are the State. By becoming politicians libertarians legitimize and perpetuate the office. They legitimize and perpetuate the State.”
Wendy McElroy

“The underlying condition that has caused the corruption, ineptness and the State’s ever-expanding collusions with private businesses is the U.S. government’s monopoly in territorial protection, in which the State monopolist has no competitive incentive to actually provide quality of protection services.
Only a monopolist of territorial protection would do the stupid things that the socialist/fascist U.S. government officials have been doing for these past many decades. The alternative to such counter-productive policies and redistribution parasitism is to outlaw the State’s protection racket and legalize competitive protection agencies.”
Scott Lazarowitz

“American liberty does not depend upon other nations embracing democracy—and never has, even during the Cold War. Nor does American prosperity require bases around the world and military leverage over friend and foe alike. Yet despite their patent falsity, these political orthodoxies continue to be invoked by the American empire to justify its global force projection, endless wars, and national security state.”
Bruce Fein

“Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”
Juilian Assange

“The camera is the new gun, and Wikileaks is a howitzer.”
Ross Kenyon

“Peer pressure and social opprobrium are what really hold societies together, not execution squads chasing those who don’t believe in a war.”
Doug Casey

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From the Darkness:

"Now if you ask me, in conclusion, ‘Well, what, then should properly be done?’ Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity."
Leonard Peikoff, founder of the Ayn Rand Institute, hysterical over the proposed Muslim center near New York’s Ground Zero.

"I would really like to see President Obama to move to ask the government of Iceland to shut that [WikiLeaks] website down. I would like to see him move to shut it down ourselves if Iceland won't do it. I would like to see them move aggressively to prosecute Mr. [Julian] Assange and certainly ensure that he never again gets a visa to enter the United States. What he's done is very clearly aiding and abetting al Qaeda. And as I said, he may very well be responsible for the deaths of American soldiers Afghanistan."
Liz Cheney

"There are two areas of culpability. One is legal culpability. And that's up to the Justice Department and others. That's not my arena. But there's also a moral culpability. And that's where I think the verdict is guilty on WikiLeaks. They have put this out without any regard whatsoever for the consequences."
Defense Secretary Robert Gates. [Hey Bobby, make sure you remember that part about “moral culpability” when you’re on trial for war crimes.]

"[G]enerally speaking, this time next summer, we're still going to be engaged in one hell of a fight. We're going to need every troop we have today, I think, still in Afghanistan next year."
Sen. Lindsey Graham

"The hard truth is we have not seen the end of American sacrifice in Iraq."
B. Obama, looking forward to more bloodletting.

"The fact that there are competing parties and individuals who want to lead this [Iraqi] democracy is a sign of the kind of progress they've made."
B. Obama [Translated: There are plenty of gangsters and despot wannabe’s who want to fight and kill each other for the power to rule others.]

"And it is men -- not to be too gender specific here -- but there, there is a male factor here. I've we seen it in our own recent history. What is it about testosterone that gets us into war?"

Andrea Mitchell [Gosh, I don’t know- why not ask Hillary Clinton, Madeline Albright, Condi Rice, Nancy Pelosi…..]

"The time for double standards that allow Islamists to behave aggressively toward us while they demand our weakness and submission is over."
Newt Gingrich, continuing his bigoted rant against all Muslims.

"Your country is going to take care of you when you come home."
B, Obama, lying to soldier boys returning from Iraq.

“Afghanistan and other troubled lands today cry out for the sort of enlightened foreign administration once provided by self-confident Englishmen in jodhpurs and pith helmets.”
Bloody Max Boot

“They will be called advisory and assistance brigades. They won’t be called combat brigades.”
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates blessing the remaining US assassins in Iraq with a new, Orwellian name.

"If they don't charge him with treason, they ought to charge him with murder."
Rep. Mike Rogers commenting on Bradley Manning

“My father was in World War II and when he got home he got the services that he needed.”
B. Obama, lying about both his fathers. [Both his biological and step-father were between the ages of two and nine during that period.]

"[Julian] Assange is a non-U.S. citizen operating outside the territory of the United States. This means the government has a wide range of options for dealing with him. It can employ not only law enforcement but also intelligence and military assets to bring Assange to justice [sic] and put his criminal syndicate out of business."

Marc Thiessen, American Enterprise Institute

"We are making a demand of them, We are asking them to do the right thing. We hope they will honor our demands."
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell, demanding that Wikileaks hand over classified Afghanistan war documents leaked to the website [Too late, soldier boy. They already did the right thing.]

Snapshot of the State

Soldiers stand in line outside portable toilets during the country's Bicentennial Independence Day celebrations in Bogota, July 20, 2010.

 
Are these the standing armies Jefferson warned us about?
 
Armies are said to march on their stomachs, but their bowels and bladders will stop them in their tracks.

Snapshot of the State

A Ukrainian paratrooper eats a toad during an exhibition military show to mark the forces' annual holiday in the town of Zhytomyr, west of Kiev, August 2, 2010.

“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.”

Bede Griffiths

Snapshot of the State

Jim Booth drives a French draft horse with a caisson carrying the casket of Sgt. Andrew Creighton, who died in Afghanistan while serving in the U.S. Army, at the Houston National Cemetery in Houston. Creighton's brother Spc. Allen Creighton, last in a black barrette, served as pallbearer.

Back where it all began………

When seeing this photo I thought how appropriate to have a participant dressed in the clown suit of Lincoln’s Yankee Army as part of a modern military funeral caisson. It was Lincoln who forcibly branded upon the American collective psyche the idea of the indivisible, American nation state, united forever, evangelizing the democratic theology of heaven on earth. It was Lincoln and his disciples who championed the Hamiltonian advocacy of military adventurism in pursuit of "imperial glory."

Since Lincoln’s reign and his murderous war against secession, we’ve repeatedly witnessed this crazed nationalism fueling imperialistic crusades of conquest around the world. The Neo-cons and the Obamatrons are the latest collectivist kooks to further the cause. As Tom DiLorenzo points out:

“This is yet another dire consequence of the war: Americans came to believe in Alexander Hamilton’s notion that the ‘prestige’ of the state through its pursuit of ‘imperial glory’ was a legitimate function of government. Limiting the role of government to the protection of God-given natural rights to life, liberty, and property became one of Lincoln’s ‘dogmas of the quiet past.’”

So the blood keeps flowing and the tyranny keeps going- all in the name of national glorification.

Glory, glory Hallelujah!

Light Flashes

This isn't rocket science
The young lady is concerned for the welfare of NASA’s test monkeys.


Great! Now, how about some consideration for us TAX monkeys whose money is extorted to pump up that palace of pork known as NASA?

For decades our wealth has been stolen and squandered- “invested”-in useless, floating beer cans orbiting the earth.

So you think the space program is worthy? Then form a group of investors to finance and operate such a program. Then you can blast yourselves and your money into the black nothingness of space to your heart’s content.


FAA: Chelsea Clinton's wedding is a no-fly zone

This is wise.


You don't want to risk a collision with Queen Hillary's broom.

Dallas police crack down on curfew violators

“After those hours at night they can become victims of criminal activity and also because those kids are in their group settings they can sometimes go out and commit criminal offenses themselves."

If that’s so, let’s extend that curfew to ALL ages. Just think of the crime that would be prevented. Adults have their “groups,” too.

Better yet, let’s take this cop’s warped logic to its rational conclusion. Let’s just lock up everyone in a cage. Then no one can ever possibly commit a crime! It’s time to face the realization that the state sees us all as just livestock to be corralled and managed for the state’s benefit and convenience.

Military keeps distressed soldiers at combat site

The state keeps looking for new gimmicks to reverse the psychological damage incurred from intense armed combat. Of course, they’re treating the symptoms rather than the disease. The disease is war which is just as, if not more, psychologically damaging than physically damaging. People who are raised at least somewhat civilized do not naturally kill people. I would argue that such distress is actually a positive sign. Showing signs of such suffering indicates that their humanity is still intact.


Look for these poor individual’s handlers to do more of the same nonsense- Keep ‘em pumped full of drugs until the ideal pharmaceutical cocktail is confirmed. Then, when they’re used up and discharged they become someone else’s problem.

Clinton-Mezvinsky wedding reflects uniting of religions in USA

It’s amazing what the dipwad media can read into something as insignificant as a wedding. The groom, a hedge fund crook and child of an indicted gangster marries the homely offspring of two other gangsters (one also being a mass murderer). One claims to be a Methodist, the other, a Jew. We’re supposed to believe that from this union of budding banditos will inspire deep discussions about religiously mixed marriages.

What twaddle.

Dallas police officer arrested for domestic violence

Such incidents are weekly events with the Dallas police and all other large departments. Police work attracts the lowest common denominator among humans- perverts and bullies.
The evidence to support such a claim is overwhelming.


Texans welcome National Guard troops along the border

Of course, the article makes no mention of the utterly foolish plant prohibition that CAUSES the violence in the first place!
Now, residents along the border get to enjoy the presence of an occupying army composed of uniformed killers- just like the unfortunate folks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Let’s all watch the newest Gestapo daily harass individuals and (eventually) kill their children.

'Boot Girls' back the troops with novel campaign

What a bunch of dips.

Gosh, are these the same kind of boots our ruling oligarchs press on our necks?

I requested the reporter to please, in the future, refer to these individuals as “US” troops rather than “our” troops. There are millions of us out here who don’t share the same pride of collective ownership toward these brain dead murderers.


La. fishermen wrinkle their noses at 'smell tests'

Why are these folks so suspicious of the government?
The government is never wrong, right?
The government would never tell you something that wasn’t true, right?

The government knows more about the fishing business than fisherman, right?

By all means, sell and chow down on this tainted seafood. When people start getting sick and die the state will deny any such previous approval and will even lead the campaign to prosecute those “greedy” fisherman. Count on it.

Conductor Mitch Miller dies at 99

I had no idea Mitch was still alive. I recall well my parents watching his TV program when I was a kid.


I'm always thankful for people who spend their lives bringing beauty into the world, rather than wars and destruction. Just one artist like Mitch is infinitely more valuable than a million bloody politicians.


Obama: U.S. combat role in Iraq is ending


I can’t get this memory out of my head. Maybe it’s a false one. But it seems to me that about seven years ago this little squirrely guy with a speech impediment stood tall and proud on the deck of an aircraft carrier and claimed, “mission accomplished” and “the end of all combat operations in Iraq.”

Was he lying or was that just a dress rehearsal?

So is this now the real thing? There will still be 50,000 US troops in Iraq but they are not labeled “combat troops.” There’s a difference? Does this mean they are unarmed and walk around helping little old ladies across the street and handing out perfume samples?

Political strategy: panhandling for congress

No offense to Mr. McNealy, but something about his panhandling sign bothers me.

How do you “legislate for freedom?”How do you “legislate” something that you are born with and is inalienable?“

Legislate” implies control. You need to “de-legislate” to restore the freedom that was “legislated” away.

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“Everybody must deal with stress and everybody makes mistakes. A hero is not someone without weakness. A hero is someone who manages to do the right thing in spite of his weaknesses.”
Darian Worden

“Libertarianism has indeed been a single-cultural movement - the culture of individual non-coercive freedom. Within that single cultural ideal all other non-coercive cultural pursuits are possible, and that makes libertarianism truly multi-cultural as opposed to the left's fake multi-culturalism, which champions a mono-cultured coercively established statist collective.
There are, of course, no rights other than individual rights, making ‘the common good’ just another one of those nonexistent lefty feel-good locutions like ‘social justice’ and ‘collective consciousness’ that have no actual meaning in the real world. ‘Common’ and ‘social’ and ‘collective’ are groupthink words while ‘good’ and ‘justice’ and ‘consciousness’ describe individual values and attributes.”
Garry Reed

“The guilt/envy dynamic has been institutionalized in America by the government, and when the government gets involved with something, you can be sure the consequences will be awful at the best and fatal at the worst.”
Bob Wallace

"The U.S. Empire is discovering what the British and the Soviet empires discovered — that while some Afghanis will inevitably cooperate with a foreign occupying force, a certain percentage of them remain committed to doing their best to uphold their long national tradition of making their country the graveyard of empires."
Jacob Hornberger

“'God and Country’ is at best an ambiguous phrase – the best thing anyone can do for their fellow countrymen is to have no other allegiance than to God. Those who choose otherwise will soon see no wrong in murdering for their country.”
Paul Green

“If one obeys a law because the guiding principle is just then morality and our community are well-served. People who behave in this manner do our communities a great service. However, if one obeys a law for no better reason than that it is law, all one is doing is respecting power, and disappointingly, not virtue.”
Ross Kenyon

“Establishment views rarely stray from that narrow range separating war liberals’ 'muscular internationalism' from neocons’ 'full spectrum dominance.' Liberals cheer on their peace president’s humanitarian bombing campaign—even as it succeeds not so much in liberating its presumed beneficiaries from their burqas as from their lives and limbs. Conservatives scoff at the notion government can run a daycare center—even as they insist it is fully qualified to run a global empire.”
Tony Pivetta

“Socialism relies on violence. It must. The only way you could get every person in society to behave the same way, consume the same things, and work and live the way state central planners want is to use force. Even then, it probably won’t work for very long if at all.”
Mike P.

“The government cannot explain why the [Afghanistan] war is necessary, because it is not necessary to the American people. Any necessary reason for the war has to do with the enrichment of narrow private interests and with undeclared agendas. If the agendas were declared and the private interests being served identified, even the American sheeple might revolt.”
Paul Craig Roberts

“In recent decades the military has almost achieved its wettest dream, the separation of wars from the American population. The fielding of a small volunteer army prevents the riots on campus that helped to end the adventure in Asia long ago. ‘Embedding’ reporters with combat units pretty much prevents coverage that might upset people. The media for whatever reasons are now complicit, declining to air what really happens on the ground. All of this allows ghastly behavior, which is what wars always produce, to go forward with little opposition.”
Fred Reed

“We should be grateful to the whistle-blowers who gave us the Afghanistan war documents for once again letting us in on the sick joke that passes for U.S foreign policy.”
Robert Scheer

“The law is not some Platonic Form plucked from the skies by the Pure in Heart. Laws are written by men, men who have particular interests, particular constituencies, particular donors, and particular friends. ... Laws are the particular means by which the state implements and executes its vast powers. When an increasingly authoritarian state passes a certain critical point in its development, the law is no longer the protector of individual rights and individual liberty. The law becomes the weapon of the state itself -- to protect, not you, but the state from threats to its own powers. We passed that critical point some decades ago. The law is the means by which the state corrals its subjects, keeps them under control, and forbids them from acting in ways that the overlords might perceive as threatening. In brief, today, in these glorious United States, the law is not your friend.”
Arthur Silber

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From the Darkness:

"We strongly condemn the disclosure of classified information by individuals and organizations, which puts the lives of the US and partner service members at risk and threatens our national security. Wikileaks made no effort to contact the US government about these documents, which may contain information that endanger the lives of Americans, our partners, and local populations who co-operate with us."
White House statement, whining about Wikilieak’s release of 90,000 records of incidents and intelligence reports about the Afghanistan War.

“If I were Netanyahu, I would say to Obama, ‘Why don’t you take out the Iranian nukes? Or else we will and we will not do it by trying to fly planes across Turkey and Syria or Jordan or Saudi Arabia. We will do it from submarine-based, tactical nuclear weapons. You don’t want that; we don’t want that; but that’s the way we can do this job for sure. You do it your way so we don’t have to escalate to that.’”
Daniel Pipes

“Libertarianism has never been much of a multi-cultural movement. Need I say that racism - overt, implied, or even subtle - is not a Christian virtue.
Emphasizing individual rights at the expense of others violates the common good."
Jim Wallis

“Always a couple of anarchists who want to kill all of us in public office.”
US Representative John Boehner, describing what he sees at Tea Party rallies.

You know, there are over a hundred mosques in New York City. I favor religious freedom. I'm quite happy if they'd come in and said, 'We want to build a community center near Central Park, we'd like to build a community center near Columbia University.' But they didn't. They said right at the edge of a place where, let's be clear, thousands of Americans were killed in an attack by radical Islamists."

Newt Gingrich, finding a new subject to blather about- the proposed mosque near Ground Zero.

"A comprehensive review of key climate indicators confirms the world is warming and the past decade was the warmest on record."
From the annual State of the Climate report. [Keep the scam alive!]

" [WikiLeaks founder] Mr Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. [Talk about the pot calling the kettle black….]

“The battlefield consequences of the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part of the world.”
Defense Secretary Rober Gates, whining about the latest WikiLeaks disclosure. [Great! Maybe they’ll finally kick out your sorry ass.]

“We must eliminate the inherent conflict between public purpose and private ownership that was destabilizing to the GSEs [government sponsored enterprises]. Congress could eliminate that tension by restructuring Fannie and Freddie to create one or two private-sector entities that would purchase and securitize mortgages with a credit guarantee explicitly backed by the federal government and paid for by the new entity. These privately owned entities would be set up like public utilities and governed by a rate-setting commission that would establish a targeted rate of return.”
Hank Paulson [Typical statist solution- solve the problem by repeating the same actions that caused the problem.]

“If Hollywood were ever to make a film about a nihilistic leaker-hacker dude, a rootless subverter of international public order, they couldn’t do better than to cast Julian Assange as himself.”
Tunku Varadarajan

“Survivors of the Holocaust are entitled to feelings that are irrational. Their anguish entitles them to positions that others would categorize as irrational or bigoted.”
Abraham Foxman