State Gangsters Turn to Direct Mail

The State of Texas is mailing coupons to their subjects, encouraging them to participate in their lottery monopoly. Apparently, sales of lottery tickets are sagging as people wise up and hold on to their money for more pressing needs- like food and shelter. Big Tex just wants to offer a friendly reminder that the state’s needs come first. Don’t be selfish!

This is a great example why monopolies, particularly those operated by the state, are an intolerable evil. The state outlaws private individuals participating in such gambling ventures, even classifying such behavior as immoral and personally destructive. Yet, it seems to forget those principles when operating and promoting its own gambling ventures. Try to offer gambling customers an alternative to the state’s and you’ll be prosecuted and imprisoned.

The state protects its vice monopolies with the same vigor as The Mob. Neither will accept competition.

Texans and all state serfs need to realize that buying a lottery ticket is nothing more than voluntary taxation. Why agree, without coercion, to voluntarily give up your wealth to an organization that produces nothing useful and uses that very money to fund activities that are not in your best interest?

A Graphic Look at the Political Landscape

A reader who responded to my “Why” piece on LRC referred me to a useful website. I enjoyed looking at the "Political Landscape" graph that places the constitutionalist in the middle! Today, of course, the public and the media place that poor fellow barely clinging to the far right edge of this illustration. I can easily conclude then that the courageous anarchist has been pushed completely off the page into that netherworld known as "the fringe."

I used to support the constitution until I realized it is a vain, heroic effort to use a piece of paper containing fancily written, eloquent words to defend flesh and blood from threatening, hungry packs of wolves.......who can't read.

What Goes Better With Killing Than Lying and Deceit?

Is there anyone slimier than a military recruiter? Apparently, soldiers that think nothing of killing children in Iraq and Afghanistan, are hired as recruiting goons to threaten high school kids at home.

Recruits that decide not to proceed with non-binding commitments are being threatened with arrest for desertion by angry recruiters. Read all the gory details here. No need to comment- any thoughts written by me would be obvious to anyone who believes that the state should be held to the same standard of accountability as are individuals. The state, in this case, responds with the usual admonition toward the offending party- reassingnment and/or a promotion.

This quote from Congress-Critter Ted Poe really got my attention: “Our country cannot deceive its citizens.”

Than why do you accept the continued reign of a lying dictator?

DVD Reviews

Cream at Royal Albert Hall: The myth lives on that rock and roll is for the young to perform. But why? These fellows certainly proved the contrary during this performance, recorded over four nights in 2005. I know that the band members will be the first to state that they are more of a blues band than a rock band, but their innovative style and top notch musicianship played an important role in the evolution of rock music. The fact that Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce are, and still are, superb musicians, is obvious. But watching this performance reminded me how important and absolutely essential Ginger Baker’s drumming style was to the “Cream sound.” Too old? Hardly. This band is certainly more worthwhile listening to forty years past their time (not their prime) than the over-caffeinated, mediocre, teenage-band twits you see on Letterman.
Recommended

Killer Diller: Very funny, entertaining, low budget movie. Also some great blues music to get you swaying.
Recommended

The Men Who Killed Kennedy: Must see documentary. Soundly researched. The witness interviews reveal amazing information. When I attempt to convince someone that 911 was an inside job, the first thing I tell them to do is watch the collapse of WTC building 7. That experience alone should spark the curiosity of any reasonable person and inspire them to then examine the volumes of other evidence available. To convince the unbeliever that a conspiracy to kill JFK was covered up, the first fact to consider is that the testimony of all 8 eyewitnesses to the assassination (who were all within yards of Kennedy) were completely ignored by the Warren Commission and never mentioned in their report. Amazing.
Recommended (if you don’t see this I’ll slap you)

Rambo: This is the 60-something Rambo. Well written, graphically real war drama. One definite positive is the fictional story takes place in a very real situation- the genocide inflicted by the brutal regime of Burma. Apparently, this film has helped spread awareness of those atrocities and this movie is banned in Burma.
Recommended

The Bucket List: How can you resist watching two masters practice their craft together? A role perfectly matched for Morgan Freeman and one liner zingers that only Jack Nicholson can execute. This is the kind of film that you need to see now and then to remind you what is important.
Recommeded

No Trans-Fats For YOU!

Showing the deranged passion of the Soup Nazi, the state of California has banned the use of trans-fats. The War on Fat, now proudly follows other similar, state fiascos: The War on Some Drugs, The War on Terrrrrism, The War on Poverty, The War on Carbon Dioxide, The War on Climate, The War on Islam, The War on the Productive…… Soon we will be sharing images of the latest raid on non-complying restaurants. Try to picture goons with ski masks and automatic weapons, looking fearsome, dressed in black ninja garb, breaking down doors and terrorizing patrons. “On your knees, you fat consuming bastards!” The fed's vice squad will become the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Fat.

It would seem that the state would eventually run out of ideas how to tell you what to do, what to eat, what to breathe, what to read, what to write, what to say and how to say it, how to think, who to kill, and what to put into your body. Knowing that millions of decisions are made daily by individuals in the marketplace, the possibilities of even more state intervention, mischief and tyranny appear to be endless.

Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“Furthermore, taxes are not "owed" to the federal government; they are seized by the federal government. One "owes" money to another party from whom he has received goods or services pursuant to a legitimate contract. "Contracts" imposed through duress (such as extortion pay-offs) are illegitimate. Those of us who pay taxes do so not because a legitimate contract exists between us and the Regime that extracts our wealth; we do so because of a desire to stay out of prison, or to avoid violent death at the hands of the State's hired killers.”
William Norman Grigg

“America is DEAD. It doesn’t exist anymore. It’s been replaced by ‘The United States’ — not even ‘These United States.’ America is not a place. America is an IDEA.”
Doug Casey

From the Darkness:

“You know what autism is? I'll tell you what autism is. In 99 percent of the cases, it's a brat who hasn't been told to cut the act out. That's what autism is.…”
Radio talk show host Michael Savage

“California is a leader in promoting health and nutrition, and I am pleased to continue that tradition by being the first state in the nation to phase out trans fats.”
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

Image Review of the Week

Image Review of the Week, by Roger Young

Combatants and conformists, gestapo goons and graves.