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No Fire Like Greed
Posted on June 8, 2012 in Class Hatred Liberty Morals & Ethics Spirituality and Being
Greed and hate are not signs of freedom, but of slavery. Free yourself.
Executing Christiana Green
Posted on January 10, 2011 in Hatred Liberty Propaganda
What Tina King has said about Christina Taylor Green reeks worse than the bio-waste of any abortion
The Rats Remain on the Republican Ship — Good People Leave
Posted on August 31, 2008 in Campaign 2008 Liberty
Susan Eisenhower, granddaughter of [[Eisenhower|DDE]], left her grandfather’s party because she was sick and tired of the Rovian takeover:
This week, I changed my registration from Republican to independent. The two political parties as they exist today, and the partisanship that they foster, reflect the many fights of the cold war, the Vietnam era, the post–cold war and the 9/11 periods. Today we are in a different place altogether, where our security as a nation is challenged not just from abroad but also close to home. The energy, health-care and financial crises threaten our national prosperity and well-being, just as surely as any confrontation overseas or an attack by radical terrorists.
The word is out: if you like Republican politics as they stand now, you are an extremist. And, given the state of affairs in Minneapolis where they are locking up demonstrators against Bush and McCain, this extremism is not in defense of liberty, therefore a vice.
I doubt Barry Goldwater would have anything to do with this crowd.
[tags]Campaign 2008, Eisenhower, Karl Rove, Mean John McCain, John McCain, extremism[/tags]
Cutting out on the Cults
Posted on July 5, 2007 in Liberty Spirituality and Being
One thing that remains a problem for those wishing to expose the machinations of religious organizations is the threat of the Big Lawsuit. Witness, for example, what happened to [[Paulette Cooper]] who wrote a book about Scientology in the 1970s. She was not only hectored with lawsuits, but she was framed in bomb-threats against Arab embassies using some of her personal stationery. Cooper was indicted and ultimately exonerated, but at the cost of her mental health.
The First Amendment prevents Federal interference in religion and speech and I’d like to take that at its absolute word. As long as cults do not break laws (such as the time [[Synanon]] put a rattlesnake in the mailbox of lawyer Paul Morantz), then the government stays completely out. Which means when a religious group comes to court about a matter involving outside testimonies to its doctrines or practices, the court simply says “We don’t interfere in such matters. We don’t adjudicate cases which involve churches. You have to work that out in the free marketplace of ideas.” So say so long to nuisance suits. Say goodbye to copyrights of church testaments and holy texts. Come down only if churches are found to be guilty of harassment or if blackmail is involved.* If you want to maintain a secret covenant with your members about how aliens from strange planets blossomed up from the earth via the eardrums of gnats**, then you have to do your own policing to ensure that your esoterica doesn’t find its way to a web site. The courts of the United States will not help you.
Wouldn’t that be a rule of law worth enforcing?
The Fundamentalist Penetration of National Security
Posted on December 13, 2006 in Liberty Morals & Ethics
A maverick former military lawyer goes toe to toe with a national security threat: Evangelical Christians:
The U.S. military, which I consider a noble and honorable institution, is technologically the most lethal organization ever created by Homo sapiens. When you have the leadership believing that to be a good soldier, good Marine, good airman or sailor you have to be not just a Christian but the right type of Christian, we’re no better than al-Qaida. And it’s hideous, beyond belief. My kids were called “fucking Jews” and accused of total complicity, they and their people, in the execution of Jesus Christ, by superiors up and down the chain of command at the Air Force Academy….
I’ve had nine death threats since about 10 o’clock last night. I usually get about two or three a week. They’re very grotesque, everything from wanting to gas all the Jews in America and send the corpses back to Israel to threatening to blow me up, threatening my house will be blown up, raping my wife, blowing up my house. We’ve had our tires slashed, we’ve had feces and beer bottles thrown at the house, we’ve had dead animals placed on the front door of the house.
I was in Topeka, on a book tour, and the local Episcopal priest came out to support me and five hours later his church was burned down. And the local synagogue in Topeka, where I was to speak that night, was desecrated with spray paint saying, “Fuck you, Jews” and “KKK,” all that stuff.
So if this is a nice, Christian response, my response is take a number, pack a picnic lunch and stand in line, because we’re not going to stop, we’re not going to ever stop, we’re going to lay down a withering field of fire and leave sucking chest wounds on these people that are trying to destroy our Constitution. This is not a Christian-Jewish issue, and it’s also not a political spectrum, left or right issue, it’s a Constitutional right and wrong issue. These officers, and what’s happening in that video, simply by appearing in a video that is blatantly and vociferously sectarian, by simply doing three things in that video, they should be court-martialed.
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The Right Realizes
Posted on October 19, 2006 in Internet Privacy Liberty
In the wake of the Foley affair, the Right (which has done its best to undo our constitutional freedoms these last eight years) is suddenly concerned about Internet privacy. Like we on the Left didn’t warn them. Here’s an article from Forbes that you will want to read. I actually agree with much of what it has to say. Welcome, oh Forbes, to the land of liberty.
For Beautiful Rights
Posted on June 29, 2006 in Justice Liberty
Welcome back to America, my friends.
Touch Tone Surveillance
Posted on May 12, 2006 in Liberty
It isn’t “Big Government” that is to blame here. It is Big Corporation which has managed to privatize large sectors of our government and put it beyond our control.
Locking up the Sociopaths
Posted on March 23, 2006 in Hospitals and Prisons Liberty Personality Disorders
So a sociopath may be released because he doesn’t have an organic brain dysfunction like bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
The War for OIF
Posted on March 23, 2006 in History Liberty Propaganda War
I disagree with theories that hold that Americans were docile lambs led to the slaughterhouse made of shrapnel and spent uranium.
Hands Off Our Internet
Posted on January 27, 2006 in Human Rights Liberty Scoundrels
Here in America, the big telecommunications companies are lobbying to take over the Internet, to charge you for using your net.
