Lovin' nature, baby.

http://www.magic-city-news.com/Editor_s_Desk_34/Ira_Einhorn_Earth_Day_s_...

Timmy Geithner offered this little gem yesterday as he testified before a special Federal Commission:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/21/AR200904...

In other words, if the recipient banks don't want to answer to the feds any longer, and they want to pay back the bailout cash, the government can deny the request and CONTINUE to control them! The lesson? Never make a deal with the Devil.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act is in play once more, and so is the expansive idea that government exists to "give" things to people. Of course, those who embrace total liberty understand that even the supposed "protective" justification for government, one in which government is not handing out special favors or jobs, etc., even that is not justified, because the so-called "protection" role is a service just like any other.

How about they privatize the fire department, stop government lawsuits over things that are at their heart based on majority sanctioned theft, and leave the citizens to handle their own lives without forceably MAKING them pay for a service whether they want it or not? There's a start.

So the advisors who recommended torture could still face prosecution, bt the people who actually DID it won't. Interesting. The "advisors" actually had no power to give orders, only to offer opinions. The Bush administration gave the orders, and the torturers carried them out, yet the torturers don't have to worry, they "were just following orders."

That wasn't a viable defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090422/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_obama_interrogatio...

The debate rages once more. If one supports the supposed "defense" rationale for the existence of government, how far does "defense" go?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090422/us_time/08599189301500

How nice, a girl who was forced to strip in a government school because they suspected her of having prescription strength ibuprophen, she gets to have her case heard by a government court. Wonder if the court will hedge on this one the way they did on the Heller gun case and rights?

When this young woman was 13, the administration of her government school forced her to shed her clothes, in order to facilitate a search for "illicit drugs", ie, prescription ibuprophen.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/04/18/20090418scotus-stripsearch18-ON.html

The "War on Drugs", government taxation, government schooling, they're all mixed up in this story, and in each instance, liberty is the loser.

A great, short piece by Umair Haque, of Havas Media Lab:

The Real Pirate Bay

6:23 PM Saturday April 18, 2009

Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.

Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.

Let's draw out the distinction.

The Pirate Bay guys were criminally prosecuted for....violating (largely obsolete) copyright. Almost no one in finance has been held even civilly liable for vastly more economically damaging actions.

On the one hand, we have damages worth maybe (maybe) a few million. On the other, a few trillion.

This is a most forbidding harbinger of things to come...

Rememeber, this is not only unconstitutional, eploying an open-ended interpretation of the interstate commerce clause of Article One, it represents a divergence from British Common Law for torts. The regulations are predicated on the idea that the government needs to step in to stop "Americans" from being hurt by CO2, but this over reaches. According to Common Law and Tort Law, damage claims are supposed to be heard in COURT, and only PEOPLE can bring suits for damages, NOT abstract titles called governments in pre-emptory fashion.

Though only tangentially connected to the immediate battles for liberty in the US, this report about Jackie Chan's statements is a real shame to see. Strange how some people don't think about the logical outcome of their ideas.

http://wonderwall.msn.com/movies/Stars-are-Nothing-Like-Us-1536.gallery?...

Be Seeing You!

Government enforced copyright and freedom cannot coexist.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandteleco...

There is no government-run train service that has ever run in the black, period. If there were a market for this, people would be willing to invest in it with THEIR OWN MONEY.

All government programs are, by definition, reductions in the productive capacity of the people living under the yolk of that government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_rail

There is no government-run train service that has ever run in the black, period. If there were a market for this, people would be willing to invest in it with THEIR OWN MONEY.

All government programs are, by definition, reductions in the productive capacity of the people living under the yolk of that government.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_rail

Sure, the Republicans are using the issue to score political points, but she deserves to lose her job. Then we need to eliminate the job altogether!

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97JB5CO0&show_article=1

But remember, there's "change" in the air!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/us/16nsa.html?_r=1&hp

This, despite the fact that a Japanese soldier was sentenced to 14 years hard labor for the act  in WWII.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090416/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/torture_memos

The following is a three minute speach I prepared for an event.

This ought to be a lesson (both about upholding oaths of office and about gaining popularity) for all those venal politicians like John Lynch, Deval Patrick, and more...

http://www.drudgereport.com/flashtx.htm

Here is the video: http://governor.state.tx.us/news/press-release/12227/

How predictable are these government folks?

Nothing like misdirection, as April 15, tax day, approaches...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=94803

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53D5SH20090414?feedType=RS...

One wonders when Ruth missed the lesson on the oaths the people in US gubment take to uphold the Constitution. Ah, well, yes... she might have been asleep.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/us/12ginsburg.html?_r=1&em