‘…I’m moving away from fearing that the country might crash and toward hoping that it will. As matters stand, Americans have no rights. As Ayn Rand once put it, governments and their agents are free to do whatever they please, to whomever they please, with little or no explanation, while individuals must beg permission for anything and everything. That’s tyranny, plain and simple. It might not have blossomed to its fullest quite yet — we still have some de facto freedom, if only because the State’s enforcement power isn’t infinite — but the principles are in place and outrider actions such as the May 5 murder of Jose Guerena make it plain that our masters mean to be masters indeed.
If the current system should come apart under the weight of its excesses, the survivors might resurrect some sense for freedom, for the rights of the individual, and for the administration of justice under Constitutional constraint. There’s more chance of that than of restoring the Republic from its current degenerated condition.
Pardon the vulgarity, but I’m way, way too old for this shit…’            (bold mine kg)
The whole post HERE

Indeed. This will not be fixed by the ballot box The ballot box brought us to this point. And what was ridiculed as “paranoia” and “extremism” two short years ago is now becoming blindingly, obviously true.

After a fine dinner and good company, we spent today ambling along the NSW coast. There’s some beautiful places here and we’re now ensconced-beer in hand- in an eye-wateringly expensive harbourside villa at Tuncurry.
It’s great to see our favourite Mr. Plod posting here, giving another perspective on the law as she is used and abused.
Welcome, Nemesis!

While America’s standing in the Middle East couldn’t get much lower, you wouldn’t know it looking at the U.S. foreign aid budget. Of proposed U.S. assistance for 2012, almost two-thirds is earmarked for Muslim nations and one-third goes to Arab countries.
Yet, despite those billions in aid, opinion polls show most Arab citizens still have an unfavorable view of America and most Muslim nations routinely vote against U.S. interests in the United Nations.
“If we are giving money to countries consistently voting against our interest, we ought to cut them off,” says Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH) who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “But Congress is going to need to get some backbone here because it consistently gives Presidents the ability to waive the cutoff of that money.”…’

Why is the West giving money to Arab countries who’ve made trillions from us in oil revenues? Why are we giving money to primitive fuckers who would kill us without blinking? Who regard us as an inferior form of life even as they benefit from all the technical advances of the West?
Cut it off. Now. And leave the bastards to sink into their backward swamps. Not one Western government has ever held a referendum asking their own long-suffering taxpayers if they agree to giving foreign aid. And not one politician to my knowledge has ever run for office on a promise to end it.    Why not?

And–as usual–it’s a beauty.
‘..We became a police state some time ago when government became anti-constitutional rather than merely unconstitutional. “What’s not forbidden is compulsory” is the classic description. Nobody under the age of fifty remembers it any other way. If freedom is the exercise of options, and it is, if our options have been removed by protectionism, and they have, then we no longer are free. And we aren’t. Protectionism—consumer protection and environmental protection and the rest—mainly protects the agency’s budgets and their patron’s ambitions. The citizen’s part is to pay the bills and follow directions. Consider: the FDA recently stated outright we have no actionable right to choose our own foods. As things stand, they’re not wrong. Franklin was right, we’ve traded liberty for security and gotten neither. We’ve gotten a police state…’

And that’s not the half of it…the rest is riveting stuff. And has anybody compiled a list of the liberties we’ve lost since-say-1950?  It’d make interesting reading. We delude ourselves that we’re free because the truth of the matter is simply too frightening to contemplate.

Bring yer own beer.

KIA Afghanistan.

Mort’s comment says it for me:
“my thoughts and sympathies go to the family of Sgt Brett Wood”an inspiration leader” of Australia’s special forces units. I wish the best for the recovery of  their 5 soldiers injured in 2 separate incidents in Afghanistan.
Our freedoms are only real because of your sacrifices.
thank you”

‘Key confessions confirm National lies on ETS
Lairbour has told us what we already knew, that the Emissions Trading Scheme is just a ruse to screw billions out of New Zealanders.
As Whale Oil also reported, Labour’s Charles Chauvel saw ETS as a way to raise $21 billion in extra tax by 2030, he revealed in a secret report…’      Fairfacts Media Show

from Lucianne.com

‘…A little-known charity run by the BBC is spending more than £15million a year on aid projects, including educating Africa on climate change and a romantic soap opera for Indian radio.
The charity, the BBC World Service Trust, employs nearly 600 staff. Last year, it reportedly spent more than £28million on ‘changing lives through media and communication’.’                        Melanie Phillips

This is the same BBC that’s funded with money compulsorily ripped off any Brit with a tv in the form of a “licence fee”! Not bad, is it, getting to throw stolen money around to give themselves a nice warm glow of sanctimonious superiority…

Or at least, it would be if the dishonest MSM reported it accurately..
‘Muslim Man Faces Charges for ‘Gay Free Zone’ Campaign
Surprise, surprise – accusations and rumours about the EDL have once again proved to be entirely baseless.

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