THE PURPOSE OF GUNS IS TO OPPOSE THE GOVERNMENT
Hunting and Personal Protection? Misdirection.
“Someone at the office asked me, yesterday, what type of “arms” I thought the Second Amendment protects. The answer to that is those arms of the same caliber and quantity as the armed federal officers who come to your door have.” — David Sack, via Lew Rockwell
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-10 07:48:00 UTC
READING: THE EUROPEAN NEW RIGHT
I’ve been trying to consume just about everything produced by the European New Right that I can find. Starting with the obvious choice of Alain De Benoist, and this morning on The Fourth Political Theory. And, I’m frankly, kind of suprised at how weak it is. Not in it’s intention, but in its failure to really add anything new to our set of institutions that would bring about its desired social order. Or even, really, an understanding of WHY our early pre-christian (artistocratic egalitarian) ethics was superior both to christian and neo-liberal ethics.
Why should this bother me?
Because we propertarians have solved the problem of political ethics and institutions of cooperation. And we’ve rejected the ‘growth’ argument that underlies the western democratic socialist and progressive capitalist ethics.
We did what no one else has done in history. And we are basically ignored. Why is that? Why is it that we’re ignored?
It’s becaue of Rothbard’s failure to include opportunity costs, warranty, symmetry, and indirect voluntary transfer in his ethics.
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-10 03:56:00 UTC
WHERE HAVE AMERICANS LOST THE “RIGHT OF JURIDICAL DEFENSE?”
Juridical defense is the principle that no government may act upon an individual or his property or fail to act upon it, without right to court and jury.
Of course the IRS is the best example. Where else?
LAW MUST APPLY TO ALL PERSONS EQUALLY.
Where have americans lost the protection from universal applicability?
Two common abuses:
First is that all individuals within any governance structure must be personally liable for their actions. This means we must be able to sue individuals in all bureaucracies for damages. Including delays.
Second is taxation. Flat income and sales taxes guarantee minimum taxes. However, I’m not sure progressive taxation is anti libertarian. ( involuntary transfer ). I am sure that misuse of taxes is anti libertarian. ( I’ve written about this elsewhere. )
The philosophical problem is not so much a tax but the governments ability to increase taxes.
IF THERE IS NO LAW THEN THERE IS NO CRIME AND THEREFORE LEGISLATIVE LAWS MAY NOT BE RETROACTIVE.
Where have Americans been subject to retroactive law?
This doesn’t really need further explanation.
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-09 19:41:00 UTC
MY FIRST EXPERIENCE WITH UKRAINIAN POLICE CORRUPTION.
In the states, police departments raise money with irrelevant speed traps, stoplight cameras and buckle-up campaigns and other administrative forms of extortion.
It’s corruption sure. It’s just procedural corruption. It’s systemic but impersonal.
Here in Kiev. On the way home from the restaurant. Our taxi is pulled over by a lone policeman who flagged us down with a flashlight. He claimed the street was restricted at this time – although there were no signs, it’s a main street lined with cars, and other cars were on the road with us.
Apparently it’s 20 bucks to get out of a fabricated infraction. The policeman pocketed the money and we drove off.
I told my admittedly educated Ukrainian friends that this sort of direct corruption might not be better than the more advanced indirect corruption that’s so pervasive in the states.
They responded that no, the visible corruption makes people distrust the government.
And I agreed. It makes people hold an accurate view of government.
Ticketing moms in minivans for going three miles over the speed limit on four lane roads in clear weather on one hand. And allowing nine arrests before a car thief does jail time, letting meth heads free reign to commit petty crimes in our rural areas because its difficult and expensive to lock them up, allowing massive illegal immigration as a matter of political utility in seizing power through immigration that cannot be obtained through argument and reason, jailing right wing movie makers while heralding left wingers.
Ukraine has a problem that’s fixable with articulated property rights, imported western judges, pay increases for policemen and an independent internal affairs organization to
Investigate and monitor corruption. And the right of citizens to sue anyone in the government for corruption or damage from incompetence.
You can’t fix the USA without breaking it up and starting over.
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-09 16:14:00 UTC
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2013/01/white-murder-rates-by-state.htmlVIOLENCE IS A PROPERTY OF RACE.
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2013/01/white-murder-rates-by-state.html?m=1
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-08 16:37:00 UTC
FRIENDS: PHONE PROBLEMS FOR A FEW DAYS
I have lost my Ukranian sim card while traveling and need to get it replaced. Right now I have a temp number until I can get it changed to the old one.
Thanks!
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-07 11:40:00 UTC
Happy Birthday!
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-07 07:24:00 UTC
A CHAT ON GENDER RELATIONS : THE CONSTRAINT OF ALPHAS
(From a chat with Shan)
SHAN
I have a cold…but it is just a woman cold…so it will probably be gone tomorrow. 😉
CURT
Love it. I wish I would get woman colds rather than man colds. 🙂
SHAN
Just one more reason to consider a sex change.
CURT
Um. No. Ack.
SHAN
You could be so much more clear headed …and have amazing intuitive powers!
CURT
It’s just safer, even in THIS conversation with an exceptionally wise and rational woman, to choose as we men do in ALL conversations with women, to allow any woman to preserve their illusions of rationality and circumstantial superiority. 🙂
The purpose of women’s gossip, nagging, conjecture, impulsivity and emotional irrationalism, is to constrain alphas from within a position of perpetual weakness. First to motivate their female peers, who then motivate their male mates and relations, to constrain power-seeking alphas. Women do this not with reason, but with complaint, distortion and annoyance.
Alphas are a problem both for males and females. But males must cooperate to take down an alpha.
There is a small body of work at present that suggests that the suppression of alphas by gossip is the primary reason for the development of language, not as was previously thought, coordination in hunting. Or that cooperation evolved both in hunting, and in constraint of alphas in tandem.
This is collective rallying through gossip is the power of women. It is the only power of women. Males are demonstrably superior both physically and mentally, at least as a group, because males SPECIALIZE. And while men may not understand the power of women in the sense that they can articulate it. They feel it. 🙂
But I, like most men, am quite aware of the balance between our superiority and the power of women to rally other men to suppress us. Unfortunately for me, as a specializing alpha, I’m entirely conscious of what’s going on. 🙂
If this does not illustrate what is occurring in the sea change that is taking place in western democracies as little more than an expression of feminine instincts, then nothing will. 🙂
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-07 07:23:00 UTC
INEXPENSIVE DECADENCE
A second floor window overlooking Podol.
An inexpensive white South African wine.
Local bread, sliced thin and toasted.
Danish butter.
Medium red caviar.
Watching “300” in Russian.
The occasional hug.
Sigh.
It’s OK to be jealous. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-05 17:32:00 UTC
THANK YOU UKRAINE
For helping me love humanity again. It took quite a bit. Given how much the USA accomplished just the opposite.
Source date (UTC): 2013-01-05 05:07:00 UTC