Curt Doolittle

Theme: Sovereignty

  • ZB MIRRORS MY POSITION, ON UKRAINE But I extend it to a general rule: a well tra

    ZB MIRRORS MY POSITION, ON UKRAINE

    But I extend it to a general rule: a well trained militia with RPGs and man portable anti armor missiles can neither be conquered, nor can conquer others. If you possess nuclear weapons and a well armed and trained militia consisting of every able bodied soul then you are a threat to your own government alone, not to any other; and you are unconquerable by both your government and others.

    One is free only if he not require permission.

    —“I feel that we should make it clear to the Ukrainians that if they are determined to resist, as they say they are and seemingly they are trying to do so (albeit not very effectively), we will provide them with anti-tank weapons, hand-held anti-tank weapons, hand-held rockets—weapons capable for use in urban short range fighting. This is not an arming of Ukraine for some invasion of Russia. You don’t invade a country as large as Russia with defensive weaponry. But if you have defensive weaponry and you have access to it and know it’s arriving, you’re more likely to resist.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-30 08:25:00 UTC

  • can india do to protect the rights of indians working overseas- particularly in

    http://www.quora.com/What-can-the-Indian-government-do-to-protect-the-rights-of-Indian-laborers-in-foreign-countries-especially-in-the-Middle-East-Why-has-it-not-taken-any-action-till-now/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv&share=1″What can india do to protect the rights of indians working overseas- particularly in Saudi Arabia.”

    Nothing other than trade sanctions, which would only cause those countries to deport the workers.

    One has no “rights” external to the territory we stand in. That is a phrase of modern mysticism. The USA postwar effort to encourage all states to care for their citizens in order to be treated as legitimate is or was a function of US military and Ideological dominance.

    As the postwar consensus fails, and american hegemony declines, and the american mandate for fixed borders and human rights declines, and america can no longer project sufficient power to mandate fixed borders and human tights, neither fixed borders nor human rights will remain.

    We have seen Russia conquer Ukraine. Mexico invade the USA through mass immigration. Israel extend its borders. China invade russia through mass immigration. China conquer the nearby sea and threaten Japan. And ISIS and Iran try to reestablish the caliphate.

    Meanwhile the euro project is failing. Civil wars and and secessionist movements are spreading.

    So if you cant keep your own country’s economic house in order (and india cant because of corruption – india is too big), and the USA cannot play world policeman, then you will be subject to whatever arbitrary rules exist wherever you are standing.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-29 04:32:00 UTC

  • What Can The Indian Government Do To Protect The Rights Of Indian Laborers In Foreign Countries Especially In The Middle East? Why Has It Not Taken Any Action Till Now?

    Nothing other than trade sanctions, which would only cause those countries to deport the workers. 

    One has no “rights” external to the territory we stand in.  That is a phrase of modern mysticism.  The USA postwar effort to encourage all states to care for their citizens in order to be treated as legitimate is or was a function of US military and Ideological dominance.

    As the postwar consensus fails, and american hegemony declines, and the american mandate for fixed borders and human rights declines, and america can no longer project sufficient power to mandate fixed borders and human tights, neither fixed borders nor human rights will remain. 

    We have seen Russia conquer Ukraine.  Mexico invade the USA through mass immigration. Israel extend its borders. China invade russia through mass immigration.  China conquer the nearby sea and threaten Japan. And ISIS and Iran try to reestablish the caliphate.

    Meanwhile the euro project is failing. Civil wars and and secessionist  movements are spreading.

    So if you cant keep your own country’s economic house in order (and india cant because of corruption – india is too big), and the USA cannot play world policeman, then you will be subject to whatever arbitrary rules exist wherever you are standing.

    https://www.quora.com/What-can-the-Indian-government-do-to-protect-the-rights-of-Indian-laborers-in-foreign-countries-especially-in-the-Middle-East-Why-has-it-not-taken-any-action-till-now

  • What Can The Indian Government Do To Protect The Rights Of Indian Laborers In Foreign Countries Especially In The Middle East? Why Has It Not Taken Any Action Till Now?

    Nothing other than trade sanctions, which would only cause those countries to deport the workers. 

    One has no “rights” external to the territory we stand in.  That is a phrase of modern mysticism.  The USA postwar effort to encourage all states to care for their citizens in order to be treated as legitimate is or was a function of US military and Ideological dominance.

    As the postwar consensus fails, and american hegemony declines, and the american mandate for fixed borders and human rights declines, and america can no longer project sufficient power to mandate fixed borders and human tights, neither fixed borders nor human rights will remain. 

    We have seen Russia conquer Ukraine.  Mexico invade the USA through mass immigration. Israel extend its borders. China invade russia through mass immigration.  China conquer the nearby sea and threaten Japan. And ISIS and Iran try to reestablish the caliphate.

    Meanwhile the euro project is failing. Civil wars and and secessionist  movements are spreading.

    So if you cant keep your own country’s economic house in order (and india cant because of corruption – india is too big), and the USA cannot play world policeman, then you will be subject to whatever arbitrary rules exist wherever you are standing.

    https://www.quora.com/What-can-the-Indian-government-do-to-protect-the-rights-of-Indian-laborers-in-foreign-countries-especially-in-the-Middle-East-Why-has-it-not-taken-any-action-till-now

  • Francis Joseph, once asked in a moment of candour by Theodore Roosevelt what he

    —Francis Joseph, once asked in a moment of candour by Theodore Roosevelt what he considered to be the role of a monarch in the present day and age, replied: “To protect my nations from their governments!”—

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-26 00:17:00 UTC

  • DISPELLING THE ILLUSION –“The Iraqi government vanished when it came under atta

    DISPELLING THE ILLUSION

    –“The Iraqi government vanished when it came under attack by a few thousand competent well trained well armed men employing only personal weapons striking in areas far away from the centers of government power.”– jim

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-22 22:54:00 UTC

  • IS WORTHLESS OR WORSE I told ya’. Not backing Ukraine told every nation on earth

    http://t.co/i0XzCKreWGUSA IS WORTHLESS OR WORSE

    I told ya’. Not backing Ukraine told every nation on earth that they either have nuclear weapons or they do not have sovereignty.

    Thanks. Obama is now the leading cause of the proliferation of nuclear arms.

    Idiot. Worst president in history.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-22 11:40:00 UTC

  • Sovereignty Begins with Violence, Morality is Made by Violence

    —“Right is not the offspring of doctrine, but of power. All laws, commandments, or doctrines as to not doing to another what you do not wish done to you, have no inherent authority whatever, but receive it only from the club, the gallows, and the sword. A man truly free is under no obligation to obey any injunction, human or divine. Obedience is the sign of the degenerate. Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.”—

    [I]f we apply our wealth of violence to the suppression of free riding in all its forms, then we create the most productive and meritocratic moral code for any body of people that is possible. But that result is an aristocratic moral code – a meritocratic moral code. Merit is to the disadvantage of the incompetent and degenerate. Christianity is merely a rebellion against aristocracy. But unable to suppress aristocracy, and aristocracy uninterested in suppressing christianity, the west was a product of the dialectic between the christians and the actions, habits and traditions of the aristocracy. Might makes whatever right it’s wielder chooses to. But there is only one optimum moral principle available to man, to which we all adhere to different degrees: upon choosing not to use violence, and instead to cooperate, we create the problem of free riding. To suppress free riding we create moral rules. To enforce moral rules we create authority. By creating moral rules we create free riding by corruption. To enforce moral rules against free riding by corruption we must suppress the state. To suppress the state requires that we use violence to suppress free riding in all its forms: criminal, unethical, immoral, conspiratorial, and statist. Might makes whatever right we choose. One can choose an objectively moral right: the suppression or free riding. Or one can choose one of the many others – all of which institute some form of free riding.

  • Sovereignty Begins with Violence, Morality is Made by Violence

    —“Right is not the offspring of doctrine, but of power. All laws, commandments, or doctrines as to not doing to another what you do not wish done to you, have no inherent authority whatever, but receive it only from the club, the gallows, and the sword. A man truly free is under no obligation to obey any injunction, human or divine. Obedience is the sign of the degenerate. Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.”—

    [I]f we apply our wealth of violence to the suppression of free riding in all its forms, then we create the most productive and meritocratic moral code for any body of people that is possible. But that result is an aristocratic moral code – a meritocratic moral code. Merit is to the disadvantage of the incompetent and degenerate. Christianity is merely a rebellion against aristocracy. But unable to suppress aristocracy, and aristocracy uninterested in suppressing christianity, the west was a product of the dialectic between the christians and the actions, habits and traditions of the aristocracy. Might makes whatever right it’s wielder chooses to. But there is only one optimum moral principle available to man, to which we all adhere to different degrees: upon choosing not to use violence, and instead to cooperate, we create the problem of free riding. To suppress free riding we create moral rules. To enforce moral rules we create authority. By creating moral rules we create free riding by corruption. To enforce moral rules against free riding by corruption we must suppress the state. To suppress the state requires that we use violence to suppress free riding in all its forms: criminal, unethical, immoral, conspiratorial, and statist. Might makes whatever right we choose. One can choose an objectively moral right: the suppression or free riding. Or one can choose one of the many others – all of which institute some form of free riding.

  • LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY (worth repeating) —“So whethe

    LIBERTY AS LUXURY, POSSIBILITY, OR IMPOSSIBILITY

    (worth repeating)

    —“So whether one chooses the necessary and sufficient arguments of Aristocratic Egalitarian Libertarianism (Aristocracy), or the luxuries of humanitarian libertarianism (Classical Liberalism), that is merely a preference, not a question of possibility. While the choice of rothbardian ‘thin’ libertarianism (Libertinism) is just the opposite: it’s impossible.”—

    We do not get to choose the incentives that will produce a voluntary anarchic polity. We can estimate them. Wet can test them. We can demonstrate them. We can measure them. But we cannot choose them.

    Transaction costs determine the desirability of different polities. The rational choice of a voluntary, anarchic polity over a statist polity requires a high trust society.

    Once one possesses a voluntary, high trust society, one can also engage in the production and consumption of luxuries – commons. But luxuries are not the same as necessities.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-10 02:29:00 UTC