The Economic Libertarian

Ron Paul WOW March

This is one of the more ridiculous things I’ve seen done in support of Ron Paul, but hey. No complaining here. Support is support. Take a look at it. And if any World of Warcraft players are reading this, consider taking part.

The event is taking place at 8:30PM tonight on the Whisperwind Server, and starts from IronForge. More information can be found on the link. Whisperwind is a No-PV server.

This isn’t really my cup of tea, but it’s still neat. The Revolution is a creative beast, that’s for sure. What will the grassroots think up next?

• I regard as my primary obligation the welfare of the White individual, White family, and White community and will engage in action for improving social conditions.
• I give precedence to this mission over my personal interest.
• I adopt the concept of a White extended family and embrace all White people as my brothers and sisters, making no distinction between their destiny and my own.
• I hold myself responsible for the quality and extent of service I perform and the quality and extent of service performed by the agency or organization in which I am employed, as it relates to the White community.
• I accept the responsibility to protect the White community against unethical and hypocritical practice by any individual or organizations engaged in social welfare activities.
• I stand ready to supplement my paid or professional advocacy with voluntary service in the White public interest.
• I will consciously use my skills, and my whole being as an instrument for social change, with particular attention directed to the establishment of White social institutions.

This is Satire. Sadly, I’m referring to my post, rather than the link.

1. stopping unnecessary out-of-home placements;
2. reunification of children with parents;
3. placing children of European ancestry with relatives or unrelated families of the same face and culture for adoption;
4. addressing the barriers that prevent or discourage persons of European American ancestry from adopting;
5. promoting culturally relevant agency practices;
6. emphasizing that ‘transracial adoption of a European American child should only be considered after documented evidence of unsuccessful same race placements has been reviewed and supported by appropriate representatives of the European American community’

Once again, my post is Satire. Find what I’m satirizing under the link.

I’m sure the NABSW is very sincere in their efforts. They also seem a bit bigoted. Our culture is very odd indeed… Why such fixation on skin color and ancestry?

I’ve covered this issue before, but for those of who you who are still worrying about Ron Paul’s actions regarding earmarks for his constituency, this would be good reading.  It’s an article from Lew Rockwell’s website. Eric Phillips is the author of the piece.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you:

In Defense of Ron Paul’s Earmarks.

I’m currently reading the book An Army of Davids written by Glenn Reynolds, that blogger of Instapundit fame.  Reynolds is cited by the Advocates for Self Government as a friend of liberty in spite of his support for the Iraq War.  I think I can see why.  Although I am not far into it yet, his book talks about how technology is empowering the individual against monolithic organizations both public and private.  This is extremely appealing to me.  I believe in decentralization as a core virtue.  Empowering individuals and small organizations is important to that.

I’m hoping his logic turns out to be sound.  I may post a proper analysis later.  I may also follow up reading this by looking into the book Fab:  The Coming Revolution on your Desktop - From Personal Computers to Personal Fabrication by Neil Gershenfield.  It was mentioned in the book.  Personal fabrication is a concept of particular interest to me.  I’ve often wished I could construct useful (and especially saleable) items at home.

The story of Lakota secessionists continues to develop.  The former Lakota Freedom Delegation website has now been remade into the Republic of Lakota website.  The old url directs to the new.  The Republic of Lakota website is different in style but not different in content from the old Lakota Freedom Delegation.  I hope they update the website frequently with more press releases and information about the construction/organizations/policies of the Republic of Lakota.

I would like to take this opportunity to encourage everyone to read the Declaration of Continuing Independence, available from the Republic of Lakota Portfolio page, for information regarding the authorization and legitimacy of the new Republic of Lakota.  The portfolio page also has other documents which address the legal claims made by the Republic of Lakota and the legal basis for their current actions.  I don’t feel there is enough information.  However, there is enough that it is not appropriate to claim the Republic of Lakota prima facie illegitimate without further research.

http://noblesseoblige.org/wordpress/?p=1903

The above blog post is likely worth reading. I say this in spite of disagreeing with it vehemently. I made this clear in the comments section. I’m quite proud of what I wrote there. I considered reproducing it here however it is far too directly a rebuttal of the main post to do so. I’d rather drive traffic to the original blog.

Of course, if the post or the comment vanishes, I’ll reproduce my comment here. I’ve saved a copy of it on my computer.

I’ll also try to further substantiate my claims here. To start with, my claim that Stormfront and truthers do not make up the majority of Ron Paul’s demographic was based on anecdotal and highly local data. I’ll confess that this is hard to back up. It is perhaps possible to disprove or prove. I do not have the expertise to do so however.

My next assertion, that Ron Paul has many supporters who believe it is no longer charity when you use other people’s money for your causes, is likely easier to illustrate. First of all, a statement by Representative Ron Paul himself:  www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul227.html. I believe that this demonstrates that the sentiment is not foreign to followers of Ron Paul. Further, this sentiment can be seen having been in action in the past. I showcase the following link to show this:  http://unofficial-ronpaul2008blog.blogspot.com/2007/07/ron-paul-spammers-spam-local-charity.html

Sorry, I’ll have to cut this short. I’m having trouble with the software here - it seriously slows down for me when blog posts get very long!

Does the Constitution allow what it doesn’t prohibit?

Or

Does the Constitution prohibit what it doesn’t allow?

Researching the Lakota has given me a new frame of reference and a new view into history.  While I was searching, the above question leaped out at me.

How that question is answered seems to be the difference between a big government and a small one. Claiming support for “strict Constitutionalism” means nothing if one doesn’t answer the question above. You can “strictly Constitutionally” support almost anything if the Constitution allows what it doesn’t prohibit.

This is what the Supreme Court has been doing for the past century.

They didn’t suddenly forget that they were supposed to be deciding about constitutionality. What they suddenly forgot was the doctrine of enumerated powers.

Kindly disregard the “History” tag, it’s there to link this post to later posts that I may or may not make on the subject.  This is recent events!  A delegation has gone to Washington to declare secession from the United States on behalf of the Lakota nation.  No sign yet if anything is going to come of this.  I’m currently doing research on the matter, and I may make further posts regarding history, timelines, and my beliefs on their success chances.  If I do I’ll add a “Lakota” tag to my tag list.

If I could have any cybernetic enhancement, right now I think I would greatly like an expanded memory with a more useful user interface than the psuedo-random recall processes which seem currently the way my memory works.  Of course, psuedo-random recall is still useful, as it can lead to better creativity, so I would prefer the current system add to rather than supplant the way I think right now.

I’m studying.  If my memory were better, I could more effectively judge logic and reason.  Instead I feel that I run the risk of “going with my gut” and pursuing statements on the basis of their being attractive or repulsive.  I would use the memory capacity, if I had it, to compare new statements alongside older ones, and I’d attempt to build logical structures out of them.

Then again, I can do most of these things with judicious use of a computer…  The only unique thing is just the superior recall.  The computer is a great tool for scholarship yet it can’t help one evaluate an insight that’s forgotten!

http://www.evolution-nextstep.com/archives/3665

“Totalitarianism might come “wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross”, as Sinclair Lewis (and recently Ron Paul) said, but it might also come wrapped in a white coat or a black suit. Or, say, an IZOD track suit. And carrying a bowl of Kashi.”

So says the insightful post linked above. Preventing Medical Fascism is one of the big reasons why the government should not get involved in healthcare provision. Once the government is involved in healthcare provision it has an incentive to use the most cost-effective means it can to improve health. It may well be cheaper for the government to mandate eating high-fiber cereals instead of high-sugar cereals every morning than for them to provide treatments for obesity-related problems.