La République, celle est nous!

This topic should be the subject of a longer professional grade dissertation.

For a bit over a year now I've driven a taxicab to make a living. So I have to admit that I am not at all happy to see that some vacationers and business travelers have taken to driving their own cars to their destinations in the continental U.S. instead of flying on a commercial aircraft. This is because a large part of my income is derived from the transport of people from their homes and hotels to the local airport.

While we have to admit that part of the downturn in commercial travel in general is due the economic consequences of the gross incompetence of Barrack Obama, a significant factor is the antics of the grossly misnamed federal agency known as the Transportation Security Administration.

Let's face it, a federal agency that has to physically abuse infants, toddlers, and octogenarian Swedish grandmothers in order to protect air travelers from Islamic terrorists simply isn't close to doing its job.

Now I have to say that I don't completely agree with this.

Al Nofi brings us this thought from President Thomas Jefferson:

It is more a subject of joy that we have so few of the desperate characters which compose modern regular armies. But it proves more forcibly the necessity of obliging every citizen to be a soldier; this was the case with the Greeks and the Romans, and must be that of every free State. Where this is no oppression, there will be no pauper hirelings. We must train and classify the whole of our male citizens, an make military instruction a regular part of collegiate education. We can never be safe till this is done.

Now I have to say that I don't completely agree with this.

A Truth

Killing a Marxist is not an act of murder.

A Question

Why do liberals insist on being wrong?

A Hard Truth

Those who stand up for Liberty are called Conservatives and those who oppose Liberty called Liberals, this is nothing but Newspeak.

A Resonse To The Ideological Emissions

There have been numerous calls by folks on The Left for the suspension of elections or for other deliberate acts of dictatorship.

I will start my response to these ideological emissions with something that was published in the original dead tree edition of The Resister:

Humanity is not merely a physical condition, it is a state of mind. To be human is to be essentially rational and productive. The human mentality (or soul) looks upon the world, the land, the animals and plants, the natural forces, as things to be mastered for the benefit of himself and his posterity. On the other hand, the predator, or savage mentality does not seek to to master the world, but to be the master of men. The savage prefers not to sustain himself by his own effort, but to seize and consume the lives and property of others for material and spiritual sustenance. To the predator, justice consists of "getting away with it" -- those who rightfully resist the predator are to be punished or destroyed.

-- Leslie Bates, The Resister, Vol VI, N. 1, Page 42

While I am an atheist I will say this, the Monotheist doctrine that is the center of Judaism and Christianity holds that all human beings are more that mere animals and that each person in charge of and responsible for themselves.