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Index to my Articles--Published and unpublished
Individual vs the State - Threat Assessments from a Sovereign Individual perspective.Links to this page...:http://tinyurl.com/Individual-vs-the-State http://tinyurl.com/2wouvq9http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=88.msg756#msg756
Index to my Articles--Published and unpublished
(and those of a few others): Individual vs the StateThreat Assessments from a Sovereign Individual perspective.  To their OWN citizens! How many more men, women, and children have to be slaughtered
by your government in the name of your republic
before you understand that
you aren't represented by that government,
your consent doesn't matter to those in power,
they have no interest in protecting life, liberty, nor property?
All they want is as much as they can steal.
You are the fine set of ruebens they steal from.
Jim DavidsonFree Bernard von NotHaus! Bernard von NotHaus issued gold and silver coins (Liberty Dollars) that will today bring more in [paper USA] dollars than he charged for them. Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, issued (and continues to issue) paper notes that are today worth but a fraction of the gold or silver they were worth at the time they were issued. One man is facing the possibility of years in prison after a federal jury found his issuing of money to have been a crime. The other man is walking around free and being treated by the authorities with great deference.Do you see the pattern?
GOVERNMENT is NOT BOUND by any rules such as constitutions, laws or moral codes--or "justice".
It will dispose of Individual citizens in any manner it desires.
It will even assassinate Individual citizens whenever it wants, without even a mock trial, claiming "terrorist"--if it even bothers itself to make a claim. Carl von Clausewitz points out in his most famous dictum,
"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
This view is seconded by Mao Zedong, who said,
"The power of the state grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Both men understood the essentially violent nature of the political process, of which war is the ultimate expression.  You cannot "Be all that you can be" when you are dead. As Lysander Spooner said in 1870:
- “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
YOUR choice is: survival, or government.
“Liberty and Justice for all” ??
The Pledge of Allegiance should have a disclaimer* at the end. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/libertyliberty (plural liberties) 1. The condition of being free from control or restrictions.
2. The condition of being free from imprisonment, slavery or forced labour.
3. The condition of being free to act, believe or express oneself as one chooses.
4. Freedom from excess government control.*Disclaimer: Must be 18 (21 in some states) or older, void where prohibited by law, some restrictions apply, not available in all states. And oh, yes. By Judicial decree, the Fourth Amendment is no longer valid anywhere.Thanks to Doug Stanhope at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDfmeKhaT0s and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iu0hkQFTEA&feature=related
http://tinyurl.com/No-Shiite[2006-09-10] Why I don't give a Shiite* about "The Great Islamic Threat" debate- The entire public debate on "The Great Islamic Threat" is a Red Herring that diverts our attention from a closer, more real and immediate threat.
- The multiple Tyrannies in DC and my state, county and city are much closer to me and have more direct control over my actions, my property and my life, than any real or imagined Islamic threat.
- The article was posted in Sep, 2006. It should be obvious by now [July, 2011] that the enemy is not the muslims, the Iranians, the Mexicans, the Chinese, or any other boogy man that the feds cook up for us. Can anyone still deny that the enemy is right here at home--and that the enemy IS government itself!
On DIGG THIS , Libberkey made one of the nicest comments I have ever received: - “I thoroughly enjoyed this article. It's been a long time, maybe never, since I read an article filled with reason, logic, common sense and nicely-pointed wit. I think you'll find that he makes any and all of his points/arguments nicely, and needs not one bit of help from me. Have fun.”
[2006-09-17] Ben F. Irvin response to "The Great Islamic Threat" debate[2008-02-17] Jim Davidson's excellent article addressing how the ZAP and SELF RESPONSIBILITY protects individuals from "The Great Islamic Threat" http://www.strike-the-root.com/Muslim-Menace[2010-09-01] The 'Muslim Menace' Column by Jim Davies - "The task therefore is not to waste time excluding Muslims, but to spend it removing support from government."
[2011-01-09] UPDATE on "The Great Islamic Threat": Be SURE to read about Egyptian Muslims and Egyptian Christians- Egypt's Muslims attend Coptic Christmas mass, serving as "human shields"
- Muslims turned up in droves for the Coptic Christmas mass, offering their bodies, and lives, as "shields" to Egypt's threatened Christian community
http://tinyurl.com/Individual-Sovereignty[2006-12-24] “Superstate North America vs. Individual Sovereignty”- A discourse on the impending North American Union and how it relates to being a free individual
It is YOUR life to live. Free YOURSELF!- http://tinyurl.com/Personal-Freedom
"Freedom comes from within. It does not come from without. It does not come from a charismatic leader. It does not come with a set of instructions....It does not come from being given your freedom only after you prove yourself to your parents, teachers, pastors, or other authority figures. It does not come from any God who demands obedience before He promises blessings (or threatens curses). It does not come from delineated rights. It does not come from The Constitution. It is you from whom freedom springs. It is you in whom freedom thrives. No one gave it to you. Like Dorothy and her ruby slippers, your way home was with you all the time."
~ B.R. Merrick
- "The quest for freedom [is] a highly introspective, personal journey of self-discovery and enlightenment. The eradication of government is not necessary for one to be free. To the contrary, one must first attain freedom in order to be rid of government."
—Tony Sampognaro - Learn what it means to be Sovereign. Read or re-read Harry Browne's book, "How I Found Freedom in an UnFree World" and L. Neil Smith's Covenant of Unanimous Consent.
- There are many ways to increase your personal freedom, but the very first step is attitude. One must UNDO the attitude of servility that the culture of the US has continually pounded into its children from birth over the last 100 years.
- A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. ~ Ezra Pound
- "If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
—Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment - A Freedom Road Rider! THIS is a nice supplement to the second half of my original article.
- Jim Davidson on Facebook: Living my life my way is the best gift I give myself. Every day. It is not that freedom is something one goes and gets, but more like clothing that one puts on and wears. Freedom is an attitude. Release the ties that bind you to the past. Undo the latches that keep your real self hidden inside. Burst through the doors. Free your mind.
Steven R Linnabary: Free your mind and your ass will follow.
Jim Davidson: Donkey metaphor for the win! - Freedom Has No System by Chris Dates
I’m often asked, “What would we do about this”, or, “who would take care of that.”
Freedom Has No "System"--Challenge the premise. THERE IS NO "WE"!
http://tinyurl.com/There-is-NO-WE
http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=18.msg1308#msg1308[2012-07-25] I Personally Seceded - Now what? - Roger Young on reactions and suggestions.
- ...don’t confuse submission with consent.
- THIS is an excellent supplement to my article [2006-12-24] “Superstate North America vs. Individual Sovereignty” at
http://tinyurl.com/Individual-Sovereignty
http://tinyurl.com/Security-and-Justice[2011-04-15] Security and Justice WITHOUT government -- article by Dennis Wilson- I answer questions that, taken without thinking can lead to the emotional equivalent of "Oh yes, yes. I can see that we DO NEED government." However, simple reflection and the connection of some widely known facts can put each of these concerns to rest.
 http://tinyurl.com/Keep-Nothing-in-Bank[2006-12-24] "Keep nothing in a bank that you cannot afford to lose." Dennis Wilson 2006-12-24Remember Liberty Dollar? How convenient that their gold and silver were all stored in a "secure" warehouse that the USA government could raid. Maybe, like Waco, they did it for the chiiiilden?
Be careful out there! Banks and governments are not the ONLY thieves.- "When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion
- when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing
- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors
- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work,
and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you
- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice
- you may know that your society is doomed."
--Ayn Rand
Remember MF Global? Those were "secure", allocated funds that were stolen. The CEO/president--who is a good friend of the USA Vice-president--has NEVER been charged or jailed. Even some libertarian financial advisers got taken in that fraud.
If you "trust" a 3rd party, ANY 3rd party--i.e. if you do not hold it in your hand--you are at risk! If you don't hold it, you don't own it...
Best comment: "Mason jars, candle wax, plastic pipe and a shovel are all the safety deposit box I need. Tough to steal from it too."http://tinyurl.com/Sandy-CASH[2012-11-06] Cash Economy in Wake of Sandyhttp://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=661.msg1385#msg1385- Banks limit people to $500 of their own money.
- ATMs are closed.
http://tinyurl.com/Withdrawl-is-AgorismJim Davidson: Nullification is Statism, Withdrawal is Agorism- Nullification, like voting, is a false alternative--and for ALL the same reasons!
- There ARE other alternatives and one does NOT "see" them until one discards the false alternatives.
http://tinyurl.com/LaBoetieÉtienne de La Boétie: Ending Tyranny Without Violence- Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
http://tinyurl.com/EmmaGoldmanEmma Goldman and the End of the First Libertarian Movement - the interests of the State and those of the individual differ fundamentally and are antagonistic. The State and the political and economic institutions it supports can exist only by fashioning the individual to their particular purpose; training him to respect "law and order;" teaching him obedience, submission and unquestioning faith in the wisdom and justice of government; above all, loyal service and complete self-sacrifice when the State commands it, as in war.
http://tinyurl.com/3w4wlpdMurray N. Rothbard: The [17th Century] Origins of Individualist Anarchism in America- "None of this material has ever appeared in any work on the history of individualist anarchism in the United States."
- With the exception of one year, Pennsylvania remained in a quasi-anarchist state of taxlessness from its founding in 1681 until the fall of 1696: fourteen glorious years.
http://tinyurl.com/2b46tl7DON'T RUN FOR THE HILLS TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM*- Frankly, freedom fighters in the hills haven’t been very successful at winning liberty in [the 20th] century.
- Never forget that invisible resistance to tyranny is not a strategy for taking over the government.
- *Excerpted from pp.89-92, Invisible Resistance to Tyranny: How to Lead a Secret Life of Insurgency in an Increasingly Unfree World, by Jefferson Mack, Paladin Press, 2002.
An Open Conspiracy: The Bartleby Projecthttp://atlasshruggedcelebrationday.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=173.msg402#msg402- An everyday application of Étienne de La Boétie: Ending Tyranny Without Violence
- "I would prefer not to take your test."
- The principle has applicability far beyond mere test taking...
Personal Secession – The Way to Freedom- PRIMACY OF THE RIGHT TO SECEDE
- Personal secession allows for multiple visions of life and living.
Something REALLY Wicked This Way Comes...As if GOVERNMENT was not threat enough,
NOW comes multi-billionaire Bill Gates playing GOD with human lives... While reading the next three articles, keep in mind that--instead of diabolically KILLING other human beings or UNILATERALLY ruining their reproductive genes, their lives and their futures--the money and effort COULD have been spent on many PRODUCTIVE, USEFUL things. Here are a few that come to my mind: - Getting man into space--privately. In space, there is NO "over-population problem"--real or concocted.
- Funding telomeres research to EXTEND human life, instead of shortening it with eugenics.
- Curing cancer and other diseases (eliminating malaria HAS ALREADY BEEN DEMONSTRATED using DDT)
- Electric and hydrogen fueled cars
- Cheap solar panels for individual homes
- Low cost energy beamed from satellites
- Low cost, world wide, wireless energy distribution, such as Tesla demonstrated 100 years ago
- Low cost, world wide, wireless Wifi internet access
- Conversion of Uranium power plants to the much safer THORIUM!
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- Making MS Windows stable!! Hell, Gates cannot even keep computer viruses out of his own product. Why is he mucking around with real viruses?
What has Bill Gates done instead? He has funded fake "research" on malaria that replaces proven DDT solutions with the recorded deaths of more than 800,000 children per year. And NOW he is going to use the mosquitoes that he has saved from DDT to infect the rest of us with his genetic experiments.
Where have we encountered this kind of grotesque thinking before?
Mild mannered Bill Gates really IS a monster!
Dennishttp://tinyurl.com/DDT-vs-Malaria[2007-04-08.2] “DDT Ban & Malaria: An Unnecessary Tragedy, INDEED!”- An article questioning the wasted and misguided efforts of the (Bill & Melinda) Gates Foundation and the complete blackout of the role of DDT in eradicating malaria in the 1960s.
- The government ban on DDT has caused MORE HUMAN DEATHS since 1970 than ALL the government wars and genocides since the beginning of the 20th Century--and the deaths still continue EVERY DAY! Malaria kills 800,000 children per year, thanks to Government bans on DDT in the 1970s!
[2010-10-01] Bill Gates says vaccines can help reduce world population- So what does it mean when Bill Gates says "if we do a really great job on new vaccines... we could lower [world population] by 10 or 15 percent?" Clearly, this statement implies that vaccines are a method of population reduction.
- You can watch him say this yourself at:
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A155D113455FAC882A3290536575C723
[2012-02-02] Microsoft buys eugenics technology from Merck- When you buy Microsoft products, you are now promoting the pharmaceutical industry and its global vaccine agenda. That’s the new reality in which we live, where the world’s largest software company is “in bed” with the world’s largest vaccine pusher.
[2008-03-06] "Artificial Scarcities and Surpluses"- Another disruptive role of government on human survival.
- Molon Labe - Come and Take Them! [2008-03-23] "What Part of 'Shall NOT be Infringed' Do You NOT Understand?"- It's a shame that even people on "our side" don't fully understand it.
Armed citizens and Nuclear Weapons- On nuclear weapons and the 'well-regulated militia' by Vin Suprynowicz
http://tinyurl.com/THORIUM-energyTHORIUM energy alternative to Nuclear Power + GOVERNMENT meddling to suppress it! What is special about thorium?- "US physicists in the late 1940s explored thorium fuel for power. It has a higher neutron yield than uranium, a better fission rating, longer fuel cycles, and does not require the extra cost of isotope separation. The plans were shelved because thorium does not produce plutonium for bombs."
- Thorium is as abundant as lead, and produces far less radioactive waste than uranium. But development was shunted aside by the FedGov because it could not be used to exterminate its enemies.
- All the impassioned anti-nuclear agitation of the last half century, all the delay and all of the admittedly overstated danger, and all the massive dependence on oil with its potential for conflict in the Middle East, could have been avoided if only the FedGov had not been fixated on weapons of mass destruction. I knew that government had screwed up nukes but I did not know the enormous, wicked extent of the deception.
- By weight, thorium can produce 200 times as much energy as uranium, reactors are cheaper to design and waste, much cheaper to store - even if it is stored; for in thorium reactors, the waste can be regenerated for use as fuel. It is also inherently safer, since its fission reaction has to be primed; absent an external neutron stream, it shuts down automatically.
- India is switching to thorium and China is committed to extensive use of this technology.
[2008-07-06] "American Revolutionary War Battle at King's Mountain"- "Overmountain Men", Americans settlers of largely Scotch-Irish descent settled west of, or "over," the Appalachians, united into a semi-autonomous government called the Watauga Association in 1772 and, when threatened by the most powerful nation on earth, decisively demonstrated
what government doesn't want you to know about militias!
[2010-09-21] The GREAT North American Militia!- We do NOT need an UN-constitutional standing army. We have the world's LARGEST--and Constitutional--armed militia!
- Gun Ownership Rises to All-Time High, Violent Crime Falls to 35-Year Low, Murder has fallen to a 45-year low.
- The number of firearms purchased by Americans in the first 3 months of 2009 were enough to equip the two largest armies in the world, the Chinese and Indian armies!
[2011-04-15] Security and Justice WITHOUT government -- article by Dennis Wilson- I answer questions that, taken without thinking can lead to the emotional equivalent of "Oh yes, yes. I can see that we DO NEED government." However, simple reflection and the connection of some widely known facts can put each of these concerns to rest.
[2010-Nov] 21st Century militia is very effective--even without guns!- The 17,000 (German) police officers that marched into the woods around the nuclear storage facility in Gorleben in northern Germany on Sunday morning looked invincible.
- But by Sunday night, those same police officers were begging the protestors for a respite.
- The police officers were exhausted after shifts of 24 hours or more, often without any food or just a cappucino and snack bar, and they had nothing to look forward to but more of the same drudgery after a night spent four to a room in a Youth Hostel.
- The largest ever police operation had descended into chaos and confusion
- Will this warning be heeded by American politicians? Not likely. But these follow-on events certainly have American politicians scared: Tunisia, Egypt, Yeman, Algeria, Libya, Jordan, Syria, Morocco... WHY? Because they are ALL spontaneous, 'anarchic' uprisings AGAINST GOVERNMENT itself!
Neighborhood Watch: WOLF-PACK #7
Coming soon to a street near you! Welcome to the New, Fascist America. It is the 21st Century, things are going to be different. We are from the government, we're here to help you. Papiere, Bitte! Oops. I meant
Papers, please!  We didn't come to discuss gardening...
Paramilitary police are a relatively recent state invention. They’ve metastasized into a domestic occupation force, enhancing government, institutionalizing injustice, plundering with permission, Tasing with perversion, cloaked in full immunity, and not protecting people.
Whatever you do, don’t call 911. As a mundane, your home is no longer your castle.
http://tinyurl.com/Voting-ArticlesVOTING No amount of voting can make the American government or the American people any less bankrupt.
No amount of voting can roll back a government so militarized and secretive into a government circumscribed by the Constitution.
No amount of voting can save the American people from the excruciating economic depression that is coming, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s monetary policies.
Last, but certainly not least,
No amount of voting against so-called "illegal" immigration will save this country from any of its present or impending ills.http://tinyurl.com/Time-to-STOP-Voting[2008-06-01] "Can there be a better time to STOP VOTING?"- The futility of solving problems by political means such as voting
http://tinyurl.com/Voting-Apathy-HELL-NO[2008-09-03] "Apathy? Hell NO!"- Is my refusal to vote a case of Apathy? Also mentions the unenforceable AZ speed cameras.
[2010-11-02] You Can't Complain If You *DID* Vote- By taking part in the state's voting ritual, you affirm the legitimacy of the system...
"...no matter who you vote for, the government always gets elected." Butler ShafferAbstain From Beans by Robert LeFevre — (1911 - 1986)[2011-02-17] "How to Win an Election" - by Mark Brandly- A candidate that is averse to being deceitful is at a disadvantage and is likely to lose the election. Successful candidates tend to be liars.
[2011-10-27] "Depoliticize Everything" - by Stephen Mauzy- ...the more one withdraws from politics, the more one realizes how trifling politics actually is...
Even George Carlin Didn't Vote! After clicking the line above, click here for a good reason why. Stephen Molenaux video: The Truth About Voting - Part 1Stephen Molenaux video: The Truth About Voting - Part 2Stephen Molenaux video: The Truth About Voting - Part 3 Larken Rose explains the nature of voting: Let's Make a DealThis country was turned into a toilet by Americans in the voting booth,
not by so-called "illegal" immigrants,
and it certainly won’t be saved by spending more time in the voting booth. How Could Illegal Immigration Make America Any Worse Than It Already Is?- I seriously wish that *I* had written this article. Over the years, I have made many of the same points, ( http://tinyurl.com/War-Against-Immigrants ) but never in one article and never so succinctly! It says EVERYTHING I want to say!! I could hardly keep from highlighting the entire article.....
Dennis
Imagine....
…many still don't get that the problem is not the guy on the throne today; the problem is the existence of the throne.
Imagine being around lots and lots of people who know that you own yourself. They don't want you to be subjected to "limited" state aggression, or "constitutional" state aggression, or their own favorite flavor of state aggression; they want you to have NO ONE committing aggression against you. How extreme! How often are you around more than three people at a time who want you to be truly free?.
Larken Rose.
http://tinyurl.com/American-SheepAre Americans suffering from "Stockholm Syndrome"?- http://tinyurl.com/American-Sheep-pic
- Victim Sanction by Jim Davies
- Government has tormented Americans in almost uncountable ways. Yet at every election, tens of millions turn out to beg for more of the same.
Fred Reed: Awaiting the Storm- Random searches in train stations, genital examinations in airports, the decline of habeas corpus, the evasion of the duty of Congress to declare wars, on and on.
- The government does what it wants. There is no recourse.
One of the best reviews of the Tea Party movement that I have seen- For many institutional Statists (GOP and Dems) the Tea Party is seen as a movement from Hell. They aren’t sure what it is or how or why it came to be.
[2009-01-11] Solving ALL the world's problems--NOW!- An article triggered by my disgust at "libertarians" debating the "merits" of two governments (Hamas & Israel) fighting each other.
http://tinyurl.com/MarriageSlave[2009-07-04] Do Marriage Licenses Automatically Make You a Slave to Government?- The problems of being born into slavery leads to questions on the “practicality” of being a free, sovereign individual.
- Historically, there was no requirement to obtain a marriage license in colonial America.
- Both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were married without a marriage license. They simply recorded their marriages in their Family Bibles.
- The marriage license as we know it didn't come into existence until after 1865 and didn't become firmly established until 1920.
[2009-08-23] Mayo Clinic vs Veteran's Hospital- Asking the right question regarding government provided health care
[2010-07-18] 11 Reasons We'd be Better Off with No Government at All- No government at all? Outlandish, you say?! After you read these 11 reasons, you'll be the first calling for shutting the whole shebang down!
- No entity has stolen and destroyed more wealth, killed more people, and caused more human misery than government..
[2011-02-26] Why Government?- Government is really a sort of Faustian bargain.
- Government will ultimately be populated with the worst people in society.
[2011-03-21] Seeing Like a State- How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
http://tinyurl.com/Security-and-Justice[2011-04-15] Security and Justice WITHOUT government -- article by Dennis Wilson- I answer questions that, taken without thinking can lead to the emotional equivalent of "Oh yes, yes. I can see that we DO NEED government." However, simple reflection and the connection of some widely known facts can put each of these concerns to rest.
[2011-05-06] HOORAY FOR FIREFOX!!- Mozilla stands up to U.S. government takedown request
- Well, HOORAY for the good guys!!!!
[2011-05-13] Larken Rose--Indiana: Full Frontal Fascism- The Supreme Court of Indiana just ruled that in Indiana, if a police officer decides to illegally come into your house, you're not allowed to do anything to stop him.
- In U.S. vs. John Bad Elk, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that resisting an unlawful arrest, even if doing so requires killing the cop, can be legal.
Civilized people don't break down doors for ANY reason.
If you ACT like home invaders, expect to be TREATED like home invaders!
When alleged "cops" act like uncivilized barbarians or occupying armies,
they should expect to be treated as such!
"If you behave unethically, then you have chosen. The Nuremberg Defense didn't work for the Nazis and it doesn't work for IRS agents, soldiers, [SWAT] or any other human being."SEE UPDATE, CLICK IMAGE BELOW...:http://tinyurl.com/USA-War-Crimes
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Index to my Articles--The (Unnecessary) War Against Immigrants--and DrugsLinks to this page...: http://tinyurl.com/24wq9xhhttp://tinyurl.com/War-Against-Immigrantshttp://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=88.msg757#msg757
Index to my Articles--The (Unnecessary) War Against Immigrants--and Drugs
(and articles from a few others): An iron curtain thru the Arizona desert. The (Unnecessary) War Against Immigrants "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,*
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" Emma Lazarus, 1883 *Void where prohibited by law, some restrictions apply, not available in all states. "Is not nationalism -- that devotion to … a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder -- one of the great evils of our time, along with racism, along with religious hatred?" --Howard ZinnMany individuals of our time maintain that we should not abolish immigration control
until the immigrants have assimilated into our society.
And further, that we should continue to deprive them of liberty
until we have (somehow) abolished government welfare.
Or that we should not abolish government
until we have learned to live together without higher authority.
These positions are worthy of the silly old fool, who resolved to AVOID the water
until he had learned to swim.
If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery they may indeed wait for ever.
Paraphrased from ~ Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859) by Dennis Lee Wilson   Cluster of EvilPosted by Lew Rockwell on May 2, 2012 09:41 AM
The top five pressure groups working to keep marijuana illegal: 1) police unions; 2) private prison corporations; 3) alcohol and beer companies; 4) pharmaceutical corporations; and 5) prison guard unions. (Thanks to Floy Lilley) “I couldn’t have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cojones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my whole empire to you.”
— Joaqin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, as reported by a close confidant (via The Huffington Post)The ONLY things that are "illegal" about immigration and drugs
are the Federal government "laws", rules, regulations and actions!- Like Berlin except that USA border guards KILL people trying to ENTER OR LEAVE!
- Not just the border with Mexico!! Canadians are also "terrorists" to the USA Federal government
- A large number of people have simply refused to travel to America anymore because entering the country is like trying to get into the old East Germany. This is killing the tourism industry and costing hundreds of millions of dollars each year. A 2006 investigation by the Discover America Partnership found that tourism to America had sunk due to “a climate of fear and frustration that is turning away foreign business and leisure travelers from visiting the United States and damaging America’s image abroad.” No less than a third of tourists vowed never to return to America after experiencing the treatment of Homeland Security officials at ports of entry. By early 2007, the U.S. had lost around 60 million visitors as a result of the stifling and intrusive security measures implemented since 9/11.
- Would YOU cross the border to just do some shopping if you had to risk your life to uniformed idiots with a badge, a hostile attitude, guns, and a license to kill?
[2001-04-05] “Free Immigration-the alleged security issue” - My web comments quoting George Reisman’s book, CAPITALISM: A Treatise on Economics.
http://tinyurl.com/Ask-Right-Question[2006-05-14] “Ask the Right Question” and Praise for “Mr. Wilson's extremely interesting essay” from L. Neil Smith- If the wrong questions are being asked, then the answers don’t really matter, do they?
http://tinyurl.com/Killer-MinutemenIn my 2006 article titled “Ask the Right Question” I said: - "I can only guess what their real agenda is, but the “Minutemen” are certainly not seeking real solutions, otherwise they would be calling for open immigration and removal of gates and guards. They seem to me (again only my guess, YMMV) to be Rambo wannabes looking for unarmed big game under the thin guise of protecting privately owned rangeland and open deserts. And they probably want government funding to do it!"
Sadly and once again, I get to say "I told you so". THIS time two "Minutemen" coldly murdered a 9 year old girl, Brisenia Flores, and her father!!! Where is the outrage?http://tinyurl.com/Killer-Minutemen
[2006-09-10] “More arguments for Open Borders—this time (unbeknownst to him) from the pen of Hans-Hermann Hoppe!”[2006-09-03] “Will the REAL Lady of Liberty please raise a Lighted Torch?” [2006-10-01] Lady Liberty response to “…please raise a Lighted Torch” [2007-04-08.1] Immigration Letters from Jim Davidson, Dennis Wilson, with Replies from Rex May and Jim Davidson [2007-04-15] L. Neil Smith responds: Immigration and Integrity - "Recent exchanges here in the virtual pages of The Libertarian Enterprise have made it necessary for me to engage, once again, on a topic that I would really rather let others handle whenever possible. There's nothing I hate like repeating myself, so pay atttention this time.
- "The topic is "illegal" immigration. I dislike dealing with it primarily because the very necessity to do so challenges my otherwise optimistic view of my fellow human beings. The rational position on this issue should be obvious—open and shut—to anyone calling him- or herself a libertarian, and the fact that it isn't depresses me".
"An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed." - U.S. Supreme Court, Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 425 (1886)"Do we live in a republic where the Constitution, which has a fixed and knowable meaning, is the supreme law of the land? Or do we live in a judicial oligarchy where we are governed by case law, which changes from decade to decade according to the shifting opinions of nine unelected, unaccountable judges?"
Derek J. Sheriff“We’re a nation of laws. A nation without laws is like a house without walls. What’s going to happen? It’s going to come crashing down."
The ironic statement of Arizona governor Jan Brewer regarding her intention to enforce UN-constitutional Federal "laws".Today, the US claims the legal right to indefinitely detain its citizens; the president can order the assassination of a citizen without so much as even a hearing; the government can spy on its citizens without a court order; and its officials are immune from prosecution for war crimes.
Is this the rule of law of which you speak? The ONLY things that are "illegal" about immigration and drugs
are the Federal government "laws", rules, regulations and actions! http://tinyurl.com/ILLEGAL-LAWS[2007-06-10] "Immigration control is UN-Constitutional!" (And so is Drug control!)- REALLY! Its TRUE! The US Constitution does NOT AUTHORIZE immigration control!
- P.S., that goes for EXIT control & DRUG control also!!
- "An unconstitutional act is not law; it confers no rights; it imposes no duties; affords no protection; it creates no office; it is, in legal contemplation, as inoperative as though it had never been passed." - U.S. Supreme Court, Norton v. Shelby County, 118 US 425 (1886)
- Not until 1891 did federal law provide for the inspection of immigrants arriving at land border ports. Under the 1891 law, the Federal Government assumed the task of inspecting, admitting, rejecting, and processing all immigrants seeking admission to the United States. Enforcing immigration law was a new Federal function, and the 1890s witnessed the Immigration Service's first attempts to implement national immigration policy.
Regarding what I said about EXIT CONTROL...:http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/106171.html'If We Cannot Track You With Our Microchips, You Cannot Leave' — or, Why Ron Paul Is Right Again About 'Border Control'Posted by Daniel McAdams on February 22, 2012 05:22 PM When Ron Paul said in a debate last September that the border fences may well be built to keep Americans in rather than keep illegals out, the usual brain-dead, mainstream media-addicted sheep " laughed out loud" at this, the "apex of Paul’s paranoid band of libertarianism." Fast forward to this incredible story today of a family who had their trip to Belize ruined because the father's passport had a slight crease on the back cover after it had inadvertently been sat on. The family had no problems in their native Denver, but as soon as they got to Dallas an airline official (read: government agent) decided that the passport was "mutilated" and ruined their trip for them. What is most remarkable about the story is the interview with Ray Priest, owner of International Passport Visas in Denver, who speculated that the rejection may stem from possible damage to the microchip embedded in every American's passport. Spoke Mr. Priest (who seems suspiciously unbothered — a good little totalitarian? — by the whole thing): - “To have a passport is privilege, it’s not entitled to you by citizenship.... They have no reason in the world to let you travel if it’s been damaged.... It’s like cutting your photo out or something if that chip doesn’t work.... This is done for national security...they can’t make an exception, period.” (emphasis added)
Another Lost Freedom: The Freedom To Move- If you don’t pay up, you’re stuck. This is not an exaggeration. Try crossing the border without a passport. Watch what happens. You will not be allowed out. Let me repeat: You will not be allowed out! Resist, and you’ll be thrown in a cage. Resist well, and you might be shot. The only way you are getting out is by paying up. And only when you’re done paying can you purchase your government-inflated airline ticket.
- This article contains a good history of the growth of government passport usage.
 Who cares about ILLEGAL LAWS? Just give up the kid OR DIE![2008-02-26] Studies finds immigrants commit LESS crime- "Immigrants Bring Crime" Is a Myth
[2009-12-27] A.X. Perez: Proposed Immigrants' oath & my reply- Instead of proposing oaths for others, take one for yourself--the Covenant!
[2010-04-25] A.X. Perez: Immigration (triggered by new AZ regs) & my replies- An exercise in sloppy definitions
[2010-04-25] A.X. Perez: Real Immigration Reform & my replies- "reform" is no different than the problem -- it requires government action.
[2010-05-01] "Immigration: Anarchy Worked" by Thomas L. Knapp- There’s no difference in principle between a “national border” and the turf claim of a street gang.
[2010-05-03] ‘Family Guy’ creator: Ariz. law like a Nazi action- ‘Nobody but Nazis ever asked anybody for their papers,’ MacFarlane says
http://tinyurl.com/ProhibitionFailed-Again[2010-05-21] PROHIBITION FAILED--AGAIN! What is the Lesson of History? Ask the Right Question-REDUX- Arizona immigration and drug wars and VIOLENCE! Our grandparents solved this problem in their time! They REPEALED the prohibition!
- "It was in this country, the 'land of the free,' that the federal government actually added as part of its Constitution a total banning of liquor, wine, and beer from sea to shining sea (1920 to 1933). The 1920s roared, in any case, with organized crime, speakeasies, police corruption, rampant criminality, and alcohol abuse." Sound familiar?
- It is NOT the duty (PRIMARY or otherwise) of the Federal government to control immigration OR drugs!
- AND it is particularly stupid of Arizona politicians (forgive the redundancy) to claim to be doing what the Federal government has NO AUTHORITY to do in the first place.
- AND it is additionally stupid of Arizona politicians (there I go again) to INCREASE PROHIBITIONS instead of learning ANYTHING from history* about how REPEAL of alcohol prohibition solved the very same problems we are now experiencing because of UN-constitutional--and therefore ILLEGAL--Federal drug and travel prohibitions.
- Arizona should invoke the 10th Amendment to REPEAL Federal Drug and Immigration Prohibitions!!
- PORTUGAL PROVED IT: DRUG LEGALIZATION WORKS!
- *(The politicians--and a large majority of Arizonians--would actually have to learn about Alcohol Prohibition and Repeal on their own because it is NOT taught in government schools!)
- Jimmy Carter: "Call Off the Global Drug War"
- The economic crisis is speeding up the realization that the war on drugs has failed and cannot be won. Drug prohibition is the single biggest burden on the criminal-justice budget.
- Drug War: Huge Success - video by Larken Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CfRC60d8_Y&feature=youtu.be - -
“I couldn’t have gotten so stinking rich without George Bush, George Bush Jr., Ronald Reagan, even El Presidente Obama, none of them have the cojones to stand up to all the big money that wants to keep this stuff illegal. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say, Gracias amigos, I owe my whole empire to you.”
— Joaqin “El Chapo” Guzman, head of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, as reported by a close confidant (via The Huffington Post)
[2010-09-27] Big Doin's in Juarez by Fred Reed- Why is this happening? The root of the chain of causation is plain enough: that Americans want drugs, want them intensely, at almost any price—but the federal government doesn’t want Americans to have drugs. Lots of gringos want dope: We are not talking of a few ghetto-blasted crack-heads and William Burroughs types sticking needles in their arms in rat-infested alleys. These don’t have forty billion dollars.
[2010-05-31] Your ancestors "came here legally"? They would likely be denied entry today!- American immigration law is cumbersome and wasteful; most of the people who wish to move here stand no chance of being allowed
 [2010-06-24] Immigrant farm workers' challenge: "COME TAKE OUR JOBS!"- How many US citizens are willing to take jobs of 1.2 million immigrants?
[2010-06-24] Why is AZ immigration legislation aimed at business owners?- If it really were the case that illegal immigrants are all criminals uninterested in legal work, then why is so much recent legislation aimed at business owners that hire immigrants? Or at day labor centers? Why are all of Sheriff Joe’s immigration sweeps raiding lawful businesses rather than, say, crack houses?
[2011-03-15] Baja Arizona--and idea long overdue- "...That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
From Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence
http://tinyurl.com/WrongILLEGALS[2010-06-24] The WRONG THINGS are being called “illegals”!- What happens when the government makes and “enforces” UN-constitutional, i.e. ILLEGAL laws?
[2011-10-06] Drug war: What prohibition costs us [Blowback]- Stephen Downing, a retired deputy chief of the Los Angeles Police Department and board member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, responds to The Times' Oct. 5 Op-Ed article, "Prohibition's real lessons for drug policy."
- "...attest that the damage that came from the prohibition of alcohol pales in comparison to the harm wrought by drug prohibition."
"Napsterama" by L. Neil Smith- The younger, 2001 Neil Smith was definitely more "libertarian" than the older, aging, 2010 Neil Smith. What a difference a decade can make!
http://tinyurl.com/LNeil-Smith-reversal[2010-09-04] Has L Neil Smith been lost to the "libertarian" movement?- His recent reversal on Open Borders raises that question.
- “…I fervently support the notion of borders that are open to individuals who wish to escape tyranny and improve their lives and those of their families. It's also why I support the equal right of a free association of individuals called Arizona to resist invaders—spawned, in essence, by drug prohibition—with murderous habits and intentions.” (emphasis added)
- Is this the same person who wrote the uncompromising "Immigration and Integrity"?
The FACES of L Neil Smith's alleged "free association of individuals called Arizona"- Is Mr. Smith using MY ideas from 2010-November without giving credit? (*I* don't care, but *HE* sure makes a fuss about such things.)
- In his 2011-01-09 TLE article "*The Curious Case of the Walking M-16s*" he says (emphasis added)
"Somehow, when socialists extol the warm, fuzzy, humane visage of their political philosophy, they always forget, along the way, to mention the evil, leering, ugly, brutal faces of its enforcers."
 Az Gov Jan Brewer and her prune faced attorney-John Bouma both of whom have taken upon themselves the very same brutal, tyrannical and UNconstitutional powers of the Federal police state that caused the VIOLENCE in the first place.- Chief enforcer of L Neil Smith's alleged "free association of individuals called Arizona"
[2011-03-21] Steven Seagal & Nine Star 'Jeneral Joe' Arpaio Raid Arizona Home In A Tank.- *CAUTION* If you raise chickens for eggs and/or food, you may be suspect!
A Daring Drive through "Re-conquered" Arizona- Boldly risking certain death by decapitation at the hands of ubiquitous Mexican drug smugglers, "Real News Tucson" drives through the section of southern Arizona supposedly ceded to Mexico.
Mexico's drug war: California's Prop 19, on legalizing marijuana, could end it.- Before Mexico's current war on drugs started, in late 2006, the country's crime rate was low and dropping.
- More than 28,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence since President Felipe Calderon launched his attack on drug cartels in late 2006, and el presidente comes up with new bureaucracy to allegedly "protect" journalists because 37 of them were victims. A typical feel-good, piss-on-the-forest-fire "solution" from a typical grinning politician!.
- UPDATE-2011-01-12: 34,612 drug-war deaths in 4 yrs
REMEMBER: EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THESE DEATHS WAS CAUSED BY GOVERNMENT PROHIBITION "LAWS" DECLARING "SOME" DRUGS TO BE "ILLEGAL"!
[2011-04-07] Yesterday, multitudes took to the streets in more than 40 Mexican cities to demand an end to the violence wrought by the US-imposed "war on drugs."http://tinyurl.com/Remember-Jose[2011-05-05] Drug war murders spread to AZ--Marine murdered by SWAT at home in Tucson.- Jose Guerena, a former Marine who served two combat tours abroad, was denied medical attention for one hour and 14 minutes before dying from SWAT inflicted wounds.
- "I never imagined I would lose him like that, he was badly injured but I never thought he could be killed by police after he served his country," lamented Vanessa Guerena.
- WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Semper Fi ?!? Ooo Rah?
 How about Semper Bullshit!
Paramilitary police are a relatively recent state invention. They’ve metastasized into a domestic occupation force, enhancing government, institutionalizing injustice, plundering with permission, Tasing with perversion, cloaked in full immunity, and not protecting people."If you behave unethically, then you have chosen. The Nuremberg Defense didn't work for the Nazis and it doesn't work for IRS agents, soldiers, [SWAT] or any other human being."
Whatever you do, do NOT call 911. As a mundane, your home is no longer your castle.
MORE on the new "laws" allowing police invasion of homes.
This country was turned into a toilet by Americans in the voting booth,
not by so-called "illegal" immigrants,
and it certainly won’t be saved by spending more time in the voting booth. How Could "Illegal" Immigration Make America Any Worse Than It Already Is?- I seriously wish that *I* had written this article. Over the years, I have made many of the same points, ( http://tinyurl.com/War-Against-Immigrants ) but never in one article and never so succinctly! It says EVERYTHING I want to say!! I could hardly keep from highlighting the entire article.....
Dennis
[2011-12-14] The Real Illegal Immigration Problem- Clearly the scourge of American illegal immigration has caused untold death and destruction throughout countless countries. Is it not time that the focus on illegal immigration focuses on the epidemic levels of unwanted American illegal immigration throughout the world?
[2012-02-28] Immigrants, 'Legal' or Otherwise, Are Not 'Invaders'Posted by Becky Akers on February 28, 2012 09:26 AM Prof. Rozeff, thanks for defining “invasion.” An awful lot of folks wander around out there without the least idea of what the word means; I know because I hear from them each time I note that the Constitution never empowers Our Rulers to control our movements — or those of anyone else, even the dreaded Mexican who wants to pick our fruit and clean our toilets — into or out of the country. They tell me, often in ALL CAPS with vulgar terminology, that Leviathan is supposed to “repel invasions.” I’m continually baffled that anyone could mistake a desperate family hoping to find a better life through hard work and sacrifice for soldiers trespassing to murder, rape, and plunder; perhaps your clarification of the word as “an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force" will resolve the confusion. [2012-06-11] The European Atrocity You Never Heard About- The USA government has much experience moving ethnic populations around. Mexicans are only the most recent.
- Hoover Institution Archives
In the largest episode of forced migration in history, millions of German-speaking civilians were sent to Germany from Czechoslovakia (above) and other European countries after World War II by order of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union. An estimated 500,000 DIED in the process!
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Index to my Articles--Miscellaneous Links to this page...:http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=88.msg759#msg759
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Ayn Rand and Objectivism http://AtlasShruggedCelebrationDay.comAtlas Shrugged Celebration Dayhttp://tinyurl.com/Narragansett-ConstitutionJudge Narragansett's New Constitution Projecthttp://tinyurl.com/First-Cause-articleThe "First Cause" article- Objectivist Newsletter-Vol 1, No 5, May 1962, page 19
- Having trouble grasping the phrase "Existence Exists"? Grappling with the "God" problem? HERE is the article that fixed those problems for me--it might just be the one for you.
[1996-05-21] “Reason is NOT Volition (Will)” - My letter defending Ellen Moore’s Challenge to Objectivism, specifying an error in Peikoff’s book Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
[2001-06-20] Marriage and Monogamy by Dennis Wilson http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=134.msg298#msg298- Analysis of comments made by Ayn Rand regarding marriage
- Considerations regarding "polyamory"
[2008-12-06] *I* am called a thief and a nihilist !!- "You need to stop stealing names and ideas from Objectivism and Ayn Rand and using them to promote anarchy. You are the worst kind of nihilist."
[2010-10-30] A view into the mind of Leonard Peikoff 14 years after I "departed".[2009-01-04] Call Me an Abolitionist, Please* - This relates to the Emma Goldman article below and how "anarchy" got such a bad name in America
http://tinyurl.com/EmmaGoldmanEmma Goldman and the End of the First Libertarian Movement - the interests of the State and those of the individual differ fundamentally and are antagonistic. The State and the political and economic institutions it supports can exist only by fashioning the individual to their particular purpose; training him to respect "law and order;" teaching him obedience, submission and unquestioning faith in the wisdom and justice of government; above all, loyal service and complete self-sacrifice when the State commands it, as in war.
http://tinyurl.com/LaBoetieÉtienne de La Boétie: Ending Tyranny Without Violence- Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
http://tinyurl.com/Peak-Oil-BULLSHITPeak Oil? BULLSHIT![2013-01-26] Peak Oil Bites the Dust- And another bad theory goes down the drain.
- So now there are two countries where oil resources may suddenly exceed that of Saudi Arabia!
[2013-02-27] EVEN MORE shale oil in the USA!!! Even MORE reason to pull our troops OUT of the middle east!!!!- The Race For California’s Shale Is On! More than DOUBLE the Bakken formation in North Dakota
The following dialogs are found in sequence at http://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=8.msg29#msg29[2006-08-27] EJ Totty’s letter critical of my article “…to Institute new Government, laying its foundation…” and my reply [2006-09-03] Letter from Jim Davidson containing the sentence: “As Dennis Wilson has pointed out, to vote for a candidate is initiatory force.” http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle383-20060903-01.html#letter5 [2006-09-10] E.J. Totty response to a letter by Jay P. Hailey [2006-09-17] My response to E.J. Totty’s misrepresentations of my views. [2006-10-01] Never one to be outdone, E.J. Totty had this response to my letter of 2006-09-17
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Index to my Articles--Living without IP monopoly, the Last Mile to living without government.Links to this page...:http://tinyurl.com/Living-without-IPhttp://dennisleewilson.com/simplemachinesforum/index.php?topic=88.msg851#msg851
Index to my Articles--Published and unpublished
(and articles from a few others):
Note: IP = "Intellectual Property" “Do you really think you own what is in my mind?”- This article concludes with the same point I was making when I started this IP discussion forum:
- "The energy being expended in debating intellectual property would be better used in exploring methods by which the free market could protect the just rewards of intellectual products."
[2010-08-05] Libertarians, Anarchists and Signatories still use government.- “working copy”--extensive but unfinished
IPR proponents don't need our agreement to protect their property- The burden of property protection belongs on the one who claims ownership.
- Paul Bonneau is brief and to the point!
- Anthony Shelley follows up with The Great Milk Robbery example from Harry Browne
- Why should *I* be forced to pay to enforce THEIR IP claims?
If You Believe in IP, How Do You Teach Others?- The goal of the university is to spread knowledge, not to grant a one-time use for what you learn in the classroom. The aim of an individual student is to gain knowledge that is used in every possible way for a lifetime — and to pass the ideas on to others.
- Perhaps this explains why the Objectivist movement--which is "tightly controlled" by Leonard Peikoff and the Ayn Rand Institute--seems to be stalled instead of spreading like Ayn Rand's books.
"Napsterama" by L. Neil Smith - The "younger" Neil Smith in 2001 was definitely more "libertarian" than the "older" Neil Smith in 2010!
The L. Neil Smith – FreeTalkLive Copyright Dispute- Re-post of July 14, 2010 article by Stephan Kinsella regarding the Shire Society and The Covenant
[2010-12-17] Smart phone rivalry plays out in patent suits- MORE time & energy wasting nonsense that increases the cost of products...
[2011-02-11] Science Fiction author Neil Gaiman on Copyright Piracy and the Web- Fascinating short comments by science fiction author Neil Gaiman on how he came to realize that there was nothing wrong with people copying his books.
[2011-03-07] The Socialism of Agri-Patents- Agriculture patents are not the market at work. They represent the failure and injustice of the interventionist state.
[2011-03-16] Twisted distortions of markets caused by IP.- Look at the twisted distortions caused by IP rules and regulations. Even when someone finds a loophole and provides service that customers want, the regulators leap in and attempt to kill it!
[2011-05-06] HOORAY FOR FIREFOX!!- Mozilla stands up to U.S. government takedown request
- Well, HOORAY for the good guys!!!!
THIS is how a world without copyright would be.- (video) Lessons from fashion's free culture
[2012-02-20] Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal--by Adrian Hon - I hope my readers recognize good satire when they read it...Dennis
[2012-03-19] The Pirate Bay Claims It's Going To Host The Site Via Drones Flying Over International Waters- One of the more amazing things about the recent moves by the entertainment industry to put in place stricter laws around the globe to attack file sharing, is that they still don't realize how pointless this is compared to the only real solution, which is to offer more of what consumers actually want, rather than trying to force them into some old way of doing business. For every "victory" the industry declares, we see more and more evidence that the file sharing just moves further away from what the industry can control (and keeps growing).
- The MPAA and RIAA are fighting a losing battle. Their (literally) last century business model is done for. But rather than embrace change and new revenue streams, they twitch and kick like the dying body that they are. When the dust settles, they're going to find themselves holding a big bag of crap as their previous consumer base moves on to legitimate online entertainment that wants no part of their repressive antics.
[2012-05-21] Boycott the music "industry"! Here is just one of the reasons why...:- A federal judge called the fines unconstitutionally excessive, but the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston reinstated the penalty at the request of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Brothers Records Inc. and other record labels represented by the RIAA. [There is a partial list of businesses that should be boycotted...]
- Actually, boycotting is easy and "automatic" because their products are grossly overpriced...LOL!
[2012-07-21] Why Copyright Is Bad for Musicians- ...it was publishers – not artists – who convinced governments to foist the system on us.
- ...how on earth did Bach, Beethoven & Brahms survive and thrive without it?
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I love Arizona, I loathe its intrusive governments, especially the City of Phoenix.
