Borris is boasting about the £3 bilion plus he stole from the taxpayers to fund the Olympic games claiming it was money well spent and displaying the kind of cavalier attitude to State theft you would normally only expect from some potentate in a third world Marxist State in South America.This is the great electoral prospect many desperate frustrated and delluded Tories appear to be banking their hopes on in a post Cameron world which apparently for them cannot come a day too soon.
Crackerbarrel airport schemes,rumoured standing in a bi election in Richmond to replace the mad Green crazed Zac Goldsmith,it appears many tories would prefer Boris - cult of personality loose canon- Johnson to someone who displays principles and actually believes in something.
As if in harmony with Borris a union boss was crowing about how the olympic games demonstrated how the State could deliver even better than the market omitting to mention how his union had threatend to ruin the games if his mafia mates in the public transport system weren't bunged piles of money to avert a strike.If you steal money from someone and put on a very large party for all the down and outs you can find and then claim that it was all a huge success and demonstrated how theft was a good thing most people would think you were insane but this is in effect what both Borris and the Union bosses are arguing.Perhaps they both calculate correctly that the public have been too bedazzled by the spectacle to realise that they will have to pick up the tab for the bread and circuses of the last month.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Saint Peter Hitchens Is Wrong On Drugs
Much as I admire him for being a stout and sturdy defender of real Conservatism I have to say on the drugs issue I believe Mr Hitchens could not be more wrong.I would have thought that for even an ex Marxist like him the degree of State intervention required to police what substances people ingest would have given him pause but apparently not.Perhaps when one discovers that the admirable Peter also favours renationalisation of the railways (and perhaps the post office as well?)it is not so inconsistent after all.
It is noticeable that both sides of the political aisle have their own pet issues and areas where they favour State interventionism and neither are known for any consistency here.Tories tend to be broadly speaking non interventionist in economic areas but favour meddling in personal behaviour matters whereas the Left are more liberal in the latter but urge meddling in economic areas.Only libertarians are totally intellectually consistent and of course they are always conspicuous by their absence in UK politcs.
The argument for drug liberalisation has to be made on the individual rights issue and not the ridiculous one of being a way of reducing crime.You could argue on those grounds that burglary should be de-criminalised! It is the anti Big Brother argument that should prevail and which policy has led to the ridiculous failed and doomed prohibitionist approach that has had such comprehensively dismal results with historical parallels that only the ignorant can be unaware of.
It is noticeable that both sides of the political aisle have their own pet issues and areas where they favour State interventionism and neither are known for any consistency here.Tories tend to be broadly speaking non interventionist in economic areas but favour meddling in personal behaviour matters whereas the Left are more liberal in the latter but urge meddling in economic areas.Only libertarians are totally intellectually consistent and of course they are always conspicuous by their absence in UK politcs.
The argument for drug liberalisation has to be made on the individual rights issue and not the ridiculous one of being a way of reducing crime.You could argue on those grounds that burglary should be de-criminalised! It is the anti Big Brother argument that should prevail and which policy has led to the ridiculous failed and doomed prohibitionist approach that has had such comprehensively dismal results with historical parallels that only the ignorant can be unaware of.
Conservatism: No Such Thing As Individualism!
In the Deep End section of Conhome is an article repudiating Conservative support of individualism and it is a must read for all those who mistakenly hold that Conservatism and individualism are synonymous or in any way compatible.Of course being a Conservative attempt at 'philosophy' it serves up the usual mush of confused ideas in an almost deliberate attempt to obfuscate and confound the issue but if you are expert as I have become in decoding Conservative-speak the implications of said article are clear enough.Once individualism is obliquely critiqued in this fashion the way lies open for Conservatives to justify State intervention and big government solutions be it in taxation,regulation and general all round State meddling.Belittling and downgrading the role of individualism in the context of freedom cannot but have this corollary.
This is one more floating of trial balloons for Conservatism in its steady inexorable drift to the Left and should surely serve as a warning and reminder to any prospective Conservative voters that a vote for this party is a vote for more State,more controls and more government.
This is one more floating of trial balloons for Conservatism in its steady inexorable drift to the Left and should surely serve as a warning and reminder to any prospective Conservative voters that a vote for this party is a vote for more State,more controls and more government.
Paralympics Unintended Legacy
Proud as I am that I have not watched a single olympics event or paralympic either because I am opposed to State tax funded sport I have to say that the paras have served to expose the myth of disability which should have profound implications for the whole notion of welfare disability programmes.Now that it has been demonstrated so graphically just what disabled people can achieve the very argument that they should be patronised with welfare has been blown out of the water.They are just as much capable of doing some sort of job as able bodied people.
This not inconsiderable inference is what I and I hope the powers that be will take away from the events of the last few weeks which otherwise have induced in me at least ennui and irritation in equal measure at all the hype that has surrounded them.
This not inconsiderable inference is what I and I hope the powers that be will take away from the events of the last few weeks which otherwise have induced in me at least ennui and irritation in equal measure at all the hype that has surrounded them.
Freedom Illusion?
Someone in conversation asserted confidently that no one is really free and I kind of got what they meant but thinking about it more it is nothing but a commonplace for every creature in obeying the requirements of its nature is constricted and circumscribed thereby.A human being cannot jump off a building and fly.A cat cannot swim underwater in the ocean,a dog cannot rebel against its dog nature and wile away its days surfing the internet etc.
All creatures are delimited in their behaviour by their nature and their requirements for survival through certain self sustaining actions.There is no absolute freedom as such,only within certain prescribed parameters. The prescription is dictated by reality.
The person in question was probably bewailing their human circumstances specifically in the need to work and earn a living.Yes it is true human beings have to trade and exchange goods and services.Right from the first humans living in caves,hunting and foraging etc certain actions were needed to sustain existence and so it is today in modern human societies.To bemoan the lack of freedom to do whatever you want in defiance of the requirements of your existence is to turn away from reality and indulge in wishfull thinking denial.
Of course some people have relatively more freedom than others.A Richard Branson versus someone working in Macdonalds for instance.We don't all come from privileged backgrounds, we have to make the best of our circumstances.So whatever freedom we can exert within those limits we are essentially free moral agents in the choice of actions we take to sustain our existence and pursue values compatible with our nature for the enjoyment and fulfilment of goals.
The only freedom we do not possess is the freedom from reality.If we choose to go against our nature we end up as a bum on welfare having others do for us what we have abdicated responsbility to do for ourselves.
All creatures are delimited in their behaviour by their nature and their requirements for survival through certain self sustaining actions.There is no absolute freedom as such,only within certain prescribed parameters. The prescription is dictated by reality.
The person in question was probably bewailing their human circumstances specifically in the need to work and earn a living.Yes it is true human beings have to trade and exchange goods and services.Right from the first humans living in caves,hunting and foraging etc certain actions were needed to sustain existence and so it is today in modern human societies.To bemoan the lack of freedom to do whatever you want in defiance of the requirements of your existence is to turn away from reality and indulge in wishfull thinking denial.
Of course some people have relatively more freedom than others.A Richard Branson versus someone working in Macdonalds for instance.We don't all come from privileged backgrounds, we have to make the best of our circumstances.So whatever freedom we can exert within those limits we are essentially free moral agents in the choice of actions we take to sustain our existence and pursue values compatible with our nature for the enjoyment and fulfilment of goals.
The only freedom we do not possess is the freedom from reality.If we choose to go against our nature we end up as a bum on welfare having others do for us what we have abdicated responsbility to do for ourselves.
Friday, September 07, 2012
Rabid Obummer Demagoguery
Obama represents the phenomena of the mountebank in its most advanced form and it is exceedingly depressing that according to polls at least half the American electorate would like to see him remain in the White house.Public 'education' has certainly done its job on them.He was at his usual and customary sociopathic Elmer Gantry tricks at the Democratic convention yesterday,seeking to promote his toxic and insidous un American message of envy and division along Marxist lines, manipulating base instincts and deploying his acquired sociopathic tools of plausibility and dissimulation to that end.
For all his many faults at least Clinton did not bankrupt the country in pursuit of his ideological goals.This president has no such qualms and only a return to sanity by the electorate in Novemeber with a swing to Romney will assure that he does not succeed.
For all his many faults at least Clinton did not bankrupt the country in pursuit of his ideological goals.This president has no such qualms and only a return to sanity by the electorate in Novemeber with a swing to Romney will assure that he does not succeed.
Thursday, September 06, 2012
Melissa Benn Is Madder Than Tony
Thankfully I have gone all this time without knowing of the existence of Melissa Benn daughter - spawn of Satan Tony.Yesterday that all changed when she appeared on a 'debate' on radio 4 with John Humphries about State education versus free market education.Needless to say the panel was stacked in favour of the State with one token free marketer in the form of the redoubtable James Tooley.He was contstantly talked over by the obnoxious Melissa Benn,ridiculed and generally baracked by her each time he attempted to get a word in edgeways.
No matter how appalling Tony Benn is with his Marxist ideology he certainly has more manners than his vile offspring who it turns out had a Marxist 'education' in a State school the name of which escapes me now in the 1960s which was characterised at the time as 'a Socialist Eton', disgracefully State funded.This is what Melissa would like for the whole country,its children sent off to Socialist brainwashing camps to be indoctrinated into the right way of thinking.The arrogance and the delusion of this evil woman had me reaching for the sick bag.
Thank God this government is attempting to free education from the malign death grip of the Marxised unions and councils and liberate them from State Sovietisation and the social engineers of human souls masquerading as teachers.For too long the likes of Melissa Benn have been infiltrating the educational establishment spreading their evil toxic ideologies and at last they are feeling the fresh bracing wind of competition and enterprise.No wonder they don't like it as the rude obnoxious behaviour of Melissa Benn last evening clearly demonstrated.
No matter how appalling Tony Benn is with his Marxist ideology he certainly has more manners than his vile offspring who it turns out had a Marxist 'education' in a State school the name of which escapes me now in the 1960s which was characterised at the time as 'a Socialist Eton', disgracefully State funded.This is what Melissa would like for the whole country,its children sent off to Socialist brainwashing camps to be indoctrinated into the right way of thinking.The arrogance and the delusion of this evil woman had me reaching for the sick bag.
Thank God this government is attempting to free education from the malign death grip of the Marxised unions and councils and liberate them from State Sovietisation and the social engineers of human souls masquerading as teachers.For too long the likes of Melissa Benn have been infiltrating the educational establishment spreading their evil toxic ideologies and at last they are feeling the fresh bracing wind of competition and enterprise.No wonder they don't like it as the rude obnoxious behaviour of Melissa Benn last evening clearly demonstrated.
Wednesday, September 05, 2012
The Seductive Allure Of Conspiracy Theories
Re my last post and the furore it sparked on the Keiser site it has got me thinking about why conspiracy theories are so compelling to so many and I think in part it has got something to do with the decline of organised religion.People seem to be hard wired in their need for simple explanations that will resolve the complexities of life and they also require the Armageddon factor, an obvious throwback to religion.The end is nigh - and the banksters are to blame!It gives them a focus for their rage.
Conspiracy theories tend to attrtact those unhappy with their lot in life.Now they have someone to blame,a focal point for their hitherto unfocused rage.There appears to be a need for a hate figure.This is the theme of Orwell's 1984 and the State recognising this gives them four minutes of hate where they can rail and vent against the hated figure on the screen.
Once people have been captured by these false salvation artists they will go to any lengths to defend their false belief and will not take kindly to anyone who exposes the ridicuous figure behind the curtain pulling their strings whether it be an Icke, Keiser or whoever
(Footnote.I normally get 25 visitors to this obscure site.In the last 24 hours or less I have got One Thousand,yes,1000!It was not my intention but can't pretend am not pleased!)
Conspiracy theories tend to attrtact those unhappy with their lot in life.Now they have someone to blame,a focal point for their hitherto unfocused rage.There appears to be a need for a hate figure.This is the theme of Orwell's 1984 and the State recognising this gives them four minutes of hate where they can rail and vent against the hated figure on the screen.
Once people have been captured by these false salvation artists they will go to any lengths to defend their false belief and will not take kindly to anyone who exposes the ridicuous figure behind the curtain pulling their strings whether it be an Icke, Keiser or whoever
(Footnote.I normally get 25 visitors to this obscure site.In the last 24 hours or less I have got One Thousand,yes,1000!It was not my intention but can't pretend am not pleased!)
Tuesday, September 04, 2012
Max Keiser Syndrome
Having watched the clowning of Max Keiser on RT over the years I have come to the conclusion that his ilk of alarmist conspiracy theorist declinists are the modern equivalent of the soothsayers and withcdoctors of medieval times with their end is nigh doomsday scenarios.Keiser lends his rantings a patina of pseudo intellectuality by invoking his past experience on Wall St but this is a mere cover for his virulent anti Americanism and anti Capitalism although he claims that he is for pure Capitalism but his constant ad hominem abuse of Ayn Rand clearly belies this.
As RT is a propaganda vehicle for Putin's Russia it is hardly surprising that the latter is the elephant in the room that never gets mentioned or critiqued by Keiser proving that he is every bit as much in the pockets of vested interests as the people he lambastes.With his sidekick Stacey Herbert they vye with one another to see who can excel in florid rhetoric and absurdist caricature of the financial world but underneath the bombastic hyperbole is the same left thinking that charcterises most conspiracy theorist purveyors.
As RT is a propaganda vehicle for Putin's Russia it is hardly surprising that the latter is the elephant in the room that never gets mentioned or critiqued by Keiser proving that he is every bit as much in the pockets of vested interests as the people he lambastes.With his sidekick Stacey Herbert they vye with one another to see who can excel in florid rhetoric and absurdist caricature of the financial world but underneath the bombastic hyperbole is the same left thinking that charcterises most conspiracy theorist purveyors.
Politicians And God
People often accuse doctors of playing God but they are the height of modesty compared with politicians especially those on the Left who want to control every human action from 'the cradle to grave' and see it as an affront and an act of heresy if anyone demurs and questions their divine right of intervention into the minutae of people's everyday life.
Most Conservatives it has to be owned are not much better and go native as soon as they get into office and take to empire building with little compunction.They also do not like criticism as I have found to my cost over at Conservativehome website brainchild of Tim Montgomerrie as I have now be banned from the comment section due to the fact that I critiqued the party from a libertarian perspective.It seems they are more comfortable with the Lefties who infest the comments than me which I suppose should be taken as a compliment.It will free me up to concentrate on political activism and my foredoomed failure to save Conservatives from themselves will hopefully serve as a lesson not to waste time on lost causes in future.
Most Conservatives it has to be owned are not much better and go native as soon as they get into office and take to empire building with little compunction.They also do not like criticism as I have found to my cost over at Conservativehome website brainchild of Tim Montgomerrie as I have now be banned from the comment section due to the fact that I critiqued the party from a libertarian perspective.It seems they are more comfortable with the Lefties who infest the comments than me which I suppose should be taken as a compliment.It will free me up to concentrate on political activism and my foredoomed failure to save Conservatives from themselves will hopefully serve as a lesson not to waste time on lost causes in future.
Monday, September 03, 2012
Woman's Hour Pisses Me Off
Here is how it works when it comes to any 'discussion' about Ayn Rand in the mainstream media.The host invites two people on who are hostile to Rand and gives them free rein to vent and excoriate by slur distortion,defamation and disinformation.Not one but two 'experts' are wheeled on to do the hatchet job.
You might suppose that at least on a public service broadcaster such as the BBC that some attempt might be made to have one of the guests in question be sympathetic to Rand and at least put her arguments forth honestly for the sake of balance which the BBC is always at pains to assure us it strives for.But no,in a blatant non balanced fashion Ayn Rand bashing is what we were treated to on last weeks' excerable Womans Hour on radio four.
It is standard practice as I have mentioned before when it comes to Rand but really it applies across the board no matter what the subject under discussion is.The BBC has got away with this egregious tendentiousness for half a century and the only solution would be the one Rand herself would advocate namely the removal of the TV licence from the BBC so that it can be free to proeselytize its 20th century collectivist credo without benefit of tax payer support.
You might suppose that at least on a public service broadcaster such as the BBC that some attempt might be made to have one of the guests in question be sympathetic to Rand and at least put her arguments forth honestly for the sake of balance which the BBC is always at pains to assure us it strives for.But no,in a blatant non balanced fashion Ayn Rand bashing is what we were treated to on last weeks' excerable Womans Hour on radio four.
It is standard practice as I have mentioned before when it comes to Rand but really it applies across the board no matter what the subject under discussion is.The BBC has got away with this egregious tendentiousness for half a century and the only solution would be the one Rand herself would advocate namely the removal of the TV licence from the BBC so that it can be free to proeselytize its 20th century collectivist credo without benefit of tax payer support.
How To Get People To Love Politicians
To change the near universal hatred and contempt the public has towards politicians into something approaching love or at least non hate is very simple.People hate politicians because they are paid for out of the public purse ie through taxation.If this were not the case and politicians had to rely on individuals and groups financing them through voluntary contributions all the anger felt towards politicians would melt like snow in the summer sun.
It is obscene and profoundly undemocratic and a violation of individual rights that anyone should have to finance a politician who has opposite views to them.This works both ways of course.Just as I resent having to finance George Galloway a dyed in the wool Lefty would resent having to finance Cameron and his Tory cadres.My solution obviates this problem.Yes unions can support Labour if they choose but the caveat being that the legal immunity they got from Labour 100 years ago regarding immunity from striking would have to be repealed.If someone goes on strike that is a breach of contract and the employer should have the right to sack them immediately.
The answer to the argument that no one would want to be a politician if they were not paid out of the public purse is very simple. In a Capitalist system there would be very little for politicians to do and only a small percentage of the present commons intake would be required.Power lusters would have no scope for advancement as they would have very little to offer their prospective electorate in terms of bribes and welfare bounty and they would have to find expression for their psychopathic impulses elsewhere,perhaps in the criminal underworld which would be their natural milieu.
This of course also obtains re big business support for Conservatives.As there would be no meddling in business under a true Capitalist system businesses would not have to pay Conservatives what is effectively protection money to defend their interests from punitive taxation and bureaucratic Red tape.The whole lobby system would cease to exist and the grubby compromising backroom deals between politicians,unions and big business would be but a dark and distant memory.
It is obscene and profoundly undemocratic and a violation of individual rights that anyone should have to finance a politician who has opposite views to them.This works both ways of course.Just as I resent having to finance George Galloway a dyed in the wool Lefty would resent having to finance Cameron and his Tory cadres.My solution obviates this problem.Yes unions can support Labour if they choose but the caveat being that the legal immunity they got from Labour 100 years ago regarding immunity from striking would have to be repealed.If someone goes on strike that is a breach of contract and the employer should have the right to sack them immediately.
The answer to the argument that no one would want to be a politician if they were not paid out of the public purse is very simple. In a Capitalist system there would be very little for politicians to do and only a small percentage of the present commons intake would be required.Power lusters would have no scope for advancement as they would have very little to offer their prospective electorate in terms of bribes and welfare bounty and they would have to find expression for their psychopathic impulses elsewhere,perhaps in the criminal underworld which would be their natural milieu.
This of course also obtains re big business support for Conservatives.As there would be no meddling in business under a true Capitalist system businesses would not have to pay Conservatives what is effectively protection money to defend their interests from punitive taxation and bureaucratic Red tape.The whole lobby system would cease to exist and the grubby compromising backroom deals between politicians,unions and big business would be but a dark and distant memory.
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Towards The Taxless State
It's time to think outside the ballot box.Tax serfs of the world need to unite for they have nothing to lose but their chains.Freedom and liberty are rights not to be voted away by the ignorant horde.The insanity of crowds has ruled long enough.The chains of guilt wrought by the toxic canard of altruism will be broken and man will stand erect on earth unbowed by unearned guilt.
Neither 20th century liberalism or discredited conservatism will stand in the path of freedom with their lies and half truths and mixed economy premises.Their preachments have led us to the maw of hell and as we peak over the abyss their nostrums will hold no sway, but will merely reverberate with a hollow echo signifying nothing.Their day has truly gone.
The shiboleths of democracy will no longer enthrall,the siren call of a socialised existence will lie exposed as the power lust of megalomaniacs and the nightmare of a dystopia without end.The liberal democratic illusion will be shattered,scales will fall from eyes,charlatans will stand naked, their game exposed, claims scorned, tricks unmasked.
Neither 20th century liberalism or discredited conservatism will stand in the path of freedom with their lies and half truths and mixed economy premises.Their preachments have led us to the maw of hell and as we peak over the abyss their nostrums will hold no sway, but will merely reverberate with a hollow echo signifying nothing.Their day has truly gone.
The shiboleths of democracy will no longer enthrall,the siren call of a socialised existence will lie exposed as the power lust of megalomaniacs and the nightmare of a dystopia without end.The liberal democratic illusion will be shattered,scales will fall from eyes,charlatans will stand naked, their game exposed, claims scorned, tricks unmasked.
1%, Persecuted Minority
Minorities are regarded with mystical awe and respect in Western Democracies -unless the minority in question is the 1% business community that provides half the total taxation take.This minority is persecuted mercilessly on a daily basis and has opprobrium dumped on it with ritualistic zeal by practically everyone
It is open season on the wealth producers and the only wonder is why they put up with it.Why don't they just shrug or at least organise and start a union and go on strike or something?Beats me.All we ever get from the producers movers and shakers is silence or an apologetic defence of their right to exist.They need some cojones.
They of course have been silenced by the thing I alluded to in the post below -the insdious toxic debilitating guilt creating power of altruism to hypnotise and subjugate all before it.Unless we can break the hypnotic power of altruism to paralyse all resistance and expose it for the self serving lie it is the wealth producers will continue to be persecuted and degraded and conmen of social parasitism will continue to enslave the productive through the tools of guilt and Socialist rhetoric.
It is open season on the wealth producers and the only wonder is why they put up with it.Why don't they just shrug or at least organise and start a union and go on strike or something?Beats me.All we ever get from the producers movers and shakers is silence or an apologetic defence of their right to exist.They need some cojones.
They of course have been silenced by the thing I alluded to in the post below -the insdious toxic debilitating guilt creating power of altruism to hypnotise and subjugate all before it.Unless we can break the hypnotic power of altruism to paralyse all resistance and expose it for the self serving lie it is the wealth producers will continue to be persecuted and degraded and conmen of social parasitism will continue to enslave the productive through the tools of guilt and Socialist rhetoric.
Friday, August 31, 2012
Taxation Human Bondage
Man's desire to enslave others is a primitive impulse that has been manifest throughout human history and can only be checked by law. But when the law itself permits this barbaric act what recourse can there be for the victims but the use of force to throw off such tyranny?
It is recognised that a man has the right to self defence if his property is violated by burglars and that he can repel them with force if necessary.But what does that avail him if the biggest burglar of all ie the State is busily robbing him all day long and he is without the means to repel it due to its monstrous power and reach?That is the ultimate definition of slavery yet for the most part of history this has been and continues to be the state of affairs across the globe and such boundless tyranny and State terrorism -for such it is - has been met with a mute and servile acquiescence and hardly ever challenged on any serious sustained and concerted level.We have to examine why this is so.
What has disarmed man throughout time and prevented him from throwing off the yoke of tyranny and reduced him to a state of servile supplication and obesiance to the ravenous parasitic taxing State on every continent that presumed to call itself civilized?What hypnotic thrall has subjugated the nations and led them by the nose to the shackles of human bondage via taxation?Surely they have been duped on a scale barely comprehensible to the imagination.A coup by the powers that rule on this scale must have suggestive post hypnotic conditioning verging on animal magnetism in its thraldom.
It is one thing to shackle people with actual chains but to be able to achieve this feat without them shows a sophistication and control beyond the run of the mill and we have to look beyond the crude application of brute force and turn instead to the greatest power of all namely ideology.If you can convice a man that his property does not belong to him,that he is selfish to enjoy it without sharing it with others you need not a gun.He has already been disarmed with sophistry.Just make him feel guilty for his achievement and success.Tell the child they must share their toys with the other children and you have the adult slave.
Here religion plays a major role in softening up the victim for self sacrifice as most religions teach this monstrous evil of altruism.Then it is given modern application by a secularised version called Socialism and Liberalism and the job is done.
Until people reject this evil creed they will continue to be enslaved by the terrorist State and millions will continue to be sacrificed on its altar.Individuals who seek to rebel will be silenced by vilification or jail.
It is recognised that a man has the right to self defence if his property is violated by burglars and that he can repel them with force if necessary.But what does that avail him if the biggest burglar of all ie the State is busily robbing him all day long and he is without the means to repel it due to its monstrous power and reach?That is the ultimate definition of slavery yet for the most part of history this has been and continues to be the state of affairs across the globe and such boundless tyranny and State terrorism -for such it is - has been met with a mute and servile acquiescence and hardly ever challenged on any serious sustained and concerted level.We have to examine why this is so.
What has disarmed man throughout time and prevented him from throwing off the yoke of tyranny and reduced him to a state of servile supplication and obesiance to the ravenous parasitic taxing State on every continent that presumed to call itself civilized?What hypnotic thrall has subjugated the nations and led them by the nose to the shackles of human bondage via taxation?Surely they have been duped on a scale barely comprehensible to the imagination.A coup by the powers that rule on this scale must have suggestive post hypnotic conditioning verging on animal magnetism in its thraldom.
It is one thing to shackle people with actual chains but to be able to achieve this feat without them shows a sophistication and control beyond the run of the mill and we have to look beyond the crude application of brute force and turn instead to the greatest power of all namely ideology.If you can convice a man that his property does not belong to him,that he is selfish to enjoy it without sharing it with others you need not a gun.He has already been disarmed with sophistry.Just make him feel guilty for his achievement and success.Tell the child they must share their toys with the other children and you have the adult slave.
Here religion plays a major role in softening up the victim for self sacrifice as most religions teach this monstrous evil of altruism.Then it is given modern application by a secularised version called Socialism and Liberalism and the job is done.
Until people reject this evil creed they will continue to be enslaved by the terrorist State and millions will continue to be sacrificed on its altar.Individuals who seek to rebel will be silenced by vilification or jail.
Monday, August 27, 2012
Minimum Wage - Creator Of Youth Unemployment
The cause of youth unemployment which has gone up exponentially is the introduction by Labour of the minimum wage and it should abolished immediately.If a young person works 40 hour week on just £3 an hour they would still be bringing in twice what they get on benefit and it would be tax free but most importantly is the job experience they would get and a foot on the ladder and the opportunity to rise in the company through hard work and diligence thus setting them on the first step of a career path -all of which is being denied them as they are left to rot on the dole.
Anyone who truly cares about youth unemployment would support the scrapping of the pernicious job destroying Socialist minimum wage and free the youth from this State created blight of youth unemployment.
Anyone who truly cares about youth unemployment would support the scrapping of the pernicious job destroying Socialist minimum wage and free the youth from this State created blight of youth unemployment.
UK Tax Serfs And The Orwellian State
There is debate about whether to erect a statue of Orwell outside the BBC but the latter has suggested apparently from an irony free zone that it would be too political.It would on the contrary be most appropriate.Orwell worked at the BBC and many think his novel 1984 was partly inspired by his time there.With its monstrous reach and omnipotent sway over the airwaves the BBC had and still does have more than an air of Big Brother about it.
Orwell of course was something of a prophet and both Left and Right lay claim to him with some justification on both sides but there is no doubt his predictions have been fully realised.UK tax serfs show alarming characteristics of Stockholme Syndrome -they love Big Brother.Snitching on one's neighbour to the State is standard practice and the Welfare Socialist State has produced an envy between people re taxation that the State encourages and benefits from.
As to the statue in question,Orwell himself an inveterate iconoclast would be smiling wryly at the thought of it but regarding location the BBC has to be the most suitable and it might give the employees of said Left wing behemoth pause as they enter the building to reflect about the need for intellectual honesty and integrity re their journalistic standards.
Orwell of course was something of a prophet and both Left and Right lay claim to him with some justification on both sides but there is no doubt his predictions have been fully realised.UK tax serfs show alarming characteristics of Stockholme Syndrome -they love Big Brother.Snitching on one's neighbour to the State is standard practice and the Welfare Socialist State has produced an envy between people re taxation that the State encourages and benefits from.
As to the statue in question,Orwell himself an inveterate iconoclast would be smiling wryly at the thought of it but regarding location the BBC has to be the most suitable and it might give the employees of said Left wing behemoth pause as they enter the building to reflect about the need for intellectual honesty and integrity re their journalistic standards.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Teachers Unions:Beyond Shame
It would be risible if it were not so darned serious how the teachers unions have come out in support of their poor pupils whose exam results aren't so good this year because very belatedly some rigour has been introduced into the system after decades of abuse and corruption and marking up grade inflation.Any further upward inflationary trajectory and it would have been on the Weimar scale.
Now there is talk of legal action which is further demonstation of how delinquent and morally bankrupt the Marxist teachers union are with their levelling down egalitarian Socialist agendas and how right this governemnt is to decouple the State schools from councils who are politically driven and don't give a damn for their charges future but are hell bent on dumbing down the youth with their 'everyone must have prizes' mentality.
Now there is talk of legal action which is further demonstation of how delinquent and morally bankrupt the Marxist teachers union are with their levelling down egalitarian Socialist agendas and how right this governemnt is to decouple the State schools from councils who are politically driven and don't give a damn for their charges future but are hell bent on dumbing down the youth with their 'everyone must have prizes' mentality.
Objectivists- Ivory Tower Intellectuals?
The abject failure of Objectivism to make any inroads culturally and politically after 50 years since its inception does raise questions of its practicality and whether or not its advocates are too much ivory tower intellectuals to take the battle into the public arena.
Ayn Rand herself was reluctant to get into the weeds of policy prefering instead to speak in broad principles and leave it to others to fill in the gaps but this has left a yawning lacunae in Objectivism as no one as far as I can see has taken up the challenge of transmuting it into concretes.They seem to have taken the cue from Rand and avoided the issue arguing as she did that too much intellectual groundwork and disemination had yet to be done to prepare the way for an Objectivist universe. But does that still apply half a century later?
Peikoff argues correctly that promoting Objectivism cannot be considered a career and anyone who spends their life teaching people that self sacrifice is evil has by virtue of their actions become an embodiment of altruism!
Is this the crux of the issue,the Catch 22?Someone said that trying to organise libertarians politically was like trying to herd cats.Speaking of which Rand of course despised the latter and totally disasociated herself from that movement accusing it of being irrational and plagiaristic and corrupting her teaching with perversions and shortcuts resulting in an incoherent mish mash of contradictory floating abstractions.
Of course Conservatives would and do argue that Rand was an extremist whose ideas were impractical and as they put it, that is not how things can be 'in the real world' which translated means the only way is compromise and half measures and the mixed economy,a mixture of freedom and slavery.Whilst that is a cynical and contemptible position it does behove Objectivists to get their finger out and start advocating in a way that they have up to this point lamentably failed to do.
Ayn Rand herself was reluctant to get into the weeds of policy prefering instead to speak in broad principles and leave it to others to fill in the gaps but this has left a yawning lacunae in Objectivism as no one as far as I can see has taken up the challenge of transmuting it into concretes.They seem to have taken the cue from Rand and avoided the issue arguing as she did that too much intellectual groundwork and disemination had yet to be done to prepare the way for an Objectivist universe. But does that still apply half a century later?
Peikoff argues correctly that promoting Objectivism cannot be considered a career and anyone who spends their life teaching people that self sacrifice is evil has by virtue of their actions become an embodiment of altruism!
Is this the crux of the issue,the Catch 22?Someone said that trying to organise libertarians politically was like trying to herd cats.Speaking of which Rand of course despised the latter and totally disasociated herself from that movement accusing it of being irrational and plagiaristic and corrupting her teaching with perversions and shortcuts resulting in an incoherent mish mash of contradictory floating abstractions.
Of course Conservatives would and do argue that Rand was an extremist whose ideas were impractical and as they put it, that is not how things can be 'in the real world' which translated means the only way is compromise and half measures and the mixed economy,a mixture of freedom and slavery.Whilst that is a cynical and contemptible position it does behove Objectivists to get their finger out and start advocating in a way that they have up to this point lamentably failed to do.
Evil And Its Nemesis
In a deeply moving documentary programme last week with Kirsty Young random acts of violence and their aftermath was the topic and the triumph of the human will in overcoming such arbitrary madness and evil.Victims of taxi driver Raol Moat,Real IrA,drive by gang motivated shootings,Brevik and many others were included.Most people realised the importance of not hating the perpetrators and therby allowing them to continue their reign of terror through psychological trauma and conditioning.
Human beings have a capacity to allow rage to overtake them and when this is combined with the use of firearms the consequences can be devastating.In most cases the rage is incoherent and non specific and not targeted at a clear object and innocent people get caught up in the explosion of rage.In Brevik's case it was more calculating and delimited but no less innapropriate.
The salutary lesson to be drawn from these tragedies is the very rarely touched upon one of the need of self control and how the lack of it can lead to disaster and mayhem.We can see this in the phenomena of road rage and many varieties therof.
If all the inhabitants of our jails learned self control and non reaction to stress we could have empty prisons.On a smaller scale it can be observed in Big Brother where the competitors get caught up in petty rivalries and bitter confrontations and bullying.
Perhaps the schools should teach the art of non intimidation and we could breed a race of supermen but then there would be no need for most of government!Indeed society and the powers that be have a vested interest in people running amok and out of control because it makes them look like the good guy and gives them the excuse for draconian laws and controls and big government.A nation of calm strong non intimidated people the State could not handle.It prefers drugged up angry folk it can control with handcuffs and dismiss as lunatics.
Human beings have a capacity to allow rage to overtake them and when this is combined with the use of firearms the consequences can be devastating.In most cases the rage is incoherent and non specific and not targeted at a clear object and innocent people get caught up in the explosion of rage.In Brevik's case it was more calculating and delimited but no less innapropriate.
The salutary lesson to be drawn from these tragedies is the very rarely touched upon one of the need of self control and how the lack of it can lead to disaster and mayhem.We can see this in the phenomena of road rage and many varieties therof.
If all the inhabitants of our jails learned self control and non reaction to stress we could have empty prisons.On a smaller scale it can be observed in Big Brother where the competitors get caught up in petty rivalries and bitter confrontations and bullying.
Perhaps the schools should teach the art of non intimidation and we could breed a race of supermen but then there would be no need for most of government!Indeed society and the powers that be have a vested interest in people running amok and out of control because it makes them look like the good guy and gives them the excuse for draconian laws and controls and big government.A nation of calm strong non intimidated people the State could not handle.It prefers drugged up angry folk it can control with handcuffs and dismiss as lunatics.
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