Personal Matters and a Victory for FREEDOM.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's recordings, off Double Fantasy.


Now to the victory!


"The uproar revolves around a report released last month by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, a "fusion center" for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to collaborate on domestic security issues. The report concerned militia movements in Missouri and across the U.S., and described how they had evolved over the last several years."

"the Missouri Highway Patrol officially retracted the entire offending document"(Previous blong on the subject)

The Missouri Highway Patrol will be performing an investigation into the origin of the report. Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder has even called for the suspension of the Director of Public Safety until those responsible have been identified.

This is inspiring. This is what it takes to keep our freedom. There are so many groups calling for single payer healthcare, for unifomity. We cannot go without trying to educate on that which is true. Use persuasion, never force, for force is precisely the reason that we have troubles in the country right now, not the lack of it.

Here's an example of a bill that is trying to be passed currently : a call for standardization

Don't let this country slide.

London Liberty is falling down my fair lady.

London liberty is falling down,
falling down, falling down.
London liberty is falling down- we're not far behind.
oh right.
AMERICAN LIBERTY IS FALLING DOWN.
ring around the rosey, pocket full of posey,
ashes ashes- we all fall down.

UK has new pending/inacted social laws- aka. curfews- so what? you say, we have em too, yeah.... we do.

This is a post of excerpts, along with some of my personal commentary- bringing the info right to your eyes, got it all down, ask em- you curious?


DON'T GET CAUGHT READING(that'll be next- 'good idea skippy!')!

In particular I think that reading the responces on the page can be incredibly beneficial. Here's one I found to be particuarly interesting.

#8 posted by Takuan , March 21, 2009 1:42 AM
is there some way that the logical culmination of this can be headed off? Every indication in the press shows Britain heading for a summer of rage - and every action by the government seems calculated to incite this. It's obvious they want violence so they can have some killings and thereby justify even more heavy-handed repression. When will it be enough for them? Even now, someone is walking and breathing and slated for execution by police bullet or club in a few months time. This is like watching a slow motion car wreck and being helpless to stop the planned and inevitable. What kind of people can be party to this?

This is an important point, a failed justification of curfew? yes.- and still, an INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT POINT.

Statement: #24 posted by Shukketsushi , March 21, 2009 3:34 AM
well in the US kids under 18 have a curfew of like around 11 thats changes from town to town. 9 is def too early but i mean those are kids that go to school so what are they gunna be doing out at midnight anyway. i dont think of this law as being a big deal seeing as towns in the US have similar laws and its only for kids. its not like they have to be home. just not hanging out in the streets.

Responce: Who's to define too early? Who's to define the greater good- what the hell is that anyways? The law's not a bit deal because BECAUSE the US has similar laws? Bad reason for it to not be a big deal. What if it weren't only for kids? Oh you're right, if kids ARE going to be violent and bloody- let them do it in more private places- jeez we don't want to see the drugs, sex, and violence.

#53 posted by MadFist , March 21, 2009 8:07 AM
This is NEW to London?!? Hell, I live in Norman, Oklahoma and can remember requiring special permission to go to the Rocky Horror Picture Show at Midnight. . . 25 years ago!


We can only wonder what happens next: To quote a fellow, quoting HP.
"Educational Decree No. 98: Those wishing to join the Inquisitorial Squad for extra credit may sign up in the High Inquisitor's Office..." -- Imelda Staunton as the voice of "Dolores Jane Umbridge in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


Here's one thing that's going on- one more little tiny thing- one step towards making crackdown easy. Like boiling a frog slowly, if you do it carefully enough it won't notice, ever, especially because it explodes.potential for stripping away the right to photograph in public

Can't help but make you think of a poem often cited in situations similiar to this (I urge you to go back and read my post regarding fear- it is not as comprehensive as I would like it to be- but it's something that ought to be known. OldFebBlog "the jacket may not seem too tight now but if you do not fight now, someday it maybe a fight just to breathe")


"Why is Free Speech so important?...Why speak up about things that don't seem to affect you?"
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.


A further point made by an Austrailian individual (not that locality is important or decisive about anything)- this law is not only action against kids out past nine, it's a doorway to attack further liberties.

#26 posted by Joe in Australia , March 21, 2009 3:48 AM
It's not a curfew for under-16s. Well it is, but it's more than that.

Here's the relevant legislation: Part 4 Dispersal of groups etc.
30 Dispersal of groups and removal of persons under 16 to their place of residence

It's got two parts. One provides for a curfew for under-16s. One provides for the dispersal of groups. The groups need not, as far as I can see, be comprised of people under 16. You might have, let's say, a married couple in their forties walking down the street. A constable (police officer) or a "community support officer" (not a police officer, but they get to wear a uniform) hears the couple arguing and tells them to:
1) Disperse immediately (that is, separate and don't get back together);
2) Leave the area;
3) Keep out of the area for 24 hours.

It seems to me that the constable or community support officer will have acted quite legally.

The test is whether the C-or-CSO has "reasonable grounds" [...]

Someone approaches a C-or-CSO and says "Officer, that black man over there scares me. What's he doing in my neighbourhood. We're decent people, we are, we don't need the likes of him hanging around." Now, in a better world the police officer would say "I'm sorry, I can't arrest someone just on the vicious xenophobic rantings of an idiot like yourself, sir." With the help of the Act, this has changed. As long as the man in question is part of a "group" - that is, two or more people - the C-or-CSO can tell that man (and not necessarily any other members of his group) to leave the area for up to 24 hours. And it seems to me that the officer will be acting entirely lawfully, because the fact that the person "alarmed or distressed" is a total nutter doesn't change the fact that a subjective feeling is sufficient to trigger the Act.

"#33 posted by chipy , March 21, 2009 5:30 AM
So, no fun flash mobs - no political demonstrations, no meeting of two or more people for whatever reason. There are a number of Embassies and "public squares" in this area. [...]."

An important note to make, an important question to ask is- why are these kids doing bad stuff, seems to me that the problem stems else where from an injustice to the Liberty that the people of this world deserve.

"#37 posted by Anonymous , March 21, 2009 6:05 AM
Hey England, between your ubiquitous security cameras, your draconian civil rights laws, your antiquated (powerless) monarchy, and your police-state mentality, you let us know how well your little experiment with fascism goes, maybe you'll get lucky, cause you know noone elses fascist state has failed or anything..."

What ever happened to freedom of movement and assembly- what is this New Facist America, I mean.... Old Germany?
You're going to argue that the state has restrictions on other societal funtions- like drivers licenses, etc etc. well, "Should the state consider those under-18[anyone] as second-class citizens?" It's not the function of government to have all of these regulations- it is against all that is good, in government.


The following is a correspondence unrelated to me:

A: Should we allow groups of unsupervised 10 year-olds out on the streets at 3am? Where do YOU draw the line, or do you think that there should be no line at all.

Q: Who is the "we" in that question? Do you mean the state, or the parents? Or do you fancy yourself the parent of other people's kids?

aha.
and then we realize
"#93 posted by Drowse , March 21, 2009 12:38 PM
Dallas is considering a day-time curfew to try to stamp out truancy rates.
I don't think its an effective measure, just make school more appealing to people."

Not only is this just an example of the same kinds of laws that are continuously passed but, it's bs to solving the issues.

So- the real message here, isn't just that the government is trying to fix a problem though inefficient liberty ridding soulutions- it is that the Government is completely out of line, stop it.

Update on the Missiouri Conflict/ The state of the US Glenn Beck and Ron Paul

Here again are the charges:
"The Modern Militia Movement"

To those who disagree with the United Nations, the FED, the Income tax, the FBI... to those who show support for Ron Paul, who openly support the constitution- to name a few, you are all under suspician for terrorist motives, basically...for openly supporting liberty.

Here is an article written by Anthony Gregory
Responce and Information about what is going on.


Glenn Beck- Ron Paul Interview on the issue/the issues in this nation right now
Inflation, discrimination, bailouts, etc. It's a good interview

"I think they are going to destroy the dollar[...]there's no way in the world that you can create these trillions of dollars[...]and soon[...]what is going to happen when people dump the dollar?"- Ron Paul.

"It's the begining of the end...it's the death spiral" -Glenn paraphrasing/quoting some economists.

Interview/ Glenn Beck-Ron Paul/ and some featured articles

Philip Pullman on Liberty; What is needed to sustain a living and waking nation?

http://www.modernliberty.net/
Philip Pullman (for those of you unawares- he wrote the 'His Dark Materials Triliogy).
This is a rather wonderful wonderful speech.

"Joy cannot flourish in the garden of anxiety." -Pullman

Question/Feedback:
On with his strain about the Coal mines- when he says economic intrests, I think he's critiquing freedom of choice with regard to how you produce. That question, is super important, the question of who's role it is to raise the costs of using methods of production that are potentially harmful to the environment- but further, who's to decide that which is harmful?

He's saying that we shouldn't produce with methods that have a short term pay off when there are other "more important intrests". How does he define that, is it the state who defines it, or the people?
He says that in a good state the coal mine type of thing couldn't occur, wouldn't be allowed to occur.
so..seems that he's implying that the state defines that which is harmful. That is somehow magically knows.

I think the way he critiques 'capitalism' you may say, is really a good critique on centralized planning- looking only at certian aspects of something and it's consequences- what he doesn't express as clearly is that we can't know all the consequences, and that is one reason why centralized planning is often more destructive than helpful.

Though the rest of his speech is partial to freedom, this part is shady to me.

- Not only is it 'shady' I think he disproves the idea that it's the governments proper role to 'force' choice- I think he provides a good example in his story of the -livingroom in the road- that persuasion, privately, is often more effective, and productive, than government force.

And that what is needed for private persuasion to be effective, is an active, inquisitive, courageous (all the rest the wonderful things that you have to watch to findout !) how exciting.
(Further credit to C.Crawford for finding this somewhere.)

xkcd. and Don Quixote.

xkcd


What I always think of, when driving through new mexico.
I once stared, half awake, out of the window in the deep of night and saw this giant looming white thing and instantly felt like Don Quixote.

I half mumbled something to an old close friend of mine's mother about how I felt like DQ and then stared intently into the blurry distance, and close fields at the looming white spinning molds. I didn't have my glasses on, guess I needed them that night.

It's a really fun memory to have but at the time my brain was like "it's okay just go back to sleep" kind of creeped.

10th Ammendment. Now, we're blowing more air into the bubble, more water into the bucket.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
- 10th Ammendment.


f the increasing power of the federal government, oh this stimulous and loss of soverignty.

Idaho state rep. speaks out

"The federal government is living beyond the scope that the Constitution grants it and states should put it on notice," Bright said. "I haven't been pleased for some time with what the federal government gets involved in, but it came to a head with the stimulus bill."- Republican rep. Lee Bright

CNN

aha.
State Sovereignty Resolutions- Find your state, or what's goin down
"[...]central location to stay up to date with state sovereignty bills."


Hey Texans: Bill HCR50
Status:In commity.
Subjects: Intergovernmental Relations (I0447)
Resolutions--Legislative Policy (I0685)
Resolutions--Memorializing Congress (I0675)
Caption Text: "Affirming that the State of Texas claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the U.S. Constitution, serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates, and providing that certain federal legislation be prohibited or repealed."


Stossel and the Bailout
"the more the government does, the more the private sector waits"

blowing more air into the bubble, more water into the bucket.

The love of liberty is the love of others...

The love of liberty is the love of others...
~William Hazlitt

A society that does not recognise that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.
~Friedrich Hayek

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
~Dante Alighieri

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.
~Frederic Bastiat

Credit of accomplilation to Rachel Dvsn.

LIVE AUSTRIAN ECONOMIC CONFERENCE

Incredibly interesting.

"To attack human reason, is to attack human life itself."


cite

Oh hey reader, I found something for you to do.

Petition to Audit the Fed- to make them very explicit about how/where/when they are spending and making money.

"With Congress spending like never before, and TRILLIONS of new dollars flying off the printing presses, it’s never been more important to expose the Federal Reserve System to the American people once and for all."

Oh hey reader, look! I found something for you to do.
AUDIT THE FED

On a funny side note, while typing fed, I accidentally typed Red- I think that's appropriate. =0

Music and Sleepy Logic.

I realize that not all of my posts are obviously geared to instigating questions so I wanted to be clear. I am expressing a mind set, an awareness- this awareness for the need for freedom comes through several mediums.

I am here to express what freedom can accomplish. Even when progressive action is greatly hindered, it breaks through the paint as much as possible to express the potential of humankind.


All things show us, when looked upon closely, the inexplicable aspects of nature. The unpredictability is what often brings us progress. Think of Rosa Parks, through living her Truth, and coupled with others who were willing to stand for something they percieved to be necessariy in allowing the most people freedom, they made drastic advances in human consciousness.

Erik Mongrain, Guitar Music


We all make a difference when we fight for freedom, because freedom allows for the most opinions of what Truth is.

On an important side note: Here I do mean to infer that because we all have a subjective experience of Truth, that Truth is subjective. If Truth were subjective there would be no right, nor wrong, and Hitler's actions and Ghandi's actions would be equal in essence. Possibly, that which is Truth, is that which allows for the most freedom. If perhaps, I were to propose that Truth is only subjective and that we act in order to better ourselves, and come to a deeper understanding of what we think Truth is. (Accepting the fact that “what Truth is” is whatever I decide that it is, and that then it IS.) I still see the inherent need to explore (in order to find this deeper understanding, which is constantly expanding with each new experience). I would still say that the separate Truth that people come to could potentially by necessity of the nature of the search for Truth, allow for the most freedom for all. Yet, this process would take much longer and be much more painful, because of the very fact that, subjective Truth justifies all action, and potentially individuals would cease to understand our interconnectedness in the search for what we think to be Good, being so concentrated on a particular view, they would cease to be open to learn, and therefore, being in their state of static understanding, they would perhaps no longer be meaningful individuals, nor individuals allowing for the most freedom of thought/action, unless their meaning is now found only in the conversion of others. This mindset, I have shakily expressed, could be what sparks, initially someone to think, yet then supports them to become static, and tyrannistic. We take our initial claim that Truth is subjective, coupled with an awareness that we can only ever know that we are right, and we cease to search, only to convert. When the society becomes one that is motivated by the will to convert others, then we cease to be what we once were, inquisitive, and therefore, we seem to inherent the mindset that justifies all action. Of course, we all have subjective experience, that is the nature of being human, therefore what is necessary to realize is that, there is a common Truth, that of freedom, and that we may believe as we like, but that it does not make us right, nor wrong therefore we must always respect others ability to seek Truth, and also as humans, never cease to seek, lest we turn into individual’s whom find meaning merely in conversion, or into individuals who believe that Truth can only be subjective and that there is no collective standard that we are seeking. Maybe as I posited before, Truth is that which allows for all to exist diversly, and that standard which we are seeking, is just that.

A day, in reality, escape or enhancement?

I was walking down the sidewalk, looking at the wind playing with the trees, the sun shining, the leaves scuttling around all around me. It was early morning. I could see the men hammering away at the strong wood to make a million different pieces into one home. I could see people inside of their large metal skeletons driving to their destinations.

The wind was pushing against my skin and clothes, the ground was strong below my feet, not only because it was concrete but because I could feel the earth, I could feel it like a song playing through my body.

I closed my eyes and continued to walk. In the distance to my left I heard a muffled horn, which took me to a place. It was the horn of a boat in the harbor, I was walking down either a board walk or hard-packed dirt street, at a sea side carnival. The men that had been working on the houses, were now men working on different attractions that needed to be patched up. The wind still played its games among my hair, tossing it lightly, as the experience was tossing my soul. I could see the dimmed light through my eyelids that cast around me a calming older feel to the place. The place, just like in reality, didn’t feel small nor did it feel huge, it was infinity but in terms that I can understand. The place felt like a place to expand within and beyond, yet it also felt like it was within and beyond. I couldn’t see this small carnival town for I was walking with my eyes closed there as well as here. It didn’t feel like here and there, it felt like here, with the sounds and feelings making me experience something even further. It wasn’t an escape from reality, it was an enhancement. There were really no animals present but you could feel their presence in the world. All felt right and connected. It was pleasant to reflect on humans, and all of the emotions in the moment that were occurring. All was connected,there was no seperation, yet this did not make all things into the same thing.