And the First Iraq War Criminal Is…..an Anti-War Politician

 

Kucinich filed for Bush’s impeachment, but the first politician to face War Criminal charges, ironically, may be the witty, anti-war Mayor of London.  England’s a mess, libertarian-wise, but maybe controversial David Icke’s campaign for Parliament will set things right.  Musician Neil Young agrees on the need to put Bush in his place for fomenting a culture of Fear. Writer Gore Vidal says it’s too late, that Bush has already eviscerated our beloved Republic.  Not only is the country of our Founders dead, but also a great saint has just passed away:  I knew Kent Snyder - he even asked me to staff Congressman Paul on one of his early campaign visits to New Hampshire; and, so important to me, he was a yogi.  Bless you Kent, and here's a eulogy from his boss, Candidate Ron Paul.

The impeachment of Bush can be justified on myriad grounds.  One of the lousy statements he made was condemning certain countries as belonging to “an axis of evil”.  North Korea is one of these nations, but it turns out anyone can travel there.  The Founders were right, in that the only foreign policy that works is commerce, including commerce involving human travel.  Book your flights!

Another impeachable offense was Bush’s unconstitutional spying on citizen’s property, including communications.  And the Democrat Congress’ revamping of the FISA law is no improvement, as congressman Paul explains.  One would think Obama would restore civil rights, but no – all he’ll do is empower some bureaucrat to stop any agency abuse of FISA.  Our only chance is for Feingold to stop the revamp in the Senate – he even says bill passage could protect Bush from evidence that’s impeachable.  Every government atrocity is usually an incremental step.  The next step in domestic spying is that from satellites, ostensibly to be helpful in natural disasters.  A whistleblower condemns the Democrat Congress' cave-in to Republican Administration pressure to revise FISA, including telecom immunity from lawsuits for violations.

One of the presidential candidates, McCain, is perceived to support a continuation of the NeoCon Imperialist policy.  Perhaps it’s this warmongering that puts him behind Obama by double digits.  McCain’s struggle gives an opening to the Libertarian candidate, former Congressman and prosecutor Bob Barr.  One analyst suggests Barr could get independents to flock to his campaign using these 5 promises.  Not bad on the issues, but I’d add solutions to oppositions. 

For example, not only would I show the weaknesses in the Global Warming argument, but more importantly I’d show how property expansion and restitution reform would better protect flora and fauna (global warming may lessen as a risk, if the Dutch bogart pot smoking at their awesome coffee shops).  And the problem with ending the Afghan occupation removes the criticism that Iraq was a distraction from going after Obama in his caves near the Pakistan border.  A better way to leave Afghanistan would be an indirect end to the Drug War.  Taking away the heroin profits from Afghan’s farmers would defund the terrorists, thus removing the reason for being in central Asia.  Unfortunately, all Barr would do in this scenario is make life easier for prescription pot users.  From those five recommendations I also like cutting corporate welfare, especially if couched in terms of paying for the cut in the gas tax.  Maybe if enough corporate welfare were cut, we’d have enough money to really investigate these unexplained phenomenon flying in the sky, in this case with witnesses who are soldiers, and thus deemed more reliable and believeable.

One piece of corporate welfare that everyone can agree deserves abolition are farm subsidies.  These Big Agri gifts subsidize the poisoning of the food supply, a crime becoming more awful in more places around Earth, particularly in the developing world, thanks to “killer seed” companies, and fertilizers.  Desocializing farming may allow for more local, organic – and pesticide free – farming.  Desocializing education, too, might allow vegan teachers to avoid being fired for violating the Top-Down rules of school bureaucracy.  And more scrutiny of government water systems may free them from poisonous chemicals like fluoride, mercury and chlorine (warnings continue to proliferate on mercury in dental fillings).  And no professional doctor will cure your cancer; all they’ll do is slow its growth with poisonous therapies.  These Big Pharma parasites now want to infect little boys with their gardasil vaccine.

One issue that’s not mentioned above for Mr. Barr is the economy, whose Recession McCain blames on the economists for missing the housing collapse and mounting recession.  We libertarians – informed by the Austrian School of Economics – have been well aware for decades that every Boom, especially the 20^th century ones aggravated by central banking, must precede an equally geometric Bust.  It’s the nonlibertarian economists who are clueless – although even faux libertarian Greenspan now is admitting a Recession is growing.  Friends of mine with any sense will move all of their investments – now – to EuroPacific Capitol or Adrian Day Investment.  Both companies will put your money in non-dollar, dividend-paying stocks and metals worldwide.  Make no mistake, we are headed to Recession, and perhaps even Depression, as bad as the 1930s.  The only good thing about a McCain administration would be naming Phil Gramm as Treasury Secretary - although he'll probably fail to live up to my ideals, so I take that back.  Bottom line is, if you want to have a clue on how bad things are, and how to save your assets, you have GOT to read this Barron's interview of Peter Schiff, of Europacific.

My investors at EuroPacific and Adrian Day can protect your assets because they understand something that confuses even Wall Street’s best – the role of central banking and fiat currency in ruining economies and helping the Elite oligopolize even more of markets in which they already have near monopoly control.  Candidate Barr may touch on this issue, but really only Ron Paul can competently discuss this topic.  This famous bond investor certainly has no clue.

And it turns out that foreigners’ departure from dollars into other currencies may be a cause of War.  Indeed, Iran’s move to the Euro, not Iran’s nuclearization, may be the trigger for the next “peace action”.  If the stock market falls, watch out Iran.  If we do attack Iran, will any soldier stand up against our atrocities?  Apparently not, since moral courage is in short supply in the military. 

If the US illegally and immorally attacks another sovereign nation, we will face more terrorism just like 9/11, probably.  And if such terrorism occurs in the form of a bioterror incident, chances exist that some poor sap will be blamed unfairly, just like this victim of the weird anthrax attacks that just won a lawsuit against the Justice Department.  Recent laws allow any kind of undefined “condition” to allow the President to declare martial law, but the Senate just stopped a bill that could have tarnished any civil disobedient activist as a “homegrown” terrorist.  Actually, if we faced Iranian reprisal, wouldn’t it already be justified by this disgusting murder of hundreds of civilians - the tragic missle attack on a giant jetliner that the US supposedly mistook for a tiny F-14?  And regarding the September 2001 terrorism, the suspicions aren’t going away anytime soon, as this new movie trailor makes clear.  And the BBC will run a major program on this undying controversy.  Or maybe the fact that, since we sanctioned Iran, we've now been sending covert soldiers into Iran, is grounds for retaliation?

Governments’ endless attack on our freedoms makes our 2^nd Amendment right of armed defense all the more important.  Thankfully, the Supreme Court on June 26, in overturning Washington, D.C.’s gun ban, affirmed the Founders’ belief that our gun rights rest in our individual defense rights, not just the responsibility to maintain a state militia.  But the ruling isn’t very strong, as Reason’s Doherty explains lots of regulations on gun ownership can remain.  Comedy Central’s Stephen Colbert nicely belittled conservatives’ disdain for the constitution in a story about the ruling helping detainees in Guantanomo; but Cato’s Boaz wonders why Colbert didn’t apply this good analysis to the liberals who ruled insanely in the gun case.  Kinsella, though, is very disturbed by the Ruling, especially the use of the 14th Amendment to enforce Rights on the State level.

The Founders were right on armed defense, and they were right on War – that it’s only for extreme survival reasons, and that, otherwise, the only foreign policy worth supporting was commerce.  So when an industrial job opens in a developing country, instead of condemning it as a “sweatshop,” we instead should see it merely as the bottom rung on a ladder that will lead to greater opportunity down the road.  Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt believes this. 

Recession breeds desperation, manifesting in this case in boosted membership in extreme circles.  This fringe Catholic group focuses on the Protocols as evidence.  It’s politically incorrect to talk about such inflammatory writings, and one does have to be aware of potential forgeries like the Protocols.  But that never stopped the late comedian George Carlin from attacking all political correctness and sacred cows.  (Such as the sacred cow of voting - is NOT VOTING the best decision we can make this November?  This Onion story on Diebold's voting machine snafu is more truth than satire.)

It's a shame that spouting the truth can ruin careers and reputation.  I've thought about teaching, for example, but worry that teaching the facts, instead of the sophistry in textbooks, will get me fired.  The great Lew Rockwell thought about teaching, too, but seeing this blog entry about fights in academia can understandably give one pause about undertaking the great risk of daring to want to educate kids with reality, instead of with government propoganda.

Kids need to know this stuff, because knowing harsh episodes in history is critical to avoid repetition in the future.  And it’s getting easier to know history more accurately, as astronomy now has helped experts determine when exactly the Greeks used a wooden horse to sneak soldiers into Troy, thus assuring an end to the war over a kidnapped wife.  So-called experts have dismissed the existence of Troy because Homer’s Illiad says the war was started not by men, but rather by gods, a fact which renders the story myth.  Sitchin confirms that gods indeed were interfering in the Trojan War.  But Laura has a completely different take on Troy.  If this anti-aging conference has impact, some of us may be alive thousands of years from now, so Troy-like controversies can have a person “who was there,” to clarify confusion.  Assuming many of us will be around in the year 2025, here’s what the National Intelligence Council says the world will be like.  Or life truly could end soon, even before 2012, if Switzerland's atom smasher creates, well, a black hole.

I love heroic tales like Troy, and I like heroic movies like the ones Schwarzenegger made.  One of the actors from his awesome “Predator” movie is now a libertarian candidate for Senator McConnell’s seat in Kentucky.

So, government and its big business backers continue to ruin our lives.  (Are we surprised anymore - Mencken's favorite Nock said a more mature attitude about reality is necessary, and that what we're doing is Isaiah's Job.)  But that’s no excuse not to get active to box in the Oligarchs, so we have more opportunities to be entrepreneurs in adding value, serving each other.  To be better servers, let’s open our heart with a little shabd, this from Summer Solstice Ren Sabhai two years ago, and here's Grammy nominee Snatam with her mother, joined by guitarist GuruGanesha (who opened for the Allman Brothers in 1970), and my fellow libertarian yogi, Livtar Singh, is recognized as one of the best musicians and lyricists.*  All of us, to prepare for the Aquarian Age, need to open up to the truth.  Only attendees of Ganesha’s retreat on ancient mystery school lessons, though, will be able to tell if this conference presents a good opportunity to start grokking the truth.  If you can't get to Miami, you can click from your own laptop this podcast from Guru Singh, the next Bob Dylan who's become one of the most popular yoga teachers in the world.

Happy Summer Solstice.

* If you enjoyed that performance and want more, click here to listen to the all-night concert from the 2006 Summer Solstice.  Be patient if a particular musician doesn't float your boat; each group has about 20 minutes to sing their heart's out, so there's endless variety, from traditional Indian rag, to folk-like tunes with only guitar accompaniment.  Oh what the heck, one more short one from the beautiful Bachan.