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I have wasted most of this past 13 months on Digg.com, in futile jousting with immoral collectivists who do not and will not understand the morality of the personal right to life of each individual on this planet, who seek to use the Force of government to negate our right to property, and don’t give one rip about the objective of happiness.  Our right to property is now diverted from sustaining our life and enhancing our happiness, and is now instead being ripped from our hands (stolen) toward furthering the immoral goals of collectivism via Force.

Much time was simply wasted, trying to avoid reading trivia completely irrelevant to the ongoing economic collapse, and even more trivia wading thru irrelevant comments often nothing more than ignorant abusive blurbs consisting of nothing more than FU, FTW.  While we still hang onto the thread of freedom of speech, having to deal with such ignorance wastes everyone’s time and energy for naught.

During this period we have been clobbered by the burst housing bubble, bailouts serving only to increase the national debt, to the election of a non-citizen communist who now purports to be the president of this new USSA, to an infinitely broad “stimulus bill” which we have now seen serving only to increase the already impossible mountain of national debt.  This cannot be funded because the Federal Reserve cannot find buyers for the T-bills and T-bonds, thus Government cannot pay it’s bills nor even fund the bailouts and stimulus.  This is a GOOD thing, although we doubt the liberals and socialists and collectivists will not understand this just yet!

So what has this to do with Digg?  Well, just yesterday Digg ended it’s Shout feature, which was the way we could pass good articles to our friends.  Digg now suggests Facebook and Twitter be used to compensate.  Now I don’t know that you feel this way, but having to play KissyFace and Tweeting is not my idea of useful productive time on the internet, so you’ll not find me there.  If someone knows an equally active social website devoted to active and serious discussion of philosophical political issues and ideas, PLEASE comment and let me know.

But worse with Digg is it’s now blatant attempts to promote bleeding heart crap and to conceal or even delete anything relevant to true Liberty and the current actions of Government seeking to destroy that last vestage of Freedom. For that reason alone, I am done with Digg.com.  I may submit more (of Morality101) articles to Digg, but will not be otherwise participating.  I see no compelling reason that Digg will survive these fatal mistakes.  Leave that to the collectivists to have a mutual admiration society and continue to scheme how to gain more powers to Force.

I hope to convert this blogger into THE major forum for the serious ongoing discussion mentioned.  I wlll need your help to accomplish this, there is too much for me to learn about doing this and so I need the collaboration of others.  I barely know how to “Submit” an article here via WordPress, much less to set up the tools for good interaction between us.

So, requested action(s)

• My email address is available only  to my Friends who know me as Striker101 on Digg.  If you are one of those, please either use your Digg handle or else email me so I know who you are.  You will be authorized as Authors and thus allowed to Post and to Submit.
• To others, you will find my eaddy at the root website of http://morality101.net.
• ONLY to those who understand the foundations of Objectivist or Libertarian philosophy, REGISTER here at  Morality101 so that you can participate, and then DO participate.
• We are not here to argue with collectivists, who are wholly without virtue.  We are here to expand upon the likes of Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises.  We are here to destroy collectivism before it destroys Capitalism, the free market and Liberty.

Leave your comments HERE, don’t even bother with Digg anymore.

In his “Thought for Today” Alan Keyes pleads the fifth on behalf of the Obama picks and nominees tagged with tax issues, and all other American taxpayers, as he reflects on the nonsense used to justify the constitutionality of enforcing the Federal Income tax. Featuring Senator Harry Reid in an amazing display of dexterous doublespeak.

Note a couple of additional good reference links within the source page.

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With the emergence of a new global economy, created by the ever expanding corporate multinationals, the status of the U.S. as the dominant force in the world market is growing ever in doubt. Did this need to happen? From a laymans point of view, losing jobs, financial instability, cross border rivalries, seems at best to be a no-win scenario. So does a free market really work with the whole world competing against one another for a piece of the global economic pie! if in creating wealth in another part of the world, is it worthwhile to create disparity in our country? There are those who say that only through education and new technologies, we can retain a competetive edge. Reality is showing otherwise, and if you have trouble seeing the issue, just look at the loss of manufacturing jobs in this country, which by the way is a real and direct threat to the national security interests of this country. The political leaders of our country don’t seem to get it, so in order to fool us even further, the tide of illegal and foreign workers, are being used to feed the great machine of industry, and erode the capabilities of the American worker further, knowing full well, what the end result will be. This nation is fast becoming a 3rd world ghetto. Gang violence, theft, looting, hunger, murder, are only a harbinger of a failing society. Most Americans say they do not like where this country is heading, and I ask, where would you as a free people want this country to go to! Should we have trade tariffs to protect our interests, should we shut the borders down, and employ only Americans, and should we break up the multi-nationional corporations, that do business here? What should we do, that is the $64 question. For those who are caught in the struggle of living paycheck to paycheck, these questions seem irrelevant, when filling up the gas tank in the car costs $100. My answer to any of you, is think, reason, and most of all quit believing that the quick fix is with a newly elected political leader. The answer actually begins with you……

Yes indeed, this is getting a bit off my beaten path, but is surely related in a different way.  This issue has churned around in the back of my little head for some years now, and now I guess it’s time.

The trigger was reading that the USA has 5% of it’s population in prison, and that is the highest percentage of any country in this whole WORLD!  (so this is a “free country”, huh?)

Five percent of 330-some million people, geez, that 16,5 million prisoners in our “free country”!  All those prisoners cost the remainder of we “free” citizens $30,000 each per year.  My calculator doesn’t have enough digits to compute the total, but it’s humungous!

My purpose here was not to look at the reasons for so many being in jail, that would be for another post another day, and will take some further research, as have all my writings here.  But “crimes without victims” certainly do count up.  Now I’m not into drugs, but both drug-dealers and drug users are many amongst those filling our jails to overflowing. I don’t see the users as “criminals”, and they should not be in jail.  However, I also disagree with the bleeding hearts that we have some responsibility for the rehab of drug-users.  Drug users are responsible unto themselves for the consequences of their own choices.  If those are minors, their parents are responsible; the taxpayers are not.

But back to my purpose.  Obviously the total number of real criminals is much smaller, and eliminating those convicted of crimes without victims would help alleviate the burden.  Surely there are others who don’t belong in prison, but that still leave a huge prison population.  Why do the bleeding hearts prevail, protecting the criminals who have been so violent or stealing from the good citizens?  So how to we refuse to support the baddies and zero the bill?

Whatever I should choose to say from here on is largely brainstorming.  I’d doing this because we need solutions based on freedom, and we need to have ideas on the table from which to build solutions.  So we need some fresh perspective, because what we’re doing does not work, it does not reform, and does not rehabilitate, so those are bad ideas we need to abandon.

Question 1:  Does the criminal owe a penalty to “the State”, or rather, to his victims?  Can we turn the criminal over to his victims, and let them determine the penalty, and to own the criminal’s life until the debt be repaid?  Of course we can, and I believe we should.

Question 2:  Should the criminal, once convicted, be held responsible for the value of damages he caused, or the life he took, or the cost of his trial?  Of course he should.

Question 3:  Are we (the ‘public’) responsible in any way for the care and feeding of criminals or for the welfare of criminals?  Do you have the guts and honesty to answer NO?

So do we build them prisons, and furnish utilities and guards and food and libraries and food?  Of course we don’t.  All we need do is prevent those criminals, who possess traits dangerous to others, from disappearing back into private society to repeat their dastardly deeds.

As we get from history, Australia was populated by England shipping it’s criminals there, dropping them off the boat, and leaving them to fend for themselves.  Have you noticed that Australia has evolved into a fine upstanding country and neighbor despite the genetic origins of it’s citizenry?  To a lesser extent, early American immigrant settlers included many of the same, from England as well as escapees from Germany, Ireland, Spain, France and other countries.  Nobody shouldered the burden for these emigrants.  It became necessary for them to find some niche in their new society where they might survive, and learn the necessary social skills and honor by which they could be acceptable to their new neighbors, and go forth and multiply, and prosper under newfound freedoms.  Of course many would have failed in many different ways; probably they did not survive, usually because they were unable to adapt to a moral social structure.  Those are not amongst the heroes of history, neither memorable nor remembered for anything of value.

Such islands today are not available, we can only designate a space where the criminals may park and strive to survive and to heal.  They must pay for the space they occupy, and paying for any of the services provided from outside their environment.  Both the Federal and State governments have huge holdings of such land; there is no shortages of land which might render this unfeasible.  If they wish to escape the sun or the snow or the wind, they can and must build their hut or cave as they see fit, and cooperate with others of their kind to create a social order in which they might survive progress.  They can do all these things only by producing within the free market, trading for goods and services, and learning how to survive and prosper by being responsible for themselves and cooperating with their fellowmen.  Their refusal or failure to learn these necessary moral postures might result in their death, but that would be of their own choosing, and is a social responsibility of anyone not directly involved.

At some point I may come back to this page to fine-tune and/or elaborate, but for now I want to publish this and get some action or reaction, either way.  We are all feeling our way on this issue.  Thank you.

Okay, folks, it’s time to get real.  Actually, it’s been that time for many years, but today it has all caught up with us.  Let things continue this way, and this next election will be our last, if we even survive until November!

Americans are concerned over rising prices.  Are they asking their DemoReps to explain why our national debt is beyond control?  NO!  Are they asking to eliminate anything of the causes?  NO!  Are they asking why our dollar is rapidly becoming worthless?  NO!  Are they wondering why they no longer have choices except the lesser of 2 or 3 evils?  NO!  All this noise about yes, a really stupid war. but are they asking that we just admit the mistake and quit right now?  NO!

Libertarians are disjointed over their convention nominees.  Are we going to work for those we’ve chosen, or are we just going to extinguish our candle?  We might have made choices from amongst “more pure” libertarians, but we didn’t.  Barr wasn’t my preference either, but he is a savvy politician who can help put us back on the map, and Root may help with philosophical balance for that team.  Sorry to see it, but Ron Paul saw the light and won’t carry our torch, but at least he’ll be in Congress.  Sticking with Dr Paul for president is surely a wasted vote even if it makes a small point.  We don’t have 4 more years; splintering won’t buy the USA or the libertarians any more time.

I probably missed some, but I’ve seen only C-span even mention the Libertarians.  Our presentation wasn’t the best, and C-span didn’t cover it all that well, but at least they did.  I didn’t see CNN or Fox or xxNBC or any other even acknowledge the LP convention, nor are they including us in their “news”, the tiresome and boring debate over trivia.

There is but one real issue, which is being studiously avoided by the DemoReps and by the media.  That issue is our economic collapse, along with the underlying immorality which has caused it.  If Libertarians are to survive as a political party, we must seize upon this issue in this moment and bring it to the forefront.  This is our last opportunity.  Barr said we have 163 days… now it’s 162, 161, 160…

Economic collapse is a tough issue, perhaps impossible, but keeping our heads in the sand cannot change the scenario.  We may be entering the new Dark Age without even a flashlight.

A comment posted at http://www.unitedliberty.org/123/libertarians-debate/#comment-134

May 26, 2008

I’ve watched the USA head down the wrong path from FDR. ‘Atlas Shrugged’ has been my bible for 45 years. I was a libertarian long before there was an LP, worked hard to help get the LP on the ballot about 1976.  For myself, it has become more about the philosophy than action, a mistake I now regret but maybe that’s merely part of our live and let live syndrome.

Yesterday I watched the whole nomination process on c-span and was frankly disappointed in the choices which left Ruwart standing out in the woods somewhere, but that won’t cause me to leave.

It was more disappointing, tho, that nobody addressed our impossible national debt, our dollar collapsing further with every new give-away and with every import, with every manipulative maneuver of The Fed, and the immorality which is sending our USA down the tubes.

If any issue might offer a campaign strategy with value in presenting libertarian principles and finally becoming equal and winning in November, this is the best opportunity we’ve ever seen.

Hyperinflation and total collapse seems likely to occur even before the election. Should it be delayed much beyond that, of course the fingers will be pointed at the next president, and we’ll not want that to be ‘us’! Perhaps we’ll be strategically ahead to just make lots of noise meanwhile and be the ‘I told you so party’ after the crash.

The situation seems to beyond solutions. But if we can find the solutions to present during this campaign, can we get enough voters to pull their heads out of the sand?

We wouldn’t want to become the 3rd evil not to vote for!