William N. Grigg writes:

During the nearly eight years his presidency has blighted our country, the Bushling has been a roving epicenter of disaster. And he has greeted each crisis with an indecent, if throughly predictable, eagerness to expand his own power, and that of the embedded oligarchy that produced him.

Grigg describes how the new bailout proposal, in addition to promising $700 billion in stolen money to corporate interests, gives the government greatly expanded and less accountable control of the economy.  We can guess who the beneficiaries of this measure written by the rich and connected will be.  “All your wealth are belong to us,” indeed.

He also links to an Army Times report, which says in part:

The command is at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colo., but the soldiers with 1st BCT, who returned in April after 15 months in Iraq, will operate out of their home post at Fort Stewart, Ga., where they’ll be able to go to school, spend time with their families and train for their new homeland mission as well as the counterinsurgency mission in the war zones…

…In the meantime, they’ll learn new skills, use some of the ones they acquired in the war zone and more than likely will not be shot at while doing any of it.

They may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack…

…The 1st BCT’s soldiers also will learn how to use “the first ever nonlethal package that the Army has fielded,” 1st BCT commander Col. Roger Cloutier said, referring to crowd and traffic control equipment and nonlethal weapons designed to subdue unruly or dangerous individuals without killing them.

In case the last two decades of federal abuses and unrestricted police power haven’t clued you in, the government’s definition of “unruly or dangerous individuals” means people who they believe threaten their power and/or people they feel like hurting.

I might have said it before, but I don’t think I’ve said it online: whether intentional or not, the continued occupation of Iraq prepares the United States military to better subdue other populations, including that of America.

Things will likely get worse before they get better.  How much worse they get is not entirely out of our control.  See the post below this one.

Hat tip to James Babb and Facebook.

In addition to having the best acronym for punning, the Alliance of the Libertarian Left now has a global organizing committee.  Ever wanted to work on education, direct action, and building counter-institutions with other radical libertarians in your area?  Are you a agorist, mutualist, radical individualist, voluntary socialist, or other lefty libertarian looking for a way to act on your beliefs?  Now it’s a little easier.  There’s even a friendly conspiracy of folks who want to help you do it. Head on over to libertarianleft.org and check out the resources for contacting local ALLies and building your own ALL chapter.  It’s fun, and it’s a lot more useful than getting behind backwards and anti-libertarian politicians like the establishment wants us to.

Kreator – Betrayer

This is a song which I use to describe
what I feel
About people like you
No sense for humanity, No idea about life
This premise has been proved
You used my trust to satisfy your
brainless lust
Your word isn’t worth more than puke in
the dust

Betrayer
Betrayer

Misleader, you twisted things to satisfy
Deceiver, this greedy lust you can’t deny

Betrayer
Betrayer

How could I be so naive to believe all the lies
You so easily told
I think I’ve learned my lesson too late
The story took time to unfold
Now I see your true face
Behind your mask, a cheat, a fake
Your word isn’t worth than
Puke in the dust

Betrayer
Betrayer

Ignorant twisted mind, maybe it
Would help
To think before you speak from time
to time
Pretend to be a friend of mine
But you would sell your mother if
you could
For less than a dime

Intelligence lost, brain deseased,
So you will loose, fall to your kness
Guys like you I cannot stand
Maybe I must speak another language
before you understand

Betrayer
Betrayer

I note that my signature on the Americans United Behind Bob Barr petition has finally been voided. I note also that there are many other voided lines, meaning that there are fewer than 50 signatures on this piece of shit.

I guess one of the petition admins finally figured out who my pseudonym referred to:

Augusto Pinochet
High Bridge, New Jersey
Libertarian Republican
Yes! Time to make the state more efficient at pushing around the undesirables. I’ve decided this is what mainstream Americans want!

When a group of right-wing swindlers works to associate libertarianism with streamlined oppression, heterosexism, militarized borders, state bloodstream regulation, and the post-9/11 police state, there is every need to bury them in as much mud as one can sling. The weaseling and argumentative knots they tie themselves in do not detract from their guilt. I feel especially obligated to undermine them, as I have in the past worked with the party that now attacks what I believe. The fact that I should have seen this coming enhances my zeal.

I also note with due snideness that the title of the petition implies putting Bob Barr first and the individual second. Were I to unite for someone, I would not position myself behind him.

So screw the Chicago Boys and the Washed-up Authoritarian Republicans. ALL efforts for the Grand Alliance!

“The Alliance of the Libertarian Left is a decentralized alliance of radical individualists, left libertarians, agorists, market anarchists, mutualists, voluntary socialists, and others on the libertarian left. We’re organizing local activist groups to fight for individual freedom, peace, and social solidarity in our communities, the tools of education, nonviolent direct action, and cooperative counter-institutions—not petitions, party politics, or symbolic protests. And we’re asking you to join our fight.”

“Market discipline is the best protector of the public. But that requires laissez faire– no privileges whatever.”

- Sheldon Richman, Government Failure. Read more at FEE.

Yeah, it’s a Louis XIV reference.

When people who want to be in charge of the nation say that we must serve the nation, what they mean is that we must serve them.  My first duty is to myself.  Therefore I will help others only when it makes me feel good, and never because a person who makes his living through crime says it is the right thing to do.  Grand calls for centrally managed national servitude are just the latest scam to direct people and resources politically instead of voluntarily (ie through government instead of through the market).

Let’s try for real solutions: free trade and mutual aid!  Rulers need not apply.

Today’s Anarchy In Your Head comic points out that regardless of what politicians say, they still primarily represent the iron fist of the state.  Also, the iron fist can fly.

There are heroes around the world striking blows for liberty, many of them risking serious bodily harm.  Would many of them disagree with much of what I write?  Sure, but they are working in the right direction.

Tonight I salute:

Anarchists Against the Wall
Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
Anarchist Solidarity

I’m tired of this “yes we can hope for change but not actually work for it” establishment-cool SHIT!

In other news, a Google Image Search for “yes we can” is somewhat depressing.

I recommend Burn After Reading to anyone who likes a good farce.  It was great to see the D.C. political class and those who associate with them portrayed as negatively as the film does.  Bonus points were picked up for having a Russian character named Kropotkin (who is often referred to as Krapkin).