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Guess Who’s Pooh-Poohing Tea Parties & Touting The Political Process?

Elections 2008, libertarianism, Liberty, Media, Politics, Taxation, The State

Mr. Neal Boortz is a big fan of the political process, which is why serious libertarians consider him a serious statist par excellence.

Boortz admonished irate Americans to:

“Use your tea bags to make tea and do something meaningful. Go around your workplace or neighborhood and register voters who actually produce and contribute to our society. Trust me, there are enough people out there registering the parasites, find the producers who don’t vote – convince them that their vote is needed and would count – and sign them up. Then take a copy of their voter registration, put it with the other copies you’ve already collected, and send them to your congressman.”

The palsied haters of the liberal press are not covering the Tea Party movement. When they do, it is with the toffee-nosed contempt they reserved for Sarah Palin, the Moose hunting mama.

Newsweek’s latest cover, “The Thinking Man’s Guide To Populist Outrage,” could just as well have read “Those hick rubes are at it again.”

I’ve protested the diffuse, directionless nature of the rage animating the masses. The eruption of civil society, however, is a good thing; far better than registering people to partake in a rigged charade. (Presumably, Boortz wants society’s producers to vote for a Republican.) But, right now, with the exception of a few pockets, the populist uprising is a bit of a headless chicken.

In any event, like the liberals, Boortz seems to need to show that he’s wiser than the yokels.

Guess Who’s Pooh-Poohing Tea Parties & Touting The Political Process?

Elections 2008, libertarianism, Liberty, Media, Politics, Taxation, The State

Mr. Neal Boortz is a big fan of the political process, which is why serious libertarians consider him a serious statist par excellence.

Boortz admonished irate Americans to:

“Use your tea bags to make tea and do something meaningful. Go around your workplace or neighborhood and register voters who actually produce and contribute to our society. Trust me, there are enough people out there registering the parasites, find the producers who don’t vote – convince them that their vote is needed and would count – and sign them up. Then take a copy of their voter registration, put it with the other copies you’ve already collected, and send them to your congressman.”

The palsied haters of the liberal press are not covering the Tea Party movement. When they do, it is with the toffee-nosed contempt they reserved for Sarah Palin, the Moose hunting mama.

Newsweek’s latest cover, “The Thinking Man’s Guide To Populist Outrage,” could just as well have read “Those hick rubes are at it again.”

I’ve protested the diffuse, directionless nature of the rage animating the masses. The eruption of civil society, however, is a good thing; far better than registering people to partake in a rigged charade. (Presumably, Boortz wants society’s producers to vote for a Republican.) But, right now, with the exception of a few pockets, the populist uprising is a bit of a headless chicken.

In any event, like the liberals, Boortz seems to need to show that he’s wiser than the yokels.

Missouri State: Beware Of People Like … Mercer

Constitution, Federal Reserve Bank, Federalism, Founding Fathers, History, Ilana Mercer, libertarianism, Liberty

According to a “secret Missouri State police report,” I could be a militia mama. The potentially incriminating signs:

• I have A Ron Paul sticker on my car.

• The “Don’t Tread On Me” Flag snakes all across the front page of my website (in an original, copyrighted configuration), where my “subversive” work is archived. It makes an appearance on every other page.

• The late Aaron Russo of blessed memory, director of “America: Freedom to Fascism,” endorsed my book (scroll down.) “AARON RUSSO: A CHOICE NOT AN ECHO” doesn’t leave much to the Missouri State police’s imagination.

• I oppose “confiscatory taxation” (“Sixteen The Number Of The Beast”).

• Ditto the increasing expansion of the Federal Frankenstein.

There are other telltale signs I exhibit, but you get the gist.

Thanks to a “a concerned Missouri state policeman, a nationally syndicated radio talk show host was alerted” to this outrage, writes Chuck Baldwin, for VDARE.Com. The officer realized it described … him.

When [our heroic officer] Neal read the report, he couldn’t help but think it described him. A military veteran and a delegate to the 2008 Missouri Republican state convention, he didn’t appreciate being lumped in with groups like the Neo-Nazis.

I was going down the list and thinking, “Check, that’s me,”‘ he said. ‘I’m a Ron Paul supporter, check. I talk about the North American union, check. I’ve got the “America: Freedom to Fascism” video loaned out to somebody right now. So that means I’m a domestic terrorist? Because I’ve got a video about the Federal Reserve?

I have news for all of the Missouri State Mother F … s coming after us patriots:

Adjusted for age and era, the description fits the Founding Fathers. Read “Vox Populi,” and see for yourselves.

A Message From The Founder Of The Tea-Party Revolt

BAB's A List, libertarianism, Politics, Republicans, Taxation

James Ostrowski is the founder of the latest tea-party revolt. He is an attorney, writer, political consultant and libertarian activist; a columnist for LewRockwell.com, and president and founder of Free New York. He’s also a good friend. James has issued a cri de coeur, which I echo wholeheartedly, with one, semantic, reservation: Obama is the enemy just as Bush was. Ideas or entities are not enemies; their executors are.

THE TEA PARTIES WILL FAIL IF THEY ARE A GOP FRONT OPERATION
By James Ostrowski

I helped organize the Buffalo tea party and am now planning more events and helping others do so as well.

My concern is that the some of the groups working on this may be GOP-front groups.

(Let me say for the benefit of those who don’t know me, I’m not a liberal Democrat. I’m a hardcore libertarian who happens, for reasons lost to the sands of time, to be a registered Republican. I am also a political consultant whose clients have included Republicans, Democrats and one capital L Libertarian.)

Anyway, why do I think this?

Their websites are too slick. Their people have high-level GOP ties. They focus their attack on Obama and the “Democrats.” Their own positive agenda is rather thin and focuses on Pavlovian rank and file buzz words like “pork.”

Now, I am a huge opponent of pork and have written, I don’t know, 15 articles about it. But when Republicans use the word, it’s often part of their 50-year old rap to con the rank and file by claiming they will cut “waste, fraud and abuse.”

That’s total BS as I have demonstrated ad nauseum many times including in my book.

The great Jefferson, the last President to make a meaningful cut in the federal government, taught us this: the only way to cut the size of government is to cut programs, departments, agencies.

No conservative Republican regime ever made government smaller. At least, no one has given me an example of one that did, after three years of asking. (Thatcher? It’s sad they had to go abroad but some very shrewd people on the Mises e-list disputed even her record in that regard.)

Before this post threatens the page limit of Atlas Shrugged, let me get to the point.

I will work with anyone who sincerely wants to roll big government back towards the old republic. But if this movement is simply a GOP front operation designed to return to power the same set of degenerate creeps who F’d up the country for the last eight years and set the stage for the God Obama’s final sacking of America, I will not work with them. I will expose them and fight them.

Look, I just yesterday took a swipe at the libertarian Campaign for Liberty. I have on many occasions battled my fellow libertarians if I think they have gone astray and, a fortiori, I will do the same with conservatives.

Obama is not the enemy. He’s just their latest errand boy. The enemy for all true patriots is the corporate state that came in around 1917–and killed the old republic–the Fed, the Income Tax, our strange obsession with dragging farm boys from Iowa over to Europe to die for corrupt European empires.

So the test for determining whether any group or person is a front operation is their agenda. Is their agenda restoring the republic by enacting radical structural change in the regime? Or is their agenda getting DeLay and Gingrich back into power?