Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Law, Private Property, Regulation
The “EPA is using the Endangered Species Act to foist new regulations on private property owners, in effect turning over private property to the federal government’s control.”
The German consulate is demanding justice for seventeen-year-old Diren Dede, an exchange student who was shot dead by an American homeowner while burglarizing the Montana man’s garage. The alarm went off and so did a shot gun. Celal Dede, the dead boy’s dad, seen here weeping over a coffin draped in Arabic-etched fabric, declared: “America cannot continue to play cowboy.”
Really? And what was Dede junior playing at? It’s different here in the U.S. In places like the “Big Sky Country,” a man can still defend his castle. If you want to play cops and robbers, go to D.C., where residents are more likely to enjoy playing dead.
Note how the reporters have criminalized the homeowner, Markus Kaarma, and are making an effort to portray him as a stoned dope-head.
It’s very sad. A boy died. However, it’s also quite clear who here committed trespass.
UPDATE (5/21): Myron Pauli on Facebook:
“Notice the prosecutor already poisoning the public [jury pool] but spreading unproven accusations about the homeowner in the media. This is the Nifongian Lynch Mob mentality of those who should be dedicated to serve the cause of justice and not just make notches in some sort of victory belt. Personally, I am loathe to make any definitive judgements based on leaked sound-bites but the general concept of the sovereignty of private property is a sacred value. …
As for Germany lecturing America on morals and private property, I found out just yesterday that while my granduncle Lt. Julius Pascheles died in 1917 fighting FOR Germany, his widow, her parents, and all her nieces and nephews were murdered BY Germany – – – of course, they all might have just taken a spaceship to Neptune as part of a Jewish plot to extort money from Germany if you happen to be an 8th grader in California doing an assignment on whether there was a Holocaust (a new low in “public education” in America).”
You can read my interview with Dan Roodt now on Quarterly Review, to which I contribute.
At least 2 publications that carry this column chose not to publish the Roodt interview. That’s perfectly fine; it’s the prerogative of private property. The reason given by one fine outlet (and these are all fine people) was that Roodt, it seems, has written for American Renaissance and it has been alleged that he has given a talk to a Nazi organization in Sweden.
I have no idea about these associations. My reply echoes my position: I generally follow the veracity of what a person says, not who he hangs with. Policed political correctness often pushes desperate people into dubious company. And Roodt is a man desperate to save his people. (Or perhaps whites are not permitted to belong?)
This is not to say that Jared Taylor is “dubious”; only that he has been marginalized as such. If you read Mr. Taylor’s last book, it is straight-forward, good, shoe-leather journalism. Other than the title, there is not much that is radical about it. For this reason, Taylor’s teaser of a title was, in my opinion, a mistake.
Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Private Property, Pseudoscience, Regulation
The theory of global warming is unfalsifiable, in other words, the theory cannot be falsified or tested and is, therefore, irrefutable. Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate Chicken Littles enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns—warm or cold—is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it. Thus, “Snow In May In Chicago” will naturally be taken as evidence for the theory of catastrophic, man-made climate change.
As Karl Popper reminded us, “A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is,” of course, “non-scientific.”
This is not to say that man is not destructive to the environment, or that we should not cherish and take care of nature. We certainly should by understanding that government is not a panacea for the problem. (I don’t know about the wild fires in San Diego this year, but “the cause of a wildfire that burned nearly 150 buildings last summer in San Diego County” was a jeep ignited by the federal Bureau of Land Management):
The root of environmental despoliation is the tragedy of the commons, i.e., the absence of property rights in the resource. One of my favorite running routes wends along miles of lakeside property, all privately owned, and ever so pristine. Where visitors dirty the trail that cleaves to the majestic homes; fastidious owners are quick to pick up after them.
In the absence of private ownership in the means of production, government-controlled resources go to seed. There is simply no one with strong enough a stake in the landmass or waterway to police it before disaster strikes.
Entrusted with the management and regulation of assets you don’t own, have no stake in; on behalf of millions of people you don’t know, only pretend to care about, are unaccountable to, and who have no real recourse against your mismanagement—how long before your performance plummets?
… Private property rights in waterways, or riparian rights in water that abuts private property—these are the best protectors of the ocean and of other state-controlled expanses of water [and land].