Category Archives: The State

Kerry & His EU La Familia Know Nothing About Bonds Between Peoples

America, Britain, EU, Europe, Foreign Policy, History, Paleolibertarianism, The State

Other than suggesting that “Brexit might not happen,” man of the people John Kerry said something more subtly statist after Brexit:

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry vouched for the bond between the UK and the US by alluded to treaties signed by Power, not by The People. For his mandarin mambo-jumbo, Kerry, no doubt, would have been eviscerated by UK’s Independence Party Nigel Farage.

To the extent that the Anglo-American people share a bond—it’s not because Bush, Blair, Obama and the outgoing U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron ratified agreements we’ve never read. It’s because of a common ancestry, folkways, history, language, literature.

America as it was founded was a rib from the British ribcage. Kerry and his EU La Familia know nothing about bonds and a lack thereof between peoples of different nations.

The Last Refuge Of A Brussels Or British Scoundrel: Bureaucracy

Britain, Donald Trump, EU, Europe, Republicans, Ron Paul, The State

Republicans have The Romney Rule Or Rule 40(b) which they passed to thwart Ron Paul’s chances. The same GOP scoundrels still hope they can use sleight of hand to change the rules at Convention to defeat Donald Trump.

Brussels has a bureaucracy so formidable, it hopes to mire Briton Brexiters in rules and bamboozle the poor people who voted to leave, so that they’ll never notice something called “Article 50,” necessary for departure, is never triggered.

This is mandarin mambo-jumbo for pulling a fast one on the voters:.

Britain “may never” trigger the formal divorce process with the EU despite last week’s referendum in which the country voted to leave, EU diplomats said Sunday.

“My personal belief is they will never notify” the EU about their intention to leave, a senior EU diplomat said on condition of anonymity.

A state leaving the EU must formally notify the European Council of all 28 EU leaders under Article 50 of the 2007 Lisbon Treaty, setting the clock ticking on a two-year period for Britain to negotiate its divorce.

“We want London to trigger Article 50 now, to have clarity. I expect, as we can’t force them, for them to take their time,” the diplomat added.

“And I would not exclude, it’s my personal belief, that they may never do it.”

The official did not specify if he believed Britain would avoid it by holding a new referendum, or simply dragging out the process to extract a better divorce deal, but said all such decisions were up to London.

How is Shedding One Tier of Tyrants—The EU—Bad For Britons?

Barack Obama, Britain, EU, Europe, libertarianism, Nationhood, The State

Liberty is associated with a dispersion of political power, never its concentration and centralization. Adding an overarching tier of tyrants—the EU—to the British government benefits Britons as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man. (From “Adieu to the Evil EU.”)

I fail to understand the convoluted logic of the libertarian article, “Why this anarchist will be voting Remain on Thursday.”

Meanwhile, idiot Hillary Clinton is haranguing Donald Trump because he extolled the virtues of shedding the aforementioned tier of tyrants. That’s dangerous she hollered just today. (These days, Hillary is like a woman possessed.) But not when Barack Obama issued threats to Britain to stay in the EU while visiting with David Cameron—that was fine.

Said Obama (Apr. 22, 2016):

President Obama’s warning to those championing Britain’s exit from the EU was stark: Leave, he said, and the “U.K. is going to be in the back of the queue” on trade deals with the U.S.

The Statist Mindset Of ‘Libertarians’ Garry Johnson & William Weld

Donald Trump, Law, libertarianism, Nationhood, Rights, The State, War

Gary Johnson and his sidekick William Weld, Libertarian Party goofballs, are running for president and VP, respectively. The two fulminated to CNN’s Victor Blackwell against Donald Trump. From the libertarian perspective, though, their mindset was much more statist and deferential to state structures than Trump’s.

Weld, in particular, went over the various policies Trump was proposing, voicing objections to each that were thoroughly statist.

WELD: Some of the stuff that he’s running on I think is absolutely chaotic. I’m going to do this to Mexico. OK, that’s a violation of the North American Free Trade agreement, which is the supreme law of the land. It is a treaty. We signed it. I’ll do this to China. No questions asked. OK, that’s a violation of the World Trade Organization rules [which good libertarians despise], exposing us, the United States, to sanctions. And we would be the rogue nation. I don’t think we want to be the rogue nation. You know? Let’s let North Korea be the rogue nation, not us.

Trump can’t do what he proposes because he’ll be in violation of this or the other agreement between states, national and international, which Weld treats as holy writ.

Not to real libertarians. The idea of radical freedom is to dissolve the chains with which others have bound us. Smashing or refashioning these agreements and reclaiming national, state and individual sovereignty, as Trump proposes, is more libertarian than the queasiness these two evince at such actions.

Johnson and Weld objected to Trump’s proposals on the statist grounds that renegotiating agreements or optimizing them for Americans would violate agreements that by their nature sideline the American people.

You don’t get more un-libertarian than that. Then there’s the viva Hiroshima attitude: