Letters to the Editor
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I swear to a drunk god I dreamed Pedinksa was sitting in the summer dew eating over ripe fruit.
Morning Intermission?
Fantasia in C...Haydn or Schumann? Who hid my shoe?
Four Preludes from Op. 28. Frderyk Chopin! Chopping up a rotten tree! No 21 in B flat major: No flat on back dead!
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How many Types of government? answer? Whore! Yes, and more.
1. Monarchy 2. Democracy 3. Anarchy 4 Confederacy 5. Lunatics.
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Party Pooper?
You can't go to bed with the same whore for the first time on Capital Hill more than once~.
~ if your blessed, you can make love with a dear friend once? No! Maybe a second time and third time can be better than the first? Never! okay. Fantasy.
Oops. I'm way behind. In my mind 'll cuss like a Japanese sailor lost at sea and take a bath. I Ohio, scream OKASAN.
I tease. Ms P-sings a lullaby on the phone at night.
I see fluffy kittens in the cumulus clouds and bunny rabbits nibble green. Pedinska sits in soft grass in a tulip patch.
O- a sneeze fit? baby colic? puppy dog collie? siamese cats?
a pillow moan? a petting Lady makes people purr. O, I think I agree with Glenn and many billions X' 1.5 # to a trillion plus? No one is perfect?
okay. Caph, cha. Cha-cha waltz with Pedinkska? She will do a holy hoop with you. So- good to her. She's nice but,
A middle finger salute to Active Duty Military in uniform
who don't defy Petraeus. But, a little finger o`hi`o wave to Pedinsksa's pals and true patriot (human) citizens and nice dogs and cats. Yes!
Pedinska is lovable poodle?
Everybody loves to pet a poodle.
Smack? no. Smooch. "no problem"....The rotten fruit that falls from nature's gravity can make wine. Find a good brewer.
The rotten hate-speech makes bones and tissue and you will need to shop-lift at Wall Mart some exotic aroma iodine shampoo? Drink chamomile tea.
A visit with false face, pale dead, dc-gops- got within...a bad hate-contagion condition. It causes early death retirement to those who hate. What spreads and grows rapidly is a infestation of puss-gop. Thy 'sic' ill invades a neocons insides, and on the outside,
the scars will appear as if the wild alley cats claw-nails scratch the GOP's face with scars?
Did ya's ever see the nails of a tree sloth?
Who knows? Maybe the Gates DOD boys and Canadian haters will initiate a wrap-group of Hate-Crowds that revel with Huck Uncle Hell Huckleberry? They can role up in fetal ball pose after singing ring round the White Collar GOP stinks?
Then on a judgement day, with knees tucked upward toward the chin, go heh, heh. well goad O Thee. too late, so sorry. heh.
Maybe spurts of yellow butter will pop forth from the ling lips and Shiva can be stored in the NSA's black hole storage Shakti faculties? Shush.
Maybe the neocon can be more cool and buy Krystol and the red-bloodied loyal media gang those hats with built in dread locks? Or call them corn-husk for itchy butts? I mean if addicted to red blood, and cells are white, the GOPS can go pick red-lip-cigg butts from the inner city corner curbs?
Yep. Congress can take a winter break and smoke butts for improvement of diabolical hyper-vigilant gasping for breath temperaments.
gads. Ms P?
P.S. Buy a chocolate lab for anonymust? code-pink, me, no blue. s_rew YKO.
I blame Pedinska.
Sneeze like a cranky dog? No choke on pretzels. Okasan! okay.
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A most illuminating and elucidating review of Nock's "Our Enemy The State"
It won't stop the propertarians, Rockwellians and Pauliacs from commenting and hijacking threads but at least people will begin to get an idea of why they are all crackpots and kooks who flirt dangerously with right wing populism and proto-fascism.
Link Between Socialists & Libertarians, Equality & Liberty
Nock's tight little volume provides an enormous clue into the true origins of libertarianism and socialism, as well as the true basic meta-political issue at the root of any coherent political economic discussion.
Nock exposes that the universal "meta-political" issue is the equal-freedom of a civil society versus the "enstated" political power and privilege that corrupts civil society into a tyrannical caricature of civil society. Combine Nock's insight with Benjamin Tucker's Proudhon and you will rediscover the early 19th Century reality that the first libertarians were for social power of a free society versus the State backed prerogatives of unjust political power, privilege, monopoly and "enstated" class. The earliest Socialists were the first Libertarians, one and the same anti-statist anarchists and pro-society, anti-privilege communitarians.
Nock holds forth not only as the bridge between 19th century libertarians, socialists, anarchists, Georgist classical liberals and modern libertarians/progressives, but also as the "Geo-libertarian" modern middle ground between right-wing propertarian libertarians (Rothbard/Nozick/Randists/Rockwell/Hoppe) and left-wing libertarians such as Chomsky.
Without Nock's insight no modern reader can appreciate the modern ironic oxymoron of pro-statist "socialisms" such as Marxism. Nock stands for replacing unjust political power and privilege with equal-freedom. Nock's "minarchism" has a definite practical limitation that would bind any institutionalized, "enstated" formalized cooperatively delegated state action to the protection of "equal freedom." Nock's prescription for minarchistic libertarianism is probably one of the clearer, more practical, more concise and most justifiable versions you're likely to ever come across.
Nock's allegiance to Georgist Land Rent reforms, eg., the Single Tax (a "tax" in name only, not in substance) , is also one of the only genuine practical clues the modern reader will find with respect to a libertarian replacing taxation of productive labor/industry with user fees levied upon "enstated" monopolistic privileges. The concept is to unburden rights-protected behaviour by shifting responsibility for financing public goods to the recipients of state licenced privileges which come at the expense of other's equal freedoms. This principle would institutionalize a check on the growth of monopolistic state backed power and privilege with a feed-back loop for protection of equal freedom rights.
Nock's land position integrates the Liberal/anarchist/socialist tradition of Labor earned rights to property, based on equally free access to natural resource means of production. This stands opposed to latter day monopolist privilege property "enstated" forms of propertarian libertarianism viz., the Rothbard/Rand/Rockwell/Hoppe wing.
Nock's position upholds Lockean/Jeffersonian/Painist *usufruct* land holding combined with labor earned property as a matter of rightful equal-liberty as opposed to "enstated" land entitlements for the purpose of extorting economic "rendings" of others' fruits of labor. Land holding for productive use is righteous providing it is not extended so far as to become an institution that infringes the equal freedom of others to independently support themselves. When land holding extends beyond equal freedom to the point of becoming a state backed extortion privilege, then some sort of compensatory licence fee cum rebate policy system is due. Without a public fee-claim on land rent, there is no feed back check for rationalizing land holding in proportion to productive use. When no penalty licence fees correspond with privatization of the commonwealth, no productive responsibility attaches to licence and no limit checks licence's infringement of equal-liberty.
While land rent monopoly licence fees are only one source of justifiable minarchist funding revenue, it is a major one. Land rent monopoly generally works "hand in glove" with economic rent flows of monetary credit monopoly privilege. For more on the money monopoly, see Robert DeFremery's "Rights & Privileges" and Steven Zarlenga's "The Lost Science Of Money." Reforming the money monopoly is yet another huge hidden source of practical financing revenue for minarchist institutions.
See B.J. Tucker's "Instead Of A Book" for more about how the first libertarians were the first French Socialists, (anti-State Socialists) both in name and philosophically. This will clue you into why Proudhon's "Property Is Theft" is traceable to state privileged acquistion of property and monopolization of opportunity. See also Harold Kyriazi's "Libertarian Party Out To Sea Over Land" for an updated modern Geo-libertarian critique of propertarian libertarians who support state backed land rent taking privilege instead of equal freedom to access the earth for independent self support and labor earned property acquisition.
Nock holds the middle of the road Georgist libertarian, minarchist position that *property rights* must be held in a reciprocal, interdependent co-equal balance with *opportunity rights.* This position also forms the foundation for justifying the practical, definite minarchist libertarian position as opposed to anarcho-capitalist libertarianisms and Nozick's vaguer minarchisms. Several kinds of monopolies are bound to occur in the course of developing settled civilization which drives the formalization of institutionalized ways to manage such monopolies for mutual benefit to respect equal freedom. The only other alternatives are state backed/regulation of privatizing feudalization of inevitable monopolies or Marxian ueber-statist monopolization of everything, even non-inevitable monopoly conditions/systems/resources.
Another interesting aspect of Nock is that he can hardly be criticized as a statist egalitarian because he is well aware of differences between people. (See his "Remnant" monograph.) He is yet another call for the propertarian libertarian wing to drop their broad brush of all things egalitarian "equated" as evil. Equality of wealth, outcomes should not be "package-dealed" with equality of civil freedoms and equal opportunity access to natural resources (unmade by human labor).
Read this anonymous reviewer's other review of the other Austrian, Hirsch:
Democracy Versus Socialism: A Critical Examination of Socialism as a Remedy for Social Injustice and an Exposition of the Single Tax Doctrine
by Max Hirsch
http://tinyurl.com/ypx3mg