“What we’ve got here is failure to communicate.
Some men you just can’t reach…
So, you get what we had here last week,
which is the way he wants it!
Well, he gets it!
I don’t like it any more than you men.”

Look at your young men fighting
Look at your women crying
Look at your young men dying
The way they’ve always done before

Look at the hate we’re breeding
Look at the fear we’re feeding
Look at the lives we’re leading
The way we’ve always done before

My hands are tied
The billions shift from side to side
And the wars go on with brainwashed pride
For the love of God and our human rights
And all these things are swept aside
By bloody hands time can’t deny
And are washed away by your genocide
And history hides the lies of our civil wars

Did you wear a black armband
When they shot the man
Who said “Peace could last forever”
And in my first memories
They shot Kennedy
I went numb when I learned to see
So I never fell for Vietnam
We got the wall of D.C. to remind us all
That you can’t trust freedom
When it’s not in your hands
When everybody’s fightin’
For their promised land

And
I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war

Look at the shoes your filling
Look at the blood we’re spilling
Look at the world we’re killing
The way we’ve always done before
Look in the doubt we’ve wallowed
Look at the leaders we’ve followed
Look at the lies we’ve swallowed
And I don’t want to hear no more

My hands are tied
For all I’ve seen has changed my mind
But still the wars go on as the years go by
With no love of God or human rights
‘Cause all these dreams are swept aside
By bloody hands of the hypnotized
Who carry the cross of homicide
And history bears the scars of our civil wars

“We practice selective annihilation of mayors
And government officials
For example to create a vacuum
Then we fill that vacuum
As popular war advances
Peace is closer”

I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
And I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need your civil war
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war
I don’t need one more war

I don’t need one more war
What’s so civil about war anyway

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Comment #29 on this blog post.

In response to this comment,

Give Him a Break

Everyone is blowing the stupid special olympics comment out of control. It is very easy for the media to ruin any interview by only showing the bad little bits and pieces of it. If anyone actually watched the interview and developed their own opinion on it rather than being spoon fed an opinion from the media im sure that the public would think that the interview was relatively succesful. Now a days you have to be so careful what you say or else some organization will be breathing down your neck. I think everone should focus on how he is trying to help our nation as opposed to constantly trying to find the flaws. As Obama said last night, we need to stop trying to point the finger and instead try and solve the problem that we we are currently faced with.

I wrote

Yeah give Obama a break

Obama deserves a fair break just like all of the Afghan children his predator missile drones murder each week.

It’s not fair to judge Obama by how he did on a talk show. The hallmark of any great American president is how many brown people they can kill in foreign countries to increase the profits of the military industrial complex.

My comment on Obama and how he deserves a break for being a great killer but a lousy talk show guest.

This post is brought on due to this article, which was linked at LewRockwell.com in the blog, then strangely removed.

The coming evangelical collapse

And this is the author credit,

Michael Spencer is a writer and communicator living and working in a Christian community in Kentucky. He describes himself as “a postevangelical reformation Christian in search of a Jesus-shaped spirituality.” This essay is adapted from a series on his blog, InternetMonk.com

Even if you are an atheist, you might want to give the article a read.  If you are a theist, you might want to check out the InternetMonk blog, on a quick perusal, I found it fairly interesting, considering it’s really not my cup of tea.

But back to the title of this post, the bankruptcy of evangelicals, baptists, catholics, protestants, lutherans, whatever is tied directly to the fact that as long as they tolerate a state that steals, and a state that murders, then they are bankrupt in their beliefs.  Anyone who advocates murder is not a libertarian.  That goes for your Eric Dondero Libertarian Republicans as well.  It is not acceptable to take one innocent life in a war (even to harm an innocent or their property), morality and justice does not wither under tests of scale, only weakness of character.

The democratic institutions which have harmed Christians and their values, as much as it has teased them with empowerment, are also to be rejected as being in direct conflict with the values of Jesus and the Kingdom of Heaven.

Any Christian who lectures on any social values, while supporting the corrupt, immoral, and sinful state and it’s lies, violence and theft, has no credibility at all

I’m an atheist, but I was a theist at one time.  All that changed, is that I understand that morality doesn’t have to originate with divine decree.  It can be self-evident, that the rational path, the most productive path, is peaceful, voluntary, free market relations.  The likes of which Jesus of the Bible, advocated through his disciples’ writings.

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Lew posted the Top 10 Podcast link today.

1. $2000 Gold and the Break up of the US: Gerald Celente
2. The Biggest Bubble in the History of the World: Ron Paul
3. America’s Slow-Motion Fascist Coup: Naomi Wolf
4. The Greatest Depression in History: Gerald Celente
5. Thanks for the Inflationary Depression: Peter Schiff
6. How the Government Wrecked the Economy: Peter Schiff
7. The Panic of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Ron Paul
8. The Crash of ’08: Lew Rockwell interviews Jim Rogers
9. Stop the Bailout!: Lew Rockwell on the Michael Reagan Show
10. There Is Hope: Ron Paul

My favorite of this lot, is the amazing Naomi Wolf interview.  Perhaps I have listened to too much Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Gerald Celente (who are all excellent btw), but the Noami Wolf interview was a great gateway to the left, and a really special moment where it turned into a conversation between two intelligent people sharing information and ideas.

Sadly, the left-libertarian doorstops (they have to be good for something) haven’t seemed to have done much to help promote it.

Some of my other favorites include (in no particular order)

28. What is Neoconservatism?

65. A Libertarian in the USSR

32. Intellectual “Property”

13. The Old Right

15. Democracy: The God That Failed

68. Are You an Anarchist?

8. The Scam Called the State

I hope more libertarians blog about and share these around.  They appeal to all sorts of different groups, from anarchists to Reagan republicans, antiwar protestors to wall street observers.

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Serj (lead vocals) always reminds me of David Yow from The Jesus Lizard, another amazing small club act.  Of course, reminds me of Yow without the nudity or drunkenness.   But the performance aspect is totally there.

System Of A Down – War?

Dark is the light,
The man you fight,
With all your prayers, incantations,
Running away, a trivial day,
Of judgment and deliverance,
To whom was sold, this bounty soul,
A gentile or a priest ?
Who victored over, the Seljuks,
When the holy land was taken

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

Was it the riches, of the land,
Powers of bright darkness,
That lead the noble, to the East,
To fight the lord

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

We must call upon our bright darkness,
Beliefs, they’re the bullets of the wicked,
One was written on the sword,
For you must enter a room to destroy it, destroy it, destroy it.
No International security,
No Call of the righteous man,
Needs a reason to kill a man,
History teaches us so,
The reason he must attain,
Must be approved by his God,
His child, partisan brother of war,

Of war, we don’t speak anymore,
Of war, we don’t speak anymore,
Of war, we don’t speak anymore,
Of war, we don’t speak anymore,

We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens
We will fight the heathens, We will fight the heathens

-

Some other SOAD worth listening to;

Sugar

Spiders

I remember first listening to this band on the bus ride home from work in Vancouver. I don’t know where I got the tape from.  Tapes.  lol

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If it takes 20 Palestinian “terrorists” to kill an Israeli, does this mean the Palestinians are really bad at terrorism?  I’m the last guy to justify violence by anyone but the math simply does not add up.  7,000+ rockets over 8 years, but only 20 Israeli fatalities.  Contrast that with thousands of Palestinians who have died at the hands of Israeli force during the same period.

Typically, we assume a single rocket (like a single terrorist/suicide bomber) to be capable of harming or killing more than one person.  To the layman, or someone educated by the western media, 7,000 rockets is synonymous with at least 7,000 deaths.  The facts don’t bear this out.  And when one looks at these pathetic rockets, it’s a wonder they haven’t killed more than 20 some people by what can only be called sheer random chance.

Contrast that with American made bombs.  The per bomb death totals, even the aggregate totals are never revealed.  How many bombs will Israel drop on Gaza? How many people will die?

Obviously, I have sympathies for the Palestinians.  I also have sympathies for Israelis.  There are ways these conflicts can be solved without violence.  But as long as the killing is distorted as justice, such resolutions will never become possible.

One positive outcome of this recent mass slaughter in Gaza, is that the world is re-aligning against dramatic and massive use of military force.  Shock and awe is giving way to shock and horror.

As the global depression deepens, it’s important for those of us who would champion liberty to remind everyone that declining prosperity has definitely come at the expense of military adventurism, empire and conquest for the elites.

Sunk by the German U-20, the Lusitania was a blockade runner carrying munitions under the guise of transporting civilians.

Certainly every modern democratic war is contrived.

Iraq – WMDs, 9/11
Vietnam – Gulf of Tonkin
WWII – Pearl Harbour, Reichstag fire

And now, WWI. The sinking of the Lusitania exposed for what many always believed it was. Yet another false flag.

Her sinking with the loss of almost 1,200 lives caused such outrage that it propelled the U.S. into the First World War.

But now divers have revealed a dark secret about the cargo carried by the Lusitania on its final journey in May 1915.

Munitions they found in the hold suggest that the Germans had been right all along in claiming the ship was carrying war materials and was a legitimate military target.

Millions dead, trillions in destroyed prosperity and capital. What democracy has done is make the killing more efficient, more destructive and evil.

But then, it should come as no surprise because we know that democracy is the tie that binds socialism and fascism together. The two sides of the coin that is democracy.

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Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoe at Bush – AP

Nice work George, you’re a hero the world over!

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The poor one was about the nonsense that only Americans can be critical of America. America can police the world, define policy and governmental, scientific, monetary, social and legal forms, but no one is allowed to criticize it. Of course if you praise America, that is fine. But if you speak critically of it, you’re some sort of jihadist or anti-American fanatic.

Put simply, Americans are like everyone else. They are not exceptional, although they have at times displayed exceptionalism. The American government on the other hand, is a corruption of the founding principles of that republic, and has grown to be the largest empire in the history of the world. It taxes, it forces, it occupies, it invades and murders. Yes Americans, your government is one of the biggest causes of death by murder in the world. Don’t like that statement? Do something about it, because it is true, and attacking me personally, or based on my citizenship or nationality or religious preference isn’t enough to wash away the blood of thousands of innocent casualties of imperialist policy.

There are some principled humans, who also happen to be American. Mike @ NoState.com is one of them.

There are a lot of people who will talk about the evil of statism, the inefficiency and immortality, without specifically pointing out what is wrong today. In other words, these may be anti-war libertarians (not that pro-war libertarians exist anyway), who never actually speak out against war. And I’m not implying they have a positive obligation to do so, but at the same time, they seem to constantly avoid acknowledging the evil their government does with their coerced co-operation. Although I doubt how much it is coercion and how much of it is the threat of violence or laziness or indifference.

It really ticks me off.

I am embarrassed and disappointed that Canada is participating in the NATO occupation and oppression in Afghanistan. I am tired of my country following the American Imperial War Horse around and sweeping up the dung piles it leaves in the dusty streets of foreign wasteland outposts. We shouldn’t be there, we have no moral authority to be there. By participating in this military adventurism, we make ourselves less safe, and we act as a proxy for evil. Disgusting.

~~~

So to the first good conversation. It was with my sister. She told me, I am “so unconventional”. It was great.

Of course I’m not conventional I told her, most conventions are based upon irrational premises. I am striving to live rationally. I want to have a moral code that I can live up to and defend honestly. No more 50% efforts or casual attention to the substantive matters of the day. I want to be honest about every flaw I have and instead of pretending they don’t exist, work to correct or understand those flaws. A great example is getting angry with others. This is a flaw in my temperament, instead of seeking to irrationally rationalize my temper, I want to understand it, break it down and control it.

But you will find a lot of people everyday telling you how angry they became because of X, due to Y, or antagonized by Z.

It’s irrational to blame other people for my anger, because it implies that only those people can remove my anger and replace it with satisfaction. Of course, there is always Henry Rollins’ theory of the lowest common denominator, which most people cannot grasp. Basically, when everything around you is all fucked up, you are the lowest common denominator in all of your chaos. You are the one thing that ties a mess of conflicts and failures together. You.

~~~

And the second conversation was with a friend named Mike (different from the Mike mentioned above). Mike’s a convenience store clerk, a Gen Xer who likes to smoke pot, work 4 days a week, and just be. He’s a pretty cool guy, and recently I have challenged him on his philosophy and tolerance of the state. Now when we talk, he’s anxious to ask me questions about anarchism, or to defend his own beliefs, as though he has been thinking about them introspectively since our last meeting.

Mike revealed something very interesting yesterday. He recognizes the state is evil, that it is wrong to coerce or steal. He yields these points to me. But he gets more out of the government than it takes from him, and that is a disincentive for him to complain about or campaign against the system. He’s not taxed very heavily, and he’s subsidized enough that he can work to survive, but not have to work a lot, or to necessarily gain more skill, offer more value to the economy. In other words, if he’s careful, he can continue what he has been doing for 8 years already, and do it for another 20 without any significant lifestyle changes. So as long as the state is not antagonizing him, he doesn’t feel any passion or compulsion to speak truth to power or to “rage against the machine”.

I think I am getting somewhere with Mike. I don’t know where, I’m certainly not trying to reprogram him. At the same time, as a friend, I feel I have an obligation to point out the obvious injustices dony by and to us each day.

PS, I’ve started naming some of my posts with lyrics or song titles from Helmet. Today’s title is from FBLA. Another recent post was from the Aftertaste album. There is a method to this madness. Would anyone reading this blog like to know more about marketing a web site?

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If George Bush had faced off with Osama Bin Laden in a pistol duel, with Dick Cheney vs. Saddam Hussein as the undercard, an enormous amount of money could have been raised for charity, thousands of lives saved, trillions of debt and destruction avoided, and we would have a 100% chance that at least two criminals would be dead.

From now on, instead of old chickenhawks sending young citizens to die in foreign wars, I think our leaders should settle the conflict wih a duel. It’s much more economical, it’d probably be entertaining, and it would lead to less leaders willing to kill by remote.

This might be how such a Constitutional Amendment might read,

Whereas, all national leaders must resolve military conflicts first by negotiation, and failing that, a duel to the death.

Of course as a pacifist, I might be willing to let Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper participate in a match of NHL 2008 with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to decide if the Ukraine should be able to join NATO. While Harper is a chickenhawk, he has reduced the national sales tax by 2%. He may be helpful in future tax reform endeavours.

Plus, I have a feeling that Putin would have some Jedi-KGB trash talk that would keep NATO from getting the upper hand in overtime.

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