Stealth Agencies for Gun Control

Karen DeCoster wrote a worrisome article detailing heath studies conducted by various US government heath organizations who focused on solely gun “safety,” which are meant to provide a justification for abolishing our right to have firearms. While these studies continue to fall flat, and have actually proved guns save lives and protect property, Congress continues fund these organizations and spending millions of dollars time and time again all to abolish our right.

Still, the CDC has not been able to make its research work in favor of its agenda. Its own studies have not been able to link gun control laws to the reduction of crime. Nevertheless, any time the government studies “gun safety,” you know that in spite of the fact that all the research in the world will not support its end goal of affirming the necessity of disarmament, the aim is to produce enough information and “expert” opinions to influence the public against gun ownership and persuade them to internalize the emotional aspect of the issue, thereby leading people to despise guns, distrust gun owners, and desire more government intervention to make gun ownership more difficult. The anti-gun movement is built on pure emotion — hating guns and being afraid of guns — so crafting a false perception among the masses through fear mongering and emotional coercion is much more crucial, and uncomplicated, than presenting a clear-cut, scientific case through the use of bona fide research studies.

For the most part, the establishment of gun safety as a public health issue is a very purposeful strategy aimed at avoiding the political reality of individual liberty and the right to defend oneself. Thus gun ownership can be viewed as a “problem” that is looked at in a collective sense, by determining the costs and benefits to the public at large, as if these considerations can possibly trump an individual’s natural right to bear arms and defend his own life.

Understand, the left will not stop until the entire country is brought under total government control, and for that matter the world, and the greatest measure in achieving this goal is to take away our right to defend ourselves, the 2nd Amendment.

On another point, Karen DeCoster has become one of my favorite writers. She provides a great commonsensical libertarian perspective that’s clear and concise, and easy to understand.

Obama Efforts to Control the Internet

The New York Post has an article you’ll want to take a look at about Obama’s plan to control the Internet.

I would caution you not to get too partisan either way concerning this article, which I subscribe to, because whether it is Bush or another main stream republican, or Obama or another main stream democrat, they are all in bed together to control your life and increase the power of the central government.

Make no mistake about it, the fight today is not between democrat and republican, it is between the statist and the (small L) libertarian; between liberty and tyranny.

Freedom Watch 10 June

Is This a Good Time to be a Libertarian?

Libertarian writer Christine Smith offers her opinion concerning directing one’s efforts toward the individual actions rather than a political parties during a recent radio interview on a local Tampa Florida (WTAN) radio station.

Her comments really resonated with me because they weren’t the standard rah-rah cheerleader type one hears from party activists.  Rather it was the ideal of individuals taking charge of their life and the moving away from party politics that Washington and Adams never believed our country should have adopted.

It’s about 17 minutes in length.

End the War on Drugs

Ron Paul couldn’t be more correct, End the War on Drugs.

ABC 20/20: Bailouts and Bull with John Stossel

Speaking of Liberty – Tucker Carlson

The ORP Reads Reason Magazine?

I was shocked to see that the blogging staff at the Ohio Republican Party actually reads the libertarian magazine Reason. Well miracles do happen! Now let’s see if the party leadership can actually embrace economic freedoms.

Never Privatize Prisons, Police or Defense

At the Ohio Freedom Alliance forum I responded to a weblog posting concerning the privatizing of the military or defense functions, of which I stated that we should never privatize three aspects of our government: prison, police and defense. As read through my response, I thought it would make a good weblog topic. So I cleaned it up a bit and offer a revised version here.

Currently our country has begun to privatizing prisons, police, and defense as we speak, but with disastrous effects to our civil liberties. (It should also be noted that European countries, chiefly the United Kingdom, hava been engaged in this as well.) Blackwater, a private army, is operating globally fighting wars overtly and covertly and has now started an intelligence division which will begin to collect information on US citizens. This company clearly is being directed by global elites. Also there are quite of number of private defense companies operating that are fronts for covert operations, working well outside the purview of our elected government.

Wackenhut operates prisons globally and has been connected to the CIA rendition operations. Moreover there is a strong connection between private publicly traded prisons and the high level of incarceration and stiff sentencing throughout the US. An interesting aspect found in the research has been that Democrats are voting for stiffer sentencing and aligning with these corporations just as often as the Republicans. It is common knowledge that the rise in privatized prisons has increased steadily with the “war on drugs,” in a very bizarre symbiotic relationship.

As far as privatizing of police and law enforcement functions, there is a litany of these companies slowly taking over the traditional rolls our various governments have administered. One glaring example was when Blackwater and SAIC were operating in New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and yet no one from the various levels of Louisiana government knew about this. Can you grasp a private company taking on the roll of law enforcement and no elected official authorized it? Yet today there has never been one congressional or state hearing to rectify this abuse.

Abraham Lincoln said in the Gettysburg address, “that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” This is very important to understand because our government is not a person, but a body made up of citizens. Government is not a person and cannot make war, only people can.

If we the citizens of the United States turn over the responsibility for defense, policing, and the confining those that break our common laws, and hand it over to private companies, how long will it be before we turn over our court systems, and then how long will it be before we move into a fascist state? I would say just as fast as we are moving toward this collectivist Obama Kennedy Clinton state. The only difference is that the corporatist fascists would operate in place of a centralized government, but still controlled by the same group of elites.

If I have learned anything from my limited study of history, government, and philosophy, it is that the human element is predictable. We need a modicum of limited government and if we are not willing to stand by that responsibility, we are destined to be controlled by the elitist in either a fascist or collectivist form.