Comments on Pro Libertate: The Authentic Cruelty of a Synthetic Man

Parmeniclitus, you echo many of the same insights ...

2011-05-25T06:30:03.819-06:00

Parmeniclitus, you echo many of the same insights that I've been afforded to see over the years. Hypocrisy is the soul mate of every statist, whether "green", "tie-dyed" or flag waving red white and blue. They all love to clobber someone over the head and tell them how to live. That, in their twisted noggins, is doing their red-neck neighbors some sort of back handed favor. Progressives are particularly adept at making moral back flips when it suits them. They have the annoying habit of moving to some location, gushing about how wonderful the place is, then proceed to turn it into a carbon copy of the hell they claim to be leaving behind. All the while bitching and moaning about the "locals" and how they, the locals that is, resent them. Sounds like American foreign policy played out domestically.

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Arrest-of-...

2011-05-23T09:00:51.004-06:00

http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Arrest-of-Man-In-Wheelchair-Raises-Concerns-122423619.html?dr

MoT- Like one "anonymous" above, I too ...

2011-05-22T10:18:56.443-06:00

MoT-

Like one "anonymous" above, I too live in Utah and have for years, though I'm getting ready to move out next week. I live in a town that was a more “conservative” predominantly LDS mining/cattle town when I moved here as a teen in '85. This town has since become a haven for "extreme sports" along with the more or less "progressive" sentiments of that crowd of indoctrina...er... I mean, college-educated smarm. This county was one of two Utah counties where the majority voted for Obama in '08. Needless to say, it has changed over the years. Or has it, really?

Let’s recall that Mormonism finds its roots in the very same Burned Over District as did the "social gospel" which led to statist Progressive movement early in the last century. The fact that statism is embraced by Mormons is of little surprise since the Yankee Pietism of the BOD most often sought to use the State to stamp out sin and create their version of Heaven on Earth.

The rampant moralism our modern “progressives” perpetuate with their jingoistic calls for “sustainable” and “green” living, multiculturalism, “social justice,” etc, is no more than the queen that is the social gospel, but in modern drag. Many of these “progressives” work for the BLM, The Forest Service, National Park Service, the school system, and so on.

As an instance of local politicking, I recall about twelve or fifteen years ago a push to get the cattle off the “public land” in the name of the “environment,” but this has only proven to benefit what has become the taxpayer-subsidized mountain-biking industry, and a source of increased revenue for the State. These “progressives” constantly belittle their heretical Mormon cousins as “rednecks,” “hicks,” etc, for destroying the land, all the while remaining oblivious to the fact that their own machinations have led to increased traffic on the very land they sought to “protect.”

It is interesting to watch both groups wheedle, cajol, pressure and sue each other through Statist means while engaging in finger-wagging moralism, each echoing the other in so many ways. Neither group is less statist than the other. They both love them some State.

Always read your column, Will. In my book, without...

2011-05-22T08:25:44.268-06:00

Always read your column, Will. In my book, without question, you are at the head of the class when writing of state-sponsored tyranny. Words and phrases,such as mundanes, government costumes, and more are becoming household norms. Now,polymer-based life form! Brilliant!
You brought me back to old memories (nightmare's) when discussing "The Seed." Growing up in Hollywood, Fla. during the 60's and 70's, I can still see the "campus." Located on State Road 84, in Hollywood/Ft. Lauderdale, I use to crane my neck to see if there were any kids playing outside. Never seemed to be.... When in my early to mid-teens, I knew of a couple of kids I went to school with who were "sentenced" to time at this facility, and felt sorry for them. It was a real stigma for those unfortunate souls, as losers, hooked on pot, etc. It was considered worse than being handed time at "Junior Haven."
I was 20 when it closed, but for many years following, that barbed-wired facility stood, abandoned, with that extroadinarily large "THE SEED" sign still standing.
Thanks, Will. I didn't realize how deep and widespread the tentacles of those "life-forms" were, that those who conceived such a monstrosity lived to replicate and update their tyranny.

Best Regards,

Warren J. Van Wie
Herndon, Va.

Again and again I keep coming across the theme of ...

2011-05-22T01:36:15.746-06:00

Again and again I keep coming across the theme of "Plastic people". This is just one more bucket full of examples describing all too many people/ ... and "they' sure as heck won't be reading something like this... which might give them a clue... which might help to turn things around.
Instead there's only down... down... down.

..."the politically protected Wall Street den...

2011-05-21T10:49:35.805-06:00

..."the politically protected Wall Street denizens who favor he ardently courts,"... should be "whose".

Proofreading provided gratis from your friends at The Nitpicking Society.

:)

"Mitt Romney, a polymer-based life form of ne...

2011-05-21T10:39:23.540-06:00

"Mitt Romney, a polymer-based life form of nearly limitless pliability..."

A hilariously apt description of the creature Mitt!

One criticism though. You mentioned Rev. John Hagee without using the term "the stark raving mad lunatic". Which, according to Strunk and White, must always go together. It's true. Look it up...

Seriously, this report shines a light into the twisted souls of those who worship authority as a form of religion.

And for the parents who allow these sickos to do such crimes against their children, well no wonder the kids are doing drugs and such. What kid wouldn't rebel against that form of parental authoritah?

Rebellion is natural against the likes of "parents" like Mitt, Newt and all the other psychopaths who seek to rule us.

What is it about Utah and its support of people wh...

2011-05-21T00:48:43.809-06:00

What is it about Utah and its support of people who LOVE to feed at the trough of "authoritah" and then proceed to kick the bejesus out of everyone who doesn't kowtow? What I find is that any group that readily submits to an overarching power architecture are more than eager to do violence in its name. Mitt is simply a rubber dollar bill ready to bend to his masters will.

A correction to my earlier comment...Romney won ov...

2011-05-20T20:43:42.063-06:00

A correction to my earlier comment...Romney won over 89% of the vote in the 2008 Utah Republican presidential primary...

Yet, I recall conversations by any number of government officials who claim that such numbers in "sham" foreign elections denote a "dictatorship".

Anyone recall when Mitt Romney ran against Ted Ken...

2011-05-20T18:25:01.226-06:00

Anyone recall when Mitt Romney ran against Ted Kennedy for his Senate seat in 1994? Romney tried to out-flank Kennedy on the left.

Romney is as phony as a 3-dollar bill.

I live in Utah, and nothing irritated me more in the 2008 presidential cycle to have Romney win nearly 85% of the Utah Republican primary vote. I can't help but think that had something to do with his membership in the LDS Church and little else...but I could be mistaken.

For anonymous: I refer you to that old cliche...&...

2011-05-20T16:14:22.178-06:00

For anonymous:

I refer you to that old cliche...'The more I see of people, the more I like my dogs!'

Will... you are the single most depressing blogger...

2011-05-20T11:18:37.115-06:00

Will... you are the single most depressing blogger on the planet. You make me hate humanity.

no need to post Greetings Will, Shared you wrot...

2011-05-20T08:35:05.510-06:00

no need to post

Greetings Will,

Shared

you wrote
Romney, as is his habit, tried to take refuge in persiflage, insisting – on the basis of what qualifications, he didn’t say – that synthetic synthetic marijuana would work just as well. He then sought to ooze his way out of the question by quipping that he doesn’t “arrest anyone."

Were you redundant or referring to false fake weed?

Thank you for writing this essay

Doc Ellis 124

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I'm surprised that some of these social aberra...

2011-05-20T04:48:10.655-06:00

I'm surprised that some of these social aberrations such as those Lichfield characters and that guy, Strawn haven't been simply 'disappeared.'

The arrogant jackass, Strawn, is nothing more than a bounty hunter. I know how I would tend to react if some goon of his sort was inclined to summarily take possession of my kid. And that same solution would fittingly apply to those taser/trigger happy cops you've so lucidly described in past articles.

There is a lot of ambient cruelty in late-imperial...

2011-05-19T23:38:57.442-06:00

There is a lot of ambient cruelty in late-imperial America

A sickeningly large percentage of it practiced and/or endorsed by "faith-based" groups and individuals seeking to put a biblical imprimatur on their animal blood lust.