Comments on Pro Libertate: Meet the New "Specially Protected Class"

I wonder if one of the people "assisting"...

2017-02-16T08:44:19.969-07:00

I wonder if one of the people "assisting" the government employee had gone directly to the standard police procedure of emptying a magazine or five of 9mm in the general direction of the "bad guy" , would have still be lauded as a hero? Especially if he had ventilated the trooper along with Timmons. After all, a Chicago government employee, Robert Rialmo, just got away with murder after he shot and killed Bettie Jones as he was randomly firing at Quintonio LeGrier.

A large part of the issue is the people in governm...

2017-02-15T18:58:18.509-07:00

A large part of the issue is the people in government think that citizens are not as smart or as able as they are. These government types feel the citizens need to be manage by government. Which means the management of the citizens lives and mostly their money and as much of it as they can releave the citizens of. The fact of the matter is, the citizens built the cities and the country for that matter and did a great job of doing it. Government just taxes what the citizens built, owns and need, because the people in government can't make it outside of a government job. Talk about living off of government welfare, there are generations of families after generations that seek only government employment and know no other way of life. The mindset of these people in government makes it so they keep expanding into the freedoms and wallets of the citizens. It will stop one day when the host has been killed off and the last remaining parasites starves to death.

Thank you, Will. I'm not sure if you tackled ...

2017-02-15T06:34:42.329-07:00

Thank you, Will.

I'm not sure if you tackled this topic because I asked about it a few weeks ago, or if you were already planning to do it. Regardless, thank you.

The more people that can bring this up, the better. The logic simply doesn't work.

Excellent points William and I wholeheartedly agre...

2017-02-14T21:07:37.171-07:00

Excellent points William and I wholeheartedly agree!

Despite the tremendous promise of badly needed positive economic changes, several of Trump's statements/positions are very troubling and leave me shaking my head in disbelief. To paraphrase his statements, attitudes and thinking:

- 'Torture is GOOD and should actually be EXPANDED!'
WTF? This is an unbelievably slippery slope, and a guaranteed recipe for disaster. Once a nation breaks commonly accepted and agreed rules for moral and humane engagement (Geneva Convention), this type of abhorrent and immoral behavior provides a green light to our enemies for similar mistreatment of OUR SOLDIERS, contractors and non-combatant personnel as well. Nothing good will come from this.

- 'The police can do no wrong, NEVER make mistakes and should be pedestalized as exalted, Police State heroes.'
Anyone who knows history recognizes this mindset to be a virtual parallel with the militarized culture of Nazi Germany. Police and Military personnel were the decorated, exalted ones that received the vast majority of the accolades and resources. Anyone not connected with the emerging Security apparatus, were viewed as secondary, "non essential" and even expendable.

- Blanket mistrust and/or demonization of entire peoples, nations and ethnicities' (Mexicans and Islamic countries)
Even Press Secretary Spicer called the temporary, yet sweeping immigration order "a ban" before he backtracked on the language. Fair question, WHY wasn't Saudi Arabia and Egypt ALSO part of the Executive Order??
Yes, reasonable people are sensitive to arguments that Trump is only trying to better protect Americans. Yet anyone that has TRULY RESEARCHED THE EVENTS OF 9/11, KNOWS WITHOUT THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT that the entire premise of the MULTI-TRILLION DOLLAR wars in the Middle East since that time, were based upon outright lies and sophisticated deception!! Muslims became the easy scapegoats and defacto BOOGEYMAN to justify the invasions and obscene, war machine profits! In my mind, that knowledge certainly calls into question the wisdom of this latest Executive Order.

So any hopes for positive change from the Trump Administration, are heavily tempered by serious reservations about the above mentioned points. Hoping for the best, but truly concerned about the overall direction and how these policies might manifest. HM

Great article Will. I live in a private gated com...

2017-02-13T23:25:26.918-07:00

Great article Will. I live in a private gated community where crime is virtually nonexistent. Security is provided by a handful of private security guards patrolling in a small fleet of base model sedans. The whole point of having this security service is to prevent and if ever necessary de-escalate conflict. The security service officers carry NO machine guns, have NO armored personnel carriers, wear NO combat gear, NO camo garb, fly NO helicopters, operate NO tanks, thunder around in NO MRAPS with turret mounted machine guns, deploy NO drones, use NO cell phone stingrays, and conduct NO terrifying predawn home invasions under the guise of 'defending society' through vicious violent drug warfare projects. It does nothing more than to provide effective security at a great price. Now suppose the security service's management suddenly got a wild hare to purchase an MRAP. First of all the goddamn things cost $ 500,000.00 a pop, get 5 miles to the gallon, and have massive maintenance costs. Operating just one of them would likely land our security service in bankruptcy. No for profit security service would ever dream of trying to ape the wastrel organizational and procurement practices of a monopoly socialist military. It is predictably smaller scale socialist monopoly 'security' services which cannot wait to ape the worst excesses of the big ones. One can only throw one's hands at the sight of a hideous fascist socialism progressively and unstoppably steamrolling the simple noble principles on which America was founded and which MADE AMERICA GREAT IN THE FIRST PLACE.