As a person who thinks Glenn Beck is doing a superb job of covering the real issues of the day, I've still been troubled by his use of the word "anarchy." The following post explains it very well.
An Email Defense of Christian Anarchy
Anarchy is a system of governance where people voluntarily setup the systems and rules to govern activities between them. Anarchy does not cause rioting, death and destruction. Governments are the ones who do that (think Hitler, Stalin, Lincoln, Mao, Imperial Japan, the Crusades, Saddam Hussein, etc., none of which were caused or influenced by "anarchy"). Last century the number of people killed by governments is estimated to be 262,000,000.
Having God as our ruler is a theocracy, not a monarchy. From a human perspective, theocracy is the same as anarchy, as there is no human ruler. Anarchy is not without rules, it is only without a ruler. If we are ultimately answerable to God, why do we require men to tell us what to do and not to do? We don't need a pope [begging pardon from my Roman Catholic readers, the recipient is protestant like me] and we don't need a king.
Free-Market Austrian Economics Going Mainstream?
None of this is surprising in the least ... if you have been informed about the Federal Reserve and the Austrian School of Economics and studying the vast array of free scholarly works online. While the mainstream Republicans and Democrats and their lackeys in the media have been making the problem worse, there have been voices in government and in the private sector calling for sanity and freedom.
This meltdown is precisely why we need to return to Constitutional principles and end the Federal Reserve system ... and unless things change pretty radically and pretty soon, you'll be able to chronicle the decline and fall of America day by day on Drudge.
August 1, 2009 was the date of a statewide rally at the Ohio statehouse in Columbus on State Sovereignty. The featured speaker was FOX NEWS judicial analyst and author, Judge Andrew Napolitano. I was able to meet the Judge and have some good conversation with him. He is a great guy, very friendly and down-to-earth. And he really gets this liberty stuff! Hopefully he’ll have an impact on some of his friends at FOX. I was able to give the invocation to start the event. Below are clips from Judge Napolitano’s speech and the text of my invocation.
Pediatric Nurses Ponder Euthanasia
Is the Dutch penchant for euthanasia soon to be imported to America? Do pediatric nurses in this country think it’s time we started euthanizing newborn babies, under certain circumstances?
Pediatric Nursing raised these questions by publishing in its May-June 2008 issue an article by Anita Catlin, “The Groningen protocol: what is it, how do the Dutch use it, and do we use it here?"
The Groningen protocol “allows decisions to be made by parents and their doctors to end the lives of severely ill newborns, defined as those ‘with no chance of recovery’ and/or who are deemed to ‘endure intolerable suffering before death,’” according to Catlin’s article.
Critics charge that even to consider the Groningen protocol is to put us on a slippery slope, morally. We answer that America is already parked on that slippery slope, and that the brakes are slipping.
Ron Paul tells the future (1998)
Western nations kill innocent children at a distance and no one hears about it. No wonder they feel some justification for killing American civilians. And let’s be honest, it is American civilians who put these men into power in American government who throw US military weight around the world and kill whoever gets in the way. The immorality of voting into office violent men needs some serious review before you next time you pull the lever in the voting booth.
1. Did Ted Kennedy ever actually feed anyone with his own money or his own two hands?
2. When did taking money from one person (while threatening to kill them if they don’t hand it over) become an act of charity signifying the sanctified and denoting the Kingdom of God?
The right's civil war continues
Most of the people who want to banish the birthers are the same sort of people who want to see the religious right banished to the wilderness as well. These are the sort of people who want to see Rockefeller Republicanism and neo-conservatism become the mainstream face of conservatism. These are also the sort of people who so badly mismanaged this country and let it be run down by scoundrels and criminals that the left-wing of the Democratic Party was able to elect a candidate who barely attempted to conceal most of his goals in the primaries and general election. The birthers are merely a distraction for the right compared to the existential threat that these people pose to the future of conservatism. They had the chance to make conservative goals actually come to fruition, and they not only blew it, but now blame everyone but themselves for the disaster.
The Walls Come Tumbling Down in Jericho, Ark.
In this blog post Karen DeCoster talks about a fire chief who was shot in court by police officers, and then says, "The police department in this town exists to steal from and harass its residents." I thought, "Ah yes, the LRC hyperbole we've all [well some of us] come to love and expect." So I clicked on the link to see if there were some specific thing that drove Karen to say that, since her beliefs mean that all police departments exist to steal from and harass residents (since taxation = theft in pure libertarian theory).
Well guess what? Karen wasn't joking. This has to be one of the craziest AP stories I've ever read. Did you even think this was possible before reading the story? (Or I should say, did you think it was possible that it would be reported so brazenly?)
Liberty rests upon the belief that all proper authority for man’s relationships with his fellow men comes from a source higher than man — from the Creator. Liberty decrees that all men — subject and ruler alike — are bound by this higher authority which is above and beyond man-made law; that each person has a relation to his Maker with which no other person, not even the ruler, has any right to interfere. In order to make these conceptions effective for liberty, they must be deeply ingrained in the fundamental values of a people. That is to say, they must be part of the popular religion. There was one people of antiquity for whom this was true, the people who gave us our Old Testament. It was among the ancient Israelites that the conviction took hold and emerged into practice that there was a God of righteousness whose judgments applied even to rulers.
“I can charge you with whatever I want to charge you with”
If it wasn’t so serious it would almost be funny. Our money is confiscated, used to buy property for government functions (in this case a school) and then when those who disagree with the government attempt to assemble and voice opinions they’re threatened with violence in the form of arrest for trespassing.
Man Sues Church After Being “Slain in the Spirit” And Injured
According to Charismamag Matthew Lincoln is suing Lakewind Church for US$2.5m, claiming that he was injured there after being slain in the spirit. Lincoln says that the church had a duty to ensure that someone caught him when he fell and failed to do so, therefore the church is responsible for the injuries that he received when his head hit the floor. Lincoln’s wife is suing for US$75,000 for “loss of consortium, loss of services and companionship of her husband”. Is that legalese for “I’m not getting any nooky now”?
Fudge One:
Goldman Sachs had a great quarter, making a profit of $3.5 billion and the government made $1.4 billion on its investment in Goldman Sachs. The government also got a 15% return on its investment in the eight biggest banks.
Truth:
Goldman had a great quarter only because it moved its reporting calendar to cut out December 2008, when it had a loss. And the government only made a profit on the TARP money it gave to Goldman because
* It funneled more money via the bailout of insurance giant AIG to AIGs counterparties, including Goldman (which took in $13 billion of the AIG money).
* Warren Buffett made a pre-TARP financial investment in Goldman.
* Goldman got the benefit of exceptionally low interest rates from the government at the expense of savers and to the benefit of borrowers.
* Goldman was issued FDIC-guaranteed bonds.
Without that extra welfare thrown at it, Goldman would actually be broke, not showing a profit. Ditto for the other banks.
Thank you for the mention.
You have a nice blog that I'm looking forward to exploring. The recent post on inflation is excellent.
Row
Thank you! You have an excellent blog as well.