tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post4216515148356287379..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: When Desertion is a DutyWilliam N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-49924611213194436612008-09-02T05:46:00.000-06:002008-09-02T05:46:00.000-06:00Arrest of Amy Goodman at RNC.http://www.youtube.co...Arrest of Amy Goodman at RNC.<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYjyvkR0bGQRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-68610921730922566782008-09-02T02:21:00.000-06:002008-09-02T02:21:00.000-06:00It is revealed that the man accused of supplying t...It is revealed that the man accused of supplying the dynamite used in the March 2004 Madrid train bombings was an informant who had the private telephone number of the head of Spain’s Civil Guard bomb squad. Emilio Suarez Trashorras, a miner with access to explosives, as well as an associate named Rafa Zouhier both regularly informed for the Spanish police, telling them about drug shipments. Trashorras began working as an informant after being arrested for drug trafficking in July 2001, while Zouhier became an informant after being released from prison early in February 2002. Shortly after the Madrid bombings, investigators discover that Trashorras’ wife Carmen Toro has a piece of paper with the telephone number of Juan Jesus Sanchez Manzano, head of Tedax, the Civil Guard bomb squad. She and her brother Antonio Toro are also informants.<BR/>http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a061804bombsquadRoberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-82465546327601520252008-09-01T19:59:00.000-06:002008-09-01T19:59:00.000-06:00anon 613: You do know, don't you, that Bill Buckl...anon 613: You do know, don't you, that Bill Buckley said that anti-communists would have to become like communists to defeat communism.<BR/>Many anti-communists in the US government followed his advice. We Americans now have less liberty than before, and communism still thrives. If we become like the criminals that we are fighting, will we bring about more freedom or more crime? Is defeating the enemy worth doing if we become them?<BR/><BR/>troll Doc Ellis 124<BR/>aside:Will, is this post on-topic? Your column was about soldiers who attempt to withdraw from violated contracts.Doc Ellis 124https://www.blogger.com/profile/08543939658083915285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-19265677301230449912008-09-01T19:13:00.000-06:002008-09-01T19:13:00.000-06:00Will, I am not interested in occupying the moral h...Will, I am not interested in occupying the moral high ground in such a situation. My only concern is defending my family and making sure the message is understood that such conduct will not be tolerated.<BR/><BR/>The idealist in me heartily agrees that two wrongs do not make a right.<BR/><BR/>The realist that has grown in me with the passing of time and experience, however, has learned that such idealism has very little practical use outside the hallowed halls of higher education we occupied in our youth.<BR/><BR/>Acting in such a way as to always occupy the moral high ground only empowers the enemy who does not encumber himself with such restrictions.<BR/><BR/>I have seen what many of us will have to become to defeat criminals like these.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-68225129123934189762008-09-01T12:32:00.000-06:002008-09-01T12:32:00.000-06:00Not sure how else to get this to you, Will, but th...Not sure how else to get this to you, Will, but this is chilling:<BR/><BR/>http://www.salon.com<BR/>/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/30<BR/>/police_raids/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-36419246392834904962008-08-31T22:59:00.000-06:002008-08-31T22:59:00.000-06:00I do not disagree with the assumption that there i...I do not disagree with the assumption that there is a time to retaliate in kind against criminal violence by agents of the State. I do think killing someone is a disproportionate response to aggravated assault, however. <BR/><BR/>Yes, State agents are willing to go all the way up the escalation ladder against <I>anyone</I> who resists. Unfair as it is, we need to be better than those whom we're fighting.<BR/><BR/>So -- some tax-feeder shoves my sister to the ground, it would be perfectly proportionate to pound his goof a**. <BR/><BR/>If he were to threaten her with a <I>gun</I>, then lethal force would be proportionate.William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-89475126222381557102008-08-31T22:46:00.000-06:002008-08-31T22:46:00.000-06:00"Have you ever had a sleep test done? You mig..."Have you ever had a sleep test done? You might suffer from sleep apnea. I was recently diagnosed with it and they will be performing an operation to correct the problem."<BR/><BR/>from buffalo_girl ~<BR/><BR/>For over ten years I was therapeutically treated for sleep apnea, narcolepsy, and finally hypothyroidism. <BR/><BR/>All three conditions are associated with iodine deficiency.<BR/><BR/>You can either take prescription medications the rest of your life or find a doctor willing to work with you on iodine replacement. <BR/><BR/>It gets complicated because of the halogens we are exposed to from our drinking water, industrial food products, and from most flour products. They displace iodine in the thyroid. <BR/><BR/>DO NOT drink sodas with 'bromided oil'. They are the citrus drinks like Fanta & Mountain Dew. Bromide is an extremely dangerous halogen known to cause psychosis.<BR/><BR/>I was able to buy Lugol's Solution just before the DEA banned its nonprescription sale in July 2007 as a 'meth lab ingredient'. (Odd that...it was also at the time Homeland Security was on orange alert over a possible 'nuclear attack' on the US. Lugol's contains 10% potassium iodide - exactly what should be taken to block exposure to radioactive iodine.)<BR/><BR/>I've had to experiment on myself as we are uninsured and there are no doctors here on the lone prairie who do anything but what the pharmaceutical corporations tell them to do. <BR/><BR/>After taking several drops of iodine a day for a number of months, I was able to wean myself from the thyroid replacement prescription. With a continuation of iodine drops each day I have had no return of sleep apnea. I sleep more soundly than I have for years. I still don't have the energy I would like, but I'm also not falling into catatonia as I had been. Since I'm old enough to collect social security if I were to apply, perhaps a bit of decline in energy is 'normal'.<BR/><BR/>Introductory research on iodine deficiency can begin here:<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.newswithviews.com/Howenstine/james37.htm" REL="nofollow">iodine</A><BR/><BR/>Dr. Monteith has interviewed several physicians who are working with iodine deficient patients.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-66624805007687663282008-08-31T13:53:00.000-06:002008-08-31T13:53:00.000-06:00On the subject of the police brutallity video you ...On the subject of the police brutallity video you have linked:<BR/>Let me make this very clear. If any member of my family are ever treated in this manner, I will not hesitate to kill the officer responsible. Only once we all vow to do the same will such horrible acts of state sponsored terrorism end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-44743038336557450172008-08-31T11:12:00.000-06:002008-08-31T11:12:00.000-06:00mot 626,631: I sent these replies. Am trying again...mot 626,631: I sent these replies. Am trying again.<BR/>626:Proofread better. You make excellent points. You undermine your presentation of your case when you have errors such as those to which I directed your attention. When you realise that you have erred, you can clarify in a follow-up post. Please continue to post. Thank you for your comments to discussions. (btw: you are correct, I am conceited. I am also arrogant)<BR/>631: I agree that the comment hangs there, but because I am sofa king wee todded, I needed clarification. That's why I asked. It is a clever double entendre.<BR/>troll Doc Ellis 124Doc Ellis 124https://www.blogger.com/profile/08543939658083915285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-7545837939048704192008-08-31T08:41:00.000-06:002008-08-31T08:41:00.000-06:00Iraq did not attack or threaten us in any way. Its...Iraq did not attack or threaten us in any way. <BR/><BR/>Its government under Saddam Hussein was a sub-contractor of Washington from roughly the mid-1960s until about July 1990. During that time the only act it committed that was remotely a <I>causus belli</I> was the 1987 exocet attack on the USS Stark, which the Reagan administration blamed on <I>Iran</I>. (That attack wouldn't have happened, of course, if we hadn't dispatched a fleet to patrol the Persian Gulf on behalf of Kuwait.)<BR/><BR/>The US has conducted an illegal war of aggression against Iraq since 1991. Washington bombed Iraq every week between 1991 and 2003, subjected the country to a murderous embargo, and then invaded and occupied that nation without legal justification of any sort. <BR/><BR/>In what sense is this <I>not</I> a war of aggression?<BR/><BR/>I don't consider myself responsible to answer for the views of other libertarians, much less qualified to speak on their behalf. I do reject the idea that the Bible's teachings foreclose the possibility of self-government, however. <BR/><BR/>If we are incapable of self-government, why should we defer to the rule of others who share that incapacity? Or are they somehow exempt from the shortcomings of fallen human nature? <BR/><BR/>The Ten Commandments say <I>nothing</I> about obedience to government. Neither do the Two Great Commandments (love God with your entire being, and love your neighbor -- which means to respect his rights -- as yourself), or the Golden Rule. The Beatitudes do not assume the enforcement apparatus of a state. Jesus and His forerunner John the Baptist were civil in their dealings with political authorities, but they lived almost state-less lives. Until, of course, the State inflicted criminal violence upon them. <BR/><BR/>Prior to the apostasy of Israel recorded in I Samuel 8, the Israelites had the blessing of living without a temporal/secular government. <BR/><BR/><BR/>The reason the Israelites wanted such a government -- thereby, as the Lord told Samuel, rejecting God as their ruler -- was so they would have someone to lead them to war, just as their neighbors did.<BR/><BR/><BR/>There's a lot more to say on this subject, but I'm currently taking up too much time on a hotel computer terminal while my family awaits breakfast....William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-85153250212908308022008-08-30T14:14:00.000-06:002008-08-30T14:14:00.000-06:00In what way do you view it as a "war of aggression...In what way do you view it as a "war of aggression?" It is solely because they did not overtly "attack" us?<BR/><BR/>Also, how do you square being a Christian with the Libertarian philosophy of man being intrinsically good? Virtually every Libertarain who boaches the subject of governance declares that man is able to govern himself. This is sonething the Scripture does not teach at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-52640213477196348822008-08-30T12:46:00.000-06:002008-08-30T12:46:00.000-06:00I don't disagree with your view that Iraq is a str...I don't disagree with your view that Iraq is a strategic trap, as we're likely to learn quite soon. But I would oppose it even if it could be considered a roaring success and a strategic masterstroke, because it is a war of aggression and thus morally impermissible.<BR/><BR/>Bravo!Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-1673693052356018932008-08-30T05:56:00.000-06:002008-08-30T05:56:00.000-06:00As a Christian I do not subscribe to the humanist ...As a Christian I do not subscribe to the humanist idea that man is intrinsically good, and only our institutions have made him evil (as Rousseau supposedly learned in an epiphany). <BR/><BR/>I believe that our Creator has endowed us with a conscience and inscribed His law on our hearts, but that our inclination as fallen individuals is to war against that which we know (both through that witness and the evidence offered by creation itself) to be right and true. <BR/><BR/>I don't disagree with your view that Iraq is a strategic trap, as we're likely to learn quite soon. But I would oppose it even if it could be considered a roaring success and a strategic masterstroke, because it is a war of aggression and thus morally impermissible.William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-69344867821725386022008-08-30T00:10:00.000-06:002008-08-30T00:10:00.000-06:00I have to ask: Do you believe that man is inherent...I have to ask: Do you believe that man is inherently evil?<BR/><BR/>It bears greatly on my understanding of where you are coming from with this post.<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, I opposed the Iraq war for an entirely different reason: it was (and is) a strategic trap that the national leadership fell headlong into. I believe the Iraq affair should have been handled in an entirely different manner.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-10632581320318460012008-08-29T19:59:00.000-06:002008-08-29T19:59:00.000-06:00WillHave you ever had a sleep test done? You might...Will<BR/><BR/>Have you ever had a sleep test done? You might suffer from sleep apnea. I was recently diagnosed with it and they will be performing an operation to correct the problem.<BR/>May the Lord bless you in your job search. He is a faithful God who always provides for us even when we know ourselves to be unworthy. <BR/><BR/>StuartAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-46377374168232947142008-08-29T19:31:00.000-06:002008-08-29T19:31:00.000-06:00"Mot 814am: Does the last sentence refer to the mo..."Mot 814am: Does the last sentence refer to the movie, or to American culture?" - Doc<BR/><BR/>Both. It does hang there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-5259422949838553702008-08-29T19:26:00.000-06:002008-08-29T19:26:00.000-06:00Doc, sorry for getting into the "heat" of the mome...Doc, sorry for getting into the "heat" of the moment and letting those nasty grammatical habits rear their head. Were you politely telling me to proof read better or simply to shut up until my writing skills were up to, in your mind, the level of this present discourse? I can't tell you how many times I would love to go back and edit my comments but that's unfortunately not possible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-73094314256247893222008-08-28T16:37:00.000-06:002008-08-28T16:37:00.000-06:00Doc -- Thanks! I was obviously dozing off toward t...Doc -- Thanks! I was obviously dozing off toward the end of writing my comment. That's odd: My prose usually puts <I>others</I> to sleep....<BR/><BR/>(I'm serious about dozing off, incidentally. In recent months I've developed a really nasty case of narcolepsy.)<BR/><BR/>Here's how the comment should have read:<BR/><BR/>robin, that wasn't a typo, and Tim Richards' experience is not unique. I'm aware of a few other cases in which soldiers subject to stop-loss orders found their service contracts extended by decades.<BR/><BR/>What that means, in practical terms, is that they would be required to serve in active duty, and/or the reserves, for the indefinite future, until the military decides it's finished with them.William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-60694483045429376712008-08-28T14:26:00.000-06:002008-08-28T14:26:00.000-06:00If GWB and his crew keep playing with Russia, we'l...If GWB and his crew keep playing with Russia, we'll all be nuked sooner than we think.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-52035280179194611752008-08-28T14:02:00.000-06:002008-08-28T14:02:00.000-06:00The military will always forever bea draconian ins...The military will always forever be<BR/>a draconian institution. Young men<BR/>who think the military is a macho<BR/>path to manhood are its staple fodder.<BR/><BR/>Robin's recruiter lied? Of couse he lied,<BR/>he's under orders to lie.<BR/><BR/>Joining was mistake #1.<BR/>Fleeing was mistake #2.<BR/><BR/>Looks like Robin will spend the<BR/>next 15 months playing Halo, Sniper,<BR/>Mercenary, Combat and Grand Theft Auto<BR/>in the brig rather than in the barracks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-15479337446406508712008-08-28T13:26:00.000-06:002008-08-28T13:26:00.000-06:00Will 552pm: Please review the ending sentence of y...Will 552pm: Please review the ending sentence of your response at 5.52pm<BR/><BR/>Mot 808am: please review paragraph six, first sentence.<BR/><BR/>Mot 814am: Does the last sentence refer to the movie, or to American culture?<BR/><BR/>anon 849am: What is the object of your first sentence? It has adjectives but no object.<BR/><BR/>troll Doc Ellis 124Doc Ellis 124https://www.blogger.com/profile/08543939658083915285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-72859621050155322762008-08-28T09:49:00.000-06:002008-08-28T09:49:00.000-06:00and of course we have too many of the; i support t...and of course we have too many of the; i support the war, i wave a flag as i do nothing but eat ice cream and cake,and deny the truth, live in ignorance and hide behind patriotism which is a virus not a holy thing. I am surrounded by them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-70983577688324700962008-08-28T09:14:00.000-06:002008-08-28T09:14:00.000-06:00"nobody will even remember that the USA ever exist..."nobody will even remember that the USA ever existed."...<BR/><BR/>There was a movie called "Idiocracy", full of cussing so I wouldn't recommend for the family and I certainly won't see it again, but it did paint a picture of Americas culture that is all too obvious. It's incredibly mean and stupid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-37346312748756189972008-08-28T09:08:00.000-06:002008-08-28T09:08:00.000-06:00"Once you sign that contract and take your second ..."Once you sign that contract and take your second oath, they own you."....<BR/><BR/><BR/>Daniel, I used to believe that, having served in the military like my dad, but no longer. <BR/><BR/>I look at it this way. If because of some clause buried deep within sub-section Z sub-article X-ray addendum 666, the signer of said "contract" forgoes all freedoms to originator (liar) of said "legal" instrument, (to be freely reinterpreted as to "legality" or "terms" as originator so wills at any time or for any reason) then I see no recourse for the person with a conscience but to say "NO". <BR/><BR/>Do absolutely nothing even if it means getting tossed in the slammer or skipping the country. I say this for single people more so than those with family since "family" is sort of an oxymoron within the military establishment.<BR/><BR/>They have violated the spirit of association and contract so you needn't participate in their evil charade.<BR/><BR/>As someone who at seventeen didn't know better I was browbeaten into believing the garbage being force fed to me. You don't see them recruiting forty-somethings with no prior military experience do you? If they were forced to only go after the older crowd they'd never have enough robots to program.<BR/><BR/>This is something anyone in Idaho or any other state for that matter. Notice your congress-critters with their cliche'd posters and find out how many trumpet "strong defense" next to "protecting the unborn". <BR/><BR/>Clearly there is a disconnect here. One cannot advocate blowing people to kingdom come, and the robbing through taxes in order to support those actions, and then pooh-pooh the taking of a life before they breathe their first. <BR/><BR/>I just don't get it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-62918674555928329292008-08-28T00:39:00.000-06:002008-08-28T00:39:00.000-06:00Thank you for your efforts.Thank you for your efforts.Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.com