tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post7997627198713138445..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: In Praise of Paul Blart (Updated, January 21)William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-38469115595547330302012-10-28T23:38:31.205-06:002012-10-28T23:38:31.205-06:00Really, Sam? You're that upset over the lack o...Really, Sam? You're that upset over the lack of "spolier warnings" in a review of a three-year-old film?<br /><br />Am I to take from your description that you're <i>formerly</i> patriotic?William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-56050926744329061602009-01-29T21:09:00.000-07:002009-01-29T21:09:00.000-07:00Thanks for the review. Now I know I must see this ...Thanks for the review. Now I know I must see this film!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-27085988701162693922009-01-24T17:43:00.000-07:002009-01-24T17:43:00.000-07:00William - you may want to take a look at this:http...William - you may want to take a look at this:<BR/><BR/>http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-airline-felonies20-2009jan20,0,28578.storyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-44738000037198105552009-01-24T12:21:00.000-07:002009-01-24T12:21:00.000-07:00Thanks for the recommendation. I probably would've...Thanks for the recommendation. I probably would've passed this movie by, at least in the theaters, if not for your review.<BR/><BR/>Another surprisingly good (and anti-oppressive government) film that I saw recently was "The Astronaut Farmer". It's also very family friendly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-11590152103361768402009-01-23T03:15:00.000-07:002009-01-23T03:15:00.000-07:00Friends,Re. the issue of private security firms, t...Friends,<BR/><BR/>Re. the issue of private security firms, these can be good, since they have to obey the law as ordinary citizens and respect the obligation to obey the law of those who are hiring them.<BR/><BR/>However a problem arises when this private security is hired by the state and acquires by proxy the state's "immunity from prosecution." Witness, in our day, the aptly named Blackwater, (the plumber's term for untreated sewage, vs. graywater, the water you wash and bathe with) and, in earlier days, the Nazi SS, which was a private militarized security force of the Nazi Party.<BR/><BR/>The SS was not funded via state budgets of the Reich, or within the German military budget. It funded itself privately by running the concentration camps, renting out therefrom slave labor to German corporations, and looting the property of those it deported to the camps. Altogether an extremely profitable private enterprise - the largest self-employed gang of armed robbers and murderers in history.<BR/><BR/>The Holocaust was only possible because a political party made itself synonymous with the State, and thereafter changed laws and waged war to suit itself. This, to my jaundiced eye, is exactly what the Republican Party has been attempting to do in America for the past 28 years. Don't count them down and out just yet.<BR/><BR/>We need to beware of "private" state-or-party-owned and state-or-party-rented and thus legally unaccountable "security" entities.<BR/><BR/>Yours sincerely,<BR/>Lemuel Gulliver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-24462014142675742682009-01-22T10:46:00.000-07:002009-01-22T10:46:00.000-07:00Slightly off topic, one of my fellow CopWatch memb...Slightly off topic, one of my fellow CopWatch members posted this link in the forum today:<BR/><BR/>http://www.opednews.com/articles/MYSTERIOUS-PRISON-BUSES-IN-by-Ellen-Brown-090122-266.html<BR/><BR/>HORRIFYING, to say the least, especially if it's happening in one's own backyard.<BR/><BR/>Back closer to topic: <BR/><BR/>Fascist Nation, I fully agree with you that private security is indeed a noble profession, so long as it is genuinely <B><I>private</I></B>, for the protection of genuinely <B><I>private property</I></B>. Unfortunately, the sheeple have been hypnotized into believing that "private security" is defined by the Wackenhut goons described in the article to which I've linked above, a system of hired thugs paid with stolen tax money through dummy state corporations to terrorize citizens on <B><I>public</I></B> property. Until this misconception can be corrected, the "Paul Blart" image will probably prevail, with the profession continuing to be filled with dregs-of-society employees that a minimum wage job of this sort naturally attracts in consonance with market forces. (BTW, I've never understood the logic behind paying armored car drivers and guards something near minimum wage for guarding thousands or millions of dollars worth of money or precious metals. This would seem to be an open display of the premium one REALLY puts on the security of the assets being guarded.)liberranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555275410576294081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-55933759523733877242009-01-21T22:03:00.000-07:002009-01-21T22:03:00.000-07:00There is something noble in private security. Peo...There is something noble in private security. People hired to protect private property and in some cases lives. Yet, the corporate media casts the security guard as inept, bumbling, frail, senile, slumbering, slothful and even corrupt. Yet I would take a security guard any day over 100 cops. For the security guard works for tp protect, while a cop serves to loot and oppress.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-43669532645604678142009-01-21T19:57:00.000-07:002009-01-21T19:57:00.000-07:00nemesis boy or girl.nemesis boy or girl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-66375907440531941132009-01-21T08:58:00.000-07:002009-01-21T08:58:00.000-07:00Dear Mr. Grigg,Evidently you enjoy movies as much ...Dear Mr. Grigg,<BR/><BR/>Evidently you enjoy movies as much as I do. Like you, I frequently compare real live with screen fiction. As soon as I heard about <I>Mall Cop</I> I wanted to see it, and your review clinches it. Unfortunately, I’m going to have to wait for it on DVD.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://daveeriqat.wordpress.com/" REL="nofollow">Dave - Erstwhile Urban Wanderer</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-62760073055256542932009-01-21T00:35:00.000-07:002009-01-21T00:35:00.000-07:00Don't you think that maybe we should be infiltrati...Don't you think that maybe we should be infiltrating their ranks via volunteer "police auxiliary" groups so that we can keep an eye on their movements and equipment. Maybe a ride-around situation. Maybe a little sabotage say vinegar on the tazzer batteries. I don't believe that they are intelligent enough to spot a spy. They would think that you were trying to help. Heck we could even have a bake sale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-48864241972511146492009-01-20T20:38:00.000-07:002009-01-20T20:38:00.000-07:00May your upcoming delivery be special in all the r...May your upcoming delivery be special in all the right ways! I humbly suggest the name Asher for your new son. "Asher Grigg" has a nice sound - and meaning - to it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-34800964590962321612009-01-20T20:26:00.000-07:002009-01-20T20:26:00.000-07:00Baby Name Comment! With the deadly state of our Na...Baby Name Comment! With the deadly state of our Nation, I believe Tabitha would be pertinent. May we, the Christian Church, raise a Nation from the dead...as was Tabitha by Peter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-26184284472404521212009-01-20T17:48:00.000-07:002009-01-20T17:48:00.000-07:00And Lemuel, police officers are paid with taxes. M...And Lemuel, police officers are paid with taxes. Money coerced at gunpoint or the threat thereof. The common street thug doesn't respect you when he takes the contents of your wallet at gunpoint. Why on earth do you think a badgethug will respect you? <BR/><BR/> -Sans AuthoritasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-1231555249948714022009-01-20T17:46:00.000-07:002009-01-20T17:46:00.000-07:00Violence is only acceptable against an active thre...Violence is only acceptable against an active threat to one's life and property. One may not perpetrate violence on those who had nothing to do with an atrocity in order to make a political statement. That's terrorism. Leave that barbarism to the State. <BR/><BR/> -Sans AuthoritasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-55814737862001072402009-01-20T15:08:00.000-07:002009-01-20T15:08:00.000-07:00I'm with liberranter on this one. I share the nag...I'm with liberranter on this one. I share the nagging suspicion that the thugocrats are <I>deliberately baiting</I> us into some sort of incendiary action.<BR/><BR/>The state violated the ZAP long ago, and continues unprovoked aggressions against its own citizens by the second today. So, by a strict standard, return fire is certainly morally defensible, even now. (It would be a pretty easy task to argue that Jefferson and company would probably have "returned attentions" well before now.)<BR/><BR/>But I don't think we're in a position where such acts of retribution would yield anything positive, and I am CERTAIN that the enemy has plenty of staff on point just waiting to claim the moral high ground (this being, of course, a marketing strategy having nothing whatever to do with morality) if any of us are imprudent to do anything in cold blood. (And then there are days in which I cannot decide whether our reticence in this, after so many years of open attack, is a hallmark of humanity or lunacy. I like to, er, "cling" to the former.)<BR/><BR/>It's the "cold blood" thing that will get us in trouble. The answer to rape is not gathering a posse to hunt down the attacker after the fact, as powerful as such motivations may be. The answer, of course, is two rounds to the center of mass, delivered in direct response to an offer of violence, by the intended victim. This not only makes the point with the minimum of ethical ambiguity, but it simultaneously illustrates a viable and sustainable solution.<BR/><BR/>So it is with the onslaught of the police state. Sadly, I fear that the fight may yet come to our doors, no matter what we might do to try and avoid it. (The state thugs seem hellbent on taking all peaceable options off the table. They are not interested in restoring our sovereignty, and they are not asking.) In the meantime, we should stay focused and remember that cold-blood vigilantism does not win hearts the way that hot-blood defense of hearth and home does.Kevin Wilmethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-32056466740510391712009-01-20T14:43:00.000-07:002009-01-20T14:43:00.000-07:00Will,Do you consider "The Matrix" to be one of the...Will,<BR/><BR/>Do you consider "The Matrix" to be one of the best anti-government films out there. Sure, it isn't wholesome family entertainment, but I think its stark depiction of a fantasy world inhabited by a sleeping, unaware population makes a powerful and masterful statement against the powers that be. It's also pretty exciting and masterfully written. Consider:<BR/><BR/>1. Billions of people plugged into the matrix, leaving out their lives as if all is well and unaware of the true nature of their reality.<BR/><BR/>2. The red pill, which signfies those who are ready to accept the truth; and the blue pill, made for those who are accept unconditionally their existence.<BR/><BR/>3. Agents. Nuff said.<BR/><BR/>4. Morpheus' training session with Neo, which is loaded with references to our suppressive government. He describes people who are dependent on the Matrix and will fight to protect it; the mind has a hard time letting go after being fooled for so long; and many more.<BR/><BR/>Terrific movie that's better when viewed from an anti-government point of view.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-55714541141702086582009-01-20T10:53:00.000-07:002009-01-20T10:53:00.000-07:00Lemuel Gulliver said:These fat, porcine, and neuro...Lemuel Gulliver said:<BR/><BR/><I>These fat, porcine, and neuronally challenged bullies, needing guns and the ability to brazenly murder us on a whim in order to give them their sense of arrogant superiority over us, will never be curbed until they are forced to respect the public will of we the people as being MORE POWERFUL than they are.</I><BR/><BR/>Too true. Unfortunately, the Amoricon public, or perhaps more accurately, a sufficient number thereof who are members of a sufficiently powerful and politically influential demographic, have not suffered the unearned barbarism of these thugscum vermin. Until this starts happening on a recurring basis (i.e., a rash of white yuppie "soccer moms" from the 'burbs begin suffering police brutality) and unless said Amoricon demographic group responds by heavily arming itself and returning fire wherever and whenever possible, I seriously doubt that anything will change.<BR/><BR/><I>To that end, I suggest that ever more meek submission on our part will not suffice...Their minds will remain fossilized in filth and their hearts frozen in arrogant hatred of their fellow human beings...I suggest that perhaps a dozen or two Murrah-Building-style demolitions of police headquarters in various aggrieved jurisdictions would send a powerful message - the only one they would understand - to these thugs, that their own survival depends on their treating the people who pay their salaries with more respect.</I><BR/><BR/>In principle I'm inclined to agree with this tactic. Although as a libertarian I am loath to consider being the first to initiate aggressive violence, a case can easily be made that it is <B>they</B> who have <B>already initiated aggressive violence AGAINST US</B> and that any such retaliatory measures would be in self-defense. <BR/><BR/>OTOH, there is always the issue of proportionality to consider, as well as concern for any innocent victims, the people so casually dismissed by these thugscum swine as "collateral damage." The Murrah Building bombing resulted in a hideous death toll of innocents, namely small children in the building's day care center, as well as citizen customers (many no doubt unwilling)of the various federal bureaucracies operating inside the building. <BR/><BR/>Finally, I'm not sure that a repeat of OKC would do anything in the near term other than precipitate something on the order of another Oradeur-sur-Glane (http://www.oradour.info) or Lidice (http://www.lidice-memorial.cz), as our Overlords' Protectors begin to see themselves as under seige by the occupied citizenry.liberranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555275410576294081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-60583713286850171042009-01-20T10:43:00.000-07:002009-01-20T10:43:00.000-07:00Thanks for the review. I wouldn't have invested t...Thanks for the review. I wouldn't have invested time in the movie except for your recommendation. Nice change of pace!Thomas Morehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13520297059871167327noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-83616709313301235402009-01-20T08:16:00.000-07:002009-01-20T08:16:00.000-07:00If I'm not mistaken, I believe the comedian and ac...If I'm not mistaken, I believe the comedian and actor Kevin James was a former college fullback who possessed 4.75 speed in the 40 before blowing out a knee. I'm thinking he played for Syracuse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-34701227815030054752009-01-20T05:02:00.000-07:002009-01-20T05:02:00.000-07:00Dear Will,Here is one of our handsomely blond and ...Dear Will,<BR/><BR/>Here is one of our handsomely blond and Germanic "public servants" extolling the humane marvels of the taser. Strike me dead, but he is the spitting image of the monster Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler's chillingly sadistic deputy in the Nazi SS. A good lesson in how Satan can appear outwardly beautiful and wholesome:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEABEFR-dgg&NR=1<BR/><BR/>And here is a story of a Missouri teenager, 16 years old and looking to be all of 120 pounds, who accidentally fell 35 feet from a highway overpass onto the shoulder below, and broke his back and his foot. When police arrived, because, they said, he was "unresponsive and incoherent," they tasered him 19 times. Yes, nineteen times. I suppose, had he been already dead, they might have tasered him 750 times to try and make him "responsive and coherent." I guess the police in Amerikka fancy themselves as students of Herr Doktor Frankenstein* - revive the injured and dying with high-voltage electroshock therapy.<BR/><BR/>*(Or perhaps, Herr Doktor Josef Mengele.)<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo6UwNu7QJ0&feature=related<BR/><BR/>The police claimed this kid with a broken back was trying to get up and wander into traffic, so, practising medicine without a license, and "for his own safety," they tasered him. Nineteen times. Right. They also said that the unarmed, unconscious 16-year-old kid with the broken back was shouting "Shoot cops, shoot, kill cops" and they feared for their lives.<BR/><BR/>Right. I'll buy that. And I'll also buy any bridges the Missouri police want to sell me. And I'm sure he was tasered, not by the police at all, but by the Easter Bunny.<BR/><BR/>Lying, filthy, motherf***ing sacks of dogshit. I thirst. I yearn. I wish, please, for only one boon from a just God - I wish I could get to watch them spend eternity writhing and scorching in the utmost depths of Hell, while Satan crushes their bones slowly and slowly, for eons, in his blood-soaked jaws.<BR/><BR/>No, I take that back. It would be too kind a fate.<BR/><BR/>Sequel: The kid DID survive - thanks to the resilience of youth, but he cannot remember, after being tasered nineteen times, what happened to him:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Evh-RL6yERI&NR=1<BR/><BR/>Yours in rage,<BR/>Lemuel Gulliver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-35967836813650998502009-01-20T02:51:00.000-07:002009-01-20T02:51:00.000-07:00Dear Will,These fat, porcine, and neuronally chall...Dear Will,<BR/><BR/>These fat, porcine, and neuronally challenged bullies, needing guns and the ability to brazenly murder us on a whim in order to give them their sense of arrogant superiority over us, will never be curbed until they are forced to respect the public will of we the people as being MORE POWERFUL than they are.<BR/><BR/>To that end, I suggest that ever more meek submission on our part will not suffice. Waving placards in front of police HQ will not suffice. Filing lawsuits, which must, if successful, be paid with the tax money extorted from the very public which suffers at their hands, will not suffice. Church memorial services and the tears of bereaved families will not suffice.<BR/><BR/>Their minds will remain fossilized in filth and their hearts frozen in arrogant hatred of their fellow human beings.<BR/><BR/>I suggest that perhaps a dozen or two Murrah-Building-style demolitions of police headquarters in various aggrieved jurisdictions would send a powerful message - the only one they would understand - to these thugs, that their own survival depends on their treating the people who pay their salaries with more respect.<BR/><BR/>Other actions of a similar but more viciously personal nature, similar to those popularized in Vietnam by the Viet Cong, would also serve to instill abject terror and respect for their self-chosen enemy in their unimaginative and ugly little minds.<BR/><BR/>Once upon a time, they confined their vile predations to poor blacks. Today, as you have illustrated time and again on this blog, even middle-class whites are discovering the true nature of these filthy walking dog-turds calling themselves "law enforcement" and "public servants."<BR/><BR/>It is up to them. If they continue in their thuggery and murder, they can only blame themselves for whatever just fate might befall them at the hands of enraged mobs wielding kitchen knives, scissors, and tire irons. It WILL come to that some day, if they continue down their chosen path.<BR/><BR/>Yours in expectation,<BR/>Lemuel Gulliver.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-42726426896064157992009-01-20T02:05:00.000-07:002009-01-20T02:05:00.000-07:00Congratulations and best wishes on the upcoming bi...Congratulations and best wishes on the upcoming birth. I wouldn't worry too much about the name. As a mother of five children myself (only one of which was "pre-named"), as soon as you see him, his unique personality will inspire an appropriate name. That being said, I like William Wallace Grigg :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-39111237055045205352009-01-20T00:19:00.000-07:002009-01-20T00:19:00.000-07:00Mr. Grigg:I was introduced to your work some month...Mr. Grigg:<BR/><BR/>I was introduced to your work some months ago by David Codrea at <A HREF="http://www.waronguns.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">War On Guns</A>, and on the strength of it yours has become my #2 blog read as a result. You have a real gift for words, a firm grasp of history, and the stones to say what matters in a time when such is not welcome. And further, you even do it with class. (If ever you get discouraged that your work is in vain, please know that it is not--it <I>matters</I>.)<BR/><BR/>I thoroughly enjoyed the piece here on "Blart"; this is precisely the sort of thing that lends depth to an otherwise dreary roll call of topics. Even the most hardened among us still need--and love--to laugh. And with a brand-new daughter myself (5 weeks and even more opinionated than I am), I even have a need to find family-worthy material. :-)<BR/><BR/>I would hardly have noticed the film otherwise, but I suspect I'll seek it out now. Thank you for the tip, and keep up the resistance. (And congrats on your impending arrival!)Kevin Wilmethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18368887768008126052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-42821000909582495502009-01-19T18:36:00.000-07:002009-01-19T18:36:00.000-07:00Down with the State!!!!!!! Up with Free Enterprise...Down with the State!!!!!!! Up with Free Enterprise!!!!!!!!!!<BR/>The former the parasite the latter the hostAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-82447237474494133682009-01-19T18:15:00.000-07:002009-01-19T18:15:00.000-07:00"Federal Crowd Control, 1918. Machine guns in fron..."Federal Crowd Control, 1918. Machine guns in front, modified phalanx. Soldiers on sides assigned to upstairs windows. Wilson feared antiwar riots, losing mind to small strokes."<BR/><BR/>Or this link (sorry, the other one contained a few photos with nudity) : http://www.nyc-architecture.com/SPEC/027.jpgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com