Libertarian Punk. Keep your filthy hands off!

(photos of kittens to keep your head from exploding when you read this article):

You know how in science fiction movies from the past few decades, any movie that takes place in “the not-too-distant future” will have different cliché literary devices to let you know it’s in the not too distant future? Like they usually have a black president? And you say to yourself  “Sure, OK, that could happen, why not? Race is a non-issue. Race means about as much to me as the color of my cats.”

But then they have other cliché literary devices to let you know that in this not-too-distant future, while things look much the same, they are VERY different? Like in the opening scene, the main character will be putting on his tie to go to work, listening to the morning news…but the scene will cut in mid-sentence to the TV newscaster saying something like “….and the rain of frogs and blood that fell from the sky south of downtown this morning is the fourth such event this month. In other news, the Senate voted 61 to 39 today to approve the House bill to allow house pets and house plants to have full voting rights….”

Well, I felt like that today. Actually, I’ve felt like that pretty often in the past year.

I needed a cute kitty chaser too, after Nancy Pelosi told people today “quit your job, follow your dreams, play music, and we’ll take care of your health care”:

BLAHHHH! What kind of Cloward and Piven B.S. is this?

Cloward and Piven “proposed to create a crisis in the current welfare system – by exploiting the gap between welfare law and practice – that would ultimately bring about its collapse and replace it with a system of guaranteed annual income. They hoped to accomplish this end by informing the poor of their rights to welfare assistance, encouraging them to apply for benefits and, in effect, overloading an already overburdened bureaucracy.”

SO…as if that weren’t enough to make your head explode, here are a few unrelated (?) news items today in the fed’s “march to progress”….

Life in prison is ‘cruel and unusual’ punishment for teens, Supreme Court rules

Even for

Milagro Cunningham, a 17-year-old who beat and raped an 8-year-old girl before leaving her to die under 197 pounds of rock in a recycling bin in a remote landfill…

I’m glad that the Supreme Court (a bunch of dudes and liberals in dresses) decided that we don’t wanna be mean to teenagers and give them life in prison for doing things like that. That makes my head want to explode, and no amount of cute kittens can help.

Being appalled at this 6-3 ruling might make you think I’d be happy about this 7-2 ruling that came down the same day (today):

Supreme Court: Sex offenders can be held indefinitely

but I’m not. Here’s why. The ruling:

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday the federal government has the power to keep some sex offenders behind bars indefinitely after they have served their sentences if officials determine those inmates may prove “sexually dangerous” in the future.

“The federal government, as custodian of its prisoners, has the constitutional power to act in order to protect nearby (and other) communities from the danger such prisoners may pose,” Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the 7-2 majority….

seems good on the surface, in a “think of the children!” way, but could be expanded to anything. This means they could probably put citizens in prison if they thought you might be a danger to the government, but had no proof. If they just “feel it’s a good idea” in a “think of the children!” sort of way. (Like if you vote Republican or Libertarian….)

I think that a problem a lot of libertarians and Republicans have is relying too heavily on the Constitution (and on its interpenetration by the guys in dresses. Letting those guys make up the rules as they go along was never the plan of the Founding Fathers.) The Constitution does not GRANT rights, it only tries to ENFORCE rights THAT YOU WERE BORN WITH. It’s all about NATURAL RIGHTS, not what Nanci Pelosi or Harry Reid or even Ron Paul says. It’s what is RIGHT, not what some lawmakers or law interpreters SAY is right.

If you live your life with integrity, you KNOW what’s right, and you don’t need some guy in a dress to tell you so. And Natural Rights (and the Constitution) only include negative rights (which are actually good things), like the right not to be killed for no reason, the right not to be tyrannized and taxed to death. And Natural Rights (and the Constitution) do NOT include and “positive rights” (positive rights are bad things), like the right to “free heath care”, the right to “a good job with benefits”, etc. Because positive rights can only be obtained by stealing from others.

Governments cannot earn money, they can only steal it, borrow it or print it. And none of those help honest people, and none of those are included in Natural Rights. And arrogant and sociopathic thuggish goons like Nanci Pelosi, Harry Reid, Obama, and now apparently the Supreme Court, do not understand Natural Rights. And Governments only have power if YOU give it to them.

I’m not telling people not to vote. I’d say vote for the least statist person who has a chance to win…usually a Republican, put the breaks on the Obama regime Cloward and Piven crap, and after that’s taken care of, we’ll work from there.

Pass this basic info on, brothers and sisters….especially to the youngins.

–Article by Michael W. Dean. www.libertarianpunk.com/

Article exclusive for the Libertarian Republican. Michael W. Dean works for a living in Wyoming, makes protest music, and refuses to buy into the notion that academics in DC can tell him what to do in Wyoming, and he will not pay for the health care of other musicians.