Hugo Chavez Wins the Silverwolves’ “Pigasus Maximus” Award

In honor of his speech a few days ago, in which he praised mass-murderers Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, and terrorist and murderer “Carlos the Jackal”, the supreme council of the Silverwolves’ Forestry Action Committee has decided to award the Venezuelan jackanapes its “Pigasus Maximus” award. This is not awarded in honor of the President’s porcine appearance, so different from the lean looks of his fellow countrymen, but rather to reward him for his moral turpitude in praising some of the worst mass-murdering criminals in history. Chavez has shown the true moral values of the far Left, indistingushable from the moral values of the Nazis, and it is for that reason that we Silverwolves have honored him with our annual award, so eagerly sought after by some of the world’s most heinous war criminals.

Of course we can well remember the mass-murderer Idi Amin, who is estimated to have murdered around 300,000 Human Beings. After expelling the South Asians, consisting of old Indian and Pakistani families who had mostly gone into trading in Uganda, Amin murdered his 300,000 Christians and Animists, mostly by bashing in their heads. As you may well recall, the reaction of Jimmy Carter was to say it was disgusting, leave it at that, and then permit the genocide to go ahead, just as his fellow party member Bill Clinton did a score of years later in Rwanda. Both men could have quickly stopped the genocides with American military intervention. Both found the “moral courage” to let massive numbers of women and children be bashed and hacked to death without lifting a finger to intervene. Shows how the Democrats really care about people. Especially Black Folk.

And Chavez seems to forget, though he probably approves it, the fact of the massive involvement of the PLO in propping up Amin’s reign of terror and bloodshed. And according to the UN-Published Book “Uganda and Human Rights”, Amin’s head torturer was the PLO member Ali Tawili, whose favorite game was to remove his victim’s anus with a bayonet during interrogation. These are the men that Hugo Chavez praises and holds up to the world as heroes.

And of course, he can’t forget his fellow despot Robert Mugabe, whose security forces have murdered, tortured, and starved countless Zimbabweans. I suppose dripping molten plastic on the genitals of men and women by Mugabe’s security forces is a form of political argument that Chavez can well appreciate. And the mass starvation of children due to Mugabe’s inflation, well, that small potatoes to Hugo the Porcine, who certainly hasn’t had a hunger pang since he’s been in office, judging from his girth.

The crimes of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad are legion and well known right now, since the press has been focusing on them the last few years. Hanging children for being gay, denying the Holocaust, threatening to commit mass-murder against Israeli civilians, murdering and torturing his own people when they dissent, rigging elections — there’s certainly a lot there for Chavez to praise. Probably a foretaste of life ahead in the Venezuelan Marxist paradise.

And finally, not to be left out is the mass murderer and Fascist terrorist, Carlos the Jackal. Evidently Hugo thinks it a great travesty of justice that Carlos rots in a French jail for murder. One can only wonder what the Venezuelan conception of the Law will be under El Pigasus Maximus. Certainly one radically different from the Anglo-Jeffersonian view of the law.

To deny mass murder and praise murderers is not only deeply disgusting, but it is a crime. Hugo Chavez has committed the crime of praising murderers, excusing their genocidal crimes, and encouraging terrorism. He is obviously one of the greatest Miscreants currently roaming the face of the earth, along with the child-murderer Ahmedinejad. Until he is removed from office, Jeffersonian-Libertarians should institute a boycott of all Venezuelan goods and services, and refrain from trading in the Bolivar, in order to teach the people who voted this Miscreant into power, that there is an economic price to pay for spitting on Morality.

Therefore, with the power vested in me as spokesman for the Silverwolves’ Forestry Action Committee, I, Lobo Silverwolf, do hereby invest Hugo Chavez with our “Pigasus Maximus” Award, which he richly deserves. May the millions of victims of those he praises achieve Justice.

Hooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Socialism Hits Home: The UCLA Student Tuition Riots

So the bubble finally burst. The Keynesian Socialism which has run California as a Progressive-Liberal State since the days of Edmund G. “Pat”, has finally spent itself into its inevitable oblivion, and now the populace must pay the Austrian School Piper.

For years Californians have passively paid their very high income taxes on top of an immorally large sales tax in order to jail tens of thousands of innocents on Cannabis charges, and pay the salaries of the Prison Guard industry which benefits so lucridly from these immoral incarcerations. They have paid for the bloated salaries of countless state commission boards, whose members earn in a year multiples of what the average Americans AGI is, while only having to attend a handful of meetings. They have wasted it on their profligate State pension schemes, which delivers to state workers a pension equal to the income of a retired multimillionaire after only a score of years on the job. They have wasted it on the exorbitant salaries of the Chancellors of the University of California who salaries are in the multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars (not including benefits, pension, and residence in something more than a dorm room), and the thousands of administrators and bureaucrats who run not only the University, but all the other countless branches of California government. And the students have not cared, just as the pensioners and medicaid receivers never cared, as long as the Socialist gravy train kept a-comin.

And now they have butted their heads up against the many-pronged horns of economic reality, and the reality is that California is the shining example of the failed welfare-Keynesian State, with welfare for the triumvirate of some of the poor, the corporations, and the state bureaucrats and pension-grabbers. And the students are angry.

Well, we’re sorry, kids, but the 32% tuition increase you are getting is just what you deserve for ignoring all the fiscal injustices that we listed above, and not voting for Libertarian politicians. And still the ignoramus Liberals calling in to John Rothmann’s talk show demand more taxes on the rich. Yes, drive even more of the affluent out of your state, so that you can shift the “fair share” of your welfare to the working youth and the students. After all the students have their whole life — and forty years of drudgery paying for your pensions and welfare — ahead of them, so let’s throw part of the burden on their backs.

UCLA students, you have only yourselves and your fellow Californians to blame for the 32% increase in tuition, because you failed to understand Capitalist Economics. You were very easily suckered into the Keynesian lies, that money doesn’t need a commodity backing, and that a benevolent central bank will always do what is best for the nation, not best for the corporations and their close associates. One reason your costs are going up is because the dollar is being undermined by the Obama-Pelosi-Bush-McConnell collectivists, and their minions at the FED,  who want their warfare-welfare state as planned, no matter what the sincere voters may believe, by spreading their propaganda messages of “change”. Ha, they have left you with small change, and only a year into their regime.

But actually, students,  you individually are to blame if you didn’t vote for Ron Paul for president in the primaries, or later Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party. If you voted for Obama or McCain, you voted for massive inflation and a continuation of the warfare-welfare state, and you’re getting exactly what you voted for. And there is a certain justice in that.

If you didn’t vote for Ron Paul, then don’t get mad at the cops; get mad at the face staring back at you from the mirror.

Enjoy your poverty, socialists. You voted it on yourselves.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Tuesday Afternoon: Another Islamofascist Murder

Silverwolf wonders what you were doing Tuesday afternoon: watching your portfolio? getting drunk? visiting your great-great-grandfather at the kindergarten?

Well, for one Human Consciousness, last Tuesday, a 20-year-old Somali woman, it meant being buried up to her waist, and being stoned to death before a mob of 200, for the so-called “crime” of adultery. This sentence was passed and carried out by the al-Shahab sect in Southern Somalia, under the court of Sheikh Ibrahim Abdirahman.

Jeffersonian Libertarians spit on such a court and such a sect, and say that what they have done is nothing but plain murder, which deserves that the culprits spend the rest of their lives in jail, in chains and at hard labor. These religio-Fascists are trying to turn the words Human Individual into the word Garbage, and that is why they must destroy and denigrate all that is sacred in the Human Being. What al-Shahab has done and is doing is a grave Crime and deserves the gravest sentence — life in solitary at hard labor without parole.

But sadly this is not the first time al-Sahab has committed this atrocity, for in the past year they have destroyed four Human Lives through the same heinous mechanism, and just like all Totalitarian butchers throughout history, they must first find some tissue of legal semblance, so they don’t have to face the self-awareness that they are murders and amongst the lowest rung of Humanity. And when their names are known, let them never be forgotten, and be cursed throughout history, and when we come to that possible time of universal peace on earth, with murder a thing of the past, then the Libertarians of the future we recall the names of these vile men, and spit on their memories. They will be reviled into Eternity, never doubt it.

But what of the moral outrage of the Islamic World at these crimes carried out in its name? Well, the silence is deafening. No word of condemnation from other Civil Rights scathouses like Saudi Arabia, racist Malaysia, or War Criminal Khadafi’s socialist paradise (remember the napalm he dropped in his war on Chad? or does Cardinal Blair’s exculpation wipe away all Sins, including Lockerbie?) Silverwolf ain’t heard the Palestinian Authority, or Syria, or Hamas, or Hizballah condemn it either, or pledge to raise an Islamic Army to invade Somalia and put an end to it.

And it isn’t too hard to figure out why there is no outrage. It’s because millions of Muslims must agree with the sentence, in their hatred for Women’s Femininity, and sexuality itself. These old wrinkled Mullahs of the fanatical sects of Islam are envious of the sexual enjoyment of the young, and that is why they promulgate these deeply immoral and deeply anti-Jeffersonian laws. They hate sex.

And they hate Women. For know, this murder by stoning is not the first case in history, but the fourth murder by the Somali Islamofascists in the last year.

Last year, a 13-year old girl was stoned to death, after she had been raped. Being raped, according to these perverted, twisted Thugs, is the same as adultery, and so they could get their rocks off by murdering a 13-year old girl. And the Islamic World is silent.

Earlier this month, an unmarried 29-year old man was stoned to death for having sex with a 20-year old unmarried woman. The woman, who is pregnant, is being spared — until she gives birth.  Then she too will face the sadistic bloodbath prepared by these perverts. And the Islamic World is silent.

President Obama says Islam is a religion of Peace. Evidently, it is the peace of Silence in the face of Tyranny and Murder.

One day, the Libertarian-Jeffersonian Revolution will drive this Tyranny and Murder from the face of the Earth.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Ron Paul and King Henry VIII vs. Barack Obama and Queen Pelosi

There’s no doubt about it, King Henry VIII was a right S.O.B., a real Miscreant. (And is it true that his first words on meeting Anne Bolyn were “Oh! What a pretty neck!” ?) But it seems that even Henry had certain scruples when it came to taxing his subjects, if we are to believe the excellent buffing-up job done on him by one William Shakespeare, a London playwright who we hear has been making quite a splash on the British and International stages, these last few hundred years. May his success continue anon. (And let it be said that he is a favorite among us Silverwolves, and we often perform his works around the campfire. Silverwolf has even endeavoured to rework one of his most famous plays, adapting it to the physical anomalies of Wolves, and producing in the effort a piece entitled “King Were”, about an aging King of the Werewolves.) ( Bloggers note: Werewolves are distant cousins to Silverwolves, differing only in their copious hirsuteness.)

These aforementioned scruples regarding taxation (or “exactions” and “commissions” in Elizabethan terms) come forth in Act I Scene II of Shakespeare’s “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth” in which Henry,  and the architect and benefitor of these “exactions”, Cardinal Wolsey, are joined in court by Queen Katherine and Lord Norfolk. The Queen brings it to the attention of the King that there is grave unrest in England due to the taxes which Wolsey has imposed on the masses in the name of the King. This has led to treasonous talk in a folk once enamoured with the King (or so Shakespeare would have us believe — recall he was writing in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, whose father Henry was, and knew which side his bread was buttered on). But let the Bard’s words mostly take over from here.

Firstly, Queen Katherine relates, it appears that the folks are so hepped-up that they use “Language unmannerly; yea, such which breaks the sides of loyalty, and almost appears In Loud Rebellion.”

Lord Norfolk, a secret opponent of Cardinal Wolsey and his rapacious ways, now joins in. “Not almost appears. It doth appear: for upon these taxations, The clothiers all, not able to maintain The many to them longing, have put off The spinsters, carders, fullers, weavers who, Unfit for other life, compell’d by hunger And lack of other means, in desperate manner, Daring the event to the teeth, are all in uproar, And danger serves among them.” Gee, sort of sounds like the raucous “Townhall Meetings” we were having a while back, where formerly a “Townhall Meeting” meant sitting meekly and listening to a Democratic or Republican Congressman deliver a half-hour of Collectivist, big-government, propaganda. It also sounds very much like the mass of unemployed and underemployed Americans, who must cope with the bi-partisan and FED-induced simultaneous inflation and depression, right at the time when their cash incomes are being reduced, and their income taxes and “exactions” are being increased (such as the coming mandatory monthly pay-off to the insurance industry mafia, thanks to your local Democrat Congressman). Obama and his Democrats are quickly financially wrecking the mass of the American populace, as they try to keep prices artificially high for their Homebuilding Industry friends, and interest rates artificially low, for their Banking Industry friends. The Democrats — the worst enemy the working man in America ever had, next to the Nazis.

King Henry, genuinely surprised, exclaims “Taxation! Wherein? and what taxation?”, and Katherine replies, in further description, “These exactions, Whereof my sovereign would have note, they are Most pestilent to the hearing; and to hear ‘em, The back is sacrifice to the load.”

Now growing impatient, King Hank finally blurts out “Still exaction! The nature of it? Of what kind, let’s know, Is this exaction?”

Finally, after five minutes of speeches, Katherine gets to the details. “The subject’s grief Comes through commissions, which compel from each the sixth part of his substance, to be levied without delay; and the pretence for this Is nam’d your wars in France.” (Maybe Shakespeare, who few know actually changed his name from Quiverstick for stage effect, really meant to write “Afghanistan” ?) Continuing, “This makes bold mouths; Tongues suit their duties out; and cold hearts freeze Allegiance to them; their curses now Live where there prayers did; and it’s come to pass, This tractable obedience is a slave to each incensed will.” In other words, folks in England are getting “quite cross” with the government.

Henry’s humane response is, “By my life, This is against our pleasure.” Then Cardinal Wolsey uses the age old defense of bureaucrats of passing the buck on the blame. Firstly, he says that the judges OK’d the taxes, so he figured it was fine to impose the exactions. Then he bemoans the sad fact that people have been putting him down unfairly, “traduced by slanderous tongues”. And finally he comes up with the classic Democrat argument that we can’t let Constitutionalists get in the way of carrying out unConstitutional programs: “We must not stint our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers”, “If we shall stand still, In fear our motion will be mock’d or carp’d at, We should take root here where we sit, or sit State-statues only.” In other words, ignore dissent and injustice, and just go ahead and do what you want to do, the Constitution and the Vox Populi be damned.

But this is too much for Henry VIII, who sounds a surprisingly free-market, Constitutionalist, note in his reply to Wolsey: “Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be fear’d. Have you a precedent Of this commission? I believe, not any. We must not rend our subjects from our laws, And stick them in our will. Sixth part of each? A trembling contribution! Why, we take From every tree lop, bark, and part o’ the timber; And, though we leave it with a root, thus hack’d, The air will drink the sap.” This portrays the exact dilemma of modern America, as the Democrats destroy the will to work and produce, which leads to a poorer society, exactly the society we are getting under the Democrats and Quisling-Republicans.

Then Henry gives instructions that the taxes be immediately revoked, and all who have been punished for resisting it be pardoned. Cardinal Wolsey, who easily tops Henry in the “right S.O.B.” category, after receiving the orders, craftily tells his minion to “Let it be nois’d about, That through our intercession this revokement and pardon comes.” A real politician was
Wolsey, who would have fitted in most comfortably with our Congress.

It is heartwarming to note Henry’s outrage at an income tax of one-sixth, or 16%, and his instant rescinding of this immoral outrage. Compare the morally-castrated American populace, as they let themselves be extorted by income taxes of 25-40%, with additional taxes coming up in the Healthcare scam about to add another exaction to the heavy toll, by which government loots every paycheck in the land it hypocritically calls “Capitalist”. If only Americans had the sense of outrage at 40% plus tax rates, that Henry and Katherine had of a 16% tax. The King obviously knows that exorbitant tax-rates will eventually kill all the trees of productivity in an economy,  and the air of nothingness will ”drink the sap”. Maybe by “sap” Shakespeare was actually referring to the modern American worker?

400 years later, we find only Congressman Ron Paul standing up and speaking out against the horrible and immoral exactions that the Obama Administration and the Fascistic Democratic Congress, with its thoughts always first and foremost on how to increase Corporate Profits, are imposing on the Populi Americani, just as Wolsey imposed them on the English. And those Corporate Profits are the aim of the Mussolini-style Fascist economy we find in America. Obama and Queen Pelosi have much in common with Cardinal Wolsey, and the economic tyrants of history who have looted so much labour from the working classes since time immemorial. But it appears that the pusillanimous modern American has none of the raging disgust that Henry, Katherine, and Norfolk had, expressed through the voice of William Shakespeare. Mr. America will pay Cardinal Wolsey’s tax with a smile on his face, as he tells you how ecstatic he is about “doing his fair share”, and he will hand the check over to Queen Pelosi, to help mew up his grandchildren in perpetual debt-bondage.

Ron Paul and Shakespeare’s Henry VIII, fighting tyrannical taxation for over 400 years.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwww! — Silverwolf

Cats are More Fun Than Dead Leaves

Silverwolf had a wondrous sartori today, a deep insight that came to him suddenly after days of experimentation. The sartori was thus: cats are more fun than dead leaves. This insight arose spontaneously after an assay in which Silverwolf spent 48 hours playing with his cat, Sooty, followed by 48 hours playing with some dead oak leaves and comparing the amusement derived from the two states of being (author’s note: wolves require sleep the way camels require water). While playing with Sooty proved a never ending stream of fascination for Silverwolf, he was far less enthusiastic about his experience with the dead leaves. For example: if you stroked and petted Sooty, he would respond with purring, rubbing his body against your shins, and ramming his head upwards into your paw, to get you to keep petting him on the head. The dead leaves, on the other hand, responded to stroking and petting with deep indifference, and hardly stirred, save when the wind happened to blow on them. Then they would exhibit some short-lived enthusiasm by moving a millimeter or two, but would quickly calm down, and relapse into quietessence. We thought perhaps the type of dead leaf might make a difference, so we tried our experiment variously on bay leaves, tan oak leaves, dogwood leaves, and even pine needles, but all seemed to share that utter indifference so characteristic of dead objects.

It’s truly hard to pin it down, but there definitely is some quality, inchoate in outline though it be, that makes a live cat more fun than a dead leaf (or even a herd of leaves), although you may say Silverwolf is prejudiced in favor of cats, and you yourself may not share his sartori, but feel deeply within yourself that dead leaves are infinitely more amusing than live cats. So be it. Silverwolf will not argue with you. As Mark Twain said, differences of opinion, that’s what makes horseraces.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

A Rotten Libertarian Sandwich

If one thinks of the politics of Principle as taking a straited path twixt the complete socialism of Communism, and the racist, corporate-state socialist, pseudo-capitalism of Fascism, then one can see why Silverwolf can think of politics as a rotten Libertarian sandwich, with the healthy political and economic truths of Praxeology interlarded between the twin slices of rotten despotism. Libertarianism has been tainted on the left by trying to associate it with Fascism or Nazism, the “far-right”, but this is an outrageous contamination by association of terms. The “old right” might be characterized by Jefferson, Madison, Paine, Burke, and Lord Acton. And since these old Liberals thought in terms of the “Rights of Man” these Rights appertained to every single Human Being irregardless, in that quaint American phrase from the 50s, of “race, color, or creed”.  Libertarianism is a form of Humanism in that it says that certain Rights belong to all men, including the Right of Self-ownership, which precludes slavery. A Libertarian would probably say that a man has a right to kill someone who tries to actually physically enslave him. Slavery represents the ultimate in theft of property rights, save for murder. Spartacus’ rebellion against the Roman Miscreants would probably garner applause from a Rothbard or Mises. Probably with Camus also, who refused to be ideologically forced into the left.

And Libertarianism has been tainted on the right by the charges of the ignorant that it stood for “libertinism”, or was the hangout of potheads who just wanted to get it legalized, or of gun nuts of the Far-Right and the Klan, who just wanted to hang on to their personal arsenals. ” (gutteral) chhHippies of the (gutteral) chhRight” Ayn Rand would once describe the Libertarians in her thick Russian accent. And the concept of a bunch of intellectual crackpots, who hold an annual convention every four years, and run a weird candidate, who just ekes out the Green Party candidate, and so retains the Libertarian’s claim on the third biggest party in America, has stuck with the public. Ron Paul’s 1-2% popularity status for quite a few months in the early presidential campaign, before he got up to the 15-20% scores later on,  might be because of the public’s vague memory that he once ran for the post as a Libertarian. The idea that this party essentially espouses the Thomas Jefferson line on government is completely missed by the general public.

And, also,  Libertarianism is a Humanism in its Ghandiesque insistence that no one has the right to use coercion, or initiate force, against another’s property rights. This non-coercion principle is another key element of Libertarianism that makes it completely incompatible with either Communism or Nazism. And because it believes in the non-coercion principle, and because it can see objectively from the ever-recurring course of history that State Power has been historically the most coercive force, it sees clearly the necessity for a minimalist government, non-intrusive in our privacy, which is faithfully committed to protecting the Rights of the Individual, and vigorously pursues prosecution of any malefactor who dares to violate the non-coercion principle.

And finally, Libertarianism is a Humanism because it places the Individual, and not the State, at the apogee of its value system. The Rights and the life of the Individual are the sacred goals to which Libertarianism marries itself, not the worship of a State, a flag, a religion, or a “leader”. In a world which does the exact opposite, be it in America, totalitarian China, Fascist Saudi, or Islamofascist Sudan, the Libertarian principle is the only one that maintains the integrity of the Individual. The world wants to crush the Individual; look at the tax laws written by the State worshippers, which are designed to crush any Individual economic power, no matter how hard one works and saves. And by crushing the Individual, the major countries of the world will kill the very engine that provides the wealth for all these looters. That is the process that is continuing apace throughout the world, as Communism and Fascism, the two rotten pieces of bread, mew up the healthy core of Human Freedom between their stench-filled slices.

In a world that says throw away the filling and just eat the rotten bread, Libertarians may well respond, “Fascisti, you can keep your bread, while we will feast on Human Freedom.”

Hooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Obama’s Tire War

President Obama, seeing the continued failure of his Keynesian socialist policies to revivify a nearly moribund America, has turned to that last tactical standby of Socialist economies — blame your trading partner and impose a tariff. In this case, it’s another socialist dictatorship that’s eating the hard cheese, so Silverwolf feels no sympathy. But the injustice of driving up the price of tires for the American consumer to bail out the unions that helped put him in power is not going to cause President Obama any lost sleep. With an annual income of over $2 million, the Prez could care less if his tires cost him another$30 a pop. The important thing for him is that American union workers should continue to get bloated and uncompetitive salaries and benefits so he can secure their votes, and that the costs for that Socialism should be born by the American consumers. After all, a quarter of those consumers voted him in.

One of the infallible fillips that push Socialist economies to the ever-approaching brink of disaster is the imposition of tariffs. This anti-Capitalist measure has been a favorite of Statists since time immemorial, and since Obama is within the course of history, and since his understanding of economics is so pathetically feeble, it was highly predictable that the old Mercantilist panacea of the tariff would soon be wheeled out and displayed as if it had some function in a Capitalist system. Obviously it does not, because it raises the free-market price of a good well above where it would be if the free-market truly functioned. Tariffs are national socialism, plain and simple. And even if they are in response to price undercutting, the fact remains that the consumers in a country without tariffs are benefiting by purchasing goods at a price cheaper than they would have paid, had there been a tariff. Thus, millions would have had higher cash balances in their savings accounts, making the country more prosperous, had it not been for the tariff. And all this to save a number of jobs running into the thousands. Millions must suffer so that the union thousands won’t have to live within their means, as the non-union worker has to. And thus the tariff helps impoverish a country by causing inflation, as at the same time it slows free-market trade.

President Obama, with his characteristic short-sightedness, has just instituted a trade-war with America’s largest debt-holder. And it’s highly likely that Fascist China will soon retaliate with its own set of tariffs. After all, one good injustice deserves another. The consequences, as they were in the 1930’s, will be catastrophic for world trade, and the feeble printing-press initiated revival of the world’s predominantly Socialist (though called Capitalist) economies.

But let’s forgive President Obama, for he knows not what he does.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

The Past As Now: The Photography of Prokudin-Gorskii

Silverwolf has just seen an amazing set of photographs that have had for him the same kind of significance as when he first saw footage of a U.S. high-altitude plane, flying so loftily above California that he could see the entire outline of the State. Then there was his first seen shot of Earth-entire, something that no philosopher before him had ever seen. What would such a viewing have done to those fertile minds?

The photographs in question are those taken by Prokudin-Gorskii of Russian scenes during the years 1907-1915. Due to some triple color technique beyond Silverwolf’s limited wolf-intellect to understand such technological magics, these photos look like they have been taken yesterday with a modern camera, the images are so sharp, and the colors so vivid. And what is so shocking is that it reveals that a century ago, things looked exactly as they look now in their reality.

Those of us weaned on black-and-white imagery of WWII, or worse, the black-and-white cum hurried-marionette footage of WWI with its notorious undercranking, have come to accept from childhood that reality prior to 1946 — the full color reality we have all known since childhood — was of a different caliber. Hitlerism, and the entire world, existed in grainy black-and-white, with fuzzy edges and bad sound quality. But not many years back now, the popularization of some of the American color footage of the War made us realize that it was not so long ago. And then the serieses in color, like America at War, and the release of many super-sharp color photos of Nazi chieftains at official events, made it seem even more temporally proximate to our own time. We stopped fooling ourselves that WWII looked different in reality from Malibu Beach 2002; yes WWII had existed in color, and the colorization made it seem less sinister.

But events a hundred years ago or more, had they really existed in color? It was impossible to believe.  Had the people in those early films really not moved like tabetic marionettes vivified by Benzarene? Of course they had. They were such evil times that men must have had to be different from the folks in “Our Town”.

Prokudin-Gorskii’s photos shatter that pleasant delusion, as they show us Russia in all its blazing glory, an incredibly beautiful land where serfs were held as slaves, and the Czar’s tyranny mulcted the poor masses. Here are young girls, tea plantation managers, remote-living old hearties who must have been crazed by the silence of the woods; and people at their daily toil so arduous that it would have made American part-time workers seem like aristocracy. They all actually existed, and existed in a color realism just as vivid and fresh as our own world. Indeed, our own world, and the cosmos, is now a hundred years older and less fresh than those “youthful” days of the Earth.

Like no other documents he has ever seen, Prokudin-Gorskii’s photos show us that the Past was always as real as the Now.

But what will the Now look like in another hundred years?

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Ron Paul and Thomas Jefferson vs. Barack Obama and Alexander Hamilton

In perusing A. J. Nock’s “Jefferson”, Silverwolf was struck by the similarities between Jefferson’s reaction to the Hamiltonian National Bank, and Ron Paul’s reaction to President Obama’s and Congress’ use of the Federal Reserve as a slush fund to help out their backers. The situation of a lawyer-packed Congress and White House, completely out of tune with the laboring class and the small businessman who produce the actual wealth of the nation, is amazingly reminiscent of Jefferson’s perception of and opposition to the National Bank.

There are four ways in which the Congressional-White House Collectivists can control legislation (and thus influence much of the economy). Firstly and secondly, they can control the Congressional majorities and the White House, thereby ramming their legislation through to legality, its Constitutionality (or lack of it) be damned; thirdly, they can stack and utilize the Judiciary to overthrow the clear meaning of the Constitution and Bill of Rights; and finally, they can use the National Bank to print and dilute the currency, thereby wiping out part of the National Debt they spent years ago, in their welfare-warfare boondoggles. If the public clamps down, or controls one element through elections, the Collectivists merely switch control to another branch. And if they can line up the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, then the FED/National Bank will not be far behind. And of course, there is always the bureaucratic class, who can interpret the very convoluted laws Congress passes, according to any whim of theirs that fits within the language of the bill. Bureaucrats in America probably have more power and cause more misery than the Supreme Court.

But none of this would be possible without the National Bank being able to add massive amounts of cash to the system at will by purchasing Treasury Bonds, diluting the value of all dollars currently in circulation. This increases the credit-creating ability of the banks at a nine-to-one ratio to the amounts of T-Bonds bought by the FED, but it is also a very subtle form of theft from all the savers in America, not unlike a private company that suddenly issues a massive tranche of new stock, diluting the holdings of all the current stockowners by increasing supply. Few realise this, and of those who do in the Government, it seems that only Ron Paul has the courage to introduce legislation that would put the first slight bit of accountability on the FED by letting the public examine its books. The fact the FED and the Democrats are fighting this Bill, H.R. 1207, tooth and nail is another important factor in the growing anger of the American public towards the Government, for an honest government would have no cause for secrecy in financial matters. The fact that the FED is suddenly saying “We know better than you how to run this, and we don’t want you to know because it might upset some of the banks” is like waving a red cape in front of the bull. America still has a thick tranche of  fiscally savvy and conservative thinkers out there in that 3000 mile by 1500 mile plain, and they vote.

And just as Jefferson was one of the lone Silverwolves standing up to the Hamiltonian Bank ( which had enabled Robert Morris to loot the American Treasury to the tune of millions), so Ron Paul is the lone Silverwolf standing up to the looters in Congress, and their accommodators at the Federal Reserve. The branching out of the FED’s powers into what amounts to a Fascist support of huge private corporations, a la Mussolini, has sent the first whiff of cozenage past the sensitized nostrils of the American public, and the old-fashioned common sense of balanced budgets, and their necessity for economic stability, has aroused Americans like no issue for years. All the warnings and prognostications Ron Paul made during his campaign are coming true before the public’s eyes, and many suddenly realize they voted for an economic lunatic, instead of the sane man from Texas.

 Indefinite prolonged detention, mandatory volunteering, expanding Bush’s “faith-based initiative”, increased powers for the FED, supporting FED secrecy, a banking czar, forced purchase of health insurance, calling those who question their Bills ”un-American”, requesting snooping emails, expanding the war in Afghanistan, bailing out Goldman Sachs, bailing out AIG, bailing out GM, bailing out Fannie Mae, bailing out Freddie Mac, $700 billion in TARP funds, $700 billion in stimulus or free money for contractors and swindlers, not repealing the Patriot Act, trashing State’s Rights by continuing to prosecute licensed medical Marijuana growers in States that have legalized it,  adding $2 trillion dollars in one year to the National Debt, cash for clunkers to bail out the Korean and Japanese auto makers while worsening our balance of trade at the individual taxpayer’s expense, — the lengthy list goes on and on and seems to grow daily. The violations of the Constitution and the whole American philosophy of self-sufficiency and limited government seem to have been completely forgotten by the vast majority of Americans, many of whom have never been educated in the basics of American Civics, the history of the Jeffersonian Revolution — a Libertarian, Capitalist Revolution, and the principles inherent in the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. People in America have, for the most part, taken on the passive mindset of the Socialists in Europe, who have come to quietly accept the power of the Leviathan State as their master, instead of demanding the Natural Rights of the Individual, which were proclaimed not only by Jefferson, but also by the British Whig Liberals who supported the Revolution, and the more idealistic of the philosophes of the French Revolution. But such respect for the Individual is sorely lacking in the caponed inhabitants of North America. And what will bring about a change in those inhabitants, or a change in a rising generation so heavily conditioned by the Collectivist environment of the public schools? A child’s  inquisitiveness and energy is soon smothered by the necessity of sitting still in a boring classroom, listening to a boring teacher drone on about something that has very little relevance to his life. And he is always told it is for his own good. His mind becomes cannon fodder for the Collectivists, and the last election well illustrates that fact.

Jefferson found something of this revolutionary passivity when he returned to America from his assignment in France. After several years absence, he noted the talk in favor of a strong government, and protecting the men of property. Unlike France where Liberty was like a drug just discovered,  gone was the radical talk of Liberty, Natural Rights, Individual Freedom. Thus so quickly does a Revolution become calcified into political arthritis.

Key to this protecting the “rich and well-born” was Hamilton’s plan to redeem the highly specious government bonds at face value, a plan that would be highly inflationary because the bonds themselves were highly inflated. But the owners of these bonds were to be found in the “rich and well-born” class who were also the majority of Congressmen. Thus Hamilton had found a way of transferring wealth from the producing class, the laborers, farmers and small businessmen, to the non-producing class. The parallels of this process to the modern giveaway of funds under Hank Paulsen and his Congressional enablers is striking. The monocratic monolith of the Bi-partisan party in Congress has looted the working men of America to enrich its own interests and the interests of its friends, relatives and acquaintances, and piled the deficit onto the unborn generations who will be condemned to the 9-to-5 cell of industrial slavery. “Get a job” will apply to the honest, lowly, youth, but never to the well-fed caponed corporate-capitalists of Congress. Christopher Dodd’s sweetheart mortgage from Countrywide, and drug warrior Charles Rangell’s not declaring his taxable assets in property, are just two of many egregious examples of this sophisticated cozenage. As Jefferson put it, “The more debt Hamilton could rake up, the more plunder for his mercenaries”, words that could well apply to Paulsen, Pelosi, Reid, Bernanke, Frank, and President Obama, and all the Congressmen who voted for the immoral Bank Bailout Bill, and for massive loans to the mega-corporations.

Moreover, just as Hamilton knew that enriching the “rich and well-born” in Congress, and their affiliates, would bring great pressure to bear in support of these Government Bonds and the National Bank, so likewise the Congressional Democrats know that bailing out the banking sector at the same time that they bail out the Social Security pension sector, and all the sectors dependent for their wealth on the banks and corporations that were benefited by the bailout — this coalition of Bankers and Pensioners would create a vast block, a financial Maginot Line, which the disciples of Liberty and Sound Money, like Ron Paul, could not overcome. So many individuals and classes in America now benefit from the Socialist programs that enrich them at the expense of the producing class that it is virtually impossible to stop them. Anyone who stands up for the Constitution and sound economics is now called “un-American”. And few notice the perversion.

The ruction between the supporters of Liberty and Individual Freedom like Ron Paul and Thomas Jefferson, and the Collectivist-Fascist mentality epitomized by Pelosi, Reid, Geithner and the President, will go on as it always has in history. And unfortunately, as in history, it is the corrupt corporate interests that will continue to win.

The American public will continue to be robbed, and the dumbed-down majority will continue to applaud it, but the opponents of Tyranny will not shut up. The battle will continue with men like Ron Paul persevering in their quest to re-impose the Constitution on America, and the Libertarian Revolution on our economy.

Ron Paul and Thomas Jefferson vs. Alexander Hamilton and Barack Obama.

Who will win?

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwww! — Silverwolf

Boycott Terrorism, Boycott Scotland

The heinous and venomous decision to release a convicted mass-murderer by the Government of Scotland, in the name of “compassion” is one of the most despicable actions we have seen in a long time.  The reward for murdering 270 Human Beings is a warm welcome home from War Criminal Muammar Khadafi and his wonderful nation, showing that these beasts are not fit to be called Human Beings themselves. Ignoring the fact that this villainous action will surely lead to more terrorists acts, precisely at the time when the US and Britain are supposedly fighting terrorism at the cost of billions of dollars of new debt, the Governments of Scotland and England have shown themselves to be as despicable as the murderer they released. Just as Iscariot sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of Silver, so the Scottish and U.K. Governments have sold out the world’s innocent victims of terror for 30 Billion dollars in trade with the Miscreant Libyan nation. People should look hard at these accomplices in terror with Khadafi, and see them for what they are: the most vile example of Government at its worse, riding rough-shod over the common laws of Human Decency, in the name of money. What more could you expect from  Government Socialists, who are the most money-grubbing degenerates one can find.
The Scots lyingly talk of “compassion”, but I hope the public can see what kind of “compassion” these villainous Socialists have when it comes to the pain they have caused the relatives. One hesitates to use inflammatory rhetoric like “human garbage” when it comes to Scottish ”Justice” Minister Kenny MacAskill and British PM Gordon Brown, but one also hesitates to hold back the truth. The British and Scottish peoples should hound these two Miscreants out of office, and hopefully they will be spat at in the streets for the rest of their lives.

Libertarians the world over should show their strength by boycotting all Scottish and British products until these Government Collaborators-in-mass-murder are removed from office. FBI Director Mueller was absolutely correct when he said this actions makes a mockery of the rule of law, and we believe such actions should not be left unpunished. Let’s teach the Scottish Nation, and the entire world, a lesson by showing them that the actions of freedom loving free-marketeers can outweigh the profits they were counting on making by licking the gluteus maximus of the Tyrant of Tripoli.

When it comes to a “wee doch an dorris” of Scotch whiskey, let’s scotch their socialist plans for profit by reaching for the Canadian Club. Let’s show our “compassion” for Scotland by not burdening them with the worries of having money.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww! — Silverwolf