The Fruits of Socialism: Poverty and Racism

Silverwolf would like to ask the Socialists a question. With their rule over many European nations now having gone on for nearly fifty years, why is there is such poverty and racism in Euro-land? Why, if Socialism is a way of quickly ironing out social equalities, and bringing about that favorite myth of “social justice” (and justice is always an individual matter, never a collective matter), why is it that after two and a half generations there is not that Socialist Nirvana that, we have been told for 150 years by the Communists, will finally liberate mankind?

For example, in Socialist Scotland, which has had left-leaning parties in dominance for decades, why is it that, according to research commissioned by the BBC and published in December 2008, they reported that fully one-third of Scots are what they consider “breadline poor”, which is defined as being so poor that you cannot effectively participate in society? Why have decades of Socialism not made poverty a barely remembered affliction, instead of the daily lot of one third of the nation? Well, those of us in the Austrian School of Economics ably understand the reasons why. Socialism does not alleviate poverty; rather, it institutionalizes it, and Scotland is the shining example.

And what of the  “Brotherhood of Man” that the Socialists are always braying about? Surely, once a socialist system is in place, all those racist illusions should just fade away, people will be seen just as people, and all will realize that the true criminal is that wicked boss, who provides one with a job, without one having to accumulate the venture capital oneself to open up that factory. The Marxian ideal of the “solidarity” of the working class will wipe aside all petty nationalistic and racist divisions, and, freed from a life of eternal drudgery, the poison of racism and nationalism will soon be forgotten.

Yes, but then how do the Socialists of Ireland explain the fact that yesterday the remainder of a community of roughly 100 Romanians, who had been living in Belfast, decided to return to Romania after weeks of racist attacks against their domiciles, and vandalism against the Church where they eventually took refuge? Out of the community, only two were brave enough to stick it out in Ireland, the rest retreating from the “warm Socialist response” they had received. Why, oh Socialists? Why after 50 years of ruling have you failed to eradicate racism if Marxism is the panacea of racist division?

The answer is that Socialism, rather than respecting the Individual, demands his complete subjugation before the State, and says that the State and the Government is bigger and more important than any Individual Human Being. This is not an ideology of Human Respect, but rather one of the deepest disrespect for the Rights of Man. And that is why, after so much time, Socialism continues to fail throughout the UK, and the Euro-Socialist Nirvanaland. These are societies that fundamentally disrespect the Rights of the Individual, while self-righteously maintaining that they love the Individual. Baldfaced lies.

It is only Capitalism that can bring the industrious out of poverty. It is only Libertarianism that reserves to the Individual the deepest respect for his Rights as a Human Freedom. That Freedom is dangerous and unpredictable, and that is what Socialism hates, because it always seeks the safe and secure, and seeking the safe and secure is the surest way to be insecure and destroy one’s Freedom.

Scotland and Ireland, Glasgow and Belfast, the failures of Socialism continue to de-roll.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Jefferson in Teheran: The Libertarian Revolution Begins

As Congressman Ron Paul says, “Freedom is popular.” And as we hear the voices of Freedom crying out from the cities and towns of occupied Iran, we can see what he means. All throughout history, from time immemorial,  the Fascist Miscreants, be they secular, as in Italy, Germany, and Spain, or religious, as in Iran, have ground their fists into the face of Liberty, and all throughout history, that face has spat back, getting a good lunger-full of yellowish sputum right into the Fascist’s blood-lust filled eyes. And the Fascists, as Ghandi pointed out, have always fallen — always.

The Fascist, child-murdering, Miscreants that run Iran’s corrupt religious dictatorship thought they could pull the old Bush-in-Florida ploy, but it looks like they had counted on the famous American-sheep response that was so disgracefully evident in those dark days of the post-selection of Dubbyah, and not the vigorous, Ghandi-like mass demonstrations that have the ruling Mullahs micturating in their togas, or running off to meetings in foreign countries, like Ahmadinejad, in case the lynch mob gets too near to administering some long-awaited justice to the headman.  He can certainly not feel alone at his meeting, with the Russian and Chinese Fascisti; he’s in good company.

Two-hundred and thirty-three years ago, a group of Radical Revolutionaries had a shindig in Philadelphia. Today, their words and principles are bringing fear into the hearts of those who have brought not only fear to millions, but also great suffering and death. The Fascist Miscreants of Teheran had better “have a care”, and not stifle the Libertarian Revolution that the youth of Persia is so obviously crying out for.

Silverwolf would suggest, if the Iranian people want to be lenient, that they can expel the Criminal Ahmadinejad to Venezuela, where he can play in the same pig sty as his bosom buddy, Hugo Chavez. Pigs that are tethered, con-snort together.

The Libertarian Juggernaut is rising around the world. The Youth can see, or sense, that they are being stuffed into a world molded by an ancient tyranny, and administered by minds too ossified and senilified by Socialism and Organized Religion to ever understand their yearning for Freedom. But the youth of the world wants Liberation, not only from the blatantly Fascist regimes of Iran, Burma,  and Zimbabwe, but also from the “soft-Fascisms” of an America, Canada,  Australia, or Euro-Scandinavia. Ron Paul was right: People want Freedom.

And the thirst for Freedom was imbued in them by us Libertarian Wolves.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Prolonged Detention: The Next Step in Obama’s Fascism

Wisechief Jefferson taught us, along with the Founding Fathers, that detention without trial is one of the hallmarks of totalitarian regimes. All throughout history, tyrannical regimes have used this tactic to silence their critics, and hide their crimes. From Henry the Eighth to Hitler to Stalin, this method has proved one of the favorites of the Miscreants of History.

And now it’s President Obama’s turn. In a speech on May 21, the President proposed overthrowing the Bill of Rights, which requires that the government charge you and give you a speedy trial, by insinuating the heinous practice of “prolonged detention” into our legal code, that is, indefinite detention without a charge being brought or a defendant’s prompt trial. This piece of Fascist scat has been dressed up by the President as a new and necessary part of our legal system, although we’ve survived without it very nicely for nearly a quarter of a millennium.

In his speech, Obama criticises Bush’s “ad hoc” method of dealing with legal issues, but then goes on to say that he will “reshape the standards” in line with the “rule of law”, a phrase which he used several times in his speech. It never seemed to occur to our very bright President, that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is the Law of the Land, and anything that directly contradicts these documents is an attempt to overthrow the “Rule of Law”.  He mentions that al-Qaeda and its affiliates are at war with the United States, but he fails to mention that anyone who deliberately tries to overthrow the Constitution and the Bill of Rights is in a state of war against the Law of the Land. Obama talks of a “legitimate legal framework” in phrases reminiscent of Governor Romney’s pledge, made during one of the Republican televised debates, to “call in the lawyers” and see how he could get around the Constitution. It’s obvious that Wisechief Jefferson well knew what kind of caitiffs would be coming down the line several hundred years from his time, still trying to impose tyranny on human beings.

Obama went on to talk of “developing an appropriate legal regime” outside of the courts, and even the military commissions, in order to be able to hold people for “prolonged detention” — that is, indefinite imprisonment without trial, without a sentence, or without saying how long they will be held. In other words, 100% pure unadulterated Fascism.

In never seemed to cross the President’s supposedly brilliant mind that some future tyrant in America, a Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or Franco, could use such a law to round up and jail forever their political opponents, or that a law that directly contradicts the very clear demands of the Bill of Rights could be unconstitutional. Fortunately, brighter minds like legal scholar Jonathan Turley, and Senator Russell Feingold, have pointed out that this latest Fascist proposal of the Obama Regime is almost certainly unconstitutional, and would fail a court test. Happily, Senator Feingold is going to hold Congressional hearings on this obscene proposal, so that the whole Fascist stink of the latest Obamaism will be able to be inhaled by the American Public.

The constant stream of totalitarian legislation coming out of the Obama administration should be a wake-up call to all those Democrats who truly favor the Rule of Law over all the unconstitutional early meanderings of the Obama regime: the massive giveaways to the corporate business sector at the public’s expense, the continued persecution of medical marijuana proponents by the Federal government in states that have legalized it, the “voluntary national service requirement”, the expansion of Bush’s faith-based initiative, the continuation of the military commissions and the continued suspension of habeas corpus, the failure to prosecute torture,  and the escalation of the war into Afghanistan and Pakistan.

President Obama is the greatest threat to the American Constitution since President Bush. Only the names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Hooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Congressman Ron Paul vs. Governor Timothy Pawlenty: The Doctor vs. The Sadist

One of the most despicable of all human actions is to not render comfort to the dying when it is within ones powers. But this is exactly what the sadistic Governor of the supposedly-Liberal State of Minnesota has done in vetoing a bill, passed by the Minnesota State Legislature the other day, that would have permitted the use of medical marijuana by the terminally ill.

This is one of the most heinous and despicable rulings one can ever remember a Governor making, and it will go down in American History as one of the most callous, immoral, and self-serving political decisions on record. This is yet another one for the history books of the future, when those growing up will spit on the memories of those prohibitionists who have caused such unmitigated misery to so many millions of Americans  for such a long time. In the far future, the phrase “a real Governor Pawlenty” will be used interchangeably with the names of Uriah Heep, and Ebenezer Scrooge. “Let them die off in agony, and reduce the surplus population, thereby reducing healthcare costs in the budget”.

What a difference in courage and statesmanship is exhibited by a Ron Paul, when we contrast his political positions on cannabis, and on all drugs, to that of  a Governor Pawlenty. Going directly in the teeth of his party’s traditional support for the Communistic drug laws, Congressman Paul has courageously taken a longstanding view that government has no right to interfere with individual Liberty, if it affects the property rights of no one else. In other words, live and let live, unless you stick a gun in my face, or pollute the air I breathe with asbestos, or defraud me.

But Dr. Paul has gone farther than that and posed the key question: By what right has government taken over the responsibility of telling us what we can put into our bodies, of what we can own or do that affects no other person? Why have we given government this total control over our personal Liberty?

In other words, why have Americans, who were born so well fixed in the paths of Liberty at the start of their Republican Revolution — a revolution that used to be admired the world over for its Libertarian content — become so passive that they will elect prohibitionists and immoralists like Governor Pawlenty for decades on end? Why don’t we put Individual Rights before the appropriation of those rights by Government, as ruled in the “broad” interpretations which the courts have taken since the end of the Taft Supreme Court (not that we endorse Taft’s views on the court; we prefer Justice Holmes over Taft any day).

Perhaps Governor Pawlenty will one day find himself faced with a terminal illness, (but perhaps he thinks he is immortal, the young often do)? Perhaps he will want medical succor to alleviate his stress? Perhaps, though, he will find he still has a sadist like himself in the Governorship of Minnesota, and a populace not willing to impeach such a moral miscreant? Hard cheese, eh Gov?

Perhaps Governor Pawlenty should look himself in the mirror, if he can bear it, though the visage of a grinning Joe Stalin might come back at him from its silvered surface?

Perhaps Governor Pawlenty should take a lesson from a real Statesman, Al Smith of New York, the Democratic Candidate for the Presidency in 1929, who knew what Individual Libertarian Values meant when he said this, in regard to the end of Prohibition and the Repeal of the hateful 18th Amendment in 1933: “I felt all along that when this matter was finally submitted to the rank and file of our people, they would readily see that it had no place in our Constitution. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to estimate the benefit that will come to this country from the lesson taught to the coming generations, to make it their business to see that no such matter as this is ever again made the subject of Federal Constitutional Law.” It looks like the Governor of Minnesota missed this lesson from Al Smith, a man who had more morality in his little finger that Governor Pawlenty has in his whole hulk. Such is the the degeneration in the spirit of Liberty and Morality we have seen since the days of Franklin Roosevelt. (It’s no surprise that Smith bitterly opposed Roosevelt’s nomination in 1933, opposed his economic policies as unsound, and ended up as head of the American Liberty League.)

And finally, Governor Timothy Pawlenty ought to take a lesson from a real Statesman like Congressman Ron Paul, and get his Fascist paws off our elders dying in agony. What a contrast in the integrity of human beings! between Congressman Paul and Governor Pawlenty!

Guess that’s how silverwolves can tell the Men from the Miscreants.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

The Ron Paul Revolution in California: Starting May 19th

To paraphrase Sir Winnie, this may not be the end of the American Socialist State; it may not even be the beginning of the end; but it may, perhaps, be the end of the beginning. And the end of the beginning for the Ron Paul Revolution.

Silverwolf believes that we may be witnessing the end of that beginning, a beginning that took Ron Paul from 1% to over 20% in several States during the campaign of ‘08. But what makes him think that has little directly to do with Ron Paul, but much to do with the phenomenon of the fiscal disintegration of the State of California, (a State, for those who have never heard of it,  located in the Southwest of the United States of America, adjacent to the Pacific Ocean). This State seems to be  financially disintegrating exactly in the manner predicted by the Austrian School of Economics. And the fact of this disintegration has forced the politicians to bring a handful of funding propositions to the voters, who will decide the issue on May 19th.  If the propositions fail,  Gov. Schwartznegger has said he would commute the sentences of roughly 38,000 prisoners, releasing them back onto the streets (except for aliens, who will be turned over the the INS). He has also talked of closing fire stations, and laying off school teachers.

Judging by the calls to John Rothmann’s talk show the other night, these Propositions are going down to a well-deserved defeat. Given the Liberal-Democratic bent of most of his callers, it was amazing to hear the anger, and the near unanimity in opposition to these measures. Rothmann pointed out that while tuition had been raised 9.3% at the University of California, the Regents were simultaneously raising the salary of one UC Chancellor from just over $400,000 to roughly $450,000 in one year, while another’s was raised from just over $300k to over $400k, a 27% increase. Now the voters, and the students, can clearly see with what contempt they are treated, and how there money is spent to give bureaucrats an incredibly cushy lifestyle (those Chancellors additionally received their housing on campus for free, and a car allowance), while taxpayers and students are further milked of their savings to accomplish that goal. The poor must suffer, so rich bureaucrats don’t have to, much as under King Louis XIV.

The callers seemed to realise that the problem is the vast sums spent at the top of the totem pole, subsidized by the taxpayers at the bottom. One caller, who had worked as a driver for his school district several years back, told of the incredible waste he had observed, and how contractors, having sweet relations with the contract-awarders, would bid low to secure the contract, but always come in with final costs that were roughly double of what the contracts had originally been projected to run. Others talked of how CA State workers could retire after a mere 20 years on the job, with 80% of their salaries, and full benefits. Examples were cited of State workers receiving that retirement benefit, and then getting hired by another State agency, so that now they had two monthly cheques from the taxpayers.

All in all, it sounded like a bunch of Ron Paul supporters had taken over the airwaves, although Silverwolf would bet that not one of those angry voters had voted for the Libertarian from Texas for President. It well illustrates how politics is a battle of ideas, and if one constantly espouses logical and true ideas, they will eventually seep into the consciousness of the populace. However, as Silverwolf has long maintained, those ideas will quickly accelerate in potency given the catalyst of economic depression.

The voters are running out of money, and when they see the arrogant bureaucrats coming to them with hands outstretched, begging for yet more gravy on their sirloin steaks, their anger waxes red-hot. Judging from those callers, it is waxing by leaps and bounds.

California well illustrates the principle, so ably elucidated by Ludwig von Mises, that Socialism will eventually bankrupt the State, and destroy itself. That principle is exactly demonstrated by what is happening to the State of California, the 10th largest economy in the world. At least, it used to be.

Come May 19th, the voters of California will send a “No” heard around the bureaucratic world. A “No” that few seem to realise was made possible by the philosophical campaign of Dr. Ron Paul.

Come May 19th, 2009 in California, the Ron Paul Revolution will begin.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

War Crimes in Afghanistan: Obama Laughs It Off

The latest media buzz is about how wonderfully funny President Obama was at the White House Press Corp’s dinner the other evening. Coming a few days after President Obama and his Democratic Administration killed 147 civilians in a bombing raid in Afghanistan, it illustrates the complete callousness and indifference of the President to the mass murder he is carrying out. Though President Karzai requested that the U.S. end it’s bombing raids in his country, he was politely told to stick it. No head of a sovereign nation is going to tell our wonderful, peace-loving President not to bomb their civilians into eternity, even though it is a War Crime under established International Law. Like it or lump it.

Moreover, since under the Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war, one wonders at the lack of protest by Liberals at the President’s waging war on his own initiative, without Congress voting on a Declaration. But let’s not let a little thing like the U.S. Constitution get in the way of our committing War Crimes. After all, it’s an anachronism, just like Congressman Ron Paul, who is so old fashioned, he actually believes in the Rule of Law.

And what of the Liberal media? Any hint of protest? No. Bruce Shapiro, on his weekly paean of praise for the President on Phillip Adams’ Radio Australia program, LNL, didn’t even mention an event that he surely would have cited as another example of Bush’s warmongering, if Bush were still President. But, as an editor at the Liberal rag, the Nation, he’s surely not going to point out the War Crimes of the man he has been praising for over a year, and whom he helped to elect. Anyway, what counts for Shapiro in the last week is not the agony of women and children terrorized, bombed into shards of flesh, and burned with white phosphorus, but that the President knows how to tell a joke, and laugh at himself. Yes, a real man of the people is our Chief Executive.

Once again, a Democratic Administration is committing War Crimes, and once again, the Democrats are as silent as sheep. No demonstrations from the Left in the Streets, though they helped to put him in office with his chant of “Change”, after which he quickly proceeded to install the whole archaic superstructure of the Clinton Regime.

America once more has blood on its hands,  thanks to the Liberal Democrats. They think they can wash it away with a few laughs.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!— Silverwolf

Warmonger Obama: Terrorizing Pakistani Civilians

Well, George Bush has returned, and his name is Barack Obama. And with the aid of his Democratic Congress, Mrs. Clinton, and former Vietnam diplomat and warmonger, Richard Holbrooke, they are terrorizing hundreds of thousands of civilians in Pakistan.

One wonders what would happen if the situation were reversed, if Pakistan sent in fighter jets and extensively bombed Orange County, CA, or Obama stronghold, San Francisco, killing hundreds of civilians, and forcing 360,000 refugees onto the road. Would those refugees and the relatives of the dead women and children stand up and cheer for Pakistan? But the arrogant Obama-Clinton Administration, who, safe behind their millions of dollars, know that they will never be thrown into such a situation, callously send out American bombers to flatten villages, killing countless civilians while they kill some of the Taliban. Do you think those dead civilians thought it was worth it?

But the President is restating his firm commitment to turn Pakistan into a hellhole, traumatizing countless women and children, while he sits comfortably in Washington, and moves the pieces on the chessboard. America has elected LBJ the Second.

Reports hitting the newswires a few minutes ago talk of 147 civilians killed in recent bombing raids by America. The French medical charity, Medecins sans Frontieres, has pulled out of the area due to the danger.  So now there is not even ambulance service for 360,00 poor people in Pakistan. Too bad they were not voting Americans, for then you can be sure the President would be concerned with their predicament, urging Congress to provide for their medical care. After all, they are Americans.

President Obama is showing himself to be made of the same namby-pamby jello as virtually all of our Congressmen, save for Ron Paul. Congressman Paul, in his excellent questioning of Ambassador Holbrooke the other day, hit all the right points, and brought up all the relevent arguments. And Holbrooke, who hasn’t changed one iota in 40 years, gave us the same bullcrap we heard endlessly during the Vietnam debacle. Such is the price for not trying and jailing War Criminals.

The Democratic Party has not changed one scintilla since the Vietnam War. It is a party of Warmongers, callous, indifferent, and arrogant men and women, whose only concerns are the size of their bank accounts and their electability with the public, but never the actual pain and suffering they throw onto millions of helpless people.

Given the vast Islamic populations of the Middle East and Indonesia, given the immense wealth of the Gulf Arab Nations, given the alleged concern for compassion of the Islamic Religion, why aren’t Muslims conducting this war against the Taliban? Why is it that Christian and Jewish and Atheist kids from Nebraska and Oregon, who signed up for the National Guard, which is supposed to only be used to maintain domestic tranquillity, are being sent halfway around the world to fight the fights that Muslims should be concerned with?

Barack Obama, in his first hundred days in office, has shown himself to be a malleable, callous, and conventional Warmonger. He, along with his Democratic Congress, and all those Liberal Peacenik Democrats who voted for him, and are continually praising him, already have the blood of countless  innocent Pakistan and Afghani women and children on their hands. And in doing so they are breeding yet more enemies of America. In practical terms of generating America-hate, Osama bin Laden never had a better ally in his struggle against human decency than Barack Obama.

Move over, George Bush, and make way for Barack Obama, the Warmonger.

The Child-Murderers of Iran: Time to Arrest Ahmadinejad

“Another day, another hanging,” as they say in Teheran. Unfortunately, this has recently been the case for a twenty-three year-old  Iranian girl, Delara Darabi, who, when seventeen, was convicted of murder of a relative during a robbery. The girl later claimed that she had confessed to save her boyfriend who was over eighteen, since being under eighteen at the time, she thought as a juvenile she could not be executed according to the UN Treaty banning such juvenile executions. However, despite the fact her lawyer was not informed of the execution, as was required by Iranian law, and the fact that the local judiciary had given her a stay of execution of a month, she was dragged out and murdered by the Iranian regime last Friday, having been denied a final meeting with her parents. This girl was on death row for three years.

So Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his ruling clique of Mullahs have got their sexually-frustrated jollies out once again by terrorizing and hanging another child. Not satisfied with hanging 16-year old Atefah Sahaaleh three years ago for “crimes against chastity”, and numerous gay teenagers since then, and currently with 135 juveniles on death row, they must enter further into the perverse evil of hanging children, by continuing to practice their depravity.  But the death penalty makes any society callous, and so it should come as no surprise that Iran has hung an additional 139 human beings since the first of this year, two of them under 18 at the time of their judicial murder. These perverted Miscreants are setting a pace that even George Bush and his Texas Judiciary would have been envious of, for it took George a good number of years to run his total over a hundred. But life is full of frustrations, isn’t it?

Of course, much of the reason behind the criminal Iranian Reich’s ability to wage this war of Terror via the death penalty is the greenlight they have been given by the European Union’s mollycoddling of Iran, the so-called Progressive Left’s literal kiss of approval in the form of the racist and Socialist, Hugo Chavez, and the UN’s legitimization of the Iranian regime by issuing an invitation to the Criminal Ahmadinejad to address the pro-racist Anti-Racism Conference known as Durban II. The disgusting vision of Hans-Rudolf Metz, the head of the Swiss Confederation, a supposedly progressive country, giving the old Jimmy Carter grin to Ahmadinejad, the child-murderer, was a repulsive sight that Silverwolf will not soon forget. Time to short the Swiss Franc?

Capital Punishment is the final tyranny of the State, the power of life and death over the Individual. While it may seem, and may well be. an appropriate punishment for War Crimes,  yet for crimes within the State, the usual crimes for which the death penalty is put forth, Capital Punishment is nothing but a sadistic exercise carried out by the necrophiliacs amongst us. If you wanted to really punish someone, you could make them wash dishes 14 hours a day, 6 days a week, and keep them in solitary for life if they were incorrigibly violent or dangerous. without any amusements like television or radios. Such a punishment would be a far greater deterrent and much more feared by those nothings who commit  heinous crimes just to get lots of attention. And the profits from their labour could be divided between the public, in terms of wages repaid to pay for their prison incarceration, and wages repaid to the next of kin of those they have murdered, for their support. Such an arrangement seems far more just to Silverwolf. Why execute someone, when over the course of 40 or 50 years he could generate a quarter-million dollars of labour in addition to his prison costs? They owe that money to the children or next of kin of their victim, since that is at least what the victim could have generated in labor wages during that time frame.

But don’t try talking logic to sadists.

And now, as this blog is being written, Iran is preparing to hang two more juveniles, one 16 and one 17, Wednesday morning in Teheran,  in violation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which bans the execution of juveniles who have committed their crimes before their eighteenth birthday. The Iranian Reich is violating that Convention, to which they are a signatory, and thus they have violated International Law.

Silverwolf believes that the next time Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sets down in any other country that is a signatory to that Convention of the Rights of the Child, he should be arrested for child-murder and tried by an International Tribunal in the Hague. And the punishment for child-murder should be perpetual life in solitary at hard labour. Let the Bastard rot in a jail cell for the rest of his earthly days!

The Silverwolves pray around the campfire that regimes like the Iranian Reich, that hang children, will be wiped from the face of the earth. May that day come soon.

Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Bashing Obama: Silverwolf Lets Up to Look at the Man

It will come as no surprise to those who have read recent posts on this blog, that Silverwolf has taken the gravest exception to many of our new President’s policies, and has been highly critical of him in many areas, from economics to foreign affairs. But he thinks he should give his view of the President as a person apart from his actions as a political figure.

Basically, Silverwolf thinks the President is a nice guy, with a winning manner, but without any deeply thought out or deeply held convictions or principles. A compromiser and pragmatist at heart, loath, as was War Criminal Lyndon Johnson, to ever move against a majority. The many immoral actions the President has taken, in the sense of anti-Jeffersonian violations of the Bill of Rights, illustrate that the President lacks this deep commitment to Principle, and his economic program shows the frequent lack of economic understanding one can encounter even in the brightest lawyers. Quick-wittedness in the law does not necessarily mesh with quick-wittedness in business, or in seeing the tangential necessities of economic freedom and personal liberty. What is so exhilarating about the 17th and 18th century French “laissez-faire” economists, thinkers like Turgot and Cantillon,  is their commitment to personal liberty, and their seeing the connexion betwixt that liberty and economic freedom. To laissez-faire, to “let to do” is not only the best thing for the individual, but also for the society at large. And government regulations on businesses of which the government bureaucrats know nothing, but the entrepreneurs know a great deal, only act as a tax which ends up costing the consumer in higher prices, impoverishing society as a whole, to benefit both some special interest group, and the bureaucrats who enact and enforce these regulations, in the form of their salaries and benefit ”packages”. Rothbard taught us to always ask, Qui bono? when it comes to government regulation of an industry. Who benefits?

 All these things are beyond the comprehension of our new President, whose choice of Geithner as Treasury Secretary shows that he is completely brainwashed in the Keynesian, government-must-always-intervene, mentality. It is in this sense that the President, quick-witted though he be, has never flashed on the moral implications of Liberty, as they were protected and promoted by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with the philosophical ideas that inspired these being propounded in the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble.

It is this personal charm, and the President’s public speaking prowess, combined with this complete lack of deep political and economic Principle, that are so dangerous in this President. With his vast majority in the Senate, the President can “fast-track”, i.e. ram through, any legislation, unConstitutional or not, through a complaisant Congress.

However, the President, and his equally unprincipled fellow Party members in the Legislative Branch, will soon see that their Keynesian mish-mash will presently turn the American economy to mush, and they will then try to get out of it by both raising taxes on the entrepreneurs, while inflating to rid themselves of the real value of the debt they have been running up for the last 76 years. As they kill the incentive to work with higher income taxes, their tax revenue base will shrink, while the inflation and higher taxes will drive more and more to seek the shelter and “security” of a government handout. This will, in turn, greatly increase the tax demands on government, while simultaneously shrinking the tax base. And both these processes will accelerate constantly at an ever-increasing velocity, until, in a very few years, the system grinds to a halt, and they issue a new currency, and will talk of a “fresh start”, meanwhile having completely destroyed the value of the money for anyone who saved the old currency, or didn’t spend it down to the last unit before it became worthless.

Karl Marx and the sadistic fox-hunter, Friedrich Engels, used to quack about how Capitalism would eventually collapse of its own accord, no matter what anyone did. But they had it completely turned around, for while Capitalism can pretty much go on indefinitely producing wealth, and new forms of wealth as technology advances, it is Socialism, as exemplified in Keynesian meddling in the private economy, that is doomed to fail from the moment it gets a foothold in government. This is one of the great insights of von Mises and Hayek. And it is this lesson that we are now witnessing in America and around the world — the great failure of Keynesian, Socialist, big government.

And this is the lesson that President Obama — a nice guy at heart— can never grasp or even comprehend. There is a difference between quick-wittedness and intelligence, cleverness and profundity. A difference of which the President is not even conscious.

Hooooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf

Ron Paul’s First Legislative Victory?: H.R. 1207

History may well record, Silverwolf asseverates, that three-and-a-half years before being elected President of the United States, Ron Paul achieved his first legislative victory with his Bill, H.R. 1207, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. This Bill, which would mandate an audit of the Federal Reserve, and require a report to Congress in 2010, and which started off with about a dozen co-sponsors, has gradually grown to now include 92. About a week back, the tally stood at 55, so the growth has suddenly become exponential. And Silverwolf cannot help but notice that this was the week after the many Tax Tea Parties around America. Having to pay taxes, while the government hands out hundreds of billions to the mega-banks and corporations, is finally getting to the American public, as they see their standard of living plunge, due to Keynesian economics.

The whole idea that the FED should not be audited, and should be able to keep its books secret, is becoming increasingly unpopular with Americans, as they realize the virtually unlimited opportunities for graft this allows. Just as in any business, the books should be open to investors, and when the investors are the American public, investing their life’s energy every day in their job or business, and having to give over about half of that energy in taxes and compulsory retirement payments, every single day, to a government that won’t open its books to their elected representatives — well, the illogic and unfairness of that is suddenly dawning on more people than just those in the hard-money school of the Austrian economists. That is why 14 Democrats have signed on as co-sponsors to this bill, including the very liberal Peter DeFazio of Oregon.

The public’s opinion on this matter must continue to be made known to our Congressman and Senators. Signing a petition and emailing one’s Congressman are small actions that could have enormously huge implications for the survival of the Republic as a viable entity.

Here’s to the passage of Congressman Paul’s landmark bill, H.R. 1207. Capitalist wolves most heartily approve it.

Hooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwww! — Silverwolf