My Column-Article
Memorial Day Thoughts, 2012
For a change, this year, let’s pay respects to all the victims
of US government-led military aggressions …
by Brian Wright

Since my Memorial Day column from 2008 has been such a perennial visit-gatherer—and I must admit it touches all the libertarian emotional, intellectual, and spiritual bases—I’m going to continue that tradition this year… with more thoughts on paying tribute to those who fought and died for (or partly in) human liberty, whether or not they are American and whether or not they ever donned a uniform. Let’s also pay our respects to the millions of victims of the Borg[1]-dominated US government which—serving the interests of the international looting classes of the West (since roughly the 1830s)—led its men in uniform into acts of aggression or sanction thereof, such as: [Full Column]

Movie Review

Libertopia (2010):
On the road to the Free State ___ 8.5/10

Matt Simon: The thing about being an individualist, and acting as an individual in a free society is that people have an interest in cooperating with one another, without any force whatsoever. It’s one of the constants of human experience: any time there’s a problem or a threat to the community, individuals band together, they cooperate for the greater good. They do it all the time. But where we bristle is when we’re forced to cooperate, where somebody else’s good idea is so important that it needs to be paid for with the money that each of us works hard to earn. And when you go into ideas that are just morally objectionable, like, oh, invading and occupying a sovereign nation, or waging drug prohibition, we very much resent that our money is spent to propagate those policies. [Full Review]

Book Review
Little Pink House
One woman’s historic battle against eminent domain
A true story of defiance and courage
by Jeff Benedict

It’s with the greatest pleasure that I review this epochal action-crime drama of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Little Pink House is the exhilarating literary ride about the Kelo vs. City of New London eminent domain case that shook the country. It’s chock full of heroes (Susette Kelo and her many partners in the freedom fight) and villains (the several local, state, federal, and corporate poobahs who think nothing of bulldozing the poor and handing the vacated land to the looting rich… minus a healthy commission for their thuggery). If you ever entertained doubts about the confiscatory evil of eminent domain (ED), this book will dispel them: ED = Erector-set Dysfunction. The book makes crystal clear that public takings are nothing but expropriation of some persons for connected, well-to-do other persons… and those who participate in the action are the slimiest scum: cowards who steal under protection of law. [Full Review]

Guest Column

Patriots Targeted for American Gulag:
Leaked US Army document outlines plan for GOTUS
‘reeducation’ camps for US citizens
by Paul Joseph Watson (infowars.com)

A leaked US Army document prepared for the Department of Defense contains shocking plans for ‘political activists’ to be pacified by ‘PSYOP officers’ into developing an ‘appreciation of US policies’ while detained in prison camps inside the United States. The document, entitled FM 3-39.40 Internment and Resettlement (I/R) Operations (PDF) was originally released on a restricted basis to the DoD in February 2010, but has now been leaked online. The manual outlines policies for processing detainees into internment camps both globally and inside the United States... [Full Column]

"I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country" — Thomas Jefferson