These Small Towns Would Be Nice…If It Weren't For All The Militant Statism
Those of you who have signed up for TDV Homegrown know that I spend a lot of every day zipping around various parts of Minnesota when in the guise of my alter ego. These past few days I've had to do a lot of driving in the southeast corner of this snowy state, as far as its with Iowa.
It's lovely out there. The towns are small and some of them still retain plenty of their historic buildings. Northfield is probably the most impressive. Jesse James and his companions rode through there and the wall of one bank still bears the bullet holes as testament to his visit.
Most of the towns are much smaller, quainter. They are connected to each other by very long, very straight two-lane highways that cut through snow-covered crop fields and that abruptly turn into their Main Streets or Broadways.
Once you leave the overwhelming nanny state collectivism of minimum wage-supporters in the Minneapolis metropolitan area, you have to deal with the militant state collectivism of the small towns. This is also an abrupt transformation. Out in farm country at some fixed radius from the Minneapolitan downtown the pro-life billboards start to pop up.
They all bear pictures of some marginally cute white baby with text on the left or bottom saying something like "My heart began beating 18 days after conception" or "God knew my soul before I was born."
Now abortion is a tricky topic for us anarchists. Let me just say briefly that even though I believe if there's no brain, there's no chance for a human to suffer, I also think abortion is a tragedy. But complete freedom would drastically reduce the number of abortions (availability of cheap, convenient prevention, for starters) and would give us non-political (i.e. non-violent) ways to direct dollars toward discouraging those considering abortion from going through with it.
But those billboards are a telltale sign not just of opinion. In this corrupt, state-infested world they declare a political bent. These aren't people who are just opposed to abortion. These are people who are willing to hire the local arm of a mafia to point guns at people so that they don't have abortions.
Further and on occasion, these small towns will have some centrally located placard to let visitors know that the town supports is troops. The anti-abortion signs are somehow far more tolerable. The unthinking allegiance of these "Minnesota nice" people to the mercenaries who kill and oppress on the orders of politicians and paid with money those politicias had their domestic mercenaries steal… It's like finding out that the adorable little girl next door keeps in her closet a collection the bodies of kittens she's tortured to death.
These people are kind, smiling and enthusiastic fascists. While in a drive-thru in one of these towns I saw a bumper sticker in front of me that read "I Love My Soldier". They are good to each other and to those in their midst whom their political masters approve of, but they practically orgasm at the thought of the state sending out their sons and daughters to trample other tribes.
Regards,
Gary Gibson
Editor, The Dollar Vigilante
Here’s what we wrote about this week…
MONDAY, December 9
US to Canadians: Don't Seek Medical Assistance
Wendy McElroy on the supposedly private information the Canadian government is sharing with US customs.
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is sending Canadians a message: calling 911 or seeking help for a mental health or substance problem may result in being targeted. In short, Canadians may be denied entry into the US due to their medical records. A recent incident makes it clear that Canada is sharing private medical information with the DHS. Once entered into a DHS computer, of course, the information can spread to every other US government database.
The prescreening performed by DHS on American fliers includes intimate details. That's not surprising. The screening involves access to American police files, tax information including property taxes, employment records, travel history, car registration and a raft of other data. But, until now, it has been unclear how much intimate information was being shared with the DHS by foreign nations.”
TUESDAY, December 10
Bitcoin's Evolution will be Swift
Chris Horlacher predicts Bitcoin’s rapid evolution.
“A lot of attention has been paid to bitcoin in the last couple of weeks. As Chinese buyers piled in to the market, a gathering of bureaucrats in the United States gave their blessing to the nascent currency. The price movements in bitcoin have been jaw-dropping, to say the least. The naysayers, looking for any reason to belittle this digital innovation, leaped on a Bank of China announcement that prohibited Chinese banks from dealing with the currency. To those that have been paying attention, China has had a ban on virtual currencies since June of 2009 so this comes as no surprise. Other investors and speculators are painting pictures of tulip bulbs for us in the mainstream news, but even the Dutch didn’t see action this intense. Like Rocky Balboa, this new invention refuses to stay down.”
WEDNESDAY, December 11
Why Mourn Racialist, Commie Nelson Mandela
Gary Gibson has an alternate (surprise) take on Mandela’s legacy.
"Back in his prime Mandela was a violent communist resisting a rascist, fasco-socialist colonial state. It gets tricky hoping for both sides to lose. So most people around the world played it safe and backed the black guy instead of the racist apartheid government that put him behind bars for nearly three decades. Then, much as they did after World War II, they pretended that the racist fascist national socialist was pure evil while the murderous communist was the selfless, world-improving good guy. We here at TDV still think that in a match between Hitler and Stalin, you should hope they both knock each other into bloody comas.”
THURSDAY, December 12
Modern Prohibition Takes it on the Chin with Uruguay's Marijuana Legalization
Gibson on Uruguay’s pot laws.
"Uruguay became the first country to legalize marijuana completely yesterday.
We're not just talking about "decriminalizing" it, or allowing recreational use while still prosecuting pot's cultivation and selling. The government will still limit amounts to six plants per home per year. And as with alcohol purchases in the US, selling pot in Uruguay will require a license.”
FRIDAY, December 13
Feedback Friday: December 13, 2013
This week in the Feedback: Bitcoin, Mandela, falling pot prices, and more…
SATURDAY, December 14
How to Escape from Jail, Twice, Like a Vigilante: The Weekend Vigilante December 14, 2013
Jeff Berwick shares his tale of time in a St. Kitts jail. And his escape…
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