Thursday, June 21, 2007
Work Done!
What I had announced in my previous post is now online! Immigration can lead to ousting, if not from a country, then from a blog... As my previous post was a bit cryptic [a v. rare happening! ;-)], let me recapitulate: I first had drawn your kind attention to JDM's very short but very good column on the subject. The attitude it shows has already inspired Prof. Schoolland who will take it up in the debate on immigration at the upcoming Freedom Fest (July 5 - 7, 2007). Then I had drawn your still kind attention to my Immigration section and the updates on it. As these are marked in red, you cannot miss them. In particular this one: "New! Ms. Mercer is at it again. See this blog post in her "Barely A Blog" and the several following ones with their comments." Well, that's the snag and my still drawing your still kind attention to the third panel in my previous post, namely the sequence of blog posts starting with "The Work Open-Border Libertarians Won’t Do" and which led to my duel with Ilana Mercer (now online as announced!), poor Adam Knott becoming my second. Permanent link for later here (layout less good).Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:42 AM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
On Immigration: Take Our Freedoms, Please!
The topic of immigration has lately become again VERY, well, topical... Few though speak as succinctly and well in a true freedom spirit (and logic!) on this subject as JDM in his column of today, which this site was the first to offer online, as JDM through a Tedious [sic ~ private joke] but annoying computer problem could not send it to all his syndicators:On Immigration: Take Our Freedoms, Please!
I took the opportunity to slightly but barely (another joke, but not a fully private one, one you might get if you look closely enough at all I say in this context and at the links I mention) update my Immigration section.But there is a third panel to make the immigration altar a triptychon, an altar for both us principled full-fledged freedom lovers who want to celebrate with much hash, sorry, incense the mass of future liberty and them Old Testament and old-fashioned Zionist, sorry, territorialist worshippers slaughtering the lamb of liberty on the altar they usurped and monopolized. As that special panel will preferably be in another blog of mine, I will announce it here as soon as it is online there (still some work to do).
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 09:00 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Aux funérailles de la liberté individuelle...
At the funeral of individual liberty...
La canaille au complet/The thieving riff-raff in full force
To bring some colour, but mostly black, into the proceedings and back onto the faces,
we fortunately had a lot of protesters. But unfortunately those were also mostly Attacking liberty. Be warned! "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become victims of the darkness." (Justice William O. Douglas)
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:09 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Michael van Notten (1933 - 2002)
It is five years today that Michael van Notten, co-founder (with Hubert Jongen) of the Libertarian Center in Holland and author of "The Law of the Somalis", to only name two of his great deeds, passed away and the world wide libertarian movement lost one of those outstanding individuals it specializes in. I felt that the least I could do on this anniversary of his death was to remember and thus honour him by these short lines on this site. See also this and this.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 03:29 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Better TV
"The next time I’m dying, I’m strapping myself to a chair and watching it over and over till it kills me."So now we have in this blog, over the last two and a half weeks, regarding voting, that social and democratic shibboleth and mess, the following:
a) a better candidate (than the others): Ron Paul
b) a better party (than the Grand Old one): The Libertarian Party
c) a better solution (altogether): Not voting, also called Liberty
d) a better entertainment (than assisted suicide): Fixing the Presidential Debates
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 02:15 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Late Spring Hope from Younger Man's Office
(the above is a reference to my previous post)Ladies and Gentlemen, I am elated and proud to offer to the large quality audience of my sites the following, a wing to follow, so to speak:
The Present State of Liberty
by Adam Knott
When this several intellectual tons heavy rock will fall into the pond, the waves and ripples will be felt on all shores. Nudists, take your clothes off, and non-nudists put your bathing suits on, the bathing season has been officially and unofficially opened! Hans Christian Andersen's Emperor without clothes will have the privilege to join the bathing crowds in underwear, maybe riding the Elephant in the room (or was it an 800 pound gorilla?)... And you will all be able to eat the hot potatoes from the beach grill. Please click the image:
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 12:31 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Monday, June 4, 2007
Late Spring Hope in Old Man's Office
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 01:20 PM GMT+1 [Link]
Saturday, June 2, 2007
An Open Letter to Ron Paul
...not by me, but by Kevin Tuma:It Is Time to Shatter the Hegemony of the Two Party System
The letter is here:http://www.butterbach.net/kev/kev5.htm
His earlier columns can be found here:
http://www.butterbach.net/guests.htm#kev
Tom Blanton, chair of the Boston Tea Party, in a comment posted on Liberty for All, wrote the following: "The piece opens and ends with quotes from America’s best known anarchist, Henry David Thoreau. I also find it interesting the author believes it is possible to be both a conservative and a libertarian at the same time. Does this mean there is no difference between these two philosophies in the author’s opinion?" [...] "Is it also possible to be a libertarian and an anarchist? Or a conservative and a liberal?" (I was tempted to quote the comment in full, I think it's scrumptious, so don't miss it.)
I can answer this gentleman's questions:
1. It must be possible to be a conservative and a libertarian at the same time. Can't you observe such a simple fact? If all those many conservatives who think they are libertarians, n'est-ce-pas, Ilana, would suddenly sink in the ground, two thirds of the libertarian movement would have disappeared... With their money...
2. A libertarian and an anarchist? That is not only possible, but a necessity: if one is not an anarchist, one is not a libertarian. Even though some, n'est-ce-pas, Wendy, are advertised as anarchists and write and act like conservatives.
I could quote more examples maybe, but I really do not want to be so politically correct as to give women such a quota.
3. Conservative and liberal? Blind? Neo-con Bush!
One single 
for all of the above. I am in the entertainment business today, so that you may grin a bit, as the news of today may not make you laugh. A few excerpts only:
1. Today about a 100 Neo-Nazis, in spite of a court order forbidding their demonstration, marched through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, simply pushing the police away. There were not enough of the latter. They were in Scheinheiligendamm [heilig=holy, scheinheilig=hypocritical] instead, for the G8 Summit. The union of the cops complains that Georgie's security requirements were too difficult to fulfill, that they were not free to act according to their best judgment. It therefore came to a confrontation between police and demonstrators that was not at all to the liking of the Germans. Dubya again messing things up. Even larger numbers of Neo-Nazis marched in other German cities, while violence near Heiligendamm escalated.
2. G8. Isn't that bad news enough? Purest Statism!
3. The Minister of the Interior Schäuble wants the German Constitution changed in order to make it legal for the German FBI (BKA) to secretly use trojans to spy remotely on private computers...4. Today is the 40th anniversary of student Benno Ohnesorg having been shot dead by a policeman during a demonstration in Berlin against the visit of the Shah of Iran. This was very bad, but also, had those extreme left wing demonstrators plus the American government have had some brains, we maybe would not have the mullahs in Iran today. Oh, there was the French governemnt very much involved here too. Government anyone?
I had to write this in a hurry, as I wanted it online on June 2. It's a quarter to midnight. I may edit this post later.
Posted by Christian Butterbach @ 11:47 PM GMT+1 [Link]
