Dear JA

I'm sure by now you've seen my response elsewhere. One might comment that for someone who talks about "being a man," it sure is curious that you didn't identify yourself to me. You could do that now, you know.

I have a suspicion, a guess. It is interesting that you have heard about me "for years," but only chose to complain now. So I am guessing that despite what you said in your complaint, there is something that I have done very recently that bothered you, something you may not have even mentioned in your complaint.

And I suspect that what really bothers you is my remarks about the military, which did not give what you consider to be the appropriate gratitude and adulation to the military for the freedoms you believe they give us. I am guessing that you really cannot stand what I said, that it makes you feel very upset.

I could be wrong. It's just a guess.

Anyway, if that's the case, I think it's interesting that the freedoms the military gives us have to be restrained by anonymously complaining to someone.

You're welcome to tell me what's really bothering you.

You're also welcome to step in and help correct the problem you identified. Instead of complaining about me, you could be part of the solution.

Truce

I call for a truce. Conservatives will not ask Liberals to fund wars which the Liberals believe are murder, and Liberals will not ask Conservatives to fund abortions which they Conservatives believe are murder.

Why is it that so few people would agree to this completely rational proposal?

And why is anyone who disagrees with this principle allowed to have any say over my life at the ballot box?

Government and law

We indoctrinate even children into the belief that selective breaking of laws is beneficial for society as a whole. But it is a lie. For example, counterfeiting is illegal. If it is widespread, the value of money decreases, which is incredibly damaging to everyone except early recipients of the counterfeit funds. But government counterfeiting happens on a massive scale, through the Federal Reserve. Whole schools of economics exist in government-funded graduate schools to teach supposed mechanisms by which this is beneficial, but the truth is it is just as destructive when government does it as it is when private individuals do it. The result is a dollar that has lost 95% of its value since 1913, after previously holding its value for several centuries (since even before the establishment of the U.S.).

Government as we know it is essentially just an institution that holds a monopoly on breaking laws. They routinely violate the rights to life, liberty, and property. They even claim the power to make law, determining that some crimes are permissible (perhaps only by certain people or under certain circumstances) and declaring other wholly permissible acts to be crimes.

In the English common law tradition which continued to influence this country even as late as the mid 1800's, law was something immutable to be discovered and reasoned about by man, but not created or changed.

I am for constraining the government to obey the laws, the real laws, the immutable laws which hold sway in every time and place: let's outlaw the infringement of the rights to life, liberty, and property!