tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post1646086407032379500..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Video: How To Insult A ProgressiveAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-20825463921687761072015-07-09T20:38:11.084-05:002015-07-09T20:38:11.084-05:00..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-69727729945319931212015-07-09T11:09:50.883-05:002015-07-09T11:09:50.883-05:00I don't see photography as a form of self-expr...I don't see photography as a form of self-expression. Public photography violates people's privacy, and can be used for criminal purposes.<br /><br />See where this leads?<br /><br />Libertarians say follow your own happiness however you see fit. We will leave you alone so long as you do not harm others.<br /><br />You don't solve a 1% problem by taking rights away from the other 99%. You solve it by punishing the 1% who use their rights to commit crimes and harm others.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-5929888498490226452015-07-09T04:46:25.632-05:002015-07-09T04:46:25.632-05:00I thought we had covered this before. There is no ...I thought we had covered this before. There is no "gun show loophole". Licensed dealers are required to run purchasers through NICS at a gun show...just as in their store. Private sellers are not, just as outside of a gun show. For some not-terribly-apparent reason, you seem to favor the regulation [and taxation] of a non-commercial transaction between citizens...for one lawful item, and only dependent upon the venue. Why? Why do you buy into the myths and lies from the gun control camp?<br /><br />Further...what is a "bulk buy". And bulk buy of what?Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-81488382844322561122015-07-09T00:42:56.368-05:002015-07-09T00:42:56.368-05:00Che Guevara was a romanticized KGB political const...Che Guevara was a romanticized KGB political construct/operative and a puzzle piece for the "liberation theology" movement used by the KGB to destabilize S. America. So yes, there is no comparison between Dylann and Che.<br /><br />The Last English PrinceThe Last English Princehttp://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-38171487702499492302015-07-09T00:27:52.486-05:002015-07-09T00:27:52.486-05:00Political debate etiquette question. When a left-w...Political debate etiquette question. When a left-wing drone is going on and on about how the right "historically backs their agenda with violence," is it wrong to mention leftists like Maximillien Robespierre? Or is it too old skool to start with the very first leftist leader in history and his guillotine? How about mentioning the ACLU defending the Ku Klux Klan when right-wingers are blamed for supporting hate speech? Is comparing Dylann Storm Roof to the priest-executing Che Guevara over the top?(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-30176194336879019812015-07-08T23:05:34.472-05:002015-07-08T23:05:34.472-05:00Who respects freedom more?
It's probably a ma...Who respects freedom more?<br /><br />It's probably a matter of your right from your side, I'm right from mine.<br />I do not support taking your firearms. Myself, I once owned a .50 Barrett with a few friends and stored it down Maine. Fun to shoot but the ammo was damn expensive.<br /><br />My friends want to take your guns? Believe me, you don't know my posse.<br /><br />But e do oppose a lot of the myths and lies that have grown around guns. And the paranoid resistance to reasonable control.<br />Shut down the gun show loophole, limit bulk buys.<br /><br />I don't see firearms as a means of self expression but I'm open to the idea. <br />Meanwhile, the proliferation f firearms is a genuine danger which is not equivalent to the proliferation of selfies which is a different sort of danger. At least t us who still want to believe that art can be transformative.<br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-65130400888982667482015-07-08T22:24:40.374-05:002015-07-08T22:24:40.374-05:00Sal, good point. I often point out to people that...Sal, good point. I often point out to people that if the government really didn't want stuff to be happening - drugs, illegals, welfare gangbanger neighborhoods, It WOULDN'T BE HAPPENING. Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-38655607496558233552015-07-08T22:23:02.341-05:002015-07-08T22:23:02.341-05:00Just as I guessed. None of the usual suspect libt...Just as I guessed. None of the usual suspect libtards even Tried to counter the content of this video. duck made an A* of himself as usual, but where are the other little progressive geniuses ? Maybe they'll bring excuse notes from their mommy to the next post.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05287399775879832602noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-49790607528649851222015-07-08T20:18:36.563-05:002015-07-08T20:18:36.563-05:00SF,
Well said!SF,<br />Well said!Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-21882128646484439232015-07-08T19:49:58.894-05:002015-07-08T19:49:58.894-05:00Ducky,
I appreciate how civilly you've expres...Ducky,<br /><br />I appreciate how civilly you've expressed yourself here, but you did traffic in a false comparison that inadvertently bolsters the case for libertarianism.<br /><br />Which is more important? The right to own a camera? Or the right to own a gun?<br /><br />To a libertarian, the answer is neither. And lets throw in the right to grow marijuana, marry whoever you want, or not get married and just fornicate all day. Freedom is in the eye of beholder when it comes to living ones own life.<br /><br />Governments around the world have banned both guns and cameras.<br /><br />You and your fellow leftwing progs would stand up and cheer yourself hoarse if Obama banned guns tomorrow. <br /><br />If that same government took your camera away, CI and I would stand with you in anger and righteous indignation.<br /><br />Meanwhile, your 'liberal' friends would tell you to get over it, it's to save the environment, it's for the children, to protect us... Whatever the government lie of the day is...<br /><br />Who respects freedom more?<br />Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-23849364336008976712015-07-08T19:12:04.198-05:002015-07-08T19:12:04.198-05:00You really have to ask why? Why is it Libertarians...You really have to ask why? Why is it Libertarians who stand up in defense of raw milk vendors at farmers markets....who stand up against the pervasive militarization of law enforcement and of the intrusive surveillance state....why is it Libertarians who have fought more forcefully to protect the rights of the citizen to record the actions of law enforcement....why is it Libertarians who demand that the State actually follow the Constitution and the legislation of this nation?<br /><br />It's not 'progressives'. Libertarianism does't damage community or cooperation in the least...both must be <i>consensual</i> to be defined as such. <br /><br />It sounds as if you confuse Libertarianism with Anarchism. Libertarianism generally, isn't even Minarchism. <br /><br />Perhaps your scale is broken.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14525987545902389592015-07-08T18:44:54.721-05:002015-07-08T18:44:54.721-05:00CI, why do you say you are more free?
More free?
...CI, why do you say you are <i>more</i> free?<br /><br /><i>More</i> free?<br /><br />What would most limit your freedom? To read you it would be loss of your firearms.<br />To me it would be loss of my camera.<br /><br />Clearly two very different world views. Why is one <i>more</i> free?<br /><br />I also see the political world as a moving scale with extreme individualism on one end and complete collectivism on the other.<br />Libertarianism is so far to the individual end that it damages community and cooperation and that's why I call it extreme.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-64675825497318916372015-07-08T17:30:15.571-05:002015-07-08T17:30:15.571-05:00I think this argument is illustrative of why I rej...I think this argument is illustrative of why I reject fundamentalism, Z.<br /><br />For me when a religion becomes too focused on being an absolute truth it takes on the form of a cult.<br />That's just my take. I'm much more comfortable with the searchers and much less comfortable with those who think they've found it. <br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-89267798514284376322015-07-08T17:25:48.752-05:002015-07-08T17:25:48.752-05:00I'd say the need for religion in a constantly ...I'd say the need for religion in a constantly failing secular world is a common theme for O'Connor.<br /><br />Faith? <i>Wise Blood</i> Original Sin <i>The Misfit</i><br /><br /> “I feel that if I were not a Catholic, I would have no reason to write, no reason to see, no reason ever to feel horrified or even to enjoy anything.”<br />--- Flannery O'ConnorDucky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-81670304392767358642015-07-08T16:29:45.782-05:002015-07-08T16:29:45.782-05:00o'Connor is NOT known as a Christian writer, a...o'Connor is NOT known as a Christian writer, and I'd like to see more than 2 of her pieces which are 'deeply informed' (more than most of us are informed by our faith, unconsciously) by her faith.<br /><br />Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-53631025158873072132015-07-08T16:29:41.537-05:002015-07-08T16:29:41.537-05:00Ducky, So what you're saying is you're not...Ducky, So what you're saying is you're not dismissive of Christianity if it's something you agree with? The fundamentals of the faith turn you off, right? <br />If I followed a Book (and only that Book informs Christianity, none other), I thought was bigoted, I'd stop following it tomorrow.<br />Let's see where Christianity is bigoted, where hate is involved.<br />ANd, please don't list every Christian who's done something horrible and tell us they represent all Christians unless you're finally going to tell us that all muslims are bigots, too, because they BEHEAD those who don't agree with them.<br />Thanks.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-31183076727524055642015-07-08T16:29:14.415-05:002015-07-08T16:29:14.415-05:00Ducky, So what you're saying is you're not...Ducky, So what you're saying is you're not dismissive of Christianity if it's something you agree with? The fundamentals of the faith turn you off, right? <br />If I followed a Book (and only that Book informs Christianity, none other), I thought was bigoted, I'd stop following it tomorrow.<br />Let's see where Christianity is bigoted, where hate is involved.<br />ANd, please don't list every Christian who's done something horrible and tell us they represent all Christians unless you're finally going to tell us that all muslims are bigots, too, because they BEHEAD those who don't agree with them.<br />Thanks.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14517133366877771832015-07-08T16:25:54.381-05:002015-07-08T16:25:54.381-05:00o'Connor is NOT known as a Christian writer, a...o'Connor is NOT known as a Christian writer, and I'd like to see more than 2 of her pieces which are 'deeply informed' (more than most of us are informed by our faith, unconsciously) by her faith.<br /><br />Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-85914724054564337722015-07-08T15:22:01.436-05:002015-07-08T15:22:01.436-05:00Ducky, I'm a "hardcore Libertarian"....Ducky, I'm a "hardcore Libertarian"....and speaking for my people....we roundly rebuke Statists and 'Progressives' [especially those who claim Libertarians 'yak' about them, when it's matched by Statists and 'Progressives' 'yakking' about Libertarians].<br /><br />But I will agree with you.....liberty <i>is</i> an extreme position, given our unsustainable paradigm of entitlement, reliance and regulation. A position that I'm proud of. After all.....<i>my</i> 'sandbox' is more free than <i>yours</i>.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-49039994145785473142015-07-08T15:02:04.709-05:002015-07-08T15:02:04.709-05:00Vanity Fair headline:
The Troubling Question in t...Vanity Fair headline:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/07/anti-semitism-france-hostage-hyper-cacher-kosher-market" rel="nofollow">The Troubling Question in the French Jewish Community: Is It Time to Leave?</a><br /><br />The question sensible people all over Western Civilization should be asking is, how fast can we deport such rabble and unceremoniously dump their asses back where they (or their parents) came from?Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-61859127844812116232015-07-08T14:34:23.292-05:002015-07-08T14:34:23.292-05:00This Government has money to watch and record each...This Government has money to watch and record each and every law-abiding motorists all day long but not a dime for a camera in the projects to catch the mutants who shoot one another.The Vigilantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08186075737769491346noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-80701874003629754172015-07-08T14:23:19.458-05:002015-07-08T14:23:19.458-05:00Ducky's here
, said;
Mention conservative and ...Ducky's here<br />, said;<br />Mention conservative and what do you get, .Benghazi, Benghazi, Benghazi.<br /><br />It is intensely sad<br /><br /><br />Well mention liberal's <br />And all you get is <b> Bush, Bush, Bush!</b>Just Sayinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-290173081585825112015-07-08T12:52:41.286-05:002015-07-08T12:52:41.286-05:00oops. You said "Statists," not "st...oops. You said "Statists," not "statistics." My bad. Makes more sense now.<br /><br />I use the term "statists" because it cuts across all ideological lines. Conservatives and pseudo-conservatives in the GOP are just as prone to statism as those on the left.<br /><br />I do not hate the government,and I have never denigrated the concept of a government. I am not an anarchist. What I criticize is the overbearing nature of our government and the increasing over-reliance on it and it's increasingly shabby, half-baked 'solutions.'<br /><br />I'm sure you're acquainted with the concept of subsidiarity? We need to swing back that way.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-57868828312233519772015-07-08T12:47:27.622-05:002015-07-08T12:47:27.622-05:00...and 4 out of 5 people would agree with me about......and 4 out of 5 people would agree with me about the use of statistics ;-)Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-42961180855526495272015-07-08T12:45:55.646-05:002015-07-08T12:45:55.646-05:00Ducky,
Thank you for the reply, but you are wrong...Ducky,<br /><br />Thank you for the reply, but you are wrong on all three counts.<br /><br />I understand how facts and statistics can pop the grand overinflated schemes of progressivism, but the employment of facts and statistics can hardly be characterized as 'extreme.'<br /><br />I am not a hard core libertarian. I am no more libertarian than the Founding Fathers, probably a little less so than Hayek, and trust me on this, he is not a hard core libertarian. The true believers hate him, as they to the 'Kochtopus.' I frequent Reason Magazine, but much of it is too libertarian for me, and I can't stand Lew Rockwell and his crap, although Mises.org is a valuable intellectual font.<br /><br />Finally, I am not extreme toward Muslims at all. <br /><br />Muslim citizens must be treated the same as any other citizens and left alone to lawfully practice their religion and culture. I also see no reason with their following the administrative parts of Sharia, or even the other parts, so long as they do not conflict with our laws.<br /><br />I believe that Islam is a religion, even though I conflicts with my beliefs, and forbidding its practice here would be unconstitutional.<br /><br />I take a very dim view of Islam based upon the evidence before us. It has not been a positive influence anywhere in over 1000 years. Islam is involved in the vast majority of conflicts and societal agitation in the world.<br /><br />I also believe that Islam as practiced by the majority of adherents who live in Islam-created hellscapes is incompatible with western liberal democracy. For that reason, we should not be importing them into the United States.<br /><br />I don't understand what part of that you consider extreme.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com