About
here: saltypig
meatspace: charley hardman
location: occupied central north america
[my email address isn't offered freely, because i don't want to hear from you. you're the lawyer for someone who croaked and left me $5M? still don't want to hear from you. and yeah, that means you too. like one of my articles? don't like one of my articles? don't care. old friend who wants to get together and reminisce? do it without me; don't want to hear from you.]
What I Believe
i do not own other people. i have no right to “vote” to run their lives. i may not inflict myself on anyone. voluntary interaction is a wonderful thing; when i see people lining up to buy ice cream from a neighborhood entrepreneur, i smile. my smile doesn’t lessen just because the company gets bigger.
the state is evil. its members prohibit and crush voluntary human cooperation in the name of humanity. they are a lie. those who link themselves to the state are evil. those who worship and tie their happiness and livelihood to it enable most of life’s misery. most people are brainwashed by the state through constant exposure and are unable to see liberty as anything good. to get around this problem in america, the state — official crime syndicate — merely changes the definition of liberty, raping the word’s meaning while wringing from it the last part of positive association. “liberty” in america now means control by violence monopolists — the mafia with a twist (piety and flags).
any proposal that involves one man inflicting himself on another, taking his property, or otherwise demonstrating through aggression that his life is more important, must be opposed. to neglect that fight is to succumb to hate and surrender to inferiors. there are men who mean to be your masters. what does that make you if they succeed? a patriot?
“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain—that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.”
~Lysander Spooner, 1870
“I have ceased to regard Federal America as my country, sir. I lost my nationality at Appomattox.”
~vampire Edgar Poe, 1918 — The Bloody Red Baron
“If it is really necessary for Congress to force (that is what legislation is about) food makers to confess that they use eggs or peanuts or whatever, in order to prevent people from dying who would otherwise croak on a crumb, if it is really essential that the coercive apparatus of the state, which George Washington compared to a fire and the whole liberal intellectual tradition warns is up to no good, be used, if this is really necessary, then there is no case for freedom at all. If government needs to do this, it needs to do everything. If the market fails here, it fails everywhere, and we need the total state.”
~Lew Rockwell, 2003
“Freedom and honor! For ten long years Hitler and his coadjutor have manhandled, squeezed, twisted, and debased these two splendid German words to the point of nausea, as only dilettantes can, casting the highest values of a nation before swine. They have sufficiently demonstrated in the ten years of destruction of all material and intellectual freedom, of all moral substance among the German people, what they understand by freedom and honor. The frightful bloodbath has opened the eyes of even the stupidest German — it is a slaughter which they arranged in the name of ‘freedom and honor of the German nation’ throughout Europe, and which they daily start anew. The name of Germany is dishonored for all time if German youth does not finally rise, take revenge, and atone, smash its tormentors, and set up a new Europe of the spirit.”
~The White Rose, 1943
“In the end, we don’t need to prove the superiority of consequence of living free. Coercionists need to prove they have the Right — not the ‘authority’ — to cause us to live otherwise.”
~NTA, 2007
“I find adherence to fantasy troubling and unreasonable.”
~Tojamura, late 1900s
“The older I get, the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.”
~Henry Mencken, according to Alistair Cooke, according to George the Pill
“Hillary will be the Democratic nominee once the Obama fantasy subsides. Bet the ranch on that one.”
~James Ostrowski, 2007
“besides, why would i want to leave Serenity?”
~Inara Serra, 2002
“[...] & each
In others count’nance red his own dismay
Astonisht: none among the choice and prime
Of those Heav’n-warring Champions could be found
So hardie as to proffer or accept
Alone the dreadful voyage; till at last
Satan, whom now transcendent glory rais’d
Above his fellows, with Monarchal pride
Conscious of highest worth, unmov’d thus spake.
O Progeny of Heav’n, Empyreal Thrones,
With reason hath deep silence and demurr
Seis’d us, though undismaid: long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light; [...]”
~John Milton, 1667
