Category Archives: News Commentary

State Stealing for the Sake of Your “Safety”

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I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

Westhampton Beach Police Chief Raymond Dean

Westhampton Beach Police Chief Raymond Dean

Village to Give Retiring Millionaire Cop a Huge, ‘Criminal’ Payout:
http://nypost.com/2014/08/16/hamptons-village-police-chief-retires-with-400k-payout/

(New York Post, Isabel Vincent and Melissa Klein) Charge this cop with robbery.

Ray Dean, police chief of the 2.9-square-mile village of Westhampton Beach, is retiring with a bag of cash.

He is getting $403,714 for 15 years’ worth — or 531 days — of unused sick, vacation and personal time. The payment amounts to 4 percent of the village’s entire $9.7 million budget.

(Read entire article…)

My Commentary: For “your safety.” 😉

Handing the State Control of Society to Combat Criminals is Unreasonable

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As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following status update here, being shared by the page, “Being an Actual Anarchist,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

Being an Actual Anarchist: Statist: Voluntaryism is a Utopian idea because bad people are always going to take control.

Me: So instead you just give them the control.

-Valkyrie

My Commentary: Seems legit…

With No Surprise, Israel’s PM Netanyahu Asks US Lawmakers for Help in Avoiding War-Crime Charges

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks for US legal assistance in order to avoid war-crime charges

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asks for US legal assistance in order to avoid war-crime charges

Report: Netanyahu Asks US Lawmakers to Help Israel Avoid War-Crimes Charges:
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/08/07/report-netanyahu-asks-us-lawmakers-to-help-israel-avoid-war-crimes-charges/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly urging U.S. lawmakers to protect his country from Palestinian claims that Israel engaged in “war crimes” during recent Gaza fighting that left nearly 1,900 Palestinians dead.

A top Israeli lawmaker told The New York Post that Netanyahu is urging U.S. lawmakers to “help Israel avoid war crimes charges.” The Israeli leader is reportedly appealing to American legislators to resist a seemingly global backlash against the Gaza fighting, saying that Israel took “extraordinary measures” to avoid civilian deaths in the recent month-long conflict.

According to Gaza officials, three-quarters of the 1,900 Palestinians killed in the fighting were civilians, although Israeli Defense Forces have stressed that Hamas has intentionally used civilians as human shields. Three Israeli civilians and 64 Israeli soldiers have also been killed in the Gaza conflict.

(Read Entire Article Here…)

My Commentary: Well, considering the fact that the US government received assistance from the Israeli government when it was seeking out “legal justification” for US military drone-bombings of American citizens, this doesn’t surprise me, whatsoever!

US Cites Israeli Law to Justify Extrajudicial Execution of American Citizens Named on Secret “Kill List”:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/06/24/opinion/a-thin-rationale-for-drone-killings.html?referrer

Washington’s Blog does a great job explaining this…

U.S. Relies On Law from Israeli & British Governments to Justify Assassination of U.S. Citizens By Drone:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/06/u-s-relies-law-governments-dont-even-constitution-justify-assassination-u-s-citizens-drone.html

Government: Not Even Once!

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Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters

Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga fighters

The US Bombing its Own Guns Perfectly Sums Up America’s Total Failure in Iraq:
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/8/5982501/the-us-is-now-bombing-its-own-military-equipment-in-iraq

(Max Fisher) When President Obama announced US airstrikes in Iraq, most observers understood that the US would be bombing members of ISIS. What many did not know was that, in a twist of such bitterly symbolic irony that it could only occur in the Middle East, the US would also be bombing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of American military equipment.

Here’s why: in the decade since the 2003 US-led Iraq invasion, the US has spent a fortune training and arming the Iraqi army in the hopes of readying it to secure the country once America left. That meant arming the Iraqi army with high-tech and extremely expensive American-made guns, tanks, jeeps, artillery, and more.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: “Government. Not even once.”