Dry Dixieland 1913

Government Gunmen for God and Good

We know best how to run your life

Long before Ayn Rand drafted the Non-Aggression Pledge, white Dixie Democrats were hard at work collecting signatures on a pro-life promise to point loaded guns at people. This they regarded as their deontological duty seven years before Christian National Socialism was even invented, and six years before George Wallace was born.

Godliness at Gunpoint!

The Pro-Aggression Pledge of Their Neighbors’ Keepers

Within a year, the Harrison Tax Act would reach out with censorship of advertising, just as the same mentality manages to do today. These holy warriors for the Comstock laws got their power in many states before the Prohibition Amendment brought forth the Crash and Great Depression.

Naturally prohibitionists were surprised, and of course they seek to banish the thought or suggestion that sending government gunmen into banks and brokerages to confiscate accounts could possibly cause money to be withdrawn into hoarding until the fractional-reserve currency system collapsed into an economic black hole. The very suggestion elicits puzzlement that such a thought could be seriously entertained. But the thought is indeed entertaining and will enlighten your understanding of economics and how economics applies to today’s prohibitionism.

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Refugees from Venezuela

Fleeing into Brazil

Venezuelans flee international socialism

Fifty Venezuelan refugees have left Boa Vista in the Brazilian border state of Roraima enroute to the nation’s capital in Brasília as part of official admission procedures. This was on Tuesday, July 24.

An Air Force plane carried the migrants to the capital. Of the fifty, 13 are youths and seven infants. There is no mention of babies being jerked out of their mothers’ arms.  Venezuelans are pouring into Brazil much the way Russian Jews poured into These United States at about the time Ayn Rand was born.

In 1972, hundreds of Argentine youths voted with their feet to show they preferred Brazil’s US-backed dictatorship over the junta running Argentina at the time. I personally visited Buenos Aires and was impressed that every bookstore was packed to the ceiling with calculus textbooks and books on “Peronismo.” Only much later did it occur to me that these were the leftover books nobody would buy.

Nobody protests these refugees, and some commenters are glad to admit individualists fleeing parasitism. Then again, the religious nationalsocialist wing of the cleptocracy wants to build internment camps… Unfortunately, the courts only allow communist and fascist parties to operate in Brazil. These looters thrive on campaign subsidies patterned after those signed into law by Richard Nixon in 1971.

Voting for senile political parties in America has these sorts of repercussions abroad. Most Latin American countries import our worst errors, then send men with guns out to bully women, rob people over plant leaves, and generally behave like bandits. By voting Libertarian you demonstrate unequivocally a preference for economy instead of coercion. Your example then crosses many borders to inspire voters like yourself all over the world.

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