#FreeBopha

Hip-hop artists are oft portrayed as villains by themselves and the 4th branch. Eminem has played on his bad-boy visage to sell millions of tapes. Lil Wayne, aka Weezy F. Baby don't forget the baby, has been kidnapped by Johnny Law for daring to try to buy non-politicallycorrect arms and dabbling in doobies from south of the border. T.I., Atlanta's monarch, has been kidnapped for like reasons. Lil Boosie has been thrown into the cages for the alleged hit-man ordered murder of a man. In response to their favorite rappers being caged, fanatics become activists. They start free movements. They make signs, wear t-shirts, and trend hashtags of #FreeSoandSo. These rappers are now free. Whether the activism of their disciples was the main factor, or not, I do not know. But, I think their grassroots free movements help. I find the kidnapping of rappers alarming, but I am more concerned about the kidnapping of protesters whose only listed crime is being the victim of land theft by the State and being bold enough to talk about it. I'm talking about the peaceful Cambodian land-rights advocate Yorm Bopha. #FreeBopha

Yorm Bopha sits, sleeps, and urinates under the dominion of the Cambodian State. She is the State's kidnapee. Her daily view includes a main dish of metal bars with a side order of musty roommates. They say mock trial is great preparation for middle and high school students to learn about the real world. Whoever they are, they are right. Bopha was put through a mock trial a few days ago.

"On March 27, 2013, the Cambodian Supreme Court denied bail to Yorm Bopha, who was imprisoned in December 2012 after receiving a three-year sentence on  apparently politically motivated charges for protesting government land grabs that have adversely affected 700,000 Cambodians" says the Human Rights Watch.*

Speaking is not grounds for kidnapping. At least in the moral realm it is not. Follow the money. Follow the money. A familiar mantra to American ears. So, let's follow the money. Where there are people being exiled from their land by the State, there will be a tale of privilege. This is crony-capitalism, or corporatism. Our enemy, the State, selects a target she deems weak enough to steal from and a friend that would willingly accept the target's resources. The friend is usually a donor who keeps the local commissars' election money growing. The Commissars gain the privilege of governance, and the corporations gain the privilege of stolen resources. Now the Human Rights Watch will fill out my formula for me

Bopha, 29, is one of the leaders of long-term protests against illegal evictions of residents of the Boeung Kak area of Phnom Penh by a Chinese company and a local firm closely linked to Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Pay attention to this formula. This formula separates the vulgar libertarians from the market anarchists. The vulgar libertarians, often conservatives wanting to use a more hip label, limit this kritik to farm and sugar subsidies. However, it applies to any State sponsored bridge building, highway leasing, dam constructing, green converting, tariff raising, weapons contracting, henchmen hiring or court establishing. We should not be lukewarm in our opposition to privilege handouts. We should either be cold, or hot. To be cold is to support the State in its edification of corporate privilege. To be hot is to oppose corporate privilege from every angle it can be measured by. I am hot.

Hotness is applicable to sighting the methodology of the State. Her methods include the initiation of violence, always and everywhere. While monitoring the Gambellan case, I noted our enemy's usual tools. Her Cambodian branch is no different. Humans who are trying to inform others about the injustice of land theft, have the bloodhounds sent after them.

They were assaulted by a mixed force of police, gendarmes, and security guards, who severely beat several protesters, including Sakhon.

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Furthermore, we must end the State.

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*All quotes on this page are from the Human Rights Watch link on highlighted in yellow.

Gambella: the new New World

The freedom philosophy, the libertarian movement, or liberalism, says Ludwig von Mises, is encapsulated in the word property. Gary North points out that most Economics books begin with chapters on scarcity. He thinks they should start with dominion instead. Me too. Once we know who has dominion over what, we can spot a violation thereof. If you have dominion over property and I take, damage, or otherwise use it without your consent, we have a violation.

Eminent domain is not just a tool of the State in the United States. My brethren and sistren in Gambella, Ethiopia are victims of said violation. The State, via its Ethiopian branch, is removing the humans of Gambella from their ancestral homes at truncheon point. To make up for this discomfort, the State is giving them new homes on new land. This idea, now called villagization, is as old as the European invasion of North America. Watch Guns, Germs, and Steel and you too will see. What was done to the Native Americans is being done to the Native Africans. Guardian writer William Lloyd George reveals the evil perverted by mouths mouthing good intentions, with quotes from the Gambellans

"These mass evictions have been carried out under the pretext of providing better services and improving the livelihoods of these communities," says the letter. "However, once they moved to the new sites, they found not only infertile land, but also no schools, clinics, wells or other basic services."

If it takes a whole village to raise a child, then those who uproot villages are attacking the youth. Legally, the State in Ethiopia gets away with this, because they claim dominion over all land in Ethiopia. Their law books are on their side. Whether they fiat windward to be leeward or east to be west, or more dreadfully both, they will find the paperwork to back their claims. The masses are only allowed to own structures made on top of land. No system of property rights assigns this much leeway except for the Legal Positivism exploded by Judge Andrew Napolitano's 2011 tirade against the State, It's Dangerous to be Right, When the Government is Wrong. We hear people say that actions speak louder than words, but reading about actions through words works well as well. And again William Lloyd George lets the Gambellans do the talking after his short introduction

It says the government forced them to abandon their crops just before harvest, and they were not given any food assistance during the move. "Those farmers who refused to implement the programme... have been targeted with arrest, beating, torturing and killing,"

You know, the usual tools of our enemy. Every time I look at a human interaction I ask, is this the initiation of violence, or consent? You've seen my cards, what are yours?

Furthermore, we must end the State.*


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Shout out to Thomas Knapp's tagline

No Issue is Small

I'm a foodie. My love is sensorial in a full sense- I love its smell, its look, its feel, its sounds and the obvious taste.

Baylen Linneken, founder of the food freedom fighters Keep Food Legal, uses paperwork and the court system as medieval knights tarnished their crested shields and blades. He writes about his success with a lower court judge here at Reason. You can find his moving pictures (pirate speak for videos) here.

Thank You Johnny Williams

Justice is an elusive maiden that rarely shows her face on the worldly plane. She is no goddess, but an idea. Ideas are revered by men, because they show us how weak we are. They remind us of our finitude. Our bodies, our money, and our monuments will all fade to dust in the ages of ages. But, our ideas live forever.

The commentariat choose to refer to State schools as houses of education, and State courts as houses of justice. This is a lie. State schools administer State dogma to the next generation- making sure our kids accept the faith in coercion. State courts uphold the "living" constitutions that shift the definitions of terms more than Hollywood totters and teeters on paths of hip diets and religions.* The laws they uphold have been read in their entirety by no sane judge. The diction in the laws is purposefully selected to confound expert and layman alike. If justice were to be weighed on the scales of quantity we would be winning in the United States of America. Don't you lose hope in the misery of my jeremiad. Grit is a fertile Redwood that bears milk and honey. It will see us to the port of liberty, in a world of consensual courts. Until then, there are moments that we can praise the release of another life from the tentacles of Leviathan.

Johnny Williams is an innocent man that was kidnapped by a gang of men with guns that calls themselves government**. The police officers (deacons of Leviathan) stole fourteen years of Williams's life based on the faith in hearsay. His so-called crime was the rape of a nine year old. An act he did not commit, as proven by the science of forensics. The Huffington Post article I read this in words the injustice of the State with fatal precision

 The release said Williams was put in a line up despite not matching the girl's initial description of her attacker... Though he told police 45 times that he didn't attempt to rape the girl, authorities told him "they had dozens of witnesses, security video, and DNA evidence," the release said.

They had none of the above. The police officers that told these lies are evil. In the vein of Virgil, I write ever more boldly against their evil. The difference between coercive and free enterprise is in the consequences of mistakes. Especially when they are of this magnitude. Any free enterprise's profits would plunge into the Abyss after a mishap of this magnitude. The employees that messed up would be fired, and the higher ups would have to live the rest of their days with a scarlet letter on their foreheads. But, the State fails and fails and fails and fails and keeps its staff. In fact, they may get raises and be asked to increase regulation on themselves. You know, because that works.

Thank you Johnny Williams, for surviving the Boa constrictor hold of the State and living to tell your tale. You were released from your cell with lips that still thank the lord God. You give me hope that the State cannot keep us down forever. When the rule of law is Kritarchy, I pray to never hear a story like yours again.


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*It's really one religion rehashed with a thesaurus of euphemisms. Nihilism or nothingness. The idol worship of the self that results from the hubris denial of objective truth.
**British philosopher Thomas Hobbes thinks that "life is nasty, poor, brutish and short." His solution is to give the government power to forcibly mold our lives. He refers to this forceful governance, or State, as Leviathan, and trusts her sword to hold us upright.

The End of Time... Incorporated

 Apropos, or orchestrated, I don't believe in coincidences. After writing on Jeffrey Tucker's recalling of the walking word's words

But many who are first will be last, and the last first. (Mark 10:31)

I read The Guardian's tracking of a recent fall from secular achievement. The Guardian has been scribbling notes, for awhile, as Time Incorporated tumbles. In other words, they are following the flight path of the pterodactyl. Maybe partially delighting in the descent of a renown competitor. You can find the quote below here- the rest of the blood trail goes back a couple of months here, here, here, and here.

Time Inc's historic brands hold out hope for rebirth as company crumbles. Time was once the world's most influential magazine. Its founders virtually invented the modern news weekly and went on to become publishers of some of the most storied and popular titles on the news rack: Sports Illustrated, Fortune, People.

  In Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy economist Joseph Schumpeter calls this creative destruction - the structuring and restructuring of free enterprise. Time's destruction will lead to the creation or edification of another enterprise. In the digital era print producers are going through birthing pains to convince us to cough up our coffers. Why pay for news when Twitter, Facebook, and amateur writers are feeding the masses' minds for free? Every story I publish on this blog is my product. I seek something in return for this product. It is not your money that I am asking you to exchange, but I will accept it. I want you to read what I write. I want you to come to the understanding that the State is a problem. Not just in delivering mail and subsidizing corn producers that would fail in a freed market; but in providing roads, protection, and court services. I value your understanding above what I think I could make if I charged for my products. And so I vociferously voice my concerns over this loudspeaker on the interwebs. How can a competitor compete with millions of me selling products for free?

The digital age is inexorably scuttling us to a better world - where more people will have more free selections. If there are no jobs in print, let us find new ways to voluntarily serve one another. Let us play in the rialto like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

Freedom to Let Go: coauthored by Lij Miki

I went to elementary school in Los Angeles' Unified School District (LAUSD). An early taste of the State is a good forewarning. Its negation, the market, is also to be familiarized with. My view of the market then is different than it is now. Now, I know its bigger. The rialto exists everywhere and anywhere we decide to exchange goods and services. Whether this exchange is dressed in a compulsory, or voluntary attire. In LAUSD, it is of the compulsory calling. As with any and all systems of the compulsory kind, there are chaotic consequences.

Behavior is quoted as the most nefarious suspect in the case against miseducation of our youth, both on this side of the Mississippi and East of it. I concur. Special Education classrooms are at times stuffed with more kids with disorderly conduct than mental disabilities. The students with mental disabilities are directly analogous to nonviolent offenders of Johnny Law in the prison industrial complex. Nonviolent offenders' recidivism grows as their contact with violent offenders grow. Behavior is a contagion. State law, as it stands, confines kids with bad behavior to circulation. If they are not liked at one school they are bounced to another with similar problems. The root of the matter remains unaddressed.

To get to the root of a problem you must be radical- definitionally so. If you do no not believe that we have specific inviolable rights grounded in the brute fact of our humanity, you have no business here. Neither reading this, nor walking the same plane of existence. We are endowed with the inalienable freedom to associate. This much both authors of this paper agree with. Our disagreement lies in this axiom's application to the rialto- which really is a debate about, what is the rialto? To go further would be to digress.* Our freedom of association should not be defended in only the obvious markets of stock exchanges, grocers, gas stations, massage parlors, and churches. It should be defended in our public schools.

Public schools are not allowed to unequivocally expel students for disruption, or other disrespectful behavior. Some violent behavior can become grounds for expulsion, after bounding over hurdles of commissars and their beloved paperwork. This is a problem. Excluding the equal opportunity debate, store owners can legally open or close their doors to anyone of their choosing. Hence the mantra "We Reserve the Right to Refuse Service to Anyone". Public schools should be granted the same right.** Corporal punishment is dead and gone in the United States' public school system. Whether you think it effectively molded behavior, or not, it was leverage to be used against students. Now it is not there. Amongst the peaceful methods, we should take heed from how we reward and reprimand each other in the rialto. We reward each other through voluntary purchases. We reprimand each other through refusing to trade, or disassociation. The threat of disassociation, if it exists at all in public schools, is a flaccid banana beneath an anvil falling from the heavens.

The belief that the federal government should decide which kids are to go to which schools is tertiary- a fashion left to the ages two million years ago. It comes down to philosophy. Do we have the right to limited mistakes in public schools, or to an unlimited amount of mistakes? To right the chaos caused by kids with bad behavior we have to empower public schools with the right to associate. The conjoined twin of association is the freedom to disassociate. When I say public schools, I mean just that. Not the federal government, nor the state government, nor the county government. An assembly of people involved with the students on a consistent basis should host the right to let them stay or let them go.

"... Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Let my people go" (Exodus 5:1)

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*I, Henok Elias, believe that the only just method of education is the voluntary variety. Selected and paid for freely by the likes of you and I. In the same fashion as Chapstick, Trident gum, cheap haircuts, and dandelions are. The best possible world for maximal education is to privatize education from head to toe.
** I, Henok Elias, see this right as applicable even in the cases listed in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Yes, black males can oppose that act without hating themselves.

Helpful links: the rights of store owners, Center for Public Integrity research, UCLA research, the rights of school owners

Drink Jeffrey Tucker's Bourbon

Words are delectable. Especially when they go down the mind's throat smoothly- without the harsh fizz of soda pop. Jeffrey Tucker's Bourbon for Breakfast: living outside the statist quo is the POM wonderful of books. It is a collection of his essays. I find this text pleasing for its accessibility- I had a 4th grader read and understand a couple chapters. Tucker is an unabashed anarchist, and a clothing connaisseur. Swoosh the style advice around with the quick fixes for State boondoggles for a merry olde time. Tucker exposes the creep behind almost every woe we face in our lives,

It's the hidden hand of government that has mandated this leap back to barbarism.

In The Glories of Change, one of Tucker's essays in the book, Tucker tells the story of two burning stars that meet the fate of all white dwarves. Death. Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch were known throughout the land as monetary mountebanks. It was only a matter of time before people stopped buying and drinking their Kool-Aid. The market is made of us peacefully trading with one another. Businesses perish or thrive on our voluntary selections. Thank you Mr. Tucker, for toasting to the descent of these vultures after their encounter with the electrical wire of free enterprise.

And here is one more snippet to tease your intellectual thirst

For this reason, everyone has reason to celebrate the end of Lehman and Merrill. Overnight, while we slept, the seemingly mighty were humbled, the first made last and the last made first. The greatest became the least, all without a shot being fired.

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The source of Tucker's reference is the most sold book of all time. Jesus, the healer of the world, is quoted by Saint Matthew as saying

So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen. (Matthew 20:16)