Thread: Re: OT: A case for anarchy, and only morons trust government

"ImStillMags" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On May 9, 1:42 pm, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers172.html
> {
> Punishing politicians for corruption is like scolding the Black Death
> for killing folks.
>
> So we can empathize with the fury, despair and "why-me?" shock that
> must have roiled Illinois’ former Congresscriminal and governor, Rod
> Blagojevich, at his arrest, trial, and conviction, let alone his
> sentencing last week on nebulous charges that boil down to …
> governing. Show me the politician who doesn’t swap favors and peddle
> influence as tirelessly as normal people breathe.
>
> Despite the preening of Blago’s smug prosecutor, self-righteous judge
> and the State’s cheerleaders in the media, condemning the poor slob to
> 14 years’ imprisonment is equivalent to exterminating one rat out of
> the millions spreading plague in medieval Europe: it’s the teeniest,
> tiniest start on curing what ails us. Judge James Zagel should round
> up the rest of the elected or appointed leeches and herd them off to
> the pokey, too, then follow and lock the door behind himself.
>
> Fascinating questions have shadowed this circus from the start,
> primarily whom Blago angered. And what does he know about Obummer
> ("The White House declined comment on Blagojevich's sentence." You bet
> it did!)? Or the vile Rahm Emmanuel? Blago’s info is obviously
> explosive since it requires disgrace so profound the corporate media
> will continue to ridicule him rather than report whatever he sings. On
> top of that, Leviathan has forcibly silenced Blago ("In prison,
> Blagojevich will largely be cut off from the outside world"), perhaps
> permanently: look for him to die there, probably by "suicide."
>
> Not that we should feel sorry for him. Indeed, let us rejoice whenever
> the insatiable State devours its own – and let us pray it does so more
> often. Better them than us, first of all. Second, there’s a lot to
> commend Soviet-style purges: politicians who are free of decency and
> morality but slaves to the almighty Self might think twice about a
> career in plunder if the odds favored their winding up in stir or six
> feet under rather than on a monument somewhere.
>
> Meanwhile, Leviathan’s acolytes unwittingly revealed the beast’s jaw-
> dropping vanity, perversion, and utter wickedness in their comments at
> Blago’s sentencing. Consider Judge James Zagel’s pontification: "When
> it is the governor who goes bad, the fabric of Illinois is torn and
> disfigured and not easily repaired."
>
> Balderdash! And what staggering megalomania, to presume the State
> looms so large that a "bad" sponge tears the "fabric" for 12,830,632
> Illinoisans (OK, I can see where the cloth’s rent for Blago’s family:
> his wife – a political critter herself as well as the daughter of one
> – and his two kids, but not the other 12,830,628 residents). No doubt
> the good folk of Illinois who continue trying to eke out a living
> despite their official predators hardly noticed Blago’s sideshow and
> would’ve shrugged if they had.
>
> I speak from experience. Three years ago, when the Feds caught New
> York’s Chief Thief, Eliot Spitzer, dallying with unelected
> prostitutes, his fellow bloodsuckers and their enablers in the media
> fretted about the impact on us serfs. The New York Times feared we
> were "in limbo." And "State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top
> Republican" – who would resign from office after his own indictment on
> eight counts of corruption – babbled, "The important thing for the
> people of New York State is that people in office do the right thing."
> What a laugh! As if politicians even recognize the right thing or
> would do it if they did.
>
> Far from agonizing over Spitz’s peccadilloes, I suspect most of the
> state’s victims turned the same jaundiced eye on them as "Elmira
> Shirkhin, 27, who works in sales," did. She "said she wasn't
> surprised. ‘It's what you would think politicians would do,' she said
> … . ‘It's men and power. They think they can do anything and get away
> with it'…" Bingo. I wager Illinois’ peons boast as much savvy when it
> comes to sociopaths as New York’s do.
>
> That didn’t keep Zagel from moaning that "The harm [Blago caused] is
> the erosion of public trust in government." Touching, the concern Our
> Rulers profess for our alleged faith in them.
>
> Also bewailing Blago’s betrayal of our belief were Illinois’ Attorney
> General, its current governor, and the Assistant U.S. Attorney; as the
> last put it, "The defendant's … criminal activity has further eroded
> the public's confidence in government and government officials."
>
> Oh, get over yourselves. Only morons trust government. For pity’s
> sake, we’re mature and intelligent enough that you depend entirely on
> us to pay your bills: give us some credit, you twits.
>
> Others as guilty as Blago but as sanctimonious as the twits rushed to
> toss us their two cents. Senator Mark Kirk [R-Il] intoned, "Judge
> Zagel’s sentence is a clear warning to all elected officials that
> public corruption of any form will not be tolerated." Boy, you better
> hope not, buddy, or you and your accomplices are out of business.
>
> Zagel also confirmed Leviathan’s inverted "morals." He opined that the
> defendant had done "good things … for people as governor…" Blago was a
> run-of-the-mill Demopublican, which is to say a socialist and fascist:
> he tried numerous times to further nationalize Illinois’ medical
> insurers. That would have netted him another couple centuries in the
> slammer were I on the bench, but Zagel lauded his theft: "I do also
> believe what he did for children’s health was motivated by a true
> concern for the welfare of children." Or, as the New York Times noted,
> "his policies for the state – health care insurance for children from
> poor families and free train and bus rides for older people – had been
> efforts to help citizens." Robbing all to buy goodies for some ever
> afflicts statists with warm fuzzies.
>
> Meanwhile, the whole sordid fiasco seems to be nauseating and possibly
> converting observers. "Connie Wilson, the forewoman from Mr.
> Blagojevich’s most recent trial [recall that it required two before
> the Feds nailed their man], said ... "We just don’t want this
> [corruption] anymore."
>
> Hmmm: no corruption means no government. Welcome to anarchy, ma’am!
>
>
>
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"ImStillMags" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On May 9, 1:42 pm, A Moose in Love <parkstreetboo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers172.html
> {
> Punishing politicians for corruption is like scolding the Black Death
> for killing folks.
>
> So we can empathize with the fury, despair and "why-me?" shock that
> must have roiled Illinois’ former Congresscriminal and governor, Rod
> Blagojevich, at his arrest, trial, and conviction, let alone his
> sentencing last week on nebulous charges that boil down to …
> governing. Show me the politician who doesn’t swap favors and peddle
> influence as tirelessly as normal people breathe.
>
> Despite the preening of Blago’s smug prosecutor, self-righteous judge
> and the State’s cheerleaders in the media, condemning the poor slob to
> 14 years’ imprisonment is equivalent to exterminating one rat out of
> the millions spreading plague in medieval Europe: it’s the teeniest,
> tiniest start on curing what ails us. Judge James Zagel should round
> up the rest of the elected or appointed leeches and herd them off to
> the pokey, too, then follow and lock the door behind himself.
>
> Fascinating questions have shadowed this circus from the start,
> primarily whom Blago angered. And what does he know about Obummer
> ("The White House declined comment on Blagojevich's sentence." You bet
> it did!)? Or the vile Rahm Emmanuel? Blago’s info is obviously
> explosive since it requires disgrace so profound the corporate media
> will continue to ridicule him rather than report whatever he sings. On
> top of that, Leviathan has forcibly silenced Blago ("In prison,
> Blagojevich will largely be cut off from the outside world"), perhaps
> permanently: look for him to die there, probably by "suicide."
>
> Not that we should feel sorry for him. Indeed, let us rejoice whenever
> the insatiable State devours its own – and let us pray it does so more
> often. Better them than us, first of all. Second, there’s a lot to
> commend Soviet-style purges: politicians who are free of decency and
> morality but slaves to the almighty Self might think twice about a
> career in plunder if the odds favored their winding up in stir or six
> feet under rather than on a monument somewhere.
>
> Meanwhile, Leviathan’s acolytes unwittingly revealed the beast’s jaw-
> dropping vanity, perversion, and utter wickedness in their comments at
> Blago’s sentencing. Consider Judge James Zagel’s pontification: "When
> it is the governor who goes bad, the fabric of Illinois is torn and
> disfigured and not easily repaired."
>
> Balderdash! And what staggering megalomania, to presume the State
> looms so large that a "bad" sponge tears the "fabric" for 12,830,632
> Illinoisans (OK, I can see where the cloth’s rent for Blago’s family:
> his wife – a political critter herself as well as the daughter of one
> – and his two kids, but not the other 12,830,628 residents). No doubt
> the good folk of Illinois who continue trying to eke out a living
> despite their official predators hardly noticed Blago’s sideshow and
> would’ve shrugged if they had.
>
> I speak from experience. Three years ago, when the Feds caught New
> York’s Chief Thief, Eliot Spitzer, dallying with unelected
> prostitutes, his fellow bloodsuckers and their enablers in the media
> fretted about the impact on us serfs. The New York Times feared we
> were "in limbo." And "State Senator Joseph L. Bruno, the state’s top
> Republican" – who would resign from office after his own indictment on
> eight counts of corruption – babbled, "The important thing for the
> people of New York State is that people in office do the right thing."
> What a laugh! As if politicians even recognize the right thing or
> would do it if they did.
>
> Far from agonizing over Spitz’s peccadilloes, I suspect most of the
> state’s victims turned the same jaundiced eye on them as "Elmira
> Shirkhin, 27, who works in sales," did. She "said she wasn't
> surprised. ‘It's what you would think politicians would do,' she said
> … . ‘It's men and power. They think they can do anything and get away
> with it'…" Bingo. I wager Illinois’ peons boast as much savvy when it
> comes to sociopaths as New York’s do.
>
> That didn’t keep Zagel from moaning that "The harm [Blago caused] is
> the erosion of public trust in government." Touching, the concern Our
> Rulers profess for our alleged faith in them.
>
> Also bewailing Blago’s betrayal of our belief were Illinois’ Attorney
> General, its current governor, and the Assistant U.S. Attorney; as the
> last put it, "The defendant's … criminal activity has further eroded
> the public's confidence in government and government officials."
>
> Oh, get over yourselves. Only morons trust government. For pity’s
> sake, we’re mature and intelligent enough that you depend entirely on
> us to pay your bills: give us some credit, you twits.
>
> Others as guilty as Blago but as sanctimonious as the twits rushed to
> toss us their two cents. Senator Mark Kirk [R-Il] intoned, "Judge
> Zagel’s sentence is a clear warning to all elected officials that
> public corruption of any form will not be tolerated." Boy, you better
> hope not, buddy, or you and your accomplices are out of business.
>
> Zagel also confirmed Leviathan’s inverted "morals." He opined that the
> defendant had done "good things … for people as governor…" Blago was a
> run-of-the-mill Demopublican, which is to say a socialist and fascist:
> he tried numerous times to further nationalize Illinois’ medical
> insurers. That would have netted him another couple centuries in the
> slammer were I on the bench, but Zagel lauded his theft: "I do also
> believe what he did for children’s health was motivated by a true
> concern for the welfare of children." Or, as the New York Times noted,
> "his policies for the state – health care insurance for children from
> poor families and free train and bus rides for older people – had been
> efforts to help citizens." Robbing all to buy goodies for some ever
> afflicts statists with warm fuzzies.
>
> Meanwhile, the whole sordid fiasco seems to be nauseating and possibly
> converting observers. "Connie Wilson, the forewoman from Mr.
> Blagojevich’s most recent trial [recall that it required two before
> the Feds nailed their man], said ... "We just don’t want this
> [corruption] anymore."
>
> Hmmm: no corruption means no government. Welcome to anarchy, ma’am!
>
>
>
> }- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

There's too much in this post to debate on this forum. If you want
to debate politics here's a forum that seems to
have both sides equally sniping at each other. It makes for
interesting reading at least.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fro...politics_forum