All Your Kids Belong To Us

Dear meth,

Bobby (played by Ned Beatty): Talk about genetic deficiencies-isn’t that pitiful?

(From James Dickey’s “Deliverance.” Film version directed by John Boorman)

Funny how the “elites” of the NWO are not that different from the inbred northern Georgia hillbillies depicted in “Deliverance.”

Ah Tor you bastard! You made me snort protein shake out my nose again!

I have never, in my life, expected to see a Country song re-written in pseudo-code.

Masterful. Totally hilarious. I’m going to share it with my workmates…maybe we can start a meme, programmers around the world can deconstruct pop music into C#, Python, or the language of their choice.

It’ll be bigger than LOLCatz! Well, more funny anyway.

Thanks Tor. You’re genius.

Many Italians living and working in the United States had not been naturalized. When Italy aligned with the Axis through the Pact of Steel, they immediately came under suspicion.

Roosevelt had J. Edgar Hoover assemble a list of names of aliens from Germany, Japan and Italy without regard for anything else but their nationality. Between 1935 and 1939 Congress passed four neutrality acts which began the process of the internments of Italians, as well as Japanese and Germans.

In 1939 and 1940 prior to any participation of the United States in the European conflict, the Roosevelt administration and Congress passed and invoked legislation which significantly removed the rights of Americans of Italian extraction as well as alien Italians.

On June 28, 1940 Congress passed the Alien Registration Act. Within 4 months 4 million aliens registered. The Dangerous Cargo Act was also passed in 1940: “Port Security responsibilities were undertaken the Coast Guard was to govern anchorage and movement of all vessels in U.S. waters and to protect vessels, harbors, and inland or coastal waterways of the U.S.

The following year as the national paranoia increased the government began to act under the provisions of this act which allowed for the arrest of aliens for acts of sedition and conspiracy. Often evidence for such activity was no more than that individuals were Italians.”

Under the authority of these acts the US Navy and Coast Guard moved against Italian ships: In March 1941, 28 Italian Ships were confiscated by Coast Guard accusing the crews of sabotage and arresting them.

In December, 1941 at the Panama Canal the Italian Luxury Liner Conte Biancamano was commandeered, converted to a troop ship and commissioned in the United States Navy as the USS Hermitage. 483 Italian crewmen were taken into custody.

With terribly crowded conditions they are brought to Ellis Island where they were incarcerated with virtually no amenities and stripped of any rights. After enduring these harsh conditions they were transferred by trains with barred small windows to Missoula Montana.
After three days in the cramped dark train cars not unlike the mode of transportation provided in Germany for the transportation of the Jews to the death camps, they arrived in at Fort Missoula, Montana. Although not charged with any crime they were indefinitely detained.

On December 7, 1941 conditions became even more severe for Italians. The attack on the Japanese at Pearl Harbor elevated some 600,000 Italian American to be considered enemy aliens.
Acting on the lists developed a couple of years before, thousands were arrested within 24 hours of the attack.

For the most part it was the men, the head of the household and support of their families who were arrested. Their assets frozen, sources of support were taken from those who remained inflicting terrible hardship on ten of thousands of innocent remaining family members. On December 9, 1941 FBI took 98 Italian Aliens into custody. Those who were arrested were transported to holding facilities at Fort Lincoln, North Dakota, Crystal City, Texas as well as Missoula Montana, McAlister OK.

Every immigrant not naturalized was considered a threat. Oppressive restrictions were imposed on those who were not incarcerated. Severe travel restrictions and the confiscation of such items as radios and flashlights completed the insult inflicted on these people, many of whom who had served in the American military for over 20 years.

Severe travel restrictions were imposed. They were required to turn over items considered potential threats – weapons, radios and flashlight (for potential signaling).

On February 19, 1942 Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the military to limit movements or arrest suspected alien residents. It involved the arrest of 3,200 Italians resulting in the incarceration of 300.

In California Lt Gen John L. DeWitt, head of Western Defense Command, sought to intern the entire “enemy” population. He imposed a curfew: No travel beyond 5 miles and no night travel effectively eliminating the possibility for many to retain their employment.

All were also restricted from the coast and from their boats which were confiscated. Among the effects decimated the fishing industry along the California coast. DeWitt pursued actions that effectively destroyed the economic lives of all Italians in the West.

Joe DiMaggio, the very popular baseball player of the New York Yankees enlisted in the army in 1942; meanwhile, his father who was a fisherman was prohibited from his livelihood. Fisherman’s Wharf was restricted to Italians where the DiMaggios were prevented from overseeing their own restaurant.

Businesses in “restricted zone” were closed. People lost their jobs and could not find employment because of their enemy alien status. The evacuation of 10,000 Italian Americans in California occurred forcibly and swiftly. There were several suicides.

Spring and summer of 1942 was the nadir of the anti-Italian prejudice. Many business owners used the occasion to eliminate the businesses of their Italian competition. In one of the most ludicrous acts of the time, the popular opera singer, Ezio Pinza was arrested on March 12, 1942 – He was removed from his home which was then searched and he was briefly imprisoned on Ellis Island.

In May 1942 California Assemblyman, Jack Tenny targeted Italians for conspiratorial activities. Angelo Rossi mayor of San Francisco was accused of giving a Fascist salute. At that point the insanity of these activities was beginning to become apparent. New York Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia demanded an end to this process.

On October 12, Columbus Day, 1942 it was announced at Carnegie Hall that Italians would no longer be classified as enemies. The persecution ended as suddenly as it began. However, the 300 or so who were incarcerated remained so until the end of the war in Europe in 1945.

Knowledge of the persecution and internment suffered by the Italians during WWII has all but been forgotten. Much of this is because the Italians themselves wanted to quickly put this very difficult experience behind them.

I don’t think individuals can necessarily be held responsible for what other individuals do, merely because they are blood relations.

Sometimes, yes. But not always. It depends on how they raised the child.

Also, Ron Paul has five children, not just Rand. Depending on how they turned out, one might need to qualify any criticisms of his child rearing.

Who can really know how anyone will turn out?

Could the poor mothers of the worst scum in human history know that their cute little babies would grow up to be monsters?

Any one of us could have a child who turns out to be serial killer or mass murderer, or even, god forbid, an American president.

Who knows what’s been said in private?

BINGO. I, for one, would NEVER air my children’s dirty laundry in public, nor voice my disagreements with them in aby public venue, no matter how errant their behavior. Blood is, after all, thicker than politics (or water, for that matter).

I think it’s an absolute certainty that Ron has chastised Rand, behind closed doors, in the privacy of a family setting, on more than one occasion since the “Real Rand” made its appearance during the last (s)election cycle. What Ron said to Rand we’ll never know (not that it’s ANY of our damned business), but I’m willing to bet that Ron probably had his “daddy pants” on when he did so, never mind the fact that Rand is now a middle-aged man (my own mother, pushing 80, still sometimes chides me, her son who’s past 50, as if I’m still 13 years old).

Above all, I’ve GOT to imagine that Rand’s slights of his father have probably wounded Ron more deeply than anything else he’s ever suffered at anyone’s hands. For that alone, Rand deserves to be scourged.

Chile timeline (per BBC) – includes FDR’s New Deal & CIA’s staging of a leadership coup.

1535 – Indigenous Araucanian people successfully resist first Spanish invasion of Chile.

1541 – Valdivia begins Spanish conquest and founds Santiago.

1553 – Araucanians capture and kill Valdivia.

1810 – Junta in Santiago proclaims autonomy for Chile following the overthrow of the king of Spain by Napoleon.

1814 – Spain regains control of Chile.

1817 – Spanish defeated by Army of the Andes at the battles of Chacabuco and Maipu. Chile becomes independent.

1823-30 – Civil war between liberal federalists and conservative centralists ends with conservative victory.

1851-61 – President Montt liberalises constitution and reduces privileges of landowners and church.

1879-84 – Chile increases its territory by one third after it defeats Peru and Bolivia in War of the Pacific.

1890 – Pacification of Araucanians paves way for European immigration; large-scale mining of nitrate and copper begins.

1925 – New constitution increases presidential powers and separates church and state.

1927 – General Ibanez del Campo seizes power and establishes dictatorship.

1938-46 – Communists, Socialists and Radicals form Popular Front coalition and introduce economic policies based on US New Deal.

1948-58 – Communist Party banned.

1952 – Gen Ibanez elected president with promise to strengthen law and order.

1964 – Montalva, Christian Democrat, elected president and introduces cautious social reforms, but fails to curb inflation.

1970 – Allende becomes world’s first democratically elected Marxist president and embarks on an extensive programme of nationalisation and radical social reform.

1973 – Coup: The presidential palace comes under attack – Gen. Pinochet ousts Allende in CIA -sponsored coup and proceeds to establish a brutal dictatorship.

1988 – Gen Pinochet loses a referendum on whether he should remain in power.

1989-90 – Christian Democrat Aylwin wins presidential election; Gen Pinochet steps down in 1990 as head of state but remains commander-in-chief of the army.

1994-95 – Frei succeeds Aylwin as president and begins to reduce the military’s influence in government.

1998 – Gen Pinochet retires from the army and is made senator for life but is arrested in the UK at the request of Spain on murder charges.

2000 – Socialist Lagos is elected president. Chilean courts strip Gen Pinochet of his immunity from prosecution several times, but attempts to make him stand trial for alleged human rights offences fail, with judges usually citing concerns over the general’s health.

2002 July – Gen Pinochet resigns from his post as a lifelong senator.

2004 May – President Lagos signs a law giving Chileans the right to divorce, despite opposition from the Roman Catholic Church.

Contreras, former head of secret police, is jailed for 15 years over the disappearance and death of a journalist in 1974.

2005 May – 45 young soldiers perish in a blizzard, prompting calls for an end to compulsory military service.

2006 January – Michelle Bachelet wins the second round of presidential elections to become Chile’s first woman president

2006 August – Chile and China sign a free-trade deal, Beijing’s first in South America.

2007 January – President Bachelet signs a decree allowing the morning-after contraceptive pill to be given to girls as young as 14 without their parents’ consent.

2008 May – Unexpected eruption of Chaiten volcano which has been dormant for 9,000 years. Authorities order complete evacuation of two towns in Patagonian region.

2008 October – Local elections signal that the political right, long out of office in Chile, may be gaining ground ahead of next year’s presidential poll.

2009 February – President Bachelet makes the first visit to Cuba by a Chilean leader in almost four decades.

2010 January – Right-wing candidate Pinera defeats former President Frei in presidential election, ending 20 years of rule by the left-wing Concentracion coalition.

2010 October – 33 miners trapped deep underground for 69 days are winched to safety, watched by TV audiences around the world.

2010 December – President Pinera promises penal reform after a fire at an overcrowded Santiago jail claims the lives of 81 prisoners.

Why would you ignore him? Do you despise the ideas he presents?

Among other worthy ideas, “He is founding a new institution that will especially bug the bad guys.” …

http://lewrockwell.com/rockwell/ron-paul-politicod211.html

I have no love for the GOP, either.
And it seems to me it’s the GOP that’s becoming irrelevant. Right along side the Dems.

It’s either that, or full throttle totalitarianism.

I think the world of Ron Paul, and feel he’s accomplished a great deal. Yet my libertarian future is not dependent on him, or any man, or any group. Though a million may say Ron is the way, the truth, and the light, if for you it matters not, that is fine. His work abides.

There are countless ways to live a better life, there is no leader you need queue behind. No dogma you need to recite. No monolith you need prostrate before, nor temple you need cower or wimper within.

Consider the lilies of this blog. Most of them neither toil nor do they sow. (Eric’s Paypal statement could be posted here as proof, Analysis shows there are over a hundred thousand lurkers per month.)

Yet here you have all these beautiful pages of free thought. While most of lurkers and non-payer lilies do not toil or spin, still enough do their work, drawing up sustenance from the net, and drinking in the dew, rain and sunbeams available IRL.

So that yea, though the hindus speak of karma, as a whole, we are able to do our appointed work or enjoy our chosen leisure.

As long as enough should give, the rest may receive, while all partake of trusting in the NAP, that this blog may yet nuture and inspire us to follow the path of blessed freedom and glorious emancipation.

Dear Ed,

Complete agreement about Paul is hardly necessary. We are, after all, anarchists.

But keep this curious fact in mind. Many 20 something market anarchists credit Ron Paul for bringing them to their current market anarchist positions.

They know Paul himself is not a market anarchist, but they don’t care.

I think that has interesting implications for anyone wondering about how to win converts to our cause.

Ed,
Who do you consider not a “half-stepper”?

Dear DS,

Bizzaro World indeed.

FFF dot org just linked to this article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/05/china-drones-mekong-naw-kham

Apparently the NY Times is complaining about Mainland China, because it DIDN’T resort to drones to kill a murder suspect in Burma.

The NY Times’ gripe was that Mainland China THOUGHT ABOUT IT before rejecting it over concern for international law and due process!

Apparently Barry the Bomber can do it with impunity all day long. But potential strategic rivals can’t even think about it.