Joe Bommarito's Columns
"Even though he had spent 24 years working for government as Finance Director of three Michigan cities...he now began writing about the evils of government in general, and the bloated federal government in particular, always defending individual freedom." Joe's last column. He will be missed.
"I suggest that everyone subjected to rude behavior in like circumstances inform the proprietor that he is not receiving what he has paid for. It is a market decision. The businessman must make a choice, either to suffer loudmouths gladly or to maintain a relationship with customers that will return. The property owner must decide the highest and best use of his property. He may even prefer to run a restaurant for oafs; it’s a growing market. Or set aside a room for boors. 'Smoking or non-smoking? Manners or no manners?'" Column by Joe Bommarito.
Joe Bommarito hammers out his personal declaration of independence.
Selected news items from June 15, 2015. By Joe Bommarito.
Lexicon for a New American Century
Joe Bommarito defines the terms.
"The French government may not be portraying the viewpoint of many of its citizens. Just like ours isn't. Of course, I'm not talking about me. I really want this war on Iraq; it will be rerun season soon and I need something to watch on television. I turn off the lights and the green glow of missile strikes and anti-aircraft fire seen through night glasses on CNN warms the cockles of my heart." Column by Joe Bommarito.
An
AWESOME
poem by Joe Bommarito. Spread this far and wide!
Or, you are what you eat. Column by Joe Bommarito.
"See?
It's not a matter of what one does that supports terrorism, just how
much one does it. There is a break point in terrorist-supporting
activities. Do a lot, be a Terrorista; do a little, be a Patriot.
"The
following memorandum was leaked to me by a prominent, highly-placed government
official...." A sort of Presidential coloring book, by Joe Bommarito.
"Since
the space program began, we've lost 17 astronauts, counting the
"Here are the real threats to aviation. More people are driving instead of flying. More businesses are teleconferencing in lieu of travel. More people are staying home. Fewer airliners are flying. The failure is occurring on an industry-wide basis, with a few notable exceptions, and largely because people don't want to be treated like dirt." Column by Joe Bommarito.
A very good piece of fiction by Joe Bommarito.
"After 35 years of voting in every election, I have recently joined the swelling ranks of non-voters. I am a conscientious objector." Column by Joe Bommarito.
"A pre-Revolutionary statement by an anonymous Bostonian reflected a common belief that it was better to be ruled by one tyrant 3,000 miles away than by 3,000 tyrants a mile away." Column by Joe Bommarito.
"Look, all these incremental steps are fine, but they just don’t do the job. Not like a real national ID. I’ve got too many IDs and too many different numbers to remember. It’s inconvenient. I want one number, one card, everything tied together. All the information available at the swipe of a card. It makes it easy for law enforcement, too." An outstanding column by Joe Bommarito.
"We are engaged in a new type of war, a forever war, and we are expected to suffer it gladly with ever-decreasing rights, bartered away for an undeliverable promise of safety." Column by Joe Bommarito.
"If the Court has allowed the State to increasingly violate the right of property time and again, is it a Court to be trusted? Is it a Court that truly balances the other branches of government?" Column by Joe Bommarito.
" Examples of initiations of force by the State are legion, beginning with the income tax. Since things are so bad, and the State is initiating force against us left and right, by Left and Right, when do we start with this self-defense stuff?" Column by Joe Bommarito.
"If you want justice from me, then charge me with the injustice—the clear and provable harm that I committed—take me to court, have a verdict rendered, and restitution established. Don't demand a back-door income transfer scheme at my expense. Don't charge me as a representative of 'society,' some amorphous non-entity with no mailing address, and call that justice. It is nothing more than 'democratically derived' thievery—legal plunder—and a salve for the lack of self-responsibility." Column by Joe Bommarito.
"The Republic was not born when the Constitution was ratified, nor at the adoption of the Constitution, nor when independence was declared. It was born in noise and confusion and blood on April 19, 1775. It was born with a burst of gunfire, the smell of powder and the whistling of shot, and with the blood of patriots on Lexington Green, at Concord Bridge, and during that long, terrible aftermath on the road to Boston." Column by Joe Bommarito.
"Remember that scene from Edgar Allan Poe’s 'The Pit and the Pendulum'? Well, folks, that’s where we are. The American body politic is tied down on a big table, a huge razor-edged pendulum scything back and forth over us—back and forth, forth and back. Every few swings, it drops." Column by Joe Bommarito.
" The harm in voting, what I never saw lurking in the corners, was the moral responsibility. Sure, if my candidate wins, and he does something stupid... then part of the moral responsibility lies with me. What I didn’t know is that I’m still responsible when my candidate loses and the other moron does something equally idiotic. Why? Because I took part in the system that put the weasel in. I not only took part, I embraced the system. I became the system." A funny column by Joe Bommarito that most of us can identify with.
"In the interest of maintaining my own independence and self-responsibility, I will not ask the government to use its coercive power to forcefully expropriate the earnings of other people in order to make my life more pleasant. That’s not justice." Column by Joe Bommarito.
"It is ironic that the whole of the 20th century was spent disproving the viability of collectivism in its many forms around the world, but we seem to be hell-bent on proving that it can work here." Column by new Root Striker Joe Bommarito.