Szechuan Death's Columns
"You will see a hailstorm of righteous indignation about how the Presidency hasn't the authority to declare unconstitutional and strike from the law the Omnibus Chicken Sodomy Act (with related riders governing the issuance of two types of car insurance, provision of adult incontinence undergarments for the homeless, more money for the Big Dig in Massachusetts, and regulations about the sale of flags no larger than three inches measured diagonally at football or baseball stadiums in the Western states) along with procedural hamstringing to prevent it...." Column by Szechuan Death.
MUST READ "There is a certain suspension of disbelief attendant to those social and political theories endorsing endless and boundless murder, theft and fraud (i.e. "statecraft"); one must believe, with the naive faith of a child who believes that world hunger can be eradicated by making a law that everyone can have ice cream for dinner if they want it, that one may kill the goose bearing golden eggs and still have eggs every day for the taking. The iron laws of time, human desire, and economics are in the process of refuting that belief; its defense rings hollow, there are no believable Utopian adherents of this philosophy anymore, only those that make no pretense about wanting to kill millions of people and suck the marrow from their bones for the sake of their own glorification and what they conceive of as a better world, organized by boot heel and rifle butt." Column by Szechuan Death, who sounds like a libertarian Mark Morford.
By Szechuan Death.
Speaking Words of Wisdom: Let Me Be
"It is instructive at this point to note one of the prime differences between essentially anti-Statist forums, and essentially Left-Statist ones; while a Left-Statist may not make much headway on an anti-State forum, they are generally welcome to continue to do so, whereas on a Left-Statist forum, anyone showing any intellectual tendency remotely traceable back to an anti-State or private-property philosophy is excoriated, and if he persists in this heresy, receives the forum equivalent of the death penalty to prevent further contamination. These attitudes correspond precisely to the form of social organization each group prefers. Private-property proponents want to live and let live, to cooperate and tolerate, in strict literal accordance with the ancient saw 'to each his own', whereas Left-Statists demand obedience and submission on pain of death, backed up by a rigorous program of invasion, confiscation, denunciation, and execution....That's why countries embracing these principles invariably require concertina-wire-topped walls at the borders, guarded by snipers and dogs, to keep their inhabitants from leaving." Column by Szechuan Death.
Lady Katrina, Bearer of Hard Truths
MUST READ "The problem is a welfare and education system which produced and nourished 100,000 subjects in New Orleans alone who did not have any incentive to save enough to survive times of trouble; who were not taught or even in most cases permitted to learn the techniques of survival in extremis; who did not heed warnings of danger; and when that danger came and threatened their lives, whose conditioning led them to cower and beg the State God to come and save them instead of working to save themselves and each other, and to obey what commands of the State God were given them. These failures, taken all together, inexorably led to their dying...by the score...in filth...like animals. Which is, after all, all that ordinary peons are to the State--just so much meat." Column by Szechuan Death.
On the Utility of Bumper Stickers
"Those who advocate an anarcho-capitalist, Misesian, Rothbardian, classical-liberal or other essentially anti-Statist political philosophy are essentially 'selling' something to their fellow man--the promise that 'life will be better if we both agree to do X and Y and Z,' X, Y and Z usually being some variants of 'Keep our hands out of each other's damned pockets.' Bear in mind that the public has already bought the competing product--'Loot & Kill Your Way To A Better Life!', designed by a cast of thousands, including Marx, Hitler, Stalin, FDR, Keynes, Machiavelli, and better- and lesser-known Statists of every stripe...." Column by new Root Striker Szechuan Death.