Retta Fontana's Columns
On April 15. Column by Retta Fontana.
"...I simply have no tolerance for deception; not self-deception or any other kind, because deception is the 'Miracle Grow' of tyranny. Deception is the basis and basic operating principle of government." Column by Retta Fontana.
"My biggest argument with involvement in politics is that voting or running for office is joining the crime family. Libertarians do not believe in the initiation of force to achieve social goals. Any government, no matter how small, even if it did nothing beyond national defense and enforcement of contracts, initiates force to achieve social goals by the collection of taxes." Column by Retta Fontana.
How to Protect Your Daughter from Sexual Assault
"Saying 'no' to tyranny is so basic and natural that even a two-year old can do it. They fearlessly practice being true to themselves without any instruction whatsoever. Commonly and culturally, this is considered 'terrible.' It is only terrible to the tyrant. It should be celebrated. It is the strength of the human spirit and the genesis of creativity and courage." Column by Retta Fontana.
"I know what you’re asking yourself. "To what particular sham does she refer?” I realize I will have to narrow it down for thinking people. I am referring, dear reader, to the particular sham of the War on Drugs." Column by Retta Fontana.
A Fool and His Liberty Are Soon Parted
"What is government?....Government is layers, shadows, complicated verbiage in legal tomes, implication and shifting sands. It is the darkest, most depraved and sinister aspects of greed and lust and yet it is nothing at all. The puppet masters pulling the strings and calling the shots are invisible. Even though some people give him a lot of credit for extensive collateral damage, I’m convinced that even the president is merely a wooden headed marionette, a figurehead to distract the audience." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Like
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, I doubt that the scarred landscape of
"What a screwed up, control freak society it is in which we live." Column by Retta Fontana.
Column by Retta Fontana.
Things You Must Believe to Be a Voter
"The emperor is not actually naked. If you voted for him, his use of force (war/rulings/deceptions/power grab/secrecy) is different and right, not like the last one. He is actually anointed by your god, capable of getting direction from said god for the rest of us to carry out...." Column by Retta Fontana.
Column by Retta Fontana.
Raw Milk, Part III. Column by Retta Fontana.
On the Care and Feeding of Humans
"So much of what I see that is considered 'parenting' these days is nothing more than a bizarre game in which children are tortured into “doing the right thing,” according to the status quo, all in a disguised effort to make parents look proper or feel good about themselves." Column by Retta Fontana.
"If [cops] only knew what easy targets they make of themselves; that my keyboard packs heat and I don’t hesitate to wield it at any opportunity Column by Retta Fontana.
"Until
we achieve a modicum of mental health,
"War is simply not the answer to mankind’s problems." Column by Retta Fontana.
Recommended "There is no part of life too miniscule for a politician to get his nose into if it smells faintly of funding or power, and nothing the whoring masses won’t sell for a shiny new promise." Column by Retta Fontana.
"The saddest aspect of 'Idiocracy' was not the landing with a thud of the unabashed, reptilian rush for instant, shallow gratification towards which our culture spirals. It was the tenacity with which the moronic masses chanted the party line." Column by Retta Fontana.
Retta Fontana gets a call from a Libertarian presidential candidate.
What If They Threw a Trial and Nobody Came?
"...government buildings are constructed to appear official and upstanding with large, stately columns. There must be justice within them! Look at the fancy architecture! They spare no expense!" Column by Retta Fontana.
Government Is a Fatal Attraction
"Government has killed more people than all other serial killers in the history of the world combined. Isn’t it childish to think that somehow this ravenous carnivore will not harm you, but actually serve and protect you and make your dreams come true?" Column by Retta Fontana.
Recommended "The apparatus of the state is a machine designed to place an artificial barrier between human beings, thereby enhancing the need for more government. When we refuse to participate in the pretense, the machine stalls. It has no fuel to run on if humans refuse to be grist for its mill. It’s like Toto pulling back the Wizard’s curtain to reveal the frail, ignorant, old guy who doesn’t know how to get home, either." Column by Retta Fontana.
Don't Soil Yourself With Politics
"An active alcoholic convinces themselves that alcohol (government) is not the problem, that it is actually the solution! If they can just learn to drink (vote) the right way, or select the right beverage (party) in the right amount (local, state, fed), life will stop hurting and start working well. Good citizens are under the same delusion. If only their man is elected, then life would start working well." Column by Retta Fontana.
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
"If
governments did to innocent animals what they do to people, a cry of protest
would go up from the most pitiless corners of the world.
Imagine putting millions of dogs in small cages for the majority of their
lives for their victimless choices. Imagine
caging a sick animal and denying them medicine because of some artificial social
more. Imagine chafing little doggie
shackles used to humiliate and subjugate. Imagine
torturing animals with the intention of causing them to suffer.
If these atrocities were done to dogs, people the world over would not
stand for it....In these terms, it’s easy to see the perversion inherent in
the strong-arm tactics of the state. Government
violently forces us all to pay to save the whales and snowy owls, but blowing up
or locking up our brothers and throwing away the key while we pay for it all is
business as usual with a yawn.
"When we become completely responsible for ourselves, everything changes. We can no longer identify with other “victims” of life who want to be taken care of with the guns of government pointed at our neighbors. We begin to identify with mature people who take complete responsibility for their experience of life and realize that those guns are being pointed at us too." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Children do not need discipline. They need adults who are willing to be completely responsible. If we cannot display complete responsibility for ourselves, we cannot expect it of our children." Column by Retta Fontana.
Grab Hold of Reality and Take Her for a Spin
"I
saw a bumper sticker the other day that read, 'My Grandson is serving in the
military.' That sounds noble, no?
Serving is a word that works well in a restaurant setting.
A 'server' approaches you and asks you what you’d like.
If, in place of a lobster bib, he placed a black bag over your head and
attached electrodes to your genitals, or drew a weapon and blew your head off,
that would be more like the 'serving' being done in
"It would be terrifying for a feeler to see that the operating system they’ve relied on for a lifetime is really not nice at all, but violent and very, very dangerous." Column by Retta Fontana.
"There’s
a tremendous temptation to falter in the face of the truths of life in
Is there any other kind? Column by Retta Fontana.
Retta Fontana writes a personal ad for her son.
"Jesus was about love...I’m not really getting any love vibes here." Column by Retta Fontana.
Order Emerges from Chaos in the Big 'D'
"This simple act only happens because no government has yet stooped so low as to attempt to use force to interfere with it." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Overzealous government thugs intoxicated with power, with nothing better to do, were willing to leave the man stranded, empty handed, on the side of the road. This image is a universal one painted by government thugs everywhere, from third-world dictators to the U.S.A – the world’s largest bureaucratic, debt-ridden, corrupt empire. With confiscatory taxes, inflation, fiat currency, manipulation of economic data, and pork barrel spending, what taxpayer has not been left stranded and empty-handed on the side of life’s road?" Column by Retta Fontana.
"The continued bureaucratization of real milk is just another travesty of an out of control government sticking its snout where it doesn’t belong. It blinds itself to dangers when it benefits them and goes about exerting strong-arm enforcement against people who are quietly, peacefully going about their own pursuit of life, liberty and happiness." Column by Retta Fontana.
"No one, no matter how well meaning (for people who need to assume such things) is more interested in or capable of protecting your rights and freedom as you are. There is, however, tremendous interest in exerting power over you and your resources for financial gain." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Orange
alert has come to small town
"I’m
sorry, but, if you really loved Jesus, you’d STOP KILLING PEOPLE.
You’d stop sending other mother’s sons to kill and to die on
battlefields for corporate profit. You’d
stop accusing their widows of profiteering from those deaths because they have
the audacity to speak out against such killing.
You’d stop funding and voting for whores in
"If you’ve been listening to the snake charmer politicians whispering in your ear that you can live high on the hog and without paying for it, now is the time to snap out of the trance." Column by Retta Fontana.
"We’re all trying to build a life for ourselves with government stacked against us, too big to overcome, too well armed to fight and too rabid to even risk being bitten by. Government is like a vampire sucking the life out of the unsuspecting, and each bite creates one more whoring zombie after another." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Freedom doesn’t come from the point of government guns or from legislation of governing bodies. It doesn’t come from the Constitution....True freedom doesn’t require a majority vote or the agreement of another human being. It is not dependent upon the presence or even the absence of another person. Freedom is a choice we make to be true to ourselves in any given moment." Column by Retta Fontana.
"From
my first taste, Strike The Root gave me that 'aaaaahhhh.'
Daily, it scratches the itch, it has vitality and always a surprise or
two. Strike The Root is the voice
of reason in an insane, politically contorted alternate reality that this
Empire of Debt
"Government tries to control what you eat and drink. It regulates your healthcare, transportation and education. It controls what you are allowed to think, say, write or wear. It infringes your rights to bear arms and to be secure in your person and property – sacred things that were intentionally, albeit unsuccessfully, initially placed beyond their reach. It does not hesitate to help itself to your money, your home and your life. Do you think it would hesitate to help itself to your child? It already has." Column by Retta Fontana.
"It struck me that I was witnessing our nation in microcosm. Our proud leader and his cohorts are posturing as patriots and defenders of liberty for the great unwashed, ignorant masses, the flag draped around them as a colorful but meaningless prop, the artificial light held high, not a harbinger of liberty but a symbol of government intrusion into our privacy, exposing the intimate details of our lives...." Column by Retta Fontana.
Liberty, What Have I Done for You Lately?
"What is most painful for me is that my children almost never encounter other free people. By the age of ten or so nearly everyone they know has been hypnotized to conform to a religion, state-dependent mindset or dysfunctional family system to one degree or another. Almost none of these conditioned people can avoid the temptation to try to frighten others into conforming to their beliefs. I often wonder how my children will ever find mates in this fearful, statist society." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Politicians only lie when their lips are moving." Column by Retta Fontana.
"Unions
have been hailed as the working man’s salvation, but here in
"Jesus’ worst crime was and would still be that he taught his followers to listen to the love in their own hearts rather than follow the law; utterly unacceptable behavior in our advancing police state. I believe Jesus came here to show people how to love, not dominate." Column by Retta Fontana.
Confessions of a Former Statist
"What if something bad happened to me? Who would help me? I feared no one would, unless they were forced to, so, in this case force must be right. Ergo, the adoption of my parent’s viewpoint that government as the only viable safety net was conceived and nurtured in me too." Column by Retta Fontana.
"But I’m no longer a 'fuel cell' for the powers that be to suck the life out of anymore and I stay sober and keep my powder dry to make sure it can’t happen to me again." Column by new Root Striker Retta Fontana.