Paul Hein's Columns
"NoFly would simply sell tickets, called travel notes, for air travel. How could you travel on an airline without airplanes? Other airlines, willing to shoulder the burden of aircraft ownership, maintenance, crews, etc., would accept these travel notes. Why would they do that? Because the government would declare NoFly travel notes a legal tender for airline tickets." Column by Paul Hein.
"...you would expect the government to protect your church from attack; how can it have the power and authority to destroy mine, without having a similar power towards yours?" Column by Paul Hein.
" And war, after all, is what governments do well, and at every opportunity. It gives the rulers an opportunity to whip the people into a frenzy of patriotism, or what passes for it, and unifies the masses behind the dastardly enemy so that domestic problems—directly resulting from the rulers' policies, of course, are overlooked for the duration, which will be, we are assured, a long time." Column by Paul Hein.
"Yes, if we had lost the World Wars, American would have been occupied by German or Japanese troops, and we'd have had to take our orders from them. Instead, we take them from Americans. Orders are orders! Does the language matter?" Column by Paul Hein.
"The public schools serve the (real, not stated) purpose of keeping the population dumbed down, and the elections provide them with the chance to think they're capable of changing things. Sound and fury, signifying nothing!" Column by Paul Hein.
"We have all become Dred Scotts, working for others, under compulsion, because the organization that the Founders created to protect our rights cannot, by its very nature, do so." Column by Paul Hein.
"Understanding modern government is easier if you think of it as it thinks of itself: a big, benevolent insurance company. Your taxes are the premium; you get protected from--everything!" Column by Paul Hein.
" Isn't anyone concerned over the fact that in every case between the United States and any individual or corporation, the judge is a paid employee of one of the parties to the lawsuit?" Column by Paul Hein.
"It is said that nature abhors a vacuum, which might explain the growth of big, oppressive, government. As Americans have lost the idea of their sovereignty, the state has rushed to fill the void." Column by Paul Hein.
Paul Hein on the gun lawsuit racket.
Paul Hein says bring back some stuffiness.
What's Public About Public Television?
Column by Paul Hein.
Paul Hein has some questions. And he wants some answers.
Paul Hein has had it with the tax code.
Give me rules, says the curmudgeonly Paul Hein, whose take on the different drummer seems to differ from Thoreau's.
Many Colombians use "hard" money, but then exchange it for worthless scraps of paper. Column by Paul Hein.
Talk? Political action? Social action? Civil disobedience? Column by Paul Hein. A great book that answers the question of what to do is Dissenting Electorate.
"Even where priests are concerned, there must be the presumption of innocence, and an awareness that there are two sides to every story!" Column by Paul Hein.
Who cares? It's just about sex, says Paul Hein.
The Philosophical Basis of "No!"
Paul Hein strikes the root!
Paul Hein explains who really owns you. Also see this story for an example of how the State owns everything.
Paul Hein presents an alternative view to Hank Parnell's recent column "A Word From the Ungodly."
"None of this absurd litigation would be taking place if we didn’t have our soldiers in Saudi Arabia, and weren’t bombing Iraq." Column by Paul Hein.
As Marshall Fritz says, "Government schools are the reproductive organs of the State." Column by Paul Hein.
Paul Hein on the federal government's asinine handicapped parking regulations.
Porn stars and politicians. Column by Paul Hein.
Nearly All the People, Nearly All the Time
That's whom you can fool, says Paul Hein.
Paul Hein is impressed by the large number of people doing nothing for something.
A great column by new Root Striker Paul Hein.