Robert Kaercher's Columns
"With
all due respect, sir, if you are truly interested in promoting the ideas
of free markets—which I hope you are, considering that we do not have
free markets in this country at present and not many high profile scribes
such as yourself to defend the free market ideal—you’ll need something
a bit sturdier on which to hang your free market hat than 'a solution
the community can live with'.”
"Why do so many people in this country see the initiation of force as a valid means to achieve ends? Why do they choose such ignorance? What is the cause of this sickness?" Column by Robert Kaercher.
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"Like the revelations of Congressman Foley’s lustful pursuit of young
male pages, Woodward’s latest opus is well timed for the mid-term
Congressional elections and equally as distracting from the real root issues
that so desperately need to be addressed: The horrific crimes of states against
the rest of humanity and the system of delusional, morally bankrupt ideas that
provides a superficial moral cover for such crimes.
Striking at Roots, One at a Time
"STR is making inroads one conscience at a time.... what we are doing is making this appeal to the conscience of every person who visits the site: Choose truly voluntary arrangements, responsibility and mutual respect for individual rights and private property over the initiation of force, coercion, theft and violence. Choose freedom, not slavery. You’re not anyone’s property, and no one else is your property, either." Column by Robert Kaercher.
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"America
is much more than a territory lying within geographical boundaries drawn on a
map.
"And it just so happens that [Bush has] pimped out a $385 million Federal contract to one of his most loyal 'private sector' whores, Kellogg Brown and Root, to build cozy little camps in which to detain not only illegal immigrants threatening to compete in the American labor market, but 'potential terrorists' as well. Focus on that vague and broad word, potential. How high do you think the standard of proof would be in order to determine if someone is a 'potential' terrorist, especially when the Head Pimp alone is judge, jury and jailer?" Column by Robert Kaercher.
A Reply to Milsted: The Need for Anarchists
"As Henry David Thoreau once said, people will eventually have anarchy when they are ready for it. Whether they realize it or not, most of them already behave like peaceable anarchists each and every day." Column by Robert Kaercher.
"And yet, the American booboisie laughably insists that each of these many incidents of abuse are unique aberrations rather than an inherently natural feature of the system. They either fail to see or willfully ignore the fact that such 'crises' are not signs of its breaking down, but that it’s working exactly as intended, which is as a massive machine designed to subjugate and enslave you so that its managerial operators and assorted butt-kissing leeches may be aggrandized with power and riches. The entire system itself has to go, but I fear that the many moral reprobates and intellectual morons in our midst who insist on rationalizing this aggression-based dictatorship of the majority make it all but impossible, at least until the whole corrupt system inevitably collapses on itself...." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Recommended "In the long run, Fitzgerald and his deputies are only distracting people from the bigger picture of the inherently criminal and destructive nature of the state in all its activities by giving them the false impression that government somehow punishes its own deviant behavior through some legalistic mechanism or other. Government is itself a weapon of mass destruction...." Column by Robert Kaercher.
The State: The God That Always Fails
"The safety and security of human beings is just far too important to be left up to governments." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Recommended "Every generation seems to fall for the same old lies packaged in red, white and blue; the same old tired propaganda and phony, saccharine nationalist sentiments used to cover up the highway robbery taking place right in front of their eyes, indeed, with their very consent." Column by Robert Kaercher.
"I received the June issue of Reason magazine in my mailbox this past weekend...and not surprisingly, I discovered yet another egregious example of the magazine’s pretentious liberposing, yet another attempt to offer a rationalization for the expansion of government power under the facade of protecting 'freedom'." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Recommended "What makes the liberposer worse than the social democrat is the fact that he actively seeks out government’s permission for more individual freedom, instead of explicitly demanding that government retreat to the abyss whence it came. Upon humbly beseeching Big Brother for a few scraps of liberty for the common folk, he then goes about patting himself on the back as the great 'soldier of freedom' that he erroneously believes himself to be. In the long run, he is only aiding and abetting the expansion of government power by seeking to give it a veneer of legitimacy and a false mask of 'liberty' that serves only to conceal the lies, fallacies and corruption beneath." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Recommended "...even though I gave up any childish delusions about politicians and government long ago, somehow I was still blown away by the mindboggling ramifications of King George II’s words. Just when I thought Leviathan couldn’t be any more transparently obvious in its bloodlust for omnipotence, its current High Priest brazenly peeled off yet another layer for all to see the brown shirt beneath the red, white and blue costume." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Mother Nature vs. Big Brotherism
" Yes, yes, I know, I know . . . thousands of Miami-Dade County residents who weren’t the least bit impacted by Hurricane Frances last Labor Day were paid tens of millions of dollars by FEMA for 'damages' caused not by the storm itself, but by folks throwing rocks through their own windows and hosing down their own furniture so that they could qualify for the aid. The U.S. taxpayer ended up paying for new cars, television sets, dental bills, appliances, spiffy new wardrobes and all sorts of goodies in spite of the fact that the county medical examiner didn’t report a single storm-related death." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Pat Tillman and the Nihilistic Myths of the State
Recommended "Risking your life to kill total strangers is a 'public service,' it 'represents all that is good with this country, our society and ultimately the human condition in general.' That destructive, nihilistic idea is hammered into people’s heads day after day through government-managed public education, books, magazine articles, movies and in the guise of news reports glorifying the 'acts of heroism' in war that in most cases are acts of brutal violence." Column by Robert Kaercher. Don't miss the last few paragraphs.
"Now that I’ve had one final fling with that false god known as 'Democracy,' I am now giving up voting for good. Never again will I follow the ridiculous 'Choose Your Master' philosophy....Never again will I allow myself to be so arrogant as to think that I have any right at all to petition for any candidate or political party to rule and lord over my friends, family and countrymen." Column by Robert Kaercher.
Election 2004: Giant Douchebag vs. Turd Sandwich
"It would finally reveal the exact opposite to be true: that to vote for any candidate is to give your consent to a system of legalized plunder and murder." Column by new Root Striker Robert Kaercher.