The Ultra-Constitutional Constitution Means Exactly What the Rulers Say it Means by Bill Buppert

Editor’s Note: I am presently on recce in the Deep Pacific exploring the expat opportunities for leaving the USSA since my return from Afghanistan and will return to Amerika briefly before settling our affairs and departing for a much longer sojourn abroad. My posts will be even more sparse than usual. –BB “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.” - Lysander Spooner I am probably one of the only humans on Earth to be reading all 2400 pages of Spooner’s six volumes of complete writings and I have yet to find anything I fundamentally disagree with yet he is the exception rather than the rule in any discussion of the Constitution in America. It is the primary source for one of three book projects I have in the works for 2014. I stand by my notion that the Constitution is one of the most brilliant government slave ownership manuals ever penned by humans in history. My wife brought this article to my attention. See: https://rt.com/usa/court-upholds-laptop-border-searches-041/ As most of you know, I live in this freedom sterile zone near the Mexican border (for now) and have had to live in a hyper-saturated LEO zone that would make the East Germans blush with envy and anticipation.  There is even a permanent ICE/BP road block (not the quaint notion of a check point which is allegedly voluntary). You blow this without stopping for the black- or green-garbed (eerily matching the color motif of both the Nazis and the East German border guards) armed thugs and they will run you down. Now the robed government employee, Korman, has declared de jure and de facto, the pretense of probable cause and reasonable articulable suspicion does not even need to exist for the police to seize your electronic property. “District Judge Edward Korman made his ruling in New York on Tuesday, more than three years after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit. The ACLU claimed that - since Americans put so much of their lives on their computers, cell phones, and other devices – border officials should have reasonable suspicion before sifting through someone's personal files.”  The article further avers:  “The trouble is, the ACLU noted, that almost two-thirds of the population (197.4 million people) live within 100 miles of the US border. New York, Washington, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and dozens of other major metropolitan areas fall under the so-called “exemption” zone.”

Is Slavery All That Bad? by Bill Buppert

The pillars of the abolitionist community in the US and the world are deceptively simple and not much different from the anarcho-capitalist community with minor variations. The philosophical precepts do not require the enormous gyrations, intellectual sleight-of-hand and economic illiteracy that seems necessary to justify the collectivist regimes ranging from communism to socialism to democracy. One of the reasons for the relative simplicity is the necessity to provide a description of effective individual human action at the most atomistic level with an eye to self-interest and long-term return on behavior. The Buppert Variations require three standing notions for an effective (not necessarily efficient) means to preserve free moral agency and self-determination:

• A total prohibition on all initiated aggression through force or fraud

• The absolute sanctity of self-ownership and the inability of a state to force non-consensual action at the individual level

• The supremacy of voluntary and volitional contract law to bind parties to action with zero implied consent to for more vague “social construct” legerdemain like the Constitution

The Larken Rose Laws are even more compelling in a more visceral and less legalistic perspective.  One of my colleagues, John, broke it down to this elegant but powerful list summary:

• You own yourself.

• You have a right to defend yourself.

• It’s justified to defend yourself no matter who is aggressing against you

• It is time to defend yourself from an out of control government at some time BEFORE the cattle car door slams shut.

I would suggest that Larken Rose is the most effective and potent voice for freedom in America today. The first list is more prescriptive of how the abolitionist society that forbids all slavery in all its permutations is operative while the Rose List describes the necessary embryonic conditions that force the function to follow. He delineates in sparkling simplicity the conditions that precede the liberation of all humanity from the fetters of the state.

Back in the USSA by Bill Buppert

I have returned from a year-long sojourn in the storied and legendary foothills of the Hindu Kush in Afghanistan making good specie from the latest money laundering operation for the Western military industrial complex.  Afghanistan is the most recent victim of a long American tradition of meddling, maiming and killing women and children and providing proof of concept to iatrogenic effect at a galactic level. I will be spending the holidays with all six of my children at home at the same time so this will be a particularly joyous Christmas for us. When I departed for the Lewis Carroll-inspired adventure in Kabul in January, I had assumed that things would be seriously awry and that the bureaucracy would be a sight to behold. I was not disappointed by a very expensive effort to fully embrace the axiom: to establish and defend mediocrity wherever it may be found and to institute where it is absent. Not only was the fabled American Strategic Deficit Disorder on display for the world to see but the amount of money wasted on everything from infrastructure to troop levels and training and everything in between.  There is no strategic roadmap for getting the Afghan National Army and its ancillaries up to speed even after a dozen years and trillions of dollars slung down the rat-hole and into Karzai’s crony complex.

Obama and the Iron Dream: Death Rides a Police Horse by Bill Buppert

  On July 22, 2008, Obama made the claim that he needed a civilian security force in America that would be a peer competitor to the capabilities and mission profiles of the DoD. One has to speculate what use he would put such an entity to but after years in office it becomes apparent that the president is simply another power-mad and narcissistic empty shell of a man whose existence is only made complete by wielding maximum power over others and using the threat and use of initiated violence to reshape society to his design. Since the War on Drugs went into overdrive in 1972 and the “War on Terror” superseded its power to make police power and security the paramount concern of ALL government activity with the unfortunate events of 9/11, the government has been unmasked to be nothing more than a gigantic perpetual motion machine that seeks to protect itself from the troubles of the world that it creates for itself through incompetence, hubristic foreign military violence planet-wide and the creation of a national security state at home that would be the envy of tyrants through the ages. Much like the officer safety nonsense that has left oceans of innocent blood on the streets and byways of America, the government seeks to erect a never-ending state of crisis, emergency and security paranoia which is a direct result of its institutional behavior. While the US has discovered since 1893 that war on the world is a terrific investment opportunity to incubate a larger and more intrusive state at home, the marriage of convenience between police and military means and technology has brought the possibilities of total state oppression to unprecedented levels. There are many research opportunities for the budding social scientist to examine some interesting but unplumbed questions. For instance: What is the actual cost amortized throughout the entire system to kidnap, process through the legal system and confine all the non-violent offenders whose lives have been utterly ruined by the War to Stop Humans From Altering Their Consciousness? What is the opportunity cost of post-confinement employment opportunities? What have lost in advancement of civilization with this unique form of national seppuku? What does a country produce that makes its primary foreign policy export the maiming and killing of men, women and children around the Earth to achieve a supremacy that has no coherent grand strategic framework except a penchant to bring Joe Haldeman’s notion of Forever War to reality.

The Twenty First Century Abolitionist Project: Slavery and Taxation by Bill Buppert

 

"That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support."

                                                                                                -Lysander Spooner

This essay is an incendiary device.  My muse is Wilberforce and the subject is the abolition of the last existing institution of slavery in America – taxation.  Like Wilberforce, we may be generations from satisfaction of the dream of the end of the coercive state but if the seed is not planted, the goal will never be realized. I despise the income tax.  I loathe the property, excise, gasoline, sin, estate, capital gains and every other tax.  I think the colonists got it backwards, I want representation without taxation. These are often derided as utopian but I would suggest they are dystopian notions.  I see no possibility of perfection in this mortal coil but risk and possible failure are the engines of progress and capitalism invigorates the most powerful economic engine of all –self-interest to serve others.  Mises claims “[t]he member of a contractual society is free because he serves others only in serving himself. What restrains him is only the inevitable natural phenomenon of scarcity.” I think it is loathsome for one man to own another and the involuntary tribute demanded by government is simply another form of owning another man’s wealth and labor.  Taxation is the way collectivists practice their compassion by taking their neighbor’s money at gunpoint.  It also violates the zero-aggression principle shared by many libertarians.  Taxation and slavery have some very close confluences in definition.  According to www.investorwords.com, a tax is: A fee charged ("levied") by a government on a product, income, or activity. If tax is levied directly on personal or corporate income, then it is a direct tax. If tax is levied on the price of a good or service, then it is called an indirect tax. The purpose of taxation is to finance government expenditure. One of the most important uses of taxes is to finance public goods and services, such as street lighting and street cleaning. Since public goods and services do not allow a non-payer to be excluded, or allow exclusion by a consumer, there cannot be a market in the good or service, and so they need to be provided by the government or a quasi-government agency, which tend to finance themselves largely through taxes.

These words are illustrative but couched in polite terms.  Taxes are monies forcibly taken from individuals and whatever other entity they can be drained from by governments or organizations (tax farmers) chartered by governments to extract whatever wealth they can through force and threat of violence.  Taxation is theft. James Bovard writes: "The U.S. Treasury Department defines a tax as 'a compulsory payment for which no specific benefit it received in return.' No matter how many taxes a person pays, or what politicians promise, the taxpayer is not irrevocably entitled to a single benefit from the government. The level of taxation is thus a stark measure of government's financial power over the individual - a precise gauge of the subjugation of the citizen to the financial demands of the state." The government has monopolized this enterprise because if you or I go to our neighbor and steal his funds or mug him at gunpoint, we go to jail.  If you doubt the power of compulsion, notify the IRS personally that you will no longer pay any more of your income taxes…for life.

Slaying Giants and Guerrilla Force Calculus: Beating the Odds By Bill Buppert

“History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” - Mark Twain Force ratios are usually on the side of the guerrilla aggressor in underground movements and resistance forces. The force calculus employed by government forces in preserving the statist quo are usually large but bereft of talent. Witness the US and coalition clown posse playing déjà vu in Afghanistan and Iraq. The employment of forces in combating a negligible threat in the Taliban and HQN in Afghanistan has cost trillions and over a decade of investment in what is a failed state riven by patronage networks and the patchwork assimilation of a faux government built on corruption, bribery, incompetence and external support of the most egregious malpractice in the region. But then again it is a simply a demonstration project at it most raw of what all government is without the fancy camouflage and bunting that adorns the Western kleptocrocies. Two demonstration projects of the force calculus phenomenon are captured within a decade long span of the early twentieth century in Ireland and German East Africa between 1916 and 1922. Worlds and cultures apart, they share one common bond – a self-sufficient band of renegades manages to foil world powers and bring them to their knees. The 1916 Rising in Ireland to throw off an 800 year occupation by a foreign power and German General Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck’s heroic resistance with potentially 65:1 force ratios besting 125 Allied generals and a peak Allied strength of 650,000 troops arrayed against his 10,000 minus Schutztruppe. Over the years the IRA force calculus would reach a peak strength of 500 paramilitaries against the UK-Loyal Irish forces of up to 52,000. Both of these exploits come with their own peculiar qualities that led to success. Collins and his Flying Columns would eventually best the British Empire through both feats of arms, selective surgery of the constabulary and a capitalization of imperial exhaustion and defeat on the part of the British. The only undefeated German General on Earth in 1918 would have to receive a cease and desist order from the German authorities in WWI to stop his successful guerrilla campaign that would ironically best the Boers who had become British poodles after giving the UK a run for its money in two bloody conflicts at the turn of the century.

Government is Deception: Lies of History by Bill Buppert

Your entire canon of history you were taught in government schools and the incessant mewling from the government media complex is a tissue of lies and deception so deep you will take years to extricate yourself from it. From militarist triumphalism to economic illiteracy to civics mythology, the whole morass of so-called education and mass media serves one purpose: to champion the volition of government supremacism disguised as democratic rule and to demonize all private and individual moral agency. A mere three years after the political coup known as the Constitution had been ratified by the Founding Lawyers, the father of the country is at the head of standing army invading a state to put down national tax evaders in the Whiskey Rebellion and four years later the Federal government outlaws seditious speech. It all goes directly downhill from there. What government education will say: Cops are heroes and private defense is vigilantism. All wars are just and moral to include the invasion of Hawaii in 1893 and the Philippines and Cuba in 1898 and the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan in 2001 and everything in between. War crimes are what the West says they are. The USSR was a flawed but triumphant effort to better mankind or say so most of the modern accredited institutions of higher learning in the US. Don’t read this book if you think that is a correct assertion. The Federal highway system is the only means to bridge the transportation gap. Income taxes will never exceed the single digit impost levied in...

The President as Police Commissioner: Cops and Collectivism by Bill Buppert

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government, they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten, that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time it is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of an advance auction of the sale of stolen goods." -H.L. Mencken The police are the greatest threat to human liberty in history. Historically, they have been the instruments of oppression throughout the ages. Absent this enforcement mechanism, no member of the political class, that curious professional remora priesthood that plagues societies that usurps power and assumes “delegated powers” not permitted of the serfs that elect them to office or suffer under their dictatorial power could not exist. The fear of a few bad men is not curbed by putting the worst men in charge. Members of the same society become policemen who in America manage to make an industry of abuse, kidnapping, maiming and killing under exclusive licensure of the state powers. In other words, you cannot nor do you have the right to steal from your neighbor, physically accost him, kidnap him and murder him if he refuses to obey but a uniform and state-issued badge grants you the power to do so. Not only is the license granted but the full power of the state is brought to bear with funds and assets appropriated at gunpoint to protect the state agents who accost the citizenry that are drained for the monies to pay the occupying army. Imagine, if you will, a mugger accosts you and you resist his insistence on surrendering your earnings and he beats you senseless, ties you up and hauls you off to a cage to await a decision by his boss who happens to wear a black robe with special powers who has the ability to force the wealth, time and resources from you for the rest of your life. He decides to be merciful and not cage you but applies a surcharge on your tax liability and threatens to “brand” you for life by charging you with resistance to pay your “fair share”. The threat would be a criminal record granted by the state that would greatly reduce your earning potential and most likely forever dim your prospects of procuring a good-paying job. A lifetime of misery for the audacity to resist unjust oppression. Only in America. Well, maybe not, look at the police state hall of fame in the twentieth century and the competition is keen. Or drive on the roads you “paid” for and exceeding an arbitrary number on a sign in speed, getting stopped and accosted by another badged agent of the state who suspects you may possess some illegal vegetation or have ingested said substance. You are hauled in after a wood shampoo is applied per your apparent resistance to kidnapping. The ad hoc and perfunctory anal raping administered in New Mexico is a new spin before the institutionalized male rape winked and nodded at by the boys in blue in the US penal farms. After being stripped and dehumanized by the boys in blue, you get hauled before another robed government employee to await judgment that you never signed on to nor entered a tacit agreement. There are 19,000 police agencies across America and a million badged state apparatchiks who enjoy a relatively trouble-free and safe work environment where less than 150 die a year and only a third of those in the conduct of their duties against people who fight back against their depredations. Many others in the blogosphere have provided all the gory details of police brutality, the daily dose of maiming and killing that is the bread and butter of the thin black and blue line who are under no obligation by their departments to protect individual citizens. They have detailed the anecdotal horrors of police misbehavior like James Bovard and Will Grigg. They have detailed the metric tons of regulations that make every tax victim in the US a felon on a daily basis and the amazing legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” that gives every statist cop a license to kill with impunity coddled by the police unions that, like the teachers unions, know exactly who their clients are and they are not citizens and parents. It only gets worse with the War on Terror which is actually the War of Terror (on Americans). If the Utah formation of a DHS wet dream of Stasi unification like the Salt Lake Unified Police Department does not make you nervous, you are truly asleep. I want to suggest that when you look at the office of the President with all its official bunting, polished tele-speeches, officialdom and party favors of power, the name is a misnomer.  He is not a president but actually a Police Commissioner because no virtuous human being would obey any of his diktats or prerogatives unless under the lash of threatened and initiated violence imposed by all the executive agencies that police the country to ensure compliance with the mountains of rules, regulations and directives that are vomited forth by Mordor on the Potomac on a consistent basis. He also acts as the Prison Warden to administer the millions of gulag residents in cages, on parole or on probation or simply recovering from one of those once the system has spit them out to wear the Scarlet Letter of being a convicted criminal.

DFML: Library for the End of the World

In Pournelle and Niven's book, Lucifer's Hammer, one of the best end of the world books written he introduces the mild-mannered character of astrophysicist Dan Forrester who puts together a library to rebuild civilization after the comet decimates the planet. Whether the USSA perishes from a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) or economic collapse, the end is nigh and a large part of good luck is meticulous planning. I recommend that you also check out the website here. -BB Bucket # 1 Standard Handbook for Civil Engineers, Frederick S. Merritt, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill 1976 Tubular Steel Structures: Theory & Design, M.S. Troitsky, Arc Welding Foundation, 1982 Design of Welded Structures, O.W. Blodgett, Arc Welding Foundation, 1966 The Engineer's Handbook Illustrated, Arthur Liebers, Key Publishing, NY, 1968 Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems Manual, EPA, 2002 Smoleys Parallel Tables of Logarithms & Squares for Engineers, Architects and Students, C.P. Smoley, 1965 Bucket # 2 Gear Cutting Practice: Methods of Producing Gears for Commercial Use Including Wartime Data Supplement, Fred Colvin & Frank Stanley, McGraw-Hill, 1943 Punches and Dies: Layout, Construction and Use Including Wartime Data Supplement, Frank Stanley, McGraw-Hill, 1943 Turning and Boring Practice, Modern Machine Tools and Methods Used in Representative Plants, Fred Colvin & Frank Stanley, McGraw-Hill, 1943 Jigs and Fixtures, Fred Colvin & Lucius Haas, McGraw-Hill, 1943 Steam Power Plants, Philip J. Potter, Ronald Press, 1949 The Home Mechanic's Handbook: Encyclopedia of Tools, Materials, Methods and Directions, Various Authors, D. Van Nostrand, 1945 Strength of Materials, Alfred Pourman, McGraw-Hill, 1937 Home Plumber's Bible, Ramesh Singhai, McGraw-Hill, 1978 Electric Motor Repair, Robert Rosenberg, 1946 Interior Electric Wiring and Estimating, Albert Uhl, Arthur Nelson and Carl Dunlap, American Technical Society, 1947 Electrical Wiring: Residential, William J. Whitney, Wiley and Sons, 1979 Practical Electrical Wiring: Residential, Farm and Industrial, H.P. Richter, McGraw-Hill, 1947 Bucket # 3 The Backyard Builder, Edited by John Warde, Rodale, 1985 Residential Carpentry, Mortimer P. Reed, Wiley & Sons, 1980 Essential of Drafting, James D. Bethune, Prentice Hall, 1977 The Homeowner's Book of Plumbing and Repair, K.W. Sessions, Wiley & Sons, 1978 Complete Encyclopedia of Stitchery, Mildred Graves Ryan, Doubleday, 1979 The Practical Handyman's Encyclopedia (3 volumes of 22 total) Bucket # 4 The Timber Framing Book, Elliott and Wallas, Housesmith, 1977 Book of Bikes and Bicycling, Dick Teresi, Popular Mechanics, 1975 Readers Digest Complete Guide to Sewing, 1976 Readers Digest Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills, 1981 Readers Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual, 1973 Reader's Digest Practical Problem Solver, 1992 Earl Proux's Yankee Home Hints, Yankee Books, 1993 Yankee Magazine's Make It Last by Earl Proux, Yankee Books, 1996 Whittlin', Whistles and Thingamajigs, Harlan G. Metcalfe, Castle, 1974 Bucket # 5 Basic Construction Techniques for Houses and Small Buildings Simply Explained, United States Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel, Dover Press, 1972 Tools and How To Use Them, Jackson and Day, Wings Books, 1992 The Homestead Builder, CP Dwyer, Lyons Press, 1872/1998 Carpenter's and Builder's Library: Millwork, Power Tools and Painting, John E. Ball, Audells, 1976 Carpenter's and Builder's Library: Tools, Steel Square, and Joinery, John E. Ball, Audells, 1978 Carpenter's and Builder's Library:Builder's Math, Plans and Specifications, John E. Ball, Audells, 1978 The Practical Handyman's Encyclopedia (10 volumes of 22 total)

The Shame of Veterans Day: The Mass Marketing of Mass Murder by Bill Buppert

My annual homage to yet another celebration of government violence in defense of...government. -BB “Non-intervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.”  - Christopher Hitchens Politics is a death cult and war is its high priest. Here are some numbers to celebrate: During the Iraq War, 4,475 U.S. service members were killed and 32,220 were wounded; in Afghanistan, 2,165 have been killed and 18,230 wounded through Feb. 5, 2013. Among service members deployed in these conflicts, 103,792 were diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) over the period 2002 to December 2012. Over that same period, 253,330 service members were diagnosed with a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) of some kind. As a result of battle injuries in the Iraq War, 991 service members received wounds that required amputations; 797 lost major limbs, such as a leg. In Afghanistan, 724 have had to undergo amputations, with 696 losing a major limb. – See more at: https://journalistsresource.org/studies/government/security-military/us-military-casualty-statistics-costs-war-iraq-afghanistan-post-911#sthash.uE0EawO4.dpuf A hearty thanks to all the politicians and bureaucrats who made this government program possible. “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” What!  I hear this familiar refrain again and again every November.  I am appalled whenever this unthinking salutation is proffered. I am a retired career Army officer and like USMC General Smedley Butler before me, I find these sentiments to be hogwash. The recent march on the monuments had the Emperor smiling beatifically as the war-worshippers provided the politician’s dream of providing popular justification for violence abroad so he could share the mem at home. The only service rendered was to the American political power structure in the dishonorable hands of the Democrats or Republicans; the former, despite their protestations to peace, have gotten America involved in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam. Starting with the shameful expropriation of the Mexican territory from 1846-48 to the War of Northern Aggression from 1860-65; the United States went into hyper-colonial overdrive in 1893 in the Hawaiian Islands and has not stopped since. The entire history of American arms on Earth has been a shameful and expansionist enterprise culminating in the first ever post-WWII (the Japanese attack on American territories in the Aleutians during the War to Save Josef Stalin and the minor coastal skirmishes in Oregon) attack on American state soil in 2001 .  I am frankly astonished at the length of time it took for a substantive attack of any kind to be initiated on American soil with the breadth, ferocity and long sordid history of American mischief and mayhem abroad. The sheer number of military expeditions the US has embarked on over time is breathtaking.  One worthy notes there have been 234 military expeditions from 1798-1993.  Another posits 159 instances of the use of United States armed forces abroad from October 1945 through December 2006. “This list does not include covert actions and numerous instances of US forces stationed abroad since World War II, in occupation forces, or for participation in mutual security organizations, base agreements, and routine military assistance or training operations.” Good Gods, if I were a Martian who landed on Earth ten years ago and found myself attending government schools, to include college, and watching television for any additional cultural education,  I would not be aware of any of this.  The constant drumbeat emanating from the State is the Orwellian chorus about America making the world safe for freedom and liberty and never using force abroad except in self-defense.  The history proves otherwise. America, next to Rome in the Western world, ranks as one of the world’s most aggressive nation states when one examines the evidence.  A country sheltered from the tempestuous and constant warring on the European continent by one ocean and the turbulence in Asia by another ocean yet it simply cannot mind its own business nor resist the temptation to maim and murder abroad for expansion of political power and control whether for mercantilism or colonial aspirations.