Lebanon's Valley News: Islamofascist Propaganda Rag

You'd think from the news slant in my local paper, the Valley News, located in Lebanon, New Hampshire, that they were actually located in the country of Lebanon, and perhaps even that they were publishing for a Hezbollah audience.

Then came this piece, written and published in the Washington Post, reprinted by the Valley News as it sole article covering the Qana story, and possibly the most one sided version of the story available on the AP or UPI wire services, except possibly those posted by Al Jazeera or Iranian reporters.

This article, which spans two pages of the Valley News, and three web pages on the Post's website, covers the Qana attack, and the Israeli unilateral 24 hour cease fire (thus implying Israel is in the wrong and accepts blame for Qana), but says not one word about published footage of Hezbollah missiles being launched from the same location, or that as many as 150 missiles have been launched at Israel from Qana, that Qana is a Hezbollah stronghold. The Post briefly mentions claims that Hezbollah fired rockets "from the area" on the third page (a bit the Valley News edited out), and it and the Valley News say nothing about news coming out of Hezbollah firing weapons from Christian villages in order to attract Israeli attacks on Christians as a means of spreading the conflict.

This article is a prime example why rational people recognise that the mainstream media are hopelessly left biased into the 'hate America' neighborhood, and certainly in the 'hate Israel' neighborhood. They are giving aid and succor to terrorist groups, which are clients of self-declared enemies of the US.

Greetings

Hi everyone, it’s good to find another space for Libertarian ideas. Thanks Mike for inviting me in.

As a first contribution, let me say a few words about our latest international Libertarian event - the ISIL (www.isil.org) meeting in Prague 3 weeks ago. As always, we had a really, really good time and Prague was a perfect backdrop for such a worthy celebration of freedom.

It's a beautiful city in the heart of Eastern Europe and it’s hard to imagine that it used to be in a country behind the iron curtain as little as 16 years ago. If you've never been there, put it high on your list of places to visit. The economics department of the local university is now probably the most pro-Capitalist and pro-Liberal in any European country and their president, Vaclav Claus, is one of the very few politicians whom I heard mention Ludwig von Mises as a model and inspiration.

The first time I saw Prague, I really had no clue what Communism was - hardly surprising, as I was barely 9 years old, way back in the summer of 1972. All I remember from our trip through several communist countries, which included Eastern Germany, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia, is that things were really weird. People would queue to buy a few apples while tons of fruit were rotting in the fields.

My naive question: "Why don't they just go to the countryside and pick their own fruit?" Kids… how would I have known about the importance of a proper and fair distribution?

One of the less pleasant events was a traffic accident we were involved in – I think the only serious one for my father’s entire driving career (he was very proud of his admittedly very reliable driving). On that fatal day in the Czech countryside, his brand new Volvo 144, a model famous for its robust design, met a car made to different standards – I couldn’t tell what it was, but from memory, I’d say it very much resembled a Trabant, the export hit of Eastern Germany.

The collision couldn’t have been very bad – just enough for me and my sister to get our knees scratched on the front seat and to cause a little damage to the Volvo’s deformable front area. While we continued driving for about 2500 miles before getting the damage fixed back home, the other car was completely destroyed. The passenger, a woman, had a broken nose, too and had to be taken to hospital (a place I fortunately didn’t have to visit).

The unfortunate couple had probably waited for their car for 10 years and wouldn’t get another one for just as long. In retrospect, I feel really sorry for them. 10 years waiting time for a tin can with no insurance or replacement.

We also "met" Ciaocescu while traveling through Romania. The entire traffic on a cross-country highway was stopped by police for about half an hour, so that 10 black limousines could travel in the middle of the road from city to city - 10 limousines, so no one would ever know for sure in which one he was traveling. He was a very paranoid man who met a well-deserved end.

Such was the extent of “respect” Communist leaders had for their subjects.

A couple years later, I saw a Swiss president giving a speech in Zurich for the national holiday, on August 1 – which by coincidence happens to be the day I write this article – and for the best of me, I can’t remember his name. Very few Swiss people remember who was president in any given year and most don’t even know who is now. There’s no such thing as “the Reagan presidency” people would remember. You’ll understand why when check out http://www.admin.ch/ch/d/cf//index4.html, an exhaustive list of all Swiss presidents and Vice-Presidents – that’s almost 316 names (minus a few doubles). The Swiss presidency is rotating and doesn’t grant any special powers.

What I do remember is that after his speech, he stepped down from the tribune and was immediately surrounded by a crowd of people greeting him, shooting questions at him, arguing with him and the whole throng was walking down the Zurcher Bahnhofstrasse with no sign of a bodyguard anywhere.

Strange, I thought, they seem to have a very different concept of “government” and “president” in Romania…

I’ve been back to ex-Communist countries many times now – from Russia, even deepest Siberia, to Bulgaria, Lithuania, Hungary and the Czech Republic all the way to ex-East Germany. Surprisingly, most of them have turned out rather well, considering where they started. Russia under Putin is taking a bad turn now, which greatly pains my Russian wife. Most of the ex Soviet Republics have a lot of trouble making it on their own. They don’t have the cultural background that helps Eastern European countries to move ahead. They’ve never really known any freedom.

Fortunately, there are great Libertarians in Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, many of whom participated at ISIL conferences, including this year, and they’re doing an impressive job, especially when you see the level of repression they’re still facing.

Germany is the great exception – with their gigantic transfer payments of over $130 billion per year from West to East, they didn’t develop the East, didn’t bring freedom and independence. Instead, they imported Communism into the heart of Western Europe, turning the once prosperous and hard-working West German people into welfare bums, eternally depressed, waiting only for the system to come crushing down over their heads or moving out.

The difference is striking indeed - West German money paid for amazing infrastructure in the East, but it prevented the East Germans from finally taking their fate into their own hands and just prolonged their dependence on a collective State. Ex-East Germany is not such a exciting place to be in, definitely not if you want to run a business, and West Germany looks more and more like the Titanic – loaded with luxurious furniture, but everyone knows that it is a sinking ship where things start falling apart.

I guess the death-knell was the latest VAT increase: as a “compromise” between the Socialists, who said they didn’t want any increase and the “conservatives”, who wanted a 2% increase, they decided to impose a 3% increase! Some people in the new government are mathematically and ethically challenged, to say the least!

This is very different from what you see in the other ex-communist countries, where young people are completely fed up with communism and do their best to succeed on their own, educating themselves and competing for the many new, exciting jobs or creating very successful businesses.

So if you look at Europe, look East, not West: if there’s any hope for the future, that’s where it lies.

IntLib Updates

Okay, y'all may have noticed a lot more ads around these parts, as I attempt to maximize this blogs AdSense participation. We've joined a blogring, got a new hitcounter, and are dedicating ourselves to more frequent posts. We just joined The Truth Laid Bare's ecosystem, and until they get their ranking systems bugs fixed, we'll likely remain at the bottom of the list, not being ranked at all.

On that score, I'd like to welcome a new writer to IntLib, which is going to become a team blog of libertarians from various corners of the globe. Stefan Metzeler, aka "Pro Libertate", is a libertarian in Switzerland, where he is the author of Amadeus-3, an advanced rapid application development framework for Oberon-2, and of several successful commercial software applications ranging from banking CRM to laser topography and ballistics testing. He's travelled globally, so is well known to many libertarians around the way. We'll hopefully see some posts from him time to time as the desire strikes him.

I'm also open to nominations. If you know of a libertarian who is a good writer, but not a pacifistic barking moonbat, let me know, and perhaps provide a link or two to some of their writing so I can get a handle on whether they'd fit in here.

Honest Militias vs. The Party of God: A Study in IANSA Agit-Prop

It may not have been much of a coincidence that the Palestinian militia Hamas, and the Lebanese militia Hezbollah (Party of God), initiated hostilities against Israel within days of the US scuttling of the UN's Conference on Small Arms and its proposed Convention. While the prepared Convention is claimed to have enabled the disarmament of non-government militias and other groups (like Hamas and Hezbollah, among other puppet groups of Iran's pretentions to superpowerhood), those of us who are sane recognise that its real purpose was to force international pressure on the scuttling of the 2nd Amendment, to disarm law abiding Americans, while no groups of terrorists and thugs in rathole countries would be disarmed by a single peashooter.

This fact is borne out by the fact that the UN passed Resolution 1559 in 2002 calling for the disarmament of Party of God by the Lebanese government, something that the governments 70,000 member army has refused to enforce against the 3,000 man Party of God for four years now.

Nor have the 2,000 UN "peacekeepers" in Lebanon confiscated a single weapon (as is their mandate), perhaps either out of fear of being stomped, as they were twice in the same week recently, or simply because they are complicit, considering the UN has failed to publicly acknowledge Hezbollah attacks on UN peacekeepers with the same volume that it decried Israel's collateral damage to a UN outpost because the peacekeepers were unable to prevent Hezbollah from launching its missiles from their own compound.

As a libertarian, of course, I am in total support of private individuals everywhere to freely associate and form militias, to be armed sufficiently to defend themselves tyrannical governments. That being said, Hezbollah is neither private, nor voluntary, nor particularly interested in defending themselves so much as erasing Israel from history. Hezbollah is fitted and funded by the Iranian government, and so is not a private group. It isn't voluntary: members are recruited much as drug gang members are: join or die, and certainly few of their human shields are happy to die for the organization, and as we know, Hezbollah has for years fired Katyusha rockets across the Israeli border without provocation, and kidnapped Israeli citizens from Israeli territory without provocation, at about the same time Hamas did the same.

That both groups, Hamas and Hezbollah, are funded by Iran ought to make clear why the coincidence of tactics and timing are not coincidences in any manner: the attacks are to divert world attention from attempts to halt the Iranian nuclear weapons program.

Yesterday, we heard global outcries against an Israeli bombing of an apartment building in Qana, Lebanon, in which 50+ people, women and children all, are said to have died (that no men were among them is indicative that they were all off fighting for Hezbollah). Riots in Beirut and Gaza against UN offices in protest have erupted today. However, Israel has released video shot from a UAV showing the delivery of a missile laden truck to the apartment building, and the firing of missiles from behind the building, by Hezbollah. It is now clear that Hezbollah used their own women and children as human shields and invited the Israeli attack upon their own families in order to score a propaganda coup.

Real militias do not operate this way, they exist to protect the families of their members, not to sacrifice them on the altar of agitation/propaganda media.

This is why The Party of God is not a real militia, they are a terrorist organization, fitted and funded by a foreign government, that is holding the people of Lebanon hostage to their violence.

Indeed, we hear of other stories, of Party of God fighters driving their missile trucks into Christian villages and towns, and firing from those locations, using the Christians as human shields in order to attract Israeli attacks on non-shiite groups, as a means of broadening public support across the Lebanese populace. That so many Lebanese cannot see what Hezbollah is doing to them, is sad in the extreme.

As for the correlation of the end of the Small Arms Convention, which IANSA, a global left wing gun control NGO has been campaigning for, with the start of these hostilities, I need not point out the close cooperation between the international left and the global islamofascist movement to point out that such a coincidence is not necessarily a coincidence, either. I shall note the immense coverage IANSA is giving to islamofascist and sectarian violence in the middle east.

Ohio Supreme Court Out-thinks Justice O'Connor

Apparently not all supreme courts in this fair land are as daft as SCOTUS was in its Kelo decision. This week, the Ohio Supreme Court has set up a fresh challenge to the Kelo ruling in its Norwood v. Horney decision, in which it ruled that, not only that takings for "economic development" are unconstitutional, particularly in transfers to private third parties, but there are limits to what government may take as "blighted".

The court stated that:

Although we have permitted economic concerns to be considered in addition to other factors, such as slum clearance, when determining whether the public-use requirement is sufficient, we have never found economic benefits alone to be a sufficient public use for a valid taking. We decline to do so now....

We hold that an economic or financial benefit alone is insufficient to satisfy the public-use requirement of Section 19, Article I [of the Ohio Constitution]. In light of that holding, any taking based solely on financial gain is void as a matter of law and the courts owe no deference to a legislative finding that the proposed taking will provide financial benefit to a community.

The weakness of this is that, of course, those doing the taking are rarely at a loss to invent other reasons to take a property: bad paint scheme, noisy dogs, permanent yard sale on the lawn, inappropriate types of tenants and/or squatters, perhaps even "relieving senior citizens on fixed incomes of the property tax burden of a high value property".

WRT restraining applications of "blighted", the court was quite clear:

As defined by the Norwood Code, a “deteriorating area” is not the same as a “slum, blighted or deteriorated area,” the standard typically employed for a taking. And here, of course, there was no evidence to support a taking under that standard. To the contrary, the buildings in the neighborhood were generally in good condition and the owners were not property-tax delinquent...

So, a shoddy neighborhood is not the same thing as a neighborhood of crack houses, HUD seizures, welfare flophouses, and abandoned and/or burned out wrecks. Under that rationale, the poor Justice Souter's New Hampshire farmhouse, while ancient and a bit delapidated, would likely not qualify as "blighted" due to a distinct lack of crack whores, drug dealers, muggers, pimps, and welfare queens in the neighborhood... And while Souter does leave the home abandoned for many months at a time, he apparently visits frequently enough to retain residency at the site.

On Volokh, Ilya Somin notes, if courts of other states take up the rationale of Norwood, we can hope to see a significant rollback in permissible takings, particularly as we are seeing that so many post-Kelo legislative efforts at "reforming ED" are being castrated by influence by various municipal associations and other lobbyists.

It has also been noted at LFB Blog as well as by Samizdata, that the Ohio ruling was rather extensive in its criticisms of O'Connors absurd claims in her Kelo opinion. Furthermore, it struck down Ohio eminent domain law that prohibited judges from enjoining takings prior to apellant review. This probably really stuck in the craws of the justices, essentially being gagged from interfering with a taking, only being allowed to rule on appeals, likely long after the given property has been speedily razed and redeveloped.

At LFB, David Brown notes: "I need not merely infer that O'Connor is one who believes in "balancing" the interests of victims and thieves." Thats a quotable.

Armed Citizen: 1, Knife-Weilding Criminal: 0, MSM: Liars, Police: Stupid

This past week, a criminal armed with a knife went on a rampage in Tennessee, but was stopped by a private citizen armed with a 9mm pistol. Most of the mainstream media lied in their articles, claiming that citizen Chris Cope "tackled" the assailant, and implying that he was unarmed when he did so. Heartless Libertarian covers the story well and, surprise surprise, how leftie SF Chronicle actually reported the story honestly. While I recall Fox News channel reported the story accurately when I was watching TV that day, the Foxnews.com website reported it incorrectly off the AP wire (whether it was edited by the AP wire or an editor at Foxnews.com remains to be seen). My local ABC channel 9 news also reported the story wrong, as did most everybody else.

This is dangerous, of course, because it implies that unarmed citizens can survive tackling a knife weilding criminal, and thus increases the risk of greater injuries and even deaths during crime sprees.

The police, of course, were stupid: "We commend him," [Officer] Higgins said. "But we don't encourage people to take that kind of risk. He could have been hurt."

Hmmmm... Citizen has a gun, crook has a knife... for some reason, the old saw to "not bring a knife to a gunfight", seems to strike me as the applicable moral here... Though I wouldn't be surprised if the officer were cautioning the criminal (particularly given the location was Tennesee and not southern California) to come better armed next time he wants to go postal.

After all, given stats showing that crime drops when the cops go on strike, the primary purpose of police is to protect criminals from the just wrath of the people.

Eminent Domainia, IV

Volokh, today, has a bit on new Oxford English Dictionary entries, particularly with legal context. He notes that habeas corpus is now being used as simply habeas as both a noun, verb, and adjective, typically by lawyers.

Volokh then went on to ask for other suggested new words... ergo, my contribution to the lexicon:

Domainia: A mood of irrational exhuberance on the part of government officials in the post-Kelo legal plenum, excited by the prospect of expropriating fast tracts of private property under the guise of "tax base enhancement" of "blighted" property, to sell/give to their political croney developer buddies in exchange for campaign donations. Sometimes followed by "Eminent Depression" when voter backlash sets in at election time, or when arise proposals to eminent domain the properties of certain Supreme Court Justices...

While I could use the money these days from copyrighting such a word, I'd simply prefer that you patronize our advertisers...

"Gentlemen, Start Your Enzymes"

Still enjoying the week of Independence today, I thought I'd see if that most American of pastimes, NASCAR racing, were on this afternoon, so I flipped the channel to ESPN to find the start of the Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating World Championship..... gawhaaaa?

Competitive eating is now enough of a "sport" (considering that golfing, curling, and chess are considered sports, it doesn't seem so absurd) to be broadcast on ESPN in prime time, with color commentators just as if it were Monday Night Football, Major League Baseball, or Boxing... I will, however, note that the MC of the event seemed to me to be as much of a huckster as any World Wrestling Federation announcer... draw your own conclusions.

While the rest of the world was obsessed with the progress of the FIFA World Cup (i.e. Soccer("real" Football) is what the egalitarian collectivists call "the world's sport" apparently because any dirt poor shoeless urchin in a 3rd world slum can kick a ball), Yankess fans contemplate suicide at the prospect of having to say the phrase "conference leading Boston Red Sox", and of course, Boston fans are feeling once again like they've died and gone to heaven (I'm sure there are muslim Boston fans looking around for their 72 virgins), I am sure the chattering classes of the leftist elites are alternating between digust and arrogant contempt at the idea of thousands of fans showing up to cheer while a group of dedicated power-eaters turbo-hoovered dozens of tubes of processed pork byproducts and processed wheat buns, broken only by the intermittent sip of water and occasional upchuck.

To tell the truth, I was a bit disgusted at the sight myself. I like my food, but I prefer quality over quantity (though as one famous general once said, "quantity has a quality all its own"), and though my brain grew excited at the idea of trying the sport for myself, I knew my belly would quail like a Muslim Moro fighter captured by General Pershing at the idea of consuming that much processed meat. Here is the nutritional info on a Nathans Famous Hot Dog:

HOT DOGS	NATHAN'S FAMOUS HOT DOG
Serving Size (g)	100.00
Calories	309.00
% Cal from Fat	58%
Fat (g)	20.14
Sat. Fat (g)	7.75
Cholesterol (mg)	35.43
Sodium (mg)	684.03
Carbs (g)	22.67
Dietary Fiber (g)	1.29
Sugars (g)	0.00
Protein (g)	10.61
Vit A (RE)	0.00
Vitamin C (mg)	0.04
Calcium (mg)	51.17
Iron (mg)	2.07
% Cal from Carbs	29%

Nathan's insists that its dogs are "all-beef", and some come with a "natural casing" (what is an unnatural casing made of?).

In any event, what does this have to do with liberty? Well, one could say that an eating contest should be considered the true "world sport", because, unlike soccer (um, football), which is a bit difficult to play competitively when your feet or legs have been blown off by landmines, swollen up from elephantiasis, or if you simply have been born without them. You don't need a ball to eat competitively, all you need to bring to the game is one thing: an upper digestive system (heck, you don't even need intestines, so all you folks stuck with colostomies have a sport you can get into...). Besides, what starving 3rd world urchin wouldn't love to spend their lives competing in eating contests??? "I eat to end world hunger!" they would say...

You also don't need to be a member of a team to eat competitively: its an individualist sport, you don't have to worry about carrying deadwood team members to the championships, spiking your drink with steroids, or selling out your game to the mafia in game fixing scams. You don't need a big playing field, or goal posts: all you need is someplace to put your food, and a stopwatch.

Soccer? Bah, competitive eating is the true "world's sport".

UN Gun Control: Nyet

Here in the land of the last, best, hope for humankind, the Bush administration has gotten at least one thing right in defending the Constitution versus signing it away to tyranny.

Given that the support of the NRA and Sturm, Ruger for Bush in prior elections was contingent on absolute opposition to the UN's scheme to make an end run on the Constitution via an international convention to ban small arms trafficking and ownership other than by state entities. It is likely that the appointment of John Bolton to UN Ambassador was part of this package, though Sturm, Ruger's VP Ted Rowe did sit on the US delegation to the small arms conference, as well.

Today, as reported on Volokh, the UN Small Arms Conference has adjourned without an agreement or any plans on future meetings. During proceedings, it appears that other nations did attempt to placate the US by removing a number of provisions the US objected to, but in the end, the US said "Nyet", and also said nyet to scheduling any future meetings of the conference.

What this means is that the Convention is dead so long as Democrats, or anti-gun Republicans like Pataki or Bloomberg, never serve in the White House again (a big "if").

Given that it is a certainty that there will be Democratic and anti-gun Republican administrations in the future (particularly if the GOP starts picking up segments of the luddite left that follow its bio-conservatism), I believe that we need to expect it, and prepare for such eventualities. I would suggest that a reasonable measure to ensure that future potential Democratic administrations don't trojan horse their way into a gun ban treaty, would be for congress to pass a bill making it a treasonous offense, via breach of his oath of office, for any US President, administration official, or diplomatic envoy of any rank, to negotiate or sign any treaty with any foreign government, sovereign, or NGO, that would limit or ban the 2nd Amendment, triggers an automatic impeachment and trial, for treason and conspiracy to commit treason, with a mandatory sentence of death. Any member of said conspiracy who testifies against higher ranking co-conspirators may only see his sentence reduced to loss of citizenship and permanent exile.

I would call it the LIVE FREE OR DIE Act.

I'll be drafting this to start lobbying the congressmonsters...

Albion Sinking, II

White River School Teacher Attacked in Scotland, Principal Says

That was the headline this morning, as Mark Davis reported on the pipe-whacking given to Marty Layman-Mendonca, 57, of WRJ, Vermont, allegedly by Colin Ross, 34, as she was hiking in the Scottish Highlands. Layman-Mendonca (hereafter referred to as LM) is currently in critical condition at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. Ross has been charged with attempted murder by police for his attack upon LM in Abriachan, south of Inverness. This crime was documented here in the Valley Pravda but was locally noted in The Herald.

Apparently British efforts at instituting pipe-control legislation is lagging behind gun, knife, pen, pencil, and foul language control laws... Perhaps a terse diplomatic note from US Socialist Congressman Bernie Sanders (D-VT) (who is certain to include "This is outrageous!" at least twice in said note), to his pals in Labour shall get them off their collective duffs in completing their complete confiscation of every Constitutional liberty remaining (except of course, for the liberty of career criminals to beat and rob law abiding citizens).

I'm sure Mr. Ross is a victim of society. According to The Sun's 11 June 2003 edition, a Colin Ross (then 32) of East Kilbride (how fitting), bombarded a female doctor with chilling death threats and abusive phone calls, when he told Dr Marie Devanney in a message on her answering machine he would follow her and stab her, claiming that she caused the depression he had previously suffered from.

Here we have apparently one more example of a repeated criminal, loose on the streets of Britain, reoffending only three years after his last known violent offense.

I don't know if this Colin Ross is related to the Colin Ross who was famously tried for murder in 1922 in Britain, or to the Liberal Democrat MP (Wolverhampton South West) of the same name.

In any event, I don't know if the British will respond to this attack like Americans once responded to the Willie Horton affair, or do anything to restore the British people to their rights to defend themselves against armed attackers with deadly force. I hope something positive comes of it all.... I suspect if Ms. LM had defended herself, we'd be seeing her in chains and Mr. Ross being apologized to profusely for interference in his tradecraft...

UPDATE:

• Albion Sinking IV: British Big Brother Bullies Bronx


• Albion Sinking IV: British Big Brother Bullying Bronx


• Albion Sinking, III: Colin Ross Guilty, Layman-Mendonca Recovering

BACKDATE:

• Albion Sinking, II: White River School Teacher Attacked in Scotland


• Albion Sinking Into Oceania

Albion Sinking Into Oceania

Some may notice I comment regularly on the Libertarian Samizdata blog, which is run by some transhumanist-leaning libertarian Brits. Its my primary means of keeping track of the increasing erosion of the birthplace of the anglosphere under the strain of creeping socialism, victimology, and ubiquitous surveillance, and given that I call this blog the International Libertarian, I suppose I need to comment on the state of liberty elsewhere in the world (though concluding that it is roundly dismal wouldn't be too far off the mark), more often than not.

That being said, I'll note that a recent Libertarian International article on the state of criminal law and the right of self defense in Britain is one of many that document the degree of absurdity that the British criminal system has descended to, letting career criminals off scot free while making a special effort to keep incarcerated normal folks who try to keep what little the socialist state has let them keep.

With Great Britain now the world's most violent developed country, the British government has hit upon a way to reduce the number of cases before the courts: Police have been instructed to let off with a caution, burglars and those who admit responsibility for some 60 other crimes ranging from assault and arson, to sex with an underage girl.

That is, no jail time, no fine, no community service, no court appearance. It's cheap, quick, saves time and money, and best of all the offenders won't tax an already overcrowded jail system.

Not everyone will be treated so leniently. A new surveillance system promises to hunt down anyone exceeding the speed limit. Using excessive force against a burglar or mugger will earn you a conviction for assault or, if you seriously harm him, a long sentence. Tony Martin, the Norfolk farmer jailed for killing one burglar and wounding another during the seventh break-in at his rural home, was denied parole because he posed a threat to burglars. The career burglar whom Mr. Martin wounded got out early.

It should be rather obvious to any sane individual that the sort of inane distopias British writers and movie makers once warned us of is now coming to fruition there. Britain has become a sort of 1984 where the inmates are running the asylum, where the government is now openly in cahoots with the criminal class against the citizenry.

It is now time to start hanging the bastards, or get out.

To that end, and dovetailing with my ongoing recruitment efforts for the Free State Project, I hereby offer my marital services to single British libertarian ladies who need a legal way through our abysmal immigration system to escape the madhouse that Britain is rapidly becoming.

UPDATE:

• Albion Sinking IV: British Big Brother Bullying Bronx


• Albion Sinking, III: Colin Ross Guilty, Layman-Mendonca Recovering


• Albion Sinking, II: White River School Teacher Attacked in Scotland


• Albion Sinking Into Oceania