Statist Tools: Snares and Intimidation

Now you laugh "Snares -- yeah sure -- but intimidation? A Statist tool? Well Duh!"

Understand me. What could be more chilling than when a judge renders a verdict wherein it's clear he knows that your rights have been trampled by the state and he's not only fine with that, he rubs it in?

From the masterful headline (by Kevin Baker) at The Smallest Minority today we see a judge's comment "When dealing with guns, the citizen acts at his peril." When the judge added this snark when sentencing a hapless gun owner -- who got snared in anti-gun paperwork -- we witnessed the ugly state on the eve before it threatens to get uglier still.
This is what I imagine would happen if I got to confront the judge in this case:

• Me: "In this case, the peril was from the state and not the gun, and every body knows it."
• Judge: **Wink**

Oh, there's a whole lot more to this story too. This judge held back even the legal statutes requested twice by the jury during their deliberations. The victim, fatefully, was in the wrong state when his mother momentarily felt concern for her son.  Her maternal instincts led to his being ensnared by a law that no reasonable person would indict another citizen over unless they themselves were Statists. You can find the sickening details elsewhere -- they are really not my point. That's the snare part, and again, that everybody with any sense knows.

What's intimidating here is that the Judge, acting in most high-handed of Statist ways, wants the world to know that it's too damn bad for the victim here. That is what the State's victim -- and you by implication -- gets for figuring an individual really has any rights that a man in his position would honor.

Yes, it is possible that I am confusing intimidating with infuriating.

Hey you liberals: I think that your beliefs that judges always act mercifully are in need of serious review.

I personally think that this judge has displayed a lower sense of mercy than that of a common criminal. The common criminal doesn't pretend that he's punishing you for the sake of respect for the law.

I surely hope New Jersey allows its chief executive to commute sentences, and that Governor Christie overrides this injustice very soon.

******* GOOD NEWS UPDATE **Dec 21 2010*****

Christie Commutes Aitken's Gun Charge To Time Served

Lead: Promote Human Life

There's a new story that recalls the question in the masthead of this blog. "If our "leaders" are so humanitarian, how is it that we never hear them direct a harsh word at the Malthusian, Utilitarian and Green nutcases?"

Lilith: the barren, sex-crazed, child-killing mascot of the abortion movement

Every once in a while, one stumbles upon a terrifying level of honesty among abortion supporters....
a moderately successful group dedicated solely to providing low-income women with abortion money, called the Lilith Fund. 

The Texas-based group explains its name on its website as follows: “Lilith was the first woman created by God, as Adam’s wife and equal. Because Lilith refused to be subservient or submissive, she was sent away from Eden.” 

This is a somewhat accurate presentation of Lilith’s bio; however, it’s certainly not the whole story. 

Here’s how the Hebrew legend, as first described in the Alphabet of Ben Sira of the 8th-10th century, ends: after Lilith flew away (and was not sent) from Eden, God punished her by dictating that one hundred of her own demon children would be killed each day. She responds by asserting her perpetual desire to sicken and kill newborn infants. 

The abortion industry’s poster girl if ever there was one.

In fact, the primordial population control expert bears a significance far beyond Hebrew culture....

...Other pro-abortion feminist organizations have snapped up the name as well. (One of several such blogs, The Lilith Plan, helps women self-abort and even provides gruesome instructions for an illegal do-it-yourself D&C abortion.) It seems some abortioneers are at least honest enough to openly associate with the child-killing demon who is even more well-fed in our modern world than she was 6000 years ago.

I was asked at Thanksgiving last week by a liberal male member of the family: "Are you against abortion?"
I answered: "I am firmly against the promotion of abortion."
He: "Who's promoting it?"
Me: "If you haven't yet noticed on your own the whole industry built around it, how it seeks customers, how it has rigged the legal system to help it, and how little you hear in mainstream media that promotes human life, please tell me what could I possibly tell you now that you'd believe?"

So when I saw this commentary on Lilith this morning, I felt I needed to highlight it here. The fact that promotion of death has become so acceptable is boldly highlighted by our "leaders" blithe silence on abortion promoting organizations such as this one.

The promotion of human life is another of those voids that have grown large in the public sphere. Green parties are nowhere near a large faction in any western government of which I am aware. Yet their policy preferences have clearly gained acceptance in the high-level political scene where AGW and its related legalities are advancing. Similarly, as pointed out in the reference article about abortionists, among the Greens the mostly unspoken but sometimes candid solution to humanity's taxing of the planet is "less humans means increased sustainability." IOW: "Yeah -- All Hail Sus."

It is clear that those who favor human life as I do have pretty much been ignored (at best) by top "leaders." I put the word leaders in scorn quotes because a leader, unlike a manager or ruler, tends to take seriously and sincerely the interests of the individuals who follow him.


If you wish to see an end to the acceptance-by-silence of such abortion promoters as the openly anti-human Lilith Fund, you will have not only to openly oppose such groups, you will need to speak out in favor of human life too, and strongly.

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• Who Exactly Are the Retards?

Day 15: Obama's Incompetence Continues Sans MSM Note

Marking 15 days since we requested

prove to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President

So today we have Prez Obama appearing after the White House summit with the incoming GOP delegation. We are told that he and they spoke of what it would take to make things work in the coming year.

Now if I am correct, and this is indeed the Dilbert Principle President5, it should surprise nobody that he opined on his just concluded discussion USING A TELEPROMPTER.

Not hard to conclude that he went in with a script, and it had not changed afterward; not one iota.

So for your perusal, and to prove my point to those still skeptical, here is our national puppet:

Statist Tools: Inconsistencies [Updated]

First published 10:00AM Oct 27, 2010

Collected Evidence of Inconsistencies

Today's episode came to my attention at Ace of Spades HQ.

• Cf. NYTimes publishing Wikileaks but not Climate-Gate leaks. Ace h/t: What a difference ideology makes.  11/29/10 

NYT during ClimateGate

NYT Wikileaks now

“The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contain all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye, so they won’t be posted here.” Andrew Revkin, Environment Editor, New York Times Nov 20, 2009.

“The articles published today and in coming days are based on thousands of United States embassy cables, the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington. The New York Times and a number of publications in Europe were given access to the material several weeks ago and agreed to begin publication of articles based on the cables online on Sunday. The Times believes that the documents serve an important public interest, illuminating the goals, successes, compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in a way that other accounts cannot match.” New York Times editorial 29/11/2010 [not a mention of ILLEGAL!!!]

Ace calls it really well too:

James Darymple calls this ideological bias. I'm thinking that's not a strong enough term. That's kind of a so-what sort of thing. Everyone's ideologically biased.

The Times is ideologically biased, for starters. But what they really are -- and all the media is -- is dishonest in service of leftist ideology.

I realize that's what we generally mean when we say "bias," but maybe we should start spelling it out for those who haven't gotten the message*. Bias sounds like a penny-ante charge. Dishonesty doesn't, and we need to make clear what the charges against the MFM are.

 The whole collection can be found here: Statist Inconsistencies

*Hooray! for at least as long as Ace's resolve lasts.

Day 14: Are Those Who Hid Obama's Incompetence Blameless?

It's been 2 weeks since I asked:

President Obama: What competence have you to prove to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President?

So now Wikileaks demonstrates how clueless, weakness, helplessness and impotent, and incompetent Obama has been in office, and it is craven malfeasance that nobody in the Fourth Estate has issued a mea culpa for their failure of duty in service to this republic. With the Washington Post allowing someone to opine on their pages that Obama has been weak on the Wikileaks matter, it would sell a hell of a lot of papers were they to disclose what they really think of him losing the midterm elections.

Dammit you collectively worthless journOlists, this man was never properly vetted!

Judging from all the documents by and of Obama kept under lock and key as if they needed secret service protection, it is clear the man NEVER had any experience at being competent. This is, after all, the Dilbert Principle President.

Journalists of America and the world -- I lay the blame for this at your doorstep.

Cowards that you are, you will not contest the charge with me.


                      

In Nutshells
The Peter Principle	The Dilbert Principle
Managers   move up in any hierarchy until reaching their level of incompetence.	Managers are placed at their level  of incompetence having no inkling of what is competent whatsoever.

Filling the Void

We ARE the nascent new Fourth Estate, and Pharaoh’s ministers are advising him to kill us off. So it is advisable we move while we still may.

I have been so impressed by New Zealand's Crusader Rabbit that they’ve encouraged me to write more here. The need for blogs and web sites to fill a widening void is all too apparent to those who are our enemies. (See the news where Obama has seized web addresses for instance, as well as the fact that “Net-Neutrality” is being pushed at every opportunity).

The following was addressed to Redbaiter at CR, but easily the words apply to all of us, yours truly included.

The void is growing because the decadent members of what remains of the old Fourth Estate are not investigating the corrupt, nor asking glaringly obvious questions, not at all filling the needs of the public. (All your Pike River threads demonstrate how important you are. Any criminal negligence possibilities that might be raised will almost certainly be targetted at the most innocent sans the pressure you did and will yet raise.)

We ARE the nascent new Fourth Estate, and Pharaoh’s ministers are advising him to kill us off. So it is advisable we move while we still may. Carefully of course so as to reduce the likelihood of giving the legacy media ammo to discredit us. They assuredly will offer us many red herrings precisely to provide themselves such an opportunity, so we must be careful, and we must bend over backwards to help each other.

I’ll not fault you for not adopting my strategy of using strikeout html. It only is my recommendation and it may not work for your style or your sensibleness. My hope is that if the following example were seen more often, it would begin to catch on, and those who formerly labeled themselves liberals and abandoned it, would have to abandon this one too.

“Like the rest of the mainstream media, [the NZ Herald's] devotion to the Progressive political ideology that relies upon deceit and manipulation, and its simultaneous pretence to be an objective reporter of events is a poisonous mixture to our ability to preserve personal liberty.”

Hit them where they live. Take away every fig-leaf of misperception that they hide behind. While we still have time, allow them no device, no euphemism by which they wish to camouflage their greed for power. The fascists, once they feel they are safe from the ire of the people, will give us no quarter. I fear it is very soon if not already too late.

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YOU Cannot Afford to Let Rulers Play God

It's as simple as comprehending the sub rosa moral imperative of those who believe that the world is now overpopulated.

If you believe you can trust these fools at the top to decide whether or not you are useful enough to continue to breath, THEN you can afford to let them make that decision.

That's it.

• Trust that men will find you desirable and keep you alive for some arbitrary time at their discretion,

or

• Trust that God (or Nature) has ingrained in humanity such great drive to survive that you can band together to overcome the machinations of rulers to divide you, then overcome the pessimistic view of those who think your band is too large, and then dethrone those monsters.

Day 11: Has Obama Ever Experienced Competence?

Each day since I launched the inquiry

President Obama: What of significance -- besides your great speechifying in front of properly working teleprompters -- demonstrates to the world your great competence at tackling tough problems in the past? We'd like to be reassured that you have a chance at tackling the great challenges currently facing America.  What proof have you that you are not The Dilbert Principle President?

there's been little to suggest that anyone else is willing to take on the scorn with which such an inquiry is sure to be greeted once the Minitrue is forced to no longer ignore it.

The primary reason that Minitrue continues to dominate the political scene is it owns the major airwaves. Its message is directed at passive viewers for whom there is no true avenue through which the viewers may disagree. But it will not remain that way once we in the blogosphere take our role as the New Fourth Estate seriously. The viewers will hear of what we're saying, and they'll see it for themselves. Shine the light and truth will out.

Surely forcing the MSM to respond to this campaign, demonstrating how lame they have been regarding Barack Obama, would prove it to ourselves.

We are a but a short way off from that now.  It is true that it seems few yet see how easy this could be would we dare to be the informational revolutionaries that this medium still allows.

But the opportunity may not last. Net neutrality could come at any time. Do what you can today. Please, dear Lord, help more to see the open door.

Day 10: Where Is Proof You've Ever Known Competence Mr Obama?

Ten days and still no answer.

President Obama: What of significance -- besides your great speechifying in front of properly working teleprompters -- demonstrates to the world your great competence at tackling tough problems in the past? We'd like to be reassured that you have a chance at tackling the great challenges currently facing America.  What proof have you that you are not The Dilbert Principle President?

We are the new fourth estate Right bloggers. Ask the hard questions that MSM Minitrue wankers would never ask. You can't wait for Fox news to ask.

Just as the TEA party doesn't trust any establishment party types, we can't trust any journalists, editorialists or talkshow hosts who have regular paid gigs to make the challenges that must be made.

Day 9: What of Substance Is Obama's?

Nine days, and still no answer to.

President Obama: What of significance -- besides your great speechifying in front of properly working teleprompters -- demonstrates to the world your great competence at tackling tough problems in the past? We'd like to be reassured that you have a chance at tackling the great challenges currently facing America.  What proof have you that you are not The Dilbert Principle President?

Speaking of incompetence (if not sell-outs), where are the questioners who are willing to pursue the questions they themselves raise and then dismiss (as Dick Morris did yesterday).

Well, there is hope again.

At Reason.com there is this story and video interview of Richard Epstein about Obama when he was at an adjunct faculty member at the U of Chicago. Thanks for the tip from LOTM who notes:

"Epstein has pushed as hard against the official line regarding Obama as a member of the Chicago faculty can. Obama was hired as an Adjunct directly by Geoffrey Stone, who was Dean of the Law School and later Provost of the University. When Stone stepped down from that position Obama's somewhat unusual connection with the school ended... The school went to great lengths during the 2008 campaign to endorse Obama as if he was a real faculty member, even though he never went through a faculty hiring review or participated in the intellectual life of the University."

Nobody "knows nothing" about Obama's achievements. We suspect it's because there are none of note.

Come on Right Bloggers. Join me in this. Take down the fraudulent media by thoroughly exposing Obama's lack of substance and that mainstream media is no longer the fourth estate. They are the unindicted co-conspirators of the Statists who pull Obama's strings.

We are the fourth estate Right bloggers. Do your duty.

Day 8: Obama's Alleged Competentence: Where's the Beef?

Well, here it is Day 8 since I launched my campaign of inquiry.

President Obama: What competence have you to prove to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President?

And today I have evidence, provided by Libsarenavelint who posted at Neanderpundit today a link to a Dick Morris column Who Is Barack Obama?

Once again the title, rather than the substance of the column, is more in the direction I'd like to see popular "Right" columnists go.

Mr. Morris begins his review of a recent Bill O'Reilly book asking who the Prez is. And then he gladdens my heart when he writes of Mr. O'Reilly:

...He lambasts the president's management style, but never his core beliefs.

But then he does not take the inevitable next step and call into sharper question the man's intellect and ability.

Oh wow, finally. Right?

Sadly no. The next sentence reads:

After all, the alternative explanation -- that he's dumb -- lacks credibility.

Mr. Morris' argument is that Mr. Obama pulled together this great campaign, so there's his intelligence for all to see. I'm sorry Mr. Morris. The man relies heavily on his teleprompter to put together his words. He is carefully shepherded by his staff from too many ad hoc interviews to say nothing of the man's complete avoidance of hostile questioners. In far too many instances, this man of words can't find any when he either lacks his teleprompter or it malfunctions.

No Mr. Morris, the man could very well be what so many dare not conclude, but which is a very strong possibility. Mr. Obama is a carefully controlled puppet. He could very well have no significant intelligence. This is why this campaign I'm pressing is so important. That is the strongest explanation as to why all of Mr Obama's past records -- not just his original birth certificate -- are carefully sealed, and he spends tremendous sums of money to legally keep them away from prying eyes.

Come on Right bloggers. We've got to press harder!

Push Back Now Or the Fight Later Will Be Worse

Today, in response to The price of a life in NZ? About 18 months at Crusader Rabbit, KG's coblogger, Redbaiter, opined on the continued incompetence of the New Zeeland system of justice.

This is my advice regarding about what to think of,  and how to react to, the degradation creeping into all Western courts.

For someone such as you or me, incompetence would be the correct charge Red.

But it's not incompetence when a killer can be viewed as an aid to the angel of death -- as this short prison sentence demonstrates.

When CS Lewis wrote in 1943 of the gradually more inhuman behavior we'd see come down in the democracies, he said it would start with a less brutal face. Then as Western decadence proceeded, their means and ends would become indistinguishable from that of the fascists he was fighting at the time.

The battle to come will be all that much worse the longer the uncertainty hangs over a critical mass of minds of their need to push back to survive on a personal level. Individuals must learn to work together and defeat the dissension constantly being sown amongst us by those seeking world power. The Statist open toleration of radical Leftists,  and fostering of seeming squeamishness in meting out justice, is an illusion that have "liberal" minds believing we "harsh and cold and prudish and theocracy-seeking" conservatives and classical liberals are the enemy.

There comes a time when  it slowly dawns on the liberal mind that it is not the Right, but the sly, Leftist-coddling, power seeking Statists who are the enemy of all. It behooves us all who see this spark of recognition arising in the liberal not to berate or make fun of the liberal, but to use that oppportunity to try to break through.

Almost everything on this blog has been an investment  in trying to find new ways to break through. "The second great commandment is almost as important as the first: Love thy neighbor as thyself."

Day 7: Has Mr Obama Ever Proven His Competence?

Where? Where is the proof that Mr Obama ever has experienced earned success? That he has personal knowledge of what makes one competent? Where? When? How? With all those school records and Harvard Law School papers under lock and key, how competent could Obama ever have been?

Where's the Beef?

I've been asking this question for a week, and I finally got a well-known, Right blogger to come up with another title that fits this subject. Unproven by Richard Fernandez at the Belmont Club.

Well, the title is suggestive at least. In the right direction as it were.

Well, back to the task at hand.

Mr. Obama: what significant achievement demonstrates that you know what it means to be competent? To what achievements can you point  that demonstrate your competence besides running your mouth with a teleprompter as crutch?

President Obama: What competence have you to prove to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President?

***Welcome Neanderpundit.com readers. The Dilbert Principle President explains how this campaign came about and why the attribution needs to come from the Right (filled with competent workers) rather than from the Left (filled with overschooled incompetents) who'll botch the recognition.

In Nutshells
The Peter Principle	The Dilbert Principle
Managers move up in any hierarchy until reaching their level of incompetence.	Managers are placed at their level  of incompetence having no inkling of what is competent whatsoever.

Day 6: Obama, Have You Ever Experienced Competence?

Nobody to my knowledge but yours truly lone fool blogger has asked this direct question.

Mr. Obama: what significant achievement demonstrates that you know what it means to be competent? To what achievements can you point  that demonstrate your competence besides running your mouth with a teleprompter as crutch?

President Obama: What competence have you to prove to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President.

Still no answer. Still a lone voice asks the question.

The Left blogs will awaken to this empty suit soon, and the Right blogs, having been afraid to look foolish, will not like the consequences when the Left unleashes.

Day 5: Obama, What Did You Ever Do of Significance?

Why is it still so that nobody but this lone fool of a blogger has asked this question?

Mr. Obama: what significant achievement demonstrates that you know what it means to be competent? To what achievements can you point  that demonstrate your personal competence besides running your mouth with a teleprompter as crutch?

President Obama: What competence have you to prove to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President.

Yes the mainstream press is completely in bed with Obama. But why have the conservative blogs chosen only satire and sarcasm to point out this Prez' lack of accomplishments? Why not make this challenge directly? Is it cowardice? The Left blogs will awaken to this empty suit soon, and the Right will not like the consequences when they do.

Day 4: World, What Competence Has Obama Ever Demonstrated?

What a bunch of hacks we have in journalism. Journolists all. And some of the Right wing blogs are not off the hook either. Facetious remarks and sarcastic commentary, sure. Obama's behavior satirized in cartoons and skits, sure. That's become way too ineffective folks. As the Left constantly demonstrates, they can pervert ways to read sarcasm so as to see only what they choose to see.

Why has nobody yet found the nerve to repeat this question?

Mr. Obama: what significant achievement demonstrates that you know what it means to be competent? To what achievements can you point  that demonstrate your personal competence besides running your mouth with a teleprompter as crutch?

President Obama: Please demonstrate to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President.

It's bad enough I failed to put the thought to words sooner, like back when he was running for President after he'd clinched the Democratic Party nomination. But what is preventing others on the Right from picking up on this campaign. Are you all waiting for when the Left feels they haven't gotten enough out of Obama, and they decide to throw him under his own bus? Are you waiting for the Left to ask this question? I really don't think anyone will like the outcome if this question starts coming from the Left unless the Left has first been thoroughly embarrassed by the Right.

Day 3: Obama, What Competence Have You Demonstrated?

I'm still expecting answers:
President Obama: Zero
Mainstream Journalists: Zero
Big Bloggers: Zero
Blogs in general: 2

What is the answer to this question that no mainstream journalist ever asked him.

What significant achievement demonstrates that you know what it means to be competent? To what achievements can you point  that demonstrate your personal competence besides running your mouth with a teleprompter as crutch?

Please President Obama: demonstrate to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President.

As one commenter noted succinctly:

"Truth to tell, Obama is the poster boy for incompetence."

Mainstream journalists: Fill the vacuum you have left hanging out there. Provide us the evidence of Obama's great accomplishments.

What about the rest of the blogs? You are going to continue to let mainstream "journalists" duck their responsibility in saddling us with this disaster? Let's hear this question from more blogs.

Day 2: Obama, WTF Did You Ever Do of Significance?

I'm still expecting from President Obama the answer to this question that no mainstream journalist ever asked him.

WTF did you ever achieve of significance prior to rising to national attention that demonstrates that you know what competence means, what competence is? To what personal achievements can you point  that demonstrates your competence besides running your mouth with a teleprompter as crutch?

Please demonstrate to the world how you are not The Dilbert Principle President.

The Dilbert Principle President

Follow ups to this post are collected here.

How is it possible that after 21 months of ineptitude under Barack Hussein Obama that a Google search on "The Dilbert Principle President" only turns up one hit?

Note that this single instance is an off-hand reference to GWBush in an obscure stream of comments about John Kerry.

Here's the short explanation of the Dilbert Principle and the Peter Principle from which it was derived.
                        

In Nutshells
The Peter Principle	The Dilbert Principle
Managers   move up in any hierarchy until reaching their level of incompetence.	Managers are placed at their level  of incompetence having no inkling of what is competent whatsoever.

Haven't we all been been insulted enough by mainstream journalists who have not uncovered regarding President Obama:

• A single transcript from any institution of learning regarding BHO.
• A single paper written by BHO while editor of the Harvard Law Review.
• Hell -- A single graded paper of BHO from any level of school.
• Who helped BHO write two best-selling books prior to his elevation to the national spotlight.
• Who prepaid for the early copies of his first book so that it became a best-seller before anybody ever heard of BHO.

I could go on.

And this lack of investigation comes to you from the same "impressive" sources, the majority of whom still think that Dan Rather's falsification of a GWBush ANG evaluation was fake but accurate.

I know why you can't find -- until today -- any reference to Barack Obama as the Dilbert Principle President. It is because the whole circling-down-the-drain country is so Politically Correct Cowered that the emperor is permitted to continue to destroy the country without him having to prove he has a stitch of success at anything every other president has been raked over the coals to prove at least somewhat.

WTF have you done before you were elected President that was of any significance, you goddamn puppet of God-knows-who special interests?

I'm so disgusted with the lack of candor on this subject that I'm strongly considering revising my new definition of PC from Politically Cowered to Political Cowards.

Statist Motto

I've been saying something like this for awhile now. And then it occurred to me that the motto of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals could best be summarized as follows.

The only thing truly progressive is the next trick that gains us another notch of power. -- Saul Alinsky

Tactical Usage: