Things are bad in the Stasi state. Things get worse in the Stasi state. Worse yet, each revelation of governmental lawlessness, Big Brotherism, and contempt for We the People is met with a giant yawn. It’s so easy to despair.
Then along comes a reminder that not everybody is yawning. What you laugh at says a lot.
The story arc for the above started with the September 6 panel. H/T to JB for making my day.
Thanks Claire, I needed that too.
I just pointed this out to my wife. Scott Adams is awesome!
Scott Adams says he is “libertarian, but without the crazy stuff“… well, the “crazy stuff” is called “being consistent”, so it is essential. Still, great cartoon.
Unfortunately, the filtering software at my current place of employment will not allow me to see Kent’s link. However, given that in some circles “being Libertarian” apparently requires one to believe in all manner of lunacy unconnected to nonaggression- chemtrails, Reptilians, Fluoride mind-control, time-traveling Illuminati human-sacrifice cults, moon-landing hoax theories, etc- I posit that he -may- have been referring to that. It’s perfectly possible to be libertarian without believing that Asheville, NC is a hub of Satanic human sacrifice and an epicenter for FEMA camps equipped with guillotines intended for use against Christians in order to bring about a Jewish-controlled New World Order. Having been told a number of times that such is -not- possible, and that contending that it -is- possible is Prima Facae proof that I am a -member- of said conspiracy…yeeeeah.
OTOH, he may well simply be inconsistent in some way. I dunno. But it -is- a great cartoon.
Loved it. Sent it to everyone I know.
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I’m kinda surprised you haven’t commented on this; but without a FB account you wouldn’t have picked up much news about it. I hear tell: the CA contingent was four lanes wide, for 55 miles and they rode cross country… to ride the streets of DC (supported vigorously by the cops & troopers) that their taxes paid for… in support of FREEDOM and to remember 9/11.
And to “poke” the usual suspects, that there are an awful lot of us out here to care enough to give up work, brave traffic, weather & miles, to take a stand.
In re Momma Dilbert: Oh yeah. If only….
Someone with much brains needs to come up with a cartoon strip
that depicts ALL of our Government success stories. One screw up at a time.
It should have a title that you KNOW will have the smartest
(most impractical and at least dumb) projects that have been scheduled or/and completed. David Frost’s tv show comes to mind. This strip should be making money for centuries!
Must say, I was surprised to see a mainstream comic, and a geek one at that, coming out with SSS.
Vrsovice Rebel – Reading Scott Adams’ blog regularly makes me believe that’s not the “crazy stuff” he refers to. I think it’s more along the lines of “taxation is theft” and “Zero Aggression” that he considers crazy.
I consider a lot of the stuff you mentioned to be crazy, too, and- as you said- completely unconnected to libertarianism.
Mom Dilbert reminds me of my grandmother, though she would have probably fed them to the pigs! Great cartoons sadly rely on making the truth amusing!
Pre-press Veteran:
Most of the hype on the 9/11 rally that I’ve seen seemed to be all about “taking a stand” in terms of “We gots ta show them no-good heathern Muslime furrinerz whot don’t love Jayzus who’s Thuh Bawss! One million Muslimes surrounded by nuthin’ but Hawgz! ‘Muricuh! Fuck Yeah! Fire up th’ Crusade, boys!” The comments on such fora as I’ve observed it on have been the worst kind of genocidal (literally- calling for genocide) racial/religious Collectivism imaginable. “How DARE “they” let Muslimes parade in public?! Don’t they know them’re heathern MOHAMMEDANS who don’t love Jesus?! This is AMERICA, by Gawd! When’re we gonna nut up an’ shoot ’em all?! -ALL- of em!? Nits makes lice, y’know!”
Disgusting.
Kent- Haven’t read his blog (wasn’t even aware he had one), so I wasn’t sure what his take was. Thanks for clearing that up!
rebel- that’s not at ALL what I’ve been seeing, and NOT what the organizers had in mind at all.
That’s good to hear. I encountered a lot of that sort of dreck on various fora in the run-up to the event itself. Granted, these were not venues associated with the Ride in question, nor were they inhabited by many people of the calibre found here. Glad to be wrong, in this case.
Perhaps someone would like people to think the ride was motivated by such base intentions. Like, on purpose. After all, TPTB are paying people to post the preferred propaganda online, these days.
Unfortunately, the people making these comments were “supporters” of long standing and repute on a “conservative” forum which is (at the best of times) a crowd very heavy on Law’n Order. Anything like libertarian/freedom-oriented thought is viewed with considerable suspicion and derision there, although there are a few diehards. Anti-Muslim commentary of the sort mentioned above is pretty well De Rigeur over there, sad to say- along with similar (though slightly more restrained) nonsense in regards to pretty much all non-WASPS (the single consistent exception being Israel- Christian Zionism is practically a religion to these folks). I certainly wouldn’t put it past TPTB to smear a Freedom-oriented event in the way you describe, but if they did do so (or are doing so) I’d expect their agents to be operating “in the clear” in order to incite the Genrul Publik against the Freedomistas. This place is more of a Bushbot echo chamber.
Well, rebel – it sounds like a dirty job to participate over there and stand by your beliefs in the face of that. I wouldn’t be able to read a whole lot of that – much respond intelligently – for the nausea.
Here’s a link to what I “saw and heard” while watching this event come together online:
http://insanityjournals.blog.com/2013/09/15/a-real-sleeping-giant-is-awake/
[ Worse yet, each revelation of governmental lawlessness, Big Brotherism, and contempt for We the People is met with a giant yawn.]
That’s not my impression at all; all sorts of people seem to be upset. Perhaps that yawn is the line the ruling class is trying to push in the mainstream media/Ministry of Propaganda? I don’t tend to read that much any more.
As to the anti-Muslim stuff, I had noticed something similar:
http://strike-the-root.com/recent-recrudescence-of-racism
Paul, “The Recent Recrudescence of Racism” was a good analysis. (And thanks for “recrudescence”, it’s a new word for me.)
In that article you wrote, “The coming crunch is going to be an economic and political one. There is no benefit to anyone—outside the ruling class—to turn it into a race war. We are much better off if we keep focused on who is the cause of all this strife: the thieving, thuggish ruling class.”
Amen. But the ruling class *must* maintain an anti-Muslim emphasis – because it is Israel that fedgov-Wall Street-corporatism wants to protect, it is for Israel that the U.S. is so determined to establish itself in the Middle East. Oil is an excuse, and so is “democracy”.
Israel has been urging a “for us or against us” mentality for years, and 9/11 opened America’s floodgate of hatred against Islam that Israel needed. Yet this is not racism _per se,_ but religionism: if we hate the Muslims, then we must love the Jews (therefore Israel).
The Jews equate Israel with their religion. Not so – Judaism and Zionism are two different things. But bringing the two together in people’s minds is what Israel has always wanted, to better establish universal acceptance for how it got there. America fell into the plot (intentionally or not) when 9/11 came down on us, so any antisemitism has now been replaced with a more virulent anti-islamism.
Vrsovice Rebel, clearly you haven’t been to Asheville!
SSS. Shoot, Shovel, Silence
Kent, consistency is a hobgoblin of the mind. Judgment is required in all we do, especially politics. Unfortunately, politics cannot be reduced to a simple rule; it must rely on judgment and that is hard to find in these times of ours.
Great find, Claire. BTW, is your outstanding SWAT column in the October issue available on the internet? I refer to “When does compromise become betrayal.” I was just blown away by it, I’ve read it several times, I even clipped it out of the magazine to keep. I wish millions would read it.
Thank you very much, Matt. Coming from you, that’s a really big compliment.
I’m sometimes the last to know when or if my SWAT columns go online. The October one isn’t online yet, but if they decide to put it up, Tam (their social media director) will probably let the world know.