Celebrate Anti Tyranny Day!
As you likely surmise (especially if you saw my response to Nick’s comment last night) I survived another trip to the doctor’s office and I’m good for another three months before I have to risk my silly neck again.
Even better, last night I was delighted to see that another ally has joined my cause, adding his voice to the growing numbers of those who want it to succeed. I’d like you to meet Adam House, one of the principal organizers and writers in the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul organization. He’s one of the good guys, and I’m proud to call him a friend. I hope you’ll all follow his recommendation to pitch in with some help, and you’ll have my gratitude if you do:
Now, if you out there like my writing and would like to see how much better I can do once I’m out in the world, well, we ain’t GOT three months, I’m afraid.
If I’m going to get to Tampa to join the crowds to observe the Combat Veterans March for Ron Paul on the RNC, not only will my fundraising goal have to be met, it’ll have to happen by mid-June at the latest. Why? Because the extensive modifications to my Honda Element take about two months for Freedom Motors to accomplish. It’s big stuff…and it’s why it’s so expensive.
Those of you after me to follow up on Andrew Wordes‘ case, where local officials hounded and ruined him after years of their criminal conspiracy to do so resulted in him being backed into a corner where he chose to take his own life so visibly, same deal. Think the creeps in Roswell aren’t working even now to cover their tracks? The sooner I can get down there to reconnoiter and do some interviews, the less opportunity they’ll have to spin their way out of this.
That’s the reality of it; if you want to see me out publicly advocating for Ron Paul, the message of liberty, and all these other issues…well, I hate being a pest, but it’s impossible to effectively push for everyone else’s liberty until I recover my own.
Incidentally, on the subject of liberty, today is one of those unofficial holidays observed by many in the liberty community highlighting our quest for freedom…among other events that happened on this day, it’s most widely known as the date of the ‘shot heard ’round the world’ in 1775.
It’s my wish that you’ll choose to promote liberty today by donating even a small amount to help me reach my goal. Every dollar helps…don’t let anyone try to get you believing otherwise. Think of it as your shot heard round the world, since it will help free me to do my best to make sure our message is heard loud and clear by the public, as it must be if we’re going to win them over to the side of liberty.
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Sword of Damocles Time Again
I’ve been dreading this for the past month, and today’s the day.
I have to refill my prescriptions again, which means another trip to the doctor’s office. That means four transfers from and to my power chair to the Honda: once to get in to drive to the office, to the manual chair, back to the Honda, then finally back to the power chair when I get home.
It’s like roller skating on the edge of the Grand Canyon, as I’ve said before, no exaggeration about it. My legs are that unsteady and untrustworthy.
It’s unlikely that anything bad will happen, but should I end up on the concrete floor next to my brains, will someone who knows me get over here and refund those donations, please? My mom is a complete Luddite, hates computers, and will jab randomly at keys without effect if she tries to get in my machine. I’m leaving the appropriate P/W in a text file on my desktop…thanks!
This really is like having the Sword of Damocles hanging over me, and I don’t know how many times I can get away with it.
What A Way to Start the Week!
As regular visitors to this blog may have noticed, I changed its look over the weekend to reflect my promotion of the ‘In It To Win It’ money bomb event for Ron Paul. I hope everyone who’s a Ron Paul supporter took a few minutes to visit the site I’d linked to and left the good doctor a donation!
As an anarcho capitalist at heart, I really don’t have much faith in political action for improving peoples’ lot, but I do admire Dr. Paul’s principled and consistent stance in promoting freedom for everyone, not just whatever group happens to agree with every one of his opinions. As such, I’ll continue to support him as I can, not as the least evil but as a positive agent for change and individual liberty.
This evening I discovered that my friend Nick Allison from the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul had been busy; he was kind enough to make a YouTube endorsement video of his own to help raise awareness of my situation and cause!
I’ll be proud to add it to Tatiana Moroz’ video in the sticky ‘Welcome’ post up at the top of my home page. Thank you, Nick, I’m sure with all of you terrific allies joining to help, my goal will be realized in good time! Nicely done, my man, nicely done. That’s what I’d call a great way to start the week off…and as you know, in a few days we may see another friend add his voice to yours…keep your fingers crossed, and stay tuned!
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‘In It To Win It’ April 15 Money Bomb for Ron Paul Is Coming!
As an admirer and supporter of Dr. Paul, I’ve been following his presidential campaign closely. It’s been mighty impressive to see the way the good doctor has not only continued with but accelerated his efforts to bring the message of liberty, sound money and a sane foreign policy to the public despite the embarrassingly blatant attempts by the Establishment to discredit and marginalize him.
He has these status quo and corporate state loving, bloodthirsty chickenhawks absolutely terrified.
They’re afraid that the Americans who have woken up to the massive and ongoing swindle foisted upon them over so many years and in so many ways will suddenly see a vast increase in their numbers from the tiny minority they were only a few short years ago to a motivated and very angry majority at any time, signifying an abrupt end to their precious power to kill anyone who dares annoy them, shove people around, and derive all manner of lucrative rewards from their schemes that have brought this country to the brink of bankruptcy and inhuman totalitarian rule.
Good, say I.
There are few sights more gratifying than seeing the dismay on the faces of a bunch of swaggering bullies, drunk on power and hubris, when the tide suddenly turns against them. The image brings to mind one of my favorite quotes from Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, where Gandalf gives the Mouth of Sauron his comeuppance:
Then the Messenger of Mordor laughed no more. His face was twisted with amazement and anger to the likeness of some wild beast that, as it crouches on its prey, is smitten on the muzzle with a stinging rod. Rage filled him and his mouth slavered, and shapeless sounds of fury came strangling from his throat.
Well, we have the chance to administer our own swift and sure comeuppance to these people to figuratively smite them on the muzzle even as they smugly declare the contest over, with their anointed candidate firmly ensconced as the only ‘opposition’ to Barack Obama this November.
Those who have had their State-approved blinders removed know full well that anyone that remains as the officially vetted candidate will be a carefully constructed creature that’s practically indistinguishable from his ‘opponent’ and pretty much guaranteed to pursue the same disastrous courses of action. He’ll keep the status quo undisturbed, the blood and debt increasing to please the mega-banks like Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, while only augmenting the ongoing diminution of our rights as Americans to keep that road to serfdom clear and unobstructed.
That’s just not an appetizing option, so if you want the chance to do something about it, on April 15 all you have to do is visit the In It To Win It site that’s in place to give you that opportunity. The folks who set this up are coordinating this event with Facebook and the site is a handy one-stop resource to get involved in the action.
In addition, if you’re a member of the U.S. armed services, active duty, retired, or a civilian supporter, you’ll want to visit the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul and think about joining their Facebook group as well. They can provide further information about their efforts to coordinate with the money bomb event, and I can tell you from personal experience that they’re a solid, motivated and professional bunch of folks I’m proud to be associated with.
If you’re sick and tired of the ‘business as usual’ crowd of so-called ‘leaders’ that are ruining America, shedding our own young peoples’ blood along with that of our innocent foreigners’ by promoting senseless, never ending wars to spread debt and death globally, destroying America’s economy by replacing the free market with corporatism everywhere, and instituting a police state that increasingly resembles a bad dystopian novel…if you’ve had it with all of these needless things, I urge you to get involved with the In It To Win It money bomb this Sunday, April 15, 2012.
I know I sound like a broken record, but I have to add that if you also want to help right this unjust situation I’ve found myself in, restore my life and set me free to get out in the world to communicate with the public the same positive benefits Dr. Paul is trying to restore on a larger scale with his efforts, to turn me loose as a journalist with the New Media to help us all live freer and more rewarding lives, please consider donating even a small amount to aid this project in succeeding in its goal. I’ve got hopes of doing all these things and more as well as getting to Tampa to cover the Veterans for Ron Paul March on the RNC this August…that’s coming soon, and I’ll need help from you good folks to make that happen!
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Tatiana Moroz Steps Up To Get Glenn Mobile!
Okay, I will happily admit that when I made my last post I’d already contacted Tatiana and we’d discussed my request for an endorsement video, but I’ve learned not to make declarative statements until I’m certain that they’re accurate.
I was pleasantly surprised then when I learned last night that she’d taken time from her busy schedule to follow through on making that video. I had a pretty good feeling that she would, but I sure hadn’t expected to see it so quickly…and here it is:
I know for a fact that she was busy because she’d just gotten done appearing on the Angel Clark radio show for an interview as well as being constantly occupied with making her new album she mentions in that interview. The whole show’s good, but if you want to get to Tatiana’s interview, scroll ahead to 67:40 in the player at the bottom of the new tab that will open.
What a marvelous woman.
Thank you, Tatiana, you’ve joined an exclusive group; so far only three people from the liberty community are members, Dr. Tom Woods, Dennis Behreandt, and now you have made the effort to help out with my cause by increasing its visibility! I’m sure there’ll be more as time goes by, but the fact that you folks saw the potential in it before anyone else did marks you as having the superior judgement and discernment (from my perspective) to take that road less traveled. Hey, I’m nobody all that special, but I’m the real deal and this is a worthy cause, so I’d say you three are entitled to feel just a bit smug for being able to spot that.
Am I an enthusiastic fanboi of Ms. Moroz’ surpassing skills as a musician? You bet I am, and was since I first listened to her when Nick Allison of the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul brought her to my attention. Would I still be even if she hadn’t made the video? Absolutely…sure, there are some in the liberty community who’ve offered to help but then flaked, but that doesn’t diminish the fact that they do excellent work to promote freedom…and they don’t owe me a thing.
Happily, Tatiana went above and beyond just doing a good thing, and for my part, I hope the karma gods or the spirit of Austrian economics or whatever motivation floats peoples’ boats ensures she goes on the be the mega-famous celebrity that she deserves to be and makes a kazillion bucks in the process. Me, I’ll be happy to get mobile again, get back to enjoying life and promoting liberty, sound economics, and the Ron Paul R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution…especially the Veterans for Ron Paul March on the RNC in Tampa in August.
Speaking of which, some business: I know the economy sucks. I know money’s tight. But here’s the thing, not to put too fine a point on it, this fundraising blog’s been getting a lot more views over the last couple of months…I watch the stats…yet aside from two donations from generous readers, nobody’s actually raising the funds. I’m not gonna get out of here in time to promote the Ron Paul R[̲̅ə̲̅٨̲̅٥̲̅٦̲̅]ution, cover that epic veterans’ march in Tampa, and bunches of other things like confronting the finks in Roswell who drove Andrew Wordes to ruination and suicide unless some of you hit that PayPal ‘Donate’ button.
The whole point of this venture is not to ask that the bunches of dough I need to modify my Honda come from a small number of large donations, but to spread that job out to lots of people making many small donations. I hate to be a pest in the first place, so I hope to keep the impact on any individual person as low as possible.
Also, you anarchocapitalists, libertarians and Objectivists sick of being called cruel, heartless and other nasty names by all of the statists around you because you know that the government’s stealing money from people to do ‘good’ is immoral and wrong for a lot of reasons?
Well, THIS is exactly the sort of voluntaryist project that makes reality out of all the talk that’s just lip service until some action is taken, and when its mission succeeds will be a perfect example to point those people at that proves how right you’ve been all along! And when they try making snarky little comments trying to discredit that success or that it wasn’t the voluntarist effort it was intended to be, I’ll be right here to set those snide little Orcs straight.
Promise.
It’s been proven beyond doubt that Get Glenn Mobile! will succeed, but the clock is running if the things I want to do to support Dr. Paul before the Veterans March on the RNC, before the election (and before my brain melts from three years’ confinement), are going to happen.
So please do take a moment to drop a buck, a fiver, a ten spot, or whatever you can donate that won’t put a hurt on your finances. I want to get to work for you, me, and your families to show up the creeps who’ve been destroying America, and restore so much of my life that the rotten MonSter of multiple sclerosis thought it had got away with stealing from me.
Thanks, and while you’re doing that, have a listen to some more of Tatiana Moroz’ superb work!
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Good Advice!
I was recently introduced to a new liberty activist by the Combat Veterans for Ron Paul, and her talent, attitude and unambiguous love of peace and freedom really impressed me. She’s one of the liberty community I would love to see make a video endorsement of my project here…with a little work we can all meet in late August for the upcoming Veterans for Ron Paul March on the RNC in Tampa.
Man alive, I want to be able to get to this event, it’s gonna be epic!
Folks, here’s Tatiana Moroz singing “Make a Youtube Video,” which I can attest from the help my own Krip Kam vids is good, solid advice…put the New Media to work for you and make a YouTube video to communicate more effectively with the world. Check out her YouTube channel for more…you won’t be disappointed!
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Okay, Fun’s Fun, But…
Sigh…let’s see, into 3 years of homebound captivity and it’s been an absolutely gorgeous day out there…
And I see that my favorite liberty fan, Dr. Paul is drawing crowds pushing 10,000 to hear him speak…
All right, joke’s over! Guys? Guys…?
Sorry, but I’m feeling a bit like the Count of Monte Cristo here!
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And The Beat Goes On
I’m really gratified to see so many of Andrew Wordes’ friends coming forward to fill in more details about his ordeal, as well as the fact that after reading that ADH article that was the subject of my last post, there’s a lot of discussion going on. Seeing the discussion continue is something I’d hoped for..and it’s increasing, a healthy sign that Andrew’s case is getting more and not less scrutiny as the days go by.
I knew I couldn’t be the only one who wasn’t fooled by the smoke-and-mirrors distractions put forth by the established media. If someone like me, a noob journalist and non-expert, could see within a short time that Andrew had been pursued, harassed and tormented by Roswell officials until they ran him into the ground, his friends and other interested parties must have been aware of it for a long time.
Good.
I just want to see some justice done to rectify a horribly unjust situation, and it appears that’s going to happen. In just one example, Maggie Bean of the Examiner is now following up on the story with a new article about the suspicious details surrounding the foreclosure that suggest it was illegal.
Stemming from some of that discussion is also some new data I’ve seen that more than hints that my thesis, that Roswell city officials conspired to cheat him out of his property rights, is correct. Of course it’s correct, not because I’m some sort of whiz at deducing the existence and nature of a crime, but because (in this case at least) that the perpetrators were so incredibly blatant in their actions, seeming not to care a farthing if people were watching them as they did their best to assemble a case against the man.
Whether they did so because they had already made plans to use Andrew Wordes’ property for their own development plans or simply out of sheer malice for Andrew’s refusal to bow to their exalted selves when they decided to push him around is still an open question, but it really doesn’t matter. I’ve known in my gut that this was an egregious case of the abuse of official power since I heard of it, and that kind of arrogance offends me. I’ve had enough dealings with officious bureaucrats in my time who found themselves with power over my life and chose to amuse themselves by abusing that power that I’ve not only developed a healthy dislike for these types, but a pretty well tuned radar for recognizing them quickly.
How all this will shake out, I don’t yet know, but you’d better believe I’ll be watching it closely. Of course, all of these recent developments have me more frantic then ever in my need to escape my confinement here; I have to get out and start talking to people in Roswell so I can get a better handle on the case, and of course interview some of them to better follow up on my article. As I’ve been doing for months, I continue to approach people in the liberty community who’d be inclined to take an interest in this cause and help in raising awareness of it with the aim of seeing it succeed. I have contacted some more folks with my appeal for help with this, and they seem receptive…but I’ve seen this before, only to find they’ve lost interest, so I’ll curb my enthusiasm until I see some substantive results.
I understand why it’s taking time, after all besides the many frauds and scammers in the world, there are also no end of good causes. Still, it shouldn’t be surprising that I consider mine a little more urgent than others…it’s my life at stake here, for goodness’ sake…and at this point I’ve put a fair amount of effort into demonstrating its credibility and legitimacy with my writing, photos and videos to support that. With the help from allies who’ve also felt the cause worthwhile like Tom Woods and ADH publisher Dennis Behreandt, I’ve never been in a stronger position to present my case to the world, and that knowledge sustains me and keeps me from despairing…Get Glenn Mobile! will succeed…it’s just a question of when at this point.
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R.I.P. Andrew ‘AKfortyseven’ Wordes
I often get a bit more emotionally involved than I ought to with many of the subjects I tackle, but with this one that was published in the American Daily Herald this morning, I was in a seething fury as I researched and wrote it. The subject, Andrew ‘AKfortyseven’ Wordes was someone a lot closer to my own life than those I usually discuss, and his story that ended on March 26 when he apparently took his own life rather than be evicted from his home had too many parallels with mine. The City of Roswell, Georgia had for years engaged in what I can only call an ongoing criminal conspiracy to ruin Andrew and take his property, and at the end Andrew took the only remaining action he evidently felt was available to him.
The story really resonates with me for another reason…in 2008, after pretending there was nothing wrong with me for almost a year and a half, when the disability determination people at the Social Security Administration finally acknowledged my disability I was within two weeks of losing my own home, as I’ve talked about here and summarized on one of my earliest Herald articles.
What would I have done if the foreclosure and eviction had proceeded…if the government hadn’t quit its pretending that I was healthy and able to work, instead of conceding the reality of my situation: barely able to walk, even then hobbling around with a four wheeled walker, penniless from more than two years without income, even unemployment insurance income, and sick with worry and fatigue?
What would I have done if that last knock had come on my door?
I honestly can’t say.
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Nothin’ Says Spring Like Airsoft!
Yeah, no kidding, it’s a gorgeous day out there, and one of the best ways to enjoy it is to grab some juice, print up a few targets, and make a lot of holes in ‘em!
In the good old days, I’d drive out to the Cheatham County firing range, set myself up with a soft drink and a milk carton full of .22 Long Rifle cartridges to go with my Ruger Mark II pistol, and spend a few happy hours plinking at targets, empty soda cans and the like. Simple pleasures for simple minds, I know…
I got into airsoft shooting some years ago when I was still using a walker. I couldn’t drive out and brave the uneven ground at the range, so that was out. I tried a CO2 revolver, but it just wasn’t the same experience, and the gas cartridges and pellets weren’t that cheap. Then I discovered airsoft.
It’s a fun sport, some careful shopping got me a couple of inexpensive but well made guns and I was off to a good start. Now, you can pick up a simple spring powered gun for under $20, but those are seriously cheesy and I wanted to do it right, so I chose all metal gas blowback pieces that I liked. They have very close to the same heft and feel as ‘real steel’ firearms and work with the same type of Browning locked breech mechanisms wherein when you pull the trigger a measured burst of gas is released, propelling a 6mm plastic pellet on its way and also operating the slide, unlocking and tilting the barrel as it moves rearward, then forward to chamber a fresh round. The slide even locks open after the last pellet is expended just as a real firearm does!
Some folks don’t do their research and use what’s referred to as ‘green gas’ as a propellent that comes in a dispenser about the size of a can of hairspray and retails for about $15 apiece. No way, that’s much too pricy for my taste. It turns out the stuff is just plain old propane with some silicone oil and scent added. Avoiding this money sink is simple: a one time purchase of a metal adapter with a reservoir for that silicone oil is about $22, then you can use the bigger one pound cans of propane available from any store with a sporting goods section instead…instead of spending $15 for a small amount of gas, you can then get about five times more propellant for only $3-$4…and one can will last for weeks. Likewise, if you buy bags of the 6mm plastic pellets in higher quantities, careful shopping can set you up with thousands that end up costing only a penny or two each.
There’s a lot of fun to be had with this sport, from simple plinking like I’m doing to going all out and joining a club or organization that skirmishes out in the country with machine guns and sniper rifles. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to get back to murdering some innocent pieces of paper with my WE Tech .45 target gun!
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