[fRtF] 11/24 - An open letter on Iraq

Thought of the moment:

Every freedom won for women in the United States, small or large—wearing bloomers, riding bicycles, not wearing bonnets in church, being permitted to speak in pubic, to attend universities, to enter professions, to vote, and own property—was opposed by the churches.

— Annie Laurie Gaylor, http://www.ffrf.org/

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An open letter on Iraq
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/an_open_letter_on_iraq.html
Since I declared my candidacy for our party's 2008 presidential nomination back in August, one of the most frequently asked questions of me has been "where do you stand on the war in Iraq?" Some of you have found my answers unsatisfactory. I apologize. I've been thinking through a problem and haven't found an answer ... so I'm just going to bring it to you. We need to talk about it.

- New Last Week (Articles): -
Celebrate an American Anniversary: December 16, 1773 The Boston Tea Party
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/celebrate_an_american_anniversary_december_16

Until everyone has the same standing under the Constitution it means nothing. Ratify the ERA
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/until_everyone_has_the_same_standing_under_th

- New Last Week (Blog Posts): -
200 vs. 6 billion
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/blog/m_j_taylor/200_vs_6_billion.html

MADD is mad
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/blog/m_j_taylor/madd_is_mad.html

- New Last Week (Wine Reviews): -
Ste Genevieve Chardonnay California
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/ste_genevieve_chardonnay_california.html

Lindemans Bin 65 Chardonnay Australia
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/lindemans_bin_65_chardonnay_australia.html

Francis Coppola 2004 Chardonnay California
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/Francis_Coppola_2004_Chardonnay.html

J.Lohr 2003 Cabernet Sauvignon California
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/JLohr_2003_Cabernet_Sauvignon.html

- The Way-Back Machine -
Shunning the Real ID Enablers
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/ShunIDEnablers.html
Freedom's latest foe is the two-headed snake-in-the-grass Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft. These cyberserpents are collaborating to create the hardware/software mission of turning us all into walking talking Real ID card chattel. (Quickie definition of Real ID: a thin slice of plastic containing our digitized biological and biographical persona so BigGov can steal our identities whenever it wishes.)

I was already soured on Hewlett-Packard. Two years back a pack of powercrats came up with a concept called the Continuity of Government Commission. Terrified that all of their kind could be killed in a single blow (a hand grenade tossed from a two-seater Cessna, perhaps) and we lackeys might learn to like life without our liege lords, the COG wanted to empower state Governors to cherry-pick replacement masters, not via special elections (Constitutional) but from their own personal wish lists (unconstitutional).

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An open letter to libertarian Republicans
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/an_open_letter_to_libertarian_republicans.htm
Right now, libertarian Republicans are the only faction in the GOP left standing. Everyone else has been drowned in the deluge or is still cowering on the beach, coughing up water and trying to figure out what the hell hit them. You guys are the only ones left with any credibility, any muscle, any ideas that resonate with the public. If the Republican Party has a future, YOU ARE IT.

ID theft, Real ID, and the Wizard of ID
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/id_theft_real_id_and_the_wizard_of_id.html
In today's Peeping Tom Dystopia, government datacrats at all levels are fixated on finding out everything about us. They track us with spycams and RFID chips and warrantless wiretaps and computer stealthbugs and black boxes in our autos and covert email intercepts and mandatory snitching from our bankers and doctors and telephone firms and credit card companies. They need this massive database of birthdays and divorces and pay raises and colonoscopies and vaginal wart prescriptions because they are from the government and they are here to protect us.

But protect us how? And from what?