"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness." – The Bible, King James Version
"I believe, along with Ayn Rand, that 'Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.'" – The Whited Sepulchre Blog, Allen Patterson Version
Through poetic usage, a whited sepulchre is any person with similar duplicitous morals. In libertarian usage it refers to government.
Allen Patterson, a 48-year-old Ft. Worth resident who works as a shipping manager for a local manufacturing company, is a metaphorical tomb raider, breaking through the pretty exteriors of whited sepulchres to expose the rot within.
Some recent postings disinterred from The Whited Sepulcre:
On taxes: Why is government allowed to take money but not labor? Because taking labor is slavery and slavery is wrong, "But for some reason we don't consider it slavery if we steal someone's past labor. Only if we steal their current labor."
On our President's first year in office: "Obama has been Supreme Military Commander for the Iraq war for a year" and "Gay and lesbian marriage still ain't legal. Pot still ain't legal. 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' is still in place."
On Obamacare: "We could allow insurance companies to compete in any state they choose. We could have a medical malpractice reform bill written by someone other than trial lawyers. We could do all of this stuff." ("this stuff" is a link to his article, A Free Market proposal for healthcare.)
As for his response to the Dallas Libertarian Examiner's question of how he became a libertarian, Patterson has no short answer. It seems to have been a long process, still ongoing, beginning on the Mississippi Delta rice farm where he grew up "listening to the anti-government rants of my father" to the recent past where he made trips to China for his company and saw for himself, "When they started liberalizing (in the traditional sense of the word) their economy, one million people per month came out of poverty."
"I used to be in charge of metal price quotes," Patterson says. "Watching the price fluctuate due to demand and conditions in the world got me looking at economics, especially Behavioral Economics. I love it, love it, love it."
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