Libertarian Leprechaun

How to tell the difference between society and government: "The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - they are the pillars of society." - Henrik Ibsen

Ah, but sure you are wondering why leprechauns are concerned with human foibles.

It's by way of a hobby. It's eternally interesting to watch humans fight for freedom, then have their children surrender it to the first person offering them a free lollipop.

There is no free lollipop.

Free lollipops, free Turkish delights, and free dental care are the bait of slavers.

Bureaucrats and their slaves are always too early, too late, too much; and then way too slow to change. By contrast: free societies are self adjusting, taking care of themselves, just like free people.

Free people increased wealth. Mutually beneficial trade occurred when both parties to a deal believed they won. Freedom to decide your own priorities in trade increased wealth for all us free folk. As you can guess by the past tense, for humans such freedoms are gone.

Intervention in open trade creates injustice and decreases wealth. Trade agreements and treaties, financial incentives and bailouts, national trade agencies, monopolist enabling regulations, and tinkering with money supply and interest rates by central banks destroyed free markets -- many decades ago.

Leprechauns like wealth, particularly real wealth, like gold. Sure and you've noticed there's never a pot of paper money at the end of a rainbow. Paper money always diminishes to the value of paper trash within the lifespan of a leprechaun. It's as sure as fine wine disappearing down a gullet when high elves come to call.

Lets be speakin' about politicians in terms even they can understand.

Coyotes guarding chickens while hiding their canine teeth. Elected thieves and banksters guaranteeing money's value while running printing presses. Politicians leave office personally wealthy, the people get stew. A citizen in every pot.

"Bureaucrats are like weeds, pull one and tomorrow there will be two. Leave them alone and there will soon be a walled compound with administrative tower buildings and perimeter signs proclaiming that this invaluable sanctuary is off limits - except to more weeds." - Shirker John Leprechaun

Shirker John Leprechaun, that's me, the libertarian leprechaun.

Why am I hung with Shirker John as my name?

I shirk at initiating battles or supporting tyranny just because it's "My tyranny , do or die;" or "the majority voted for the tyrants, we have to support them."

I know it's tough running my own life, I would have to be a fool to think I could run others lives for them.

There are lots of that type of fool, and they want to run your life and mine. All they are wanting of us is to:

give up our past, the earnings we've saved;

give up our present, our liberty to do the right thing and make mistakes trying;

give up our future, any earnings and freedoms we might enjoy.

Thieves are always glad to make those decisions for us. Ya be knowing it's always immoral to steal or to limit another person's life -- but if you can get a bureaucrat to do it for you, it's legal.

It's not just us leprechauns they be grabin' to hold for goldish ransom and three wishes; they've already caught you and your family for the same purpose.

"I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman." - Mark Twain (SJL: my thoughts in Twain's "Foster's Case" 1873)

In the last libertarian tea party we dumped unjustly taxed, monopolist tea. This tea party dump both the monopolists and their pork hucksters. let's have a pork-out party.

Vote Libertarian. Vote the porkers out.

I'm really liking these sorts of BBQ parties.

H.L. Mencken said: "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." What Mencken neglected to add is that all the other men make sure their privileges are supported by that government.

Sincerely,


Shirker John Leprechaun

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"Civilization's development has always been initiated by individuals balancing demands within their intimate groups against personal needs for independence and identity. Social engineers and planners always error at this point. What they endeavor is to convert humankind from small, intimate, flexible tribes to a collective with one mind (their mind of course).

They want to make all the complex human herds and packs of individuals into a single hive of drones. They have always failed, they will always fail; for outstanding individuals will continue to emerge - imagining and accomplishing exceptional goals - changing everything." - Allan R. Wallace



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