Iraqi Interim Government loots treasury and leaves. If only our own Government would leave after plundering us!

"The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit … Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do … He does not keep "protecting" you by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that." – Lysander Spooner

This story is just priceless!

As reported by ABC News the US installed interim Government has apparently made off with some cash, about 1 Billion worth according to reports:

"BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct 10, 2005 — Iraq has issued arrest warrants against the defense minister and 27 other officials from the U.S.-backed government of former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi over the alleged disappearance or misappropriation of $1 billion in military procurement funds, officials said Monday.

Those accused include four other ministers from Allawi's government, which was replaced by an elected Cabinet led by Shiite parties in April, said Ali al-Lami of Iraq's Integrity Commission. Many of the officials are believed to have left Iraq, including Hazem Shaalan, the former defense minister who moved to Jordan shortly after the new government was installed."

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1201279

What I want to know is why can't our own Government skip town and LEAVE US ALONE! after it loots us?

Government has been described by more than one Anarchist as nothing more than a band of thieves and these people lived up to that reputation.

There is a silver lining in this dark cloud of corruption though.

At least they didn't stay long enough to be a legitimate Government.

Then they would have been granted a license to loot.

This has got to be the most corrupt Government I have ever heard of.

Except for all the rest.

Patrick Sovereign,
Enemy of The State

MIERS FOUND REPUBLICAN, TURNED CHRIST

As reported on Drudge Report in a News Flash:



MIERS FOUND REPUBLICAN, TURNED CHRIST

By 1979, Harriet Miers, then in her mid-30s, had accomplished what some people take a lifetime to achieve. She was a partner at Locke Purnell Boren Laney & Neely, one of the most prestigious law firms in the South. But she still felt something was missing in her life.

The NEW YORK TIMES is set to splash the "something" on Page Ones on Wednesday, newsroom sources tell God almighty himself!

It was after a series of long discussions with Nathan Hecht, a junior colleague and sweetheart, that led her to a decision that many of the people around her say changed Miers life.

"She decided that she wanted Republicans to be a bigger part of her life," Hecht said. "One evening she called me to her office and said she was ready to make a commitment," to accept the Republicans as her savior and be born again, Hecht said. Miers became an evangelical Republican and began identifying more with the Christ Party than with the Democrats who had long held sway over Texas politics.

"Yes, she goes to a pro-life church," Hecht said, adding, "I know Harriet is, too." The two attended "two or three" anti-abortion fundraising dinners in the early 1990s, he said, but added she had not otherwise been active in the anti-abortion movement. "You can be just as pro-life as the day is long and can decide the Constitution requires Roe" to be upheld, he said.

It was also reported that Miers said,"Now that I am a Republican I can REALLY screw with people. 100000 dead in Iraq and torturing innocents in Abu Ghraib, HA! You ain't seen nothing yet!

After all, as George Bush always says,"God is on our (meaning Republicans, the rest of you can go to Hell) side."

Correction on that news flash.

Miers found Christ and became a Republican.

I have no idea how I got those mixed up, do you?

Patrick Sovereign,
Enemy of the State

Blackwater is NOT Free Market!!

"This past long weekend edition of STR had a link about Mercenaries Patrolling in New Orleans. This link is to a story in The Nation magazine and is negatively slanted against the free market practice of buying security protection. I am not sure why or what the objection is."-- "Would I Hire Mercenaries? Hell Yes!"by Ali Hassan Massoud

Although I tend to agree with most of the articles written at Strike The Root I was surprised
with the take by one Ali Hassan Massoud on the presence of Blackwater security in New Orleans.

He seemed upset that Blackwater was being bashed by The Nation for being a Private Company but correctly points out that Government security made a mess of things.

While this does not surprise me coming from a magazine such as The Nation, we as Anarcho- Capitalists should not be celebrating this as an example of the wonders of the Free Market.

To the contrary Blackwater as an acceptor of Government contracts is no more Free Market than Haliburton in Iraq.

"Blackwater is one of the leading private "security" firms servicing the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It has several US government contracts and has provided security for many senior US diplomats, foreign dignitaries and corporations."--"Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans" by By Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml

So yes Ali, a private security is a better alternative to Government security which was an abysmal failure in New Orleans.

However Blackwater getting fat off of Government contracts is not the Free Market but a Government handpicked Monopoly so we shouldn't be celebrating it simply because it appears to be a step in the right direction which it is not.

Patrick Sovereign,

Enemy of the State