Posted under Sovereignty and Secession
What’s refreshing about the story behind the revolt in Tunisa is it has nothing to do with ideology or religion. It is simply the boiling over of the passions of ordinary persons tired of the state’s petty interferences in their daily lives. A street merchant, perhaps someone in the desperate situation of needing to feed his family, can’t set-up a market stall to sell fruit because he hadn’t paid off the powers-that-be for the needed permit. In his desperation he immolates himself, and his example sparks a rebellion of the middle class against the state and its crony capitalism, bringing down a once seemingly all-powerful leader.
Sadly, if the violence and demonstrations continue, Tunisians might well get a military dictatorship (which might or might not be an improvement over the current ruling clique that masquerades as a “republic”). But the revolt as a whole is a good example for organizations like the Free State Project in their struggles for liberty in the state of New Hampshire. It’s encouraging to see there are people the world over who feel they get nickled-and-dimed daily from fines to fees to the proverbial “cost of doing business”, by those in power, without much to show for it. These same poor souls are ready to vent and offer support to those who will stand with them, will stand against the powers-that-be at any level of government which doesn’t serve their common interests.
Weaver on 20 Jan 2011 at 11:04 am #
MTRs: Middle Tunisian Radicals.
Captainchaos on 22 Jan 2011 at 8:36 am #
Something Scallon might find of interest to aid him in overcoming his Holocaustianity brainwashing. According to James Bacque’s “Crimes and Mercies: The Fate of German Civilians Under Allied Occupation 1944-1950″ the number of Germans who died needlessly at the hands of the gallant “Allies” is as follows:
TOTALS OF DEATHS
Minimum Maximum
Expellees (1945-50) 2,100,000 6,000,000
Prisoners (1941-50) 1,500,000 2,000,000
Residents (1946-50) 5,700,000 5,700,000
_________ __________
Totals 9,300,000 13,700,000
Call a spade a spade: it was genocide.
Weaver on 22 Jan 2011 at 11:24 am #
CC,
do you think it’d be legal to post those stats in Germany?
Many of those were killed by the Russians though, wouldn’t you say?
This is an excellent reply on the Holocaust. I’m impressed.
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And Stalin, another of the Allies, finished off 20m – 60m Russians over a longer period.
Thaddeus on 22 Jan 2011 at 12:31 pm #
The Bacque book is excellent and highly recommended.
Predictably, it’s not easy to find, but there are usually used copies available on Amazon.
Also predictably, the book was rigidly ignored by the press when it was published and its damning stats are never, ever discussed by the chattering class.
roho on 22 Jan 2011 at 7:32 pm #
The Tunisian First Lady demanded $12 million in gold bullion from the central bank, and flew it to Saudia Arabia to meet her husband.(Remember the Shaw Of Iran?)……..Tunisia may be the first domino to fall, as middleclass muslims all over the region tire of their new Colonial Power?(Israel)………Even the Saudi Royal Family is on shaky ground.
Which is why Iraq was attacked, and Iran next.
Captainchaos on 23 Jan 2011 at 2:02 am #
Weaver,
“do you think it’d be legal to post those stats in Germany?”
I think that would probably depend on the context in which the stats were cited. If a court interpreted said as “minimizing” the Holocaust – that is intended to downplay by contrast the traditional Holocaust narrative – then the juridical hammer might well fall. So the way I did it would probably not be kosher in Germany.
Weaver on 25 Jan 2011 at 12:26 pm #
$1.70 each used at amazon. I like books in that price range.
Any other recommended books, on any subject, would be appreciated.
Solzhenitsyn wrote in Two Hundred Years Together:
And this similarly applies to Germans and Brits, post-WWII.