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Ronald Reagan - and Tibet / China? What would he do?

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:18:42 -0500

“If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based upon what we know in our hearts is morally right. We cannot buy our security, our freedom from … threat … by committing an immorality so great as saying to a billion now in slavery behind an Iron Curtain, “Give up your dreams of freedom because to save our own skin, we are willing to make a deal with your slave masters.” Alexander Hamilton said, “A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.””

Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater, Rendezvous with Destiny, October 27, 1964

This was not on China, it was on the Soviet Union. Nevertheless it seems quite fitting, doesn´t it? Morals don´t feed us, granted, but appeasement to tyrants and oppression makes slaves - not only in Tibet.

It was stupid to give the Olympic Games to China, stupid and immoral, but there is still time for us to back out. Boycott Bejing Olympics? Yeah!

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Quote of the Day

Marchal — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:00:04 -0500

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Benjamin Franklin

Quote of the day: tyranny for the good of its victims

Marchal — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:04:13 -0500

“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”

-C. S. Lewis

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Public Gardening

Marchal — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:13:34 -0600

Government: “it takes money from some people, keeps a bunch of it and gives the rest to other people.” (Dave Barry as cited in David Boaz´Libertarianism: A Primer).

These days I had a chance to see municipal government at work. A troup of communal workers trimmed a group of 4-5 trees outside the building where I work. The workers were five and that` s how the work was done: one of them watched the traffic, one watched two others who were busy watching cut-off branches and twigs fall to the ground, two were on a kind of elevator that lifted them up to where the actual work was done - one of these seemed to be responsible for the security and welfare of the last one who did the cutting with long electromechanical clipping devices. The two twig-falling watchers were not completely idle - they picked up the fallen twigs (I saw at least one of the do that) and carried them - a handful of twigs in ONE hand, the other one seemingly needed for holding the balance - to their pickup car which was parked a few hundred meters from the site of the action. They did have some breaks, eating, looking, phoning with a mobile telephone, discussing - the strategy? - it took two full workdays to have the 4-5 little trees trimmed. I had a - plausible - and dizzying vision of small working groups like this one at “work” all over the republic at the very same time

“…government enterprises are less efficient, less innovative, and more wasteful than private firms.” (ibidem)

No doubt, big government, as we have it today on every layer of public life is like an open vein wasting the life-blood of western societies.

Political Lackmus Test

Marchal — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:17:29 -0600

I took the lackmus test at The Advocates for Self-Government and this is the result:

I am not surprised by the result :-)

Try it out for yourself!

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Marchal — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:59:05 -0600

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About The Mountain Star* - Read this first

Marchal — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 12:38:36 -0600

The Mountain Star (its name derived from the congenial “Shinbone Star” of movie fame) is “what the world really needs - a forum for me to cry out all my archconservative needs and sentiments and frustrations and ideas and hopes and demand - me striking back and taking a last stand :-). Something like that. Of late I have made a habit of writing “Letters to the Editor”, mainly to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to which I am subscribed, and some were published, but some of my best (in my view) were not. So To Hell with Editors - I am paying for this place in cyberworld :-)

Who is Marchal: A fortyish, politically opinionated and passionate, very-right-of-the-middle, libertarian-conservative (sic!) Bavarian with a steady view to the West (as in Lord of the Rings) and a great dislike for any kind of “old Europe”, a former Reaganaut and Thatcherite who, at the end of their eras, has almost abandoned all political hopes and dreams, “being on the move to a kind of inner exile alternating with ever more bizarre sociological phantasies out of the deepest dungeons of political reactionism” (self-description) is going to produce regular entries on “the world as he sees it”.

Intended Audience: A blog without audience is really not too much. So I do hope for regular visitors and readers - who share my views or don`t . In fact everybody is welcome at this place of mine, I will be honored by any presence or visit here. Just please do keep in mind that although I am most certainly going to be rambling and argueing and polarizing in here, I am still trying to both feel well and warm in this blog of mine and want to make everbody feel fine and welcome here. So I reserve for me, as the maintainer of this place, the right even to “censor”, to edit or shorten or remove contributions that I consider annoying to me or others (while being determined to make the most scarce use of this priviledge). This will not stifle your opinion, btw - just start your own blog and hopefully link to my most ghastly articles.

Blogging should be fun - even if the topics are serious. I hope you will enjoy your visit here.

February 2007 Marchal