Government needs to corral and punish homeless people, because otherwise peaceful people would have to be afraid of dangerous, crazed lunatics roaming the streets, threatening their safety and their possessions. Oh, wait. (Incidentally, this is a particularly madly sadistic form of political theater. But it is not different, in any way at all, from what every police department in every city in the United States routinely does to to homeless people’s shelters and possessions, all the time, as a routine matter of policy.)

“We’re looking to hire Greek and Mandarin translators. Get at us if you’ve got a friend you can recommend.” ~ William Gillis. Projected work would be a 12,000 word translation of Kevin Carson’s “Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand” or translation of a shorter ~2,000 word work.

From Gina Luttrell: http://thoughtsonliberty.com/why-do-women-hate-freedom “Let me ask y’all a question. In the last 30 days, how many of you have talked about gender discrimination? What about LGBT discrimination? Sexual harassment? What about rape? Here’s a good one. What about doulas or midwives? Now, out of those of you who talked about those issues, how many of you said that the issue wasn’t a problem at all? Or perhaps shifted the focus of the conversation onto women in general, maybe by saying that the gender wage gap was a myth, or that differences in occupational representation was due to personal preferences, or that, dare I say it, most rape cases were in some way preventable by the person raped? This, after sexism [within the movement], is the second biggest thing that keeps women away from liberty my friends. Libertarians either don’t know, don’t care, or don’t “believe” in problems that affect women’s liberty. . . . And libertarians don’t take these problems seriously. So much that we just don’t seem to care. These are significant barriers to women’s liberty in our country. They are facts of women’s lives that significantly, substantively, visibly affect the quality of life and quality of freedom of women in the world, and libertarians would rather talk about marginal tax rates and agricultural subsidies. . . . “The takeaway here is this: Don’t assume that people move through the world the same way you do. Just because an issue isn’t a problem for you doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. The world libertarians are selling right now is a world in which women will be tossed under the bus, and all libertarians will do is throw up their hands and say, “Freedom of association. Not my problem.” But how could such a society be free when its citizens cannot all participate according to their individual will, when some get advantages from the setup while others are cast out? From a woman’s perspective, libertarians are selling a society that isn’t free to them at all. And we’re surprised that they don’t rush to sign up for it? I’m not. No amount of marketing can fix a product that looks rotten.”

Alright, it’s server-naming time. Projects websites server, you will be known as nerdanel.radgeek.net

From Scott Crow. Quote follows: — quote — For those of us wanting to support grassroots, decentralized efforts after Typhoon Haiyan/ Yolanda. This is a place to send money or aid. Tin Alvarez is organizing on the US West Coast with anarchists directly in the Philippines. Philippines Typhoon Disaster: The Right Place to Send Your Urgently Needed http://wrongkindofgreen.org/2013/11/14/philippines-typhoon-disaster-the-right-place-to-send-your-urgently-needed-donation/ From WKOG Admin: “We stand by the work of Filipino Tin Alvarez. She is fully informed about the NGO-industrial-complex machinations. She will not advocate, nor work for, any org that’s not about grassroots and direct assistance for the people in The Philippines”

Seriously, if your argument is that I need to be compelled to pay for the mechanized mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afghans, in wars which you yourself admit to be disastrous failures and grave assaults on fundamental human rights, because, hey, if you didn’t have the institutional apparatus to force me to pay up for those, then it might also be difficult to pay for repairs to the Interstate Highway System or fund the NEA or build a hydroelectric dam, then really you have no business at all talking to me about “civilization.”

In all seriousness, POLICE: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT MAGAZINE may be the single most vile and practically destructive publication currently printed in the United States of America.

Also recently in POLICE: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT MAGAZINE: http://www.policemag.com/channel/patrol/articles/2013/11/searching-fleeting-targets.aspx Please note that police like Devallis Rutledge believe that they have a right to search for contraband in any car, at any time, without a warrant, including by breaking in and opening or “destroying” closed containers, as long as they personally think there is a “fair probability” that they will find something seizable, and you had the temerity to leave your car anywhere in the open on a public street.

This week in POLICE: THE LAW ENFORCEMENT MAGAZINE: “I firmly believe that during an exigent circumstance . . . you can’t be hemmed in by policy, political correctness, or misguided citizen beliefs [sic]. You either take immediate action or someone dies—MUCH LIKE THE MILITARY APPROACH. Therefore, to improve your tactics for such situations you should understand and incorporate elements of PROVEN MILITARY DOCTRINE. . . [Movement to Contact] leaves law enforcement only one choice: engage. Our number one priority is stopping the threat by any means possible. There is no way to candy coat this, though many people try by playing word games. . . [C]LOSE-QUARTER COMBAT is characterized by danger, physical exertion and suffering, uncertainty, and chance. This sounds like what a law enforcement officer faces during an active shooter situation. As with ANY WARRIOR, a law enforcement officer must possess the courage, mental and physical toughness, mental stamina, and flexibility to handle the situation. There are three objectives in a movement to contact operation that law enforcement shares with military doctrine: find, fix, and finish . . . When you are one of the first to arrive, you automatically become a member of a fire team. You need to outfit yourself with as much firepower as possible.” – Amaury Murgado, “special operations lieutenant” for the Osceola County, Florida sheriff’s office. http://www.policemag.com/channel/careers-training/articles/2013/11/movement-to-contact.aspx But, hey, he wants you to know that this is “not about militarizing law enforcement.” It’s about “making us more effective in doing the very things the public [sic] demands from us [sic].” By, you know, studying and using military tactics and doctrine.