Note: The Coffee Coaster Beaniegram contains synopses of writings—columns and book/movie reviews—of the week. It normally is posted and emailed on Sunday mid day. Toward the end of each week, a more journalistic newsletter, "Percolations," is emailed commenting on news and issues of the week. Last week's issue of Percolations is located here. — bw

Special Notice for Michigan residents: Vote for Ron Paul in the Republican Presidential Primary in Michigan, Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Every vote counts. Hundreds of volunteers have been going door-to-door for months, and notifying friends, family, neighbors. Ron Paul is the candidate of the people, and will bring the special interests and the GOTUS police state to heel.

My Column-Article
Free State Liberty Forum 2012...
Glimpse the future of freedom in Nashua, 2/23-26
by Brian Wright

For those who will attend Liberty Forum 2012[3], whether as someone considering immigration or old hands seeking to be among their people, I urge mindfulness of the dire political context we face. The 900-lb. gorilla has definitely entered the building, what with all the newfound Intolerable Acts—NDAA indefinite detention without trial, presidential extrajudicial killings, Internet blacklist bills (and treaties, e.g. ACTA, enacted w/o Senate approval), TSA groping your junk everywhere, FDA assault on food supplies and nutritional choices, ad infinitum. Paul Craig Roberts points out in a recent column on Infowars that if Ron Paul does not win this year, the US—barring massive popular resistance—will be in a condition of complete and utter tyranny before the next presidential election... that won't happen. [Full Column]

Excerpt of Review

The Apartment (1960):
Laughs and love in the age of Mad Men ___ 9/10

It's a quintessential Jack Lemmon role, and he negotiates it like a top Grand Prix driver at Monza. But the key character for this gem is Fran Kubelik, whose portrayal MacLaine hits out of the park. On the surface she's bubbly and engaging, almost a carefree quality, but with glances and subtle body language Fran reveals not everything is picture perfect with the ultimate young city girl. Remember that back in the day, the objective of any 'good' girl was to find a good man, get married, and raise a family. Consequently, men of power, even married men of power, or men of the suggestion of power, could take advantage of—in the parlance of the day: have some laughs with—single girls who demurred at being wed and bed by Joe Slabotnik the high school sweetheart. [Full Review]

Book Review
Deer Hunting with Jesus
Guns, votes, debt, and delusion in redneck America
by Joe Bageant

Final Chapter: American Hologram: The Apocalypse will be televised

"We live in an age of corporate dominion just as we once lived in an age of domination by royal families, kings, and warlords. [In debt bondage, to survive we must pay tribute....] We must trade liberty and privacy in increments for comfort and perceived security. That has been the Devil's bargain from the beginning. If middle-class Americans do not feel threatened by the slow encroachment of the police state or the Patriot Act, it is because they live comfortably enough and exercise their liberties very lightly, never testing the boundaries. You never know you are in prison unless you try the door." p263
[Full Review]

Guest Column

USG Declares War on Americans:
U.S. citizens now primary target of war on terror
by Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com, Friday, February 10, 2012

As Reuters reported on Monday, authorities are now treating those who “believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard” as extremists who are a potential violent threat to law enforcement. The DHS has also previously characterized returning veterans, Ron Paul supporters, gold investors, and people who display political bumper stickers as potential domestic terrorists. All this serves to underscore the fact that the American people have now been targeted as the number one terror threat in the eyes of the authorities. The state has declared war on U.S. citizens. Not only will they be subject to surveillance and intimidation campaigns, but with the recent passage of the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA, the government has afforded itself the power to hold Americans without trial. [Full Column]

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If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom,
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We ask not your counsel or arms.
Crouch down and lick the hands that feed you.
May your chains set lightly upon you,
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— Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House on August 1, 1776

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