Brian’s Column: Sovereignty and Severance

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Brian Wright

Asserting freedom of choice in social services
by Brian Wright

In light of the out-of-control, viciously coercive government in America, with that government at all levels now crossing the threshold into a complete Police-Military State, we need to establish some groundrules going forward. By going forward I mean getting the paperwork straight for abolishing this coercive US government (USG) and starting over. As Jefferson wrote, “Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of [freedom], it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it…” and, for each individual to hire a better government—a cooperative, voluntary one—of his own choosing. Thus, we have two steps that I recommend for individuals en masse: 1) declare we’re in charge, and 2) send this awful, arrogant USG packing. The following is a work in progress, pls help w/ a comment. Continue reading →

Book Review: First Strike

Posted on October 21, 2011 by Brian Wright

TWA Flight 800 and the Attack on America
by Jack Cashill and James Sanders
Review by Brian Wright

From the book jacket:

On July 17, 1996, a 747 jet crashed off the coast of Long Island, New York. After much stalling, the government attributed the crash to mechanical failure, and the media played along. But the truth is much more complicated and even more alarming: The destruction of TWA Flight 800 wasn’t just an accident, according to authors Jack Cashill and James Sanders. It resulted from an act of war—the first strike against the American mainland.

My feeling is the writer of the bookjacket blurb did not read the book, or possibly read the first version of the book before the authors had truly assessed the likely scenarios of what happened that day. If the writer had consulted what Cashill and Sanders actually wrote in the final document the blurb might go like this: Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: Omamacare III

Posted on October 17, 2011 by Brian Wright

Mama Bear’s 3d modern-hospital encounter …
by Brian Wright

[Omamacare II]
Will it be the charm?

More or less keeping track of ol’ Mama Bear as she struggles with her later-in-life medical issues. At the beginning of her dialysis treatment for polycystic kidney disease (PKD) I made some observations that as bad as the existing corporate system is, nationalizing it via Obamacare will make it ten times worse. Then about a year ago, Mom had a medical emergency that entailed a weeklong stay at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, which I documented as O-mama-care II (OMC2). Get it? Omamacare. Ha ha. Continue reading →

Book Review: Crossfire

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Brian Wright

The plot that killed Kennedy
by Jim Marrs
Review by Brian Wright

So why spend any time on a crime of state that occurred 48 years ago, November? For the same reason we continue to pursue the syndicate who orchestrated and executed the ‘Crime of the 21st Century‘ ten years ago—9/11/2001. Justice never sleeps. Personally, I find the work of James Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable, along with a lesser known work by Dr. Martin Schotz, History Will Not Absolve Us, to be more compelling and readable—Douglass’s for the peace angle and Schotz’s for the psychological blind-obedience-to-authority angle—than this still extraordinary book by Jim Marrs.

But Crossfire adds the dimension of a huge body of digestible evidence from the street and from the corridors of power. Evidence that at a bare minimum shows the official ‘Lone Nut’ story of the JFK assassination is as gruesome and absurd a children’s fairy tale as the official ‘Crazed Arab’ story of the 9/11 attacks. Continue reading →

Book Review: The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Brian Wright

Fantasy and reality of life on the sidewalks
by Jane Jacobs
Review by Brian Wright

This exceptional book was highly touted by Ayn Rand’s coterie of intellectuals back in the day of The Objectivist Newsletter (early 1960s). Jane Jacobs came along in the same era—Death and Life of Great American Cities (Cities) was published in 1961—which was also the heyday of the Great Society programs, where good intentions and city planning could do no wrong.

Jacobs, a citizen-scholar of multiple subjects and a lifelong social activist for individuals and communities as they do and ought to live, devoted her life to truth above conventional practice or slavish obedience to authority. Cities is a tour de force of practical enlightenment: it’s like The Way Things Work about cities… not the way they are supposed to work. More than anything, Jane Jacobs is a people person, as are her cities: Continue reading →

Brian’s Column: 911 at 10

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Brian Wright

Thoughts on the 10th anniversary of the
worldchanging criminal terror operation, 9/11/01
by Brian Wright

Today, on the 10th anniversary, we Americans remember not only our countrymen who suffered and perished as a direct consequence of the criminal terror operation (CTO) of that 11th day of September 2001 (9/11)… we also mourn the suffering and loss of millions of victims worldwide created by the wars, war crimes, and military occupations that 9/11 was used to sanction. Continue reading →