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Defining Terrorism
I’ve never really understood what people mean when they “terrorism”. Especially when those people saying “terrorism” are white straight men in positions of power and privilege. This confusion was really brought home to me because of recent church burnings. There are the burnings of black churches, of course, which somehow aren’t terroristic. But when a […]
Posted in: General
Some Thoughts on Bigotry
September 19, 2015
by Andrew McInnes
I recently received a letter from a person whom I don’t wish to have contact for various reasons. This person, with whom I share some genetic material, doesn’t quite seem to understand that. Due to a possibly life-threatening cancer, apparently my desire to be left alone can be ignored. But that aside. This person, as […]
Posted in: General
As texted to me recently by a friend…
December 24, 2013
by Andrew McInnes
I was having a conversation with a friend about the recent privatization of liquor sales & distribution in Washington. For those who don’t know, it was a power grab led by Costco to convert liquor sales from State control. The State had no profit motive, so it could 1) directly encourage restraint, by restricting locations […]
Posted in: General
A Simple Theory of Complexity and Systemic Collapse
April 24, 2013
by Andrew McInnes
Hypothesis Every system has an activation, minimum, and maximum input level of materials and energy. Definitions: By system, I mean anything from a lightbulb to the US Interstate; ie any designed or analysable system. By input, I mean those materials and energy necessary for the system’s functioning. By maximum input, I mean that level of input […]
Posted in: Analysis
Pledge of Malfeasance
March 6, 2013
by Andrew McInnes
I pledge malfeasance to the Drag of the Divided States of America, and to the Repugnant for which it blands, one Station under Fog, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice for malls.
Posted in: Humour
The Zombie Eugenicists Are Coming
June 22, 2012
by Andrew McInnes
So this article was sent along to me from a good friend locally. It’s from Market Watch, which is a part of The Wall Street Journal. I wasn’t expecting much expect some tired reformist nonsense, something along the lines of ‘change I can believe in’. Well hey-ho, was I in for a shock. The Eugenicists […]
Posted in: Philosophy
The Farce of Bradley Manning’s Persecution
March 11, 2012
by Andrew McInnes
At long last, Bradley Manning has been charged. It has only taken almost two years, and was more likely resulting from the military’s inability to ‘break’ him by torture into becoming a star ‘witness’ against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. The death penalty is probably still on the table, despite comments to the contrary, if merely […]
Posted in: Analysis
Censored News as Manufactured Corporate Products
January 17, 2012
by Andrew McInnes
As many noteworthy events unfold in these United States and elsewhere (National Defence Authorisation Act, for example), the disconnect between what is perceived important by people, and what is presented as important to people, is increasingly jarring. Calls of ‘censorship’ are growing, and with good reason: The lack of meaningful news, especially from domestic news […]
Posted in: Analysis
Working General Theory of Taxation
January 16, 2012
by Andrew McInnes
This essay consolidates several different posts, which can be read via Part 1 of the series. Additionally, I have refined and improved upon these previous writings, so if you read them, please keep in mind they have been superseded. Basic Taxation Taxation has often suffered a rather negative showing in the arena of public opinion. […]
Organised Opposition and the Health of the Body Politic
January 6, 2012
by Andrew McInnes
Image via Wikipedia. In this excellent post, Rick Falkvinge (Twitter) touched upon ‘the four boxes of liberty‘ concept, and uses that as a springboard for a discussion about privacy in the context of rising authoritarianism, amongst other concerns. For those who are unaware, the ‘four boxes’ are as follows: “There are four boxes to be […]
NDAA: Building the Terror State
January 3, 2012
by Andrew McInnes
Image via the band Anti-Flag With the passage of the (insufficiently infamous) National Defence Authorisation Act, or NDAA, into law, there are growing and well-founded cries of ‘police state’, even ‘martial law’. The second is not accurate, although I understand the sentiment. Martial law is when military authorities take over order enforcement, because the civilian authority […]
Posted in: Analysis
Boston Globe Provides News From Alternate Universe
December 8, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
This page was put up by the Boston Globe, and quickly yanked after the Boston Police Department decided not to evict #OccupyBoston from Dewey Square. I’m pretty sure the Globe would have preferred this piece hadn’t been noticed. I have a saved version of the file. Anyone who wants it, drop me a message via […]
Posted in: Humour
Emma Sullivan and Separation of Government and State
December 2, 2011
by sharingactivist
In case you missed it, Emma Sullivan is a Kansas high school student whose irreverent tweet about Kansas governor Brownback, incurred his wrath and the wrath of Sullivan’s school administration. You can read about it here. The incident could evoke any number of commentaries on the many shabby aspects of the situation: Brownback’s pettiness; the […]
Posted in: Reform
A Story of PERF-idy
November 29, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Image via The Daily Bail. Ever since this Democracy Now! interview, the Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF, a previously unregarded police strategy NGO, has been receiving some clearly undesired attention. In that interview, PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler unwisely let slip that it was PERF which had been coordinating the conference calls which Oakland […]
These Disunited, War-Ravaged States
November 20, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Just recently I went on a day-trip to Yakima, Washington. I highly recommend not moving there, for any reason. If you already live there, dear Reader, you have my sympathies. The city looks like it had been carpet bombed. Only one real city street was left, filled with very sad and poor people and looked […]
Posted in: Analysis
On the Proper Functioning of Economies
November 9, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Much is made about the proper form of economies. Comparatively less is made of their proper functioning. Economies are taken to be black boxes; their internal workings are regarded with nearly religious awe. Some propose to simply leave economies to their own devices, befitting their deified nature. Others insist that altars and holy relics – […]
Posted in: Distributism, Reform
Red Tory
October 31, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Once upon a time in the United States, there was more to ‘official’ political discourse than the two-party dictatorship which we have today. The philosophy of the ‘losing’ side in the 1776 Revolution, chased North to Canada by gunpoint, is one such example. That ethic is Toryism. To be a Tory is not surprising in […]
Posted in: Distributism, Reform
The Corporate-Owned Banner — Francis Scott Key Revisited
October 30, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Based upon The Star-Spangled Banner. Feel free to sing aloud! O! say can you see by the cop’s mobile light What so proudly we hailed at the journos’ last streaming? Whose bank fraud and fake ‘change’ through the financial blight, O’er the kettle we watched were so blatantly gleaming? And the tear gas’s flare, […]
Posted in: Humour
Why the Democrats and Republicans are So Eerily Similar
October 29, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Image via zazzle.com There is a very good reason why the Democrat and Republican parties seem similar. The roots of both parties are sunk in the same place: a political suasion known as Whigism. In a nutshell, Whig thought can be best called proto-corporatism. They favoured the consolidation of economic power into privately owned institutions, […]
The Taxation Equation
September 28, 2011
by Andrew McInnes
Read part 5 here. This post is a technical analysis of the taxation policy which I presented previously. The analysis will be in a Keynesian/Galbraithian manner, involving formulae and discussion of the various components thereof. I will try to make this as painless as possible. In a nutshell, my taxation policy is designed to limit […]
Posted in: Distributism, Reform
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Letters from a Broken Country 
December 13, 2015
by Andrew McInnes
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