The Weekend Vigilante

Hello from sunny Palm Springs,

It’s already been quite an interesting investment conference here in SoCal.  On the first day, Mickey Fulp, the Mercenary Geologist, got punched out by a uranium mining company executive requiring two police cruisers to come to the scene!  I took special pride in the fact that the police coming to this event had nothing to do with me, unlike at the same time last year when I ended up in handcuffs in Phoenix.

THE WAR ON INFORMATION (REAL INFORMATION)

In other news, governments around the world are beginning to realize that the internet and its free access to information is a direct threat to themselves.  They’ve tried brainwashing the masses to stop them from being able to think – making it so they can only memorize propaganda and various arcane factoids.

Because, as H.L. Mencken said, “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out… without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.”

We’ve seen SOPA and PIPA tried to be run through Congress in the US.  And ACTA, the “Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement” has been tried internationally.  In various countries they are trying the same thing as well.  In Canada they are trying to pass Bill C-11, known as the Copyright Modernization Act… and many other countries are trying similar things.

You may have noticed that here, at The Dollar Vigilante, we don’t include a copyright notice on any of our material. That’s because we would never look to the government to use force to stop people from transmitting our information.  Not to mention that it is simply not necessary.  You can start up a website under a different name and try redistributing our material, but very quickly word of mouth will spread that they are just duplicating our original material and very quickly, just through ostracization, people would stop going… It’d be like having a knock-off of an Apple iPhone, called a Banana iPhone even if it was markedly cheaper.  You’d be mocked for being so cheap and lame to buy the knock off.  Sure, some people who really couldn’t afford an Apple iPhone may buy it… and that is fine.  But the vast majority wouldn’t want to be seen as being so cheap nor out of fashion.

So, why are governments trying to ram through these IP copyright acts?  There has been no big outcry by anyone except the dinosaur music and movie industry who, stupidly, think this may give them advantage… when in fact, it would hurt them as well as innovative ways to spread their wares were shut down.

In fact, the history of copyright has a very seedy past.  It was never about helping content producers… it was always about censorship as Karl Fogel describes in this excellent speech given at a Google Tech Talk.

So, what is the real reason behind all of these attempts to cloister the last free place on Earth?  It is the pure fact that government… especially a socialist government, cannot exist without propaganda.  If the truth is known about how a socialist/fascist government works then it will stop working.  This is why Barack O’Bomber stays up nights worrying about how to stop it.

Many countries already have… In fact, The Dollar Vigilante is one of the sites blocked by the Great Firewall of China.  And if governments have their way, many more countries will block these transmissions of truth.  Truth is incompatible with statism like oil with water.

The good news is, no matter what they try, they probably can’t stop it now.  The internet was designed to be able to withstand almost all attacks.  And the cat has been let out of the bag.  Even though the average person does not understand that what they’ve been given is a truly anarchic environment they do understand the value of it.  And they won’t be too happy if it gets taken away.

It takes a lot to get most people off their sofas and fighting against attacks on their rights but taking away their internet just may be one of them.

ANARCHIC ROUNDTABLE

I had the enjoyment of being on a roundtable about anarchy with a good friend, Gary Gibson, earlier this week.  Aside from being informative, it was just outright a lot of fun.  You can listen here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/kerrylutz/Gary_Gibson-Jeff_Berwick_02-09-2012.mp3

SUBSCRIBER UPDATE

Ed Bugos has been working furiously on his latest junior gold mining stock recommendation and it will be released in the next Interim Update this Monday.  As well, the long awaited and overdue Special Report on “Getting Your Gold Out Of Dodge”, a thick report on internationalizing your precious metals will be released to subscribers this month.  For non-subscribers it will also be available for a fee.

We’ve spent many months looking at countless options and ways to get your precious metals geopolitically diversified.  This is the only report of its type that we know of and if you are thinking about transporting your gold or purchasing/storing gold internationally, it will be a must read to avoid many of the horror stories including confiscation and jailtime that many have encountered by trying to do so without the proper information.

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

This photo touched me the most this week.  You can see the amazement and happiness in the eyes of this little girl as she lives life… something that has been all but made illegal in the western world today… living.  Is it any wonder that so many children today are depressed or have so called ADD.  They aren’t sick and there is nothing wrong with them.  We’ve put them into child prison for a minimum sentence of 12 years.  What else would you expect?  Never be concerned if your child “isn’t doing well in school”.  That just means he/she is showing great potential!

ON THE LIGHTER SIDE

Here is yet another hilarious “Bad Lip Reading” soundbite… this time on Rick Santorum.

Perhaps the funniest part is that what he is purported to say is about as intelligible as what he really says!

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND

That’s it for this weekend!  We better get back to the conference… we don’t want to miss another assault and battery!  Have a great weekend!

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