I have a very close and personal relationship with reality

Globalism is Good and Promotes Western Values to the world!

I am seeing way too many people conflate globalism to some sort of elite conspiracy against the masses. Globalism is good and is in fact the core of living in a modern world that is integrated and not at constant strife. People whom trade will not kill each other if they know they are dependent on those other people to keep living their life in the way they wish to. The answer to making poverty actually slowly go away is globalism it is Global Capitalism embodied in unilateral free trade with any peaceful group/organization/individual. 

Currently the trend is to conflate worries about national security and the Islamic Threat with nationalism and anti-globalism. Somehow being Pro-National security means also being anti-immigrants that are peaceful and not criminal. It has been conflated with being anti-free trade. It has become conflated with being alt-right or with being Xenophobic. When wanting The West to deal with Islamic Terror in a proper way that is successful has nothing to do with being anti-globalism at all. 

I know that Islam is a threat and I want our Governments to deal with it. I am all for finding credible threats and dealing with them accordingly. Protecting individual rights and citizens is what a Government is intended to do and it is not intended to remove individual rights. By stopping Globalism you are stopping people and companies from engaging in peaceful global trading. You are not in fact stopping the people that are wanting to destroy Western Civilization. In fact you make it worse by stopping the exporting of Western Culture to other places in the world.

I think Europe and Canada are being pussies when it comes to the War Islam has declared on the Non-Islamic world. I think even the US is not really doing what needs to be done really. However, that does not mean one sacrifices economic freedom for security. One does not shut oneself from trading with people or with doing business because there is an Anti-Capitalist and Fascist group that wants you dead. There is much more that can be done about Islamic threats than we do, but, those things do not include infringing peaceful citizens rights.

For example; known radicals should be picked up as soon as they are on the radar and either housed in our own prisons and possibly deported elsewhere for housing if from a different Country. Our Countries need to get serious about the Mosques and dealing with them. Getting rid of the mosques which are linked to groups like The Muslim Brotherhood or other terrorist groups. This is not infringing rights as these people would be known threats and not peaceful citizens. Also, none of these possible prescriptions are anti-immigration nor anti-globalist. While I supported the idea of Trumps Travel suspension I do not support his idea of banning immigration from Mexico nor the Trump Wall. 

I am Pro-Peaceful and civil immigration for anyone not linked to the Islamic threat, a known criminal, has infectious diseases nor has linked to any other Terrorist group other than Islamic radicalism. I am ant-letting dangerous individuals into any plot of land, but, I am also all for civil individuals coming into and out of Countries. I am Pro-Globalism and I am not a Nationalist I am the opposite of Nationalistic. I am internationalist and globalist. I am for individual rights and their protection being spread world wide and governance based on that globally over all the Earth for all people. 

All people should have governance based on recognition of individuals and their rights to live free provided they harm no one else or their property. The Non-initiation of harm principle or force should be ideally stretched to all people everywhere and they should be governed accordingly. How this will be done can be debated and argued at length. However, globalism is a key component to that and a global maximizing of peace/prosperity/happiness pursuance for all people. We need globalism to export our values which are better and more civilized to the world and make Western Culture the mainstream view based on recognition of individual rights for all. 

Richard Dawkins in conversation with Penn Jillette at Live Talks LA

Richard Dawkins in conversation with Penn Jillette at Live Talks Los Angeles, October 1, 2015, discussing his memoir, "Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science." The talk was held at the Ann and Jerry Moss Theatre at New Roads School.

The war from Islamo-fascists is very real and to deny it is exactly what they want from their victims.

Let me start by saying I am not as some will call me a Neoconservative nor am I a neoliberal as others will call me. I am if anything closer to a Classical Liberal politically and I used too at one time be a registered Libertarian Party of Canada member. However, there was always something that I found myself at odds with when it came to policy discussions of others within the party. That was the issues related to the Governments Foreign Policy.

I supported the Canadian involvement in Afghanistan; however, the party was and still is for removing Canadian troops from all Countries and for a full non-intervention or isolationist foreign policy. I support the complete removal of the ISIS threat; for the complete elimination of this horrific threat to all of our lives. The Libertarian Party was for doing nothing saying trying to stop the threat would cause the threat that already existed. I understood the Government had a role in protecting us from these sorts of threats and eliminating them where possible. The Libertarian Party due to its many pacifists, moral subjectivists and anarchists was against us having any foreign policy other than doing nothing at all.

They are not the only ones with their head in the sand though. Many modern liberals are also in the dark on these matters. Regressives on the left really do not want to do anything for some reason. Some due to them just hating anything military and others due to ignorance. For those whom are just ignorant I am talking to you here. I am not talking to the nihilists that just hate the Canadian Forces. Islamo-facsists like ISIS want to either eliminate us or enslave us to their oppressive ideologies which preach complete submission to their doctrines. This is not something you can ignore anymore than whatever you dislike about reality in other matters stops existing because you ignore it or close your eyes to existence outside of you.

If you like your civil rights then you need to always make sure there are not threats to them. Your right to life is being threatened by these sorts of groups if they are not tackled. The government that is protecting our individual rights to life, liberty, property and pursue our happiness is a good and moral one. It is the moral job of your government to protect you and the Islamic war of Terror being fought against us is a real genuine threat. One of the roles in the world that moral governments should do and should be doing now. If either the Libertarian or the Regressive left's Foreign Policies ever got enshrined we would all be in deep trouble and the government would be immoral ignoring actually governing in one of the areas where it should.

Government is needed and it is.... "aghast many Libertarians" is good! A Government that is governing properly and only active in areas needed to protect a free society. A Military is a needed and good thing in any free nation. It has a role to protect us from those that would do us harm. It has a role in finding threats and taking the needed actions to protect the innocent. Policing is needed for a free society freedom does not equal a free for all.. anarchism is not liberty, but, another form of might makes right. Or in the case of anarcho-capitalism riches buy might which makes right as well. A police-less and prison-less world is a world of oppressive Tyranny just as much as a Police State.

This idea that the worst threat is always the Government in our Countries erases from Libertarians and Regressive Leftist's sights that there are real threats outside The State. It does not mean Governments should be granted rights to due "anything." It means that there are some threats even more dangerous "at this time" to Canadians and others than our own States. The sort of world we would live in if Islamo-Fascists win this War will make every State the Western World has ever known look like Utopian ideals. That is if we were not all dead in graves. Islamism is a force of the sort of oppression that many of the No-State or Military do nothing types project onto the very functions of the government that is working to save them from said oppressors. It is a moral and reality inversion of the most vile and most hideous. Those that are blind remain so at their own risk.

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Religion and Morality (OCON 2006)

From the teaching of “Intelligent Design” in the classroom to federal prohibition of the funding of stem cell research to the Terri Schiavo case, religion is playing an increasing role in America’s public life. The advocates of religion claim that only religion can restore values to America — by combating moral skepticism and relativism with an absolute view of right and wrong, applicable to everyone. If God is dead, it is often thought today, then everything would be permitted. But , Onkar Ghate asks, does morality rest on religion? Can it rest on religion? Are moral absolutes possible with religion? Without religion? What approach to morality can actually bring values to American culture? These are the questions this talk addresses. Recorded October 18, 2006

The West needs to "Man Up, "Grab Their Balls" and defend our rights from Islam.

I was scrolling through my Facebook and listening to Blaire White on Youtube when I heard about the London Bridge attacks. One of the things on my Facebook feed is an image spread by Amy Peikoff about The West waking up and fighting back. The meme was one to which I completely agree and it awoke my passion for this subject. You see I am not a fan of how The West is dealing with the Islamic threat. It seems to me there is a serious lack of fortitude from our governments. With being afraid to be considered Islamaphobic by on lookers they refuse to do everything needed to win this War.

We are at a war and it is the dismissing of this which is leading us to be in the state we are in. Before one can fight a proper war one must name the enemy. One must then go to work methodically figuring out and then executing the way to eliminate the threat that exists. How to destroy and remove the threat from existence. Much like we did with WWII and eliminating the Nazis. I am not a pacifist when it comes to matters of self-dense of our individual rights. So, first we need to address the elephant in the room we are in a war that Islam started and it is against Islam. We name the enemy and then work to eradicate it.

The West is acting like someone whom knows how to expertly use a handgun and does not shoot the rapist about to rape ones partner. If you started trying to break into my home and violate the rights of myself I would shoot you. Shoot you too death if you refused to stop threatening me and my household. That is what I would do if I was trained in and owned a firearm. If I had a partner and/or kids at home I would be even more this persons worst nightmare. I would expect the centralized government we get taxed to pay for would do the same towards its own citizens.

In this instance no matter how pink my shoes or the legs of my glasses there is no doubt my mind is a masculine one and testosterone flows through my veins. I would defend the other people in my life whom I respect if I had the training and was in the situation to need to with a fierceness that would be the perpetrators worst nightmare. I would destroy the threat and eliminate it if it was a present one. That does not mean kill, but, to be honest if in self defense I killed and took life I would not respond by breaking down. I would not respond that way if the decision was the safety of an innocent or an attacker getting what is coming to them. I would be happy and filled with joy not at the death of this person, but, at the remaining life of the innocent I saved from destruction.

This is also the passion I expect and demand fervently from the government in protecting the innocent from Islam and its threat on all of Non-Islam. This is a clash of civilizations one being actually a civilized more modernized and secularized post-enlightenment non-theocratic world that does believe in rights. The other does not acknowledge individual human rights and wants to control the world in a One World Islamic State where no decent is allowed at all. A world view in which we are all slaves. When you have people wanting to enslave you via force to join their cause you fight back or be destroyed yourself.

We need to do to Islam and all its supporters financial or logistically what we did to Hitler and the Nazis in WWII. As well as what we did to Hitlers supporters we need to go after both groups. We need to completely eliminate the threat before it spreads like stopping a fire before it spreads to destroying the entire forest of trees. We need to stop this madness and I thought the Ariana Grande attack that just happened would have been enough to finally make the testosterone flow in our government and my fellow Westerners. Western men need to speak up and demand their governments act on their behalf for them to protect them with the expertise and weaponry at their disposal. Act as their protector which is what the government is supposed to be the centralized protector of our individual rights.

If Western men and women did not look at the previous attack and demand the government go full Hard On on these sick bastards I do not know what ever will. Now we have a new London Bridge Terror attack already and no one is taking the decisive action to stop the slaughter of The West at the hands of barbarians that have not even evolved to the point of the Western Standard of the delusional creationist or anti-HIV pond-scum. The Islamists and their supporters are literally the barbarians at the gates of the West and they need to be stopped. They need to be cut down and eliminated. The men and women in the military our guardians internationally. The men and women locally in our police and courts. These protectors need to grow some balls or add some steel to their ovaries and start fighting back.

I am especially sorry to see the State of Western men whom keep clamoring on about Islamophobia instead of saying Theocratic Islam watch out. You cannot anymore continue to kill our people. You will not go near the hair on the head of our lovers, friends and neighbors. We will not let you win we will fight for the continued existence of the defense of our rights irregardless of any sort of trait either immutable or not. The Western culture means a culture of individual thinking, individual rights and equality under the law. Any Country that agrees with these values is our Allie in this War Islam has against post-enlightenment culture. Let us be ever present and protect ourselves as well as others around us.

Western men need to get their testicle juice back in this war. They need to tap into their primal man and fight the barbarians too the death literal and figuratively the threat against us. Men need to stop being pussies on the playground crying when it comes to this issue and demand more of their fellow brothers and sisters. Women also need to stand up and fight as well. Women need also to take on the archetype of the protector and warrior that men naturally have taken over the centuries. Both of the sexes need to be in this together and push the government to take action and squish the threat we face out of existence.

The existence of a State is not the same as state-ism and minarchism or bust.

Last night I found myself enthralled in a debate between different factions of the liberty movement. Specifically about which view is the most consistent with the goals of libertarianism and the Libertarian Party of America. The debate an age old one between minarchists and anarcho-capitalists. The clear winner with much head shaking, head palming was the minarchist position. The position I myself hold, but, I tend not to use the term itself as it just confuses things. 

The definition of a minarchist is someone whom wants the State to exist, but, for it to be a Nightwatchman State. In other words it should catch the crooks, fraudsters and perdition, but, leave peaceful people alone. In other words a State which is enforcing the Zero-Aggression principle more or less. A State which does nothing of which an-caps rail on about and they have no reason to call statist. In my view taxation should not exist as it is theft, but, neither should a stateless society. 

For me government is not a necessary evil,  but, is in fact a symbol of human goodness. A properly limited government; a nightwatchman state is the only truly moral form of freedom we can have. As it is the only way to defend individual rights and use if needed excessive retaliatory force against evil people whom wish to harm others and their property. Capitalism requires governance it requires rule of law. It requires due process and for laws to be objectively obtained. It requires us to be able to have guaranteed protection of our life, liberty and property from harm. Thus it requires a state; a centralized power structure with enforceable laws. 

This does not mean it needs to initiate force on anyone that is peaceful. It does mean that those whom are not peaceful will face the full force of the law; whether through a bullet or through the process of a trial. This is required for us to maintain the peace for human nature is not all wine and roses. There are genuine nutcases that do not care about others and wish them harm. A government; a proper and true government, works on behalf of protecting the innocent against the proven guilty. It works to defend all of our rights and that is the reason it is an immense moral good and sign of human progress. 

A properly limited government is a beacon on a hill of a sign of progress. It is leaving the tribe and war of all against all towards a world of voluntary interaction and coexistence. Properly limited and good governance is an immense good because without it there would be chaos and destruction. I am not being hyperbolic here we have a lot of irrational and dangerous people in this world whom government protects us from everyday. National defense and domestic defense requires a government and sometimes a very powerful and highly centralized one to work over an entire Nation. 

This does not mean this government should intervene in the economy in anyway. It is there for one thing and one thing only to protect our rights. Getting involved in the economic and personal lives of citizens is not its job. To protect our life, liberty and property is its job and soul reason for existing. This is why taxation is theft it says the government gets a right to take the product of your own labor. In a high enough tax bracket it becomes being a total surf like something from Feudalism. Government is required, but, ideally all funding is voluntary. Acting as dues or user fees for services rendered. 

Minarchism is voluntaryism as it was traditionally defined as a nation/government that protects individual rights and the ability to have voluntary cooperation. While being funded also on a voluntary means and existing solely due to the consent of the governed. Anarchists stole the term voluntaryism from a minarchism political philosophy which resembles Objectivism and Classical Liberalism as opposed to statelessness. It was another term for a radical for capitalism and for a member of the logically consistent wing of the Classical Liberal tradition. A term never meant to be used to mean anarchism at all. 

The an-caps in this debate just kept circling back and not answering the question. Making claims that minarchists are not being logically consistent for some reason. They kept claiming that human nature did not have a dark side and it was somehow manufactured as if out of whole cloth from their enemy the state. It reminded me of feminists claiming everything evil comes from the patriarchy, but, replace that with state in and of itself. At one point they even argued there was no right to an attorney to defend you and basically that rule of law was bullshit. At one point saying the only rule of law they needed was a gun in the face of the accused. Basically, they denied the need for innocence until proven guilty without wanting to admit it. 

This was barbarism and tribalism at its worst. This was not the good and positive primal male and female defenders, but, the lynch mob. I am not saying that primates are amazingly great, we are not and never have been perfect. However, the good aspects of the primal I talk about getting back have nothing to do with this horrid collectivist tribal gang warfare mentality. I was shocked, stunned and frankly disgusted that they were speaking about rolling back things which have made civilization possible. It is one thing to privatize anything non-law related that moves and everything non-law related that does not. However, this was just insane. I am all for self-defense, but, there is a difference between walking in on a rape in progress and killing the fucker, and, doing away with rule of law for the accused of a crime. 

An objectively determined rule of law is needed in a civilized society. Even with the NAP you need to have objectively defined laws and need to be able to essentialize actual laws based on zero aggression. We do not have lynch mobs and we will not be going back to the Crusades or Witch Hunts because of irrational fools that are against government at all costs. It is folks like these that make it hard to call myself a libertarian anymore. The idea that people just willy-nilly perpetuating vigilante justice is a moral ideal is sickening. I want in no way to be affiliated with such bile. The anarchic wing of the libertarian movement ruins everything. How are we to deal with Islamic Fascism without a state/government? Blank out as they always do. Excuse me as I go to the funeral of the Western World.

A little bit on my views on the War on Terror.

I think Trump actually had a good idea when he said in his campaign we should stop all immigration from Countries affiliated with groups and ideologies in league with Radical Islam. Not permanently, but, until we have a much better vetting and screening process. As a freedom person I bet you expected me to be a pussy when it comes to the whole War on Terror, but, I am not a pacifist. NAP is not pacifism and I fully consider Islam a real threat governments need to be fighting.

We have been in a War with Islam within the West since the Iranian Hostage situation with the US in the 1970's. That is really when this all began not on 9/11. 9/11 was just one of the most horrendous moments in it. This is an old war really, but, it was not talked much about until 9./11 and it got its own name. The war on Terror, which is a ridiculous name. It is in fact the War with Islam and it always has been. My views are contrary to many libertarians on this issue and the nature of this threat. It is a serious threat akin to the Nazis and WWII and we are not hardly even fighting. We are laying down letting the threat take us out little by little.

We need to do to the various Radical Islam ideology what we did back then. We need to eliminate the threat and yes that means lots of people will lose their life, but, the threat needs to be taken out completely, so, peace can come back. We need to do to Terrorists and their funding sources what we did to the Nazis. Take them out; first give the ultimatum and then no follow through we eliminate them. Yes, that means we need to give Iran an ultimate and then act on it if they do not stop funding terrorist groups. Yes, I mean threaten to attack and do so if they do not comply. Iraq was the wrong target it was not responsible for the terrorist threat, but, Iran is a major cause of it.

We also need to do the same thing with Saudi Arabia; give them an ultimatum to stop supporting Radical Islamic terrorism. If they do not comply well we also go after them too. Those are the real big funding sources of terrorism as well as where most of the propaganda comes from. It was not Iraq that the USA should have gone after. Afghanistan can be seen as a just retaliation to 9/11 to remove a threat. However, the hijackers were all Saudi's after all. In my opinion The West has not been too harsh on fighting Islam, but, not defending itself strong enough. Not being serious enough about eliminating the threat at its true sources. We also need to work on internal Radicals on a more serious level as well.

Yes, you heard me right we are not fighting the war strong enough. This is because we are not fighting wisely we keep choosing bad targets that do not need to be taken out. While over looking all of the legitimate targets we should be working towards dealing with and eliminating. We have been too altruistic and made it into a "War for spreading democracy." Into a "World Police," and it is not is it is a matter of self-defense against legitimate threat which needs to be eliminated. We should not care about spreading anything. We should only care about keeping The West and the citizens in the West safe from a threat. Doing what needs to be done to do that no matter how messy that might be in the process. We need to defend the innocent against these Radical killing machines at all costs.

I am not a warhawk that is wanting War for the sake of war. Not at all, but, Islamic Jihad is too much of a real and ever present threat akin to the Nazis that I cannot take a do nothing position like so many libertarians take. Once the threat is eliminated we will be able to have peace. However, you cannot have peace when we are in this situation that we are in right now. We need to eliminate the threats and be serious about it now, so, that we can have the peaceful Global Capitalist world all freedom lovers want for the future. Hell, once we eliminate the threats then maybe we can have those Open Borders libertarians love so much. However, not while we have a serious threat we have not yet eliminated.