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the Loose Cannon Libertarian by Garry Reed |
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A syndicated column of political, social and cultural issues with a hardcore libertarian attitude. |
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Site updated 14 May 2008 NEW PUBLISHER JOINS THE TEAM
ThatOtherPaper of Austin, Texas will be publishing my articles on a trial basis for the next four weeks in order to gauge the reaction.
I would love to make them permanent since their readership is the general public, not just libertarians, and it's a great opportunity to spread the message of freedom a little more.
As before, I'm asking my Loose Cannon Loyalists to visit their site, read my article and then hit the "Post New Comment" form with some thoughtful and substantive feedback regarding the article (but please no simplistic cheerleading since we've already discovered that editors don't like postings that read like they've been planted by friends - even if they have been.)
It's especially important to pull in reader remarks since ThatOtherPaper is an online only alternative newsweekly.
My latest weekly article is now on line Read, enjoy and comment.
And don't forget my friends at the River Cities Reader (Same article, different title) Read, enjoy and comment.
Here I am rubbing headshots with the big shots on the Free Market News Network (http://www.fmnn.com/)
Which makes for a cool lead-in to my recent article from the River Cities Reader:
Entering the Brain-Free Zone by Garry Reed Seventeen-year-old Amon Schute is social drek. He's sneering, jeering and hateful. He proves it with ostentatious displays of filthy jeans, long matted hair, body piercings and tattoos. He's exactly the kind of kid you'd expect to spend his entire adult life in lockup. Sixteen-year-old Coy Minyon is a social cipher. He's weak, meek and fearful. He proves it with a timorous mask of ultra conservative clothing, neatly groomed hair, unobtrusive appearance and a permanent muted existence that makes him invisible to the world. He's exactly the kind of kid you'd expect to spend his entire adult life in total obscurity. Amon and Coy are best friends. Together they plan to gun down a bunch of people in a public place and then off themselves in a blaze of everlasting glory. "This is gonna be, like, so cool, dude," Amon chortles while fondling his bagful of 15-round .357 Glock magazines. "We got our 9mm semi-auto rifles with laser scopes, our 12-gauge double barreled pump-action shotguns, and our Tec-9s. C'mon, grab your gear and let's head on down to the school." "Geez, Amon, you know there's a half-mile wide Gun-Free Zone all around Failed Public High School, don't you? The Gun-Free School Zones act of 1994 made it illegal for young mass murderers like us to carry weapons into a school so we can end our own lives with a dramatic killing spree." "Okay, Okay! Let's go over to Eminent Domain Shopping Mall and mow down a bunch of people there." "Uh, see, they have these signs posted that say This Is A Gun Free Zone." "Dude, this is getting boring. How 'bout shootin' up a church?" "I'm really sorry, Amon, but it's like the same thing there. They put up these signs that say No Firearms Allowed." "So who's writing all these freakin' laws and signs anyway?" "Well, y'know, it's like all those terrified liberal anti-gun nuts who think that all the world's problems can be solved by writing laws on pieces of paper." "But Coy, people shoot up people in Gun Free Zones all the time!" Coy shrugs. "So if these Gun Free Zones don't stop people from shootin' people why do they have Gun-Free Zones?" "I guess that's why some people call them Brain-Free Zones." "So let's just ignore the freakin' signs and laws and go ahead and have our murderous rampage!" "Uh, okay, but we have to watch out for those other people." "What other people?" "Oh, the conservatives and constitutionalists and libertarians and any other honest people who have guns because they believe in the right to defend themselves." "You mean we might get shot by a bunch of gun nuts if we try to shoot people?" "Yeah." "Okay then, let's go to the neighborhoods where those terrified liberal anti-gun nuts live and shoot up their families. They won't have any guns in their homes, right? We'll just look for the signs on their lawns that say This Is A Gun Free House." "Amon, they're terrified of guns but they're not stupid. They don't live by the rules they make for everyone else. They'd never put Gun Free Zone signs on their own property." Amon struggles to think. "Like, Dude, you mean we can just walk right into any old place they call a Gun Free Zone or where they put up those No Gun signs and, like, just shoot up the whole freakin' place, but if some hard-ass solid citizen type geek is packin' a pistol where the liberal anti-gun nuts say he can't, the guy can, like, drop us in our tracks and ruin all our fun before we even get a good start?" "Yeah," Coy nods. "It's like the gun nuts are protecting the anti-gun nuts." Amon thinks hard again. "C'mon, Coy, let's put this stuff away and get to school. Ms. Bookbagg will send us to detention if we're late." Read more of these articles in the Print Archive (see link below) |
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Austin, Texas
Quad Cities, Illinois/Iowa Well, okay, so there's only two newspaper so far. But with your help - MANY MORE TO COME!
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