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The two week hiatus

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

Apologies for the two-week hiatus, I was very busy.

A column will be released today.

Be sure to follow the Internet Defense League’s PSA on this page, and write your Senators or Representatives regarding the federal Internet spying bill CISPA.

Thank you,

Daniel R. Quintiliani
LibertyColumns.com

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“Six Strikes”: My Letter To The ISPs

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

(From a letter sent via this link at Demand Progress. The “six strikes” system officially started on Monday, February 25, 2013.)

Dear AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, et al.:

I am writing you regarding the “six strikes” anti-copyright-infringement program.

By engaging in this program, you are placing the American economy and the state of abused and psychologically needy individuals in grave danger, as well as dedicating yourself to the causes of cybercriminals and Muslim terrorism.

In your attempt to protect the interests of a few companies, half of which are foreign, un-American companies, you are adopting the policies such as those of Kim Jong Il, Muammar Gaddafi, and Mahmoud Ahmadenijad regarding political censorship of the Internet.

You, as a company, are implicitly showing support for pushing America into the category of terrorist and rogue nations, and by engaging in denial of service attacks (“throttling”, click-through ads, politically biased quizzes) against alleged infringers, you are engaging in the same organized crime practiced by Anonymous and Lulzsec, which you claim you are fighting against.

You are placing yourselves in grave legal danger. Many businesses will be subject to incorrect allegations, employees will be forced to waste time, and you will cause business damage which holds serious legal penalties and may even result in class action lawsuits.

You are also harming nonprofits and churches, including institutions which engage in matters of drug and alcohol abuse, sexual abuse, and child molestation. You are indirectly harming these clients, including sexually abused minors, physically and psychologically.

Once a customer of yours, I cannot purchase any Internet service from you for fear of my financial survival and the legal danger you would be inflicting on my business.

For the legal danger you might have forgotten to consider by participating in this criminal scheme, I suggest you read my syndicated column:

http://libertycolumns.com/2012/07/13/graduated-suicide-how-the-mafia-isps-have-dosed-themselves-to-death/

I hope you have the sense of human decency to reconsider this issue.

Thank you,

Daniel R. Quintiliani

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On Capitalism & Meat

Posted on February 23, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

On February 1st, 2013, DNA tests on hamburgers manufactured for businesses in the UK and Ireland, including many which were manufactured for Burger King, proved that they contained trace amounts of horse DNA.

Two weeks later, Fox News carried an article debating health and other issues regarding the consumption of horse meat.

Capitalism, in its purest libertarian form, allows for manufacture, consumption, and genetic manipulation of any food or drug. This not only allows for eating any form of meat (less humans), but also allows for genetically-modified organisms, growth hormones, various chemical poisons, and other unhealthy material in our food, provided nobody involved is engaging in force or fraud.

Eating horse meat disturbs most Americans, as does eating other “pet” animals like cat and dog (which are popular in parts of Asia). For this reason, there is no need for regulation in this country prohibiting buying, selling, or eating these foods, as such a small minority of people (if any) would want such a thing. While some states do have such laws, our sense of civilization prevents the need for a new law. Remember that each new law subtracts at least one freedom, and every law is almost always accompanied by vaguely-related special interest baggage which is much more harmful to ourselves and our country than any culturally unpopular form of meat.

The lack of demand for laws outlawing socially unacceptable forms of meat further supports the fact that America can survive without being an over-regulating Nanny State. Capitalism lets you choose your food. Your Nanny does not.

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No column likely the week of 2/10/2013

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

I will be having a kidney stone removal tomorrow afternoon. It is same-day surgery, but I don’t know how long recovery will take, and I’ll probably not be in a state where I can write a column for the site.

Thank you,

Daniel Quintiliani
LibertyColumns.com

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Et Tu, Brute: A Wake-Up Call For The Catholic Church

Posted on February 5, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

Since at least 1891, when Pope Leo XIII released Rerum Novarum, the Catholic Church has promoted a mixed market economy, with a large role for government regulations, welfare programs, and labor unions. These views were dogmatized, with the responsibility extended more to lay people, by the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s.

Now we are seeing the effects of the Catholic Church’s faith in government regulation and welfare programs. Having faith in the Democratic Party to represent the Catholic Church’s interests, the American bishops are convinced that government can solve the nation’s problems.

With Obamacare coming into its fullest extent next year, the atheism, homosexuality, and abortion promoted for decades by the Democratic Party has come back to hurt Catholic institutions. The bishops in this country were somehow convinced they could win back the Democratic Party on social policy. Now all Catholic institutions in America are victims of the Democratic Party, being forced to obey the Democratic Party instead of peacefully following Catholicism.

As we conservatives and libertarians know, government is inherently evil by nature, and politicians will never truly regulate in the interests of the poor. If government does print money out of thin air, it will always be in its own interests, as we have seen in recent years with theft of American taxpayer money to for-profit foreign corporations under the marketing slogan of “too big to fail”.

The Catholic clergy should give up trying to convince the anti-Christian Left to all become Catholic, and instead join us here on the Right. There’s plenty of room on the Right for charity, and you don’t have to steal for it. Labor unions are also compatible with the Right when joining one is voluntary. Such labor unions would allow for self-regulation, and the threat of a lawsuit could also encourage ethical behavior (the latter was promoted by Reagan-era economist Milton Friedman). Having the Catholic Church on our side would make a free-market economy more just, kinder, and much more effective and efficient.

With statism, you are a servant of the state. With religion, you are a servant of God.

It is time for all Catholics to take a second look at the role of government in society and the economy. It should be obvious by now that putting your confidence in man can only damage Christianity, and putting your trust in the Lord will enhance it.

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Discrimination vs. Terrorism: Two Different Enemies

Posted on February 1, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

In 2010, President Obama repealed “don’t ask, don’t tell” regarding open homosexuality in the military.

Last week, in January 2013, Obama’s Pentagon lifted its ban on combat positions for women.

Both of these actions belong among the notable anti-discrimination moments won during the history of this country.

This is the problem.

The Muslim terrorism we are at war with has no respect for women, condoning the “sacred” beating of wives for refusing to have sex. As for gays, Muslim extremists stone curious teenage boys to death. Some Muslim groups kidnap 8-year-old girls for a violent “circumcision” procedure which will reduce their pleasure for the rest of their lives. Adultery is punished with violent mutilation as well.

Egyptian Cleric – Muslim Guide To Beating Your Wife

No doubt women and gays in America will be human shields for the terrorists, and will be subject to kidnapping and more horrible wounds and deaths than everyone else. American military leaders will no doubt take advantage of this fact, and discrimination will no doubt occur in their decision making.

If the neocons succeeded their fake attempt at re-creating a fake World War II, their final “Axis of Evil” nation, North Korea, would likely be under attack now. In situations like this, avoiding discrimination of open homosexuals and women would not be an issue. For Muslim terrorists, however, our opposition to discrimination angers their intent to force Sharia Law on the world, and will motivate them to further attack America, Israel, and our other allies.

Fighting discrimination is something we can all do in our daily lives. Fighting Muslim terrorists is dangerous and requires appropriate decision making. To throw “tolerance” in the face of violent Muslim terrorists who oppose it is dangerous. You are not in the Middle East to support women’s rights. You are not in the Middle East to have gay sex. You are in the Middle East to destroy enemies of America and Israel who are intent on destroying secular democratic republics and violently wounding and killing people everywhere. Let’s not throw any additional political wood in the fire.

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By Any Other Name: A Disturbing Trend Within The GOP

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Daniel R. Quintiliani

As is the case in Europe, abortion is slowly becoming an acceptable and non-controversial contraceptive practice in the United States. While this was always the case for Democrats and RINOs such as Mitt Romney and Chris Christie, people such as John McCain and Ron Paul have been promoting for years the idea that abortion is a “states’ rights” issue. As was the case with the enslavement of African-Americans, personhood would be decided by state.

Many Republicans point to the fact that violent crimes – such as theft, rape, and murder – are violations of state, not federal, law. Like slavery, these Republicans claim that personhood would be a subjective interpretation by a state government.

There are several flaws with this covert attempt by the pro-Big-Pharma GOP to keep abortion legal:

States are guaranteed a republican form of government. A republican form of government cannot be re-interpreted to create a Muslim theocracy, the lack of a judicial branch, or a royal family.
Rape is rape. A state cannot decide that rape by police officers is not a rape.
Theft is theft. A state cannot define private property. It can invoke eminent domain powers, but it is still an exchange of property, not the beginning of socialism and subsequent invasion by a state-run Red Army.
Slavery is slavery. Under slavery, blacks were property of whites, forced to work with no pay, and they were beaten, raped, and killed.
Murder is murder. While most people define murder as killing, murder is technically defined as the killing of the innocent.

States enforce violent crimes, but they cannot define violent crimes.

Roe v. Wade, decided 40 years ago this year, nationalized obvious and willful violations of the Fifth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution. Rather than holding the states responsible for this form of slavery, all pregnant women have become slaveowners.

Like the Democrats’ alleged opposition to Big Oil, Republicans are increasingly not afraid to hide the fact that they not only support Big Pharma’s desire to keep abortion legal, but unanimously support multilateral trade agreements which penalize Catholic-leaning nations that refuse to legalize abortion. The primary election of the pro-abortion Mitt Romney in 2012 is a milestone in this disturbing trend. As we Republicans did with the “states’ rights issue” of slavery in the Civil War, we must again fight this modern equivalent of slavery rather than work for pay by evil men and women who seek to keep abortion legal, funded, and encouraged all over the world.