Jailed Chair of Dutch Libertarian Party Loses Appeal

The former chairman of the Dutch Libertarian Party, Toine Manders has been kidnapped in Cyprus by the FIOD (the Dutch IRS) and is currently locked away in complete isolation, in an undisclosed location

Toine Manders is being held for an extended 90-day period, the charges for which are unknown. 

UPDATE: Toine Manders now gets to see his family. His partner is allowed to visit once a week and he has held his new born son for the first time. He has lost the appeal. On what grounds is not known. The Dutch Libertarian Party has opened a postbox in his name. You can write to Manders, preferably cards or letters in an open envelop. The party will screen all letters before they are sent on. The address: P.O. Box 411, NL-2700 AK Zoetermeer, Netherlands (Source)

Pat Condell: A Society of Cowards

Here's the psychology: if you're too afraid to take on Evil because, well, it is so Evil, you turn against the next best thing, the innocent messenger. But if the media abdicates it's duty in the process, this is the end of a free a society

We're getting what we deserve.

The Free World Is Led By a Riot of Pussies!

The Western postmodern leaders have started to talk gibberish. They make no sense at all. US Secretary of State John Kerry thinks he can defend his ideals just by respecting them.. Vlad will be impressed!

'Vlad, my boy, sanctions against Russia are not meant as a threat and please, please don't be angry, it isn't personal in any way'. Crank up the volume, audio is bad.

Like Chamberlain these postmodern leaders want peace at any price. Peace - to them, the absence of strive, offense as well as defense - is their moral standard.  They are not even capable of defending their own ideals of the "multi lateral structure that we have lived by since World War II". Because you can't defend the Good by simply respecting it. The evil doers will laugh in your face. That is what the amoralists just don't get. As Wayne Dupree says: 

300 Rise of an Empire: an Epic Moral Battle

King Leonidas of Sparta and his army of 300 have fallen to the Persian onslaught of Xerxes. Reason, the rule of law and liberty are at stake. It is now up to the Greeks to defend the civilization

300 Rise of an Empire: general Themistokles leads the Greeks against invading Persian forces. Trailer 2, trailer 3.

In the sequal, 300 Rise of an Empire, Greek general Themistokles leads the charge against invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god Xerxes and Artemisia, vengeful commander of the Persian navy. An existential battle between Good and Evil ensues with the Greek Enlightenment in the balance.

Objectivism, Philosophy for Living on Earth (< 2 mnts)

Ayn Rand's philosophy for living on Earth — Objectivism — upholds objective reality, reason, rational self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism

Objectivism places the individual as hero and his own happiness as sacred. Subscribe to Ayn Rand Institute YouTube channel.

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Tony Benn RIP Voiced the European View on Power

RIP Tony Benn, icon of British politics, disagreed w few of his assertions, but always respect his moral courage pic.twitter.com/fKP7xYbbNZ

— Barham Salih (@BarhamSalih) March 14, 2014

Tony Benn RIP got it wrong. Politicians get their power from the people. Statists will be statists pic.twitter.com/hGWwPAIqDI

— ★Cassie (@Cassie_Troy) March 14, 2014 

@BarhamSalih Tony Benn was a lousy philosopher. This is like a king who gets his power from the monarchy. Authority isn't rooted in a system — ★Cassie (@Cassie_Troy) March 14, 2014

Euro Twitter Trolls Spotted in Runup to Elections

The moral cause of the EU is the EU. The citizens of the member states are subservient to this end. Those who don't agree with this ideology are abject dissenters and will be persecuted

EU Spends £2 Million on Trolling Online Eurosceptics: http://t.co/qwc3nlhG5l via @AWordIfIMay pic.twitter.com/CeuOI7e8Yf
— Catherine كافر (@ZwarteKaat) March 13, 2014

UPDATE: One year on, in the run up to these very important elections for the Europarliament these trolls have actually been spotted. Perhaps they should actively be hunted! 

Putin's Troops: a Hybrid of Soldiers and Terrorists

Putin's hidden army is outfitted for troublemaking and street-fighting, unconstrained by the laws, rules and conventions governing warfare — Putin’s biggest brush-off yet to international order

Heavily armed men in unmarked military uniforms patrol near the airport in Simferopol, the regional capital of Crimea.

Analysts Molly K. McKew and Gregory A. Maniatis for WaPo - H/t @VodkaPundit, blog on PJMedia

Putin is no longer bound by the constraints of nation-state warfare. Years of confrontations with separatists, militants, terrorists and stateless actors influenced his thinking. In Crimea, Putin debuted a pop-up war — nimble and covert — that is likely to be the design of the future.  

Are Democratically Elected Rulers Always Legit?

North Korea election shock: Kim Jong-un wins 100 per cent of the vote http://t.co/vH7azmSwP4 by @timothy_stanley
— Telegraph Blogs (@TelegraphBlogs) March 11, 2014

Is there any democrat who believes this legitimizes the North Korean regime? Propably not. Then why would democratically elected rulers like Yanukovitch in Ukraine, or Morsi in Egypt be legit? Despots who rob and kill their own people, who violate their basic rights,  automatically lose their mandate.

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WHY WE NEED HEROES

We all need heroes. They are our role models when growing up. They teach us how to act morally and valiantly in the face of adversity and to have faith in the triumph of Good over Evil. Heroes show us that courage is the greatest virtue, because it is on courage that all other virtues rest. Heroes give us hope and teach us not to despair during the darkest hours of our existence.

Epic Heroes Tribute - Máximus, Leonidas & Achilles.

What trials unite not only Achilles, King Leonidas, Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins, but many other heroes in the world literature? And what do ordinary people have in common with their literary heroes?  Heroes are not perfect. Heroes are not gods. They are the sons and daughters of fallible men. They succeed after enormous trials which they overcome at great odds.