I usually use this space to examine some reason you readers should get on the New Underground Railroad to get out of the US police state plantation. But occasionally I just need to talk about some blatant idiocy that I came across during the last few days. Sometimes I just see some collectivist, nanny statist nonsense that irks me so much that I can't get a proper night's sleep until I comment on it as publicly as possible.

Hello from Santiago, Chile,

You usually read my weekend rants with their incredibly positive tone.  And you must get sick of it.

So if you want to hear about me in an unhappy mood, this is the one to read!  It's nothing too terrible, but here is the story...

It’s Friday, which means it’s time for Feedback Fridays, when you bring the discussion to us. Have we mentioned that we want to hear from you?  Send your comments, queries, conundrums, and complaints to tdv@dollarvigilante.com, comment on a post, or get on the forums.

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Dear TDV,

[Editor’s Note: The following post is by TDV contributor, Wendy McElroy]

The total state needs total information. How else can it track every dollar to snatch, every child to draft, every opinion to slap down? The monitoring of movement will always be done covertly or – if revealed – in the name of safety and fairness.

Ready or not, Lauryn Hill of Fugees fame has found herself sentenced to three months in a cage for extortion evasion. The extortionists call it "tax evasion", but calling it by another name doesn't change what it really is. 

This sort of harassment and kidnapping is fairly par for the course in the USSA, of course. Just ask Wesley Snipes or Willy Nelson.  But there is a new twist this time around.  The tax-funded judge has ordered that Hill undergo psychiatric care in what amounts to brainwashing and re-education.  Why?  According to them, simply for publicly proclaiming the fact that the music industry is designed to strangle true talent while promoting mindless drivel.

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

Welcome to the official beginning of the digital age!

[Editor's Note: The following post is by TDV Editor-in-Chief, Jeff Berwick]

On April 11th we went public stating that shorting Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs) was an effective means of, "Profiting from The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It" (TEOTMSAWKI).

Less than a month later, on May 10th, after a month replete with numerous halts of the market over intraday crashes JBGs had their worst day in the last five years. Yields rose higher by 11bps to 70bps in the 10 year bond and ended up 10 basis points higher on the day.

Did you see the media coverage over the recent rescue of the innocent woman from a decade-long kidnapping? Thank goodness Patricia Spottedcrow was finally freed.

Oh, you thought I meant Amanda Berry and those other women in that sensational case of kidnap and sexual torture? While that was indeed horrible, I think it is worth keeping in mind that the state kidnaps people every day --especially non-whites-- and sentences them to long years in the sexual torture facilities commonly known as prisons. 

Hello from sunny Acapulco,

I was looking forward to my usual daily wake up in paradise when I rolled over at around 11am and my beautiful Mexican wife looked like Alvin from the Chipmunks.  Her small face was bloated to nearly twice its normal size with her cheeks in huge balls.

"Er, have you looked in the mirror?" I asked her in what I now call Berspanglish because it is my own personal brand of Spanglish having picked up poorly pronounced words and slang from dozens of different Spanish speaking countries and which now leaves most Mexicans confused as to my background much the same way that in English most people can't really place my accent and style of speaking after having lived all over the world for the last ten years.

Welcome to your Friday tradition, a weekly opportunity to demand, debate, and discuss the topics of the day or TDV's posts from the week that was. As always, send your questions, comments, queries, and concerns to tdv@dollarvigilante.com, comment on a post, or get on the forums.

On to the feedback...

SECOND PASSPORTS WITH LIMITED RESOURCES

Hi Jeff,