The Libertarian Enterprise Official Journal of the National Recall Coordinating Committees Issue 532, August 16, 2009 This issue's Motto: "Their real object is to control you and deny you joy." http://www.ncc-1776.org/
THE WEEKLY CARTOON: Fool? by Rex May r...@mac.com http://www.baloocartoons.com http://balooscartoonblog.blogspot.com/ http://www.zazzle.com/rexfmay/gifts Dear Friends and Readers, I've said this before, in longer pieces. Doubtless I will again. There is one -- and only one -- solution to the mess our medical system presently finds itself in. That is to remove the real cause of the mess, not to drive the system even further into a state of medical Marxism. America needs -- meaning it cannot long survive without -- a Constitutional amendment mandating total separation of medicine and state. "Mandating" means "making mandatory", giving it full force of law. A Constitutional amendment mandating total separation of medicine and state. Anything less, the tiniest bit of government interference with medicine at the national, state, or local level will simply end us up right back where we are, since that's what caused the mess to begin with. A Constitutional amendment mandating total separation of medicine and state. Along the way, we'll reinstate the confidentiality between doctors and patients that used to exist -- a confidentiality as sacred and unshakable as that between a lawyer and his client or a priest and his parishoner. A Constitutional amendment mandating total separation of medicine and state. Write to congress. Write to newspapers. Write to every web and blogsite. Call radio talk shows. Go to townhalls. I ask for no credit, no acknowledgement of any kind. Just tell everyone you know, everyone within the reach of whatever kind of voice you command that America needs: A Constitutional amendment mandating total separation of medicine and state. Thanks for "listening", L. Neil Smith EDITORIAL MATTERS We've all heard of "having the wolf at the door." Heck, that's the way most of us live. However, out here in the wild mountains of Arizona, we've also got coyotes at the door. Well, not quite, they haven't gotten up on the front porch yet. I think. So far. Life is just one thing after another, is all. But you knew that. I had fun with my computer this week. I got tired of that ol' "Windows Bit-Rot" in which the thing starts to run slower and slower and take longer and longer to do anything. Since I've got one of those "OEM Restore Disks" machines, I studied the "manual" (I weep to read these things) and discovered the possibility of a "Non-Destructive Recovery." Okay, I'll try it. And what do you know, it only wiped-out my C: partition instead of the entire first hard-drive and put in a fresh version of XP SP2. Of course I then spent about three days getting SP3 and lots of little updates and upgrades and security fixes and so on. And re-installing some programs, and re-creating the iconic links to others. I even remembered to make a copy of my fonts folder. However, while making some more free-space I went and deleted it after it was too late. Rats.And now it's ... well ... just a bit faster than before. Noticeably. And I only had to double my anti-anxiety meds! We are a Reader-Supported eMagazine: http://ncc-1776.org/donate.html Another way of helping out is to click on our advertisers and affiliates and spending some money with them. Yeah, I know. If ya can, thanks! See also "On Buttons and Clicks by L. Neil Smith" www.ncc-1776.org/tle2009/tle525-20090628-09.html Don't forget L. Neil Smith's novel _Ceres_ is being published on the web, with a new chapter every Monday: www.bigheadpress.com/lneilsmith/?page_id=53) Be sure and check-in at Neil's new blog-thing at "The Moratorium" http://elneil.rationalreview.com/ Ken Holder Editor edi...@ncc-1776.org HOPE, by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman is again available for order from Amazon.com via this link (from which TLE will earn a commission): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604502932/webleywebdesignk/ THE VENUS BELT, by L. Neil Smith is again available for order from Amazon.com via this link (from which TLE will earn a commission): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604504420/webleywebdesignk/ ARTICLES 1. Letters to the Editor from Paul Bonneau, Nydra Karlen, A.X. Perez, and "Boston T. Party" 2. The March of the Medical Morons by L. Neil Smith 3. Republic? What republic? by Paul Bonneau 4. Bistatic Radar and Mass Graves by Jim Davidson 5. National Universal Health Care: Could It Work In The USA? by Russell D. Longcore 6. The Dilemma: Ethical or Moral by Ian Titter 7. Why All The Lies? by Rob Sandwell 8. Virtual Privacy in the Information Age by Jim Davidson 9. What You Didn't Want to Hear by A.X. Perez 10. Atlantea The Beautiful No. 37 by L. Neil Smith and Rex May TOM PAINE MARU by L. Neil Smith is now available for order from Amazon.com via this link (from which TLE will earn a commission): http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604502606/webleywebdesignk/ ROSWELL, TEXAS by L. 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