Christine Smith's Blog

My Recording of “The Woman in Me” at Red Karoake

My first recording at Red Karaoke. I invite you to listen.

The Woman in me – Vote for my rendition!

Christmas Eve Day, 2011, video at my home

Sharing my Colorado Rocky Mountain paradise with you. Merry Christmas! Approx. 6 min. video (YouTube) I made at my home on the morning of Dec. 24, 2011. CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

Christmas Greeting from Father and me

Christmas Greeting from father and me – Click here.

Peace

“Peace” is a word often heard, especially during the Christmas season. It is said, written, sung, and prayed – but is it lived? How does one who believes in love, and in bringing peace to every situation, maintain peace within when the world around them is filled with just the opposite?

Are you living in freedom relating to others or by obligation?

Truth is the prerequisite to peace. If an individual, a group of persons, or an activity is not about truth, it will trouble you to the degree you voluntarily choose to interact with it.

Peace is of God. Let peace and its joy and contentment be born in you this Christmas. Love yourself, and you will love others. Remaining peaceful allows you to share peace with others.

Here are some things I’ve learned about maintaining and nurturing peace within. I invite you to view my latest video “Peace” (10 minutes length) : CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO AT YOUTUBE.

Christmas Wreath, Father and me

Put up our Christmas wreath which I made – it is always Christmas in our home. I took my father’s photo, then he took mine, then I made this photo collage. (November 22, 2011)

The Difference Between (libertarian) minarchists and anarchists

The principle of freedom cannot be compromised.

While minarchists say they reject big government, they often condone the police, courts, and prisons – thus saying the collective “good” of those justifies the evil coercive/violent authority of government.

The simple truth is you either have faith in freedom or faith in government.

I invite you to view my latest video sharing some points which helped me evolve from minarchist to anarchist (8 minutes length) :

CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO AT YOUTUBE

Father and me (photos, Nov. 15, 2011)

No Honor Justified On Veterans Day

There is nothing honorable in being a warrior for the U.S. government; there is only sadness in seeing so many lives exploited. No one has “died for our freedom,” not a one.

I invite you to view my approx. 8 min. YouTube video “No Honor Justified On Veterans Day.”

(After viewing my video, you may read the article with links to the articles/writers I mention at my piece “When Was The Last Just War?”)

I Don’t Play Games

“Play the game” say many in regards to the personal, social, business and political arenas.

Some have expressed much anger because I don’t play the game in politics, but the most interesting phenomena is that of those who consider themselves good persons who espouse the value of honesty and truth, but who will simultaneously advocate deceit in order to get something they want.

I invite you to view my 8-minute video as I’d like to share examples of where people rationalize “playing the game”- and my choice to do just the opposite in all areas of my life and where it’s led me.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW MY VIDEO, “I Don’t Play Games,” ON YOUTUBE.

My first KARAOKE Channel video-singing “What Made You Say That”

Sharing my first KARAOKE Channel recording. After a long day’s work, thought I’d try this and sing a song:

CHRISTINE SMITH sings WHAT MADE YOU SAY THAT in the style of SHANIA TWAIN

Is it love? A Rebuttal of Pat Robertson (Relationships, Marriage, Alzheimer’s disease)

What does it mean to love another individual – be it your spouse, relative or close friend? Is it dependent on what they give you?

Pat Robertson addressed such a question recently as it related to what one does when their spouse is suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. I feel his reply expressed more about his lack of understanding of love than anything else. He stated his opinion; I share mine about that situation and any other where a loved one is suffering, and I share what I believe love between individuals is and is not, my beliefs about marriage, and about relationships with relatives or friends whom we say we love.

I invite you to view my 8-minute video on YouTube: Is it love? A Rebuttal of Pat Robertson (Relationships, Marriage, Alzheimer’s disease)

Use it or Lose it!

Your physical, sexual, emotional, mental and spiritual happiness and healthiness depends on it. If you say ‘no’ to natural desires, I think you begin to die right then. Life is to be lived!

Neglect any part of your being, and your entire life suffers.

Repression and inhibition is unnatural and unhealthy and will certainly make you unhappy. Be true to your whole self.

Most of my friends/acquaintances care about freedom in their life, but you must not neglect personal freedom and focus only on political/societal freedom. Freedom begins with you!

I invite you to view my latest video ( 7 minutes length) :

Use it or Lose it! CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO AT YOUTUBE

9-11 Nonsense

In communities across the country we’re hearing “Remember 9-11.” Open the paper, tune the radio station, or flick the channels – the same old 9-11 nonsense is being spouted.

Some of it is downright morbid and obscene, like the memorial one of my nearby communities is having complete with a flag pole, yep, you guessed to be made from a steel cylinder from the World Trade Center, complete with a flag flown at the Pentagon, with a bonus added in – soil from near the site of the plane crash in Pennsylvania will be used to plant flowers and trees. I, for one, consider that to be gross – but, hey, whatever gets the emotionalism flowing…because that’s all it is. Emotionalism – identical and as meaningless as the same we witness on every other nationalistic holiday. Another nearby community is having a parade. There will be prayers at places, followed by social gatherings, of course. Any excuse to feel good about being an American, right?

9-11 was a tragedy, but not any more significant than the murders (unjustified killings) the U.S. government is responsible for in its acts of terrorism worldwide. I see no memorials for the tens of thousands of victims of the terrorism this government is responsible for. It is as if people of other nationalities and cultures just aren’t as important as Americans – at least not to the American people. But let a few (and that’s what it is, a mere few, in comparison to all the horrors, tortures, and deaths this government and its people are responsible for) Americans die at the hands of murderers, and people remember its anniversary every year.

There are countless other anniversaries, filled with sorrow, that the American people never bother to give any solemnity to – anniversaries of schools and hospitals destroyed, weddings bombed, innocents gunned down, drones doing their tidy sanitized killing – and the American people don’t blink. There are mothers and father’s grieving loss of their children, husbands and wives suffering the loss of their beloved, children wondering why their siblings are no more. But let people in this nation receive some of the same, and the world as they know it collapses. Welcome to the world – the world where people get hurt because some other group of people are enraged by being hurt. It’s a lesson most of us learn as children, seeing what happens to the bully on the block one day, when he or she persecutes a child who isn’t going to take it. Sometimes in life the indignation however turns to a rage – not directed only against the bully – but against all around that bully whom the victim views as responsible as well. Doesn’t make vindictive actions right or moral, but nonetheless, it’s a common human response – and one Americans got an example of.

Evil does not justify evil, and self-defense is far different from revenge. If we are to believe the story, it is obviously an example of a few taking revenge upon the people of a country who have persecuted their families for decades. As the action was taken against unknown Americans, it is not pure self-defense, but revenge, which I reject…but no more so than I reject every military action the United States government has taken since and prior to 9-11 against innocents and sovereign nations worldwide.

The most powerful terrorist organization operating in the world is the U.S. government, and come this Sunday, on the tenth anniversary of 9-11, in the guise of remembering the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered, millions of Americans will glorify with their flag waving and their prayers for the troops who are “defending our freedoms” and those who are and have died “fighting the war on terror”, all the while glorifying the greatest terrorist organization of all – their own government and simultaneously conveniently forgetting the many thousands murdered by it.

As for me, 9-11, means nothing. It is merely another day. And on that date ten years ago, it meant nothing beyond recognition that many human beings in the country I reside and elsewhere wrongly believe evil justifies evil. It is always sad there are victims of terrorism and their families who must experience such pain, but I do not differentiate between the nationality of said victims, as if some deaths are worse than others, and neither do I praise the terrorists – be it those persons involved in 9-11 or those politicians and the troops who are responsible for terror worldwide. There was no surprise to me on that day, but simply an intellectual understanding that this is the result of mankind’s inhumanity to his fellow man which continues…and continues..and continues with no one challenging their own complicity.

9-11 changed nothing. Americans, for the most part, are still a mindless and conscienceless patriotic mass thinking only of themselves. Get ready for “The Star Spangled Banner,” and prayers not just for the innocent victims of terrorism who lost their lives that day, but prayers for the most effective terrorists in the world – the U.S. troops. And when I hear “God Bless America,” I simply ask, “Why?”

Lethal Injustice – My libertarian perspective regarding capital punishment

My article examining capital punishment from my libertarian perspective, “Lethal Injustice,” is published at The Future of Freedom website.

I have received several emails and calls expressing appreciation for it, asking thoughtful questions, and readers sharing with me of their ambivalence on the matter. Thank you.

Also, a number of people have questioned whether people should be forced by the state to pay for life sentences of those convicted as well as questioning my reference(s) to “legitimate role of government” and “limited government.” As a libertarian anarchist I reject all coercive government, thus all legalized theft (taxation)  regardless of the cause/reason it is to be used for in society. I wrote this article about 2 1/2 years ago when I was still a libertarian minarchist; the Future of Freedom Foundation acquired it then, but did not publish it till now (August 16, 2011). Thus, the references to government do not reflect my stance now; but my opposition to the death penalty in today’s society stands.

Recent interview with me (audio):Becoming a libertarian anarchist-a discussion for libertarian minarchists

Here is the link to the audio archive of the recent radio show with me.

Topic summary : Becoming a libertarian anarchist – a discussion for libertarian minarchists. I invite you to listen. A great interview which was broadcast live (blogtalkradio) July 13, 2011 with host Joe Cristiano of Liberty Talk Radio (and audience questions).

Listen here.