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There’s no shortage of guys demanding we DO SOMETHING™ in this thing of ours. In most cases, when I ask what that something is the answer is either dancing around a call to violence, or a lengthy soliloquy about the need to “rejoin the conversation about continental philosophy,” or some other heady excuse for sitting around and griping. I’ve had people waste hours explaining to me why voting is a complete waste of time, totally unaware that they’ve wasted more time explaining how voting is useless than it would take to just go vote.
There’s a pervasive idea within our spheres that Total Aryan Victory will be the work of a single moment, and that those yearning for it need only believe fervently enough in Adolph Hitler without lifting a finger themselves. The cavalry will come and will undo the century-long project communists and progressives have wrought on our great nation overnight.
Sure, everyone verbalizes the need for action, but vanishingly few act like it.
If you recognize that victory requires action from all of us but are sitting around because you aren’t sure what to do, you’re in luck. The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals recently overturned a Reconstruction-era law forbidding the distillation of liquor at home, and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives doesn’t seem interested in defending that law any further than it already has.
This opens up an opportunity to pressure our representatives at the national, state, and local levels to develop a framework for distilling liquor at home. And I’ve already done the work of writing a template for you to modify and send to your representatives. This is risk-free and can produce real, meaningful change and expand American freedom. Even if you don’t plan to distill liquor yourself, or if you like to pretend you commit felonies on the internet, this call to action is still for you. Maybe a friend or neighbor wants to try distillation. You writing your representatives helps them.
Here’s the plan:
You’re going to look up who your representatives at the national, state, and county level are, and their mailing addresses. You’ll need information for your US Senators, US Congressman, Governor, State Senators, State Representatives, and County Commissioners. It should be about a dozen people all told.
Next, you’re going to copy and paste the form letter printed below and change the [BRACKETED] words to each of your many representatives. For the letters sent to your Senators and Governor, you’ll change [RELEVANT POLITICAL JURISDICTION] to whichever state you live in. For your Congressman you’ll change it to the district in which you’re registered to vote.
Feel free to change and personalize any of the language below. If you’re familiar with your representative and know what they like to hear feel free to include that.
After you have a complete letter, print it out and sign it (signing letters is important!). Fold that letter, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the relevant representative.
Congratulations, you’ve just participated in political activism. Writing or calling your congressman, together with voting (particularly in down-ballot races), and commenting on the Federal Register produce the greatest effects for the least amount of effort and risk. Taking our country back will be the work of decades. If you can’t nut up and complete a trivial task like writing a letter, do you honestly expect anyone to take your power fantasies about overthrowing the government seriously?
Dear [REPRESENTATIVE],
I'm a resident of [RELEVANT POLITICAL JURISDICTION] and am writing you to urge you to support legislation and/or regulation that will permit the distillation of alcohol at home for personal consumption.
Recently the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a 150-year old ban on distilling alcohol at home, opening the door to Americans distilling their own liquor. The ruling presently only applies to those within the 5th Circuit's jurisdiction, and plaintiffs to the lawsuit.
Home distillation creates a unique opportunity for Americans to experiment with novel mixes and techniques, perhaps leading to the creation of many more small businesses to service demand. The variety of creatively-named beers and wines from small brewers stocking the shelves of beverage stores all over the US is testament to the opportunity legalized home distilling presents.
Home distillation may appear to present myriad safety issues, however the people of New Zealand have been distilling at home for three decades. NZ authorities have stated outright that the number of house fires started by home stills is statistically zero. Further, tens of thousands of Americans distill flavor extracts and essential oils each year without injury to life or property.
Legalizing private distillation presents an opportunity to expand the liberty Americans enjoy and build goodwill and trust between the government and American citizens. I urge you to take steps toward legalizing at-home distilling.
Thank you for your time, and God bless.
Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
Myles,
you do not boost your credibility when you mis-spell the name of the watercolor painter. Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Other than that, is you be sayin’ that we need to consume distilled alcohol? because it’s freedom?
I would like to introduce an expert witness, (((((((Dr. Judith (Julia) Kalik))))))), a researcher at the Hebrew University of Yerushalaim. A lady with impeccable non-Gentile credentials, shabat shalom and everything. It is from her that I have learned of the concept of propination. (Maybe one in a hundred Americans can explain prohibition/Volstead Act. Not one in a million is aware of the word “propination”).
From wiki:
– peasants were not allowed to purchase alcohol not produced in their owner’s distillery;
alternatively, they could be allowed to produce their own alcoholic beverages but had to pay a fee according to the amount produced;
– peasants had to buy at least a given quota of vodka or okovita (aqua vitae). Those who didn’t comply had the remaining amount dumped in front of their homes and had to pay the costs.
This comment section amputates YT links, but in 09MIN49SEC. ((((((Dr. Kalik)))))) will clearly explain the advisory and financial ramifications of the good advice and stewardship that the oppressed minority of non-Gentiles selflessly extended to the brute dumb beasts of the field and forests, you know, the local Christians toiling on the lands of the gentry.
The title of the video is “Judith Kalik: Vodka and Rural Jews in Eastern Europe”. Still up!
I have pissed out well over mid six figures on alcohol in my life. Distilled as well as non-distilled. Luckily never drove under influence, but was jailed a number of times for brawling and starting ruckuses, as well as abetting donnybrooks. Lost a fancy job because I was sitting in jail. I shudder to recall, but that is what it was.
It is precisely thanks to (((((((Dr. Kalik)))))) that I have not touched a single solitary thimbleful of beer after hearing her introduction.
I have lost nothing but the disease. I have sacrificed the company of detrimental influencers. I am booze-free and so it shall remain.
Moral of the story: you play Schlomo’s game, you win Schlomo’s prizes.
But you do you, I guess, it’s your life, it’s your websight.
I will conclude my peroration with a raised toast of San Pellegrino or Arrowhead.
Insisting on doing the opposite of what random jews did 500 years ago is still letting jews dictate what you can and can’t do. If you don’t like drinking, good on you. I don’t drink hardly at all either. The point is individual liberty, and easing people into effective and risk-free political activism.
If you don’t believe reaching out to your representatives does anything, I’ll point you to the case of the 7N6 ammo ban juxtaposed with M855 remaining freely available. The ATF wanted to ban green tip 5.56mm ammo (M855), but people blew up their representatives’ phones and the ban didn’t go through. Nobody cared about imported Russian ammo (7N6) and so it’s banned.
I own one of these famous green tips, did not realize they were M855. I picked just one, a few more were freely available, I chose the least banged up case. It has a heavily dimpled primer. So… I have one of these! in my workshop, on some shelf or drawer. (It does not see frequent use).
Once you start calmly considering the layout, there is little objection (on my part) to allowing the reaction of panel of judges serve as a sort of elastic “litmus test” of your behavior or choices.
Nobody wants this thriving and expensive websight to experience any accessibility issues, so I will just say this: there is a row of Skeksis (Dark Crystal reference) parsing through the surveillance tape of your day. If they happily hum, nod, tap their turkey feet and award you the token to play “Le Happy Merchant Song”… this is perhaps not “the best” outcome. So… plot the course carefully and soberly. Sometimes the most common and strongly enforced free advice (from the Benevolent Friends of Skeksi Association) might lead into no-so-desirable end circumstances.
Back in the ancient and inadmissible history of these United States, when the high schools taught Greek and Latin (nowadays the grad schools teach remedial English), there was a professor named Fabian Franklin (yes, not a cheeseburger fan, probably. Not a frequent shrimp consumer. But he likely remained intently relaxed and focused on Saturdays). I am unable to offer more eloquent critique of the 18th Amendment than Prof. Franklin had written all these years ago. Morality cannot be “legislated into” citizenry and alcohol no more belongs in the Constitution than the height of the roof or the length of skirt, all that.
(Librivox produced a 2h21m mp3 file, commonly findable, What Prohibition Has Done To America). Yes it will test your ability to stay focused, for me it was driving time well squandered.
If anyone petitions their congresscritters with constituent traffic I will never tell them to stop. All sorts of outcomes may ensue. Some are just far less likely… than others. The Ohioans pulled the lever for Dravidian Prince Swami of Rami, because among other reasons, “he is not opposed to constitutional carry”. Well, how affordable you are, registered members of the electorate.
Am bored at a mandatory pause until the sensor resets and I can carry on my merry route. Therefore, I can write. I wonder how many people wrote to their Citizen-Legislator to allow lifting the punishments for possession of chilling coils, 50# sugar bag purchases, etc. Who knows, Myles, I cannot rule out that it was a large number that moved the Needle of Democracy into the green territory. So that we can all stay legal, or at least “less-arrestable”.
I am not in opposition to you at all because when the results of your efforts materialize, I will not be there to face them. But you will be in attendance for sure.
For the rest of the day, I task myself with finding a good reason to contact my local rep with “Issues Facing The Consituency, Alex”. The day is still young.