Ding-dong, the Wicked Witch is dead. Daryl Gates, the man who created the modern SWAT team, invented the Big Brotherish D.A.R.E. program, and who said that casual drug users should be shot as “traitors” in the war on drugs, has died at 83.

Too bad it wasn’t decades sooner, before he had a chance to do so much damage, and too bad he left so many like-minded thugs to carry out his sick vision of law enforcement.

The SWAT team was a good concept for handling extreme emergencies. But being born in the mind of a violent, lying, racist, piggish man who saw innocent citizens as enemies to be slaughtered without benefit of due process, its catastrophic misuse was inevitable.

Gates is as responsible as any other individual for the police-state ruination of the country that once was the U.S.A.

Good damn riddance.

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After several years in which I believed I wasn’t likely to write another freedom book this side of the grave … I sorta kinda feel a book coming on. Not promising anything, mind you. Right now the feeling is like the one you get when a sneeze is coming on — but may or may not actually emerge.

If I do this thing, though, I already have a working subtitle picked out: “Everything you need to know.”

Yeah, I know. No freedom book can deliver that. But trust me, I’ll use that phrase to ironic effect.

I’ve already made some notes. But since you guys are the most likely audience, or the people most likely to gift the book to others to help them along the independence way, I could use your thoughts. What would you like to see covered in another Claire Wolfe book? (Assuming there is one.)

Can we start with general principles — e.g. freedom begins with mindset, you own your self, take care of your health, determine your level of risk aversion, be prepared, practice self-defense, etc.? Use the comments to tell me what you’d like such a book to cover. The topics can be ones that I’ve already “done” (there are always new slants) or ones I haven’t yet thought of.

Your opinions, please?

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P.S. Some of you know that I have, in fact, written another book lately. That book, Hardyville Tales (or whatever else the Duffys decide to name it) will be out soon, published by BHM. I’ll keep you posted about that. But that one is a compilation and expansion of existing Hardyville stories. Above, I’m talking about a new, from-scratch book project. Potential book project. Maybe.

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