How would a REAL patriot act?

Well, it's been 5 years since I've last updated these web pages, and I must say not much has changed:

The government's agents are still running riot over the constitution, we still have a populist liberty-killing president, intellectual property laws (and battles) are still being fought, and pervasive data-mining software has been increasingly used to monitor us.

What has changed: The economy is in the tank, the mid-east is more unstable than ever, with Egypt's military dissolving parliament, onerous healthcare favors "reform" has been passed.

I tried my bit to change how things were going, but ran into a wall: Time and resource. Life got a little busy, and I moved on to other things. Still, it hasn't changed my desire to make the world a better place, but I wanted to do so with less sensationalism.

Let's face it, there's a million websites out there with "what's wrong with the world: here, I'll show you!" mentality. I've visited my fair share of them, from the obscure to the well traveled halls of the HuffPo and National Review, and they all make valid points.

But, in my mind and soul, they were all missing something that I could never quite put my finger on until recently, something I hope I can do here:

Context.

In a broad form, why is such-n-such wrong, but thingamajig is right? Why, on any given topic, is the Conservative value better than the Liberal value, or visa-versa?

So, rather than make these pages another lunatic screed about the evils of brand XYZ govt-corporation-robber-baron, I thought I'd explore what a "good world" would look like. To do this I'd post articles, notes, maybe start blogging again and, most importantly, sell swag.

Because the swag will not only help my sorry ass make some money, the values they impart are uniquely American: Freedom of speech, mercantilism, self-reliance. These values, I believe, are what made America great, and are something we've stepped away from in our pursuit of "security," the comfy blanket that's warms while it smothers us.

So far, and always available, are "Common Sense," by Tom Paine, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution, the main framework for the America as envisioned by its founders. The links are here. As I get free time I'll post other stuff that, to me, details how a world should be, under which I'll examine things that irk me about man's treatment of man, and artwork that makes fun of it.

As for swag, I have some t-shirts left from 2004.  Send an email to knowmad dot x at gmail with "Prop you up" in the subject if you want to buy one! They're already printed, ORIGINAL artifacts from 2004, and will only cost you $12 plus shipping and handling.

In the meanwhile, poke around, see ancient bits of this website, and visit  if you suspect I've changed something. I'll be posting some new stuff at Cafe Press soon, (Or another vendor that provides better margins), so I'll let you know when that happens.

Thanks for stopping by,

--Peter Tisserand

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