Tag: Clovers

The Spoonful of Poo . . .

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Here’s video of what makes a Clover a Clover. It is not timid or slow or even bad driving, per se.

It is gratuitous, intentional inconsideration for other drivers.

Observe this Clover . . .

I (and 4-5 others) were caught behind this one for about 10 miles. The Clover was driving so slowly that he had acquired a tail – all those cars stacked up behind him. It was obvious he was holding them up and also obvious he was driving well below the posted speed limit.

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Vehicular Narcolepsy

Guest Post by Eric Peters

People aren’t asleep at the wheel – they are unconscious behind the wheel. The Safety Cult has done its vile work, turned most people into narcoleptics who operate in ultra slow-motion –  like watching the Zapruder film frame-by-frame.

The light goes green – and nothing happens.

After awhile, they notice – and the herd creeps forward. Herd is exactly the right word, too. A herd moves as one. So do most drivers. The car in the left lane keeps pace with the car to its right. The car in the left does not move any faster – or move over to the right. This would open up the left lane – formerly known as the fast or passing lane – so that traffic could un-glut and people could get going rather than mooing along in vacuous, gadget-addled unison.

Just like a herd of ear-tagged bovines.

When they do move over, they almost never just do it. First, they wait for cars behind them to accumulate. So that those cars are forced to brake and slow down. After another while, they signal that they are thinking about a lane change. But not yet! After some more while, they gradually begin to drift over to the adjacent lane.

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Dancing With Clovers

Guest Post by Eric Peters

The other day, I bathed in the solar flare fury of a Clover affronted.

Luckily, I had my radiation suit on.

I was coming home from downtown, via a gravel road that dumps you out onto a paved one. Neither is much-travelled. Most of the time, you’ll be the only car on this particular road.

At the stop sign where the gravel road ends and the paved road begins, I did not entirely stop – but instead merely slowed – and the rolled on. Because – other than there being a sign – there seemed to me to be no reason to stop.

I like to have reasons for things. Reasons other than – it’s the law!

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Road Clovers

Guest Post by Eric Peters

It may be the fluoridation of the water. Possibly the chem trails. Perhaps it is an assault at the micro-genetic level. Q tip CloverWho can say?

Whatever the source, Cloverism is propagating. They are everywhere.I thought five chapters (see here, here, here, here and here) would cover it. But it seems there are still a few more subsets to document:

* The Defensive Driving Clover –

He is steeped deep in the learned passivity taught by government “defensive driving” schools. If any one thing defines a Clover, it is just that – his passivity. Taking the initiative, acting on his own judgment – those things are as foreign to him as the Grotto at Hef’s mansion must have seemed to Liberace.

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A Libertarian Lexicon

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Well, an EPautos Libertarian Lexicon!

I get asked frequently about the meaning of some commonly used terms, known to EPautos regulars but less well-known to people new to this corner of the Libertarian universe. These form the core lingua franca of the dialogue here, but much more important, they serve as a convenient shorthand for conveying certain concepts easily and efficiently – without the need to go into a long explanation. Ideally, they will become anti-authoritarian/pro-liberty memes.

Help spread the word!

* Clover –

The root cause of every affront to liberty. The spoonful of shit that ruins a gallon of ice cream. Clovers do not believe in live and let live. They believe in telling others how to live – at gunpoint, if necessary. Clovers can’t abide the organic society, voluntary interaction or free exchange.double cross

You are not free to disagree with a Clover.

They always have “plans” and speak in terms of “we” – as if you agreed to their plans. As if they have the right to speak for you.

A Clover will speak of “our children” when he means your children.

Clovers believe that their feelings about what “someone” might do justify imposing restrictions on people who haven’t actually done anything to cause harm to anyone.

Clovers believe in group guilt – and that you are guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Clovers believe the end (their end, whatever they deem worthwhile) always justifies the means.

A Clover isn’t stopped in his tracks by a moral principle; for example, that it’s wrong to presume every driver on a given stretch of road is a “dangerous drunk” until he proves to the satisfaction of a cop that he isn’t.

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