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Big Fish;
Bush Legacy; Surviving The Fall; New
Boogeymen; these articles have their titles and text in this color and
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Web articles of likely interest to individualists found during the week of Jan. 25-31, 2004.
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Political
Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
Congress Cannot Be Appointed
by Rep. Ron Paul from Antiwar.com
"Legislation
I cosponsored, recently passed by the House Judiciary committee, will
enable congressional districts around the nation to hold emergency
elections without resorting to political appointments."
Freedom and Its Supposed Liabilities
by Tibor R.
Machan from Strike The Root
"But because strong
fences exist between us in a free society-we, as adults at
least, need to choose to be with others for an association to
exist, we cannot be lumped together by tyrants or even the
majority-in the end we can leave those who mess up to stew in
their own juices. "
Political Gimmicks Won't
Increase Freedom
by Steven Greenhut from
LewRockwell.com
"People
do change their minds, they do shift their thinking, even if
they are reluctant to change their affiliations. I have a 'left-wing'
friend who agrees with me about war, regulation, many areas
of freedom. I have 'right-wing'
friends who agree with me also. Who really cares what they
call themselves?"
Life in
Amerika
Articles depicting
the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
America the Unfree
by Paul Craig Roberts from
LewRockwell.com
"Slaves
in that situation were as free as today's
American taxpayer to choose their housing from the available
stock, purchase their food and clothing, and entertain
themselves. In fact, they were freer than today's
American taxpayer. By hard work and thrift, they could save
enough to purchase their freedom. No American today can
purchase his freedom from the IRS."
A 'right' to someone else's labor?
by Vin
Suprynowicz from
Las Vegas Review-Journal
"This is not a
merely theoretical formulation. American doctors today
have little more freedom to set their own prices and
withhold their services at will, once they 'volunteer'
to accept Medicare and Medicaid patients."
The
First Lie
by
John C. Bonifaz from TomPaine.com
"Now
more than ever, the Constitution and the rule of law
must apply. And, now more than ever, the truth must be
told. The first lie about the Iraq war was not that
Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or ties to Al
Qaeda. The first lie told to the American people is
that Congress voted for this war."
Ordered Liberty
without the State
Some
people say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is
an interesting topic.
Anarchist Finance, or What Price
Ancapistan?
by Mark Gillespie from
Strike The Root
"A mutual savings and
credit association (MSCA) is the perfect solution on many
levels. For one, they are mostly unregulated. They are not
banks. Secondly, they can operate using whatever currency
they wish. Thirdly, because of the mutual aspect of the
association, there is an emphasis upon shared responsibility
and shared profits."
The Constitution Is Not The Answer
by Michael Gaddy from The
Price Of Liberty
"If
the Constitution truly had the built in protections to
prevent opportunistic politicians from abusing it, we
would not be in the mess we are today. There is a very
good reason the Patriot who said, 'give
me liberty or give me death'
refused to sign that document."
Unchaining Liberty
by Butler Shaffer from
LewRockwell.com
"We
are conditioned through the schools, the media, the
state, and other institutions to fear our own
autonomy, and to transfer control over our behavior to
external agencies."
Spreading Decentralism
Articles demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of
power.
Surviving the Fall of the State
by
William S. Lind from LewRockwell.com
"As I have
said to David more than once, what he and other
Amish are doing is preserving an understanding of
how to live in reality for the time when all the
virtual realities collapse."
The case for local
currencies (Part Two)
from Indian
Country
"Local
currencies don't
make earning a living any easier, for labor
must back the Ithaca Hour -
that is its value. But the point is: it
makes it possible to labor for profit where
the dollar economy might not."
What the Change
in Germany Means
by Frank X. Vogelgesang from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"So
much more so when the institutional structure
forms an overbearing state and a society with
marked corporatist traits. Every attempted
reform calls into action the defenders of the
status quo who do have something to lose."
The
New World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Give You Liberty or Give
You Death
by Llewellyn H.
Rockwell, Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"The
Iraqi people are free so long as they say and do
only what the occupation military government tells
them to do. ...
If you think that is striking enough...consider
something even more alarming: the US doesn't
consider this abnormal."
Ground Zero
by Chris
Floyd from TheMoscowTimes.com
"Thus
we come to this unavoidable conclusion: The Bush
Regime launched a war of aggression on the basis
of evidence that had to be, by its very nature,
insubstantial, insufficient, false. "
Eerie similarities
by Malcolm
Reynolds from The
Last Ditch
"So
how does any of that
[recent Yugoslavian history] remind me
of the United State nowadays? Increasing
socialism, political correctness run rampant,
rabid attacks on culture and tradition as 'hate',
and the constant promotion of hyphenated
people over 'ordinary'
Americans ring a few bells."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians
fomenting war.
Will Dubya Dump
Dick?
by Jim Lobe
from AlterNet
"Ongoing
disclosures about Cheney's role in the drive
to war in Iraq and other controversial
administration plans reveal him as not the
much-touted
moderate but an extremist who constantly
pushed for the most radical policies."
Campaign Clichés
by Jesse
Walker from Reason
"But
there's one candidate with a very solid
chance of beating Bush. His name is George
W. Bush. Four years ago, the person who
did the most to defeat Al Gore was Al
Gore; the same was arguably true of Bob
Dole, Michael Dukakis, and Walter Mondale
before him."
Vote
Here,
Pay Later
by Dorothy
Anne Seese from Ether
Zone
"The
last man to run for president who really
wanted to change things in America was
Barry Goldwater and he was soundly beaten
by socialist Lyndon B. Johnson. "
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
Morality and the market
by Gurcharan
Das from The
Times Of India
"Friedrich Hayek, the
Noble laureate, called the market a spontaneous order --
it is natural for human beings to exchange goods and services
and in the process every society evolved money, laws,
conventions and morals to guide behaviour in the marketplace."
Move Aside, NASA
by Edward L.
Hudgins from Cato Institute
"If Americans are
again to walk on the moon and make their way to Mars, NASA
will actually need to be downsized and the private sector
allowed to lead the way to the next frontier."
Need a Ride? Try Freedom and the Free Market
by
Scott McPherson from The Future of
Freedom Foundation
"The
only thing in need of reform is our cultural dependence on
government to solve our problems. No one has a right to the
services of another. As free people, we should be able to
control our own destinies, even if that means doing things or
behaving in ways that others find offensive, wrong, or even
discriminatory."
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
Leave
The Internet Alone
by
James K. Glassman
from Capitol Hill Blue
"But companies
with an interest in maintaining that traditional system
are complaining that VoIP
[Voice over Internet] is not really an Internet
application. It's more like a long-distance phone call. So
it's subject to rules and expensive access fees that will
jack up costs to consumers and kill VoIP in the cradle."
Forensic
evidence in the dock
from NewScientist.com
"Contrary to
what is generally thought, there is little scientific
basis for assuming that any two supposedly identical
fingerprints unequivocally come from the same person."
Perpetual Debt: From the British Empire to the American
Hegemon
by H.A. Scott Trask from
Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Since
Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole's introduction of the
funding system in
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
Bush
Pursues Big-Gov Nanny State
by Radley
Balko from FOX
News
"Early 20th
century journalist and World War I protester Randolph
Bourne famously wrote that 'war
is the health of the state.' The
reason why politicians declare 'war'
on intangibles like drugs or poverty is because a 'war'
mentality implies that the problem in question is so
serious that the traditional rules of interaction
between the governing and the governed need to be
suspended."
The New Boogeymen
by Russell
Madden from Atlas
Magazine
"The State
obsesses about terrorists who can do only
comparatively limited and minor damage around the
peripheries of our society then tells us we must
sanction its explosive growth in order to do what it
should have done long ago; a classic example of
failure rewarded."
Recalling Pol Pot's Terror, But Forgetting His Backers
by John Pilger from
LewRockwell.com
"The
genocide in Cambodia did not begin on April 17
1975, 'Year
Zero.' It
began more than five years earlier when American
bombers killed an estimated 600,000 Cambodians."
Bits of History
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
'Free'
Education and Literacy
by
Barry Dean Simpson from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"...[T]he
charge of illiteracy in a fee-based or privatized
system seems to be weak at best, considering the
history of education in America and England."
Lincoln's
Civil War
Against New
York
by
John Chodes from SouthernEvents.org
"Between
1861 and 1865 there were two wars being fought
simultaneously in the United States by Abraham
Lincoln and his Republican administration. The
first was to prevent the independence of the
seceded Southern states. The second was a civil
war in the North upon the six states controlled by
the Democratic Party: New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin."
Do
These Deficits Look Familiar?
by Jonathan Rauch
from Reason
"Repairing
the fiscal breach would require Bush to set
priorities and make trade-offs, something he, like
Nixon, has been conspicuously reluctant to do."
War and Peace
Articles showing the
nature of War.
Leak Against This War - Expose the Lies from the
Inside
by Daniel
Ellsberg from CounterPunch
"Later
that afternoon, I turned to the radio man, a
wiry African American kid who looked too thin to
be lugging his 75lb radio, and asked: 'By
any chance, do you ever feel like the redcoats?'
Without missing a beat he said, in a
drawl: 'I've
been thinking that ... all ... day.'
You couldn't miss the comparison if you'd gone
to grade school in America."
Send the
Children of Politicians to the Front Lines?
by Stanley
Kober from Cato Institute
"One
of the great challenges facing a democracy
-- indeed, any society -- is the connection
between the military and civilian society.
Any sense of inequality and inequity is
bound to erode that connection."
The United States and World War I
by John J. Dwyer
from LewRockwell.com
"Wilson went so far as to campaign for
re-election in 1916 with the slogan, 'He
kept us out of war.'
Less than ninety days after beginning his second
term, however, he called upon Congress for a
declaration of war against Germany in order to 'make
the world safe for democracy.'"
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Pamphleteer/Radical - Tom Paine: Jan. 29, 1737
by Joseph
R. Stromberg from Antiwar.com
"In
commercial and other voluntary
arrangements, society --
that is people --
takes care of itself. By contrast, 'governments,
so far from being always the cause or
means of order, are often the destruction
of it.'"
Comedian/Juggler - W. C. Fields: Jan. 29,
1880
from People
of Pennsylvania
"His
bulbous nose, raspy voice, and his
delivery of mischieivous caustic
witticisms became the trademarks of his
film career. Often providing the script
for the films'
comedic skits himself, W.C. Fields had
become a top star in the motion picture
industry."
Author/anarchist - Edward Abbey: Jan.
29, 1927
from AbbeyWeb
"...Edward
Abbey was offered a major award by the
American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Abbey declined the honor; he had plans to
run a river in Idaho the week of the award
ceremony.... "
Culcha'
Books, Movies,
TV, Media, Music, poetry, etc.
Reynolds Dons Spacesuit
from SCI FI Wire
"Oscar-nominated
writer David Reynolds (Finding Nemo) has
closed a deal to adapt Robert A. Heinlein's SF
classic Have Spacesuit, Will Travel for
Warner Brothers, according to The Hollywood
Reporter."
The Everyman's
Artist: A
Review of 'Big Fish'
by
Ryan McMaken from LewRockwell.com
This film is a
comedic celebration of life, people and
relationships. Tim Burton has crafted a fine
piece of cinema which I expect to be popular a
very long time. The acting and casting are
outstanding. I saw the movie recently and
recommend it as well as this review of it.
American Icon series -
Clint Eastwood
Interview
by Dennis McCafferty from USA
Weekend
"I don't see myself as conservative, but
I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of
your own. I like the libertarian view, which is
to leave everyone alone."
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
Sling A Thong At Six Pence,
A Pottle Full Of Rye
by Fred
Reed from FredOnEverything
"Fred Manipulates Readers. Subtly
Though. They Won't
Notice." Normally, I
don't include other people's "cup-rattling" messages,
but Fred has such skill at writing he even brings this
off. It is definitely funny.
Bush 2004 Campaign
Pledges To Restore Honor And Dignity To The White House
from The
Onion
"'One
thing is clear --
it's time for a fresh beginning,'
Bush said. 'Choose
the ticket that leads to freedom, peace, and
security. Choose Bush and Cheney.'"
'Duck Season'
by Mark
Fiore from The
Village Voice
If you
have missed the old Elmer Fudd since Mel Blanc's
passing, perhaps this flash animated cartoon with
Antonin Scalia as Fudd will help.
Deep Thought
Scientific
and scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
Boomtown China: Opportunity and
Crisis
by
Grant M. Nülle from Ludwig von
Mises Institute
"Far from being a scourge
to be feared, China's emergence
as global economic power bodes
well for consumers and producers
all over the world through the
blessings of trade."
Leisure Socialism
by Marcus Verhaegh from
LewRockwell.com
"Opportunities for an
immediate life of leisure were
noted, and plans for further
government expenditure to
relieve the need for 'excessive'
amounts of work entered into
day-to-day discourse."
Self
Delusions
by Julian Sanchez from
Reason
"When I make a
genuinely free decision, no
set of antecedent causes
predetermines what I must
do. But an exercise of free
will is also supposed to be
something that the agent does,
not merely something that
happens."
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
Bush
Legacy: Less Freedom
by
Sheldon Richman
from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Considering
that the choice in November will be between two men
who both want bigger government (it won't
matter who the Democrat is), one wonders how a serious
candidate would be received if he actually proposed to
scale back the monstrosity we currently labor under."
A Not Very Funny Valentine
by
Wendy McElroy from ifeminists.com
"The
play consists of 15 vignettes in which women speak
out as vaginas -- about their experiences, including
rape, lesbianism, and genital mutilation. (Puzzling,
I know, to those who thought feminists objected to
women being viewed as body parts.)"
Logic, Liberty and Reality
by Tibor R. Machan
from Strike The
Root
"There
is no consistent public policy anywhere, none to
which political leaders swear any allegiance and
none they bother to follow loyally. ...
And the courts, too, are all over the map,
one day affirming individual rights, the next
denying them in the myriad of cases on which they
rule. "
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