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Political
Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
Privacy's Canaries
by Sunni Maravillosa from The Price of
Liberty
"I view privacy advocates -- of which I
count myself as one -- as canaries in a pro-freedom coal mine. We
speak up when the state, in whatever form, tries to intrude into
individuals' private lives and transactions."
You Go
First: The Peace Amendment
by L. Neil Smith from The
Libertarian Enterprise
"Having voted to declare war,
every Congressman who voted 'aye' will immediately get up
from his seat and march right out the door, where he will be
handed a uniform and a weapon and be conveyed directly to
the front, defined as that area of military activity that is
producing the highest number of casualties."
Free Market Medicine
by Rep. Ron Paul, MD from
LewRockwell.com
"Dr. Berry's experience
illustrates the benefits of eliminating the middleman in
health care. For decades, the U.S. healthcare system was
the envy of the entire world. Not coincidentally, there
was far less government involvement in medicine during
this time. America had the finest doctors and hospitals,
patients enjoyed high quality, affordable medical
care...."
Life in
Amerika
Articles
depicting the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
A Bum Rap for de Sade
by Jim Davies from Strike The
Root
"But meantime, let's suppose
the party was not just by invitation; that the torture was
real. Then we have photographic proof that the torturers
were happy. And one of them, we're told, is in civilian
life a 'corrections officer,' i.e., a government jailer.
That carries awesome implications for our understanding of
its 'justice' system and the perverts who run it."
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
by Butler Shaffer from
LewRockwell.com
"When I was growing up, it
was said with a sense of egalitarian pride that, in
America, anyone can grow up to be president. George W.
Bush has confirmed the truth of this proposition. The
underlying premises of his thinking and conduct also
attests to the fact that most Americans will accept
the rule of anyone."
No Draft -- Ever!
by Sheldon Richman from
The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Some backers of
conscription cleverly argue that it may turn the
public against the war. As middle-class kids face
getting shipped off to the Middle East, their
parents will suddenly have a reason to oppose Bush's
policy. It seemed to work that way with Vietnam,
when college deferments were abolished. But even if
it worked in this case, it wouldn't change the fact
that the draft is slavery. The end can't justify
that means."
Ordered
Liberty without the State
Some
people say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is
an interesting topic.
by Marc Stevens
from Strike The Root
"What
exactly is 'government?' Have you ever seen a 'government'?
While there are varying degrees, 'government' is one man
violently controlling the life and property of another man.
In some places this violent control is 'decreed' to be for
the latter's 'own good' and 'protection' and hailed as the
'best system in the world'."
The Meaning of Jurisdiction
by Paul Hein from anti-state.com
"The state employee who dons
a black robe and assumes the bench has the power to
control you and your property because the state says he
does-pursuant to 'law,' of course. And you must obey his
orders because it's -- you guessed it -- the 'law!'"
Planes, Trains, and the
Free State Project
by Alan R. Weiss from
The Libertarian Enterprise
"Some libertarians are
anarchists, some are not. As Tom Knapp has said,
we're all on the same Liberty Train. Some of us may
get off the train sooner than others, some may stay
on till we reach the end. I would add, 'but we damn
well better leave the station, folks'."
Spreading Decentralism
Articles demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of
power.
Gun-Proof Your Children
by Wendy McElroy from
ifeminists.net
"That's why mothers who
choose to own a gun have an obligation to teach their
children to respect that weapon as a useful and
potentially dangerous tool. Millions of parents own
guns. They cannot assume that their children will not
find and play with a weapon hidden in a nightstand
drawer or on the closet's top shelf. Children will
usually find anything that is hidden from them."
What Does the
Geneva Convention Say About S&M?
by Steven Greenhut
from LewRockwell.com
"It is the nature of
humanity that some people like to kill, rape,
abuse, torment and torture their fellow human
beings. Some improperly socialized and evil
souls engage in such misbehavior outside the
law. But many more will engage in that behavior
if they are doing it under the authority of the
state. That's why government needs to be
strictly limited."
OK, here's what
to do in Iraq
by Vin
Suprynowicz from Las Vegas Review-Journal
"Oil-rich
southern Shiastan would become our friend
overnight. Don't bother 'teaching them about
democracy.' Sign oil development treaties
and get the hell out of there. The new
nation of Kurdistan would have a few
problems -- though it has some oil wealth of
its own. For one thing, it might need help
defending itself against Turkey and Syria.
So, sell them arms."
The
New World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
The Occupation -
Things fall apart
by David T. Wright
from The Last Ditch
"...[H]is remark would
seem ... reminiscent of the things British
imperialists used to say about various wogs,
fuzzy-wuzzies, and other foreign riff-raff. ...
One wonders whether this 'tougher approach' will
develop into a policy similar to the one the Nazis
used against conquered peoples: for every occupier
killed by insurgents, ten ordinary citizens are
taken out and shot."
Achtung,
Nazi!--One Year Later
by
Douglas Herman from Strike The Root
"The
imperial war eagle symbolized ancient Rome, Nazi
Germany and now--conveniently--the US. One
empire rose to power as a republic before slowly
eroding into tyranny. The other empire--The
Thousand Year Reich--began and ended as a
tyranny. America might now be somewhere at the
crucial divide, between right and might, between
former greatness and outright fascism, where
another few years reveals all."
Out of Bounds -
Did Pat Tillman get what he deserved? Or did
Rene Gonzalez?
by Matt Taibbi
from NewYorkPress
"It was
precisely because Gonzalez was naive,
vulnerable, sincere and easily smashed that
he made a perfect target. If someone like me
had written that piece, it wouldn't have
even registered a blip on the national radar
screen -- because I'm clearly not going
away, which is no fun, and beyond that
everyone knows my editors would be all too
glad for the attention."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians
fomenting war.
It's Not A
Job. It's An Adventure -- Ilsa Koch Gets
Kotched
by Fred Reed
from FredOnEverything
"How
surprising is any of this? Not very. War
brutalizes people. It provides
opportunities to people who are already
brutal. This is no secret. The various
Moslem groups torture prisoners. The
Afghans are famous for it. Democracies lie
about it, but they do it. Wars do not
bring out the Emily Post in us. Torture is
what we do."
The Status
Quo Ante
by
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. from
LewRockwell.com
"Also, we
must think about the message that
keeping Saddam in prison sends. It says
that the end justifies the means, and
powerful states with WMDs like the US
can get away with anything. That is not
a good message for the world. The US
will continue to pay for this disastrous
war so long as it holds Saddam."
It Was
About 'Regime Change' from the Get-Go
by Jacob G.
Hornberger from The Future of Freedom
Foundation
"The newest
reason that U.S. officials are giving
that U.S. soldiers are dying in Iraq is
to fight terrorists as part of the U.S.
government's 'war on terrorism.' The
problem with that rationale, however, is
that it is such policies as the invasion
and occupation of Iraq that gave rise to
the anger and hatred that motivated the
terrorists in the first place."
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
Third World Workers Need
Western Jobs
by Radley Balko
from FOX News
"In a world full
of robust, stable economies, abundant natural resources and
highly skilled workforces, cheap labor is the developing
world's only real bargaining chip. While it may make us feel
better to demand that Western corporations invest only in
countries with high labor standards, in reality such policies
rob the world's poorest people of their only marketable
asset."
A Flag
for a Free Country
by Anthony Gregory from Strike
The Root
"I felt betrayed that the flag
that I respected and proudly showcased for so long became a
de facto seal of approval for war and madness. ... So I
replaced my Stars and Stripes with a Don’t Tread on Me flag.
Old Glory still fails to offend me the way the state's
actual policies do. Sometimes I even look at it with
admiration and hope, thinking about how free the country
could have been."
Thank
You, Sir, May I Have Another?
by Brian Doherty from Reason
"From big names like Michael
Moore to the most obscure blogs, markets and technologies
have given everyone the power to say everything they want to
everyone who cares to hear.... It would be nice if once in a
while Moore would acknowledge that instead of pretending for
his own marketing purposes that corporate tyranny and a fake
president are crushing him into dust."
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
The Fed Is Lifeblood to
the Root of Evil
by
Alexander "Ace" Baker from Strike The Root
"Central
banking is the stroke of evil genius that simultaneously
solves the dilemmas of both the King and the Banker. The
king gets an almost unlimited supply of financing for
his war, and the banker gets the almost unlimited
ability to expand credit without fear of a bank run. It
is an unholy marriage consummated in the very depths of
hell."
Teaching Resentment
by
Russell Madden
from ATLAS
"Sadly, State regulation
of ideas is evident and prevalent today as never
before in our society. For instance, governmental
boards and bureaucrats require that they approve the
textbooks, lesson plans, course content, and testing
that schools and teachers can use. Whether done at the
level of a city's school board, on a statewide basis,
or when Congress directs that 'no child shall be left
behind,' the government enforces its edicts even upon
unwilling parents."
Reinstating the military
draft
by Walter E. Williams
from Townhall.com
"The true cost of a
soldier in the army is the value of what he could have
produced, and society must sacrifice, were he not in
the army -- what economists call 'opportunity cost'."
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention
in society.
Democracy: A
Heretic's View
by Sam
Gerrans from Antiwar.com
"These
terrorists, these bogeymen we need to be protected
from, are very helpful when it comes to providing
the people who spend our money with reasons to
imprison us. You can't help wondering who's funding
them."
War: Who's to Blame?
by Robert L. Johnson
from Strike The Root
"A sign of maturity is
to admit when you are wrong and to change course.
Following proven liars into battle is wrong. No
one makes the individual do it. The alternative to
doing what is wrong is to do what is right. In the
case of the military, if you refuse to do the
wrong thing, they will do their utmost to make you
pay a price. But the peace of mind of doing what
is right is worth it."
A War on Everything
by Bob Wallace from
LewRockwell.com
"And all these 'wars'
involve the coercion of the State, rather than the
liberty and creativity of the free market. Isn't
that what 'war' means - the destructive
involvement of the State?"
Bits of History
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
The Ancient Suicide
of the West
by
Nicholas Davidson from LewRockwell.com
"Imagine a world in which peasants are bound to
the soil; in which the military dominates society;
in which soldiers form a hereditary caste; in
which sons are required to follow their fathers'
trade.... Such an image evokes for many the world
of the Middle Ages; but it applies equally well
... to the society established by Diocletian and
reinforced by Constantine...."
Economist for the
Poor Wins Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty
by Peter F.
Schaefer from Cato Institute
"De Soto decoded
America's legal revolution that allowed
squatters who improved land to gain a property
right to that land, thus preempting the owner.
And if the owner moved them off the land, they
had to be compensated for those improvements,
which made reclamation unlikely. The first
preemption code was passed in Virginian in 1642,
but the principle was in operation from the
first settlers."
When it comes to
denying rights, we've been down this road before
by James Ottavio
Castagnera from Zwire
"In the
near-century-and-a-half between the Civil War
and the so-called War on Terror, other
precedents support the President's power to put
people, including his fellow citizens, in places
where hearing the dogs bark is, at best,
problematic."
War and Peace
Articles showing the
nature of War.
Who's Responsible
for the Iraqi Prisoner Abuse?
by
Harry Browne from HarryBrowne.org.
"In
a kill-or-be-killed environment, emotions run
high. Men don't just oppose the enemy, they hate
him. And when they think information might save
a buddy, they will commit heinous acts to
extract the information from a prisoner. There's
only one way to stop such things from happening:
don't go to war in the first place."
The Lesson of the
ANZAC's
by Amir Butler
from Antiwar.com
"Tens of thousands
of young men died for one simple reason: the
British were not prepared to 'cut and run.'
They remained stubborn and obstinate despite
facing what was clearly a battle that could
not be won. Far from being an argument for a
continued Iraqi occupation, the experience
makes a powerful argument against 'staying the
course' in an increasingly dangerous and
hostile land."
Torture and
Civilian Deaths in Three Counterinsurgencies
by William Marina
from Independent Institute
"What a century of
this imperialism has done to Americans is not
apt to be mentioned by those who glorify
empire such as Niall Ferguson or William
Kristol. Perhaps these are the people who
ought to be the ones trained to do the
torturing for the greater glories of the
Empire!"
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Actor -
Gary Cooper : May 7, 1901
by John
Mulholland from GaryCooper.com
"Whether
striding the streets of
Hadleyville as Marshal Will Kane,
romping over the Tennessee Hills as
Alvin York, or facing down the city
slickers as
Longfellow Deeds, Gary Cooper
embodied the best that was America."
Songwriter - Betty Comden : May 3, 1919
from
Internet Movie Database
"Songwriter ('New York, New York',
'Lonely Town', 'The Party's Over',
'Just in Time'), author and actress.
educated at New York University with a
Bachelor of Science degree."
Composer
- Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky : May 7, 1840
by Allen
Krantz from Classical Archives
"Tchaikovsky,
along with Brahms, is probably the
most performed of the late 19th
century composers."
Culcha'
Books, Movies,
TV, Media, Music, poetry, etc.
They Voted Against
Mother's Day
by Bill Kauffman
from LewRockwell.com
"Senator Jacob
Gallinger (R-NH) judged the very idea of
Mother's Day to be an insult, as though his
memory of his late mother 'could only be kept
green by some outward demonstration on Sunday,
May 10.' ... Besides -- and this objection may
strike modern ears as bizarre -- whether or not
young men honored their mothers was NONE OF THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S BUSINESS."
Emma
(1996)
by Tom Ender from Endervidualism
"One of the
ideas behind the scenes in
Emma
is the 'law of unintended consequences.'
Normally one encounters this idea involved
with a central planning agency of some kind.
There is no government or State perceptible in
this film, but Emma herself fills this role.
For as the opening narration also has it she
is 'a young woman who knew how this world
should be run'."
Emma
is being shown by
HBO on cable and DBS this month.
Kill It and Grill
It -A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and
Fish
By Ted & Shemane
Nugent, Review by Sunni Maravillosa from
Townhall.com
"...Nugent makes
it clear that he loves every element of the
hunt -- and for good reason. Reading his tales
of hunting in the southwestern desert and on
his Michigan ranch captivate me. His love of
nature and his acceptance of his part in the
life and death cycle of all predators is
compelling."
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
Let's Get Physical
by Mark Fiore from The
Village Voice
With the Physics of war,
anything is possible.
Lone Wolf Ashcroft
Given Rookie Partner
from The Onion
John Ashcroft, the
tough, no-nonsense U.S. attorney general famous
for his refusal to take orders, was assigned a
rookie trainee Tuesday.
U.S. to Hand Over
Blame On June 30 - Rumsfeld 'Delighted' by News
by Andy Borowitz from
BorowitzReport
"In a nationally
televised address, President George W. Bush
revealed that the blame for the Iraqi prison abuse
scandal would be transferred from the U.S. to the
new Iraqi government on June 30."
Deep Thought
Scientific and scholarly studies,
philosophical essays, in-depth and longer
articles.
by Sunni Maravillosa
from Endervidualism
"Each person has personal
power to exert over him- or
herself. While that's
obvious, I think many people
fail to see the depths of
power inherent in that
truth. Beyond choosing the
clothes one wears, the food
one eats, and other fairly
mundane things, this sort of
power is about making
important choices. Choices
about how to be, as a
person. Choices about how to
think, what to feel and
value, how to act."
Which American?
by Claes G. Ryn from
LewRockwell.com
"The French Jacobins
appointed France as the
Savior Nation. The new
Jacobins have appointed
America. Its great,
benevolent cause is to rid
the world of evil. This
cause gives the appetite
for power the moral cover
it likes to have. One kind
of universalist ideology,
communism, has been
replaced by the ideology
of American empire...."
Neoconservatives and the
Freedom Philosophy
by Richard Ebeling
from The Freeman
"The public ethos of a
free society rejects as
inconsistent with liberty
any notion that majorities
or minorities may use the
democratic process to
restrict the freedom of
the individual in his
social, economic, and
personal actions as long
as he does not in any way
violate the rights of
others to peacefully go
about their affairs."
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
Why Are You So Bitchy?
by Matthew Bryan from
Strike The Root
"To those who insist I
have nothing to fear from the encroaching state as
long as I 'obey the rules,' I ask these questions:
Do you not realize all forms of preemptory public
surveillance imply a presumption of guilt on your
part? Why do you not resent this with all of your
being? Why do you cede the privacy of your
communications with others to federal agents so
readily?"
Is the War Party
Embarrassed by its Own Handiwork?
by Anthony Gregory
from LewRockwell.com
"There is no way to
bring back the dead, and the momentum of the
occupation will probably mean many more deaths in
vain before the United States finally leaves Iraq.
But perhaps there is at least hope for the future,
and it will be harder to sucker Americans into
another unjust war."
What is the Proper
Way to Run a School?
by Robert Murphy from
Ludwig von Mises Institute
"We have the option of
allowing free individuals to reach their own
conclusions. In a private educational setting,
with no government meddling, individual schools
could set their own policies. Parents and students
would then be free to patronize whichever schools
seemed the most successful to them."
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