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"Liberty remains a popular word, as are freedom and individualism. While centralized states always seek to own and objectify these words, they defy ownership and refuse to be objectified. They are living words, they inspire, and they particularly inspire the young and the foolhardy and the bold. They always will, and libertarians can always be happy about that."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski1.html
"Raich and fellow medical marijuana patient Diane Monson filed suit in the 9th Circuit seeking relief from federal law enforcers. The appeals court ruled in their favor on states' rights grounds, but was overturned by the US Supreme Court in June. "
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/429/raich9th.shtml
"Why allow only 400,000 guest workers per year? Since they are good for our economy, shouldn't we welcome as many as employers are willing to hire? With far more than 400,000 people wishing to migrate to jobs in America, this bill is only a partial improvement over the status quo."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1696
"The key to placing Spychips in its proper context is printed right on the book's jacket.... [H]ow various entities plan to track objects and individuals using RFID technology."
http://endervidualism.com/salon/books/albrecht.htm
"You want to blame this stuff on George Bush? You want to blame it on some left- or right-wing conspiracy? Go ahead. But the media are the enablers here. The media are the ones who waste your time telling you about Red States and Blue States and Ben Affleck's love life. The media are the ones who glorify political shenanigans with their fair and balanced, good guy/bad guy, world-championship-of-professional-wrestling 'news' coverage."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/001974.html
"Grier says she immediately thought that one of her kids had put something nasty on her bumper as a joke. 'But then he mentioned the Bush sticker,' she says. That one says: 'I’m tired of all the BUSHIT'."
http://progressive.org/mag_mc032706
"The fact of the matter is that the use of force destroys morality. The two are incompatible because where force exists, the opportunity no longer exists to make a 'right' or a 'wrong' decision. One's choice is reduced to submit to the government dictates, or risk the wrath of its enforcement agents."
http://www.voluntaryist.com/articles/cultureofforce.php
"[S]ince there are only individuals there is no reason to believe some individuals should have the power to rule other individuals. If there are only individuals, all of them should be sovereign self-owners and enjoy an equal full right to their selves. ... A free-market anarchist can embrace many of the socialist-anarchist goals, such as equality in the right to self, one's labor, and any fruits thereof. We can support the socialist anarchist goal to abolish the state as an inherently evil institution forcing individuals to relinquish that which is theirs by natural right. But we also see the shortcomings of socialism as currently defined; time preference is a fundamental piece of information on how people, and therefore the market and society, function."
http://www.mises.org/story/2096
"Many illegal aliens come to America and remain criminals in the true sense. With this in mind, we can probably argue for a distinction between libertarian immigration and non-libertarian immigration. But the concept of illegal immigration -- whereby a monopolistic coercive entity draws some line in the sand and dictates who can cross it, fining and jailing and shooting those that defy its rule -- is ridiculous. The state should not have the authority to decide who is invited and who is not invited on your property."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory113.html
"Whatever education is, one thing is certain: It doesn't take place locked in seats following the commands of total strangers, your obedience measured regularly by short answer tests. And it's education we need to meet the future, not schooling."
http://www.homeschoolnewslink.com/homeschool/v8i3_gatto_college.html
"What do you do when your wealth is immense but completely tied to people whom you inherently do not trust? If you are Paul Allen you watch your tongue and spend eight years getting out from under that burden."
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20060330.html
"They [the conventional media] want to portray the internet as something dangerous - rather than liberating. To them, the internet represents anarchy. And that is true, for anarchy means 'no government.' It doesn't necessarily mean lawlessness - although that is how it is always defined. Anarchy is anathema to the status quo. That's why you always hear about anarchists 'throwing bombs' and causing mayhem. But the media dare not talk about how well anarchy works on the net - how much gets done without the force of compulsory government behind it."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/macgregor/macgregor5.html
"That the same administration openly advocating torture in the name of fighting terrorism is now engaged in a systematic campaign of terrorism on the ground in Iraq should surprise exactly no one. These people -- the U.S. government and its hired thugs -- have the moral sense of starving jackals."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8764
"We can't wake the sleeping giant. But someone, somewhere, can club it in the head. When the Empire is too big, too aggressive, too starved and internally paralyzed (vibrantly demonstrated by Katrina, thank you, Ma'am, for that performance), and it finally oversteps one border too many, China, India, and Europe will implement, shall we say, 'corrective procedures'."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/scarmig/scarmig2.html
"While a debacle for the US and Iraq, the war has greatly benefited Iran and Israel. Iran's influence in Iraq grows daily. The recent remarkable public agreement by Washington to open talks over Iraq with Great Satan Iran shows even the Bush people see the writing on the wall in Babylon. Besides, occupying Iraq has left the US too weak to invade Iran."
http://www.ericmargolis.com/archives/2006/03/bushas_pyrrhic.php
"The big problem for the Americans, however, is that these proxies constitute the elected government of Iraq, which was supposed to be a model for the entire region to follow. Did American soldiers fight and die -- to say nothing of the tens of thousands of dead Iraqis -- so that we could declare Iraq's fledgling democracy a spoke in the Axis of Evil?"
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8777
"Bush bears no resemblance to a political conservative. A political conservative does not confuse government with country. Patriotism means loyalty to country. Bush, however, demands allegiance to his government: 'You are with us or against us!' Critics of the Bush administration are branded 'unpatriotic' and even 'treasonous.' Loyalty to country means allegiance to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. It does not mean blind support for a president, an administration, or a political party."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03282006.html
"This statement brought precisely zero reaction from the public and the media. Do the American people fully appreciate that this president is committed to sending their sons and daughters to kill and die -- yet again -- in a foreign country?"
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0603j.asp
"LifeSharers is like an organ circle. Everyone in our circle will give you preferred access to our organs if you'll do the same for us. It's an open circle -- we invite everyone to join us. Membership is free...."
http://endervidualism.com/salon/intvw/undis.htm
"Freedom and the free market have worked well for handling movements of people between the several states. That is, no government agency, either at the national or state level, plans the flow of people from state to state. People rely on the free market, including the supply of labor and the demand for it as well as living costs, to make their individual determinations to move and where and when."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0603i.asp
"But spectrum rights aren't the only things you can possess. If you own a theater, restaurant, funeral parlor, or other institution with an interest in quieting phones, you have some physical property; and, despite various regulatory intrusions, you're generally understood to be entitled to restrict your guests' behavior."
http://www.reason.com/links/links032706.shtml
"Here's the worst of it: the big producers get to tag their livestock by the lot, while farmers who keep smaller numbers of animals will have to track and report the movements of each individual animal. This is costly in time and many, and will drive many smaller farmers out of business."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1797
"[M]ake no mistake, the news is bad: America's empire of debt has been a long time in the making, and according to some, appears to be on the edge of collapsing."
http://endervidualism.com/salon/books/bonner.htm
"In the case of Latin America natural resources have often been an obstacle to progress because they have provided despots and demagogues with a comfortable rent. In fact, many people believe that wealth is something you distribute rather than create."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1695
"A widespread inclination to think in terms of the group, rather than in terms of the distinct individuals who compose it, plays directly into the hands of violent, power-hungry leaders. Without that popular inclination, the leaders' capacity to wreak destruction would be reduced nearly to the vanishing point, but with it, the sky's the limit--or maybe it's not the limit, now that space-based weapons are all the rage in the military-industrial-congressional complex. Nothing promotes the sacrifice of the individual to the alleged 'greater good of the whole' as much as war does."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1693
"Respect for individual rights is the bulwark of freedom. But in order to vanquish terrorism, Bush claims the right to destroy all rights by using the 'enemy combatant' label. "
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0603h.asp
"[T]he former allies of the East and West played a game of mutually reinforcing political power. Through portraying 'the other' as the greatest threat to 'our' way of life, support was gained for further increases in political power. The establishing of a 'Cold War' made sure opponents to political rule could easily be done away with."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/bylund4.html
"[W]hile from 1895 onwards there was undoubtedly some genuine and comprehensible public concern at conditions in Spanish Cuba, the 'large policy,' of effectively expanding the frontier by taking it overseas, was a convenient way of absorbing the severe domestic discontent arising out of the prolonged economic, social and cultural crisis of the 1890s."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/wall/wall31.html
"Mason's most adamant objection to the U.S. Constitution was its lack of an enumeration of rights similar to the list he'd written for Virginia. He fiercely advocated for the inclusion of such a list, but was badly outnumbered. Some delegates felt a 'Bill of Rights' was unnecessary. Others, like James Madison, feared that the enumeration of some rights might be interpreted by future generations to exclude rights not mentioned (in retrospect, both Madison and Mason were probably correct)."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,189550,00.html
"George W. Bush and his most trusted advisers, Richard B. Cheney and Donald H. Rumsfeld, entered office determined to restore the authority of the presidency. Five years and many decisions later, they've pushed the expansion of presidential power so far that we now confront a constitutional crisis."
http://hnn.us/articles/23297.html
"Because the Bush administration, almost from the start, has eschewed any comparison of Iraq with Vietnam, officials apparently never read the history of the nation’s heretofore worst war and have made the same 10 major mistakes: ..."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1694
"Compared to the weight and ferocity of RAF and US bombing, the Nazi 'blitz' and its V-rocket attacks of 1944 were small beer. Yet it was not allied civilian bombing that won the second world war, any more than did 'shock and awe' in Iraq in 2003."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1740201,00.html
"The 'ugly' option is the course the Bush administration seems to be charting, which is a faux exit. President Bush has consistently stated that 'as Iraqis stand up, we will stand down.' ... But this seems more like wishful thinking meant to appease an American public growing weary of the Iraq war...."
http://www.antiwar.com/pena/?articleid=8771
"His words and thoughts were never mean to be turned into party lines or dogmas, but to stir the thought processes. The true libertarian education doesn't consist of leading another to think as you do but to make another capable of thinking and living for THEMSELVES."
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/worldwidemovements/armand.html
"A great writer once said, 'All literature begins with geography.' These places are 'Frost Country': San Francisco, Lawrence, Derry, England, Franconia, Shaftsbury, Ripton and Bennington. These are the literary time capsules of a great poet and will enrich your enjoyment of the poetry."
http://www.frostfriends.org/places.html
"She began performing as a solo act in 1944, and wooed nightclub audiences with her relaxed stage presence and humorous asides. "
http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/bailey_pearl/bio.jhtml
"[T]ells the story of a man's struggle to escape the Cambodian holocaust. ... It also tells of a friendship and professional relationship between two men. In addition, the movie shows the role that journalism can play in exposing the wrongdoing of the State."
http://endervidualism.com/agora/killing_fields_1984.htm
"As the movie's tag line states, 'In a nation terrorized by its own government, one man dared to tell the truth,' it is about the conflict between a crusading journalist (Ed Murrow) and an egotistical, anal-retentive politician (Senator Joseph McCarthy) corrupted by the power he wields and backed by the influence of the nation's military-industrial complex. It exemplifies the tension between individual and state that has existed throughout history."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/bank/bank1.html
"Larry Leamer (my photographer) and I landed in Joburg with 200 rolls of film and a line of twaddle about how we were bird photographers. It was all very Terry-and-the-Pirates. We stood under a chandelier in some hotel and gave a password to a guy who put us on a flight to Windhoek and then we got in a high-wing Cessna with some bush pilots and flew to the Caprivi Strip...."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/Angola.shtml
"Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission undercover agents entered 36 nightclubs where they shared tables with suspected drunks and covertly monitored bartenders for over-serving patrons. After agents determined that some individuals posed a risk to themselves or the public, 30 people were arrested for public intoxication. Sgt. Chris Hamilton of the TABC justified the preemptive strikes by noting that some inebriated bar patrons 'end up killing themselves or someone else' in drunk driving accidents. ... TABC officials said the sweep concerned saving lives, not individual rights."
http://www.freecannon.com/BustingBarflies.htm
This story about a serial killer might give you an erection.
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=60827
"In response to criticism over World Wrestling Entertainment hiring policies, World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon defended the league's reliance on Mexican wrestlers as 'the only way fans can witness the grueling, bone-crunching maneuvers that American wrestlers want nothing to do with'."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46687
"One sees the government as a menace, something stupid, inefficient, brutal, isolated from real life, and the enemy of liberty. The other sees government as a smart, wise, and all-knowing, a friend to all, in touch with life around the planet, and the friend to liberty everywhere. How these two brains are integrated is never explained."
http://www.mises.org/story/2102
"In case you are unaware, the government decided in 1919 to amend the United States Constitution to grant power to Congress to prohibit the manufacture, sale and distribution of alcohol. Their drug war played out just like ours; a complete and total disaster. However, it was the best thing that ever happened to organized crime."
http://www.strike-the-root.com/61/victor/victor1.html
"How can the Bible teach a high school student about the law? Do we really need to draw a correlation between the Ten Commandments and our modern judicial system? Hammurabi's Code predates any Judaic system of law -- why not study the ethnoreligious aspects of ancient Mesopotamia? For that matter, how can the Bible be used as a historical reference? Many stories are apocryphal, fantastic or drawn from other earlier, oral traditions."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01120_senate_bill_79_need_education.html
"Call me contrarian, but I don't see how using slave labor by political prisoners to keep wages artificially low (slaves get paid less than either migrant workers or the Americans who won't do the jobs at the wages offered -- but who will raise holy hell if they have to pay more for their iceberg lettuce) is any more 'libertarian' than ... than ... well, than sealing the borders to keep wages artificially high...."
http://knappster.blogspot.com/2006/03/libertarians-for-slave-labor.html
"We recommend that you see it. If you've already seen it, go again; you might find something new and deeper in it. This is also a _great_ opportunity to help your half-awake friends and relatives see more of freedom's light. With that in mind, we're offering 10 questions to think about and discuss with others."
http://www.jpfo.org/alert20060330.htm
"In all this history, these people haven't noticed that when individuals set out to peacefully improve their own lot and respect the right of others to do the same, good things often come of it. But when do-gooders set out to 'improve the lot of humanity,' (e.g. Tell Other People What They're Forbidden or Compelled To Do) well ..."
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