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Barack Obama pledges $700B public works plan to help economy by Peter Wallsten http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-stimulus_5sdec07,0,3049287.story Drunken sailer extraordinaire Best way to make federal buildings "energy efficient" is to close them down Obama sees 2.5 million more governmental jobs in our future, for starters Your Monday Message from the Libertarian Party: The LP Goes to Harvard, posted by Andrew Davis http://www.lp.org/blogs/andrew-davis/the-lp-goes-to-harvard Digging holes and filling them back up...all via extorted wealth The MO of government: distribute the costs and concentrate the benefits In order for government to refrain from intervening in the marketplace, it must disintegrate and disappear Government is nothing other than a coercively funded and arbitrarily imposed organization Government, being a parasite on the economy, doesn't make anything; it acquires money via extortion To "stimulate" an economy through coercion is evil Government isn't fit for a society of rational and respectful people, so it must be abolished No one, including those working in "government" have the right to impose a service at the barrel of a gun World's Shortest Political Quiz by Marc Stevens http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/88/33/ Win Every Political Argument by Marc Stevens http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/89/33/ Some people disingenuously assert that governmental employees don't impose their "services" at gunpoint; compliance isn't voluntary, as innocent people thrown in governmental cages can attest As long as slaves remain obedient, their masters treat them well Keynesians (statist economists) believe in the meme of authoritarian sociopathy writ large--that the State is legitimate and all-powerful; mystical God is to the believer as mystical Government is to the statist "Public property" just invites boondoggles, among other sordid things The collectivistic term "national debt" has no validity and must be repudiated Even though persons such as Milton Friedman have tried, one can't rationally perform a "cost/benefit ratio" on the use of coercion, which is forcing people to do things against their wills http://www.logicallearning.net/libcapitalismpol.html (search for choice quote by Friedman) You wouldn't allow people to force you against your will if they didn't call themselves "government," would you? The crimes committed with impunity by those in government are the same ones that those in government prohibit private individuals from perpetrating (assault, battery, kidnapping, theft, extortion, counterfeiting, murder, etc.) Obama has chosen to be the head of a coercive organization, an organization of people who treat others in an involuntary fashion, an organization of people who rely on propaganda, pr, and widespread obedience to maintain the illusion of legitimacy There shouldn't be political parties or a republic form of government; there should just be the free market, filled with enterprising entrepreneurs who ensure people's rights if need be (justice agencies http://www.logicallearning.net/liblegalagencies.html ) We shouldn't aim for "smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom" We should aim for no government, no taxes, and complete liberty bumper music "Highway To Hell" by ACDC http://www.acdc.com/

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Evil Concealed by Money by Walter E. Williams http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EvilConcealedByMoney.htm Williams' new book: http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-versus-Tyranny-Socialism-Controversial/dp/0817949127 Let's talk about socialism, in America..."The forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another" The perceived virtuous coercion to get people to do things is the essence of government The doctrine of self-sacrifice fits perfectly with statism The glaring contradiction of "people are selfish and greedy," so they must be coerced The irrational greediness of governmental bureaucrats knows no bounds The alleged virtue and "good intentions" of government versus allegedly lessor others in the marketplace Most people sense the wrongness of government, but they don't know what to do to fix it; they're not organized, for one thing The nature of integrity in relation to immoral, unjust edicts Feeling isolated by the repercussions for not complying with statists--and fearing being attacked by one's fellow slaves People are really ambivalent about freedom and government Freedom activist Lauren Canario's courageous and independent-minded civil disobedience http://www.youtube.com/tackletheworld http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/238 Lauren Canario was released from CT Prison yesterday http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=377&Itemid=36 or http://tinyurl.com/y58xuo FTL did an in depth interview with Lauren: http://media.libsyn.com/media/ftl/FTL2006-12-22.mp3 NH: Lauren Canario returns from jail http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTm-Hiz6Xs The most disturbing documentary about statism, imo: "Taxi To The Dark Side" - Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0MPcN08Zc (full film, though link may become defunct at some point) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987535946644608661 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_to_the_Dark_Side Five detainees ordered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/20/guantanamo/index.html Goes to show that authoritarian sociopaths have no qualms about putting innocent people in cages for indefinite periods--and torturing them This is why we must strike at the root, at the meme of government itself; people really need to change their perspective about tyranny No good end ever justifies using coercion against innocent people; government actions are never virtuous on account of this "Compensatory justice" (i.e., getting one's "fair share" of the stolen loot) is a non sequitur "Congress" is another widespread term of slavespeak While the Founding Fathers were seemingly more aware of the principles of liberty than today's goons, they still sold out and used coercion Case in point: James Madison, the architect of the Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_madison JM was instrumental in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_States The Constitution authorizes the initiation of force against individuals (e.g., the "power to lay an collect taxes"); therefore it's corrupt and contradictory to the core No 'right person' can be in politics, because he or she refuses in principle to be involved in a coercive institution A Dollar in Peril by Jim Davies http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/davies/davies8.html Creating cognitive dissonance by challenging individuals' statism memes (like voting); voting is violence, plain and simple JD "Voting is one of the most immoral things one can do," because it's all about laying obligations on people STR's powerful non-voting archive: http://www.strike-the-root.com/vote.html The collectivistic meme of the tribal premise http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/tribalism.html & http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/tribalpremise.html What is life if you lose your curiosity?!? A good question to ask others: Are there any aspects of your life that you'd like someone else to govern? Anarchy simply means freedom to make your own choices The youth are the main hope for a better world What if government imploded and collapsed...would people really want it back?...would they miss it?--especially when entrepreneurs would quickly, cheaply, and competently provide any and all desired services If you're getting a shoddy service and you don't like it, you shouldn't have to pay for it What would we do without a communized police force! Police Statism, Arizona style... License-plate scanning catching crooks, raising privacy concerns http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/11/23/20081123autotheft1123.html Contribute to the cause--buy the print edition of Complete Liberty (http://completeliberty.com) http://www.lulu.com/content/687618 bumper music "First They Brand You" (or "dodo-1") by friend and Free Stater Roger Grant http://www.politicalgraffiti.com; couldn't find exact link

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Bureaucrats Never Have a Case by Administrator (aka Marc Stevens) http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/20/27/ Statism is based on the illogical premise that you don't own your own life A "complaint" shouldn't be confused with a "case" The Stockholm Syndrome, writ large http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome IF IT’S NATURAL TO BE FREE, WHAT’S STOPPING US? http://completeliberty.com/chapter9.php "Citizens" and "States" don't really exist; they're unjust legal fictions The words on paper crafted by bureaucrats are necessarily open to vast interpretation, and many of words spell injustice The Constitution’s Problems: Article I Section 8...Sadly, A Template For Disaster http://completeliberty.com/chapter2.php#47 Once you allow taxation, you open society up to unending tyranny, saying in effect that extortion is good and proper and useful The two absolutely essential elements of legal standing: 1) violation of a legal right and 2) personal injury The unjust laws of the Nanny State create "criminals" out of everyone and generating constant "revenue" for the terrocrats The problem with our society today is not strictly the authoritarian sociopaths in the insane institution of government; it's all the people who are either tuned out or tacitly or directly support violent ideologies; mostly slave-on-slave violence keeps us enslaved Why does society need the monstrous contradiction of government, the preeminent violator of individual rights? Such a meme only promotes low self-esteem and perpetual enslavement "Tax cases" are an indication of how truly sick and twisted our culture is--governmental employees are putting people in cages who've violated no one's rights! Statists allege (but never prove) that the "State" has a legal right to "tax revenue" (your money) and governmental employees are "injured" when they don't get their extorted money "No attempt is made to put such allegations in an 'indictment' because it’s impossible to establish factually how an obligation to file a 'tax return' was created. To prove an obligation or legal right was created, there must be a connection between the people asserting the right and the person who allegedly has this obligation. Statists immediately point out the 'constitution.' And that is the point where they lose; and lose big time." Basically, people in government seek to deprive individuals of self-ownership and property rights simply by virtue of their geographical location, essentially claiming that we are born enslaved It's monstrously contradictory to claim the "right" to deprive innocent others of their rights to self and property The Constitution binds or obligates no one and created nothing; no one today has signed or agreed to it as a contract, except perhaps some brainwashed governmental employees, those who really need to unbrainwash themselves by reading the following: No Treason. No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority. (1870).* http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm#no6 "The State" can't be a valid plaintiff; it's at best a fictional third party; "The State" has no standing in any case, not even regarding real crimes such as murder "There is no such thing as a legitimate government, so nothing they do is legitimate regardless of the endless red herrings statists throw up." "Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government." Either you're for voluntary social interaction (complete liberty) or you're for anti-social human interaction (statism) "...statism and it’s supporting theology are not here to promote freedom or protect 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'; it’s mind control to divert our attention away from the actions of anti-social individuals who are so desperate to 'protect' us they are willing to kill us and steal our property." The libertarian movement is crippled by the unwillingness to differentiate those who want a voluntary society and those who do not; any libertarian who promotes "limited" government or any form of statism whatsoever is engaging in this monstrous moral contradiction in society All governmental courts operate outside the bounds of natural and objective law, i.e., a voluntarily funded and provided legal system; statist courts, regardless of their rhetoric (used for public relations), are necessarily invalid Prosecution of alleged rights-violators must involve restitution and reparations; the ingenuity of justice service entrepreneurs will probably entail many elements of the insurance model As we transition to complete liberty, the need for rights-protection services becomes less and less; the threat against our lives and property will be extremely remote in a society of complete liberty, because the biggest violators of rights (governments) will be absent The only way to clarity in these matters is to reassess the nature of one's volitional capacity and one's fears of others, which entails addressing the moral corruption and authoritarianism in family life; "Do this because I said so" is the same as "Obey this law (because we wrote it down)" Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet? Let’s Check Marx and Engels’s List by Robert Higgs http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2366 The Timeless Allure Of Communism http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15 Government needs to make slaves out of adults (property tax payers) to indoctrinate future tax payers (kids in schools of government) "Remember the government's motto: you've got money, and we want it." "Therefore, in the present distressing circumstances, we may be warranted in asking: is our politico-economic system finally going smash in a frenzy of monetary inflation, bailouts, and government takeovers? We’ll know the answer pretty soon." So, what can we do? Focus on passing moral judgment; point out to others the coercion at the base of society (the gun in the room: http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux29.html); and, get people out of your life who behave in morally corrupt ways and advocate coercion Ultimately, it's either statism or voluntarism; mutual respect of persons and property is the ideal bumper music "Gimmee_Dada Orwell-REMIX" by Roger Grant and Dada Orwell (aka Dave Ridley) http://www.politicalgraffiti.com/nhfree/music/Gimmee_Dada_Orwell-REMIX.mp3

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Free Talk Live Host Sentenced To 93 Days In Jail http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/024015.html Ian Freeman arrested and jailed for 93 days RAW FOOTAGE (by http://www.candid-world.com/ ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcT-3niVes Those who posture as "authorities" who enact "justice" "Judges" as authoritarian sociopaths who have no standing and whose paychecks are derived from extortion (taxation) Rising for the Judge, Bowing to the State by Manuel Lora http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora57.html http://freekeene.com for full details Properly holding in contempt those working in statist courts Authoritarian sociopaths who become their victims' servants (reflecting subconscious guilt, no less) The power of the Web to expose terracrats http://jailedactivist.info/bureaucrats/city-officials/mikaela-l-engert/ Does anyone in government understand (or want to understand) individual rights and how they're violated? The court as elementary schoolroom full of bullies... Authoritarian/obedience memes that arise from having one's will dominated as a child Progressives, truthers, and peaceniks who've been waiting to take their turn with the coercive tools of government (to rewards friends and punish enemies) Emotional regurgitation of propaganda, rather than using logic and objectivity to discern truth and moral principles The vast quantitative and qualitative differences between voluntary trade and regulated trade Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs by David Gutierrez http://www.truthout.org/111208HA The more regulated the industry, the more the corruption, immorality, and other bad effects Why do we need the FDA, or any other authoritarian sociopathic groups of individuals?! Zeitgeist Addendum critique (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912 Resource based economy by Jacque Fresco http://www.thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm Zeitgeist Addendum: The Review by Stefan Molyneux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1JcUBx2dxU The alleged ills of the profit motive and selfishness The supermarket as a microcosm of capitalism's delivery of abundance to everyone--all via the profit motive and selfishness Obama's cabinet members as K-Street lobbyists and tax-fed parasites; Obama's grand fantasies of statism will acceleration economic decline Throughout history, the doctrine of sacrifice has predominated http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html Under capitalism, profits equal helping others http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html Enlightened, rational selfishness as the primary healthy goal Government directly fosters all the irrational selfishness we see in society Money and barter, and those who want to wish them away... Defining money as a naturally arising, handy, and universally recognized medium of exchange A reason-based society rather than a coercion-based society The one-way street of morality, based on the doctrine of sacrifice, is killing our civilization The abundance of violence in society is preventing us from evolving We need to apply the libertarian non-initiation of force principle to every individual and institution--no double standards The Venus Project as a parody of a socialist manifesto... Religious theme of attacking money - The Camel and the Needle's Eye by Robert Sheaffer http://www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html Selling things in abundance! - Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water by Trevor Datson http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Lincoln Simon http://tinyurl.com/kdpj9 Understanding the nature of resources as the result of creativity, ingenuity, and free trade Making sacrifices for others and for the central planner... Money as a commodity that creates efficiency and more capital investment Freedom as the main ingredient to respecting everyone's choices; everyone is self-governing and self-regulating The blank out of money in Star Trek as template for the Venus Project? The main question to ask anyone posturing as a central planner: At whose expense? The future and beyond by Jacque Fresco http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/essay.htm Do people really miss the USSR that much! The insanity of criticizing capitalism (which doesn't presently exist, btw) as well as the free enterprise sector The Venus Project as trying to give people a confused and conflicted red/blue pill combo As long as you give authoritarian sociopaths some semblance of legitimacy, they will never give up their power and control Does attaining complete liberty mean practicing CD and being thrown in jail? The fully communized "justice" system in America provides injustice as a way of life Never failing to pass moral judgment and exposing the gun in the room (the coercion of government) http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/moraljudgment.html bumper music "Jailbreak" by AC/DC http://www.acdc.com/

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The Attack on Libertarianism by Aaron David Ward http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ward-aaron4.html The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense by Jacob Weisberg http://www.slate.com/id/2202489/ The three variants of libertarianism (classical liberalism, laissez-faire capitalism, and anarcho-capitalism), only one of which is logical (market anarchism and voluntarism, i.e., anarcho-capitalism, i.e., complete liberty) Capitalism And Current Political Views: http://www.logicallearning.net/libcapitalismpol.html Either you advocate statism or you don't; there's no wiggle room for a night-watchman State that allegedly would respect rights Libertarianism isn't on the continuum of statism, so it's neither left nor right The nature of human autonomy and the nature of reality We must show respect for each other; logic demands it; each person is deserving of respect and happiness The initiation of force is anti-reason and anti-life If you do not define your terms properly, it will lead you down contradictory paths http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/definitions.html We don't have "self-regulating financial markets," by any stretch of the imagination A communized fiat currency and a host of regulatory "agencies" are the main economic problems, not "unregulated credit market derivatives" Modern intellectuals' denial of individuals and focus on politics in midstream (out-of-context analysis) Alan Greenspan's betrayal of his own earlier views: Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan (1966) http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north204.html Our present fiat currency (dollars) would disappear quickly in a free market, and be replace by gold and silver (or any other tangible commodity that can't be dramatically inflated and devalued) Regulation always compounds the political problem (whatever it is) and it obscures the real nature of the injustice (coercion) as well as the solution (get rid of the institution of government) Cato and Reason "libertarian" think tanks as apologists for statism; neither strikes at the root of the problem (government itself) The analytic/synthetic dichotomy in modern philosophy http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/analytic.html The arbitrary division of rationalism and empiricism http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalismvsempiricism.html http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreewill.html The basic metaphysical/epistemological issue is how well do one's concepts adhere to the facts of reality The concepts of libertarianism adhere perfectly to the facts of reality, because they are in accordance with a non-contradictory (logical) view of human nature; any other interpretation, any version of statism, would be contradictory Those who believe in "government" are supporting the bully mentality writ large, institutionalized disrespect of persons and their property Those who believe in "government" deny the irrefutable principles of property rights and self-ownership What we need are new intellectuals, able to think logically and objectively, especially in relation to challenging the meme of government (which Ayn Rand failed to do, though ironically she did denounce statism) http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/intellectuals.html Brief clip of Ayn Rand on the New Intellectuals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKGZMwaIG8 Freedom—An Intellectual Issue: http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomintell.html Roundtable discussion!... Ridiculous laws and the practice of civil disobedience--where do you draw the line in terms of kowtowing to "authority"? If you're not willing to expose the coercive entities of the State, then you're granting them legitimacy Propaganda is used to promote the myth that those in government (authoritarian sociopaths) are our "protectors" and "providers" Using the Internet to reverse the statist propaganda; San Diego Free Press, perhaps Can you really change others? You can't delegate to others any rights that you yourself don't possess Most people worship government like they worship god; even most atheists worship government, regardless of it being a coercive monopoly that infringes on individual rights Once you plant the seed of authoritarian sociopathy (i.e., government), it will grow into an uncontrollable weed We don't need to be robbed in order to be protected! The sundry collectivistic and fascistic ills of HOA's, which aren't free market phenomena http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowners%27_association One man's story about his encounters with HOA Nazis: http://www.parkingenforcementforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3 In order to transition to a free market, people need to deal with their fears about conflicts with others Objectivist's failure to understand and thus criticize corporations and corporatism Does child-rearing advice from someone who doesn't have any children have validity? Yes, because we were all children once, and we all know the nature of being respected and disrespected "Authority" figures believe they are behaving rationally, so they can live with themselves; the thinly veiled rationalizations of authoritarianism in parenting Honoring the feelings of little people; some great video clips by psychologist Haim Ginott: http://www.betweenparentandchild.com/index.php?s=content&p=free_parenting_video_clips No one likes to be disrespected "Getting kids to do things"; the nature of brutalizing behavior that parents are prone to indulge in, which denies self-responsibility and autonomy Operant conditioning (rewards and punishments) begets more of itself, and it sets up an inhuman living environment Some great empirical analysis on this issue: http://www.alfiekohn.org/books.htm Seeing children as irresponsible, naughty, irrational, deficient, or flawed, is no different than the religious doctrine of Original Sin--and it excuses authoritarian sociopathy, i.e., pervasive disrespect The flawed medical school model, as noted by Harvard business prof Clayton Christensen: http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3798.html Good parenting is really about self-trust, a healthy relationship to one's own mind, and cultivating self-esteem, so that one nurtures it in others (especially children) The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=35 Central planners of all guises always seem to know "what's best for you" The so-called "age of reason" (seven for Catholicism, btw) is no guide in understanding how to treat children appropriately Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNELNq4XJKs Two books addressing the moral corruption in families and thus in society - On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion & Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love by Stefan Molyneux http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/ One must respect the will of the child, while offering rational guidance and education, in order to make the world a significantly better place bumper music "Fortunate Son" from Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits (and Willy & The Poor Boys) album by Creedence Clearwater Revival http://www.johnfogerty.com/albums.html ; fan site: http://www.creedence-online.net/all_in_one/

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Front Page Article in Keene Sentinel on Free Staters http://freekeene.com/2008/08/31/front-page-article-in-keene-sentinel-on-free-staters/ Free State project is moving slowly: Like-minded people are still coming to the Granite State By PHILLIP BANTZ The nature of the FSP motto...to get rid of, or not to get rid of, government? The proper goal should be: To get rid of the powerful meme of government in the general populace Is the power of the government in the people's hands? The nature of the "idea of freedom" in California; reinventing yourself and your life, washing away useless traditions Versus California's status quo political oppression that people don't think about (which pretty much exists everywhere) Government rations things by having you stand in line Special guest: "The Governator" ;) Main question to him: Why didn't you let the government of California go bankrupt and thus disappear? The market creates and rewards independent, self-sufficient people Non-cooperative activists in Keene, NH challenging the "authority" of the governmental thugs The greatness of civil disobedience is that it reveals the way of life of governmental employees (coercion) Sam Dodson's great handiwork: The Obscured Truth Network - http://www.youtube.com/obscuredtruth Governmental-issued "ID" is a typically unnoticed form of tyranny The fear of liberty in a NH resident is typical in America; status quo, all the way! Excuses for not being an activist for liberty: Don't want to be bothered; it's too difficult; I'm afraid; I can't do it! Corrupt form of morality allows for political disrespect on a daily basis; "knuckling under for the common good" "Good" slaves attack other slaves seeking freedom What other people decided years, decades, and centuries ago has NOTHING to do with your individual rights in the present The NH constitution's "common good" nonsense In Search Of The Governed’s Consent http://completeliberty.com/chapter10.php "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." AR http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/minorityrights.html The culture of government; coercion and brainwashing The Zimbabwe catastrophe, caused by government of course; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe Expanding the U.S. government's military empire into Africa... http://www.africom.mil/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command Beware slavespeak: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml Magnetic field 'aids coma victim' http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7669056.stm Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation might be the cure for the terracrats in government... The tremendous ills of coercive funding of scientific research (i.e., via taxation) Basing your life on research money from government gives you little motivation to solve disease-related problems, unlike market-based research, which is currently hamstrung by authoritarian/obedience memes related to coercive organizations such as the FDA and protectionist rackets such as the AMA Basically, it's time WAKE UP! You don't have to go through a windshield to be in a coma bumper music "A Great Day for Freedom" from The Division Bell album by Pink Floyd http://www.pinkfloyd.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfri5tMXfc4

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Economics of Police Brutality by Art Carden http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=174 All of the world's problems could be solved is we had clearly defined ownership The contradiction of "public property" and the unaddressed fears of ownership WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT (AFTER A BIT OF INSPECTION) http://completeliberty.com/chapter3.php Psychology of Ownership http://www.logicallearning.net/libpsychologyofo.html Competition is a civilizing force; externalities explained (they're all around us) The Obviousness of Anarchy by John Hasnas http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf Riding shotgun with a cop; the-end-justifies-the-means argument to provide "security" Part 1: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/21/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-15/ Part 2: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/22/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-25/ Part 3: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/23/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-35/ Part 4: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/24/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-45/ Part 5: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/25/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-55/ Security comes with respect for individuals rights, not violation of them 'Competing' police forces follows from a privatized system (no "public property") The ills of socialized/communized "services"--denying individuals self-responsibility Crime is the Health of The State, The Kaptain's Log by Kapt Kanada, aka Manuel Miles http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle446-20071202-09.html Statists practices of the fine arts of theft, rape, murder, arson, and duplicity The Statist "justice" system grows with the creation of more unjust laws, i.e., those that infringe on individual rights Government people protecting their own, essentially ensuring their own security, not yours The practice of coercing you in order to "help" you; the immense propaganda needed to keep the sham going Ayn Rand's contradictions about government and objective laws http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anarchism.html Anarchy simply means "no rulers"--no tyrants allowed The government is a naive floating abstraction; the meme of government isn't much different than the meme of God, except that government translates directly into violence Projecting one's fears onto the marketplace, creating gangs of armed thugs in one's mind to somehow maintain the meme of government (which is a giant gang of armed thugs, btw) More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime And Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr. http://tinyurl.com/elg5u For a rights-respecting person, the freedom to defend yourself is absolute Peaceful coexistence is impossible with the gang called government Defining one's terms: "competing governments" as contradictory A coercive monopoly in the realm of justice essentially ruins society Rand's (and big "O"bjectivists') strain of authoritarian sociopathy Basically, people's fear of conflict with other people enslaves them and perpetuates government A coercive monopoly of "justice" services, i.e., government (even one funded voluntarily) will always provide unjust and incompetent and expensive "services" One case in point: Laws against private electricity production commerce; Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators: Jock Gill - On Energy, IT, Markets and Society http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3825.html My experiences with the local mafia with a flag--parking ticket Nazis--who look to make criminals out of rights-respecting individuals The brilliance of Ayn Rand was that she taught individuals to think independently and to use logic according to the main metaphysical laws (identity, causality, and non-contradiction) Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger http://scholar.google.com.mx/books?id=_znYGPoNe2wC&dq=subject:%22Objectivism+(Philosophy)%22&lr=&as_brr=0&hl=en&rview=1&pgis=1 Objectively speaking, the coercive monopoly of government is a authoritarian mythology that contradicts the virtue of justice The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts by Harry Binswanger http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CB02B Seeing "police" for what they are: individuals who join a gang that violates individual rights and only pays lip service to the virtue of justice (enough to hoodwink those they rule over and maintain their coercive monopoly) Central planning is authoritarian sociopathy writ large--in which fears and love of domination deny freedom of choice The most vile form of mysticism: the murderous meme of government, which has no "procedural safeguards" Government as the preeminent violator of individual rights: denying people's capacity to choose a real upholder of justice So naturally, real upholders of justice will be seen as threats to government Understanding individual rights is simple: Don't hit people, don't take their stuff, and honor your promises (though no involuntary servitude is valid) "Our Enemy, The Party" by SEKIII posted by Wally Conger http://wconger.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-enemy-party.html The ills of "partyarchy," i.e., vote-chasing and power-seeking; the absurd oxymoron of politician libertarianism "The hopeless utopia of minarchy" Distinction between politics and ethics, objectively speaking http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/morality.html Seeking freedom via the State is wrong; to be consistent, one must favor not only abolition over gradualism but also market over power as the means to achieve freedom SEKIII: "The State loses by each free transaction committed in defiance or evasion of its laws, regulations and taxes; the State gains by every compliance with, acceptance of, and payment to its institutions. Thus does agorism create anarchy and partyarchy preserve the State." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics Objectivists will always lose their argument for government to their more statist comrades Coffee and chocolate are the key to long life by Richard Gray, Science Correspondent http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3223650/Coffee-and-chocolate-are-the-key-to-long-life.html bumper music "Letter From The Government" by Brother Ali http://www.brotherali.com/ http://www.myspace.com/brotherali

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Using the guns of government--for the "good" of whom? Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd The endless rationalizations for unjustifiable statist coercion So-called informed voters as the most corrupt The contrary definitions of the word anarchy Who gets to enforce their views on others? Voters, of course Contrary to a democracy and even a Constitutional republic, in a just society there are no irreconcilable conflicts between individuals "Conflicts" of Men's Interests by Ayn Rand (audio) http://atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-conflicts.html Local governments as biggest meddlers in our lives, who coercively monopolize whole swaths of the economy and extort money from individuals The fallacy of the night-watchman State Cognitive dissonance people retain between the nature of the market and government Ominous parallels from Nazi Germany; collectivism and kowtowing to authority The moral corruption in seeking a "license," getting approval from an unjust organization of people Regulatory madness under the guise of "protection" of consumers; selling the regulatory racket... How can someone claim to possess the authority to override your life and property? "Because I say so!" Parental mistreatment of children's wills, inducing fears and destroying their semblance of rationality with mythologies The article we didn't cover, for obvious reasons: The Case for Obama by Bruce Ramsey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=24 None of the Above by Doug Casey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=26 Five reasons why you shouldn't vote: 1) it's unethical 2) it compromises your privacy 3) it's a degrading experience (begging for your freedom) 4) it just encourages the bastards 5) your vote only counts in the sense that it makes you complicit in the crimes inevitably committed by its recipient; and, of course, voting booths are merely suggestion boxes for slaves A libertarian political party is contradictory; ballots can't be cast to determine and uphold principles An encounter with SEK3, who wrote: http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf Why don't we vote for whether or not extortion is permissible in society! if you could really change things through voting, it would be illegal; the coercive funding of government is the crux of the issue The end of "public property" spells the end of government, which is why people always bring up "the roads" argument--they sense the demise of mommy/daddy government if the roads are privatized The authoritarian triad of family, church, and state Give me Libertarianism by D. Allen Kerr http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081015-NEWS-81015016 Live and let live; don't hit people and don't take their stuff Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence by David Kelly http://theobjectivistcenter.org/showcontent.aspx?ct=38&h=51 Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism by David Kelly http://books.google.com/books?id=C6x38zJL3ccC&dq=truth+and+toleration&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 (The rebuttal: FACT AND VALUE by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_fv) Viable Values by Tara Smith http://books.google.com/books?id=v4U9Toa7CeQC&dq=viable+values&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 The fear of anarchy and our ambivalence towards it (and thus towards freedom) Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/03/21/the-anarchy-boogey-man/ http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/04/18/lack-of-faith-is-a-virtue/ Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; extremism as smear word and anti-concept http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anticoncepts.html Free Talk Live (http://freetalklive.com) promoting the good memes of anarchism under the pragmatic watch of the FCC All humans are created equal; therefore, no one can rule over an equal 20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics by John Stossel - Pt. 1 of 6 http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Phs6CwnutoY http://abcnews.go.com/2020/stossel http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerindex?id=6062018 20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics - Pt. 6 of 6 (not present on abc.com) http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVLr8Y18e0 (Check out the terracrat's despicable response to Stossel's sarcasm about why government just doesn't subsidize everything if it's so damn good; approximately 7'15" into the clip Pt. 5 of 6: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rTI9r4pUYh4) The immoral premise of statist "education": coercion is necessary to provide a service--the end justifies the irrational means Spontaneous order of markets, i.e., individuals making their own choices based on their own context, needs and knowledge Government fails, not only empirically, but also ethically L. Neil Smith's inspiring words, once again, beseeching people to get government out of the way of their own potential for immense prosperity Unanimous consent and the utopian vision by L. Neil Smith http://www.lneilsmith.org/utopian.html Strip the veneer of legitimacy from governmental employees, and you reveal simply a group of violent thugs Freeing your personal life is key to freeing society; lifting the black cloud of oppression from your life The governmental gang as the root cause of other gangs Childhood acceptance of the argument "Because I said so!" leads to cognitive and moral dissonance (bad things must be ok because good people do them) We always have the choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing--and to pretend we're not aware of it Security can't be provided by those who extort money from you! Pain caused by denial of the truth; "owning" one's pain and letting go of it; being optimistic and curious bumper music "A New Philosophy" by Zen Mechanics http://www.myspace.com/zenmechanics

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Freedom is always an inside job A New Beginning for e-gold? http://blog.e-gold.com/2008/07/a-new-beginning.html Kowtowing to the fascists in order to run a business Fed pot calling the e-gold kettle black: The U.S. government is the biggest money launderer in the history of humankind! The governmental "officials" are the REAL criminals Money laundering as primarily a phenomenon of the "war on drugs," i.e., the war on people Fed's modus operandi: printing "money" out of thin air and monopolizing the universal medium of exchange (e.g., via legal tender laws) Another hard money business, http://goldmoney.com, and issues with the Liberty Dollar http://www.libertydollar.org/ - latest news, btw: http://www.libertydollar.org/news-stories/pdfs/1222573426.pdf Perceived value of fiat currency...courtesy of governmental coercion, of course Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury--the biggest counterfeiters around The dynamic economy that governmental goons have deprived you of over the years Devaluation of fiat currency makes you more and more poor Trading dollars for real money as good monetary, political, and psychological action Paper receipts redeemable for metal money versus non-redeemable paper dollars The abandonment of the semi-free market gold standard and the sinister master stroke of pricing oil in dollars Info tech productivity effects as great counterweight to governmental insanity Governmental (communized) roads and bridges are NOTHING compared to governmental currency (communized "money system") Fractional reserve banking as financial alchemy and the ultimate Ponzi scheme Money as metal, and fiat currency as mere paper backed by guns (dominating the world today) All fiat currencies have failed throughout history Those "in charge" know less than nothing; they only know a lot of what isn't so; Keynesian economics is illogical and immoral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics Spotlight on Keynesian Economics by Murray N. Rothbard http://mises.org/story/2950 Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics Edited by Mark Skousen http://www.mises.org/books/dissent.pdf The Critics of Keynesian Economics Edited with an Introduction and new Preface by Henry Hazlitt http://www.mises.org/books/critics.pdf "The business cycle" as the result of nonsensical ideas Business Cycle Primer by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=606 So, those who cause recessions, depressions, etc., are the worst type of fascists, because they seek to control the very lifeblood of an economy--money We must look to the free enterprise sector to utilize sound money; e.g., Shire Silver (http://shiresilver.com/) The end of fractional reserve banking would make honest people out of present banksters The end of the State spells the end of the deceptive and corrupt corporate system too What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard http://mises.org/money.asp We would have so much more wealth in a free market economy; everything becomes more affordable, every year things become cheaper Stop Worrying about the Election by Isaac M. Morehouse http://mises.org/story/3129 Don't become accustomed to bondage - Keep the spirit of freedom alive! The biggest enslavement is of your own mind; A Prison for Your Mind http://tinyurl.com/lje25 The Shawshank Redemption - Final Scene - Movie Ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TjyR_3mUsM Being ungovernable (like the early Quakers in Pennsylvania and the freedom fighters in communist Poland) and generating freedom-based hope and a positive sense of life http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke Cool Hand Luke - "Failure to communicate" scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o If we didn't have regulation, or violence against creativity, we'd see more things like http://www.iconaircraft.com/ Freeing your mind by coming to terms with your own fears about others being free... What do you do every day to promote (or detract from) freedom in your life? bumper music "Money (That's What I Want)" by The Flying Lizards http://www.myspace.com/flyinglizards

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Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State by Hans-Hermann Hoppe http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe18.html The Hobbesian State remains in a perpetual state of nature Who governs the governors? It's turtles all the way down... The State itself isn't bound by any outside enforcer, so no external 3rd party exists to hold it accountable; the State is in a state of anarchy! The State as the mafia with a flag, the organization of authoritarian sociopaths who live off productive people The procedures of government are just public relations bs The basic structure of all government comes from the desperation of the authoritarian sociopathic personality within any given community realizing that they have nothing of value (no product or service) to offer their neighbors in voluntarily trade Those in government love the idea of forcing others to provide for them The mainstream media's complicity, and government schools' as indoctrination camps supplemental reading: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm The gravity well of governmental coercion and corruption You don't need to steal to provide a product of service Fear of productiveness and the hatred of the good for being the good http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/envyhatredofthegoodforbeingthegood.html The cover-up: collectivistic and altruistic propaganda, and the ethics of sacrifice http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html Governmental employees true motives are the opposite of their rhetoric If you have to deal with a governmental bureaucrat, ask them this pointed question: Other than the threat of physical violence, what is the nature of the relationship between you (and your violent organization) and me? Making coercive thugs pay a spiritual price, just by asking some simple questions and making some simple ethical observations The State is a legal fiction; thus, there can be no crimes against the State An alternative pledge of allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the logic of my own life and my own well-being and to my own happiness for which it stands, one mind independent, purposeful, with liberty and justice for me Neither bullets nor ballot: Violence, including the vote, cannot bring liberty by Wendy McElroy http://www.wendymcelroy.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.165 "Benjamin Tucker maintained that one could no more attack government by electing politicians than one could prevent crime by becoming a criminal" No one has the right to a position of power over others; something Ron Paul Revolutionaries need to integrate Most people are conflicted philosophically, so their integrity suffers Essentially, voting is violence "Anarchism analyzes the State as an institution whose purpose is to violate rights in order to secure benefits to a privileged class...Thus, the political anarchist must explain why he aspires to an office he proclaims inherently unjust" The contradictory ideas and behavior of most Free State Project members (http://freestateproject.org) Rationalizing taking governmental jobs... Another question for governmental employees: If what you're doing is so valuable to the community, why don't you offer it on a voluntary basis? Exposing a contradictory code of ethics Various Free Staters' bad plan of joining the mafia and convincing their fellow coercers that putting down the guns will be a good thing Exposing the psychological, emotional, landscape... Transitioning mentally to the ethics of complete liberty; the growing snowball of awareness Making people aware of their fear of good ideas Message to Free Staters: Joining a criminal gang in order to get rid of criminality won't achieve freedom Freeing your personal life from statist mentalities, and then strategizing a plan to free your political life from statist mentalities Getting personal with those who seek to rule over you Signs of Autumn by B.R. Merrick http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/merrick/merrick5.html The violence of elections taken to its logical conclusion--guns pointed at you One reason that political anarchism (or any form of minarchism) will never work: Productive and respectful people will never want to get involved with the insanity and evil of politics Ron Paul's contradictions You "win" in politics by being a very crafty, deceiving, equivocating coercer--Obama as icon for this sociopathy bumper music "Bomb the World" from Everyone Deserves Music album by Michael Franti http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/listen.php

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