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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