Scott Spaulding joins me for the second installment of our series covering his deployments with the US Marine Corps. We cover Scott's return home after his first deployment to Fallujah in Iraq. We also cover his second and final deployment to Iraq, which included the occupation of the Western Iraqi city of Rutba. Scott shares some of the realities of the US occupation.

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In this week's episode, I am proud to be joined by Ace Archist. Ace gained his liberty street cred by tirelessly bashing Twitter NPCs over the head with libertarian philosophy and logic. I just had to recruit his help in dismantling the most common pro-lockdown argument that we're waging war against.

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Foundations of Libertarian Ethics, Lecture 7: Property, Land, Contract | Roderick T. Long

Hans-Hermann Hoppe: A Theory of Socialism and Capitalism

Walter Block: A Libertarian Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ryan McMaken: Debunking Biden's Claim We Must "Protect the Vaccinated from the Unvaccinated"

Sean Leal: When Does Imposing Risk Become Aggression?

Liberty Weekly: A Rothbardian Legal Order ft. Law of Liberty Ep. 159

Canterbury v. Spence

Jacobson v. Massachusetts

Buck v. Bell

Liberty Weekly: The Abominable SCOTUS Decisions ft. Dean-o-Files Ep. 147

VAERS COVID Numbers

COVID Vaccine Deaths vs. Other Vaccine Deaths

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc. Study Suggesting VAERS Underreports

Pete Quinones' Episode with Richard Grove and Tom Luongo

Also, I was talking about Tom Mullen who is the OG Liberty Guy I met at the Ron Paul Conference in Virginia. Sorry Tom!!!

In this episode, I share with the listeners how I started a local resistance movement to COVID-19 mandates in my county. I hope you'll try the same in yours.

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Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Covid-19 Guidelines for K-12 Schools

Wisconsin DHS Releases New and Updated Resources for Schools to Keep Kids Safe

Wisconsin DHS Guidelines for the Prevention Investigation, and Control of COVID-19 Outbreaks in K-12 Schools in Wisconsin

Wisconsin DHS: COVID-19 County Data

Vaccine Tracker: Clark and Taylor counties at lowest vaccination rate in Wisconsin

PBS Wisconsin: Where is Wisconsin's COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Lagging--and Why?

Leader Telegram: Clark County Battling Vaccine Hesitancy

Wisconsin DHS: COVID County Data

Biden Pushes 'Door-to-Door' Campaign Targeting Unvaccinated People

Schools May Get Sued Over COVID-19. 7 Things to Know About Managing that Risk

Keith Knight joins me to discuss how the media manipulates public opinion to wage war against enemies foreign and domestic, real and imagined. These are 10 lies from WWI brought to you by Arthur Ponsonby's Falsehood in Wartime.

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Arthur Ponsonby: Falsehood in Wartime

If you want to skip to the concrete action portion of the episode, the time stamp is 51:50

I imagine that many of you, like me are feeling angry and demoralized about Biden's vaccination mandates last week. Many people I know are worried and their number one question is: What can I do? In this episode, I highlight uncanny parallels between the issues we are currently facing and the issues that the founding generation faced when fighting their war of secession from the British Empire. I also fill in the audience on what I am doing locally to fight these mandates and how they can replicate my efforts in their localities if they find them to be useful.

Also, before I get messages from the purest of pure anarchists out there, this is not the only method to resist. We must use every tool at our disposal. Lysander Spooner notwithstanding, a great number of people in this country still purport to believe in the Constitution.

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Draft COVID Resolutions

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions Full Text

Thomas Paine: The American Crisis

Patrick Henry: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death

William J. Watkins, Jr.: Reclaiming the American Revolution: The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions and Their Legacy

Episodes where I discuss Nullification, Judicial Review, and Watkins Jr.'s work

As the corporate press decries the US evacuation of Afghanistan because of its humanitarian cost and for fear of deteriorating human rights under Taliban rule, I remind the world that those prosecuting the War in Afghanistan don't give a shit about human rights and never did.

*WARNING THIS EPISODE CONTAINS EXPLICIT IMAGES OF WAR CRIMES* My intent is to educate viewers of the reality of war in Afghanistan for those who live there.

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The Intercept: LOSING SIGHT A 4-Year-Old Girl Was the Sole Survivor of a U.S. Drone Strike in Afghanistan. Then She Disappeared.

The Guardian: Afghanistan war logs: Task Force 373 – special forces hunting top Taliban

Human Rights Watch: How US-Funded Abuses Led to Failure in Afghanistan

Rolling Stone: The Kill Team Photos More war crime images the Pentagon doesn’t want you to see

Rolling Stone: The Kill Team: How U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan Murdered Innocent Civilians

The Guardian: US dropped record number of bombs on Afghanistan last year

The Intercept: The Joke of U.S. Justice and “Accountability” When They Bomb a Hospital

Russia Today: ‘Killing for the sake of killing’: Disillusioned US drone pilots leak footage of air strikes against unarmed Afghans, media says

Abby Martin's Empire Files: CIA Stories: Death Squads in Afghanistan

Shadowproof: ATROCITY: U.S. MASSACRE OF AFGHAN CHILDREN IN GHAZI KHAN

New York Times: Attack Puts Afghan Leader and NATO at Odds

New York Times: U.S. Soldiers Told to Ignore Sexual Abuse of Boys by Afghan Allies

Politico: Western nations coordinating to block Taliban recognition

Dave DeCamp at Antiwar.com: US Drone Strike in Kabul Kills 9 Family Members, Including 6 Children

CNN: US carries out Kabul airstrike targeting suspected ISIS-K bomber posing 'imminent' threat to airport

Dave DeCamp at Antiwar.com: Afghan Official: US Drone Strike in Kabul Kills Three Children

Despite Washington’s decision not to deploy Marines to Haiti after the July assassination of Haitian president Jovenelle Moise, the devastation of last Saturday’s 7.2 earthquake has provided US leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid for doing just that. These Marines will be operating at the behest of USAID, a CIA cutout that disastrously coordinated humanitarian relief efforts after the 2010 earthquake. Haitian recovery emphatically needs a Haitian solution.

List of Local Haitian Relief Efforts

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Kim Ives: Washington Chooses Ariel Henry for PM as More Details about Moise Murder Emerge

TIME: The Death Toll From Haiti's Earthquake Rises Above 2,200 People

CBC: Frustrations, violence flare in Haiti as earthquake survivors plead for aid

Patrick MacFarlane: Uncle Sam Must Cease Intervention in Haiti

RT: Biden to send Marines to guard US Embassy in Haiti, but says broader deployment ‘not on the agenda at this moment’

WTKR: USS Arlington departs Naval Station Norfolk for Haiti disaster relief after powerful earthquake

Haiti Liberte: Les marines débarqueront-ils à nouveau? Will the Marines Disembark again?

US State Department: U.S. Invasion and Occupation of Haiti, 1915–34

NACLA: Haiti's Earthquakes Require a Haitian Solution

New York Times: Secret Programs Hurt Foreign Aid Efforts

The Grayzone: Cuba's cultural counter-revolution: US gov't-backed rappers, artists gain fame as 'catalyst for current unrest'

Pando: The murderous history of USAID, the US Government agency behind Cuba's fake Twitter clone

Noam Chomsky: Failed State: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy

CNN: Aristide says U.S. deposed him in 'coup d'etat'

Rolling Stone: Beyond Relief: How the World Failed Haiti

ProPublica: How the Red Cross Raised Half a Billion Dollars for Haiti and Built Six Homes

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List of Local Haitian Relief Efforts

The hosts of Conflicts of Interest, Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter join me to discuss the unfolding events in Afghanistan. We discuss myriad topics, including what a Taliban government might look like, why Afghanistan fell so quickly, what the war's legacy could be, and how the close of the war relates to Biden's larger cold war footing with China.

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List of Afghan Capitols/provinces in the order they fell

Thomas Knapp: Now About that Peace Dividend... 

Rick Westhead: *Graphic* Don't Look, don't tell, troops told

Danny Sjursen on Conflicts of Interest

Danny Sjursen on Facts on the Ground

Ray McGovern: Hold the Generals Accountable This Time

Ron Paul: Kabul Has Fallen - But Don't Blame Biden

Jacob Hornberger: Blame Biden for Afghanistan?

Doug Bandow: As America's Imperial Ambitions Collapse, Washington Should Ask: Who Lost Afghanistan?

Daniel Larison: Biden's Prudent Decision to Withdraw from Afghanistan

China ready for 'friendly relations' with Taliban, welcomes Afghan development projects

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THIS IS A VIDEO DOCUMENTARY BEST VIEWED:  Odysee: http://www.odysee.com/@libertyweekly/why-can't-johnny-kill YouTube: https://youtu.be/gBbzLRHTmwg The subject of killing in war has largely been unexplored by the libertarian community, at the very least in its relation to the morality of war. Most who have studied the topic in depth are military or working with the military. This week's episode is an introduction to what will be a major area of inquiry for the podcast going forward. We will explore this resistance to killing and its relationship to moral injury. We will also attempt to answer the question: does the immorality of a particular conflict increase the rate of moral injury suffered in that war? Full Transcript and Sources Episode 178 of the Liberty Weekly Podcast is Brought to you by: Liberty Weekly Subscribestar Rakuten Cash Back Referral Link Liberty Weekly Substack The Liberty Weekly Patreon Page: help support the show and gain access to tons of bonus content! Become a patron today! Become a Patron! Liberty Weekly on Flote. Patreon Bonuses for Crypto! Additional Citations: Collateral Murder Winter Soldier Testimony [Liberty Weekly] Blood Makes the Green Grass Grow: Conditioning Soldiers to Kill --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/libertyweekly/support

Returning guest Scott Spaulding joins us the first episode in a planned four-part series to discuss his four deployment experiences, two in Iraq and two in Afghanistan. In this episode, Scott recounts his entire first deployment as a Civil Affairs Marine. Which began with preparations for the Second Battle of Fallujah in the late summer and Fall of 2004. Scott fought in the second Battle of Falluja and then participated in humanitarian efforts to rebuild the city and support the civilian population. 

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