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Grassroots Movements; Free
Immigration; Hell, no, she won't
go; Gangsterism in the
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Political
Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
Hell, no, she won't go!
by L.Neil Smith from Rational
Review
"I narrowly avoided getting
drafted myself, during the Vietnam war. Ironically, worrying about the
draft -- I don't
play well in groups, I can't
place my life in the hands of others, and I won't
take orders from somebody dumber than I am --
gave me an ulcer, and the ulcer got me out of the draft. I whistled 'Alice's
Restaurant' all through the
physical."
Hey, Big Spender: What Part of NO Don't
You Understand?
by David Boaz from
Cato Institute
"Go back a bit further, and you could say that what most
voters wanted in 2000 was neither Bush nor Gore but smaller
government. A Los Angeles Times Poll in September 2000
found that Americans preferred 'smaller
government with fewer services'
to 'larger government
with many services' by
59 to 26 percent."
TLE Interviews Aaron Russo
-- Part One
Interview
by L.Neil Smith from The Libertarian Enterprise
"Aaron
Russo is becoming better and better known to libertarians as a
celebrated movie maker who is fed up with the direction in
which the Bush Administration is taking America, and seeks
the [Libertarian]
Party's Presidential
nomination."
Life in
Amerika
Articles depicting
the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
What happened to
live and let live?
by Robyn
E. Blumner from St.
Petersburg Times
"The
hoopla, in Massachusetts of all places -
home of openly gay congressman Barney Frank -
proves that even in the most enlightened corners of this
nation all pretense of rugged individualism, with its live-and-let-live
ethos, has been abandoned."
Ernest Money
by Jacob
Sullum from Reason
"Last fall Istook
was offended by ads in Washington's
Metro system in which Change the Climate said the
government should 'Legalize
and Tax Marijuana.'
So he did what any intolerant, power-mad politician would
do...."
Watch Out Gun Owners: The
Republicans Are Selling Us Out Again
by Michael Gaddy from The
Price Of Liberty
"While
many of us have been wondering just how old Dubya was
going to handle the sunset clause in the Assault Weapons
Ban, lo and behold the congressional Republicans have
devised a way to rescue their boy and keep the AWB, all
at the same time."
Ordered Liberty
without the State
Some people
say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an
interesting topic.
"Almost pregnant" liberty
by Student of
Life from Rational
Review
"The
question is: How can one be free if he cedes authority over
himself to another?
It's a pretty basic
question and it is the source of my greatest bewilderment with
libertarians. For those who do not readily see the point, it can
be asked another way: How can one be free within the context of
any government?"
Gangsterism
in the defense of liberty:A
reply to Randall Holcombe - Part One
by Ronn
Neff from The Last
Ditch
"Holcombe takes the
position of free-market
anarchists seriously, but he does not meet their arguments.
Rather, he is concerned to redirect the discussion away from
a debate between their position (which he calls 'orderly
anarchy') and the
defense of limited government, and into a discussion of 'how
government institutions can be designed to maximize their
protection of liberty.'"
Slackers, Arise! Support the Anti-Party!
by George F. Smith from Strike
The Root
"The
Anti-Party, of
course, would have no candidates --
nonvoting slackers wouldn't
have it any other way. The party's
focus would be on ideas. The Anti-Party
would provide high profile, timely commentary that
debunks the claims that government is necessary for a
secure, prosperous, and free society."
Spreading Decentralism
Articles
demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
How to Deal With Your Big, Fat,
Obnoxious Government
by Roger Young
from Strike The Root
"The State is a
beast only provoked to action when doing so works to its
advantage. Despite much evidence to the contrary, many
continue to believe in the benevolence of the beast; that if
enough of the right people approach it in just the right
way, the beast will be moved to grant the wishes of its
petitioners."
Fred Korematsu v. George W. Bush
by
Nat Hentoff from The
Village Voice
"Fred
Korematsu has involved himself in this confrontation
with George W. Bush because of what happened to him
and all the other Japanese Americans treated as
nonpersons during the Second World War."
The Withering Away Of
The State, Continued
by William S. Lind
from LewRockwell.com
"Mercenaries mark the state's
loss of its monopoly on war just as surely as do
the rise of non-state
actors. Mercs will work for whoever pays them,
state or non-state
player. The more roles they fill, the more
irrelevant the state becomes."
The New
World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Eisenhower Was Right
by
Jacob G. Hornberger from The
Future of Freedom Foundation
"To
gain an excellent understanding of the overwhelming
power and influence of the military-industrial
complex in American life --
and the tremendous damage it has done to our nation --
and the threat it poses to the freedom and well-being
of the American people, I highly recommend The
Sorrows of Empire by Chalmers Johnson...."
Kerry Tells Anti-War
Movement to Move On -
"It's Time to Get Over It"
by Mark
Hand from CounterPunch
"Researchers
and investigative reporters are fascinated with the
neoconservatives, that group of American empire
peddlers who turned George W. Bush into a junkie war
criminal. A similar group, the New Democrats, has
been pushing its own dangerous brand of U.S.
hegemony but with much less fanfare."
Tokyo Lets Loose
Lapdogs of War
by
Chalmers Johnson
from
Common Dreams
NewsCenter
"After his reelection as prime minister
in September, Koizumi railroaded a vote through
the Japanese Parliament endorsing the dispatch
of Self-Defense
Forces troops to Iraq, even though he
acknowledged that this was probably a violation
of Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
Kerry: He's
Peaking, Already
- Campaign Diary
by Alexander
Cockburn
and Jeffrey
St. Clair
from
CounterPunch
"Kerry
agrees with Bush about the tax cuts. He agrees
with him about the Patriot Act. He agrees with
him on trade. He agrees with him on the war.
Why change horses, Bush will ask the American
people. 'I
can manage things better,'
Kerry will respond. What else can he say?"
Find Me a Way To
Do This
by Morgan
Reynolds from LewRockwell.com
"Find
me a way? Any old way? Such talk might work
in a James Bond movie, where the license-to-kill
good guys follow the script and all ends
happily and Bond gets the girl again. But
such a message is incredibly dangerous in a
real government."
George
Bush, Make-Believe
President
by Sydney H.
Schanberg
from The Village Voice
"President
Bush's
war in Iraq, oddly, has begun to remind me
of the floating craps game in Guys and
Dolls. In the classic musical, the 'guys'
have to keep moving the venue from one
hiding place to another
-- to avoid getting caught playing an
illegal gambling game. The president, with
much bigger stakes, keeps moving his
rationale for the war (as he rolls the dice)
-- to avoid getting caught playing
with the truth."
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
Art, Faith, and
the Marketplace
by Llewellyn H.
Rockwell, Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"If
you like The Passion, and you like Mel's
vision in having seen a need where others did not, and the saga of
the film and all the obstacles inspire you, remember that none of
this would be possible without the institutions of the market
economy. To make a movie like this requires more than a good story
and courage."
Free Immigration - Part 1
by Nathan A. Barton
from The Price Of Liberty
"In a world with very little freedom left, the freedom to
travel might mean little. But in our world, with constant change
and great differences in the amount of liberty found in various
places, it is very important. Freedom to travel is certainly as
important as freedom of speech, religion, etc. because it is
tied so closely to them."
Here's How to Defend
Marriage
by Harry Browne from HarryBrowne.org
"Marriage
is a noble institution; it signifies to one and all that two
people regard each other in much higher esteem and intention
than was the case in previous relationships.
Only the individual can evaluate that esteem and that
intention. So why in the
world would we want government defining what marriage is?"
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
Censorship Is Not
Solution for Trashy TV
by Wendy McElroy from
ifeminists.net
"But
the next time there is a Janet Jackson incident, pro-regulation
voices will declare, 'the
fines were not enough.'
Then, talk of license revocation, and of extending decency
standards to cable or satellite radio, will arise with fresh
momentum."
Dairy farmers
ask, 'Got free speech?'
by Vin
Suprynowicz from Las Vegas
Review-Journal
"The Cochrans are
suing the federal government for requiring them to
participate in the dairy promotion program. You've
seen those ubiquitous 'Got
milk?' ads on TV
and billboards? Well, the Cochrans are asking, 'Got
free speech?'"
Where the
Jobs Went
by Alan Reynolds from Cato
Institute
"With
the nation's
highest dependence on high tech and IT jobs, San Jose was
at the epicenter of the 1996-2000 tech boom, but also of
the subsequent shake-out."
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
Resisting Intervention
by Alan
Bock from Antiwar.com
"It is difficult
for a country that welcomes opportunities to initiate
preventive wars to remain free and prosperous for long,
for war is not only the health of the State, it is the
antithesis of peaceful commerce."
The
Neocon War on Peace and Freedom
by
James Bovard from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Unlike some
enthusiasts of Bush's
wars, Frum and Perle do not talk about temporary
abridgments of privacy; instead, the new Über-Surveillance
State will presumably be with us forever."
Yes,
Minister!
by
Uri Avnery from
Strike The Root
"Common
sense would say: Bush & Blair were 'deceived,'
because they wanted to be deceived. Bush and the Neo-cons
who have taken over Washington had decided from the
beginning to attack Iraq, mainly in order to control
the oil, and the tales of WMD were designed to provide
a pretext that would frighten the masses."
Bits of History
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
Background of the Middle East Conflict, Part 3
by Wendy
McElroy from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Against the
advice of the American State Department, Truman
supported the establishment of a Jewish state. The
State Department worried that a pro-Zionist
stand would drive the Arabs toward the Soviets."
Executive
Order 9066--FDR's Enduring Legacy
by
Michael Powers
"The mass
roundup of Japanese Americans on the west coast
began in March 1942 and lasted for eight months. It
included women, young children, infants, and the
infirm."
The
Origins of Nazism
by Ludwig von Mises
from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"That
Prussia's
Parliament was only a sham and that the army was the
main stronghold of Prussia's
absolutism was not new to them. It was exactly
because they knew it that they fought in the great
conflict."
War and Peace
Articles showing the
nature of War.
Are
Libertarians Guilty of 'the Kitty Genovese Syndrome'?
by Gene
Callahan from LewRockwell.com
"Those of us
who are opposed to the US launching 'wars
of liberation'
might be forgiven if we declare that we would have
more faith in the depth of the interventionist's
concern if he were putting his own life, or at least
his own money, on the line."
Hair
Trigger Planet
by Alexander
Zaitchik from New
York Press
"In a sign
of the changing times, nostalgic Cold Warrior
William Safire blurted out in his Feb. 9
syndicated column something that has rarely been
said in polite company since 1989: that the
central mission of NATO is still to 'contain
the Russian bear'."
What Would Abe or George Do?
by Michael Tennant
from Strike The
Root
"If
the father of our country had felt the need to
lead the country into war, it is safe to assume
that he would not have done so under false
pretenses or changed the rationale halfway through
the war.
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Scientist -
Galileo Galilei :
Feb. 15, 1564
by Robin Chew
from Lucid Interactive
"Galileo'
observations with his new telescope
convinced him of the truth of Copernicus'
sun-entered or heliocentric theory."
Suffragette -
Susan Brownell Anthony :
Feb. 15, 1820
from Women
In History
"First
person arrested, put on trial and fined
for voting on November 5, 1872. Unable to
speak in her defense she refuse to pay 'a
dollar of your unjust penalty'."
Philosopher/Mathematician - Alfred North
Whitehead : Feb. 15, 1861
by A. D.
Irvine from Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
"According
to Whitehead, religion is concerned with
permanence amid change, and can be found
in the ordering we find within nature,
something he sometimes called the 'primordial
nature of God'."
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV,
Media, Music, poetry, etc.
Freedom Book of the Month
for January, 2004
Reviewed
by Sunni
Maravillosa from Free-Market.Net
"Financial Reckoning Day: Surviving the Soft
Depression of the 21st Century is an
interesting, amusing blend of history and current
events geared toward understanding markets, money,
and the manipulations thereof."
Goodbye, Space Child
by Charles Paul
Freund from Reason
"Politically
mandated futures don't
develop, because the forces behind them are
artificial. While many of the scientific
achievements of the space program were certainly
impressive (and many have indeed changed people's
lives), the cultural Space Age that author Topham
examines in his pages was an illusion."
The Debates of Liberty
by Christopher
Mayer from LewRockwell.com
"McElroy
has chosen to focus on a few of the many debates
that were carried on in pages of Liberty.
Many of these have a contemporary ring, as they
are still matters of debate today."
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
I'll do it yooooour wayyyyyy
by Dave
Barry from Miami
Herald
"For
the past few months, as I have traveled around this
great nation talking about my campaign for president,
the one question I have heard most often from the
voters, in these troubled times, is:
'President of what'?"
Osama Bin
Laden Found
Inside Each
Of Us
from The
Onion
"In
light of the new counter-terrorist
intelligence, Attorney General John Ashcroft has urged
lawmakers to expand the Patriot Act to allow federal
investigators to search within the hearts of all
Americans."
Attack of
the Gay Agenda!
by
Mark Fiore from The
Village Voice
Animated cartoon required Flash.
Deep Thought
Scientific
and scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
Grassroots
Movements and Giants In Haystacks
by Cat
Farmer from Endervidualism
"No matter how strange or
insignificant a person may seem,
or how unimpressive he may
appear, he has the potential to
be a giant somewhere within
him. Look in the mirror: you
have the potential to be a giant
somewhere within you, and if you
laugh at that thought, chances
are you'll have laughed at the
previous thought too."
Professors
and Intelligence
by Steven Yates from
LewRockwell.com
"Professor Brandon
stated that 'stupid
people are generally
conservative'
when he either meant to
say, 'conservative
people are generally stupid'
or wanted us to infer this."
The War of Janet's
Nipple
by L. Neil Smith from The
Libertarian Enterprise
"The way to freedom is
not through subtlety. You can't
fool a people into wanting it,
or sneak up on them the way
that Libertarian Party LINOs ('libertarians
in name only'
-- who have a great
many cognitive dissonance
problems of their own)
invariably insist on and
demand."
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
Arguments versus Fallacies
by Tibor R.
Machan from LewRockwell.com
"The
fallacy of ad hominems is resorted to by countless
people in these contests, even ones who could often make
their case stick quite rationally."
Crouch Down
by Mary Starrett from
NewsWithViews.com
"Critical
thinkers knew early on that the sanitized version of
what happened on 9-11 never did pass the smell test."
We Are sheep --
and That's
Not an Insult!
by Kalaong from The
Libertarian Enterprise
"We
are sheep. But some of us remember the good old days
before the shepherd came, when we ran like the wind
and leaped like grasshoppers and were warm all year
round and didn't
see almost all our children die for no reason at all."
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