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Political Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
The Road to Serfdom after 60
Years
by James A. Dorn from Cato Institute
"When private property rights are violated and
economic freedom is attenuated by various forms of government
intervention, our other freedoms are threatened. The Jews in Nazi Germany
first had their economic liberties violated. The rest of the horrors
followed."
Stop the socialist pledge
by Mary Lou Seymour from Rational
Review
"People do NOT like their icons being
questioned, and, judging from the frenzy whipped up by the mention
of removing a few words from the 'pledge,' the idea OF REMOVING
THE WHOLE DANG THING may be a bit much for folks to handle."
Yes, You Can Work Without a Social
Security Number
by Claire Wolfe from Loompanics
Unlimited
"'You
can't work without a Social Security number.' Several
generations of young Americans were told that big lie as they
reached working age. Sadly, in the last few years that lie has
been replaced by an even worse one: 'You can't leave the
hospital at birth without a Social Security number'."
Life in
Amerika
Articles depicting the
negative impact of politics on Liberty.
Derivative Crimes and
Federal Injustice
by William L. Anderson and Candice E. Jackson from The
Future of Freedom Foundation
"The great English jurist William
Blackstone, who articulated the 'Rights of Englishmen' upon
which law in this country was built, declared that law must be a
shield to protect the innocent from predators, both private and
public."
To the major parties, dissent is a
nuisance
by Robyn E. Blumner from St.
Petersburg Times
"Both Democrats and Republicans
are guilty of trying to keep their ever-more scripted
conventions unmarred by controversy, and by controversy I
mean issues that people care enough about to take to the
streets."
America Mired in Morass of Laws
and Regulations
by Radley Balko from
FOXNews.com
"Last week, Martha
Stewart...was convicted of lying to federal investigators
about a crime with which she was never charged. Most
analysts agree that prosecutors never charged Stewart with
the crime of insider trading because it's a law too
complicated for most jurors to understand."
Ordered Liberty
without the State
Some people
say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an
interesting topic.
A Market For Exile?
by Ray Daugherty from
anti-state.com
"A shunning firm, as
the name implies, is a company that handles the business of
shunning those who have been accused of crimes and make no attempt
to answer the charges."
Government: Who Needs It?
by Jim Davies from Strike The
Root
"I don't know how to count how
many there are, but we must reckon with all three levels;
Federal, State and Local. Many millions of them, at least;
from teachers who tell our children what to believe, to
diplomats who tell foreigners what to do, to revenue agents
who tell us all to hand over the annual $4.5T needed to fund
it all, to sanitary workers who usefully dispose of trash. ...
They need government, and we must have compassion for them."
Martha the Scapegoat
by Butler Shaffer from
LewRockwell.com
"The scapegoat is also
politically useful, during periods of turbulence, as a
means of reminding people that the state retains the power
of life and death over them. In the words of a nineteenth
century tribal chief: 'If I were to abolish human
sacrifice, I should deprive myself of one of the most
effectual means of keeping the people in subjection'."
Spreading Decentralism
Articles
demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
Phuck Pheminism
by Sunni
Maravillosa from Endervidualism
"I simply don't
think of myself in terms of categories like that -- and
haven't for decades. When I was about 10 or 11 years old, I
spent some time thinking about how I wanted to define/describe
myself. ... If I had had a label for what I determined about
myself that day, I would have called myself an individualist.
It remains one of the few labels I wear comfortably."
The
Fallacy of Composition
by Lee McCracken from
Strike The Root
"How can I expect my
freedom to be respected if I don't respect yours? This
applies to groups as well as individuals. Folks in
Nebraska needn't be especially concerned about what
folks in California or Vermont are doing. Affirming
the principle of peaceful separation is nothing more
than affirming the right of all people to determine
their own fate."
Visceral Individualism
by Aaron James
Sutherlin from anti-state.com
"This document is
written for those who value their individuality
above all else. For those who are willing to stay
out of what they do not consider their concern,
who take responsibility for everything which they
do consider their concern, and who demand the same
from others."
The New
World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Middle East: More Fundamental
Problems
by Alan Bock from
Antiwar.com
"The nation-state as a concept may well
have had its day already in the 'developed' world. … We
don't know yet what will replace the nation-state. I
would like to see it deconstructed and rule made more
local...."
They Shoot Journalists, Don't
They?
by Norman Solomon from
Dissident Voice
"For the authorities in
charge of an occupation, the positive deterrent
effects of such policies are self-evident when
journalists know that their lives will be in danger if
they try to document instances of brutality on the
part of occupiers."
Logic of Empire
by Brian Doherty from
Reason
"But just because the
goals of the imperialists aren't nakedly evil
doesn't mean their path is wisest for the life,
liberty, and pursuit of happiness of the United
States' citizens -- you know, those old-fashioned
goals for which governments are instituted among
men. Immanentizing the Eschaton is not in the
current U.S. Constitution."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
Take Not Insults From
Campaigns
by
Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"Statecraft is necessarily an immoral, dirty
business. Any incumbent who has done his job has
got closets full of bones and piles of dirt
under carpets. If an opposing candidate can't
come up with a plausible accusation of massive
corruption, graft, failures, payoffs, betrayals,
cover-ups, and the like, he just hasn't done his
homework."
Why Not Another
Party of the People?
by Bill Kauffman
from CounterPunch
"The parties of
Jefferson and Lincoln have clearcut the
redwood forests, drained the gulfstream
waters, leveled the purple mountains and
scalped the amber waves of grain only to come
up with George W. Bush and John F. Kerry:
Skull and Bones-dum versus Skull and Bones-dee."
Inside the War Party
by Justin
Raimondo from Antiwar.com
"The lies that
snagged us into conquering and occupying Iraq
are now being exposed as the fabrications of a
small and very dedicated group of policy
analysts and political appointees embedded in
the secondary tiers of the national security
bureaucracy."
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
Staying in the Orchestra
by Gary North from LewRockwell.com
"America, unlike England, has never
taught its citizens to stay in their place. This is our greatest
economic strength as a nation. There are always new orchestras
forming, always conductors who are looking for people who can play.
If you are willing to play second fiddle, even if you are now
playing first violin in an orchestra that doesn't play your kind of
music, there is a conductor out there who wants you."
Ten Ethical Objections
to the Market Economy
by Murray N. Rothbard from Ludwig von
Mises Institute
"There is no sense to any concept of
morality, regardless of the particular moral action one favors, if
a man is not free to do the immoral as well as the moral thing. If
a man is not free to choose, if he is compelled by force to do the
moral thing, then, on the contrary, he is being deprived of the
opportunity of being moral."
To Resist Capitalism
by Per Bylund from Strike The Root
"Free-marketeers know the market
simply is an advanced web of voluntary agreements between people
for their mutual benefit. It is based on the notion that people in
general have the ability to identify what they want, and act
accordingly. Some people may be uneducated or unaware of laws of
nature, but all men can rely on reason in making decisions for
themselves."
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
Welfare Mouse
by RiShawn Biddle
from Reason
"It has even
become adept at getting financial help from Washington in the
indirect form of copyright protection. To keep Mickey Mouse,
Pluto and other characters out of the public domain, it
successfully lobbied Congress for the Sonny Bono Act, which
extended the life of its copyrights from life plus 50 years to
life plus 70 -- restraining free speech in the process. Funny
since Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin draw heavily from works
that have long ago become fodder for public use."
Git Yer Hands Out
of my Pockets!
by Sunni Maravillosa from The
Price of Liberty
"With large bureaucratic
systems, whether it's the federal income tax or a so-called
fair tax, everyone who plays the game loses. Each
individual's money is taken by force; it's used to support
policies that many find objectionable; and it pits
individual against individual in a sick, pathetic contest to
try to get more from 'the other guy' than is paid to him."
A New
American Century - The Foundering Fathers Would Have Wept
by Fred Reed from
FredOnEverything
"In the Twenties the government
tried to stop the sale of hooch. It didn't work because the
public wanted hooch. The same is true of drugs. People want
them. That's why they buy them. (A patented Fred Insight,
forty-weight. You could lube bearings with it.)"
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
Corpses on the
Campaign Trail
by Ryan McMaken from
LewRockwell.com
"In addition to the mere
appeal to the alleged past heroics of the Bush
administration will be the appeal to continue the war on
terrorism in earnest. Never mind the fact that upon
hearing the news of the attacks of September 11th, Bush
and Cheney were busy hiding in 'undisclosed' locations.
This year, we'll be asked to remember words, not deeds,
and there will undoubtedly be lots of clips of the
president talking tough, calling everyone he can think of
a coward."
Suggestions
for Healthy Living
by John deLaubenfels from
Strike The Root
"Many people get into
terrible trouble by talking to govgoons. Look at what
recently happened to Martha Stewart: She was charged
with, and convicted of, not the 'crime' of insider
trading, but the 'crime' of lying about what she had or
had not done. Don't help them screw you!"
Why They
Throw Rocks
by William S. Lind from
CounterPunch
"...[T]he state arose, in
Europe starting in the 15th century, to bring order. Not
freedom, not capitalism, certainly not democracy, but
order. Between the decline of the High Middle Ages and
the rise of the state, Europe was plagued by disorder,
often in the form of roving bands of armed men looking
for employment as soldiers."
Bits of History
The Past seen with a fresh
look.
Samuel
Edward Konkin III -- 1947-2004
by Jeff Riggenbach from
Rational Review
"He knew also that there are
two, and only two kinds of journalism -- the kind in
which these assumptions are consciously held and
explicitly identified, and the kind in which they are
never identified, even by the journalists whose work
they invisibly shape and direct. Sam was always the
first sort of journalist: no one reading any of his
publications was ever in the slightest doubt about the
point of view held by its editor."
F. A. Hayek
and The Road to Serfdom: A Sixtieth- Anniversary
Appreciation
by Richard M. Ebeling
from The Freeman
"What freedom is left to
people, Hayek asked, when the government has the
ability to decide what books will be printed or movies
will be shown or plays will be performed? What escape
does the individual have from the power of the state
when the government controls everyone's education,
employment, and consumption?"
Terror
Famine
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
from LewRockwell.com
"The number of Ukrainian
dead in the famine of 1932-33 has generally been given
as five million. According to Conquest, other peasant
catastrophes from 1930 through 1937, including
enormous numbers of deportations of alleged 'kulaks,'
bring the grand total of deaths to a mind-numbing 14.5
million."
War and Peace
Articles showing the nature
of War.
The
Forgotten Soldiers of Operation 'Iraqi Freedom'
by Natasha Saulnier from
Strike The Root
"The interviewees only
hint at it, saying the madness, destruction, blood,
and burnt flesh can make the strongest man lose his
mind. In their silence, the soldiers mute themselves
much like the mainstream media, downplaying the
bloodbath on the battlefield to keep up the
unflinching image of an individual (or nation) at
war."
The New
Pentagon Papers
by Karen Kwiatkowski
from t r u t h o u t
"The safe outlet was
provided by retired Col. David Hackworth.... The
'deep throat' part was his idea.... When I was
particularly upset, like when I heard Zinni called a
'traitor,' I wrote about it in articles like this
one."
No
to Nukes
by Jim Lobe from
LewRockwell.com
"Other scientists and
weapons specialists who signed the document stressed
that the administration's insistence on retaining a
nuclear arsenal and developing new weapons not only
risks undermining the NPT and global
nonproliferation efforts, but also makes little
military sense in an era when smaller, more precise
conventional weapons are available."
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out from
the crowd.
Economist - Frank
Fetter : Mar. 8, 1863
by Jeffrey
Herbener from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Prior to the
advent of a mature Ludwig von Mises, Fetter
was the world's leading subjective-value
theorist."
Author -
Douglas Adams : Mar. 11, 1952
from
DouglasAdams.com
"He was creator
of all the various manifestations of The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy which
started life as a BBC Radio 4 series. Since
its first airing in March 1978 it has been
transformed into a series of best-selling
novels, a TV series, a record album, a
computer game and several stage
adaptations."
Author - Jack Kerouac : Mar. 12,
1922
from CMG
Worldwide
"Jack had become
the representative of the Beat generation,
to his chagrin. Fans lauded him and critics
derided him as an advocate for the excesses
and world-weariness of the Beat generation."
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV,
Media, Music, poetry, etc.
Roads to
Fascism: Sixty Years Later
by Roderick T. Long from
LewRockwell.com
"This year marks the 60th
anniversary of these books' publication. 'The Road to
Serfdom', 'Omnipotent Government', and 'As We Go
Marching' belong on every freedom-lover's bookshelf."
Return of
the Yeti
by Jesse Walker from
Reason
"Experts are uncertain
as to what might have prompted CW's [Culture War's]
reemergence, though most analysts point either to
the alarming decay of our once healthy culture or to
the repressive urges of puritanical troglodytes."
The
Varieties of Religious Experience
by Rodger Jacobs from
Strike The Root
"Yet what I have just
accomplished in this brief passage was to
memorialize two human lives--perhaps three because I
believe that Vince has since gone on to that big
taxi stand in the sky--that most readers have never
heard of. I have done what Virginia Woolf commanded,
making someone's life real by putting it down on
paper."
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons, parodies, food, popular
music and other things to amuse.
Federal deficit:
Meet the other white meat
by Dave Barry from The Miami
Herald
"Today's topic is: Famous
Hollywood Celebrities Having Sex With Squid! Actually,
that is not today's topic. I'm just trying to attract
readers to today's actual topic, which is: the federal
budget deficit. WAIT! Come back!"
Where Is My
Gay Apocalypse?
by Mark Morford from SF
Gate
Over 3,500 gay marriages
and, what, no hellfire? I was promised hellfire. And
riots. What gives?
Flip and
Flop
by Karen Kwiatkowski from
LewRockwell.com
"Now -- if you are thinking
about voting, I hope I have helped you determine the
better presidential candidate this year. Flip's on top,
but his past and present flops are more serious than
Flop's past and present flops, but this could flip if we
fairly consider the future floppabilities of both Flip
and Flop."
Deep Thought
Scientific and
scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
A Treatise of His Own
by
Joseph R. Stromberg from Ludwig
von Mises Institute
"In
the fall of 1949, Herbert C.
Cornuelle, president of the Volker
Fund, asked Rothbard to write an
economics textbook that would
present the main ideas of Mises's
Human Action to the intelligent
reading public."
Freedom and Well-being:Libertarian
Psychology
by
Audie Gaddis, Ph.D. from The
Libertarian Enterprise
"More often than not we need
'mental enemas' to rid ourselves
of the contemporary lie that the
state, Madison Avenue, or 'the
right person,' is necessary for
us to be happy. The modern myth
is this: dependency equals
happiness."
The Defense of
Our Civilization Against
Intellectual Error
by
F. A. Hayek from The Freeman
"It
seems to me that the worst
mistake a fighter for our ideals
can make is to ascribe to our
opponents dishonest or immoral
aims. I know it is sometimes
difficult not to be irritated
into a feeling that most of them
are a bunch of irresponsible
demagogues who ought to know
better."
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
A Tale of Two
Heroines: Rachel Corrie & Jessica Lynch
by Douglas Herman from Strike
The Root
"Rachel Corrie would likely be
among the first to defend the heroism of private Lynch,
might disagree with this self-effacement by
Lynch. Survival against cruel forces without becoming
cruel yourself is heroic, an all too uncommon virtue."
To 'The
Socialists in All Parties'
by Carlos A. Ball from Tech
Central Station
"Hayek correctly believed
that even under a relatively mild form of socialism the
love of liberty is extinguished. Today, the Latin Social
Democrats and Christian Democrats are being displaced by
extremists such as Chávez, Kirchner, and Lula, who hope
that a good part of the population has by now forgotten
what individual freedom really means."
Is the
Right Kind of Liberalism Coming Back?
by Tibor R. Machan from
Strike The Root
"It isn't of course that
this essay is self-consciously libertarian. ... Rather
it is the liberalism of times past, when a good liberal
was an anti-statist and worried mainly about removing
all kinds of bondage from people imposed by other
people."
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