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Ender's Review of the Web
 
Web articles of likely interest to individualists found during the week of May 23-29, 2004.
 
The review is a little bit late this week as result of my being occupied with the funeral of my grandfather-in-law. He was a very good man and this issue is dedicated to him: Clair Page (Nov. 5, 1904 - May 25, 2004).
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Political Liberty
Articles showing a positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
 
Patriot Act Besieged
        by Nat Hentoff from The Village Voice
"By May, 311 towns and cities -- and four state legislatures (Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, and Maine) -- had passed Bill of Rights resolutions instructing the members of Congress from those areas to roll back the most egregiously repressive sections of the Patriot Act, subsequent executive orders, and other extensions of the act."
 
Why gay marriage is good for conservatism
        by Robyn E. Blumner from St. Petersburg Times
"Supporting gay marriage also helps stabilize society by providing added security to otherwise vulnerable single people. ... Marriage means there will be a support system in place to address a sudden illness, an accident or a bout of unemployment. It gives adults a safety net that might otherwise be left to government to provide."
 
Lessons about Our Constitution from Abu Ghraib
        by Jacob G. Hornberger from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"The uncomfortable truth is that all too many federal officials hold the Constitution and the Bill of Rights in contempt. Why else did the executive branch set up its prisoner camp in Cuba if not to be immune from the constraints of the Constitution and the judgments of U.S. federal courts?"
 
Life in Amerika
Articles depicting the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
 
Why Ashcroft Must Go
        by Justin Raimondo from Antiwar.com
"The Attorney General of the United States has been on a witch-hunt since 9/11, and what I want to know is how many others are being held.... We are all enemy combatants in Ashcroft's war on the Constitution - except for the tiny minority of militant neocons, who play the indispensable role of volunteer stool pigeons and rationalizers of the police state mentality."
 

The Story of Two Buses

        by Gary North from LewRockwell.com
"'So, the bad people learn how to steal from the good people without voting, and the good people learn how to steal from each other by voting. Is that how it works?' That's how it works. Both systems use buses to take the students to school. But the colors are different."
 
Bad Taste
        by Jacob Sullum from Reason
"The point of the word 'family' is to assure you that DeWine et al. have the best of intentions. As Davis explains, 'This bill will help keep our children away from tobacco products and protect them from being targeted by the tobacco industry'."
 
Ordered Liberty without the State
Some people say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an interesting topic.
 
Laws and Sausages
        by Jim Davies from Strike The Root
"Very simply, [a law is] a one-sided contract; the lawmakers sign it, but those controlled by it do not. A group of thugs gets together and makes a rule to control society. Its effects are imposed upon others by force, whether they agree with it or not, and whether in their sovereign right as human self-owners they would have chosen the mandated course of action or not."
 
The State Was a Mistake
        by Walter Block from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"21st-century democracies work better in many ways than did monarchies of earlier epochs, not because of their different political systems but in spite of them. Had there been 17th-century democracies, they would have been far worse than rule by princes during that century...."
 
The Divine Right of Irresponsibility
        by Butler Shaffer from LewRockwell.com
"Washington, in other words, wants the United Nations' assurance that its functionaries will not be subject to the same Nuremburg principles it insisted on imposing on World War II's losers; principles that, for decades, served as the basis for so much moralizing and filmmaking about individual accountability even in wartime."
 
Spreading Decentralism
Articles demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
 
Symbolic war
        by Vox Day from WorldNetDaily.com
"Freedom tends to increase when individuals have access to weapons of the same quality as governments -- the great age of liberty began when private men were able to afford better long-barreled rifles than the muskets of the royal British troops."
 
Psyops In Fourth Generation War
        by William S. Lind from LewRockwell.com
"Washington and the CPA seem to define 'liberation' as beating the Iraqis to a pulp, then handing them their 'freedom' like a gift from a master to a slave. In societies where honor, dignity and manliness are still important virtues, that can never work. But 'losing to win' sometimes can."
 
A Shi'ite International?
        by Juan Cole from Antiwar.com
"Some Americans may feel it is unfair of Shi'ites to blame only the U.S. for the fighting, when it is Muqtada's militia that is firing from the shrines. But life is unfair. People always mind what foreigners do to the symbols of their native identity more than they mind what their own radicals do."
 
The New World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
 
Has the U.S. Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq?
        by Robert Higgs from The Independent Institute
"Did not Goering plead, for example, that operation of the concentration camps was necessary to preserve order? Did he not say, 'It was a question of removing danger'?"
 
Friendly Fire: Bush Strafes Syntax, Bombs Logic
        by Matthew Bryan from Strike The Root
"Full sovereignty! It rolls off the tongue with mellifluous grace and visions of glorious tomorrows. Never mind the 138,000 occupation troops, Iraqis! You will be free! June 30th will indeed be an historic occasion. For the first time in recorded history, a fully 'sovereign' nation will entertain a hostile occupying army."
 
Not Just for Privates' Eyes: American Prisons from de Tocqueville to Donald Rumsfeld
        by John Vorasangian from dissidentvoice.org
"Today, the public and the politicians it elects into offices are indifferent to political principles fundamental to the ideology of freedom. The American message of human dignity, continuously lectured to the world, has never been more hollow."
 
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
 
The Purpose of Voting
        by Per Bylund from Strike The Root
"Voting is to a libertarian nothing less than a minefield, where the number of mines is infinite. Trying to get across such a minefield is nothing but foolish, since the chance of success is almost nonexistent. The voting process is actually nothing but the illusion of letting the people decide their fate."
 
Here's how Iran might triumph in Iraq
        by James P. Pinkerton from Newsday
"Yes, Chalabi gave away many American secrets in return, but that was just icing on the cake, as you say. After the Americans entered Baghdad, his mission was completed. Because, to us, he was a bee; his mission was to sting Hussein, fatally, and then die himself."
 
Mr. President, What Planet Are You On?
        by Ivan Eland from Antiwar.com
"The only strategy that the administration seems to have is to churn out more propaganda about how well things are going. Just last week, the president continued to indulge in the fantasy of a democratic Iraq leading to a democratic Middle East: 'An Iraqi democracy is emerging... In time, Iraq will be a free and democratic nation at the heart of the Middle East'."
 
Spontaneous Order
Articles showing decentralized successes.
 
Gossip Wants to Be Free
        by Matt Welch from Reason
"Others see the proliferation of publishers as a positive development, and enjoy poking fun at the grumpy graybeards. In the words of Slate columnist Jack Shafer, who has drawn establishment fire for championing the right to publish breaking exit poll data, 'You're going up against a journalistic priesthood, and that priesthood feels threatened'."
 
The War on Property
        by Emiliano Antunez from Strike The Root
"Property ownership is the backbone of any free and capitalist society (The American Dream). ... The United States prides itself on the reputation of being a free and capitalistic society, but with each passing day, the rights of property owners violated and the laws governing property rights grow ever more intrusive."
 
'Find out the objective truth'
        by Vin Suprynowicz from Las Vegas Review-Journal
"Yes ... 'rational people' have to make decisions by weighing conflicting views. It's when you trust an 'expert' to tell you only what he or she has decided is 'the objective truth' that you're going to be in trouble."
 
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles showing centrally planned disasters.
 
Free Trade, Conservative Style
        by Gary North from LewRockwell.com
"The problem with bureaucrats with guns is that they use them mainly on their own citizens. These citizens stand at the border and make offers to people on the other side. But there are bureaucrats on both sides of the border who point guns at their own people and tell them, 'You can't make that offer' and 'You can't accept that offer'."
 
The High Price of Gas
        by L. Neil Smith from The Libertarian Enterprise
"Which brings us back to the price of gasoline, an aspect of the basic human need for transportation. ... But the general estimate is that taxes comprise at least 40 percent of the price of gasoline. Eliminate that, and the price drops to a buck twenty."
 
Big Government and Billion Dollar Campaigns
        by Patrick Basham from Cato Institute
"Therefore, the only plausible solution is to limit the size of government. Anything else merely treats the symptoms without addressing the underlying disease of the body politic. Lower government spending will lead to lower levels of campaign contributions; in turn, that will result in lower levels of campaign spending."
 
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in society.
 
Which Way the Young?
        by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"No seasoned observer of government can be surprised that the war on terror produced more terror and threats of terror, any more than we should be surprised to see the wars on tobacco, poverty, drinking, fat, speeding, illiteracy, and all the rest, fail just as badly."
 
Dynamite and Doublespeak
        by Miles Woolley from LewRockwell.com
"So if you follow your orders as did Sivits, that is wrong and you get punished. But if you don't follow your orders as did Mejia, who states that he could not stand to see Iraqis mistreated and could not stomach seeing civilians killed, that is wrong and you get punished. Sounds like doublespeak of the greatest magnitude to me."
 
A Tale of Two Free Countries
        by Anthony Gregory from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Our standards of what a free society should look like appear to have been thrown in the toilet along with the war prisoners' food. No wonder the politicians in D.C. can look into the camera with straight faces as they speak of the freedom in Iraq and the freedom here at home."
 
Bits of History
The Past seen with a fresh look.
 
Remembering the Vendée
        by Sophie Masson from LewRockwell.com
"It is only in the last two years that major memorials have been put up to the Vendéen martyrs, and then only by local government, never by the central one; only very recently that the Republic of France has begun to acknowledge the horrors of what can be seen as perhaps the first modern genocide."
 
The Wrestling Pacifist - Dave Dellinger, Rest in Peace
        by Stew Albert from CounterPunch
"Dave's being correctly portrayed as a person of unyielding beliefs and as a radical pacifist activist who spent years in prison because he to took his ideas seriously. It's all true-but let me present another side of Dellinger."
 
Knucklehead Economists
        by Ralph R. Reiland from NewsMax.com
"Hayek argued that the goal of consciously shaping our future according to top-down 'planning,' however laudable the intention, will 'unwittingly produce the very opposite of what we have been striving for'."
 
War and Peace
Articles showing the nature of War.
 
And You Can Never Wash Off All the Blood
        by James Glaser from LewRockwell.com
"Politicians and those who never went to war can blow the battles off and declare victory. Veterans can't do that. Soldiers and Marines from every war have a piece of that war stuck in their heads for the rest of their lives. Many of them have blood that never washes off."
 
How Much Is Hussein's Departure Worth?
        by Harry Browne from HarryBrowne.org
"Let's make [it] simpler. Rather than throwing numbers around, let's ask just one question: Would removing Hussein be worth it if the cost were just one human life -- but that life was yours? Would you be willing to die to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq?"
 
American Bastile
        by Lise Dupont McLain from LewRockwell.com
"Just voicing an objection to Lincoln's administration, supporting the Constitution of the United States, voicing an opinion against the illegal draft, refusing to pray for Lincoln, discouraging enlistments, etc. could land you in prison."
 
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out from the crowd.
 
Writer/Anarchist - Karl Hess, Sr. : May 25, 1923
        by Karl Hess, Jr. from LP News Archive
"Of the many heroes and heroines of the twentieth century, my father admired Zapata most of all. Emma Goldman and Petr Kroptkin were close seconds, but Zapata was a true democrat, a man of the people, a leader who was not a leader, a common man who rose to uncommon heights, a complex man of simple needs, a loving husband, and a caring neighbor." The Classics section at Endervidualism has links to more works by and about Karl Hess, Sr.
 
Dancer - Isadora Duncan : May 27, 1878
        from Women in History - Lakewood Public Library
"As a child, she learned unconventionally to 'listen to the music with your soul.'  Her mother instilled in Isadora a love for dance, theater, Shakespeare and reading. At the young age of 6 years old, she danced for money and taught other children to dance."
 
Scientist - William Gilbert : May 24, 1544
        from BBC - Historic Figures
"The first man to research the properties of the lodestone (magnetic iron ore), William Gilbert famously published his findings in De Magnete ('The Magnet') - findings that greatly impressed astronomers such as Johannes Kepler and Galileo."
 
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV, Media, Music, poetry, etc.
 
Mozart Was a Red
        by Murray N. Rothbard from LewRockwell.com
"'Mozart Was a Red' is, to my knowledge, Murray N. Rothbard's one and only play. It is a form unusual for him, but one well suited to its subject: the cult that grew up around the novelist Ayn Rand and flourished in the 60s and early 70s. For the principal figures of Rand's short-lived 'Objectivist' movement were indeed like characters out of some theatrical farce."
 
A pitch for 'rational anarchy'
        by Warren Bluhm from The Green Bay News-Chronicle
"'A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as "state" and "society" and "government" have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals,' says the Prof. 'He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame - as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else'."
 
24's Subversive Message
        by Matthew Hisrich from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"The self-designated role of 'policeman to the world' has, perhaps, come at too high a price, for this country and the rest of the world. 24 is fiction, but 9/11 is horrifying reality."
 
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons, parodies, food, popular music and other things to amuse.
 
Should Rumsfeld Resign?
        from The Onion
"As the investigation into abuses at Abu Ghraib prison continues, some Americans are urging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to step down. What do you think?"
 
Bush to Use Giant Hypno-Coin In Speech To U.N. - 'You Are Getting Very Sleepy,' He Tells World Body
        by Andy Borowitz from BorowitzReport
"Mr. Bush will use the enormous hypnotic device to erase the delegates' memory of everything that has transpired in the past eighteen months and to force them to do his bidding, aides said."
 
Bugs Are Our Friends!
        by Bob Wallace from The Price of Liberty
"When I was little, an older kid told me the cicadas were just babies. When they were grown, they were six feet tall, and would sneak into children's rooms at night to stick a straw in sleeping kids' ears and suck their brains out."
 
Deep Thought
Scientific and scholarly studies, philosophical essays, in-depth and longer articles.
 
My Debt to Mises
        by James Leroy Wilson from LewRockwell.com
"Mises systematically destroyed the conceit of The State, that its laws and coercion can function as values that can persuade people to become 'good' in The State's eyes. Instead, he advanced the idea that The State only imposes additional costs and impediments on human action and thereby distorts it and takes away the freedom and prosperity we otherwise would have had."
 
The Death of David Reimer
        by Jesse Walker from Reason
"It's significant that groups like the Intersex Society focus their attention not on the scientific debate over the roots of gender identification, but on the proper way to treat those people who have landed in their position. It's interesting to compare and contrast the battles they're fighting with the battles being fought by transsexuals."
 
Friend or Foe?
        by Per Bylund from Strike The Root
"Leftist anarchists may claim property is in itself a theft from 'community,' but they cannot force people into not having the choice to produce wealth. Abolishing the state may very well mean all or most property as of today is abolished, but any wealth created in the post-state societies can be identified as property by whoever produced it."
 
Miscellany
Articles not easily classified.
 
Home Schooling:  An "Encouraging and Robust" Movement
        by Tait Trussell from Mackinac Center for Public Policy
"Without government money and with few regulations home-schooled children are usually outperforming their peers. Home schooling is an imaginative balance of freedom and responsibility."
 
Objectivists no longer objective
        by Barbara Branden from Libertarian International
"On the one hand, of course, [Chris Sciabarra] has been thanked and lauded by many, as he should be. But on the other hand, he has been vilified and condemned as a crank, as unscholarly, and as a traitor to Objectivism by Ayn Rand Institute writers -- who are nevertheless quite content to ride on his coattails in the academic market."
 
On Not Saving the World
        by Bob Wallace from Strike The Root
"That is the main message of the movie--you can save a few people, especially the ones you love, but you cannot save the world. Change has to be done one person at a time, not the whole world at one time. The 'whole world at one time' is the fantasy of lunatics, whose hopeless attempts at change always involve war and destruction."
 
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