Collectivistic statist turf war insanity
King rejects govt's resignation, for now by Robert Wielaard
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/17/king-rejects-govts-resignation-for-now-1/
Governmental "officials" tear markets apart and extol self-sacrifical "public service"
D.C. Arrests Residents For Missing Jury Service by Keith L. Alexander
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/13/AR2008071301798_pf.html
Forced "justice" makes perfect sense, doesn't it; coercion is "cooperation"
Jurors are essentially slaves of judges; jury nullification is illegal, sayeth "the law"
The legal system benefits government and lawyers and screws the enslaved "customers"
Once again, voting and jury nullification are not needed to achieve liberty; rather, people's independent mindset is
Legislature approves bill banning trans fats by Samantha Sondag
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/15/MN0111OTUA.DTL
The 'land of ban' scoffs at the nature of property rights; public pressure is voluntary; governmental pressure is coercive
The most important thing in the world that needs protecting: Your right to choose
a couple interesting scientific articles related to cardiovascular health:
Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis -- The Role of HDL Cholesterol, Lp(a), and LDL Particle Size
(just google the article title and click from there, if you get the annoying sign-in page)
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/439375
Measurement of LDL and HDL particle size does not improve CAD diagnosis
http://www.lipidsonline.org/news/print.cfm?aid=6602
Genetic-testing start-ups asked to stop selling in Calif. by Stefanie Olsen
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9971383-7.html?hhTest=1
Perfect example of the regulatory State; following the money trail and areas of corporate convolution
What a free market in medicine would be like: everything becomes more and more affordable
Bush lifts executive ban on offshore oil drilling
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/14/bush.offshore/index.html
Politics in midstream, once again, based on central planning; rather, all drilling areas should be privately owned and regulated--and thus be accountable
here's a great blog post with lots of info:
The Oil Pricing Squeeze Is On by David Theroux
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=140
Deadliest job in America: Working on cell phone towers
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/97827
OSHA fascists to the rescue! Give me a break; say goodbye to common sense and productivity; workers know their work best; rational tort law
All the most vile forms of tyranny come from the edict that "This is for your safety"--as if we should look to a coercive monopoly to protect us
The guiding light for people in the free market: Use your own judgment, do things reasonable and prudent based on the circumstances, and don't follow authoritarian rules for their own sake
Loss of personal control and belief in Higher Powers
http://atheists.meetup.com/518/boards/view/viewthread?thread=5064714
Need for self-esteem and individual choice
"But Who Will Build the Roads" Market Anarchy Explained
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/166
The contradiction of government: Evil people controlling other purportedly evil people?
Death By Government by R. Rummel
http://tinyurl.com/rusyx
The governmental employee modus operandi: passing the buck and shirking moral responsibility
They Didn’t Attack Switzerland by Bill Walker
http://www.lewrockwell.com/walker/walker32.html
The whole "war on terror" is ill-gotten; US government only protects their own (and even that fails)
Collectivistic thinking treats States as quasi-individuals; coercive government is the real problem, not a State that has an interventionist foreign policy
bumper music "All You Fascists" by Billy Bragg And Wilco
http://www.billybragg.co.uk/releases/albums/mermaid_avenueII/merII11.html

Truthdig - Reports - The Hedonists of Power by Chris Hedges
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080623_the_hedonists_of_power/
Modern-day courtiers: The mainstream media
Colbert stickin' it to The Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents'_Association_Dinner
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879
Fascism in America via State-created corporations
Get rid of government--problems solved!
Journalists' individual sacrifices
Where people get their collectivistic fears...
Ridiculous nation-state chest-pounding
Philosophical rationalizations hide fears
Stockholm syndrome writ large: Identifying with and apologizing for the actions of one's political abusers
The youth in Iran as potential catalyst for positive change
Dealing with political frustration
Meddlings of governments as genesis of terrorism
The individual values of journalists--or lack thereof
Croc Dundee to tax authorities: 'Come and get me'
http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx/?news=321662&GT1=28101
The Real Crocodile Dundee by Vin Suprynowicz
http://www.lewrockwell.com/suprynowicz/suprynowicz48.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_William_Ansell
Don't appease tax "authorities" (thieves); either you honor property rights or you don't
Question for statists: Should any unsolicited product or service be imposed at gunpoint?
Recognizing the difference between coercion and voluntary trade
"It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head." (Sally Kempton)
A society of complete liberty is a society of dignity
Politics as reflection of self-concept
Coming to terms with childhood trauma and fear vis a vis authority
The Disowned Self by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=46
The Miracle Fruit, a Tease for the Taste Buds by Patrick Farrell and Kassie Bracken
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/dining/28flavor.html
http://flavortripping.wordpress.com/ & http://www.miraclefruitman.com/
Riding a Flavor Trip :)
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=1615a44db1aa2c70758ae67c12b06cb1f4be9808
bumper music "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon
http://johnlennon.com/html/discography.aspx?upc=724352485826

The Faux of July by Mike Wasdin
http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/wasdin/wasdin1.html
The nation of unwitting slaves; new planet shopping, anyone?
Are Obama and McCain your typical Nazis?
Declaration of Independence
http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm
Ah, the land of collectivism, a place where all sorts of evils are supposedly sufferable
The 'can-do' American spirit still exists and is vital to our future
The nature of consent, contracts, breach of contracts, and unanimous consent
Government, the antithesis of freedom
Petition for redress of grievances; being humble has its drawbacks
We The People Foundation
http://www.givemeliberty.org/
The Lawsuit to Restore Constitutional Order
http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/InfoCenter.htm
http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/CourtFilings/ComplaintAmended-9-15-04.PDF
http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Court-Docs/6700-2ndCirc-Full-Appeal-Oct-2007.pdf
What makes jurisdiction?
The contradictory concept of "state" and other deleterious collectivistic abstractions
The Pentagon Is America's Biggest Polluter by Joshua Frank
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/85186/?page=entire
The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives by Nick Turse
http://us.macmillan.com/thecomplex
A Pentagon's Who's Who of Your Life by Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse
http://www.lewrockwell.com/engelhardt/engelhardt329.html
Root of despotism: the "power" to lay and collect taxes
Shays Fought the Revolution's Final Battle, and We Lost by George Smith
http://www.strike-the-root.com/52/smith/smith4.html
Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle by Leonard L. Richards
http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/13777.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion
Ever Wonder How Politicians Think? (the grasshoppers vs the ants, from A Bug's Life)
http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/26/33/
The many facets of statism, and the fear and ignorance that creates them Shirking responsibility and rationalization
Hiring leaps in public sector by Dennis Cauchon
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20080430/1a_lede30_dom.art.htm
The ills of the parasitism of government
Astronomers on Verge of Finding Earth's Twin by Jeanna Bryner
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080624-st-planet-tally.html
bumper music "American Idiot" by Green Day
http://www.greenday.com/greenday.html

An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism by Brain Police
http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx
Voting as an lack of consumer choice
Representatives don't represent you
Supposed "checks and balances"
Small government isn't beautiful; government itself is ugly to the bone
Mississippi Drug War Blues, The Case of Cory Maye by Drew Carey
http://www.reason.tv/video/show/403.html
The folly of working for the State in order to get rid of the State
False--and forced--"agency"
Watered-down libertarianism, and its political rejection
World's Smallest Political Quiz, and its erroneous divisions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Smallest_Political_Quiz
Agorism and the informal (gray and black) market economy
http://agorism.info/counter-economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_economy
Freedom Quotient--that is, Liberation Factor minus Enslavement Factor
Economic Means to Freedom - Part X by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/economic/eco_10.html
Participating in politics is illogical from the get-go
Libertarianism as abolitionist in principle, not reformist
The psychology of jailers and other perpetrators of heinousness
The fallacy of "voting as an act of self-defense" and acquiescence to plunder--going behind the magic curtain
The Nature Of Present Government (quoting Lysander Spooner on knaves, dupes, and the rest, and on taking responsibility for your political plunder)
http://www.logicallearning.net/libnatureofgover.html
Societal Structures Posturing As Proper: Democracies And Republics (quoting Benjamin Tucker on majority rule as evil and ballots as bullets)
http://www.logicallearning.net/libdemocraciesan.html
Some solutions: Economic disengagement from statism (agorism); education (www.tolfa.us); Hoppe's anti-intellectual intellectuals (delegitimizers of statism); civil disobedience
Secular humanists faith in statism
Religion and Libertarianism by Walter Block
http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block103.html
Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Ayn Rand
http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mysticism.html
"Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority"
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html
The church prepares the "flock" for the dictator
FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/fcc-wants-a-magic-po.html
bumper music "Get Up Stand Up" from Songs Of Freedom (Disc 2) by Bob Marley and the Wailers
http://www.bamstores.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3017162