The essence of complete liberty is mutual respect of persons and property
If people in government really wanted to help people, they wouldn't do "business" at the point of a gun (the mafia with a flag)
For statists, freedom is passe
One damn fine statist automobile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
Uber Czar to be Renamed by Jennifer Kerfuffle
http://manhattancapital.blogspot.com/2009/02/uber-czar-to-be-renamed.html
The drug war has been greatly successful in destroying individual rights
Shooting socialistic/fascistic fish in a barrel...
Ending the Hidden Agenda Behind Tax Cuts by Joe Brewer
http://www.truthout.org/021709R
Liberals/progressives and conservatives are basically two statist peas in the pod of authoritarian sociopathy
What is one thing that government (aka a legalized coercive monopoly) does better than any business in the marketplace? Perhaps public relations!
A coercive monopoly imposes the lowest quality product/service at the highest possible price
The various euphemisms of taxation...
People don't need others to impede their trade--or take a cut of it; statists aren't needed
It boils down to the productive people versus the parasites
Should freedom be free? Of course
You don't need representation: You represent yourself every day via the money you make, save, and spend
Presidents merely posture and pretend to have authority
The number one goal of authoritarian sociopaths is to control productive people; if it weren't for their pr scheme, they'd be shamed out of their "jobs"
Key question: If what those in government provide is so valuable, why don't they provide it in a voluntary manner (i.e., without pointing guns at people and coercing them)?
Words such as "must" and "require" simply reflect the ideology of violence
The people who are attracted to governmental service are most interested in controlling others
Gangsters and banksters run together; they're part of the same tribe in which legislation creates economic disasters, which subvert personal responsibility
Progressives et al forward governmental solutions to government-created problems
If you consider yourself a moral person, and you think that the institution of government is good, then you really need to check your contradictory premises
Just because people comply and toss ballots in a box, doesn't mean they're not being coerced
Citizens and states are legal fictions, arbitrary constructs that enslave individuals
The nature of the (future) profit-driven health care system, versus the statist status quo with shoddy service and high prices
Coercion is anti-reason and anti-life
Statism is the philosophy of death
bumper music "United States of "Whatever" (Bush Remix)" by Liam Lynch, directed by Jerry Gilio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3XiW9goo1U

Read email from listener, living in the not-so-distant future, a transitional period between 20th century statism and complete liberty--competing justice agencies, flights of fantasy or not?
No one is 'in control' in a complete liberty society; anarchy rules ;)
Red pill reality versus blue pill reality; the ever-present matrix of false and destructive memes that distort most people's viewpoints
The freest economies are the wealthiest economies
The vast disparities between regulated and unregulated labor markets are typically overlooked by statists
It's a fallacy to think that people (immigrants) are stealing jobs from other people--merely statist propaganda
Retaliatory force (self-defense) must be used in proportion to the force that is initiated against you, though it's normally best to involve an independent third party for objectivity's sake (thus the need for justice agencies)
Governmental police are a contradiction of the highest order--they extort money from you in order to protect you from thieves
The governmental court system, with its men/women in black dresses, prosecutors, and public pretenders is a complete insult to the idea of justice
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cash
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090211/ap_on_re_us/courthouse_kickbacks
The evil nature of the unionized "corrections system," in which the people involved perpetuate the unjust status quo and increase their power and wealth--it's again wise to follow the money trail in these matters
So-called privatization is still relying on extortion for funding--pure fascism
Is the customer always right? Context matters, and in the realm of justice services, the concept of right entails upholding the principles of self-ownership and property--thou shalt not aggress, which also applies to any agent of justice
"Customer service" at the DMV: pay or get shot (if you resist)
Justice is a virtue that implements a respectful form of ethics; unjust acts must not be committed with impunity, i.e., without restoring the victim(s)
Rand's take on the concept of justice: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/justice.html
Understanding customary legal principles is key to a just society: http://completeliberty.com/chapter8.php#153
Justice requires a value system that understands self-ownership and respectful relations with others
A germane article: Property, Causality, and Liability by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
http://www.mises.org/journals/qjae/pdf/qjae7_4_6.pdf
Morally enlightened people will not tolerate agencies that are biased and violate individual rights
Statism represents moral corruption and mass unenlightenment
Justice agencies, like individuals, will be incentivized to minimize conflict
Another germane essay: Does the State Resolve or Create Conflict? by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
http://www.mises.org/story/2075
Where there is competition in the marketplace, and therefore consumer choice, customary law that minimizes conflict (and thus reduces costs) will be the order of the day--people will naturally choose it over favoritism, bias, corruption, and injustice
Reasonable and cost-effective insurance policies ensure that justice is served, no matter how badly particular customers might behave; one doesn't throw a just business model away on the whim of an unjust customer
Prohibiting choice removes market indicators of what is good and what is not good
Praxeology and the Austrian school of economics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxeology
bumper music "Justice Tonight/Kick It Over" by The Clash
http://www.theclashonline.com/music/super-black-market-clash

Open access router network?
The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as Much as They Do) by Daniel B. Klein
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=536 ; http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_10_1_1_klein.pdf
"Why do some people never support a free-market proposal, even when they think it would work better than government intervention? For many, the reason is that collective political action offers the romantic notion that 'we’re all working together,' while market mechanisms seem to them less lofty because they rely on the self-interest of individuals acting privately." (D.K.)
TPR (the people's romance) encourages governmental intervention for its own sake
Pundits constantly conflate Americans with government, i.e., the people in government who rule over them
Fearing, revering, and worshipping power and the process of indoctrinating a public that kowtows to "authority"--main aspects of TPR
Encompassing sentiment coordination of the WHOLE group, whether you like it or not, is the nature of TPR
In actuality, there are no "citizens" and there is no "State"--both are arbitrary collectivistic and legal abstractions that lead to coercive control of rights-respecting people and distortion and destruction of entire economies
Without imposing a communized infrastructure, government would lose all perceived legitimacy
The in-group and out-group dynamic is also part of TPR--the out-group must be either shunned or subdued
Libertarian aphorism: The are two types of people--those who want to be left alone and those who won't leave them alone
Most slaves don't like seeing other slaves trying to break free of their shackles--so they attack them and keep all enslaved
TPR lives off coercion
The conceptual common denominator between fanciful Objectivist government and actual government is the coercive monopolization of its "services"
Feelings are tools of evaluation, not tools of cognition; people can have "joyous" feelings based on a whole host of contradictions--though they betray their true selves, their authentic selves
The three types of libertarians: classical liberals; laissez-faire capitalists (or minarchists); anarcho-capitalists, or market anarchists, or voluntarists (or agorists)
TPR lies at the heart of communism
The differences between working for a communist boss and a capitalist boss are immense, although oftentimes diminished in a mixed economy like today's
Statists are afflicted with slavespeak (http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.htm) and the Stockholm Syndrome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome)
The fatuous superstition of "the consent of the governed" leads to "being greater than kings and less than men" (de Toqueville)
Taxation is an extortion racket to no end
Lysander Spooner's 1840's attempt at competing with monopoly gang of the USPS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner#Early_years_and_the_postal_monopoly
Statists' version of a "civilized society" is one in which rights-respecting people are forced to do things against their wills--oh so civilized, isn't it!
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!: Recycling
http://www.sho.com/site/schedules/product.do?episodeid=121062&seriesid=134&seasonid=0
or watch here (though may go defunct) http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/92358/detail/ http://www.videosift.com/video/Penn-Teller-Bullshit-Recycling
Understanding property rights yields a better environment
Property Is An Extension Of Self-Ownership http://completeliberty.com/chapter3.php#68
Psychology of Ownership http://www.logicallearning.net/libpsychologyofo.html
Regulatory "policies bind people together, like a bundle of sticks" (D.K.)
Failing to strike the root of the welfare state...Dr. No's statist insanity: Immigration Reform in 2006? by Ron Paul
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul343.html
Free trade brings respectful relations with former strangers
Advocates of TPR abhor people withdrawing their participation by pursuing private interests
The "war on terrorism" is the "new giant in the parade of war frauds" (D.K.)
What Michael Phelps Should Have Said: Smoking pot shouldn't be a crime. Or the public's business by Radley Balko
http://www.reason.com/news/show/131438.html
Contrast mj with alchohol toxicity: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Toxicity
The four proposed origins of TPR:
1) Socio-biological and cultural evolution [though there are no innate ideas]
The Early Human Condition: http://www.logicallearning.net/libearlyhumancon.html
2) Society as family, government as parent
Radical unschooling is the most enlightened and respectful method of parenting, thus enabling a future society of complete liberty; Dayna Martin: What is Radical Unschooling? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiHyzS26N0Y
3) Society as being, government as head
We need better integration and understanding of the facets of self; The Art of Self-Discovery http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=38
4) Society as organization, government as director
The ills of identifying with the coercive gang and seeing their orders as legitimate
Pursuing one's rational self-interest entails respecting the rights of other people
Common decency entails respect for persons, property, and agreements
Libertarian principles cannot engender TPR
Wealth and technology enable people to withdraw and resist statism (http://freestateproject.org as a product of info tech)
The process and goals of civil disobedience--coupled with education in libertarian principles
Very commendable site: http://cdevolution.org/
Liberty lovers must raise "law enforcers'" awareness of the moral issues and make it unbearable for them (and statists in general) to pretend that their activities are legitimate, noble, and just
Police and courts depend on individual rights-violators to rationalize their own rights-violating gang--thus perpetuating their immoral scheme of unjust laws
Reaching out to the silent majority of Americans who share the libertarian credo of common decency is key to good activism :)
bumper music "Spanish Romance" by Liona Boyd - First Lady of Guitar (Album: The Best of Liona Boyd)
http://www.classicalguitar.com/

CLP on new 24/7 Net station: Liberty Radio Network
http://www.libertyradionetwork.com
Thank Goodness I Live in a Free Country by Don Cooper
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/cooper1.html
Control freak madness, aka regulatory agencies, and the adults they enslave
Call Me an Abolitionist, Please by Glen Allport
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/allport/allport4.html
The fear of anarchy and the common negative meaning of the term--and thus the fear of freedom
People generally do what they're told (by rulers), instead of seeking to have no rulers
The prison of statism demands conformity, and any deviation from it is "chaos"--thus, "anarchy" is to be avoided at all costs
Laws created by statists are designed to control people and keep rulers in power
Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux (dealing with people's ambivalence towards anarchy)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U
Laws that infringe on individual rights cause constant conflict in society
One should never pretend that government caters to its "customers," because good customer service requires voluntary patrons, or willing participants--not an extortion racket and hapless victims
Let's abolish the initiation of force, shall we; abolitionists of statist slavery unite!
Unjust law itself is a crime against peaceful people
Are religions about love or coercion? "faith and force are corollaries," noted Rand: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Delivers State of the State Address (I play an abridged excerpt, and Arnie joins me on the show with a new pack of lies!;) http://gov.ca.gov/index.php?/speech/11390/
Schwarzenegger's Green Challenge (politics--where acting is reality)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/19/60minutes/main4677334.shtml
What could be a more efficient and economical way to meet people's needs than government?!
Why Does the World Feel Wrong? by Will Groves
http://www.strike-the-root.com/91/groves/groves1.html
Do authoritarian sociopaths, aka psychopaths, have a conscience? Fat chance.
Hmm...did psychopaths invent the State to take advantage of the rest of us?
Choice quotes by W.G.: "Inhibiting critical thinking in the masses obviously benefits the state and psychopaths. When overtly self-serving, irresponsible, illegal, immoral, irrational behavior gets treated as normal, we can conclude that the educational system works quite well for our masters."
"...without understanding our social systems, we will never escape from the tyranny unleashed on us by psychopaths."
Essentially, we are being ruled by psychopathic morons, given that irrationality is their MO and a stupid system is the end result
bumper music "Anarchy in the UK" by the Sex Pistols
http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/