http://completeliberty.com Weekly show that promotes total respect for self-ownership, property rights, and personal choice--amidst the authoritarian/obedience-oriented political and psychological memes in American culture (and elsewhere). Basically, governments and all they entail are the problem, not the solution. Voluntarism (or market anarchism, or anarcho-capitalism) and customary law principles, in accordance with reason and dignity, spell the solution. www.completeliberty.com en GNU General Public License (Public Domain) wes@completeliberty.com (Wes Bertrand) Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:59:00 GMT 180 The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America Have you had it with politics-as-usual? Are you curious about why the vague notion of "public interest" is constantly forwarded by those who want to control you and your property? Do you yearn for a day when you are respected as an individual? Do you want to learn about the implications of self-ownership? Do you desire to live in a brilliantly better future? A dangerous myth perpetuates our political plight in America - the belief that we are free. In fact, scores of unjust laws violate our individual rights daily. We are taxed, regulated, and forced to fund governmentally monopolized services, and if we attempt to defend ourselves from any of these infringements, we are fined, arrested, punished, or even destroyed. We are no longer subjects to the King, but are we veritable slaves to the State? Most of us are afraid to answer this question, because it's easier to conform and pretend that the myth of our freedom is true. But living in fear and being obedient aren't the essence of the American spirit - embracing liberty is. Complete Liberty Podcast explains not only the sundry ills of statism, but also why political freedom is so important - and how we, as Americans, can achieve it. Visit the website of the book at www.completeliberty.com. liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, freedom, politics, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, free market, natural law, rights Wes Bertrand http://libsyn.com/podcasts/completeliberty/images/newitunes.jpg http://completeliberty.com Clean http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=368420# http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/votlucka/votlucka2.html
Why?...Do most individuals need/want Mommy/Daddy Government?
Unquestioning adults as much less mature than children
Kids are naturally predisposed to active-mindedness
Ayn Rand's take on "Open Mind" and "Closed Mind"
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/openmindandclosedmind.html
Listening to what your mind is telling you...
Deism and Freedom by Robert L. Johnson
http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/johnson/johnson1.html
America is based on fear...What is fear?
Punished for disobedience--the ties between Parents and Governments
If we lived with our governmental oppressors...
Which is worse: tyrannical parents or tyrannical employees of government?
All political punishment is local
Attila and the Witch Doctor...softening the bones and brain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_New_Intellectual by Ayn Rand
For the New Intellectual by Ayn Rand
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_nonfiction_for_the_new_intellectual
Review by Edward Tanguay
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~tanguay/70.htm
The meme of government has jailed our minds (and thus limited our choices) a long time ago
A prison for your mind
http://tinyurl.com/yp4hdv
Valid definition of God is impossible because it has no referents in reality
Feelings about God aren't irreducible primaries
The triad of supernatural consciousness: omnipotence, omniscience, and infallibility
Will a post-technological singularity consciousness be Godlike?
"God" as the Universe makes the notion superfluous
Former atheist Antony Flew's and Peter Murphy's Deistic thinking...
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/atheist_philosopher_041210.html
http://www.deism.com/dogmaticatheism.htm
Scientist Stuart Kauffman's thoughts on catalytic closure of molecular species
http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html
Kauffman's At Home in the Universe
http://books.google.com/books?id=o-Owb5IDkSQC&dq=stuart+Kauffman+catalytic+closure&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
The secret of life is auto-catalysis review by Gert Korthof
http://home.planet.nl/~gkorthof/kortho32.htm
Beyond Reductionism: Reinventing The Sacred by Stuart A. Kauffman
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/kauffman06/kauffman06_index.html
Consciousness is inextricably tied to material reality
http://www.logicallearning.net/libanissueofmort.html
To postulate supernatural consciousness is the ultimate metaphysical question-begging
The laws of identity, causality, and non-contradiction must determine our beliefs
http://www.logicallearning.net/libidentitycausa.html
How belief in a "Creater" relates to fear...
The mental sacrifice of taking the leap of faith
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html
Faith and Force as corollaries...
Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Any Rand
http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm
Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Any Rand (audio of Rand herself, speech and q&a)
http://www.atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-faith-and-force.html
from Philosophy: Who Needs It by Ayn Rand
http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=AR07B
Scientists Close to Reconstructing First Living Cell
Researchers get genetic material to copy itself in a recreation of a simple protocell that could have existed eons ago by Nikhil Swaminathan
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=scientists-close-to-recon
Replicating clay particles and origin of life...
Various hypotheses: http://scienceweek.com/2005/sw050429-1.htm
http://originoflife.net/cairns_smith/quotes/
Cell as metaphor of complete liberty
Reality is knowable and science is how we find out more about it
Using logic to function optimally with our consciousness in objective reality
Asking "Why?" as way to truth, honesty, and virtue (or uncovering pretense, evasion, and lies)
Nathaniel Branden's quotation about the uniqueness of human consciousness and self-awareness
http://www.logicallearning.net/libevolution.html
The Psychology of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=54
bumper music "True Faith" by New Order
http://www.neworderonline.com/ ]]> podcasts Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:59:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=368420# 01:04:01 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=366188# Is depression increasing in society?
Depressingly Easy by Kelly Lambert
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=depressingly-easy&sc=MND_20080731
Challenging one's silent assumptions
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns
http://www.feelinggood.com/books.htm#book_fg
http://www.feelinggood.com/
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=35
Stop "Depressing"
Checking one's conscious and subconscious premises
Real-Time Relationships by Stefan Molyneux
http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR
False self vs True self
The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38
Living in accordance with rational self-interest and your own happiness
WebWise Business: Where Confidence Grows, Cashflow Goes
Chris Curtis of Web Business Ownership talks with Kirk Nugent on the VoiceAmerica Business Radio Network
http://www.webwiseshow.com/shows/show4.htm
Dealers of Deceit by Kirk Nugent (from: I Just Want To Testify "Pursue Your Passion Edition")
http://www.kirknugent.com/
excerpt from Practical Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux
http://freedomainradio.com/free/#PA
excerpts from Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux
http://freedomainradio.com/free/#EA
The psychological need for questioning social axioms
Rejecting the emotional trap of social metaphysics
Social Metaphysics by Nathaniel Branden in The Psychology of Self-Esteem
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=54
We are lonely for ourselves
Honoring the Self: Self-Esteem and Personal Transformation by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=43
Solzhenitsyn, chronicler of Soviet gulag, dies
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/08/03/1718171-solzhenitsyn-chronicler-of-soviet-gulag-dies
Solzhenitsyn's nationalism, Stockholm syndrome, and regimes of fear
Pursue Your Passion by Kirk Nugent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4wDVrfLIq0
The Ultimate Answer by Kirk Nugent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4e0xCLf28s
I Need You To Remember by Kirk Nugent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DH35qC1D34
bumper music "Right Here, Right Now" by Jesus Jones
http://www.jesusjones.com/ ]]> podcasts Wed, 6 Aug 2008 21:10:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=366188# 01:02:24 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=364744# http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff210.html
Are there primary and secondary rights?
Run for your life whenever you hear a governmental "official" talk about your safety and happiness...
Does the Jeffersonian rhetoric hold water?
Government's "securing rights" is a non sequitur
Because ideas are bulletproof, it's important to understand their origin and influence, particularly authoritarian ones
How does one provide one's "consent" to the government, while maintaining one's rights? Certainly not by birth and physical proximity
Individual rights defined
Implications for so-called intellectual "property"
Gated communities and HOA's versus governments
Interacting on entirely private property based on the rules of the owner(s)
SamIam's Obscured Truth Network
http://www.youtube.com/ObscuredTruth
The State has no standing and no actual legitimacy
Elections make a mockery of choice ("suggestion box for slaves")
http://www.panarchy.org/
Government versus governance; panarchism versus anarchism
The essence of the Red Pill
Tibor Machan's defense of government
http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html
"Private property" is a redundancy, as is "individual rights"
"Public property" is a contradiction in terms
Voting is a joke; your choices are not honored
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." H.L. Mencken
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes_by/h.+l.+mencken
Invalid forms of governance
If you like tyranny, then ~you~ can leave; in a just society, bullies are banned
The Jeffersonian Matrix
Robert Nozick's defense of government
http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html
Coercive monopolies of retaliatory force will always lead to injustice
Acceptance of false moral premises; the psychology of statism
Holding people accountable for their levels of immorality
Freeing Yourself from Politics by Stefan Molyneux (the two magic words: would you be in favor of using force "against me"?)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kB6uQcGo60I
Helping people look past their fears
Microfiltering Sepsis by Jennifer Chu
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20816/?a=f
Innovation in free market medicine versus FDA hindrances
bumper music "Revolutionary" Etude by Frederic Chopin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ãtude_Op._10,_No._12_(Chopin) ]]> podcasts Sat, 2 Aug 2008 04:16:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=364744# 01:10:39 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=362258# 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 Didnât 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
]]> podcasts Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:15:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=362258# 01:17:40 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=359601# 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 ]]> podcasts Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:34:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=359601# 00:53:08 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=357077# 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 ]]> podcasts Wed, 9 Jul 2008 01:14:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=357077# 01:13:46 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=355201# 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]]> podcasts Thu, 3 Jul 2008 00:30:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=355201# 01:02:35 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=353441# http://www.nysun.com/opinion/legalize-every-drug/80204/
Myths, lies, and downright stupidity of fear-ridden control freaks, so-called drug "warriors"
The liberty to make bad choices too
Trying to make a contradiction exist (government)
Why Have Governments? by Peter Namtvedt
http://www.reasontofreedom.com/why_have_governments.html
"...a million men serving in wretchedness, their necks under the yoke..."
Fearing choices and obeying authoriteye
Five Ways to Survive Any Disaster by Jen Phillips (interview with survival researcher Amanda Ripley)
http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/06/five-ways-to-survive-disaster.html
Government as perennial go-to organization during crisis!
Government-issued "crutches"
Information flow restricted by governmental "officials"
An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism
http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx
Problematic concepts that one accepts as valid, e.g., sacrifice
Regardless of who you vote for, you're not getting what you want
Note to statists: Don't hit people and don't take their stuff
Libertarian voting...and then a miracle happens...
Nathaniel Branden's powerful sentence completion exercises
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38
Liberty to me means--
Message to Ron Paul revolutionary candidates: The institutional framework of the State is for the purposes of statism
Coffee is actually okay (a long-term study reveals)
The One Minute Case For Individual Rights
http://oneminute.rationalmind.net/individual-rights/
bumper music "Whiskey Lullaby" by Alison Krauss Feat and Brad Paisley from A Hundred Miles Or More: A Collection album
http://www.rounder.com/index.php?id=album.php&catalog_id=6962 ]]> podcasts Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:05:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=353441# 01:02:20 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=351716# Cooperation versus coercion
Imagine defending the statist position
Roping us into a collectivistic nation
My first introduction to libertarianism and its central flaw:
Libertarianism in One Lesson by David Bergland
http://www.theadvocates.org/onelesson-interview.html
Capitalism fosters good will; government fosters ill will
The Facts Of Reality: Logic And History In Objectivist Debates About Government by Professor Nicholas Dykes
http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/philn/philn079.htm
The public relations scheme of statism (our protector and provider)
Can you be expected to obey unjust government?
Casting off the 'Santa Claus' of the State
Ayn Rand's contradiction of government - the coercive monopoly of the State
Competing justice agencies based on the principle of individual rights
Laissez-faire, A More Enlightened View Of CapitalismâAnd Its Contradictions
http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html
Preemptive initiation of force doctrine (i.e., imposing government on society)
Dealing with parking ticket Nazis and their irrational laws
The ultimate conflict of interest - government (the accuser) judging the case!
Thoreau: To follow unjust law makes one an agent of injustice
Dave Ridley, the Outlaw Puppeteer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY9jx-VsHVo
bumper music "Don't Tread On Me" by Damn Yankees
http://lockgen.com/damnyankees/damn.php (fan site)
]]> podcasts Sun, 22 Jun 2008 01:40:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=351716# 00:59:51 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=348850# A thread on the truther message board
http://9-11.meetup.com/279/messages/boards/thread/4766129/0
Anarchy is personal responsibility
Rationalizations for State-run stuff, e.g., "education"
Free riders and unfree "services"
Turning the tables on the craziness
Learner-driven education
http://www.logicallearning.net/learnerdrivened.html
Ending thuggery in education and coerced payment for it
The Comprachicos by Ayn Rand Government
school "socialization" leads to gang warfare
The rapist in one's living room
Everyday Anarchy Part 3 of 7 by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.strike-the-root.com/81/molyneux/molyneux4.html
Why people CAN handle complete liberty
Why we must battle moral premises (or rather, immoral ones)
bumper music "One" from Inquisition Symphony by Apocalyptica
http://www.apocalyptica.com/ ]]> podcasts Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:47:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=348850# 01:12:14 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=346053# This brilliant essay sums it up--from both an empirical/legal point of view as well as a logical one
"The Obviousness of Anarchy" by John Hasnas
http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf
http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/hasnasj/?action=viewpublications&PageTemplateID=109
bumper music "You Look Good To Me" by the Oscar Peterson Trio from We Get Requests album
http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/artist/releases/default.aspx?pid=10113&aid=2867]]> podcasts Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:49:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=346053# 01:09:43 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=343753# L. Neil Smith's inspirational discussion of the future of freedom
The race to the bottom with governments
Unanimous consent and the utopian vision by L. Neil Smith
http://www.lneilsmith.org/utopian.html
Immense economic benefits of freedom--nearly everything becomes affordable
"All my life I always really wanted..."
Is respect for individual rights utopian?
The contradictory "we" and illogical "public property"
A New Covenant by L. Neil Smith
http://www.lneilsmith.org/new-cov.html
Liberty - The Liberty Poll Results - 20th Anniversary
http://www.libertyunbound.com/archive/2008_06/poll.html
Analyzing the questions and answers...
The Facts Of Reality: Logic And History In Objectivist Debates About Government by Professor Nicholas Dykes
http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/philn/philn079.htm
Minarchism's inherent contradictions and thus rights violations
Does your 'right to life' trump the property rights of others?
Run 151 miles in the desert? No sweat by Amy Turner
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article3725024.ece
bumper music "Get Better" by Sandy Chambers with KMC
http://www.myspace.com/sandychambersofficial ]]> podcasts Tue, 27 May 2008 22:46:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=343753# 01:13:59 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=340999# A prison for your mind
http://tinyurl.com/lje25
Ron Paul at Duke and The American Form of Government
http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5335883552107085649&hl=en
The political spectrum revised, in The American Form of Government
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE
Fears that stuff and then knock down the straw man of "Anarchy"
http://www.Agorism.info - real anarchy
Limited Government slavespeak: The proper amount of aggression makes everyone freer!
"Law" and "the proper amount of government" as despotism and slavery
"Social contract/compact"?
Rather, wrongdoers should leave, not free marketeers
Sausage making at its worst
Those who favor using force against you
Constitutional nonsense and self-sacrifice
LP Party platform debate and minarchism/anarchism turmoil
The Dallas Accord Is Dead by Less Antman
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/antman1.html
Governmentally fostered vermin: biting bedbugs and crazy rasberry ants
Vancouver's Bedbug Plague by Christopher Pollon
http://thetyee.ca/News/2008/05/15/BedBugs/
Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics by Linda Stewart Ball, AP Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080514/ap_on_re_us/texas_ants
Market remedies to infestations (both political and insect)
bumper music "All In My Head" (Decoder & Substance Mix) by Kosheen
http://www.kosheen.com/ ]]> podcasts Mon, 19 May 2008 16:38:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=340999# 01:01:50 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=338255# http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bill-bars-genetic-discrimination
The chronic ills health care reform
Free market health insurance
Violence and obedience being seen as beneficial
Living in the Matrix and seeing the authoritarian code
Fear arguments
Subtle messages of parenting
Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation
http://www.alfiekohn.org/
Cuba Lifts Ban on Home Computers
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/03/1236214
Life on Castro's plantation - and on ours...
Iron Man's statist theme
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
http://www.randomhouse.com/audio/littlebrotheraudiobook/
Hacking the System
Rule-of-law Anarchism: A Strategy for Destroying the State's Legitimacy by Kevin S. Van Horn
http://freeamerica.ws/BBB1/rule-of-law-anarchism.html
The giant legal conflict of interest - government courts
Michael van Notten and the four different meanings of law
Customary law in a free society - mechanics of voluntarism
The State as outlaw against individuals
Undermining the State's false authority and creating a stateless system of natural and customary law with non-violent enforcement
Unjust law and police violence
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp
http://www.aeinstein.org/organizations/org/198_methods.pdf
Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/27/death-of-the-sitcom.html
Post-podcast segment - collateral damage and other statist insanities
Killing Enemies Without Trial by Jacob Hornberger
http://counterpunch.org/hornberger05062008.html
Inverting the media's statist messages
bumper music "Washington Bullets" by The Clash
http://www.theclashonline.com/music/sandinista ]]> podcasts Mon, 12 May 2008 00:30:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=338255# 01:27:49 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=335518# http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/04/04/iron-fist-to-the-rescue/
Climate change alarmism - Is the sky falling?
There Is A Problem With Global Warming... It Stopped In 1998 by Bob Carter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml
Putting things into perspective and examining fears of the free market and love of coercive control
Climate and the Carboniferous Period
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carboniferous_climate.html
Sorry to ruin the fun, but an ice age cometh by Phil Chapman
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23583376-7583,00.html
Apparently, we're overdue for another ice age...
Environmental grains of truth by an Objectivist...
The Danger of Environmentalism by Michael S. Berliner
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?a532a6cc-17b3-424f-af03-6fbcc88a699f
New solar technology...cool stuff
No government in early America! Seriously!
What it's going to take for Americans to make this to happen again...
The Origins of Individualist Anarchism in the US by Murray N. Rothbard
http://www.mises.org/story/2014
Andromeda headed our way in 2 billion years...prepare yourself for Milkomeda
Hubble Photographs Dozens of Colliding Galaxies
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080424-colliding-galaxies.html
bumper music "What On Earth" by bodymindsoul
http://www.myspace.com/chrishaspeckmusic ]]> podcasts Sun, 4 May 2008 02:16:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=335518# 00:59:20 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=332830# http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20080411/ts_pew/79saytaxcheatingiswrong
Moral corruption of taxes
The moral and the practical false dichotomy
Taxation with representation is still tyranny by Mary Ruwart
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1269
Feeding (and collaborating with) the beast...
Don't vote: it just encourages the bastards
Teaching subservience by Larkin Rose
http://www.isil.org/channels/archives/14239
"Training the peasant larvae"
Mark Twain's smarts
Refusing governmental schools as the antidote
Free Tibet? Hell, free America! by Mark Morford
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2008/04/16/notes041608.DTL&
Celebrating Jefferson's birthday a crime?
So About That Tree of Libertyâ
http://www.theagitator.com/2008/04/13/so-about-that-tree-of-liberty/
Issue of standing...adventures in legal land
Standing Cross-Reference by Marc Stevens
http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/52/27/
Amerikan Communism
For the love of dogs
Physicist off his rocker--or not?
Teleportation and forcefields possible within decades, says Professor Michio Kaku
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/02/eakaku102.xml
bumper music "Enemy" by Days of the New (Days Of The New II album)
http://www.daysofthenew.com/
]]> podcasts Sat, 26 Apr 2008 00:37:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=332830# 01:08:49 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=329359# Hawaiiâs Prison Gravy Train
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?53df994b-7b9c-49f7-8f78-724bca9c1434
Protester 'will go to prison again'
http://www.stalbansobserver.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.2152227.0.protester_will_go_to_prison_again.php
The injustices of police and courts
Cheerleaders for taxes
Sanction of the victim by Larken Rose
http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1226
Traffic cop authoriteye
Individual's relationship to government
Ayn Rand's brilliant "Anatomy of Compromise"
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html
Insufferable suffrage
John Locke: Great robbers are rewarded with laurels and triumphs...
Changing the psychological/moral status quo
Road monopoly extortion racket
Political elite and financial power
Inequality and Excess by Arnold Kling
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=040708A
Just 12% of Idaho parents would choose public school if had a choice
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fischer/080404
Look-alike solar system found
Fastest runner with a prosthesis!
bumper music "Yell Fire!" by Michael Franti & Spearhead
http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/
]]> podcasts Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:48:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=329359# 01:26:55 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=326508# Military survey says...
The U.S. Military Index
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4198
"The Obviousness of Anarchy"
http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf
Are militaries EVER necessary?
Doomsday clock
Rational defense in a voluntary society
The memes of war promoted by "new atheists"
"Religion, Politics and the End of the World...For readers who weren'Ât able to attend the Truthdig debate between Sam Harris and Chris Hedges, we now have full coverage. So sit back, relax and enjoy the fireworks."
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20070617_religion_politics_and_the_end_of_the_world/
Chris Hedges: I DonÂt Believe in Atheists
Posted on May 23, 2007
"Chris Hedges reads from his essay at the Truthdig debate ÂReligion, Politics and the End of the World on May 22, 2007 (Page 3)"
http://www.truthdig.com/report/page3/20070523_chris_hedges_i_dont_believe_in_atheists/
Insane state of the State in China
a little satirical bumper music "Warriors of the World United" by Manowar
( http://www.manowar.com/
http://www.myspace.com/manowardefendersofsteel ]]> podcasts Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:48:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=326508# 00:57:53 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=324393# By Ned Resnikoff, Peter Hildebrand
http://www.cracked.com/article_15974_7-insane-conspiracies-that-actually-happened.html
Played condensed (my edits) version of the following interview from C-SPAN After Words podcast:
Philip Shenon author of "The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation" interviewed by Michael Duffy, assistant managing editor of TIME magazine
http://www.booktv.org/program.aspx?ProgramId=9172&SectionName=Politics&PlayMedia=Yes
Analyzed the above interview (as well as terrorism and the "war on terror") from a complete liberty standpoint
Observations about the 9/11 truth movement
]]> podcasts Thu, 3 Apr 2008 06:31:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=324393# 01:02:32 Wes Bertrand No http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208120# In Search Of The Governed's Consent
Changes In Many Points Of View
First, Free A State

The bumper music is from an electronic song titled "Svalbard Theme" by Icebird. This is the closest link I could come to finding it (used to be available for free download at the old mp3.com):
http://www.cddkmusik.com/icebird.html

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Noticing The Obvious, And Judging It Properly
Liberty-Oriented Values and Virtues

The bumper music is from an electronic song titled, "The promised land" by Lagoona. Here's a link:
http://andreasviklund.com/music/lagoona/

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Welcome To The Bill Of Law
Making Sense Of Foreign Policy Nonsense

The bumper music is from an electronic song titled, "Happy Theme" by The Cynic Project:
http://www.tcpmusic.com/e107/news.php

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What Abouts And What Ifs: Last Ditch Attempts To Save The State

The bumper music is from an electronic song titled "BOMB the BASE [Paradise Decay] by NINA - Goddess of Dance, whose site is:
www.ninagoddess.com

Visit the book's website at www.completeliberty.com in order to download the ebook for free or purchase the softcover edition, as well as to join the forum (which is dedicated to brainstorming ways to attain complete liberty asap).]]> podcasts Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:08:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208109# 00:24:44 liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, freedom, politics, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, free market, natural law, rights Wes Bertrand The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America Clean http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208107# Closing Pandoras Intellectual Box
The Legal Jungle Of Patents, Copyrights, And Trademarks
The Nature of Contracts
How About IP In Perpetuity?
Creative Commons, And So On
How The Market Performs Without Intellectual Property

The bumper music is from an electronic song titled "Free space" by ANTINOMIE, again, so we're only left with the site with the new name and music:
www.myspace.com/nemystic

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Thou Shalt Not Take Full Responsibility For Your Own Treatment - Authorities Will Handle That
Thou Shalt Not Do Business Without Joining The State Guild - Licensure

The bumper music in this one is from an electronic song titled "The rebel" by ANTINOMIE, which is now apparently a different name. This is the closest I could come to finding the song (didn't find it):
http://www.myspace.com/nemystic

Visit the book's website at www.completeliberty.com in order to download the ebook for free or purchase the softcover edition, as well as to join the forum (which is dedicated to brainstorming ways to attain complete liberty asap).]]> podcasts Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:46:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208105# 00:30:35 liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, freedom, politics, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, free market, natural law, rights Wes Bertrand The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America Clean http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208101# Corporations: The Semi-Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The Sand And Molasses Of Statism: Regulation And Preventive Law
For Whom The Market Fails
Imagine A Free World
Effects Of Government On Producers And Consumers
Schemes Of Villainy

The bumper music for this episode comes from two songs, the first being "Imagination" by OOZ, and the second being "TRIP to the MOON" by NINA - Goddess of Dance. Here are the links:
http://www.funender.com/music/ooz
http://www.ninagoddess.com/

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After finishing the rest of chapter 2, we cover all of chapter 3, which is titled "WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT (AFTER A BIT OF INSPECTION)." It contains the following sections:
Freedom In A Nutshell
Self-Ownership
Property Is An Extension Of Self-Ownership
To Those Who Dislike Property And Profit

The bumper music used in this episode is from the electronic song "The Wake (Mercy Cage remix)" by Abney Park. This particular remix doesn't seem available for free on their site (I got it from the old mp3.com years ago), but other versions are. Here's their link:
http://www.abneypark.com/

Visit the book's website at www.completeliberty.com in order to download the ebook for free or purchase the softcover edition, as well as to join the forum (which is dedicated to brainstorming ways to attain complete liberty asap).]]> podcasts Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:52:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208096# 00:48:09 liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, freedom, politics, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, free market, natural law, rights Wes Bertrand The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America Clean http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208076# Choose Your Weapon: Representative Democracy Or Popular Democracy
Common And Uncommon Political Sense
General Welfare, Common Good, Public Interest: The Gateway Abstractions
How Politicians Work: Let Corruption Ring!
How The Military/Industrial Complex Works: You Scratch My back, Bombs Away!
The Constitutions Problems: Article I Section 8...Sadly, A Template For Disaster

The bumper music used is from a song titled "Tiny Nucleus" by OOZ. Here are a couple links: http://www.funender.com/music/bands/137/ http://music.download.com/ooz/3600-8357_32-100151447.html

Visit the book's website at www.completeliberty.com in order to download the ebook for free or purchase the softcover edition, as well as to join the forum (which is dedicated to brainstorming ways to attain complete liberty asap).]]> podcasts Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:41:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208076# 00:56:29 liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, freedom, politics, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, free market, natural law, rights Wes Bertrand The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America Clean http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208067# Politics In Mid-Stream
The Timeless Allure Of Communism
America, The Land Of Political Opinions Shaped By The State

The bumper music for this episode comes from an electronic song titled "MATRIX_Trinity_reload_." Unfortunately, I couldn't track down the artist (or mixer) for this one, though I could for the rest of the songs used in all the other episodes. Btw, I downloaded all of them freely from the old mp3.com website many years ago.

Visit the book's website at www.completeliberty.com in order to download the ebook for free or purchase the softcover edition, as well as to join the forum (which is dedicated to brainstorming ways to attain complete liberty asap).
]]> podcasts Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:06:00 GMT http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=208067# 00:46:52 liberty, libertarian, libertarianism, freedom, politics, anarchism, anarchy, capitalism, free market, natural law, rights Wes Bertrand The Demise of the State and the Rise of Voluntary America Clean