Episode 131 - Reflections on Freedom Summit 2010

Episode 131 - Reflections on Freedom Summit 2010

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Article/071550-2010-07-08-freedom-summit-2010-full-schedule-and-speaker-topics.htm

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Taxation with representation is still unjust
Ultimate safety would mean principled protection of property rights, something coercive monopolies called governments can't do

What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/money.asp
Freedom Watch Part 2 - Audit Then End The Fed 12/21/2010 (Prof. Horwitz nails it with free market banking!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df76WgV4-lg&NR=1

The Basics of Non Violent Communication 1.6 by Marshall Rosenberg
"Institutions can't make you do anything...no human being has ever done anything they didn't choose to do."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyawhuroDw&NR=1

Demands for acquiescence, obedience, compliance, conformity are the mainstays of parenting, and thus statism
The more we don't assert assert our needs for choice, respect, independence, autonomy, and justice, the more we become slaves to statism

Worst Police Misconduct Videos of 2010; Readers Poll
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?page_id=3496
The State fails its own test of legitimacy; it has no valid cause of action against us, in addition to violating our legal rights and causing harm. Case in point...
Taking on the California DMV
http://www.youtube.com/hotforliberty#p/u/32/41ZY5LSDEZA

A Letter to Grover Cleveland on His False Inaugural Address, the Usurpation and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude of the People
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/LetterToGroverCleveland.htm
Government's main (unacknowledged) function is to prevent people from acting in their own rational self-interest

Private project funding alternatives...
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Praise, rewards, and compliments are the flip side of punishments; gratitude instead focuses on feelings and need-fulfillment in relation to specific actions
The Basics of Non Violent Communication 4.4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU2jMqFb0Xs&NR=1
The Basics of Non Violent Communication 4.5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdLM2lVlMNE&NR=1

bumper music "Renegades Of Funk" by Rage Against The Machine
http://www.ratm.com/

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