6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/6_year_old_stares_down_bottomless
What if children really knew what they were being dragooned into?
"Public education" is group think writ large; "This is what we're supposed to do"; adults erroneously believe it's "good for socialization"
Schools as prisons, basically forced "socialization"
It's HOW you're taught that does the harm
The Student as Nigger: Essays and Stories by Jerry Farber
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030301studentasnigger.html
"...imagine what the effect must be upon our apt and impressionable minds of a twelve-year course in servility. Think about it...What is it that they're teaching you? Twelve years pitted against your classmates in a daily Roman circus. The game is Doing What You're Told."
The insanity of forcing people (either big people or little people) to learn things
The Comprachicos by Ayn Rand (in "The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution", pp. 41-95. Signet, 1975); government school "socialization" leads to gang warfare and loss of conceptual thinking and objectivity
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/learning.html
Choice quotations: http://www.stormy.org/edcompr.htm
Ayn Rand and her thoughts on Rational Education by Michael S. Berliner
http://tinyurl.com/8ylvr8
"Learning" by memorization rather than conceptual integration doesn't foster enlightened and healthy minds; it's dire and hopeless and soul-crushing
"Public education" can't be rationally defended, but educators do have their rationalizations...
Since "public education" is coercively funded, we can expect the aftermath--such as mass servility and obedient payment of property taxes
Jerry Farber's "IF IT WEREN'T COMPULSORY..."
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030301studentasnigger.html
"It would be well if we stopped lying to ourselves about what compulsory schooling does for our children. It temporarily imprisons them; it standardizes them; it intimidates them. If that's what we want, we should admit it. There's not much point in going on about this. If you've somehow missed reading A.S. Neill's Summerhill, you ought to go out and get it."
http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerhill_School
http://www.amazon.com/Summerhill-School-New-View-Childhood/dp/0312141378
Parents and other adults are much better able to create educational environments that cater to the varying interests and abilities of children, and kids should be free to pick and choose as they see fit
Delayed adolescence courtesy of governmental schools
Trashing Teens: Psychologist Robert Epstein argues in a provocative book, "The Case Against Adolescence," that teens are far more competent than we assume, and most of their problems stem from restrictions placed on them. by Hara Estroff Marano
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/index.php?term=pto-20070302-000002&print=1
The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen by Robert Epstein; Ph. D.
http://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Adolescence-Rediscovering-Adult/dp/188495670X
Being able to conceptually integrate in an objective fashion is the hallmark of maturity (and the teenage brain has this capability)
John Holt's five points on effective tutoring and learning (on page 202)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oRk28eZoYNkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#PPA202,M1
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better by John Caldwell Holt (John Holt)
http://books.google.com/books?id=oRk28eZoYNkC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI#PPP1,M1
How individualism is stamped out by the system; one only creates resistance and problems by trying to control other human minds
Successfully nurturing individual young minds via student-centered and self-directed learning is key
In addition to stopping their coercive behavior, government school educators need to alter their pedagogy, particularly who's in charge
Case in point: Project-based learning
A choice quote from the teacher in the video below:
"As long as they defended their answer, then that's what I want"
Picturing the Possibilities - Project-based Learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFt6qW0Pb4c
Some choice "school sucks" videos by kids:
School Sucks, Rants Rule (6:02)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRv7Ky7bgE
School Sucks! (4:48)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SKC6zi2UA&NR=1
school sucks (2:14)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6JfP4qJ2A
Vouchers--promoting the illusion of freedom within a coercive paradigm
Intrinsic motivation is key, which is impossible within a compulsory system; modern pedagogy discourages rational self-interest, as does our collectivistic culture; Dirty Dancing with The Fountainhead...
Those who equate being selfish (i.e., concerned with oneself, or self-interested) with being antisocial are merely projecting their own antisocial views on those who are respectful; promoting coercive education and statism isn't social or virtuous
True socialization entails independent people coming together with mutual interests, trading value for value, just like anything else in the marketplace
We need to see beyond the coercive monopolies that have blinded us from amazingly beneficial possibilities in education (and the rest of the economy)
bumper music "Schools Are Prisons" by the Sex Pistols
http://www.sexpistolsofficial.com/  http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/window/media/page/0,,1726210-4679121,00.html

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Salting roads for the common good (and corroding vehicles)
Private property owners have no interest in benefitting from commerce and trade--not!
But what about the roads (and fire and police "services)! Nothing like institutionalized legalized monopolies as the best way to solve problems
Bureaucratized utilities once again to the rescue; preservation of the status quo is always best, especially regarding the utility monopolies; thinking outside the statist electricity box; the genius of Nikola Tesla:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardenclyffe_tower#Theory_of_wireless_transmission
But what about the schools! Most realize the massive failure in this area
Harry Browne's hypothetical of government running the computer industry
http://www.harrybrowne.org/articles/FreeTheSchools.htm
Imagine if education worked like the computer industry; the sky's the limit
So, in the spirit of Thoreau, we must strike at the root of coercive education, not merely hack at the branches
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/henrydavid161709.html
Future School: Reshaping Learning from the Ground Up: Alvin Toffler tells us what's wrong -- and right -- with public education by James Daly
http://www.edutopia.org/future-school
It's way past time to abolish governmental schools, which are designed to produce "disciplined" industrial workers but don't even accomplish that; instead, they barely inculcate rudimentary skills while fostering compliance and obedient mentalities
Leave it to Marx and Lenin to promote the essentials of authoritarian education
And leave it to John Dewey and Horace Mann (and Henry Barnard and Josiah Quincy and Jacob Abbott et al.) to implement their authoritarian scheme
Crossing Education's Rubicon With Horace Mann
http://sixthcolumn.typepad.com/cubedseducationblog/2007/05/education_is_a_.html
Becoming the property of the State via compulsory education
Education: Free and Compulsory by Murray N. Rothbard
http://www.mises.org/story/2226
And leave it to religion to lay down a framework of blind obedience to "authority," in which "authority" is seen as benevolent
Mann is seen as the father of American "public education"; in addition to being a master of phrenology;) he was also a big supporter of the temperance movement (abstinence), which led to the prohibition era championed by big Mann-fan and despot Woodrow Wilson
Following the Prussian educationist model, Mann promoted the following: the debilitating "whole-language," or "look-say," reading method; a centralized educational system at the federal level; and, getting private universities to be publicly funded
With governmental schools, the bad ideas and bad money (extorted via taxation) drive out the good ideas and good money (voluntarily exchanged); it's hard for the private sector to compete with "free" governmental schools
The Spread of Education Before Compulsion: Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century by Edwin G. West
http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=3872
Families find themselves "...caught in a choice-restricted monopoly system serving the interests not of the demanders but of the rent-seeking suppliers."--as in all things involved in government, follow the money trail...
Coercive education, like coercive government, is predicated on the belief that some people know what's best for all people
In order to implement his own form of arbitrary power, Horace Mann and those of his ilk gravitated toward the coercive educational models practiced in foreign countries where the cancer of statism had metastasized (i.e., the most consistent adherents to the principle of statism)
The people in today's power-centers of coercive control see themselves as a cut above the rest
The essence of being an authoritarian sociopath is choosing to deal with others in a disrespectful fashion, using threats and violence instead of persuasion and reason
Hiding in and not taking responsibility for the system of authoritarian sociopathy is of course assuming its traits
The theme promoted and modeled in the governmental schools is one of obedience
The master/slave relationship is the ultimate example of racism
"Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism." http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/racism.html
The Student as Nigger by Jerry Farber, 1969 http://ry4an.org/readings/short/student/
Essays and Stories by Jerry Farber
http://www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030301studentasnigger.html
"Authority addicts" defer self-responsibility to others (the "authorities")
A little lesson on Farber's reference to the torturous "Procrustean set-up" of education: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes
Slavery, like statism, tends to perpetuate itself from the inside
Harriet Tubman: "I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves."
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/h/harriettub388682.html
Dealing with the psychological/social resistance to change; being attacked by fellow slaves who accept the constant theft, violence, and lies of government; such attacks reveal that they know the moral nature of the argument and they concede defeat
Curiosity requires a level of emotional intelligence (respect for feelings) that most people still need to achieve
It's idiotic to believe that authoritarian sociopaths have any regard whatsoever for you as an individual, or for your freedoms
Just as farmers benefit from having free range chickens that produce more for them, authoritarian sociopaths benefit from giving their perceived "livestock" the illusion of being free so that they produce more for them; this is the matrix we live in
True News 13: Statism is Dead - Part 3 - The Matrix by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P772Eb63qIY
Who really are the human farmers, i.e., slave masters? Statist intellectuals who feed off others and thus justify institutionalized coercion (government)
The drug war as an example of erroneous thinking about morality and law, in which breaking "the law" is equivalent to being immoral (again, following from the master/slave relationship)
"The law" or "State" can never be the victim; individuals are the real victims within such a demented system--and governmental officials are the real criminals
The Socialism of Public Schooling by Jacob G. Hornberger
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0811c.asp
Elegantly exposing the contradiction: "Advocates of government schooling claim that parents are not competent to make educational decisions for their children. That raises an obvious question: Why not? Aren’t most parents products of public schooling? If public schooling has produced a nation of adults who lack the competence to guide their children’s education, why do we want to continue a system that is likely to produce the same result?"
The communistic methods of coercive funding and provision of education utilize vouchers as a trojan horse to further control non-governmental education
The institution of government is based on the idea that you don't own yourself, that you are a slave to statist "authorities"
Thus it's crucial to challenge the pemes (political memes) that are in our heads
#TL074: PEME-THEORY - BASIC, INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl074.shtml
#TL075: PEMES = POLITICAL MEMES by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl075.shtml
Project Abolish Stupidity & Increase Intelligence by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/stupidity/abolish_stupidity.html
Further historical reading: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
bumper music "School Sucks" by White Birch Home School Players (starring Robert Ryan Keech)
School Sucks - Low Budget Music Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpkrWuXn2RE

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Throwing some scraps to the slaves in Taxachusetts (mj leniency), where 70% of voters endorsed the status quo of income expropriation
Education is the main component for maintaining the meme of statism; governmental schools are seen as a necessary good
"Education is a weapon" said Stalin
Government Education Is Broken? It Just Ain't So! by Alan Schaeffer and Marshall Fritz
http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=8366
Pundits typical "solution" to the problems of "public education": more money!
Dropping out as psychologically healthy
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
http://lowryhousepublishers.com/TeenageLiberationHandbook.htm
No school system can be all things to all students, and no coercive school system is good for anyone
Even though it's always alleged to help them, kids from poorer families suffer the worse from governmental schooling, as did their parents
Governmental employees are the perfect products of governmental schooling; they've inherited the bad memes fully
The nerve-touching moral question always looms large: How exactly is this system funded?
Statist arguments from emotional convenience--being treated with ridicule and outrage by those who don't want to face their history of statist indoctrination and advocacy
Two fallacies: that the government school system is a failure, and that government can fix it!
John Dewey's perverse coercive educational goals: to make good people; to make good citizens; to make each person his or her personal best
From the horse's mouth: "My Pedagogic Creed" http://www.infed.org/archives/e-texts/e-dew-pc.htm
Link (to a link) to Rand's take on Dewey: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/education.html
The true aim of governmental education is, in H.L. Mencken's words, "to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."
John Taylor Gatto - State Controlled Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ogCc8ObiwQ
Stupid in America by John Stossel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw
Being shackled as a governmental school employee, or even a State-regulated private school teacher
Regimentation, standardization, and segregation are the mainstay of coercive "public" education
Maria Montessori's key insight: "The child has a teacher within"
http://www.logicallearning.net/libertyeducation.html
Bad tendency of adults to interfere with kids' intrinsic motivation
Alfie Kohn's insights on intrinsic motivation (versus extrinsic rewards and punishments):
Punished by Rewards? A Conversation with Alfie Kohn by Ron Brandt
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/pbracwak.htm
GRADING: The Issue Is Not How but Why by Alfie Kohn
http://www.alfiekohn.org/teaching/grading.htm
Understanding our natural gifts as children; being creative, imaginative, innovative, and fearless
Keeping the entrepreneurial spirit and society alive with these gifts
Kids are incessant question-askers, as opposed to most adults
Why is it that most adults--and even libertarians--send their kids to governmental schools...
Constitutional arguments against governmental education are invalid, because the Constitution itself is not a valid contract
As Lysander Spooner pointed out: No Treason. No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm#no6
The false binary "choices" offered to us by the statist system
To advocate coercion to provide education is beyond the pale
Because "poor people" need to be educated so much, the market will quickly fill this need cheaply and effectively (sans government)
The coercive "business" of governmental education, purported as being for "the common good" (which is never very common and thus never achieved)
The fallacy of voting (collectivized plunder), in which people supposedly get something for nothing and extort those with supposedly more wealth
If you don't want to be a standardize citizen, there's no place for you in a coercive society
Obedience to "authority" is pervasive, both in and out of "school"
The ending of governmental schools means the beginning of complete liberty
Gatto: "Children need to know that the ultimate form of private property is full possession of one’s own mind and volition."
The Alliance for the Separation of School & State
http://www.schoolandstate.org/home.htm
"The Alliance for the Separation of School & State has a two-fold mission:
1. Help parents and others understand the true nature and the dangers of compulsory state schooling.
2. Show parents and others how they can take back their freedom and ensure a bright future for their children and our country."
All statist regimes rely on a tax-funded education system to perpetuate themselves, and to devolve into totalitarianism
The American governmental school system is the perfect storm of convincing people in droves that tyranny is actually good for them, and that they are "free," relying as it does on the Founding Fathers' liberty-oriented rhetoric
An alternative historical view: Voices Of A People's History Of The United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove (eds) http://tinyurl.com/njfch
Most advocates of the governmental system deny and evade the "gun in the room," i.e., the coercive nature of their views
Essentially "the system" discourages individuals from challenging "authority," despite the objective need for a mutually respectful ethics
No one can make choices for you, fundamentally; objectivity demands that you open your mind
A free society entails people making their own choices about education
The key is to free your mind from the mythologies from childhood; remember that when you were being taught about government, it was likely by a governmental employee within a governmental school
You were told to believe in and take bites out of "invisible apples," as Stefan Molyneux has astutely noted:
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/how_to_control_a_human_soul.mp3
bumper music "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw

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Barack Obama pledges $700B public works plan to help economy by Peter Wallsten
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-stimulus_5sdec07,0,3049287.story
Drunken sailer extraordinaire
Best way to make federal buildings "energy efficient" is to close them down
Obama sees 2.5 million more governmental jobs in our future, for starters
Your Monday Message from the Libertarian Party: The LP Goes to Harvard, posted by Andrew Davis
http://www.lp.org/blogs/andrew-davis/the-lp-goes-to-harvard
Digging holes and filling them back up...all via extorted wealth
The MO of government: distribute the costs and concentrate the benefits
In order for government to refrain from intervening in the marketplace, it must disintegrate and disappear
Government is nothing other than a coercively funded and arbitrarily imposed organization
Government, being a parasite on the economy, doesn't make anything; it acquires money via extortion
To "stimulate" an economy through coercion is evil
Government isn't fit for a society of rational and respectful people, so it must be abolished
No one, including those working in "government" have the right to impose a service at the barrel of a gun
World's Shortest Political Quiz  by Marc Stevens
http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/88/33/
Win Every Political Argument by Marc Stevens
http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/89/33/
Some people disingenuously assert that governmental employees don't impose their "services" at gunpoint; compliance isn't voluntary, as innocent people thrown in governmental cages can attest
As long as slaves remain obedient, their masters treat them well
Keynesians (statist economists) believe in the meme of authoritarian sociopathy writ large--that the State is legitimate and all-powerful; mystical God is to the believer as mystical Government is to the statist
"Public property" just invites boondoggles, among other sordid things
The collectivistic term "national debt" has no validity and must be repudiated
Even though persons such as Milton Friedman have tried, one can't rationally perform a "cost/benefit ratio" on the use of coercion, which is forcing people to do things against their wills
http://www.logicallearning.net/libcapitalismpol.html (search for choice quote by Friedman)
You wouldn't allow people to force you against your will if they didn't call themselves "government," would you?
The crimes committed with impunity by those in government are the same ones that those in government prohibit private individuals from perpetrating (assault, battery, kidnapping, theft, extortion, counterfeiting, murder, etc.)
Obama has chosen to be the head of a coercive organization, an organization of people who treat others in an involuntary fashion, an organization of people who rely on propaganda, pr, and widespread obedience to maintain the illusion of legitimacy
There shouldn't be political parties or a republic form of government; there should just be the free market, filled with enterprising entrepreneurs who ensure people's rights if need be (justice agencies http://www.logicallearning.net/liblegalagencies.html )
We shouldn't aim for "smaller government, lower taxes, and more freedom"
We should aim for no government, no taxes, and complete liberty
bumper music "Highway To Hell" by ACDC
http://www.acdc.com/

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Evil Concealed by Money by Walter E. Williams
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EvilConcealedByMoney.htm
Williams' new book: http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-versus-Tyranny-Socialism-Controversial/dp/0817949127
Let's talk about socialism, in America..."The forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another"
The perceived virtuous coercion to get people to do things is the essence of government
The doctrine of self-sacrifice fits perfectly with statism
The glaring contradiction of "people are selfish and greedy," so they must be coerced
The irrational greediness of governmental bureaucrats knows no bounds
The alleged virtue and "good intentions" of government versus allegedly lessor others in the marketplace
Most people sense the wrongness of government, but they don't know what to do to fix it; they're not organized, for one thing
The nature of integrity in relation to immoral, unjust edicts
Feeling isolated by the repercussions for not complying with statists--and fearing being attacked by one's fellow slaves
People are really ambivalent about freedom and government
Freedom activist Lauren Canario's courageous and independent-minded civil disobedience
http://www.youtube.com/tackletheworld
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/238
Lauren Canario was released from CT Prison yesterday
http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=377&Itemid=36
or http://tinyurl.com/y58xuo
FTL did an in depth interview with Lauren:
http://media.libsyn.com/media/ftl/FTL2006-12-22.mp3
NH: Lauren Canario returns from jail
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZTm-Hiz6Xs
The most disturbing documentary about statism, imo: "Taxi To The Dark Side" - Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX0MPcN08Zc
(full film, though link may become defunct at some point) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2987535946644608661
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_to_the_Dark_Side
Five detainees ordered released "forthwith" after seven years at Guantanamo
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/11/20/guantanamo/index.html
Goes to show that authoritarian sociopaths have no qualms about putting innocent people in cages for indefinite periods--and torturing them
This is why we must strike at the root, at the meme of government itself; people really need to change their perspective about tyranny
No good end ever justifies using coercion against innocent people; government actions are never virtuous on account of this
"Compensatory justice" (i.e., getting one's "fair share" of the stolen loot) is a non sequitur
"Congress" is another widespread term of slavespeak
While the Founding Fathers were seemingly more aware of the principles of liberty than today's goons, they still sold out and used coercion
Case in point: James Madison, the architect of the Constitution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_madison
JM was instrumental in this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bank_of_the_United_States
The Constitution authorizes the initiation of force against individuals (e.g., the "power to lay an collect taxes"); therefore it's corrupt and contradictory to the core
No 'right person' can be in politics, because he or she refuses in principle to be involved in a coercive institution
A Dollar in Peril by Jim Davies
http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/davies/davies8.html
Creating cognitive dissonance by challenging individuals' statism memes (like voting); voting is violence, plain and simple
JD "Voting is one of the most immoral things one can do," because it's all about laying obligations on people
STR's powerful non-voting archive: http://www.strike-the-root.com/vote.html
The collectivistic meme of the tribal premise
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/tribalism.html & http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/tribalpremise.html
What is life if you lose your curiosity?!?
A good question to ask others: Are there any aspects of your life that you'd like someone else to govern?
Anarchy simply means freedom to make your own choices
The youth are the main hope for a better world
What if government imploded and collapsed...would people really want it back?...would they miss it?--especially when entrepreneurs would quickly, cheaply, and competently provide any and all desired services
If you're getting a shoddy service and you don't like it, you shouldn't have to pay for it
What would we do without a communized police force!
Police Statism, Arizona style...
License-plate scanning catching crooks, raising privacy concerns
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2008/11/23/20081123autotheft1123.html
Contribute to the cause--buy the print edition of Complete Liberty (http://completeliberty.com)
http://www.lulu.com/content/687618
bumper music "First They Brand You" (or "dodo-1") by friend and Free Stater Roger Grant
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Bureaucrats Never Have a Case by Administrator (aka Marc Stevens)   
http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/20/27/
Statism is based on the illogical premise that you don't own your own life
A "complaint" shouldn't be confused with a "case"
The Stockholm Syndrome, writ large
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome
IF IT’S NATURAL TO BE FREE, WHAT’S STOPPING US?
http://completeliberty.com/chapter9.php
"Citizens" and "States" don't really exist; they're unjust legal fictions
The words on paper crafted by bureaucrats are necessarily open to vast interpretation, and many of words spell injustice
The Constitution’s Problems: Article I Section 8...Sadly, A Template For Disaster
http://completeliberty.com/chapter2.php#47
Once you allow taxation, you open society up to unending tyranny, saying in effect that extortion is good and proper and useful
The two absolutely essential elements of legal standing: 1) violation of a legal right and 2) personal injury
The unjust laws of the Nanny State create "criminals" out of everyone and generating constant "revenue" for the terrocrats
The problem with our society today is not strictly the authoritarian sociopaths in the insane institution of government; it's all the people who are either tuned out or tacitly or directly support violent ideologies; mostly slave-on-slave violence keeps us enslaved
Why does society need the monstrous contradiction of government, the preeminent violator of individual rights? Such a meme only promotes low self-esteem and perpetual enslavement
"Tax cases" are an indication of how truly sick and twisted our culture is--governmental employees are putting people in cages who've violated no one's rights!
Statists allege (but never prove) that the "State" has a legal right to "tax revenue" (your money) and governmental employees are "injured" when they don't get their extorted money
"No attempt is made to put such allegations in an 'indictment' because it’s impossible to establish factually how an obligation to file a 'tax return' was created. To prove an obligation or legal right was created, there must be a connection between the people asserting the right and the person who allegedly has this obligation. Statists immediately point out the 'constitution.' And that is the point where they lose; and lose big time."
Basically, people in government seek to deprive individuals of self-ownership and property rights simply by virtue of their geographical location, essentially claiming that we are born enslaved
It's monstrously contradictory to claim the "right" to deprive innocent others of their rights to self and property
The Constitution binds or obligates no one and created nothing; no one today has signed or agreed to it as a contract, except perhaps some brainwashed governmental employees, those who really need to unbrainwash themselves by reading the following:
No Treason. No. VI, The Constitution of No Authority.  (1870).*
http://www.lysanderspooner.org/notreason.htm#no6
"The State" can't be a valid plaintiff; it's at best a fictional third party; "The State" has no standing in any case, not even regarding real crimes such as murder
"There is no such thing as a legitimate government, so nothing they do is legitimate regardless of the endless red herrings statists throw up."
"Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government."
Either you're for voluntary social interaction (complete liberty) or you're for anti-social human interaction (statism)
"...statism and it’s supporting theology are not here to promote freedom or protect 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness'; it’s mind control to divert our attention away from the actions of anti-social individuals who are so desperate to 'protect' us they are willing to kill us and steal our property."
The libertarian movement is crippled by the unwillingness to differentiate those who want a voluntary society and those who do not; any libertarian who promotes "limited" government or any form of statism whatsoever is engaging in this monstrous moral contradiction in society
All governmental courts operate outside the bounds of natural and objective law, i.e., a voluntarily funded and provided legal system; statist courts, regardless of their rhetoric (used for public relations), are necessarily invalid
Prosecution of alleged rights-violators must involve restitution and reparations; the ingenuity of justice service entrepreneurs will probably entail many elements of the insurance model
As we transition to complete liberty, the need for rights-protection services becomes less and less; the threat against our lives and property will be extremely remote in a society of complete liberty, because the biggest violators of rights (governments) will be absent
The only way to clarity in these matters is to reassess the nature of one's volitional capacity and one's fears of others, which entails addressing the moral corruption and authoritarianism in family life; "Do this because I said so" is the same as "Obey this law (because we wrote it down)"
Are We There Yet, Are We There Yet? Let’s Check Marx and Engels’s List by Robert Higgs
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2366
The Timeless Allure Of Communism
http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15
Government needs to make slaves out of adults (property tax payers) to indoctrinate future tax payers (kids in schools of government)
"Remember the government's motto: you've got money, and we want it."
"Therefore, in the present distressing circumstances, we may be warranted in asking: is our politico-economic system finally going smash in a frenzy of monetary inflation, bailouts, and government takeovers? We’ll know the answer pretty soon."
So, what can we do? Focus on passing moral judgment; point out to others the coercion at the base of society (the gun in the room:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/molyneux/molyneux29.html); and, get people out of your life who behave in morally corrupt ways and advocate coercion
Ultimately, it's either statism or voluntarism; mutual respect of persons and property is the ideal
bumper music "Gimmee_Dada Orwell-REMIX" by Roger Grant and Dada Orwell (aka Dave Ridley)
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Free Talk Live Host Sentenced To 93 Days In Jail
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/024015.html
Ian Freeman arrested and jailed for 93 days RAW FOOTAGE (by http://www.candid-world.com/ )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcT-3niVes
Those who posture as "authorities" who enact "justice"
"Judges" as authoritarian sociopaths who have no standing and whose paychecks are derived from extortion (taxation)
Rising for the Judge, Bowing to the State by Manuel Lora
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora57.html
http://freekeene.com for full details
Properly holding in contempt those working in statist courts
Authoritarian sociopaths who become their victims' servants (reflecting subconscious guilt, no less)
The power of the Web to expose terracrats
http://jailedactivist.info/bureaucrats/city-officials/mikaela-l-engert/
Does anyone in government understand (or want to understand) individual rights and how they're violated?
The court as elementary schoolroom full of bullies...
Authoritarian/obedience memes that arise from having one's will dominated as a child
Progressives, truthers, and peaceniks who've been waiting to take their turn with the coercive tools of government (to rewards friends and punish enemies)
Emotional regurgitation of propaganda, rather than using logic and objectivity to discern truth and moral principles
The vast quantitative and qualitative differences between voluntary trade and regulated trade
Prescription Drugs Kill 300 Percent More Americans Than Illegal Drugs by David Gutierrez
http://www.truthout.org/111208HA
The more regulated the industry, the more the corruption, immorality, and other bad effects
Why do we need the FDA, or any other authoritarian sociopathic groups of individuals?!
Zeitgeist Addendum critique (http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
Resource based economy by Jacque Fresco
http://www.thevenusproject.com/resource_eco.htm
Zeitgeist Addendum: The Review by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1JcUBx2dxU
The alleged ills of the profit motive and selfishness
The supermarket as a microcosm of capitalism's delivery of abundance to everyone--all via the profit motive and selfishness
Obama's cabinet members as K-Street lobbyists and tax-fed parasites; Obama's grand fantasies of statism will acceleration economic decline
Throughout history, the doctrine of sacrifice has predominated
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html
Under capitalism, profits equal helping others
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/capitalism.html
Enlightened, rational selfishness as the primary healthy goal
Government directly fosters all the irrational selfishness we see in society
Money and barter, and those who want to wish them away...
Defining money as a naturally arising, handy, and universally recognized medium of exchange
A reason-based society rather than a coercion-based society
The one-way street of morality, based on the doctrine of sacrifice, is killing our civilization
The abundance of violence in society is preventing us from evolving
We need to apply the libertarian non-initiation of force principle to every individual and institution--no double standards
The Venus Project as a parody of a socialist manifesto...
Religious theme of attacking money - The Camel and the Needle's Eye by Robert Sheaffer
http://www.debunker.com/texts/needleye.html
Selling things in abundance! - Coca - Cola Admits That Dasani is Nothing But Tap Water by Trevor Datson
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0304-04.htm
The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian Lincoln Simon
http://tinyurl.com/kdpj9
Understanding the nature of resources as the result of creativity, ingenuity, and free trade
Making sacrifices for others and for the central planner...
Money as a commodity that creates efficiency and more capital investment
Freedom as the main ingredient to respecting everyone's choices; everyone is self-governing and self-regulating
The blank out of money in Star Trek as template for the Venus Project?
The main question to ask anyone posturing as a central planner: At whose expense?
The future and beyond by Jacque Fresco
http://www.thevenusproject.com/intro_main/essay.htm
Do people really miss the USSR that much!
The insanity of criticizing capitalism (which doesn't presently exist, btw) as well as the free enterprise sector
The Venus Project as trying to give people a confused and conflicted red/blue pill combo
As long as you give authoritarian sociopaths some semblance of legitimacy, they will never give up their power and control
Does attaining complete liberty mean practicing CD and being thrown in jail?
The fully communized "justice" system in America provides injustice as a way of life
Never failing to pass moral judgment and exposing the gun in the room (the coercion of government)
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/moraljudgment.html
bumper music "Jailbreak" by AC/DC
http://www.acdc.com/

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The Attack on Libertarianism by Aaron David Ward
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ward-aaron4.html
The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense by Jacob Weisberg
http://www.slate.com/id/2202489/
The three variants of libertarianism (classical liberalism, laissez-faire capitalism, and anarcho-capitalism), only one of which is logical (market anarchism and voluntarism, i.e., anarcho-capitalism, i.e., complete liberty)
Capitalism And Current Political Views: http://www.logicallearning.net/libcapitalismpol.html
Either you advocate statism or you don't; there's no wiggle room for a night-watchman State that allegedly would respect rights
Libertarianism isn't on the continuum of statism, so it's neither left nor right
The nature of human autonomy and the nature of reality
We must show respect for each other; logic demands it; each person is deserving of respect and happiness
The initiation of force is anti-reason and anti-life
If you do not define your terms properly, it will lead you down contradictory paths
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/definitions.html
We don't have "self-regulating financial markets," by any stretch of the imagination
A communized fiat currency and a host of regulatory "agencies" are the main economic problems, not "unregulated credit market derivatives"
Modern intellectuals' denial of individuals and focus on politics in midstream (out-of-context analysis)
Alan Greenspan's betrayal of his own earlier views:
Gold and Economic Freedom by Alan Greenspan (1966)
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north204.html
Our present fiat currency (dollars) would disappear quickly in a free market, and be replace by gold and silver (or any other tangible commodity that can't be dramatically inflated and devalued)
Regulation always compounds the political problem (whatever it is) and it obscures the real nature of the injustice (coercion) as well as the solution (get rid of the institution of government)
Cato and Reason "libertarian" think tanks as apologists for statism; neither strikes at the root of the problem (government itself)
The analytic/synthetic dichotomy in modern philosophy
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/analytic.html
The arbitrary division of rationalism and empiricism
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalismvsempiricism.html
http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreewill.html
The basic metaphysical/epistemological issue is how well do one's concepts adhere to the facts of reality
The concepts of libertarianism adhere perfectly to the facts of reality, because they are in accordance with a non-contradictory (logical) view of human nature; any other interpretation, any version of statism, would be contradictory
Those who believe in "government" are supporting the bully mentality writ large, institutionalized disrespect of persons and their property
Those who believe in "government" deny the irrefutable principles of property rights and self-ownership
What we need are new intellectuals, able to think logically and objectively, especially in relation to challenging the meme of government (which Ayn Rand failed to do, though ironically she did denounce statism)
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/intellectuals.html
Brief clip of Ayn Rand on the New Intellectuals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xKGZMwaIG8
Freedom—An Intellectual Issue: http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomintell.html
Roundtable discussion!...
Ridiculous laws and the practice of civil disobedience--where do you draw the line in terms of kowtowing to "authority"?
If you're not willing to expose the coercive entities of the State, then you're granting them legitimacy
Propaganda is used to promote the myth that those in government (authoritarian sociopaths) are our "protectors" and "providers"
Using the Internet to reverse the statist propaganda; San Diego Free Press, perhaps
Can you really change others?
You can't delegate to others any rights that you yourself don't possess
Most people worship government like they worship god; even most atheists worship government, regardless of it being a coercive monopoly that infringes on individual rights
Once you plant the seed of authoritarian sociopathy (i.e., government), it will grow into an uncontrollable weed
We don't need to be robbed in order to be protected!
The sundry collectivistic and fascistic ills of HOA's, which aren't free market phenomena
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowners%27_association
One man's story about his encounters with HOA Nazis: http://www.parkingenforcementforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3
In order to transition to a free market, people need to deal with their fears about conflicts with others
Objectivist's failure to understand and thus criticize corporations and corporatism
Does child-rearing advice from someone who doesn't have any children have validity? Yes, because we were all children once, and we all know the nature of being respected and disrespected
"Authority" figures believe they are behaving rationally, so they can live with themselves; the thinly veiled rationalizations of authoritarianism in parenting
Honoring the feelings of little people; some great video clips by psychologist Haim Ginott:
http://www.betweenparentandchild.com/index.php?s=content&p=free_parenting_video_clips
No one likes to be disrespected
"Getting kids to do things"; the nature of brutalizing behavior that parents are prone to indulge in, which denies self-responsibility and autonomy
Operant conditioning (rewards and punishments) begets more of itself, and it sets up an inhuman living environment
Some great empirical analysis on this issue: http://www.alfiekohn.org/books.htm
Seeing children as irresponsible, naughty, irrational, deficient, or flawed, is no different than the religious doctrine of Original Sin--and it excuses authoritarian sociopathy, i.e., pervasive disrespect
The flawed medical school model, as noted by Harvard business prof Clayton Christensen:
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3798.html
Good parenting is really about self-trust, a healthy relationship to one's own mind, and cultivating self-esteem, so that one nurtures it in others (especially children)
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=35
Central planners of all guises always seem to know "what's best for you"
The so-called "age of reason" (seven for Catholicism, btw) is no guide in understanding how to treat children appropriately
Julia Sweeney - Letting Go of God...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNELNq4XJKs
Two books addressing the moral corruption in families and thus in society - On Truth: The Tyranny of Illusion & Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.freedomainradio.com/free/
One must respect the will of the child, while offering rational guidance and education, in order to make the world a significantly better place
bumper music "Fortunate Son" from Chronicle, Vol. 1: The 20 Greatest Hits (and Willy & The Poor Boys) album by Creedence Clearwater Revival
http://www.johnfogerty.com/albums.html ; fan site: http://www.creedence-online.net/all_in_one/

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Front Page Article in Keene Sentinel on Free Staters
http://freekeene.com/2008/08/31/front-page-article-in-keene-sentinel-on-free-staters/
Free State project is moving slowly: Like-minded people are still coming to the Granite State By PHILLIP BANTZ
The nature of the FSP motto...to get rid of, or not to get rid of, government?
The proper goal should be: To get rid of the powerful meme of government in the general populace
Is the power of the government in the people's hands?
The nature of the "idea of freedom" in California; reinventing yourself and your life, washing away useless traditions
Versus California's status quo political oppression that people don't think about (which pretty much exists everywhere)
Government rations things by having you stand in line
Special guest: "The Governator" ;)
Main question to him: Why didn't you let the government of California go bankrupt and thus disappear?
The market creates and rewards independent, self-sufficient people
Non-cooperative activists in Keene, NH challenging the "authority" of the governmental thugs
The greatness of civil disobedience is that it reveals the way of life of governmental employees (coercion)
Sam Dodson's great handiwork: The Obscured Truth Network - http://www.youtube.com/obscuredtruth
Governmental-issued "ID" is a typically unnoticed form of tyranny
The fear of liberty in a NH resident is typical in America; status quo, all the way!
Excuses for not being an activist for liberty: Don't want to be bothered; it's too difficult; I'm afraid; I can't do it!
Corrupt form of morality allows for political disrespect on a daily basis; "knuckling under for the common good"
"Good" slaves attack other slaves seeking freedom
What other people decided years, decades, and centuries ago has NOTHING to do with your individual rights in the present
The NH constitution's "common good" nonsense
In Search Of The Governed’s Consent http://completeliberty.com/chapter10.php
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." AR
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/minorityrights.html
The culture of government; coercion and brainwashing
The Zimbabwe catastrophe, caused by government of course; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwe
Expanding the U.S. government's military empire into Africa...
http://www.africom.mil/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command
Beware slavespeak: http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml
Magnetic field 'aids coma victim'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7669056.stm
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation might be the cure for the terracrats in government...
The tremendous ills of coercive funding of scientific research (i.e., via taxation)
Basing your life on research money from government gives you little motivation to solve disease-related problems, unlike market-based research, which is currently hamstrung by authoritarian/obedience memes related to coercive organizations such as the FDA and protectionist rackets such as the AMA
Basically, it's time WAKE UP! You don't have to go through a windshield to be in a coma
bumper music "A Great Day for Freedom" from The Division Bell album by Pink Floyd
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfri5tMXfc4

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Economics of Police Brutality by Art Carden
http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=174
All of the world's problems could be solved is we had clearly defined ownership
The contradiction of "public property" and the unaddressed fears of ownership
WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT (AFTER A BIT OF INSPECTION)
http://completeliberty.com/chapter3.php
Psychology of Ownership
http://www.logicallearning.net/libpsychologyofo.html
Competition is a civilizing force; externalities explained (they're all around us)
The Obviousness of Anarchy by John Hasnas http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf
Riding shotgun with a cop; the-end-justifies-the-means argument to provide "security"
Part 1: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/21/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-15/
Part 2: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/22/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-25/
Part 3: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/23/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-35/
Part 4: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/24/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-45/
Part 5: http://freekeene.com/2008/10/25/conversation-with-shane-maxfield-kpd-lt-part-55/
Security comes with respect for individuals rights, not violation of them
'Competing' police forces follows from a privatized system (no "public property")
The ills of socialized/communized "services"--denying individuals self-responsibility
Crime is the Health of The State, The Kaptain's Log by Kapt Kanada, aka Manuel Miles
http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle446-20071202-09.html
Statists practices of the fine arts of theft, rape, murder, arson, and duplicity
The Statist "justice" system grows with the creation of more unjust laws, i.e., those that infringe on individual rights
Government people protecting their own, essentially ensuring their own security, not yours
The practice of coercing you in order to "help" you; the immense propaganda needed to keep the sham going
Ayn Rand's contradictions about government and objective laws
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anarchism.html
Anarchy simply means "no rulers"--no tyrants allowed
The government is a naive floating abstraction; the meme of government isn't much different than the meme of God, except that government translates directly into violence
Projecting one's fears onto the marketplace, creating gangs of armed thugs in one's mind to somehow maintain the meme of government (which is a giant gang of armed thugs, btw)
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime And Gun-Control Laws by John R. Lott Jr. http://tinyurl.com/elg5u
For a rights-respecting person, the freedom to defend yourself is absolute
Peaceful coexistence is impossible with the gang called government
Defining one's terms: "competing governments" as contradictory
A coercive monopoly in the realm of justice essentially ruins society
Rand's (and big "O"bjectivists') strain of authoritarian sociopathy
Basically, people's fear of conflict with other people enslaves them and perpetuates government
A coercive monopoly of "justice" services, i.e., government (even one funded voluntarily) will always provide unjust and incompetent and expensive "services"
One case in point: Laws against private electricity production commerce; Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators: Jock Gill - On Energy, IT, Markets and Society
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3825.html
My experiences with the local mafia with a flag--parking ticket Nazis--who look to make criminals out of rights-respecting individuals
The brilliance of Ayn Rand was that she taught individuals to think independently and to use logic according to the main metaphysical laws (identity, causality, and non-contradiction)
Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff, Harry Binswanger
http://scholar.google.com.mx/books?id=_znYGPoNe2wC&dq=subject:%22Objectivism+(Philosophy)%22&lr=&as_brr=0&hl=en&rview=1&pgis=1
Objectively speaking, the coercive monopoly of government is a authoritarian mythology that contradicts the virtue of justice
The Biological Basis of Teleological Concepts by Harry Binswanger
http://www.aynrandbookstore2.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CB02B
Seeing "police" for what they are: individuals who join a gang that violates individual rights and only pays lip service to the virtue of justice (enough to hoodwink those they rule over and maintain their coercive monopoly)
Central planning is authoritarian sociopathy writ large--in which fears and love of domination deny freedom of choice
The most vile form of mysticism: the murderous meme of government, which has no "procedural safeguards"
Government as the preeminent violator of individual rights: denying people's capacity to choose a real upholder of justice
So naturally, real upholders of justice will be seen as threats to government
Understanding individual rights is simple: Don't hit people, don't take their stuff, and honor your promises (though no involuntary servitude is valid)
"Our Enemy, The Party" by SEKIII posted by Wally Conger
http://wconger.blogspot.com/2008/10/our-enemy-party.html
The ills of "partyarchy," i.e., vote-chasing and power-seeking; the absurd oxymoron of politician libertarianism
"The hopeless utopia of minarchy"
Distinction between politics and ethics, objectively speaking
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/morality.html
Seeking freedom via the State is wrong; to be consistent, one must favor not only abolition over gradualism but also market over power as the means to achieve freedom
SEKIII: "The State loses by each free transaction committed in defiance or evasion of its laws, regulations and taxes; the State gains by every compliance with, acceptance of, and payment to its institutions. Thus does agorism create anarchy and partyarchy preserve the State."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-economics
Objectivists will always lose their argument for government to their more statist comrades
Coffee and chocolate are the key to long life by Richard Gray, Science Correspondent
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/health/3223650/Coffee-and-chocolate-are-the-key-to-long-life.html
bumper music "Letter From The Government" by Brother Ali
http://www.brotherali.com/  http://www.myspace.com/brotherali

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Using the guns of government--for the "good" of whom?
Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd
The endless rationalizations for unjustifiable statist coercion
So-called informed voters as the most corrupt
The contrary definitions of the word anarchy
Who gets to enforce their views on others? Voters, of course
Contrary to a democracy and even a Constitutional republic, in a just society there are no irreconcilable conflicts between individuals
"Conflicts" of Men's Interests by Ayn Rand (audio)
http://atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-conflicts.html
Local governments as biggest meddlers in our lives, who coercively monopolize whole swaths of the economy and extort money from individuals
The fallacy of the night-watchman State
Cognitive dissonance people retain between the nature of the market and government
Ominous parallels from Nazi Germany; collectivism and kowtowing to authority
The moral corruption in seeking a "license," getting approval from an unjust organization of people
Regulatory madness under the guise of "protection" of consumers; selling the regulatory racket...
How can someone claim to possess the authority to override your life and property? "Because I say so!"
Parental mistreatment of children's wills, inducing fears and destroying their semblance of rationality with mythologies
The article we didn't cover, for obvious reasons: The Case for Obama by Bruce Ramsey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=24
None of the Above by Doug Casey
http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=26
Five reasons why you shouldn't vote: 1) it's unethical 2) it compromises your privacy 3) it's a degrading experience (begging for your freedom) 4) it just encourages the bastards 5) your vote only counts in the sense that it makes you complicit in the crimes inevitably committed by its recipient; and, of course, voting booths are merely suggestion boxes for slaves
A libertarian political party is contradictory; ballots can't be cast to determine and uphold principles
An encounter with SEK3, who wrote: http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf
Why don't we vote for whether or not extortion is permissible in society! if you could really change things through voting, it would be illegal; the coercive funding of government is the crux of the issue
The end of "public property" spells the end of government, which is why people always bring up "the roads" argument--they sense the demise of mommy/daddy government if the roads are privatized
The authoritarian triad of family, church, and state
Give me Libertarianism by D. Allen Kerr
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081015-NEWS-81015016
Live and let live; don't hit people and don't take their stuff
Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence by David Kelly
http://theobjectivistcenter.org/showcontent.aspx?ct=38&h=51
Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism by David Kelly
http://books.google.com/books?id=C6x38zJL3ccC&dq=truth+and+toleration&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
(The rebuttal: FACT AND VALUE by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_fv)
Viable Values by Tara Smith
http://books.google.com/books?id=v4U9Toa7CeQC&dq=viable+values&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
The fear of anarchy and our ambivalence towards it (and thus towards freedom)
Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U
http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/03/21/the-anarchy-boogey-man/
http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/04/18/lack-of-faith-is-a-virtue/
Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice; extremism as smear word and anti-concept
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/anticoncepts.html
Free Talk Live (http://freetalklive.com) promoting the good memes of anarchism under the pragmatic watch of the FCC
All humans are created equal; therefore, no one can rule over an equal
20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics by John Stossel - Pt. 1 of 6
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Phs6CwnutoY
http://abcnews.go.com/2020/stossel
http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerindex?id=6062018
20/20 - Politically Incorrect Guide To Politics - Pt. 6 of 6 (not present on abc.com)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hWVLr8Y18e0
(Check out the terracrat's despicable response to Stossel's sarcasm about why government just doesn't subsidize everything if it's so damn good; approximately 7'15" into the clip Pt. 5 of 6:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rTI9r4pUYh4)
The immoral premise of statist "education": coercion is necessary to provide a service--the end justifies the irrational means
Spontaneous order of markets, i.e., individuals making their own choices based on their own context, needs and knowledge
Government fails, not only empirically, but also ethically
L. Neil Smith's inspiring words, once again, beseeching people to get government out of the way of their own potential for immense prosperity
Unanimous consent and the utopian vision by L. Neil Smith
http://www.lneilsmith.org/utopian.html
Strip the veneer of legitimacy from governmental employees, and you reveal simply a group of violent thugs
Freeing your personal life is key to freeing society; lifting the black cloud of oppression from your life
The governmental gang as the root cause of other gangs
Childhood acceptance of the argument "Because I said so!" leads to cognitive and moral dissonance (bad things must be ok because good people do them)
We always have the choice to do the right thing or the wrong thing--and to pretend we're not aware of it
Security can't be provided by those who extort money from you!
Pain caused by denial of the truth; "owning" one's pain and letting go of it; being optimistic and curious
bumper music "A New Philosophy" by Zen Mechanics
http://www.myspace.com/zenmechanics

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Freedom is always an inside job
A New Beginning for e-gold?
http://blog.e-gold.com/2008/07/a-new-beginning.html
Kowtowing to the fascists in order to run a business
Fed pot calling the e-gold kettle black: The U.S. government is the biggest money launderer in the history of humankind!
The governmental "officials" are the REAL criminals
Money laundering as primarily a phenomenon of the "war on drugs," i.e., the war on people
Fed's modus operandi: printing "money" out of thin air and monopolizing the universal medium of exchange (e.g., via legal tender laws)
Another hard money business, http://goldmoney.com, and issues with the Liberty Dollar http://www.libertydollar.org/ - latest news, btw: http://www.libertydollar.org/news-stories/pdfs/1222573426.pdf
Perceived value of fiat currency...courtesy of governmental coercion, of course
Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury--the biggest counterfeiters around
The dynamic economy that governmental goons have deprived you of over the years
Devaluation of fiat currency makes you more and more poor
Trading dollars for real money as good monetary, political, and psychological action
Paper receipts redeemable for metal money versus non-redeemable paper dollars
The abandonment of the semi-free market gold standard and the sinister master stroke of pricing oil in dollars
Info tech productivity effects as great counterweight to governmental insanity
Governmental (communized) roads and bridges are NOTHING compared to governmental currency (communized "money system")
Fractional reserve banking as financial alchemy and the ultimate Ponzi scheme
Money as metal, and fiat currency as mere paper backed by guns (dominating the world today)
All fiat currencies have failed throughout history
Those "in charge" know less than nothing; they only know a lot of what isn't so; Keynesian economics is illogical and immoral
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
Spotlight on Keynesian Economics by Murray N. Rothbard http://mises.org/story/2950
Dissent on Keynes: A Critical Appraisal of Keynesian Economics Edited by Mark Skousen
http://www.mises.org/books/dissent.pdf
The Critics of Keynesian Economics Edited with an Introduction and new Preface by Henry Hazlitt
http://www.mises.org/books/critics.pdf
"The business cycle" as the result of nonsensical ideas
Business Cycle Primer by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
http://mises.org/article.aspx?Id=606
So, those who cause recessions, depressions, etc., are the worst type of fascists, because they seek to control the very lifeblood of an economy--money
We must look to the free enterprise sector to utilize sound money; e.g., Shire Silver (http://shiresilver.com/)
The end of fractional reserve banking would make honest people out of present banksters
The end of the State spells the end of the deceptive and corrupt corporate system too
What Has Government Done to Our Money? by Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org/money.asp
We would have so much more wealth in a free market economy; everything becomes more affordable, every year things become cheaper
Stop Worrying about the Election by Isaac M. Morehouse
http://mises.org/story/3129
Don't become accustomed to bondage - Keep the spirit of freedom alive!
The biggest enslavement is of your own mind; A Prison for Your Mind http://tinyurl.com/lje25
The Shawshank Redemption - Final Scene - Movie Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TjyR_3mUsM
Being ungovernable (like the early Quakers in Pennsylvania and the freedom fighters in communist Poland) and generating freedom-based hope and a positive sense of life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_Hand_Luke
Cool Hand Luke - "Failure to communicate" scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fuDDqU6n4o
If we didn't have regulation, or violence against creativity, we'd see more things like http://www.iconaircraft.com/
Freeing your mind by coming to terms with your own fears about others being free...
What do you do every day to promote (or detract from) freedom in your life?
bumper music "Money (That's What I Want)" by The Flying Lizards
http://www.myspace.com/flyinglizards

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Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe18.html
The Hobbesian State remains in a perpetual state of nature
Who governs the governors? It's turtles all the way down...
The State itself isn't bound by any outside enforcer, so no external 3rd party exists to hold it accountable; the State is in a state of anarchy!
The State as the mafia with a flag, the organization of authoritarian sociopaths who live off productive people
The procedures of government are just public relations bs
The basic structure of all government comes from the desperation of the authoritarian sociopathic personality within any given community realizing that they have nothing of value (no product or service) to offer their neighbors in voluntarily trade
Those in government love the idea of forcing others to provide for them
The mainstream media's complicity, and government schools' as indoctrination camps
supplemental reading: The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm
The gravity well of governmental coercion and corruption
You don't need to steal to provide a product of service
Fear of productiveness and the hatred of the good for being the good
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/envyhatredofthegoodforbeingthegood.html
The cover-up: collectivistic and altruistic propaganda, and the ethics of sacrifice
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html
Governmental employees true motives are the opposite of their rhetoric
If you have to deal with a governmental bureaucrat, ask them this pointed question: Other than the threat of physical violence, what is the nature of the relationship between you (and your violent organization) and me?
Making coercive thugs pay a spiritual price, just by asking some simple questions and making some simple ethical observations
The State is a legal fiction; thus, there can be no crimes against the State
An alternative pledge of allegiance: I pledge allegiance to the logic of my own life and my own well-being and to my own happiness for which it stands, one mind independent, purposeful, with liberty and justice for me
Neither bullets nor ballot: Violence, including the vote, cannot bring liberty by Wendy McElroy  
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.165
"Benjamin Tucker maintained that one could no more attack government by electing politicians than one could prevent crime by becoming a criminal"
No one has the right to a position of power over others; something Ron Paul Revolutionaries need to integrate
Most people are conflicted philosophically, so their integrity suffers
Essentially, voting is violence
"Anarchism analyzes the State as an institution whose purpose is to violate rights in order to secure benefits to a privileged class...Thus, the political anarchist must explain why he aspires to an office he proclaims inherently unjust"
The contradictory ideas and behavior of most Free State Project members (http://freestateproject.org)
Rationalizing taking governmental jobs...
Another question for governmental employees: If what you're doing is so valuable to the community, why don't you offer it on a voluntary basis?
Exposing a contradictory code of ethics
Various Free Staters' bad plan of joining the mafia and convincing their fellow coercers that putting down the guns will be a good thing
Exposing the psychological, emotional, landscape...
Transitioning mentally to the ethics of complete liberty; the growing snowball of awareness
Making people aware of their fear of good ideas
Message to Free Staters: Joining a criminal gang in order to get rid of criminality won't achieve freedom
Freeing your personal life from statist mentalities, and then strategizing a plan to free your political life from statist mentalities
Getting personal with those who seek to rule over you
Signs of Autumn by B.R. Merrick
http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/merrick/merrick5.html
The violence of elections taken to its logical conclusion--guns pointed at you
One reason that political anarchism (or any form of minarchism) will never work: Productive and respectful people will never want to get involved with the insanity and evil of politics
Ron Paul's contradictions
You "win" in politics by being a very crafty, deceiving, equivocating coercer--Obama as icon for this sociopathy
bumper music "Bomb the World" from Everyone Deserves Music album by Michael Franti
http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/listen.php

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Class and equality under statism versus a free market
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods
http://www.mises.org/store/The-Politically-Incorrect-Guide-to-American-History-P247C0.aspx?AFID=14
http://books.google.com/books?id=ltSIOnW6XLsC
A video talk about the book:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=184310-1
How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas DiLorenzo
http://tinyurl.com/4r37q6
Book's review: How Capitalism Saved America by Laurence M. Vance
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance90.html
The Capitalist Manifesto by Andrew Bernstein
http://www.andrewbernstein.net/books/capman.htm
"Equality," like freedom, is an inside job
The bloody credo of communism--ability required to feed "need"
Rising prosperous economic tide of true capitalism lifts all boats
Nature of "abusive" corporations; The Semi-Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
http://completeliberty.com/chapter4.php#80
The free market never fails, but force and faith must always
Forcing "equality" on people is anti-mind and anti-life; it represents the evil doctrine of sacrifice
Coercive monopolies only exist because of the legitimacy granted to them by most people
The Importance of Agorist Class Theory by Niccolo Adami
http://catholicmarketanarchy.blogspot.com/2008/05/importance-of-agorist-class-theory.html
The entrepreneurial class versus the parasitic class
Problems with the idea of classes; http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15
SEK3's essence of agorist class theory; http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf
Should agorists ban together as comrades?
Religion as fosterer of conflicts between groups
Pemes, or political memes, that are enslaving us
#TL074: PEME-THEORY - BASIC, INTERMEDIATE & ADVANCED By Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl074.shtml
Challenging those, first and foremost in your personal life, who advocate statist aggression
Voting Decisions Made Easy by Hal O'Boyle
http://www.haloboyle.com/2004/03/voting_decision.html
to "...those who refuse to shuffle off to the voting booth like Eloi in the thrall of the Morlocks' dinner siren." ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock - ominous parallels...
"Representatives" don't represent you--no valid contract of agency
The insanity of gun control laws, especially in Mexico
War on drugs is war on individual rights, creating rampant crime both here and in Mexico
What would happen if they held an election, and nobody voted? Evidence that people don't see themselves as slaves anymore!
No such thing as a "Republic," and "Democracy" is a farce
Only the voluntary marketplace is legitimate, i.e., a society of rights-respecting individuals
What is Legitimacy? by Bill Orton, aka Hogeye Bill
http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/library/aa/p004.html
Autonomy and self-ownership versus being ruled by other individuals (and governmental memes)
Sacrifice is really the corrupt ethical doctrine we must confront
Police State Mission-Creep by Scott McPherson
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/mcpherson10.html
statist "strength in numbers" thuggery
We aren't "customers" of the "business" of government
'Sensational' fossil illuminates birth of dinosaurs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/08/22/scifossil122.xml
bumper music "Freedom Now" from album Crossroads by Tracy Chapman
http://www.myspace.com/tracychapmanfolk  http://www.tracychapman.com/

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The need for courage, integrity, and certainty, to resolve the personal side of ethical and political contradictions in our relationships
Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/
Implications of the "against me" argument
927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/
The political contradiction of Objectivism's politics, which hinges on a collectivistic notion of a coercive monopoly; a couple extensive refutations:
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
Laissez-faire, A More Enlightened View Of Capitalism—And Its Contradictions
http://www.logicallearning.net/libertylaissez-f.html
Disproving the State: Four arguments against government by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux4.html
Separating the messages from the messengers in the early Objectivist movement
The Passion of Ayn Rand by Barbara Branden
http://www.noblesoul.com/orc/books/other/passion.html
I read my paper titled: Who is Nathaniel Branden?
Psychologist/Psychotherapist: http://www.nathanielbranden.com
His books, in order of most recent:
Self-Esteem at Work (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises)
A Woman’s Self-Esteem (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises)
Self-Esteem Every Day (collection of thoughts on self-esteem)
The Art of Living Consciously (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises)
Taking Responsibility (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises)
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (treatise that contains psychotherapeutic exercises)
The Art of Self-Discovery (psychotherapeutic workbook; my favorite:)
The Power of Self-Esteem (shorter book on the topic)
My Years with Ayn Rand (revised edition of Judgment Day)
How to Raise Your Self-Esteem (psychotherapeutic workbook)
Honoring the Self (treatise)
If You Could Hear What I Cannot Say (psychotherapeutic workbook for relationships)
What Love Asks of Us (with Devers Branden) (question and answer book)
The Psychology of Romantic Love (treatise)
The Disowned Self (treatise)
Breaking Free (compilation of vignettes from therapy)
The Psychology of Self-Esteem (seminal work on the subject)
Who is Ayn Rand? (deals primarily with Rand's novel moral code)
Overview of his biocentric psychology, in relation to objective philosophy
Volition as essential component in self-esteem and value-judgments
Emotions as indicators of "for me" or "against me"
The nature of the subconscious and automatization
Comprehensive framework of Ayn Rand's philosophy of Objectivism, from metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, to politics and esthetics
Branden's revolutionary refinement of the concept of self-esteem, which can be seen as an integrated sum of self-confidence and self-respect; choice quotation from The Psychology of Self-Esteem: "To understand a man psychologically, one must understand the nature and degree of his self-esteem, and the standards by which he judges himself"
Man's mental health depends on being able to deal with reality--in particular, his internal reality--in an unblocked fashion
The Pillars of self-esteem:
The practice of living consciously
The practice of self-acceptance
The practice of self-responsibility
The practice of self-assertiveness
The practice of living purposefully
The practice of personal integrity
Branden's humanistic focus on the methods by which to acquire and maintain self-esteem stands as the ultimate tribute to the human soul
The respective roles of philosophy and psychology; inspecting the problematic modern dichotomy
The nature of psychotherapy and its challenges, both inside and out
To choose to change, even when change is often frightening
As Branden has noted, we need not be prisoners to yesterday's thinking and decisions
bumper music "Piano Concerto in A Minor, 1st Movement, Allegro Molto Moderato" by Edward Grieg
Pianist Pawel Mazurkiewicz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF0WaXEf0xM
Pianist Arthur Rubinstein: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxzpy1b1_BY
Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes (best sound, imo): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL_DT4DRxVA

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How – Actually – Does the State Work? 'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will Kill You' by Jeff Knaebel
http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel19.html
Methods of domination...
People who really value liberty are not so organized
The ridiculous sporting event of politics, where winning equals everyone losing
The free state project http://www.freestateproject.org
Direct, raw violence perpetrated by individuals "working" for government
Is democracy relative? Any initiation of force is wrong, absolutely
Unjust laws...ad naseum
The floating abstraction of "the public"; trying to hide government's true aims through the use of euphemisms
Molding the minds of youth via "public education," i.e., extortion-funded governmental education
Arguments against the notion that taxation is extortion and aggression, which are of course illogical
Sick dependency created by those in government
The monstrous ethical contradiction of using force as the means to (attempt to) achieve benevolent ends
Stossel in America - ABC 20/20 Freeloaders - Creating Dependency Segment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4teq7aKTNJ4
http://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2007/01/03/is_this_any_way_to_help_the_homeless
Violence is not a way to "help" people
Should we fear employees of the State (those in power) or, rather, our fellow slaves?
The Next Thing...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_paOt6_ZI
948 The Next Thing (Part 2)
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/25/
the backstory: Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1)
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/
Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Etienne de la Boetie
http://www.constitution.org/la_boetie/serv_vol.htm
Inculcating obedience through nonsense statements such as, "As long as you comply, it's not force"
Ruling through fear; http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heinrich_Himmler
Conflating America with American government
The popular values of equality, universal health care, and no child left behind can never be realized through force, and government is the biggest hindrance to realizing such values
The initiation of force is the invalid means to achieve one's ends
Only the free market can foster popular values, and then some!
Obviously, the more government intervention, the worse the results
Lessons From Tennessee's Failed Health Care Reform by Merrill Matthews, Jr. (beware the author's slavespeak)
http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/BG1357ES.cfm
The unpeaceful nature of Sweden, and other liberally praised authoritarian domains
Sweden, Banana Republic by Per Bylund
http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund12.html
Per Bylund Archives: http://www.lewrockwell.com/bylund/bylund-arch.html
The argument from morality in relation to the welfare state
The congressional umbilical cord to the military/industrial complex
How The Military/Industrial Complex Works: You Scratch My back, Bombs Away!
http://completeliberty.com/chapter2.php#45
Government "servants" that impose "services" on us, versus the beauty of services provided by businesses
Government, by definition, is incapable of providing what we want; what we want are voluntarily chosen services (i.e., not to be forced)
Speaking of which, my own new service :)
http://www.happinesscounseling.com
Ayn Rand had it right: happiness is our highest moral purpose
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/happiness.html
The psychological payoff for avoiding the immoral essence of governmental "services"
Worry as future related guilt, and our various means of dealing with it
President as good domineering parent; Kings ordained by "God" and "the people"
Democracy: The God that Failed by Hans Hermane Hoppe
http://www.hanshoppe.com/publications.php#democracy
http://tinyurl.com/4zt79u (searchable text from google books)
http://www.mises.org/store/Democracy-The-God-That-Failed-P240C0.aspx
Ah, government is beyond failure, because its employees perform magic tricks and miracles using the golden (blood drenched) gun of taxation and regulation and fiat currency!
Apathy created by governmental "schooling," childhood indoctrination in obedience to authority, and the mainstream media of distractions and lack of logical analysis
Obama's "hope" and "change" through coercion: put the following site-specific searches in google to see the essence of what politics is about, no matter the orator's popularity:
site:www.barackobama.com require
site:www.barackobama.com required
site:www.barackobama.com mandate
site:www.barackobama.com mandated
Governmental employees use commerce and business language to try to hide their organization's thuggish nature
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
http://www.economichitman.com/
http://tinyurl.com/57w588 (google books)
http://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_an_Economic_Hit_Man#Controversy_and_criticism
Fabricating external threats in order to gain more power and control
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_advance-knowledge_debate
FDR, Pearl Harbor and the U.N. by John V. Denson
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/denson8.html
The Conspiracies of Empire by H. Arthur Scott Trask
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/trask1.html
Pearl Harbor Was No Surprise by Don Hull
http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/Hull/hull5.html
Do Freedom of Information Act Files Prove FDR Had Foreknowledge of Pearl Harbor? by Robert B. Stinnett, Douglas Cirignano
http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=408
The Truth About Pearl Harbor: A Debate by Robert B. Stinnett, Stephen Budiansky
http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=445
Sixty-Three Years of Lies by Anthony Gregory
http://www.strike-the-root.com/4/gregory/gregory27.html
Man accused of making license plate 'disappear'
http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/04/1827266-man-accused-of-making-license-plate-disappear
Live in accordance with rights-respecting free enterprise http://agorism.info/
With complete liberty (voluntary exchanges), everything will become more and more affordable; cost of living will continually decrease and standard of living will continually increase
In the lose/lose scenario of government (involuntary exchanges), those wielding power become slaves too--it's a race to the bottom, economically and psychologically
bumper music "Uncle Sam Goddamn" by Brother Ali
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Must the Government Combat Americans’ Addiction to Foreign Bananas? by Robert Higgs
http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/53228.html
banana crises sidenote:
http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/24/the-great-banana-panic-continues/
Understanding free market economics and international trade, for the umpteenth time
Resistance to the truth is aided by rationalizations
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalization.html
Is Richard an 'merican?...
Keene Man (Russell Kanning) to Auction Off Vote by Kat Kanning
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/209
Exposing the hypocrisy of political vote buying
"Representatives" don't represent you; don't fall for the slavespeak
THE ANATOMY OF SLAVESPEAK by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml
Statement from Jason Gerhard (incarcerated friend of tax resistors Ed and Elaine Brown)
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/197
Imposing "services" at gunpoint: the essence of government
Parents forcing children to do things, which leads to uncritical acceptance of politics
The Meaning and Value of Gold by Glen Allport (in reference to growth of government pie charts)
http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/allport/allport2.html
Self-esteem versus rationalizations and defense mechanisms
No Such Thing as a Good Cop by Larken Rose
http://www.newhampshirefreepress.com/NHFreePress/?q=node/203
The horribly dangerous authority myth--the denial of personal responsibility
"...committing immoral violence is an unavoidable part of every cop's job." (LR)
The disorder created by government (and authoritarian parenting)
Simple rules for persons in a free market: Don't lie, cheat, and steal
What is the ~nature~ of parental influences? ~How~ the messages are delivered makes all the difference
Introducing, particularly to adolescents--via the Web--the anti-authoritarian anarchistic philosophy, which is a kind of psychotherapy to deal with the various abuses of one's will by others, by family, culture, and governmental "officials"
Authentic, independent challenging of "authority" versus inauthentic (typically collectivistic) revolting against it and replacing it with yet another "authority"
People's ambivalence about anarchy
Intro to Everyday Anarchy by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AidXSubb-2U
How – Actually – Does the State Work? 'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will Kill You' by Jeff Knaebel
http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel19.html
Corrupt power cannot withstand moral courage
Implications of the "against me" argument
927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/
Setting the standard for rational debate
Defending the Undefendable: The pimp, prostitute, scab, slumlord, libeler, moneylender and other scapegoats in the rogue's gallery of American society by Walter Block
http://www.mises.org/store/Defending-the-Undefendable-P136.aspx
http://mises.org/books/defending.pdf
One way to create a better world (especially for yourself): By not collaborating and compromising with those who forward evil premises
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/compromise.html
Errors of Knowledge vs. Breaches of Morality by Ayn Rand
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/errorsofknowledge.html
Nullifying the will of others: the essence of the love of domination ("authority")
Respect presupposes a sovereign use of consciousness--which is why the initiation of force is NOT to be tolerated
Objectivists distorted use of moralization
Email dealing with the non sequitur of minarchism and fallacies about "human nature"
We can't escape philosophy
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/philosophy.html
The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier by Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill
http://mises.org/journals/jls/3_1/3_1_2.pdf
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=552
The trader principle (value for value) as part of the virtue of independence
Japanese researchers craft "e-skin" to let robots feel by Donald Melanson
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/12/japanese-researchers-craft-e-skin-to-let-robots-feel/
Getting corrupt relationships out of your life and challenging slave-on-slave violence--thus fostering a better, happier, more courageous self, and a better society
The Next Thing... by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH_paOt6_ZI
948 The Next Thing (Part 2) by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/25/
the backstory:
Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/
bumper music "Politik Kills" by Manu Chao (Politik kills db remix DUB+vox_mastered)
http://www.manuchao.net/
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Is RTR crackpottery?
Judge for yourself: http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR
Brutalization of the child
"off limits" domains of morality
Ethics: the relative and the objective
Questioning the one-way street of authoritarian morality
The psychological payoffs for evasion and obedience
Catastrophizing
http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-is-catastrophizing/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_distortion
Practicing RTR
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/stolenconcept.html
Listening to feelings
Questioning one's premises--can we look to peer-reviewed psych/phil journals for answers?
Focusing on the psychological/philosophical essentials
Being aware of the argument from morality
The Argument From Morality by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/molyneux7.html
The payoffs for love of domination--and for enabling it
Experiments in liberty--questioning liberty is questioning oneself
Having compassion for other people's feelings, and challenging "authority"
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rationalization.html
Illogical philosophical catch phrases--Ayn Rand astutely noted that evil philosophies are systems of rationalizations
Defining self-esteem--self-confidence and self-respect
Staving off the feeling of being unfit to exist with defense mechanisms and pseudo self-esteem
The brutalizing process of relativistic ethics and eating invisible apples (blue pill city)
There are no conflicts among people's self-interest and self-esteem
The error of "getting" a child to eat dinner...developing a context for normalization
An anarchist’s declaration by Mike Gogulski
http://www.nostate.com/an-anarchists-declaration/
Expressing anger in trying to understand the optimal context of childrearing
Getting rid of parasitic memes
John Gottman's (http://www.gottman.com) research: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--Criticism, Contempt, Defensiveness, and Stonewalling
'The Four Horsemen': Why Marriages Fail by Alix Spiegel
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4823861
http://www.gottman.com/press/releases/detail.php?id=13
Living an authentic life in relation to one's own mind, based on objective reality
The Anatomy of Slavespeak by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07a.shtml
The Nature of Government by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/tl/tl07b.shtml
The most important thing to show kids, besides your happiness: authentic and principled expression of values and virtues
The truth shall set us free!
Peer-reviewers' fest of altruism
Developing self-trust in one's own understanding of objective morality--and living it!
Just For Fans of Stefan Molyneux (when seemingly nice people turn nasty)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY30C6Grv3o
The Art of Self-Discovery by Nathaniel Branden (examining subconscious premises)
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=38
The Art of Living Consciously by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=28
Taking Responsibility by Nathaniel Branden
http://www.nathanielbranden.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=21_23&products_id=36
Personal evolution also means the evolution of our culture
bumper music "See You on the Other Side" by Ozzy Osbourne
http://www.ozzy.com/music/ozzmosis

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Early experiences with bad adult behavior
Fear of authority and feeling a lack of authoritativeness
It all starts with agreeing to the "invisible apple"
A Transcript of Freedomain Radio Podcast 70: “The Parable of the Apple – or, How to control a human soul...” by Stefan Molyneux
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/how_to_control_a_human_soul.mp3
also in the book Real-Time Relationships: The Logic of Love by Stefan Molyneux
http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR
Psychology of Education
http://www.logicallearning.net/libertyeducation.html
Between Parent and Child - The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication by Haim Ginott
http://tinyurl.com/598j76
The "normal" talk that drives kids crazy
"Sanity depends on trusting one's inner reality," noted Ginott
Honoring the volitional capacity of the child
Parents' and teachers' love of dominion (as noted by Herbert Spencer)
Misbehavior doesn't usually emanate naturally from the child
"The child has a teacher within," noted Maria Montessori
The Secret of Childhood by Maria Montessori
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=8977399
Respecting the will of the child, allowing the psychic energy to flow
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
http://www.amazon.com/Flow-Psychology-Experience-Mihaly-Csikszentmihalyi/dp/0060920432
Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Isabella Selega Csikszentmihalyi
http://books.google.com/books?id=lNt6bdfoyxQC&dq=flow&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
The Secret of Childhood: Normalization and Deviations-lecture given by Dr. Rita Shaefer Zener
http://www.michaelolaf.net/lecture_secret.html
There can't be familial harmony when there's love of dominion going on
The early deviations fostered by adults
Four characteristics of personality that signal normalization: love of work; concentration; self-discipline; sociability
Statecraft 101 by Brad Spangler
How do I start my own country?
http://www.bradspangler.com/blog/archives/1021
Human beings bullying others both politically and parentally
Bringing war upon individuals, courtesy of those in government
The Thin Blue Lie by Wendy McElroy
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.1698
The police are the enemies of freedom; they enforce unjust laws, are paid through extortion (taxes), and work for a coercive monopoly
Why you should never talk to cops without a lawyer (video of lawyer and cop making this point)
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/342.html
San Diego Plays 'Sophie's Choice' for Fascists by Lawrence M. Ludlow
http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/ludlow/ludlow1.html
"Law" as an opinion backed by a gun
Law must be based on human well-being and happiness--to be objective and valid, it must adhere to the principles of individual rights, self-ownership, and property
Cooking Stimulated Big Leap In Human Cognition
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/12/2036254
bumper music "Love Will Set You Free" by Starchaser
http://www.myspace.com/starchaserofficial

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The Dangerous Question by Marcel Votlucka
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/

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Getting to the root of the problem
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/

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A Foundation for Panarchy by Michael S. Rozeff
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
927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux (the two magic words: would you be in favor of using force "against me"?)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM
http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/FDR_927_Ron_Paul_Politics_and_Personal_Freedom.mp3
http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/47/
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/Étude_Op._10,_No._12_(Chopin)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Legalize Every Drug by John Stossel
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

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Rape by government; the nature of unsolicited "services"
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 Capitalism—And 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)

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Without responsibility there is chaos, i.e., government
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/

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Government is disorder; no government is order (and sanity)
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

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Meaning of complete liberty
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

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Living in The Matrix and seeing the ethical/political code
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/

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Congress Passes Bill Barring Genetic Discrimination
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

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Anarchy in your head - the Anarchy Boogey-man and people's fears
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

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79% - Say Tax Cheating is Wrong - Yahoo! News
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 Liberty…
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/

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The prison system--follow the money trail
Hawaii’s 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/

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Can you trust the media?
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'’t 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 Don’t Believe in Atheists
Posted on May 23, 2007
"Chris Hedges reads from his essay at the Truthdig debate “Religion, 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

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7 Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened
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

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