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July 18, 2011 Might Africa Gain Liberty First? Welcome to the home of Africa Youth Peace Call (AYPC).
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Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 Theft by government - Home front
Scared
of Freedom Minnesota governor, GOP lawmakers agree to end shutdown (Washington Post) Minnesota’s two-week-old government shutdown moved toward resolution Thursday, as Gov. Mark Dayton (D) and Republican legislative leaders agreed to a deal for closing the state’s $5 billion budget gap without a tax increase. Speaking to reporters outside his office after emerging from a nearly three-hour meeting with GOP legislative leaders, Dayton said that the government shutdown would end as soon as lawmakers flesh out details of the agreement and move them through a special session of the Legislature. Officials said that should happen “within days.” This really is too bad - Minnesota, the greatest of the Scandinavian socialist democracies, has survived for two weeks with 90 percent of its government shut down, and the towers of Minneapolis and Saint Paul still stand, the morgues are not choked with the bodies of starving or murdered Minnesotans, mobs of starving welfare recipients have not fled into Wisconsin or Iowa or the Dakotas, and cars still fill the highways and freeways... (Read the rest here) Commentary
on "Opposite
Forms of Freedom on the Fourth"
[Friendly rebuttal] by Nathan Barton © 2011 Jacob [Hornberger] is a well-known libertarian writer and commentator, and I always learn from his articles. But sometimes, he starts off well and then runs off on a tangent, damaging his arguments and not addressing the root problems. In other cases, his words strike a spark in me and others, and helps us see things more clearly. This reflection on the Fourth of July is a mix of those: my comments on his thoughts are in italics. I’d like to share two points about the Fourth of July that I believe are important: First,
the people who signed the Declaration of Independence were not American
citizens, as is commonly believed. The people who took up arms against
the British government were not fighting a foreign power. The
revolutionaries were British citizens. They took up arms against their
own government. They were shooting the troops rather than supporting
them. By Larken Rose There are a lot of people who consider
themselves freedom advocates, who, with righteous zeal and indignation,
vehemently rail against the injustice, corruption and oppression
"government" continually spews forth. However, many of those same
people, when they hear someone suggesting life without the monstrosity
called "government," will immediately go into turbo-backpedal mode,
insisting that some "government" is needed, that we need to work to fix
the system, and that we need a good "government," that just does good
stuff, and protects us, and so on.
The situation is a lot like a battered spouse, who is given the opportunity to escape her abuser, but who insists that she can't leave, that he really loves her, that she needs him, that the relationship can be fixed. Such a response shows that, as much as the abuser is a nasty scumbag, there is also a serious problem in the mind of his victim, which enables the abuse to continue. (Read
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First they came for the … One of the hardest things about living in a police state is watching other people be crushed by state power and feeling unable to do a thing about it. We read Pastor Neimoeller’s famous lines as a warning to ourselves. But really, there’s not much chance of heeding the warning in a way that changes anything — except perhaps for the worse. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) [Editor's Note: I came across an essay that addresses this quite well.] The majority of our movement has become so obsessed with why we should be free, we have completely ignored how we will become free. If we want freedom, we must stop trying to explain it, and we must start showing the world what it is. And in order to show what freedom is, we must build free institutions. The state uses violence and force to claim the sole right to provide services that might otherwise be provided voluntarily. The state has many guns, and there is great risk to compete with them, but nonetheless we still have the ability. And we can find ways to do so in a way that minimizes the risk to our life and maximizes our ability to create freedom. The state will not collapse until people can physically see better solutions. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) EXCLUSIVE: It
Takes A Village Visit David Codrea’s online journal, “The War on Guns”, read his Gun Rights column at DavidCodrea.com and listen to his weekday morning radio program “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance” at NBC1260.com. (Read
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Voluntaryists face "felony wiretapping" charges for filming in public By Garry Reed As they usually do, the two friends were filming their interaction with the officials as a means of protection and accountability for everyone involved when police officers arrested them without specifying any charges and, in their own words, "were taken to the Greenfield Police Department where we were abused, fingerprinted, photographed, stripped and had our personal possessions stolen from us" and held in a cold cell for over twelve hours. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2010 External Articles National Gun Rights Examiner Click Here for the Archives PLEASE let me know
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