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August 29, 2011 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 The commentary will be posted as soon as
possible.
You aren't the way they told you you are. --John Runde While material existence for most of us in the modern world
may be
different from that of our tribal ancestors, our most basic emotional
and social nature isn't different. We still have two arms, two legs,
and just like our small-group ancestors, the same genetically specified
emotional tools and predispositions as well. It's like this, From The ultimate answer to kings Nobody else can make me free. Not elections,
not revolution, not spiritual enlightenment. Only I can make myself
free. And when I am free, I am free regardless of my circumstances. In
a hundred-room mansion or the dankest dungeon, I am free if I am free.
Nobody can put those chains on me but me. I did it once, by accepting
that nobody was going to save me from the chains but failing to see
that didn't mean I had to wear them.
And so, to the extent I can, I live as though “they” didn't exist – except to have a laugh at their expense, from time to time. Will that bring down Leviathan? Oh, I'd love to believe so – but I doubt it. He's a big fella. And maybe it'll even lead to trouble – I'd be stupid to predict that it won't. It already has, a little bit, and I don't know what the future holds. But then, maybe it won't. Either way, I'm free-er than I was. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) Liquidate
Your Local Police: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
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the rest here) (Use the back button to return) By William N. Grigg Almost exactly a year before Oak Hill disbanded
its corruption-plagued police department, the municipal government of
Maywood, California was dissolved after repeated lawsuits against its
incurably thuggish police department bankrupted the city. Other small
towns across the country -- such as Kilbruck, Pennsylvania; Columbus,
New Mexico; Hoschton, Georgia; and Pewaukee, Wisconsin -- have
dismissed their police forces, usually as an austerity measure.
Police forces -- like practically everything else -- were extravagantly over-built during the late economic bubble. Liquidation is a vital part of every economic correction, and dismantling the local affiliate of the Homeland Security State is a splendid way to begin that process. This is why everyone blessed to live in a small town should take the opportunity to share the Oak Hill story with the city council, coupled with this admonition: Go ye, therefore, and do likewise. That is what CSGV chose to object to, and the wording of that objection shows the twisted, Orwellian mentality that drives CSGV's agenda. If offering employees the choice of whether or not to join a union is "anti-labor," then the only way to be "pro-labor" is to force them to join. That is the "progressive" philosophy in a nutshell (and a nutshell, being designed to contain nuttiness, is a very good place for it). The same thinking can be seen in characterizing those who don't believe in forcing citizens to buy a government-approved health insurance plan as being "anti-health care." Of course, CSGV also believes that to be "anti-violence" one must support denying people the ability to effectively resist violent criminal predation. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return)
Interview guests: Stewart Rhodes, Oathkeepers,
and Christopher Baker, Hawaii Defense Foundation. Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2010 (Read the rest here) External Articles ‘Terrified, dependent adults, timid in the face of new challenges’ By Vin Suprynowicz by Wendy McElroy Unscrambling
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