Doug Stanhope - Liberty

via LRC Blog: Comedian Doug Stanhope on the Land of the Unfree

Galt's Gulch has no Government!

Stefan Molyneux, host of Freedomain Radio, is interviewed on the Liberty Minded show about his personal history of liberty, and the future of the freedom movement as a whole.




Liberty Minded Podcast

Freedomain Radio

Ron Paul Explains Economic Liberty

Outlook for 2012

The outlook for liberty is dismal. Those writers who are critical of Washington’s illegal wars and overthrow of the US Constitution could find themselves in indefinite detainment, because criticism of Washington’s policies can be alleged to be aiding Washington’s enemies, which might include charities that provide aid to bombed Palestinian children and flotillas that attempt to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.-Paul Craig Roberts: The Outlook for the New Year

Are You Ready For Liberty?

According to George Donnelly, probably not...

You say you want liberty. You complain about police, tickets, regulations, rules, abuses, corruption, politicians and bankers. You know the problem forwards and backwards. You’re an expert on the Federal Reserve. You’ve studied at Mises U. You’ve read Rothbard and watched Molyneux. People even go out of their way to read your critiques and respond to your rants. You talk about the presidential candidates with an air of expertise. You speak about anarcho-capitalism with confidence. You know who will build the roads in a stateless society and who will take care of whom. You believe in freedom.

But you’re not ready for liberty. You want the government to back off or just go away. But you haven’t stepped up your game to fill in the territory you want the state to abandon. How do you expect a (r)evolution to happen if you won’t lift a finger to to build it?

You want to end welfare. But what have you built to replace it?

You want food safety regulations to go away. But how many food safety watchdog organizations have you founded?

You want people to trust in freedom and each other. What have you done to build trust with your next door neighbors?

You want to end the wars. What have you done to build understanding among different cultures and nations?

You want liberty. But you’re not ready for it. You expect a (r)evolution to “happen” any day. You dream of collapse, the fall of the dollar, the destruction of the consumer society. But what have you done to prepare their replacements? Freedom does not just happen. It requires diligent, sustained intelligent work to build the organs of a free society.

Don’t aimlessly pine for collapse. Find the strength inside yourself to build the future. Start now. Be diligent. Stick with it. It takes a long time and a lot of tears to build a new society. Failure to act? Maybe you don’t really believe what you say you believe.

-You’re Not Ready for Liberty


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The Tyranny of the Watchmen

There are certain actions which we are not permitted to do as human beings.  While some people are complete pacifists, where any act of violence or force is considered wrong, most people at least follow the non-aggression principle, which states that you may not initiate force against another person.  The initiation of force, the threat of such, or fraud upon persons or property, where property is what a person owns, is considered to be a violation.  Most reasonable people can agree to this simple principle.

However, the problem is that you will have a small minority of people who have little regard for the property or person of others and instead will commit acts of theft, vandalism, murder, etc.  The human being is capable of great evil and great good after all.  When this happens, reparations are required of the perpetrator because of the harm caused.  We call this concept justice and it is different from revenge where justice is eye for an eye while revenge is head for an eye.  In other words, the reparations must fit the crime.

Most people usually allow for a government entity of some kind to be able to apply justice.  Basically, in order to enforce reparations, you need to initiate force and usually a government body is set aside for that purpose.  The vast soup of political and philosophical ideas mostly agree on having some government force, save for the various anarchist philosophies (each of which have about a dozen adherents as they are more numerous than the more “mainstream” schools of political thought).

What happens, though, when the popular institution of justice decides to overreach?  Usually, people bend over and rationalize the overreach as necessary, or worse, blame the victim of the overreach.  This happens dozens of times everyday now across the United States where government thugs are permitted to run rampant with the full support of the average citizen.  While the apathy is rapidly diminishing, as people are beginning to realize more and more how bad things have gotten, it is still significant among the dumb masses.  More people care about football than politics.  Normally, this would not bother me actually because if the Statists had no sway over us, than politics would not be that big of a deal.

The fact is, the United States government at all levels (Federal, State, and Local) have systematically violated just about every law they demand we adhere to.  When I talk about violations, I do not mean legitimate acts of reparation, but acts of violating the non-aggression principle without regard for reparations.  For example, the commonwealth of Virginia, my state of residence, has outlawed gambling.  The law itself violates the non-aggression principle as gambling does not and government should not be involved in bad decisions.  At the same time, Virginia runs a lottery system, where people can gamble by buying state-issued lottery tickets of various kinds.  Meanwhile, detectives in my state are entrapping people for harmless sports bets and sometimes getting them killed (see the tragic case of Dr. Salvatore J. Culosi).  This is a grave overreach of government action and gambling should be legalized.  Unfortunately, because of the money off of those who are just plain stupid, I doubt there will be any such action any time soon.

There have been other incidents.  The shooting death of Oscar Grant, where BART police officer Johannes Mehserle of Oakland shot and killed a young man because he was on his stomach resisting arrest.  The fact is, Oscar Grant was not fighting back, he was simply making it difficult to be arrested.  But he was lying down, unarmed, and could easily have been handcuffed and taken away.  Instead this coward shot him.  And what was the punishment for this man?  He was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, served two years with time served added into the sentence and is now out of parole.  If you watch the various videos, any sane person would have called it murder and Johannes Mehserle should have been still in prison now.

But the rules are different if you are a government worker.  This is how you can tell that we are no longer a Republic but a tyranny with most of the political process as being nothing more than a sideshow.  The bureaucracy at all levels has gotten so big that it is impossible for 536 elected people and 9 appointed judges to completely and properly oversee it.  So instead of the law be applied evenly to everyone regardless of what their standing is, it is applied selectively and only severely to those who exist outside of the “Outer Party”.

If we are to regain our freedom, we must first dismantle the various agencies, rules, and regulations which are designed not to enforce the non-aggression principle, but to protect the interests of those so-called protectors of the American citizenry.  Until that happens, there will be no liberty, just power and who has it.

Unite or Die?

The Internet is by far the greatest weapon of truth out there. There is a bull market in freedom and anybody can get a website up to start telling their truth. The reality is, that very few will get the attention since the Elite’s Mainstream Media dominates the web traffic. These sites get millions of unique visitors every month. These sites tow the company line of the Elite and serve to either distract or disinform their viewers. Sites like CNN and Huffington Post get something like 20 million unique visitors to their site every month. These corporate mockingbirds are a major reason why the average American does not ‘get it.’ Even the very successful Drudge Report, only gets like 2 million unique visitors a month. He does a better job of exposing what is really going on, but for the most part, links to only Mainstream Media articles.

Then there are these 50 or so guys who are doing excellent work on their individual blogs. They might only get 20,000 to 200,000 unique viewers to their site. This is where I feel the real truth comes from. These bloggers are unconcerned with some corporate boss or large business. These opinion makers call it as they see it,and most often, it flies in the face of the Elite’s conventional wisdom. These bloggers might have found some success with either advertising, newsletters, or member sites, but at the end of the day they are in a rat race. If they stop writing,their business dies. Corporate media does not care if their writers stop, they will find another because they have the viewers.

Read More: The Game Changer- Unite or Die

We Must, As A Nation, Once Again Embrace Defiance, Rebellion and Resistance!

We know that the greatest threat to American security is the current corruption of our government...Our tragic love affair with the state had led us to put far too much trust in a government that we thought could imporve our lives, but has instead come to rule our lives for us. We have as a people become like a frightened, battered, beat down victim of an abusive relationship. A servile, unquestioning, obedient people will always produce tyrants.

State of the Statists

Notice how the Neo-Cons have updated their language to sound more Libertarian, while perpetuating fallacious statist justifications for government. Paul Ryan says "Individual Liberty requires limited-government". Yet the Federal Government under direction of both Democrats and Republicans has systematically eroded individual liberty since its inception. America began with the smallest, most limited government in the history of nation-states, and it has become the largest, most powerful and corrupt empire in the world. Individual liberty requires self government, and totally undermines the state's power monopoly.

Liberty - Nothing Else Matters

Our leaders are violating our highest laws in the land...the Bill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States of America. You only have rights if you are willing to defend them. If you have your rights violated or you see someone's rights being violated you must stand and be heard and you must defend your rights or you will lose them. "Give me Liberty or I Shall Give You Death" is the new mantra of the new American Revolution. Be on the right side of history.




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Question of the Day: Who Knows Best, You or The Government?

Our country was founded by individuals… for individuals. For the last approximately 100 years, things have slowly changed. We now have a powerful Federal Government that can drastically change our lives with one stroke of the pen. As “We the Little People” have been fighting between Right and Left, Republican and Democrat, rich and poor… the politicians have been slowly taking away our liberties. Most of them believe that they know what is best for us and how we should live our lives.

Do you believe that Man can govern himself? If not, how do you trust another man to make decisions for you that would be in your best interest?-Who Do I Trust… and Why Should I Trust Their Solutions?


We can expand this greatly, and nearly forever:

Who knows best what you should put into your own body, or who has the right to decide that, you or the government?

Who knows better how you should spend YOUR money, you, or the bureaucRATS in Washington?

Who knows best what type of light bulb you should use in your home (based on your decision of cost, benefit in energy savings, nature of the light you receive from a particular type of bulb, and what you're using it for and where you are using it), you or a politician?

A Liberty Quote and a Question

The Quote:

The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.-- William E. Simon

The Question:

Do you agree with Simon? Why or why not? Can we have personal liberty without economic liberty? And just what is economic liberty? They seem to have much more economic liberty (if one means some form of free markets, however restricted by the state) in China today, but personal liberty in terms of political dissent, well that's another story.

On local radio recently, some "conservative" jackass was crying about how there were all these unlicensed businesses on the streets around town, food vendors and other mobile merchants who were "unfairly" competing with established business, because these small-time sellers didn't bother with business licenses or collection of sales tax (good for them, in my anti-statist book!). So, he kept saying "They can't do that, and no matter how much they don't like it, it's the law!" never mentioning anything about a basic right to earn a living, or that it is in fact those "established" brick and mortar businesses who use the government to restrict competition and entry into the market by others that are the ones engaging in unfair behavior.

Well, screw the "law". And screw you, Mr. Phony Conservative who pretends to love freedom, but always manages to come down on the side of the state against the individual (whether in this, or the drug war, police powers, Border Patrol assholes and their illegal checkpoints, etc.) To hell with all conservatives! You statist jerks don't know the meaning of the word liberty.

The right to earn a living is a basic liberty, so yes, in that sense, economic liberty is essential.

Licensing Gone Wild: Oregon Bureaucrats Shut Down 82-Year-Old Barber

An 80-year-old barber cutting hair for 50 years now is told he has to go back to school.

He says the state never warned him his license was about to expire.

Americans have a constitutional right to earn a living in the occupation of their choice, free from unreasonable government interference.

What happened to this man is the very definition of unreasonable.

A properly engaged judiciary, is one that takes rights seriously, including the right to earn a living.




Institute for Justice

Ron Paul on CNN with Wolf Blitzer

Philly Tour Guides Return to Federal Court

George Ought to Help

www.georgeoughttohelp.com

You Are A Prisoner

Andrew Napolitano: Eminent Domain

Castle Coalition: Citizens Fighting Eminent Domain Abuse

Try Freedom!

If we look at the black record of mass murder, exploitation, and tyranny levied on society by governments over the ages, we need not be loath to abandon the Leviathan State and ... try freedom. --Murray Rothbard, For a New Liberty

End of Liberty