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Sites Like This Will Lead to Change

Social media sites are the contact centers of the internet, giving voices to average people on issues ranging from war to medical insurance reform. How can we use this tool to promote change? There are… Continue

Added by Pat Jewett on January 5, 2010 at 10:38pm — No Comments

Almost to 1200!!!!!

Woo-hoo! Fr33agents is barely 6 months old (well, since it's rebirth) and we're only 6 agents shy of 1200 agents! This is some good growth! From what I can see, it's only continuing! We've got groups going for podcasting, making fr33agents gear, mutalism, agorism, anarcho-capitalism, heck, I think we even have a group for libertarian-republicans! Go team! Please continue this fantastic growth if you would fr33agents, the more we liberate, the weaker they grow, and the stronger and more resilient… Continue

Added by Michael Lowry on January 5, 2010 at 2:18pm — 4 Comments

Should Minarchists Focus on Judges and not Legislators

The Legislator doesn't really write the laws, they just offer suggestions. The law is whatever the judge thinks it is. You can read it verbatim and the judge will say, "That's your interpretation." You can't just assume the judge is literate (as Marc Stevens would say). Since the system is setup in such a way, maybe the best way to make immediate change would be to elect liberty minded judges and promote the… Continue

Added by s¢Ⓥ++ on January 5, 2010 at 2:00pm — 1 Comment

Practicality

Say it ALL came true. Overnight. You wake up on a stateless continent. The market anarchists are producing and trading. The anarcho communists are telling each other how much they can charge for the goods and services that the workers would provide, if they could finally talk some workers into letting the state (oops, commune) decide everything for them. Only problem: The very real China, Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea still exist. What, precisely, will you do when a state that has no f… Continue

Added by David Something on January 4, 2010 at 5:24pm — 11 Comments

Center For A Stateless Society

I recently took on the position of News Analyst at Center For a Stateless Society, a market anarchist media center. My first commentary there, Newark Airport Disruption and the Failure of State Security is now online. Take a look at it, and if you can, check out the other great content at C4SS and give us some comments and contributions. Continue

Added by Darian Worden on January 4, 2010 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Government-Issued Permission Slips Worthless

Court upholds police pointing gun at lawful carrier A case out of the First Circuit has some painful lessons for gun carriers in Georgia. A United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the constitutionality of pointing a gun at any citizen daring to carry, lawfully, a concealed weapon in public. The First Circuit Court of Appeals i… Continue

Added by Matt on January 3, 2010 at 7:05pm — 2 Comments

Future Headlines and Unintended Consequences

Writers Note: I do cross post my blogs on Newsvine February 14th Washington DC President Barack Obama signs the Enhanced Anti-Terrorism Prevention Act into law. The law came to be in a month long fight that stemmed from the attempted terrorist attack on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 that happened on Christmas Day. The major bulk of the law contains what security and neoconservatives have been fighting for since the day of the attack; giving police and security officials the green light to prof… Continue

Added by LibertarianBlue on January 3, 2010 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Market Avatar! How Hollywood is Trying to Compete with the Agora

Avatar cost a lot of money to make. Apparently, when James Cameron initially wanted to do it the cost would have been almost double, so ten years later they settled in on 250 million. Give or take. A friend of mine is going to see it in some kind of mega 3-d shit that costs $11 during matinees and $15 at night. Usually, I love to bitch about high priced movie tickets. And it's COMICAL to me that a tub of popcorn can actually cost ten dollars. But I find myself, instead, thinking about the cost… Continue

Added by Travis on January 2, 2010 at 8:00pm — 4 Comments

Have Fun, Be Free

I used to get political burn out about once a year when I was a libertarian activist. It seemed to me my world was going to hell because as hard as I worked to end tyranny in the world it continued to accelerate towards an Orwellian state. Laws were invented by man to protect individuals from harm. For a long, long time laws were only an enumeration of universally believed concepts such as killing, hurting or stealing from someone was wrong. Today in America there are literally millions of page… Continue

Added by prometheus on January 2, 2010 at 4:00pm — 2 Comments

Against Politics' Aschwin de Wolf on Libertarian Centralism

"From a “skeptical empiricist” perspective (to use Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s useful phrase) neither “rationalist” nor public policy approaches to libertarianism are particularly credible. But what is quite remarkable about current debates about “libertarian centralism” is that libertarians associated with rationalist schools of thought (Austrian economics, natural rights) display far more realism about how political power actually operates than those libertarians that have extensive exposure to… Continue

Added by Ricky James Moore II on January 1, 2010 at 9:37pm — 2 Comments

Is the Name “Capitalism” Worth Keeping? Part I

This was a good one. I kind of dig The Freeman. http://www.thefreemanonline.org/headline/is-the-name-“capitalism”-worth-keeping-part-i/ Continue

Added by Travis on January 1, 2010 at 8:57pm — 12 Comments

Bright Some Ways

In his very fine essay on "Obama and Libertarians", Daniel Jennings writes, "Ron Paul and Peter Schiff are pretty bright guys and I'm sure they see this." I'm willing to agree that I thought so about Peter, but after reading this Lew Rockwell blog and watching the associated… Continue

Added by Jim 9 Planets on January 1, 2010 at 4:30pm — 2 Comments

Islamism = extreme statism

I assume most people on this site understand that "the state" is created and maintained primarily through popular ideology as opposed to proactive physical coercion. The physical coercion is only used "at the margins," used to prevent any noticeably substantive dissent from that ideology. This ideology - statism - is often manifested as nationalism and non-statists often seem to focus or limit… Continue

Added by Cal on January 1, 2010 at 2:30pm — 20 Comments

Why Wait? Put Me in Jail Now

So, on Christmas Eve, at a time when most people were paying no attention to the shenanigans going on in Washington, DC, the Senate of the United States of America pushed forward with its health care agenda that puts the health care of America in the hands of politicians rather than physicians. No surprise there. It seems to me that most really terrible, tyrannical, intrusive big government collectivist legislation is passed in the dark of night on the sly with as little fanfare as possible, lik… Continue

Added by Szandor Blestman on January 1, 2010 at 12:10pm — 2 Comments

HHO Tek, Energy Conservation Available Now

Quite often I write about my doubts about the validity of human driven climate change. Some people seem to think this means I don't care about the environment. They seem to think I believe that mankind has no impact on the natural world. This is, of course, untrue. I am, in fact, very concerned about the environment, pollution and the conservation of resources. I simply don't believe that carbon dioxide in the amounts we produce is the villain the politically driven scientists and one world gove… Continue

Added by Szandor Blestman on January 1, 2010 at 12:09pm — No Comments

2009 Continental Congress: The Final Document

The quest for individual liberty has not ended. For ten historic days in November, 2009, from the 11th to the 21st, delegates from forty eight of the fifty states met in St. Charles, Illinois to discuss the unconstitutional usurpations of the federal government of the United States of America and peaceful methods available to hold accountable those responsible for constitutional violations. These were ordinary people for the most part, not professional politicians, not rich elitists, not well kn… Continue

Added by Szandor Blestman on January 1, 2010 at 12:08pm — No Comments

Introducing The Daily Sovereign

Some of you may have been listening to InFrequently Asked Questions Live! this Wednesday night, when Jason Talley guest co-hosted. I mentioned the idea of creating an alternative, primarily web-based media outlet with a liberty-oriented editorial policy. I've decided to name it The Daily Sovereign, and I have reserved the domain name http://dailysov.com. Don't bother visiting the URL just yet, there is nothing there. This idea is very much inspired by The… Continue

Added by Rick Caldwell on January 1, 2010 at 10:49am — 5 Comments

What first opened your eyes to liberty?

This question seems fairly common but I always find it interesting. What's stated below and the retarded teaching towards standardized testing instead of learning was when I woke up to it all. I don't remember when it happened, but I do know the one thing that shook me when I was young into realizing that something was terribly wrong with society and perceptions was when I found out “everybody” paid for public schooling. I thought “WHAT THE FUCK!” You pay based on a percentage of a percentage o… Continue

Added by Sean on January 1, 2010 at 2:00am — 6 Comments

A Special Message From Thomas L. Knapp — 2010: Year of the Anarchist?

Really awesome. http://c4ss.org/content/1617 Continue

Added by Travis on December 31, 2009 at 10:32pm — 3 Comments

Oxford economist and anti-statist philosopher Anthony de Jasay doesn't want to be identified with "anarchists."

If I were the only "anarchist," I would be very happy to wear the title. What embarrasses me about it is the few other "anarchists" - many of them are crazy - and I don't feel like being identified with them. - Anthony de Jasay Continue

Added by Cal on December 30, 2009 at 5:30pm — 18 Comments