Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Who Said This? Part One...

"The nation that adds province to province by fraud and violence, that encroaches on the weak and plunders it's wards, and violates it's treaties and the obligation of it's contracts, and for the law of honor and fair-dealing substitutes the exigencies of greed and the base precepts of policy and craft and the ignoble tenets of expediency, is predestined to destruction; for here, as with the individual, the consequences of wrong are inevitable and eternal."

Saturday, July 25, 2009

Fuzzy Math & Economics...

"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."

Adrian Rogers (1931)

[H/T to Freedom Force's Unfiltered News]

Monday, July 13, 2009

A Word From The Libertarian Anarchists Caucus...


We are the anarcho-libertarians. We fly the black and blue - black for anarchism, and blue for libertarianism. It's also a symbol of every bruise inflicted in a police beating, every bruise to our freedoms by statism, every bruise taken by every young mind from public schools, and the list goes on and on. Statism hurts, and statism kills. We can only end statism by ending the state!

Visit their Facebook page here.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Dr. Mary Ruwart And The Heartland Institute...



Dr. Mary Ruwart took part in the Heartland Institute's Heath Care Roundtable event in Dallas, Texas on July 8th.

To see Dr. Ruwart's Power Point presentation, follow the link below.

http://www.heartland.org/events/Roundtables/agenda_Dallas.html

The Radical Libertarian...


"To the radical libertarian, we must take any and every opportunity to chop away at the State, whether it’s to reduce or abolish a tax, a budget appropriation, or a regulatory power. And the radical libertarian is insatiable in this appetite until the State has been abolished, or – for minarchists – dwindled down to a tiny, laissez-faire role."

Murray N. Rothbard



http://www.lewrockwell.com/rothbard/rothbard75.html

Rothbard believed minarchists should be radical in their opposition to the State. He believed abolitionists and minarchists should walk in harmony on the path to Freedom.


Rothbard also considered the division in the liberty movement to be a rift between radicals and conservatives. I have seen evidence of this in the LP.

His remarks concerning this belief are below..

"Where are the Paines and Cobdens and Nocks of today? Why are almost all of our laissez-faire limited governmentalists plonky conservatives and patriots? If the opposite of "radical" is "conservative," where are our radical laissez-fairists? If our limited statists were truly radical, there would be virtually no splits between us. What divides the movement now, the true division, is not anarchist vs. minarchist, but radical vs. conservative. Lord, give us radicals, be they anarchists or no."

The moral of this story teaches us to unite in our shared contempt for the coercive State. The future of freedom requires nothing less.

Monday, July 06, 2009

Equal Ownership Of Life

"Libertarianism is the view that each man is the absolute owner of his life, to use and dispose of as he sees fit: that all man's social actions should be voluntary: and that respect for every other man's similar and equal ownership of life and, by extension, the property and fruits of that life, is the ethical basis of a humane and open society. In this view, the only — repeat, only — function of law or government is to provide the sort of self-defense against violence that an individual, if he were powerful enough, would provide for himself."

Karl Hess

Sunday, July 05, 2009

Harrisburg July 4th Report


I really enjoyed the fellowship and fun the Harrisburg July 4th Festival afforded me. I saw some old friends and met some new ones. The weather was great, with a gentle breeze blowing much of the time. The humidity was bearable, which is unusual for this time of year.

The LP Cabarrus outreach efforts were well received. We also promoted the Campaign For Liberty and Young Americans For Liberty. We also gave out Republic Magazines and pocket Constitutions. The left-over Ron Paul 2008 DVD videos were popular as well. There were quite a few Ron Paul fans in attendance this weekend. There were also a lot of folks wanting information about the LP. There is r[evol]tion in the air, indeed.

The Cabarrus Democratic Party also had a booth. The GOP was nowhere to be found. I was thrilled with the number of disgusted Republicans that came by and picked up Libertarian literature. With the Ron Paul Republicans fighting on the inside and Libertarians chipping away on the outside, the neo-con GOP edifice of empire and corporatism is crumbling away.

May it's destruction be sure and swift!

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Freemasonry And Progressive Metal Mix


Dream Theater tackles Freemasonry on their new single, "A Rite of Passage". The lyrics are below...
Since the new world order
Played upon our fears
Spreading accusations
Of radical ideas

The brotherhood of wisdom
Strength and dignity
Its rituals and secrets
Remain a mystery

Beneath an ever watchful eye
The angels of the temple fly

Turn the key
Walk through the gate
The great ascent
To reach a higher state
A rite of passage

The final stage
A sacred home
Unlock the door
And lay the cornerstone
A rite of passage

Men of wealth and power
Influence and fame
Philosophers and leaders
Are members of the trade

Bound by oath and honor
Like the rose and cross
An enigmatic union
Of esoteric thought

Beneath the ever watchful eye
The angels of the temple fly

Turn the key
Walk through the gate
The great ascent
To reach a higher state
A rite of passage

The final stage
A sacred home
Unlock the door
And lay the cornerstone
A rite of passage

Turn the key
Walk through the gate
The great ascent
To reach a higher state
A rite of passage

The seven stars
The rising sun
A perfect world
Where new life has begun
A rite of passage