Please enjoy my recent conversation with Lawrence Reed. Herein we discussed how he became a Voluntaryist, his book “Excuse Me, Professor”, WW II lifted us out of the Great Depression fallacy, “government” is a tick, myths of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”, useless child labor laws, basic definition of terms, what is Capitalism, “government” causes most problems, truth about FDR’s New Deal, Great Depression history, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Wagner Act, FDR Executive Orders, Gold Nationalization, The Federal Reserve failures, natural vs. coercive currency, gold/silver, Green Bean Federal Committee, inflation is theft of purchasing power, one gold coin global currency, Creature from Jekyll Island, the law of diminishing marginal utility, Austrian Economics, Socialism, free markets increase wealth, robber barons myth, John D. Rockefeller and more!
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
Please enjoy this recent episode of the Seeds of Liberty Podcast. This week we were joined by Justin, the man behind LibertyHangout.org and the Facebook page, Twitter account and YouTube channel of the same name. Herein we discussed the joys of living in the People’s Republic of New York, how New York is the Marxist (rather than the market) capital of the world, how an armed society is a polite society, standing against “public” gun ownership, Timothy McVeigh, How guns are merely tools, the not-so-Wild West, being pro self-defense/pro-freedom rather than pro-gun, being left defenseless “for your safety”, how the State won’t die quietly, being programmed to fear guns, the NY SAFE Act, the incentives to commit crime, lines in the sand, the repercussions of a possible gun confiscation, “milker bills”, whether chaos would actually ensue in light of an economic collapse, secession, world currencies, the imminence of a WWIII, creating your own monsters to slay, Iran, how the military is the largest welfare program, non-violent communication, defending your position with clichés, doing man on the street interviews, the State’s ‘War on Nouns and Adjectives’, slave on slave attacks, and more!
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
Please enjoy my recent conversation with Liberty Hangout. Herein we discussed my introduction to voluntaryism, the implications of marxist policies, Bernie Sanders, Austrian economics, self-education, the value of a college education, the power of technology, as well as the imperative value of the individual and more!
The more subsidized it is, the less free it is. What is known as ‘free education’ is the least free of all, for it is a state-owned institution; it is socialized education – just like socialized medicine or the socialized post office – and cannot possibly be separated from political control.
Please enjoy my recent conversation with Liberty Hangout. Herein we discussed how he became a Voluntaryist, the origin of Liberty Hangout, Judge Napolitano, ad hominems, rationalizing legal plunder, minimum wage sophistry, Bernie Sanders free stuff, Socialists are hypocrites, defining terms, what is Capitalism, Wal-Mart provides a valuable service, seen vs. unseen, oil use has raised standards of living, politicians exploit the good intentions of the people, why do people commit crime, “government” is a criminal organization, Hegelian Dialectic, change it from the inside mentality, Harriet Tubman, politics is a waste of time, appeal to the elephant, unlocking emotional freedom, Adam Kokesh, Battered Citizen Syndrome and more!
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
“What did you think about the Oregon Community College shooting?”
It happened in a gun free zone where it was illegal for students and faculty to possess firearms to protect themselves. It seems as though this psychopath did not get the memo. Psychopaths do not obey laws. If laws truly prevent crime all we have to do to eliminate theft, rape, assault, and murder is to make them illegal. The more laws, the more criminals will be created who will inevitably find ways around the laws to achieve their psychopathic ends.
After the shooting “government” enacted a martial law lockdown of the college and treated all the students there as criminals with no individual rights. This was more a display of military might than it was for any practical or productive purposes. “Government” control is achieved when the populace is maintained in a constant state of fear and intimation. This is the climate wherein true sociopaths reign supreme.
What truly frightens me is the predicable response by politicians is to call for tighter gun control laws, regulations, and background checks. These fruitless actions only serve to further disarm the good obedient law abiding citizens whilst the psychopaths will obtain their firearms on the black market outside of “government” reach thereby leading to more mass shootings. The self-licking ice cream cone that is the State is revealed in all its horridness. The Hegelian Dialectic is a truly effective and sinister method for expanding State power. Moreover those who support gun control laws are not against guns, there are simply against the people owning guns, for in order for those guns to be confiscated they must be visited by agents of the State armed with guns. Therefore advocates for gun control laws support “government” police and any other militarized State agency as the sole monopoly on violence of the land.
A gun like a computer, car, hammer, ax, or chainsaw is merely a tool that humans use to improve their lives. Such inanimate objects have multiple uses depending on who uses them. That a drunk driver might kill a few people on the sidewalk does not justify imposing car control laws restricting car use for everyone else. That a hacker might use a computer to steal the account numbers of a few people does not justify imposing computer control laws restricting computer use for everyone else. That an ax might be used to kill a man and hack him into multiple pieces does not justify imposing ax control laws restricting ax use for everyone else. If guns kill people, then spoons make people fat and pens misspell words. Evil resides in the heart, not the tool.
When the people fear government there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is freedom.
