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[quote user="liberty student"] [quote user="William Green"]The rational part can overcome the animal, but it doesn't often do so.[/quote] All human action is rational . [quote user="William Green"]It seems clear that most of humanity is typically governed by the "animal"...
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If you have read Lew Rockwell's article today , you may be discouraged as I am. It raises a question I have been wrestiling with. I will try to put it into words: If freedom is the path to greater human fulfillment (and I believe it is), and if people naturally seek higher satisfaction (fulfillment...
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As reposted on my blog (I saw it linked on the Beacon ): "Today Mikheil Saakashvili presented a speech in the Parliament and told MPs about new initiatives in the economic sphere. He proposed the Act of Economic Freedom, implying granting more freedom to the economy, drawing the role of the state...
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[NOTE: was unable to log back in under original forum name] Wilderness wrote: "therefore if he hung out here long enough he would have admitted what he stands for is not liberty - but arbitrary despotism, I believe those were his definitions." Sir, what I stand for is Liberty, and a reasonable...
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[quote user="scineram"] Is that not the reason for jury trial? [/quote] There is no reason we can give that would require any given person to accept the authority of the various state courts, government trials (by jury or not) are invalid because there is no liberty or contract in the arbitration...
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Greetings - First, thank you for these scholarly forums -- it is a time when clear thinking is again needed at the forefront of politics and economics. WANTED POLITICAL/ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHERS: Is it time for a " Liberty Manifesto ?" <-- click to download PDF. We will publish the finished...
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Secession is the only real hope. Maintain the free trade and common labor market, but get rid of the Euro and leave the political sphere. Losing your sovereignty to a national government is bad, but getting it lost to a multi-national government is even worse.
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Meditating on recent events moving my homeland, the (formerly plural "United States of America are ...", and now more often singular "United States of America is ...") toward even more concentration of power in the hands of the central government, my wife and I had discussed where...
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Move to Montana as fast as possible. The Libertarian Party has a Free State Project. After discussions and a poll they selected New Hampshire (pop 1.3 million). After the get 20,000 libertarians to sign up and commit to move to NH, they will be able to elect a libertarian legislature and governor and...
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What Mr. WhoRU wrote that Mr. Vieira purports to comment on: [1] I have fairly well addressed this myth above but I hear this claim quite often and I challenge anyone who makes this claim to set forth a detailed explanation of the means whereby the Fed has any ability to cause Federal Reserve Notes to...