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Its sometimes argued that without the state intellectual property could, and should, continue under contracts. Aside from the obvious pragmatic concerns, this "consent" based approach fails to legitimize the activity. To put it concisely: you can not sell something you do not own. Intellectual property (IP) can not be brought into being by
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Mobility for the masses, of course! Indian's Tata Motors has revealed its new $2,500 microcar, the Nano . If you're anything like Rajendra Pachauri, Al Gore's co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, that won't make you happy. Courtesy of MSN : Chief U.N. climate scientist Rajendra Pachauri, who shared last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said
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The State is not an end, the State is a means. The State is not police or courts, it is not law. You can hire security, or pay for arbitration. You can be obligated to fulfill a contract. Yet the State is capable of much more, it is used to educate, build roads, provide health care, deliver mail, design cars, and raise children. The State is not defined
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Its an all too common modifier. We hear about over taxing, over spending, over regulation. Its a strange indictment. Its not a legalistic term, we do not hear of over robbing or over battering. It implies more a sense of stewardship or worse, that the State is damaging its own interesting by its actions. Rudy Giuliani, who champions lower taxes because
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Consider this scenario, police meaning to a serve a no-knock warrant get lost and mistakenly end up invading the wrong house. The home owner, defending his home from unidentified assailants, fires at and kills an officer. Who is to blame? One defense for the officers jumps to mind, the home owner should have known that they were police officers, if
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On May 1st 2003, George Bush announced the "end" of "major combat operations" in Iraq. At that point 139 Americans had died. Now, more than 4 years later, 3,815 members of the American Military have been killed in Iraq. The American death toll pales in comparison to the number of dead Iraqis, what is significant is that peasant militias
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To make it perfectly clear: abstaining from voting is not a vote to abolish government. And if you wanted to pencil that in, you would still have to cast a ballot! To anarchists that refuse to use the political system as a tool to oppose the State, I poses this: If everyone person in America(besides the politicians) were to not show up to the poll booths
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It is a cliche to compare political collectivism to insect behavior or a "hive mentality." The imagery is efficively simple; that people are nothing but expendable indentityless drones slaving away for the lazy Queen. But the analogy is amazingly shallow, since insect swarms are entirely devoid of politics. The Queen is not the hub of the
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Strike-The-Root blogger Robert Kaercher charged Ron Paul with "converting people to statism" in response to him attracting people to political activision for the first time. His assertation lies on a several assumptions that I don't believe are valid. That people who ignore the political system are part of the solution. That participating
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Classic liberals, today often called minarchists, often talk about the legitimate functions of governments. Being libertarians, these people understand the nature of government is violence and coercion. Their various versions boil down to claiming the only legitimate government role is defending us and our property from others. By this they mean the