Complete Liberty Podcast

Using the guns of government--for the "good" of whom? Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd The endless rationalizations for unjustifiable statist coercion So-called informed voters as the most corrupt The contrary definitions of the word anarchy Who gets to enforce their views on others? Voters, of cou...

Freedom is always an inside job A New Beginning for e-gold? http://blog.e-gold.com/2008/07/a-new-beginning.html Kowtowing to the fascists in order to run a business Fed pot calling the e-gold kettle black: The U.S. government is the biggest money launderer in the history of humankind! The governmental "officials" are the REAL criminals Money laundering as primarily a phenomenon of the "war on drug...

Reflections on the Origin and the Stability of the State by Hans-Hermann Hoppe http://www.lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe18.html The Hobbesian State remains in a perpetual state of nature Who governs the governors? It's turtles all the way down... The State itself isn't bound by any outside enforcer, so no external 3rd party exists to hold it accountable; the State is in a state of anarchy! The State...

Class and equality under statism versus a free market The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History by Thomas Woods http://www.mises.org/store/The-Politically-Incorrect-Guide-to-American-History-P247C0.aspx? AFID=14 http://books.google.com/books?id=ltSIOnW6XLsC A video talk about the book: http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=184310-1 How C...

The need for courage, integrity, and certainty, to resolve the personal side of ethical and political contradictions in our relationships Episode: 947 The Next Thing (Part 1) by Stefan Molyneux http://www.podnova.com/channel/392694/episode/26/ Implications of the "against me" argument 927 Ron Paul and Politics versus Personal Liberty by Stefan Molyneux http://youtube.com/watch?v=0z-fhCFkISM http:/...

How – Actually – Does the State Work? 'Do As You Are Told, Or We Will Kill You' by Jeff Knaebel http://www.lewrockwell.com/knaebel/knaebel19.html Methods of domination... People who really value liberty are not so organized The ridiculous sporting event of politics, where winning equals everyone losing The free state project http://www.freestateproject.org Direct, raw violence perpetrated by indiv...

Must the Government Combat Americans’ Addiction to Foreign Bananas? by Robert Higgs http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/53228.html banana crises sidenote: http://www.slashfood.com/2008/02/24/the-great-banana-panic-continues/ Understanding free market economics and international trade, for the umpteenth time Resistance to the truth is aided by rationalizations http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/rational...

Is RTR crackpottery? Judge for yourself: http://freedomainradio.com/free/#RTR Brutalization of the child "off limits" domains of morality Ethics: the relative and the objective Questioning the one-way street of authoritarian morality The psychological payoffs for evasion and obedience Catastrophizing http://psychcentral.com/lib/2007/what-is-catastrophizing/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_d...

Early experiences with bad adult behavior Fear of authority and feeling a lack of authoritativeness It all starts with agreeing to the "invisible apple" A Transcript of Freedomain Radio Podcast 70: “The Parable of the Apple – or, How to control a human soul...” by Stefan Molyneux http://www.freedomainradio.com/Traffic_Jams/how_to_control_a_human_soul.mp3 also in the book Real-Time Relationships: T...

The Dangerous Question by Marcel Votlucka http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/votlucka/votlucka2.html Why?...Do most individuals need/want Mommy/Daddy Government? Unquestioning adults as much less mature than children Kids are naturally predisposed to active-mindedness Ayn Rand's take on "Open Mind" and "Closed Mind" http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/openmindandclosedmind.html Listening to what...

Getting to the root of the problem Is depression increasing in society? Depressingly Easy by Kelly Lambert http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=depressingly-easy&sc=MND_20080731 Challenging one's silent assumptions Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns http://www.feelinggood.com/books.htm#book_fg http://www.feelinggood.com/ The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden http://www....

A Foundation for Panarchy by Michael S. Rozeff http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff210.html Are there primary and secondary rights? Run for your life whenever you hear a governmental "official" talk about your safety and happiness... Does the Jeffersonian rhetoric hold water? Government's "securing rights" is a non sequitur Because ideas are bulletproof, it's important to understand their orig...

Collectivistic statist turf war insanity King rejects govt's resignation, for now by Robert Wielaard http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/17/king-rejects-govts-resignation-for-now-1/ Governmental "officials" tear markets apart and extol self-sacrifical "public service" D.C. Arrests Residents For Missing Jury Service by Keith L. Alexander http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article...

Truthdig - Reports - The Hedonists of Power by Chris Hedges http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080623_the_hedonists_of_power/ Modern-day courtiers: The mainstream media Colbert stickin' it to The Man http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_White_House_Correspondents'_Association_Dinner http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879 Fascism in America via State-crea...

The Faux of July by Mike Wasdin http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/wasdin/wasdin1.html The nation of unwitting slaves; new planet shopping, anyone? Are Obama and McCain your typical Nazis? Declaration of Independence http://www.constitution.org/usdeclar.htm Ah, the land of collectivism, a place where all sorts of evils are supposedly sufferable The 'can-do' American spirit still exists and is vital...

An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism by Brain Police http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx Voting as an lack of consumer choice Representatives don't represent you Supposed "checks and balances" Small government isn't beautiful; government itself is ugly to the bone Mississippi Drug War Blues, The Case of Cory Maye by Drew Carey http://www.reason.tv/video/show/40...

Legalize Every Drug by John Stossel http://www.nysun.com/opinion/legalize-every-drug/80204/ Myths, lies, and downright stupidity of fear-ridden control freaks, so-called drug "warriors" The liberty to make bad choices too Trying to make a contradiction exist (government) Why Have Governments? by Peter Namtvedt http://www.reasontofreedom.com/why_have_governments.html "...a million men serving in wr...

Rape by government; the nature of unsolicited "services" Cooperation versus coercion Imagine defending the statist position Roping us into a collectivistic nation My first introduction to libertarianism and its central flaw: Libertarianism in One Lesson by David Bergland http://www.theadvocates.org/onelesson-interview.html Capitalism fosters good will; government fosters ill will The Facts Of Real...

Without responsibility there is chaos, i.e., government A thread on the truther message board http://9-11.meetup.com/279/messages/boards/thread/4766129/0 Anarchy is personal responsibility Rationalizations for State-run stuff, e.g., "education" Free riders and unfree "services" Turning the tables on the craziness Learner-driven education http://www.logicallearning.net/learnerdrivened.html Ending t...

Government is disorder; no government is order (and sanity) This brilliant essay sums it up--from both an empirical/legal point of view as well as a logical one "The Obviousness of Anarchy" by John Hasnas http://www.mises.org/journals/scholar/hasnas.pdf http://explore.georgetown.edu/people/hasnasj/?action=viewpublications&PageTemplateID=109 bumper music "You Look Good To Me" by the Oscar Peterson...

Meaning of complete liberty L. Neil Smith's inspirational discussion of the future of freedom The race to the bottom with governments Unanimous consent and the utopian vision by L. Neil Smith http://www.lneilsmith.org/utopian.html Immense economic benefits of freedom--nearly everything becomes affordable "All my life I always really wanted..." Is respect for individual rights utopian? The contradi...

Living in The Matrix and seeing the ethical/political code A prison for your mind http://tinyurl.com/lje25 Ron Paul at Duke and The American Form of Government http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docid=-5335883552107085649&hl=en The political spectrum revised, in The American Form of Government http://youtube.com/watch?v=DioQooFIcgE Fears that stuff and then knock down the straw man of "Anarc...

Congress Passes Bill Barring Genetic Discrimination http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=bill-bars-genetic-discrimination The chronic ills health care reform Free market health insurance Violence and obedience being seen as beneficial Living in the Matrix and seeing the authoritarian code Fear arguments Subtle messages of parenting Extrinsic versus intrinsic motivation http://www.alfiekohn.org/ Cub...

Anarchy in your head - the Anarchy Boogey-man and people's fears http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2008/04/04/iron-fist-to-the-rescue/ Climate change alarmism - Is the sky falling? There Is A Problem With Global Warming... It Stopped In 1998 by Bob Carter http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/04/09/do0907.xml Putting things into perspective and examining fears of the free mark...

79% - Say Tax Cheating is Wrong - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/pew/20080411/ts_pew/79saytaxcheatingiswrong Moral corruption of taxes The moral and the practical false dichotomy Taxation with representation is still tyranny by Mary Ruwart http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1269 Feeding (and collaborating with) the beast... Don't vote: it just encourages the bastards Teaching subservience by Lar...