Complete Liberty Podcast

Do people have the freedom to travel? Of course they do, regardless of what people in government say and do Most people believe in the memes of statism and collectivism, having attended governmental schools The Ugly War on Immigrants: Snatch-and-Jail Justice? By Dave Lindorff http://counterpunch.org/lindorff04142009.html Lack of empathy for others follows from dehumanization of them and vice versa...

Libertarian Party email: 47% of Americans reject capitalism! Fight back, Paul! http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/04/libertarian-party-email-47-of-americans-reject-capitalism-fight-back-paul/ Just 53% Say Capitalism Better Than Socialism http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/just_53_say_capitalism_better_than_socialism Unfortunately, the current fasci...

The state of statist intellectuals; victims of bad, contradictory memes For example - UN Plaza: The Soft Underbelly http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/18763 An interesting blogger discussion - Science Saturday: Just a Theory; Ancient violence and the fear of being eaten http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/18623?in=42:39&out=60:37 It's important to address politics from first principles--and to define o...

Complete liberty is about getting rid of the authoritarian/obedience memes that foster government Coercion and altruism both lead to self-sacrifice All About Greed by Sheldon Richman http://fee.org/featured/greed/ "as long as self-interest is held to be morally corrupt, the market order will be suspect." Is there a rational definition of greed? Wanting more, not less--when one takes responsibility...

The Liberty Forum ( http://www.freestateproject.org/libertyforum ) Exploring the many paths to liberty...and taking the objectively valid one The key educational path of unschooling ( http://www.holtgws.com/whatisunschoolin.html ) It's important for new intellectuals to challenge the contradictory philosophies of present intellectuals, so that truth and mutual respect can prevail in society http:/...

Mercatus Center at George Mason University - Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom by William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens http://www.mercatus.org/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=26154 A coercive State, i.e., government, will never respect people's rights A limited government can't stay limited for long What would happen if Libertarians got elected? What sort of "work" would...

Without property rights, no other rights are possible Applying self-ownership in a consistent fashion means complete liberty Time for a Trim? by Jim Davies http://www.strike-the-root.com/82/davies/davies5.html The principle of self-ownership is axiomatic and irrefutable, for any attempt to deny it requires utilizing it Government has been around for centuries, running on the pr scheme that they ar...

Are We All Socialists Now? Not at All by Robert Higgs http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/61504.html Is socialism as dead as the dodo? Its new guise as participatory fascism Authoritarian sociopaths are always on the lookout for new ways to blame the marketplace and go where they haven't gone before with coercive programs, be they in education, energy, or health care Authoritarian sociopaths engage in a c...

The essence of complete liberty is mutual respect of persons and property If people in government really wanted to help people, they wouldn't do "business" at the point of a gun (the mafia with a flag) For statists, freedom is passe One damn fine statist automobile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant Uber Czar to be Renamed by Jennifer Kerfuffle http://manhattancapital.blogspot.com/2009/02/uber-...

Read email from listener, living in the not-so-distant future, a transitional period between 20th century statism and complete liberty--competing justice agencies, flights of fantasy or not? No one is 'in control' in a complete liberty society; anarchy rules ;) Red pill reality versus blue pill reality; the ever-present matrix of false and destructive memes that distort most people's viewpoints Th...

Open access router network? The People’s Romance: Why People Love Government (as Much as They Do) by Daniel B. Klein http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=536 ; http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_10_1_1_klein.pdf "Why do some people never support a free-market proposal, even when they think it would work better than government intervention? For many, the reason is that coll...

CLP on new 24/7 Net station: Liberty Radio Network http://www.libertyradionetwork.com Thank Goodness I Live in a Free Country by Don Cooper http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/cooper1.html Control freak madness, aka regulatory agencies, and the adults they enslave Call Me an Abolitionist, Please by Glen Allport http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/allport/allport4.html The fear of anarchy and the common...

The crux of the educational problem: The age-old bad meme of an "authority" presiding over a learner's activities Sometimes, homeschooling mimics traditional pedagogy (i.e., teacher-directed learning), as do supposedly enlightened private schools (e.g., http://www.vandammeacademy.com/ ) Identifying, integrating, and experiencing what you're interested in--the essence of unschooling The leniency ve...

Americans to Undergo Preschool Reeducation in Advance of Country’s Conversion to Communism http://www.newsmutiny.com/pages/Communist_Reeducation.html Coming to terms with communistic principles in America The Timeless Allure Of Communism: http://completeliberty.com/chapter1.php#15 Once the State controls education, the rest of the insanity naturally follows, such as forced "sharing" The double bin...

Understanding the Web and America's youth http://www.rocketboom.com/rb_08_dec_03/ (An Interview with Don Tapscott) net@night 79: Don Tapscott, Grown Up Digital http://twit.tv/natn79 What are the implications of always being connected to the Internet? Governmental schools are the main anchor around the neck of our society The common person seems to follow all the clueless statist intellectuals Coer...

6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling http://www.theonion.com/content/news/6_year_old_stares_down_bottomless What if children really knew what they were being dragooned into? "Public education" is group think writ large; "This is what we're supposed to do"; adults erroneously believe it's "good for socialization" Schools as prisons, basically forced "socialization" It's HOW y...

Salting roads for the common good (and corroding vehicles) Private property owners have no interest in benefitting from commerce and trade--not! But what about the roads (and fire and police "services)! Nothing like institutionalized legalized monopolies as the best way to solve problems Bureaucratized utilities once again to the rescue; preservation of the status quo is always best, especially re...

Throwing some scraps to the slaves in Taxachusetts (mj leniency), where 70% of voters endorsed the status quo of income expropriation Education is the main component for maintaining the meme of statism; governmental schools are seen as a necessary good "Education is a weapon" said Stalin Government Education Is Broken? It Just Ain't So! by Alan Schaeffer and Marshall Fritz http://www.fee.org/publi...

Barack Obama pledges $700B public works plan to help economy by Peter Wallsten http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-stimulus_5sdec07,0,3049287.story Drunken sailer extraordinaire Best way to make federal buildings "energy efficient" is to close them down Obama sees 2.5 million more governmental jobs in our future, for starters Your Monday Message from the Libertarian Party: The LP Goes to...

Evil Concealed by Money by Walter E. Williams http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/08/EvilConcealedByMoney.htm Williams' new book: http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-versus-Tyranny-Socialism-Controversial/dp/0817949127 Let's talk about socialism, in America..."The forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another" The perceived virtuous coercion to get people to do things is...

Bureaucrats Never Have a Case by Administrator (aka Marc Stevens)    http://www.adventuresinlegalland.com/index.php?/content/view/20/27/ Statism is based on the illogical premise that you don't own your own life A "complaint" shouldn't be confused with a "case" The Stockholm Syndrome, writ large http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome IF IT’S NATURAL TO BE FREE, WHAT’S STOPPING US? http://...

Free Talk Live Host Sentenced To 93 Days In Jail http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/024015.html Ian Freeman arrested and jailed for 93 days RAW FOOTAGE (by http://www.candid-world.com/ ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlcT-3niVes Those who posture as "authorities" who enact "justice" "Judges" as authoritarian sociopaths who have no standing and whose paychecks are derived from extortio...

The Attack on Libertarianism by Aaron David Ward http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/ward-aaron4.html The End of Libertarianism: The financial collapse proves that its ideology makes no sense by Jacob Weisberg http://www.slate.com/id/2202489/ The three variants of libertarianism (classical liberalism, laissez-faire capitalism, and anarcho-capitalism), only one of which is logical (market anarchism an...

Front Page Article in Keene Sentinel on Free Staters http://freekeene.com/2008/08/31/front-page-article-in-keene-sentinel-on-free-staters/ Free State project is moving slowly: Like-minded people are still coming to the Granite State By PHILLIP BANTZ The nature of the FSP motto...to get rid of, or not to get rid of, government? The proper goal should be: To get rid of the powerful meme of governmen...

Economics of Police Brutality by Art Carden http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=174 All of the world's problems could be solved is we had clearly defined ownership The contradiction of "public property" and the unaddressed fears of ownership WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT (AFTER A BIT OF INSPECTION) http://completeliberty.com/chapter3.php Psychology of Ownership http://www.logicallearning....