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How I Found Justice and What I Used the Blindfold for when I Got Her Mar 8, 2015

Perhaps moving voluntary law forward in the real world could be promoted as a solution for larger more generalized rules in larger looser organizations like a coalition groups or other non-profit oriented organizations that have more distributed, organic, non-hierarchical structures.

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The Mean Streets and Private Police Mar 4, 2015

The privatization of public service is a libertarian standard. In some circumstances. Private police seems difficult to achieve in places like South Central where the mean streets are already a rule.

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GMO Foods and Principle Feb 24, 2015

GMO foods and products do raise a few ethical questions that may have more than one principled answer. Join me in the search for some more or less bright line answers to some very sticky questions regarding GMO products and the more or less ethical actions some are using them for.

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Islam: Fear, Hatred, Intolerance – Incompatible with Freedom Jan 12, 2015

To itemize hate in the guise of a treatise on freedom is an act of vulgar conceit, hubris in face of reason - It is hypocrisy to liberty.

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So Cal Conference Jan 31 2015, 11am Geezers, Santa Fe Springs

Party Party PARTY – So Cal Conference Does its 6th Year Jan 10, 2015

The ALIVE FREE HAPPY Libertarians in Southern California hold a great conference each year and the next one is coming up on the 31st of January. 2015 will be the 6th year they do this event and if you want a feeling for its flavor, all you need to know is that this particular bunch of Libertarians refer to themselves colloquially as the Party Party. While still very erudite, their events are a lot of fun, high energy and inspiring. Their forum concentrates on local activism and networking. For my happily shared and biased opinion, the So Cal Conference always has a great lunch, a terrific...

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Ernie Hancock is a Badass Sep 14, 2014

Ernest Hancock of Freedom's Phoenix is, in my opinion, one of the freedom movements greatest activists. I can say that I was personally inspired by his work on multiple fronts. It seems to me that when I look at where the rubber meets the road in the freedom movement, there you find Ernie. Here Earnest Hancock is speaking at the Southern California Libertarian Party Conference in 2014 on the importance of activism and education with the right spirit. http://youtu.be/smd8Ia-jN1k http://youtu.be/--a5R38U1YY BTW the So Cal Conference is a pseudo counter convention focused on activism held by the San Bernardino County LP. 2015 will...

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Can You Imagine? Sep 13, 2014

What image of a free society do you keep in your mind's eye that moves you? What do you want out of liberty that you believe in it and that motivates you to advocate for it?

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Illuminatus

Fear is the Mind Killer: Conspiracies Against Freedom Sep 12, 2014

I like the way Robert Anton Wilson looked at conspiracies and I have accepted a truth for myself that I thought I might share. I find that it is never worth trying to track such things nor to try and intuit greater meaning or secret sinister purpose from events of already great evil or the machinations of power. Here is how I see it:1. Conspiracies exist. They are everywhere. Wherever two or more meet with purpose, there is conspiracy. In some abstract but effective way we are all conspiring right now on this fora. Here is to our triumph!2. People with power...

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The Terror, or How to Screw up a Revolution with Progressive Thought Sep 9, 2014

I was struck when a comment was made on a forum I frequent that in effect said that the blood that ran in the streets after the French revolution was an expression of anarchy. It is a statement that really ground my teeth because the truth of the matter is, the mass murder that followed the deposing of King Louie XVI was the opposite of anarchy. The use of the guillotine and hangings from lamposts in France were lawful tools used by Maximillion Robspierre and his merry band of Montegnards during "The Terror". FAR FAR FAR from lawless, The Mountaineers...

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The Moral Hazard of Voting versus Not Voting Sep 7, 2014

Answer this won't you please: Is it worth involving oneself in a political party? Is there more moral hazard in voting, or in not voting?These questions and their rhetorical cousins are ones I see a lot of in our freedom fighting dialogues and forum wars. Minarchism versus Anarchism was (and still is) the deepest factional divide in our movement as can be seen in many unfortunate events within nearly all of our corporeal organizations.I think the whole thing is silly - as in completely ridiculous, destructive and divisive. We libertarians deserve to treat each other better - I mean it...

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