https://youtu.be/_-6CyEYetxM How is something to be owned by “the community as a whole?” Ownership means that you get to decide what is done with something. If you and I disagree on who gets to eat your apple, then whatever you decide will take precedence, because it...
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by Harley Abbott | Feb 24, 2022 |
Join the Official Libertarian Institute Discord ServerDiscord is a free community chat application for Android, iPhone, Browser and Computer. It has a lot of great features like text, voice and video chat, screen sharing and more.Visit the Apple Store, Google Play or...
TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's...
The Human Under the Numbers
by Kym Robinson | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
The story of Anne Frank is tragic. If not for the words that she wrote in her diary, she would be a digit of history. Her diary is relatable, and the thoughts that collected inside her being during a horrible time in history gives the reader an idea of who she was....
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Cop Kills Man
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2020 | Blog
An entirely innocent, unarmed man; a "pillar of the community" who had stopped to break up a fight. It is already a foregone conclusion of course that there will be no accountability whatsoever for this heinous murder because the guilty criminal perpetrator is a...
Propaganda Analysis – Libertarians Hate Community!
by Keith Knight | Sep 17, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/3j50q_4sAQg ... in a world of voluntary social cooperation through mutually beneficial exchanges, where one man’s gain is another man’s gain, it is obvious that great scope is provided for the development of social sympathy and human friendships. It...
Phoenix, Arizona Police Officer David Morris is a Criminal
by Scott Horton | Dec 13, 2019 | Blog
Doesn't he know that it's a deadly sin to bear false witness against an innocent person? Hopefully something truly terrible will happen to him by random chance. Because God knows he will never be held accountable by the pretended "law." Phoenix PD Detective Kemp...
Maj Toure Speaks To House Subcomittee On Response To Gun Violence
by Steven Woskow | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog
Founder of Black Guns Matter and current candidate for Philadelphia City Counsel Maj Toure was one of the panel speakers at the the House, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security hearing on “Community Responses to Gun Violence in our Cities”....
Will Grigg Memorial Service
by David Hathaway | Apr 17, 2017 | Blog
Copied from Go Fund Me page for Will Grigg's family: A memorial for William N. Grigg will be held at Vision Community Church in Marsing, Idaho on Saturday, April 29th. The address is 221 W. Main Street, Marsing, Idaho 83639. There will be a luncheon at 12:30 PM and...
Liberty Minute 1/2/2015
by Will Grigg | Jan 2, 2015 | Everything Will, Liberty Minutes
In this episode of Will Grigg's Liberty Minute... A shooting that would send a civilian to prison is a slap on the wrist for Police due to "Qualified Immunity". Shouldn't the protectors of our community be held to a higher standard?...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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