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Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
by Keith Knight | Mar 15, 2023 | Blog
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
War is a Euphemism for Theft Funded Mass Murder
by Keith Knight | Feb 18, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
The libertarian’s basic attitude toward war must then be: it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper...
Presumption of Innocence Should Carry On After Conviction
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2022 | Blog
Because all cops, judges and prosecutors in America are criminals, and jurors are just dumb animals.
Decriminalize All Capitalist Acts Between Consenting Adults. Dr. Chris Freiman & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 20, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/UiiFaw8nLLI This book argues that there’s nothing wrong with ignoring politics. To the contrary: you should disengage from politics to pursue more effective forms of altruism. Instead of watching presidential debates, attending city council meetings,...
Former U.S. Navy Sailor Makes the Case for Libertarianism
by Keith Knight | May 17, 2022 | Blog
https://youtu.be/uI0iYWMK8Z8 [J]ustice is the means by which an individual who was victim to a criminal act is made whole again. If a statist society cannot perfect man’s own construct, how could a stateless society fare any better? Derek R. Wills, The Liberty...
“War Criminals Past and Present,” on KPFA 94.1 Flashpoints, Pacifica Radio
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 25, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Laurie Calhoun joins Dennis J. Bernstein on Flashpoints, a program of KPFA 94.1, Pacifica Radio, to discuss War Criminals Past and Present. The discussion begins about 34 minutes into the hour-long program, which was recorded on March 24, 2022....
RIP Madeleine Albright
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 23, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy
And while we're on the topic of war criminals: https://accuracy.org/release/bush-rumsfeld-war-criminals/
Attorney Gang Bang w/Michael Harris and Patrick MacFarlane
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 8, 2022 | Year Zero
Michael and Patrick joined me to talk Ketanji Jackson, criminal law, precedent, and tell some war stories from the court room. I learned a lot from this conversation, and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. Liberty Weekly Antiwar.com Discord Libertarian Institute 19 Skills Pdf...
Lawsuit Update: Woman, Given Speeding Ticket on Way to Work, Shot By Cop
by Matt Agorist | Dec 31, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In June of 2020, family and friends of Hannah Fizer, 25, were shocked to learn that their beloved daughter and friend had been killed during a stop over an alleged speeding violation. Then, four months later, they learned there would be no justice and the officer who...
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...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
Police, Prosecutors and Judges Are the Worst Criminals in Society
by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2021 | Blog
Them and the legislators. If you disagree with that, then you are stupid.
Cop Beats Up Tiny 11-Year-Old Girl
by Scott Horton | Nov 6, 2020 | Blog
Keep sending your children to government school, you idiots. "She took more milks than she was supposed to. She threw a milk on the ground!" --the cop, guilty criminal subhuman animal Zachary Christensen
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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