> "If anyone thinks that the government’s omnipotent power to kill drug-war suspects on the high seas is limited to foreigners, he is living in a world of hyper-naivetΓ© and delusion. With those killings in cold blood on the high seas, the U.S. government, especially the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA, are sending a powerful message to the American people: β€œWe are in charge. What we are doing here on the high seas, we can do anywhere and to anyone, including Americans, and there isn’t anything anyone can do to stop us. Get used to it.” --[The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the U.S. Government, by Jacob G. Hornberger](
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The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the U.S. Government - LewRockwell
I have long maintained that one of the big obstacles libertarians face in the achievement of a genuinely free society is the fact that most America...
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> "I have long maintained that one of the big obstacles libertarians face in the achievement of a genuinely free society is the fact that most Americans honestly believe they are free. When people are convinced they are free, they have no reason to want to join up with us #libertarian s in our effort to establish a genuinely free society. Instead, they simply view #libertarianism as a β€œweird” philosophy that purports to achieve what we already have β€” a free society." --[The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the U.S. Government, by Jacob G. Hornberger](
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The Ruthlessness and Brutality of the U.S. Government - LewRockwell
I have long maintained that one of the big obstacles libertarians face in the achievement of a genuinely free society is the fact that most America...
) > "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Elective Affinities (1809)
Panama: Much better on taxes than the United States... The US #GovtIsTheProblem
image Interesting. I don't think that if I were one of the richest people in the world I would worry about my wealth breaking society. I would probably try to rule the world, so that I can fix it πŸ˜„
#Trump #GovtIsTheProblem
> "Two weeks ago in Minneapolis, Susan Tincher was arrested for following ICE agents and persistently videotaping them. She was shoved to the snow on her belly and handcuffed behind her back. At an ICE detention facility, her clothes and her wedding ring were removed from her β€” the latter by a bolt cutter. After five hours of confinement, an ICE supervisor decided to release her. ICE agents returned her destroyed wedding ring but not her clothes, which they told a federal judge had been lost."
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The American Police State Has Arrived - LewRockwell
In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it. Like authoritarians throughout ...
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## Board of Piece ## These two notes remind me of how that when we were kids playing Monopolyβ„’ my siblings and I would sometimes do what we called "blockbuster deals" where several parties exchanged with each other at the same time to get the properties they wanted and it massively changed the game. Perhaps this can happen with Trump's "Board of Peace" on a global scale. The Russia-Ukraine war can end and Russia gets a piece of Ukraine. Israel and the US get Gaza. The U.S. gets Greenland. Perhaps China's Xi can jump in and negotiate to get Taiwan without a fight. Other countries could jump in to get what they want. It would certainly be preferable to WW3. I'm not saying it's right, but in our still primitive age of States people still think they have to get a piece of the board, regardless of what the people living there want... View quoted note β†’ View quoted note β†’ #GovtIsTheProblem
> "When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content." NiccolΓ² Machiavelli, *The Prince*, tr. W. K. Marriott, ch. 19 #quote
#TodayILearned that in 2002 George Mason University economist Vernon Smith became the first private-property anarchist to win the Nobel Prize. #TIL #anarchy