Freedom 101: Aggression vs. Defense

February 9, 2008 in freedom, liberty

The difference between Aggression and Defense is the difference between Slavery and Freedom, so telling the two apart should be of the utmost importance to Real Libertarians. Our natural tendency is to think that Aggression is whatever the other guys do and Defense is whatever we do, but that’s obviously a subjective standard. [...]

The Constantine Creed-by default The creed of all “christians”

February 9, 2008 in Faith

  
“I renounce all customs, rites, legalisms, unleavened breads and sacrifices of lambs of the Hebrews, and all the other feasts of the Hebrews, sacrifices, prayers, aspirations, purifications, sanctifications, and propitiations, and fasts and new moons, and Sabbaths, and superstitions, and hymns and chants, and observances and synagogues. absolutely everything Jewish, every Law, rite and custom [...]

February 9, 2008 in freedom, liberty

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire,
 a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
 Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action”
—-George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790

Freedom 101: Arrogance vs. Humility

February 9, 2008 in History, freedom, liberty, tyranny

I do not remember the source for this. I aplogize for that-editor
Social Arrogance is neither here nor there. Human nature being what it is, most of us find ourselves at one time or another believing we’re “better” than the next person in some respect. But opinion is ultimately that—simply opinion.
Political Arrogance is different. [...]

February 9, 2008 in Orwellian, freedom, liberty, tyranny

“Most historical movements have their last will and testament along with their manifesto. They have known more surely what they oppose than what they are. By taking a firm position, they trigger an inevitable countermotion, one that will disorient their fragile identity almost at once. Then rapid metamorphosis and self-betrayal: pacifists who become violent, [...]

Spooner, Lysander. No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority

February 9, 2008 in Constitution, freedom, liberty

Chapter 4
The Constitution Not Only Binds Nobody Now, But it Never Did Bind Anybody.
 It never bound anybody, because it was never agreed to by anybody in such a manner as to make it, on general principles of law and reason, binding upon him.
It is a general principle of law and reason, [...]