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October 30, 2004
Down With Democracy by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
One-man-one-vote combined with 'free entry' into government – democracy – implies that every person and his personal property comes within reach of – and is up for grabs by – everyone else.
The central task ahead of those wanting to turn the tide and prevent an outright breakdown is the 'delegitimation' of the idea of democracy as the root cause of the present state of progressive 'decivilization'.
October 29, 2004
Are We Unworthy of Retaining Our Liberties? by Sergei Borglum Hoff
Having beheld the people's fears of righteous confrontation and sacrifice, their denials of truth and accountability, and the widespread abandonment of liberty, it is evident to this writer that the corruptibility of America has become a demoralizing reality for our children.
"the nation must be prepared to conduct a draft"
Articles about the recruitment drive for draft board workers can be found here
October 28, 2004
An Outrageous Invasion Of American Diplomacy by Terrell E. Arnold
With little or no public discussion, Congress passed The Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004. To dispel any doubt as to why this was done, President Bush immediately signed it and took his bragging rights on the campaign trail. This legislation requires the United States Department of State to monitor and combat anti-Semitism everywhere in the world (Anti-Semitism is not defined in the legislation). The legislation requires creation of a special office in the State Department to oversee such activities and to make an annual report to the Congress. State would also be expected in any country where alleged anti-Semitic acts occurred to "combat" those acts and to publish country "report cards" in a report that is additional to the annual human rights report State already is responsible for publishing.
October 27, 2004
What Libertarians and Conservatives Say About Each Other by Jude Blanchette
Yet it can safely be said that the "Old Right" was born in protest to Roosevelt and the New Deal. Its leaders were H.L Mencken, Albert Jay Nock, Garet Garrett, John T. Flynn, Suzanne La Follette and Felix Morley. It is notable that what one finds in their writings one can still find in the work of most libertarians today. In fact, it could argue that the modern libertarian movement has more in common with conservatives of the 30s and 40s than do contemporary conservatives. The ideas of the Old Right conservatives (skepticism of government planning, isolationist foreign policy and a general belief in the free market) have taken a back seat to the modern conservative emphasis on domestic pragmatism and international interventionism.
Kerry's Entangling Alliances by Michael Badnarik
Taken together with Kerry's regret that Bush has been too soft on Fallujah, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, what we see is a Democratic candidate who wants to run a more efficient, wider war, convincing other countries to take up more of the burden. And we're supposed to regard this as an improvement over the Bush Doctrine?
October 26, 2004
American Exceptionalism by Ivan Eland
Criticizing the U.S. government’s militaristic actions overseas is not the same as denigrating America. America is exceptional. As conservative George Will has said, America is the only nation founded on an ideal. That ideal is liberty for the individual, both politically and economically. The people of the United States have enjoyed freedoms unparalleled in human history. When the United States crusades overseas and attempts to use force to bring such liberties to people who have never before experienced them, it rarely succeeds and even undermines those values at home.
Undue Process by James Bovard
The train wrecks of the Justice Department’s domestic War on Terror continue to pile up. Despite the perennial victory claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and other high officials, three recent cases vivify how federal prosecutors and FBI agents continue tripping over the evidence—or worse.
October 25, 2004
Democracy, liberty and the draft by Gabriel Ash
The question of principle is this: what kind of national defense is compatible with a free and democratic society, in particular, with the kind of society Americans would like to imagine theirs as?
Government Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction by Anthony Gregory
Perhaps the most destructive thing governments do is divide people against each other, all in competition over the reins of the state, always to lead to a larger, more active state and yet very little satisfaction on the part of anyone. And everyone keeps complaining, blaming liberals or conservatives or libertarians or whomever for the failure of the state to usher in utopia.
October 24, 2004
The New COINTELPRO by Camille T. Taiara
EARLY THIS MONTH the federal government launched the latest crude offensive in its so-called war on terror. Titled the October Plan, the program called for "aggressive - even obvious - surveillance" of a wide range of individuals (regardless of whether or not they're suspected of any criminal wrongdoing) until the Nov. 2 presidential election, according to an internal document leaked to the press.
October 23, 2004
Could the Associated Press rig the election? by Lynn Landes
The Associated Press (AP) will be the sole source of raw vote totals for the major news broadcasters on Election Night. However, AP spokesmen Jack Stokes and John Jones refused to explain to this journalist how the AP will receive that information. They refused to confirm or deny that the AP will receive direct feed from voting machines and central vote tabulating computers across the country. But, circumstantial evidence suggests that is exactly what will happen.
October 22, 2004
Will Election 2004 Turn Into Fiasco Like Florida 2000? by James P. Tucker Jr.
Just days before the election, thousands of people from the inner cities of the nation were registered, some by buses touring the neighborhoods and signing them up on the spot and others driven to registrars’ offices.
This raises the issue of illegal aliens voting. Some election analysts estimate that a million illegal aliens voted in 2000. Under the “motor voter” law, it is easy for non-citizens to register, many while obtaining drivers’ licenses.
October 21, 2004
Constitutionally Correct Peroutka by Howard Phillips
If conservatives don’t vote for what they believe, they will never get what they want. Losing as slowly as possible means we still lose. Going over the cliff at a supposedly slower speed still means we are going to crash.
Libertarian Resistance by Alan W. Bock
Why should a conservative vote for the Libertarian candidate rather than one of the American Independent, Patriot, or Constitution Party hopefuls? The main reason is the ability to send a coherent message of resistance to unconstitutional growth of government.
October 20, 2004
The Coming Of The Psychotherapeutic State? by Stephen M. Lilienthal
Paul is intent on continuing his crusade, planning to introduce legislation late this year to cut off funding for universal screening before such a program can get started . . . Defenders of constitutional liberties, Libertarians and social conservatives alike need to realize that the best way to stop the cancerous idea of universal mental health screening from taking hold is very simple yet no doubt effective: an ounce of prevention is the best cure.
October 19, 2004
The Guantanamoization of America
Fear and disinformation are pillars of the so-called war on terrorism. Places like the Guantanamo detention camp are used to scare people. There is now even a popular saying about the Guantanamo fear factor: “Stay in line or off to Guantanamo you go.”
October 18, 2004
Civil Liberties, Three Years After 9/11 by ELAINE CASSEL
Would anything be different under a Kerry administration? I doubt it. I tend to agree with Nader that Kerry is, in terms of Bush and civil liberties, a distinction without much of a difference. I think he or anyone else that replaces Bush (someday) will appreciate the precedence of the Bush years that sanctioned an administration making up the rules as it goes along and ignoring the courts and the Congress. Who wouldn't want that power?
The Objectivist Death Cult by Justin Raimondo
Unlike the neocons, whose foreign policy he faithfully echoes, up to and including their iconization of Israel, Peikoff doesn’t hide behind any beneficent-sounding slogans, like "exporting democracy" and implanting free markets and the rule of law. This, he claims, would be "altruism," the worst sin in the Objectivist theology – although why freedom, in the abstract, and not just one’s own freedom, cannot be a value in and of itself is not at all clear to me. And the clear implication is that the Iraqis, like the Palestinians, are considered "savages" by Peikoff, who wouldn’t appreciate such a gift in any case. No, what we must do, says Peikoff, is kill them – enemy soldiers and innocent civilians alike.
October 16, 2004
Global Agreements Threaten Media, Privacy by Paul Weinberg
"The fundamental problem is that decisions which affect people directly are increasingly being made in international bodies, where public servants, not elected representatives, make decisions on treaties and standards, which will directly implicate the citizens in their countries," says Perrin.
October 15, 2004
The psychology of patriotic denial by Tova Gabrielle
Educated U.S. citizens, unlike the educated and thinking citizens of other countries, have suspended their common sense as if hypnotized by the shock and denial they experienced in the wake of the vulnerability they felt following 9/11. They have accepted the party line that it was evil "others," far across the world, who, by themselves, planned and executed this amazing feat (and that it is just a coincidence that this was the rationale for Bush's attacks on two sovereign countries). They cannot see that there is no evil demon with such magical, unlimited resources, but that it is our own denial-laced fears that have fueled our false beliefs in the omniscient power of the hidden "others."
October 14, 2004
Left is Right and Right is Wrong by Edgar J. Steele
We have only the illusion of elections in America these days. That is why the two political parties in America have become identical, so as to provide us rubes with the illusion of throwing the rascals out come election time, yet with the same old agenda not missing a beat. Did you really see a difference from Bush to Clinton to Bush? They knew what NAFTA would do to America's manufacturing base and job structure, yet both parties embraced it. We are firmly on a path to one-world government.
October 13, 2004
Freedom Movement Advances by John Tiffany
The next part is trickier—and this may be a new approach to politics that would only be possible in America: Get a number of Americans who love freedom to move to that area from outside it, to reinforce the freedom lovers already present. By achieving some sort of “critical mass,” enough voters would become concentrated in the area so that they collectively resist federal intrusion.
October 12, 2004
War Gave Us Caesar by Adam Young
Just as the republics of old died from foreign interventionism and the subsequent rise of domestic tyranny, so too is the American Republic laying to rest its noble heritage and its great potential. Today, under the current President’s promise of decades of foreign and domestic warfare, the centralized state is growing and growing, determined never to relinquish its hold on its foreign possessions and on the individual American and his hopes and dreams for a free and prosperous life. What is to be done?
October 11, 2004
Italy and Switzerland Requested Indymedia's Server Seizure
Earlier today Rackspace published a statement that they turned over the servers in response to an order under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT). The MLAT establishes procedures for countries to assist each other in investigations regarding international terrorism, kidnapping and money laundering. The court prohibits Rackspace from commenting further on this matter.
Truth and the war presidents by Patrick Buchanan
"Onward Christian Soldiers" has been replaced with "Onward Democracy Crusaders" – with this difference: When the threat to their own country is removed, Americans will not indefinitely send their sons to die over such questions as how other peoples rule themselves.
October 10, 2004
From 1984 to 2004
IN GEORGE ORWELL'S "1984," a new multimedia stage version of which is now in previews at Lookingglass Theatre, Big Brother is your totalitarian daddy. "Oldspeak" is verboten or, in the parlance of newspeak, "ungood." And if the Ministry of Truth officials choose their phrases carefully enough and stay on message, "reality control" -- Orwell's definition of spin -- becomes a mind-control mission accomplished.
October 7, 2004
John Kerry’s Dark Record on Civil Liberties
He thought U.S. asset forfeiture laws were working so well that he wanted to export them. "We absolutely must push for asset forfeiture laws all over the planet," Kerry wrote in The New War. "In the words of one plainspoken lawman, ‘Get their ass and get their assets.’" There was, tellingly, no discussion at all of civil liberties issues.
Reject Draft Slavery by Rep. Ron Paul
Some say the 18-year old draftee "owes it" to his (or her, since HR 163 makes women eligible for the draft) country. Hogwash! It just as easily could be argued that a 50-year-old chickenhawk, who promotes war and places innocent young people in danger, owes more to the country than the 18-year-old being denied his (or her) liberty.
October 5, 2004
An End to Judicial Tyranny? by Thomas R. Eddlem
The U.S. Congress appears to be awakening to the judicial oligarchy in America. Congressmen and their constituents need to unite under the Constitution to put activist judges in their place, or find new judges who will judge the law without trying to rewrite the law.
The Imperial Judiciary by Rep. Ron Paul, MD
The ultimate solution to the problem of unbridled judicial activism at the federal level is clear: Congress must reassert its constitutional authority to define and restrict the jurisdiction of federal courts. This power is plainly granted in Article III, and no constitutional amendments are required.
Remember, when social issues are federalized, conservatives always lose.
October 4, 2004
Resistance to Backdoor Draft by John Tiffany
One of these is the “Stop Loss Program,” a scheme to force soldiers to remain in the service after their contractual obligation has been fulfilled.
Another idea is to reactivate what is called the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR). But both programs are encountering resistance from the GIs. As reported in The Army Times, about 30 percent of the IRR soldiers who have been called to active duty failed to report for mobilization.
The Ford Foundation's Skull and Bones Link
The Ford Foundation's Vice President for Educational Programs who also chaired the Ford Foundation's Public Policy Committee when McGeorge Bundy was Ford Foundation President--Harold Howe--was also a member of Skull and Bones. Under Skull and Bones member Howe's chairmanship, the Ford Foundation's Public Policy Committee "dispersed several million dollars a year on projects which were seen as too far afield from Ford's guidelines," according to THE COLOR OF TRUTH.
October 2, 2004
America 2011 - what happened by Philip G. Patch
The crash in August 2009 had no historic precedent The United Nations' sanction backing the Chinese demand for a yen to dollar conversion of their trade balance was the straw that broke the camel's back.
October 1, 2004
Hornberger’s Commentary
Did you notice that there was something noticeably lacking from the 90-minute debate between Bush and Kerry last night — any mention whatsoever of the U.S. Constitution, including any question along those lines by noted commentator Jim Lehrer? For those who might have forgotten, the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and it restricts the powers of the president to those powers enumerated in the document.
What both Bush and Kerry meant, of course, was that the president should have the unrestricted, dictatorial power to wage the so-called war on terror — unrestrained especially by the supreme law of the land, the Constitution.
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