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Sunday May 20, 2012
Today in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, taking 250 million acres of land in the West and selling to any citizen or intended citizen, 160 acres - one quarter square mile - of surveyed government land.

Anybody can be a guard. It’s harder to be on guard against the impulse to be sadistic, cause it’s a quiet rage. — Doug Korpi, Former Prisoner 8612, Stanford Prison Experiment 1971

1. The Jones Plantation

LarkenRose | One cannot change reality by changing the words you use to describe reality.... - [More]

Posted: May 9, 2012 in Videos

2. How To Be A Crook

LarkenRose | Ever wanted to rob your fellow man? Learn the different methods you can use… and learn who is using them on YOU right now.... - [More]

Posted: April 25, 2012 in Videos

3. Voluntaryism

LukeBessey | The differences between voluntaryism and statism.... - [More]

Posted: April 23, 2012 in Videos

4. Quiet Rage – The Stanford Prison Study

“Anybody can be a guard. It’s harder to be on guard against the impulse to be sadistic, cause it’s a quiet rage.” The quiet Sunday morning of August 14, 1971, was broken by the wail of sirens as the Palo Alto, California police swept through town arresting nine people. The suspects were handcuffed, read their rights and subjected to the degradation of the booking process after being transported to the Stanford County Prison (SCP). So began the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), one of the most important psychology experiments in this country’s history.... - [More]

Posted: April 21, 2012 in Documentary

5. Death By Regulation

InformationLiberation.com | It is a dramatic and deeply sad story that should raise alarms about the least-talked-about cost of a state-run society: the demoralization that sets in when we do not control our own lives. (I’m grateful to Glenn Horowitz for his careful reconstruction of the timeline of events.)... - [More]

Posted: April 5, 2012 in Articles

6. The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong

LearnLiberty | People at the time knew that it was wrong, that it was illegal, and that it was unconstitutional, but they did it anyway. Historian Amy Sturgis explains why the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to “Indian Territory” (modern-day Oklahoma) was wrong on both moral and legal grounds. How can the Trail of Tears provide lessons to us today? We can’t look aside and ignore the Trail of Tears as an example of something that was just part of the mid-19th century mindset. It is a story about how a group that had power gained at the expense of a minority unable to defend itself. The Trail of Tears set precedents we can only hope to avoid repeating.... - [More]

Posted: April 2, 2012 in Videos

7. Conscience And Justice

44Connected | Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? Would not conscience dictate that you question?... - [More]

Posted: March 30, 2012 in Videos

8. The Six Purposes Of Schooling

44Connected | John Taylor Gatto (born December 15, 1935) is a retired American school teacher with nearly 30 years experience in the classroom, and author of several books on education. He is an activist critical of compulsory schooling, of the perceived divide between the teen years and adulthood, and of what he characterizes as the hegemonic nature of discourse on education and the education professions.... - [More]

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9. Just Doing Whatever They Want

MarcStevens.net | This is another example from a government, this time from someone acting as the IRS, admitting the law is not what dictates their actions. It’s their own policy that governs, even in contravention of their own “law”. It’s a pretty accurate generalization that violent people have no tolerance of “laws” or principals of right and wrong.... - [More]

Posted: March 26, 2012 in Videos

10. Government Explained

GrahampWright | An inquisitive alien visits the planet to check on our progress as a species, and gets into a conversation with the first person he meets.... - [More]

Posted: March 21, 2012 in Videos