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Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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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
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
44Connected | Is it kind? Is it true? Is it necessary? Would not conscience dictate that you question?... - [More]
Posted: March 30, 2012 in Videos
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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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
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
GnosticMedia.com | Today we’ll be discussing what it means to believe in government. Is government real, or a figment of your collective, religious imagination? Does not voting mean that we’d be sitting around like a bunch of lazy couch potatoes doing nothing? Or, if we use critical thinking, is it really our first course of action to disempower the criminals whom we call politicians? Is voting the only way to effect change? Or is it in reality one of the least effective ways to effect change and gain freedom? And what does it mean to live in a democratic (or “mob-ruled”) society, anyway?... - [More]
Posted: March 2, 2012 in Audio
EverythingIsARemix | Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that everything is a remix.... - [More]
Posted: March 1, 2012 in Videos
CopBlock.org | Here is one blog that Richard wrote just before his kidnapping last year in June.... - [More]
Posted: February 16, 2012 in Articles
AdamVsTheMan | Vermin Supreme, The Friendly Fascist. A tyrant that you can trust. Let him run your life, he knows what is best for you. Yes, all Politicians are Vermin and he is Vermin Supreme.... - [More]

Posted: January 31, 2012 in Satire, Videos