LIBERTY: Should we copy Europe? No; learn from their mistakes, yes!

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
WalterEWilliams/2006/11/22/
should_we_copy_europe

http://tinyurl.com/y86x6j

Should we copy Europe?
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, November 22, 2006

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The OECD has a blacklist for countries they’ve identified as “tax havens.” The blacklisted countries include Hong Kong, Macao, Malaysia (Labuan) and Singapore. Also targeted are Andorra, Brunei, Costa Rica, Dubai, Guatemala, Liberia, Liechtenstein, the Marshall Islands, Monaco, the Philippines and Uruguay. The blacklisted jurisdictions have strong financial privacy laws and low or zero rates of tax.

The OECD member countries want the so-called tax havens to change their laws to help them identify the earnings of their citizens. Most of all, OECD wants these countries to legislate higher taxes so as to reduce their appeal. A suggestion that we should be more like Europe is the same as one suggesting that we should be poorer.

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No! What we should be doing is what made America the land of opportunity.

Honest money! Private schools! Stop the dole!

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LIBERTY: Old lady killed in drug raid. End the “drug war” now!

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/21/D8LHSRR01.html

Woman, 92, Dies in Shootout With Police
Nov 21 11:10 PM US/Eastern

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A 92-year-old woman was shot to death Tuesday after she fired at three narcotics officers trying to serve a warrant at her house, officials said.

Neighbors and relatives said it must have been a case of mistaken identity. Police said they had the right address.

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Absolutely unbelievable. Kicking in old ladies’ doors.

All for the stupid idea that anyone can be prevented from taking drugs.

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LIBERTY: Education dumbs the children down; which is right where gubamint wants them!

Monday, November 20, 2006

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/
article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53034

http://tinyurl.com/yfqeoo

Running with the turtles
Posted: November 20, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

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Two of the basic assumptions that underlie public schooling is that mass education is beneficial to society and that group education does not inhibit the intellectual development of the individual student.

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My war cry against big oppressive intrusive government, aka the gubamint, is: honest money, private education, and stop the dole!

This article supports the second of that troika!

It seems that, when the Communists have reeducation camps for adults and children, every one sees immediately that it’s terrible. YET, when it’s done right under their very nose in their neighborhood, they can’t see it.

These local “reeducation camps” teach the government agenda, which includes all sorts of strange things! One of which is that the government is God! It’s the answer to every problem: popular problems, perceived problems, ones that the gubbamint wants us to fixate on, but never ever the real one — gubamint!

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LIBERTY: Fight the power!

Sunday, November 19, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/y66rr5

http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTP2/
UPDATES/Update2006-11-18.htm

November 18, 2006
“V” Makes A Mark In DC
Worldwide Interest in RTP Stirred

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It’s working.

We are making good use of the powerful concept of en masse activist resistance used in the movie, “V for Vendetta.”

“V” is helping us as we build support for the unalienable Right to a Response from Government to our Petitions for Redress of Grievances regarding the Government’s violation of the war powers, tax, privacy and money clauses of the Constitution.

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Fight the power!

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LIBERTY: Tell a big gubamint columnist to stuff it!

Saturday, November 18, 2006

http://www.boston.com/business/personalfinance/
articles/2006/11/18/heres_what_the_new_congress
_should_do_help_taxpayers_retirees_and_investors/

http://tinyurl.com/ybjyeq

Here’s what the new Congress should do help taxpayers, retirees, and investors
By Jeff Brown | November 18, 2006

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With the Democrats taking control of Congress and President Bush becoming Mr. Cooperative, every interest group in the country will forward its legislative wish list to Washington.

So here’s mine — the things I’d like done for investors and taxpayers.

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Social Security. Alternative minimum tax. Roth IRAs. Annual investment taxes. Estate tax. Sarbanes-Oxley.

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I could go on . . .

But, I’d rather hear from you. E-mail your thoughts on legislative or regulatory issues you’d like Washington to tackle, and I’ll assemble the good suggestions for a future column.

Jeff Brown is a business columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. E-mail him at brownj@phillynews.com.

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Stop stealing people’s money! Period. We don’t need Mommy Government telling us “to take our medicine, like good little citizens, cause mommie gubamint knows best”! Name one government program that works?

Government is the problem!

SO tell Washington to take the rest of their lives off. The dead Old White Guys were right about shackles.

Arghh!

 

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LIBERTY: Conserve What?

Friday, November 17, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/hein/hein146.html

Conserve What?
by Paul Hein

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Many of us find the “conservative” position on many issues more agreeable – or less disagreeable – than the “liberal.” But what is it that conservatives are conserving? I have never seen that question answered – or even asked – but isn’t it a good question?

read more | digg story

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As an ex-conservative, I wanted the liberty that the Dead Old White Guys promised. Unfortunately, I didn’t get what I was promised. Instead Gubamint has made me a slave!

I go around and around trying to see how I can free myself.

The critical issues of stuffing the genie back in the box are: ending the fiat currency, ending the government reeducation propaganda camps, and ending the dole! I have no silver bullet. Heck, I can’t even figure out where to begin.

Money! Skools! Dole!

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LIBERTY: Friedman on the drug war, right; school vouchers, wrong!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

http://www.fff.org/freedom/0490e.asp

An Open Letter to Bill Bennett
by Milton Friedman, April 1990

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Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages.

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Milton Friedman was one of the most influential economists of the past century and winner of a 1976 Nobel Prize. He always impressed me with the clarity of his thinking.

I think he was wrong about vouchers for education; the right answer imho is to eliminate ANY government involvement in education. Today, we have a terrible system that seems to be in place to allow politicians to feather their nest, reward their friends, provide lots of jobs for their friends, allow a union that makes further mischief, and DOES NOT deliver a good education.

Hands down, it’s insanity.

His call for vouchers, while better than what we have now, ignored the fundamental problem. When parents pay for their children’s education with their real money, then they will DEMAND the best education for their limited budget will allow. Parents will “motivate” their children to get the most from it. They’ll seek bargains and live with their decisions.

A free market in education exists in the technical computer world where it is a Wild West Show. No real government regulation and for the most part no government funding. Look at the various industry certification courses! That’s what education could be like if freed from the shackles of the government. Ever lower prices, ever increasing availability, and ever increasing quality. Innovation galore.

One can only hope that our delusion with government “public” education ends soon.

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LIBERTY: Paper ballots, which can be verified by voters and recounted if necessary.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

http://www.schneier.com

 

CRYPTO-GRAM, November 15, 2006
Voting Technology and Security
by Bruce Schneier
Founder and CTO
Counterpane Internet Security, Inc.

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Electronic voting machines represent a grave threat to fair and accurate elections, a threat that every American — Republican, Democrat or independent — should be concerned about. Because they’re computer-based, the deliberate or accidental actions of a few can swing an entire election. The solution: Paper ballots, which can be verified by voters and recounted if necessary.

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You have to admire how he guts to the bottom line. It’s a real problem (i.e., FL citation). It’s easy to fix (i.e., A machine is NOT a vote counting device. It IS a vote preparation tool.) and here’s how. It’s critical to address the problem (i.e., confidence in the fairness).

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LIBERTY: We can’t be the world’s police!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle393-20061112-09.html

http://tinyurl.com/yfdq2f

A Word to the Unwise
by L. Neil Smith

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First, we are not the cops of the world. Every time we try to be, young Americans die by the thousands, instead of living to discover a cure for cancer or a matter-antimatter drive—or simply getting married and raising children and grandchildren in peace, freedom, and prosperity.

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L. Neil Smith, in addition to being a great writer, is a pithy libertarian commentator.

His ten points are well taken.

But, there is zero chance that either “major” party will listen. Our only hope is that the people will throw them both out.

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LIBERTY: Does secession sound wacky?

Sunday, November 12, 2006

http://www.freestateobserver.com/?p=107

 

secession central (Part 2 of 2)
Posted by Friday on November 12th 2006 to Journals

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Those who gathered in Burlington, VT, last weekend discussed this, and many other fascinating issues. I had no idea that so many different groups, in all parts of the U.S., are actively working towards seceding from the de facto U.S. Empire. These are not wild-eyed crazies, either; they are, for the most part, intelligent, educated, thoughtful people who are fed up with federal tyranny, appalled by the current state of U.S. foreign policy, enraged by their tax bills, and are willing to work long and hard to extricate their state or region and become independent.

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Interesting! I remember the scene in the movie Gandhi, where the British General says to Gandhi, “Surely you don’t expect us to just walk away”, and the response is something like “There is simply no way that 100,000 Englishmen can govern 300 Million Indians without their cooperation”. Or something like that. So to, there is no way the very small elite can rule the people without their cooperation. That’s what the dead old white guys meant by “the consent of the governed”. Maybe Gandhi understood that instinctively. We certainly have to learn it. If we don’t consent to their “rules”, (I wouldn’t dignify what they produce as “laws”; the Law of Gravity NOW that’s a LAW!), we have to find ways to express our non-consent!

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