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Warwick Township Cop Assaults, Kidnaps and Imprisons Me Over My Request for Business Card

Here are followup articles to this one, from newest to oldest: Warwick Police Pass My Case Up to Bucks County District Attorney, No Charges Filed Against Me Yet 13 Jan 2010 Filed Complaint with Warwick Police (video) 12 Jan 2010 So I was out at lunch with classmates from a pistol instructor course this afternoon. […]

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What Have You Done Today to Render Government Obsolete?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – R. Buckminster Fuller Instead of fighting government, we should simply render it obsolete, argues Dave Ridley in one of his best videos yet. For example, Dave’s journalism works toward making mainstream media […]

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BREAKING: Stateless Society Announced This Morning! The War is Over! Liberty is Here.

As of 12:01AM January 1, 2010 (today) we are officially living in a state of liberty – the stateless society. We’ve achieved our goal! Yippee! Break out the champagne. Celebrate. You can finally live your life freely and without worrying about what materials or activities the reigning gang has penalized, taxed or prohibited. Live free! […]

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Don’t Just Move your Money, Change it Too!

Arianna Huffington wants you to move your worthless US dollars from big banks that are tightly connected with the most powerful government aggressors to smaller banks that are loosely connected with the most powerful government aggressors. She’s produced a slick emotional persuasion piece (see above) that plays fast and loose with history and leverages Frank […]

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Is it Wrong to Shop at Walmart?

Over at Skeptical Eye, SE wonders, “If you’re poor like me, how can you not shop at Walmart?” And the fact is you can’t, not if it makes financial sense to do so. And you shouldn’t trouble yourself over this fact. Government aggression created Walmart and sustains it. You didn’t create this situation and if […]

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Yes, “Outside the System” Activism is Part of a Coherent Strategy for Liberty

Yes, Virginia, there is a coherent market anarchist strategy for achieving liberty. Since we’re programmed to accept only state-run elections as a valid change vector, this can be hard to accept – but it’s true. If you dismiss it out of hand, you’re letting a great opportunity pass you by, so please give this your […]

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Do We Have What it Takes to Reclaim our Liberty?

Do we have the moxie needed to regain our liberty, to defeat tyranny and aggression, to retake control of our lives and property? Will the masses ever rise up? Will the sheeple wake up? I see these questions posed frequently, and usually with a negative response. Yet they are the wrong questions. The hidden subtext […]

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Anarchist Tactics that Minarchists Need

Minarchists need to expand their repertoire of tactics. Some ideas.

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6 Shocking Facts About the Future of Farming

The BBC’s documentary A Farm for the Future is both shocking and encouraging. It’s shocking as it lays out how modern farming methods are doomed by their dependence on fossil fuels and encouraging as it explains how productive and efficient permaculture can be. 22 Billion Slaves? Here are some interesting facts I picked up from […]

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Would Wal-Mart be a Problem Without its Government Privileges?

Would Wal-Mart be so powerful, so destructive and so hated if not for the power granted it by governments? That’s the question that plagues me after watching Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005). Wal-Mart gets government subsidies, a government grant of limited liability and favorable tax cuts. So why does an otherwise fine […]