March 2010
1 post
Liberty Is Individuality
Do you believe you’re capable of making decisions for yourself, or do you need someone to tell you how to live your life?
Do you believe you’re capable of deciding how to manage your money, or do you need someone to take it from you to spend as they see fit?
Do you believe you can act in a responsible fashion, or do you need someone dictating every detail of how you must behave?
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February 2010
2 posts
We Should Actually Try Free Market Health Care
This is a response to ShamedJedi’s video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVo54LGLkX8
The Constitution guarantees very few rights to the people. Instead, it explicitly enumerates what the federal government is allowed to do and reserves everything else for the states to decide (see the tenth amendment). It does not guarantee a right to practice free market capitalism any more than it...
Death By A Thousand Scratches
Power is like a gravity well in space. It draws everything towards it, big and small, and everything it captures makes the force stronger. It reaches further and pulls harder; escaping it requires more and more energy. Eventually it becomes so massive that nothing can be free of its grasp.
Remember: everything you give up to those in power only helps to strengthen them and weaken yourself.
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September 2008
1 post
The Freedom to Live
I merely wish to be allowed to live my life, yet I am confronted every day by the unrelenting forces of the powers that be, pressing from every side, forming the vast diversity of humanity into the perfectly uniform cube of the ideal citizen: pliant, productive, and powerless.
My desires are few and have been enumerated many times before: I wish to have the right to think and converse as I will,...