Archive for the 'Speedlinks' Category

Date: September 28th, 2007, Filed under Speedlinks

JDB writes the following:

I just updated my blog template, moving around the headline sections on the right. I’ve carried Lew Rockwell headlines since I started this blog. Recently I learned that LewRockwell.com carries weekly, monthly, and annual top ten article pages. Since I don’t have time to read every single LRC daily article (alas), these are pretty useful to me. And since I am a programmer, I knew how to create my own headline newsfeeds off of these pages.

Check out his list of libertarian newsfeeds over at Voice of John. Don’t forget to subscribe to his RSS feed to stay on top some great posts.

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Date: February 22nd, 2007, Filed under Anarcho-capitalism, Speedlinks

Another excellent post by Christian Anarcho-Capitalist blogged VoiceofJohn, titled Judge Not. From their post:

Do Christians have the right to govern? We’ve already seen that they do not. We’ve also seen that governing other people is immoral unless they agree to participate, and that restricting people’s liberty like this is bad for the prosperity of society, because it’s bad economics. (Basically it’s socialism, even if you like to call it “democracy” and pretend it is “liberty.”)

But people have the right to establish whatever voluntary associations they want. The members of those associations may delegate their authority to those associations. So, they may give or loan some of their property to the group. They may empower the group to act in their defense. They may not legitimately have the group take what doesn’t belong to its members, or use force against non-members for purposes other than defense of rights. (If they do, they have founded a criminal organization, like the Mafia, even though (like the Mafia) the group may go around telling everybody that it is “protecting them” and so they need to “pay up,” calling itself “the state” to pretend it is something other than a criminal organization.)

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Date: February 20th, 2007, Filed under Anarcho-capitalism, Speedlinks

Christian Anarcho-Capitalist blogger Voice of John offers some great insight into asking Christians Do we need a government?

From the article:

Under anarcho-capitalism, government need not disappear. Instead, people could create legitimate governments, voluntary associations that pool resources for defense of rights. This is, after all, what Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence said a government was. Assisting each other in defense of liberty is certainly a legitimate activity; compelling others to participate in our scheme, however, is not. As the Declaration says, governments “deriv[e] their just powers from the consent of the governed,” and the governed should be entitled to “laying its [government’s] foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

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Date: November 2nd, 2006, Filed under Anarcho-capitalism, Speedlinks

Check out anarcho-capitalist’s Stefan Molyneux’s website and forum over at www.freedomainradio.com — very cool site and some interesting conversations over there.

Today I am attending the wake of my late friend Rebecca, so my day will be quite busy. Starting Monday I’ll be all caught up with e-mails, phone calls, and other happenings during my time away, so we should see a regular schedule of posts and articles and discussions.

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