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Why We Can’t All Just Get Along
Send him mail. “Win-Win World” is an original column appearing sporadically on Thursdays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Russell L. Roth. Russell is a 30-year marketing veteran and graduate of Jay Snelson’s “Science of Human Interaction” course (he calls it “Win/Win 101”). He has owned and operated businesses in advertising, real estate and internet marketing. He holds…
A Quick but Revealing Dialogue
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Words Poorly Used #24 — Minarchy
The problem with minarchism is that there is no agreement on what the minimum activity of government is. I believe government has no role in human nature. So if we talk about going through minarchy as a step toward anarchy, that is unfortunately an ambiguous target. If we instead are using minarchy to mean less…
You Are a Slave
Editor’s Pick. Written by Daniel Hawkins. To those unfamiliar with the libertarian-anarchist world, this is probably a jarring headline. I’m not a slave, you may think, I don’t have a master. I don’t work for free. I don’t get whipped. I own property. I am free. Libertarians and anarchists take heat for using the word…
On MLK and Private Action
Martin Luther King, Jr. acted as a private individual with a personal agenda. He was not a state employee implementing the state’s agenda. Whatever political beliefs the man held, one thing is clear: he saw injustice and didn’t wait for permission from anybody else before combating it. That he acted according to his own conscience,…
The Unjustice System
Nobody asked but … With the news still ringing in my brain that the Federal DOJ is raiding legal marijuana establishments in Colorado (I was not surprised but I still despair), I wonder how rational humans can attach themselves to something called by some name that has justice in its expression, and still perpetrate actions…
Words Poorly Used #21 — Justice
We often confuse the outcomes of our bungled justice system with justice itself. The procedural system that has been produced by the infinite number of self-appointed chimpanzees through their eternal tinkering with “legislation” (not law) is not concurrent with the value system referred to as justice. In fact, it is too frequently diametrically opposite to…
Re: Personal Oaths
Nobody asked but … I have just read Skyler‘s blog post and Parrish‘s, in quick succession. My head nearly exploded! Who in their right mind commits to an oath of any kind to a set of institutions gone so clearly awry as our nation-state’s? It mocks the serious discussion of oaths and justice. What is…
No Justice for Kelly Thomas
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, the two uniformed thugs who beat a homeless man to death, were today found not guilty of all charges. Inexplicably, the man whose life they ended is still dead, however…. How is it possible that an unarmed man ends up dead after a vicious beating, but those cretins…