I have known decent police officers, the type of people I have a hard time believing would ever do what Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli did to Kelly Thomas. But what do we expect from a monopoly provider of law and order, ie. the state? Most in society rightly denounce would-be monopoly providers of many…
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Why States are Illegitimate
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. When statists use concepts like “tacit consent” and “social contract” in their arguments, they are assuming what they are trying to…
On Government Transparency
A headline at InformationWeek reads, “Google Says Governments Fight Transparency.” Of course they do. Don’t all criminal organization try to hide their scheming from the rest of society? I would if I were a criminal. As I wrote in “Conspiracy Theorem,” the state “actively and purposefully keeps most of society in the dark on some…
Action, Faith, and Voluntaryism
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. An axiom is a starting point of reasoning, or a premise. Ludwig von Mises discovered the action axiom. Paraphrased, the action…
Government vs. the State
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. Many have tried to explain the difference between “government” and “the state.” They have been more or less clear, but none…
On Jury Nullification
Ben Swann just launched a project to promote the concept of “jury nullification” called JUST US. That’s fantastic. I wholeheartedly agree with the promotion of this very important tool for liberty and justice. However, in his video announcing the project, he wanted to be clear that jury nullification should not be used to acquit violators…
Am I a Radical Extremist?
I don’t think you can be any further away from a position than by advocating for it’s opposite. The status quo of general opinion and the positions I take are, plainly put, antithetical. Yes, I think I do qualify for the label of “radical extremist.”
On Assumptions about Libertarians
There are two assumptions made by non-libertarians about libertarians that bother me: 1) Bastiat nailed this one when he wrote that non-libertarians assume libertarians don’t want things like universal “education,” welfare for the poor, business regulation, and other such things just because they don’t want them provided by the state. And 2) libertarians are okay with…
Private Property as the State?
Send him mail. “One Voluntaryist’s Perspective” is an original column appearing most Mondays at Everything-Voluntary.com, by the founder and editor Skyler J. Collins. Archived columns can be found here. OVP-only RSS feed available here. In discussion with left-anarchists, I’ve heard the argument that private property is just another form of the state because private property…
On Global Warming
I don’t care if human beings are causing global warming or not. Individuals with an illegitimately acquired and violently maintained monopoly on the use of force, ie. the state, can’t fix it by threatening everyone with more violence for failing to adhere to their demands. Only free, enterprising, and innovative individuals can solve such a…