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Ye Olde Rebel of the Week: Lysander Spooner

MuslimNonarchist — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:22:19 +0000

Today happens to be the birthday of one of my all time favorite rebels. So, I thought I’d take us back in time and declare Lysander Spooner the rebel of this week in 1808.

Lysander Spooner was a nineteenth century American political philosopher, pamphleteer, entrepreneur, abolitionist and individualist anarchist. Spooner advocated what he called the “Science of Justice” which held that the initiation of coercion against an individual or their property was a natural crime, but so-called crimes that violated man-made statutes but had no victim were no crime at all.

LP of Florida wants to distance itself from anarchist/voluntarists!

Deslock Darkstar — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 23:35:11 +0000

An article in the Libertarian Party of Florida's online newsletter, entitled "The Libertarian Problem with Anarchy", by Tom Rhodes. I find this pretty sad... back when I was involved with the LP in the 90s, it was largely a group of anarchists/voluntarists who hadn't yet completely given up on inside-the-system activism. I guess the LP really is dead, huh?

Same-sex Marriage leads to Anarchy

danv — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:47:04 +0000

One more reason to allow same-sex marriage? Former New York Giants wide receiver David Tyree spoke out against gay marriage Wednesday, claiming it is the first step towards "anarchy." If so... then what are we waiting for?!

BBC News - Belgium goes a year from elections without government

stuntmantdave — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:12:08 +0000

Belgians proudly claimed the world record in February, for the country that has spent longest without a government.

F.B.I. agents get leeway to push privacy bounds

raggedy andy — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:46:12 +0000

FBI Defines Press: The manual clarifies the definition of who qualifies for extra protection as a legitimate member of the news media in the Internet era: prominent bloggers would count, but not people who have low-profile blogs. And it will limit academic protections only to scholars who work for institutions based in the United States.

Anarchists Have Civil Liberties Too

Deslock Darkstar — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:19:35 +0000

The problem with the contemporary media narrative on protest is that, in its refusal to understand the nuances of anarchism, it is using the term as a euphemism for "dangerous", "violent" or "bad".... The dangers of this way of thinking hardly need explaining. There are flickers of McCarthyism in the way the state is currently dealing with those it perceives as threatening. Potential anarchists are intimidated and smeared, and denied liberty on the grounds of nebulous and almost Orwellian charges.

Belgium sets record for number of days without government

Deslock Darkstar — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:54:18 +0000

Belgium has been without a government for 250 days -- breaking a modern-day record that was held by Iraq -- and some Belgians managed to joke about it...

Why We Couldn't Abolish Slavery Then and Can't Abolish Government Now

jitgos — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:05:22 +0000

The same ideas once trotted out to justify opposition to the abolition of slavery are now routinely trotted out to justify opposition to the abolition of government (as we know it). Libertarian anarchists bold enough to have publicly advanced their proposal for abolishing the state will have encountered many, if not all, of the arguments used for centuries to prop up slavery. Thus, we may make a parallel list, as shown in the table’s second column.

Anarcho Capitalism is Impossible

donintx — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:57:49 +0000

Interesting argument against the feasibility of anarcho capitalism developing naturally in a "stateless" society

Non-Compliance Topples Arizona Traffic-Cam Program

loungedaddy — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:38:57 +0000

In January of this year Arizona began considering the shut-down a state-wide traffic cam program. This is because there was wide-spread non-compliance. Many, many citizens of Arizona simply refused to pay the tickets that came in the mail.

Now the verdict is in. They shut it down. The citizens won -- not by fighting the state, but by ignoring the state.