Ad hoc groups of activists and volunteers seem to work better than the government or NGOs, but why?
The best weapon is one you never have to fire? The state prefers the one that you only have to fire once – then again. Then some more.
Sheldon Richman: The freedom to opt out means that no one can force you to participate in any government activity that you object to.
To hear a government official come right out and admit they’re creating a shadow legal system is incredible – and terrifying.
There exists in the country now – and there has existed for some time – an appreciable readiness to, if you will, suspend disbelief when it comes to the claims of politicians.
Kevin Carson: By all means, enjoy yourselves. Get it out of your system.
Knapp: Barring the increasingly usual “hanging chad” dramas, the 2012 elections are over. Heave a sigh of relief, take stock of any likely minor changes, and get on with our lives, right? Wrong.
Cody Dunn: It was not until the next world war where daylight savings made its comeback.
Jason Byas: Wayne Allyn Root is a capitalist evangelist, at least he got one thing right.
Carson: Hierarchical institutions are machines for telling naked Emperors how great their clothes look, and those at the top of such hierarchies live in almost entirely imaginary worlds.
Carson: Whatever corporate copyright lockdown Disney puts the franchise under couldn’t possibly exceed George Lucas’s worst. The Disney acquisition actually offers to breathe new life into the Star Wars universe.
Knapp: You can have politics or you can have peace, but you can’t have both.
Kevin Carson: However the 2012 race comes out the foreign policy will be the same, “We come in peace — shoot to kill, shoot to kill…”
Carson: It’s just a greenwashed version of mid-20th century, mass-production capitalism.
Carson: So now when you hear Mittens talk about “free enterprise,” you know what he means by it.
Kevin Carson: The corporate state and its system of information control has already lost. It’s just to stupid to realize it.
D’Amato: Politics is a losing game for people who want freedom, and “inclusion” is a chimera when it comes to capitalism.
Knapp: Drilling leases on “public” land are just food stamps for Big Oil.
Carson: We’re approaching victory in the five-thousand-year war between natural abundance and artificial scarcity.
D’Amato: The free competition that market anarchists advocate for is entirely opposed to that system.
