It’s been more than a month since Toine Manders, tax consultant and former leader of the Dutch Libertarian Party, was arrested and jailed for protecting his clients from theft.  Less than a week away from his son’s first birthday Toine is still held prisoner and his custody has been extended for an additional 90 days….

In a previous post; the following was said: You’re more concerned with property values than human freedom. What’s truly destructively selfish is your willingness to use initiatory force to uphold your property values. Freedom matters more. My interlocutor responded to the comment thusly: It’s not that I’m more concerned with property values than personal freedom…

On Wednesday, we learned the fate of American whistleblower PFC Bradley Manning. Manning was sentenced to  35 years in prison for leaking documentation of war crimes to Wikileaks, after conviction on violating key provisions of the Espionage Act (an act which is in and of itself an offense to liberty and repeatedly abused by the…

WHEN THINGS get so balled up that the people of a country got to cut loose from some other country, and go it on their own hook, without asking no permission from nobody, excepting maybe God Almighty, then they ought to let everybody know why they done it, so that everybody can see they are…

As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but admit the right of the citizen to adopt a condition of voluntary outlawry. If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any…

One major event to watch for today is the release of the Leveson Inquiry Report.

We want to be free, we want to live, we want peace.

Sheldon Richman: El derecho a desligarse del estado significaría que nadie podría forzarte a participar en ninguna actividad gubernamental con la que no estés de acuerdo.

The issue, I repeat, is not between socialism and capitalism, in any meaningful sense of the words. In the broadest sense, it is between freedom and tyranny.

Sheldon Richman: The freedom to opt out means that no one can force you to participate in any government activity that you object to.

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Wally Conger: I can ask for no better guidebook to fighting for and living the stateless life.

Helping to make both state and corporate oppression not only obsolete, but impossible.

Keith Taylor: We don’t need “the job creators.”

Darian Worden on how creativity fosters freedom, and freedom promotes creativity.