“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.” ~ Edward Abbey

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted." ~ F. Herbert

Lots of people with agendas assume that “science” knows everything necessary to take the actions they want. Global warming would be a prominent example. The very concept of unknown unknowns suggests modesty in making claims for actions that have not been experimentally confirmed.

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." ~ Lysander Spooner

There wasn't even a passport requirement until after the Civil War: https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/our-history/agency-history/early-american-immigration-policies

Not "always":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passport#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_visa#History

"It's very simple, really. There are two ways people can relate to each other: voluntarily or coercively. The government is pure coercion, and sociopaths are drawn to its power and force." ~ Doug Casey

Spoken like a true Type O Negative fan :-)

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If no one obeys, no one rules.

Pure capitalism is just the freedom to collaborate and cooperate with others on a strictly voluntary basis, in a society where the consensus strongly opposes the thesis that anyone owns anyone else, or owns the labor of others, or owns the fruits of the labor of others.

You don't own other people. Therefore, you don't own their labor, nor the product of their labor. it really is as simple as that.

Property rights exist in the same way, and for the same reasons, that all other rights do: They're a treaty of peace between the members of a society. That peace treaty enables us to collectively live and work together in peace -- that's what peace treaties are for, after all.

"The very same people who say that the government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults." ~ Thomas Sowell

To say you have a claim to my property is to say you have a claim to the labor I performed to obtain it. To say you have a claim to my labor is to say that I am your slave.

Capitalism is the rejection of political control in favor of voluntary, economically-rational human interaction.

Socialism is "trickle up poverty." It’s just a euphemism for the rationing of benefits to be apportioned politically by _The Powers That Should Not Be._ Communism is just socialism with the authoritarianism turned up to 11.

Capitalism is the rejection of political control in fav

It's amazing how many are petitioning The Powers That Should Not Be to be the ones deplatformed, ostracized and exiled last: https://www.bitchute.com/video/7AHZ6cCSKL0/

No argument with that, friend.

No. It'a criticism of Keynesian economics in general, and of Krugman's stated beliefs about economic principles in particular. As for tariffs, they're taxes. And like any other tax, expected taxes to improve the economy is a "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" fallacy.

If you give the state an inch, it will become a ruler.

It's very much a two-edged sword.

“The man who puts all the guns and all the decision-making power into the hands of the central government and then says, ‘Limit yourself’; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.” ~ Rothbard

“...the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

Clerical robes are the last refuge of the pedophile.

Reality is what it is. But the fact you can only experience it as a mental model created by your brain is part of that reality. And any such model is just an interpretation of the evidence. No law of nature requires such interpretations to be correct.

"If men are good, you don’t need government; if men are evil or ambivalent, you don’t dare have one." ~ Robert LeFevre

"I freed a thousand slaves...and I could have freed more had more of them known they were slaves." ~ Harriet Tubman

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered." ~ R. Lee Wrights

"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." ~ Lysander Spooner

"I am altering the social contract, pray I don’t alter it any further." ~ Darth Congress

By claiming that offensive speech or offensive ideas authorize violence, you authorize violence against yourself when others find your speech or your ideas equally offensive. And that can only lead to civil war.

I think we are individually responsible for being the change we wish to see, for creating the world in which we want to live. And that the best way to do that, without violating free will, is to totally reject the legitimacy of a monopoly provider of justice and security.

The state is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society.