I was listening to an archive of The Tiny Political Show while hacking through some zombies playing Dead Rising 2 last night (who else but me listens to podcasts while playing video games? lol) and I heard Citizen X and Barry Hess say they were pro life libertarians. But, when you consider that libertarians are against prohibition of any kind, no matter what their personal views on abortion may be, wouldn't we be pro choice by defintion?

For the record, I'm very much pro choice. I have seen the effect of an unplanned pregnancy, and the aftermath of raising a child when you weren't ready and I wouldn't call that "life".

Can anyone recommend any articles, papers and/or books on how to de-statize society?  In "For a New Liberty", Murray Rothbard had a great example whereby the States of NY and MA, before giving up power, deeded all land to the Rockefeller and Kennedy family's, respectively.  His point was that utilitarians could have no objection to such acts because they had/have no theory on justice in property rights.

"The government shouldn't be involved in blank, but since it is....." is a common problem encountered by libertarians.  The marriage issue comes to mind.  Sometimes, the defense of those who propose extending government into protecting the "marriage" of gays and lesbians is couched in the language of equality.  I think further involving the government in marriage is a mistake.  Another area where the above argument comes into play is with public property, i.e. parks, jails, squares, streets and the like.  In this case, I don't object to rules being imposed on the users of these areas.  There shouldn't be public property.  But as long as there is, there has to be some sort of rules. 

Thoughts.

...and yes there is a picture. This is so funny I've not stopped laughing for the last few minutes. So rediculous.

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/juice/2010/10/pembroke_pines_cop_moons...

I propose a compromise.  What if each town or each county in the U.S. had a monopoly on the use of force.  That is, abolish the federal and state governments.  Wouldn't this extreme decentralization be a pretty good approximation of anarchy?  As an anarchist, I don't think I would have any complaints about living in a society where I had literally hundreds, if not thousands, of "governments" to choose from.  With today's technology, people could be easily informed about which areas to avoid.

I’m obviously I’m now on the path towards womanhood.

Its also obvious that these days I’m on a different path politically then folk on these forums.

I’ve decided to no longer post on these forums this has more to do with my gender transition then my politics.

I’ll keep contact with Gard & Furb as I consider them both friends but if anybody else want to keep in touch with what I’m up to then you can follow my journal http://www.sophiabotha.net/.

Goodbye

There seems to be a contradiction in the thinking of some, if not all, atheistic anarchists.  On the one hand, you say that each person is the sole determinant of what's right and wrong for them.  That no group or collective can impose their version of morality on anyone.  On the other hand, most, if not all, of you subscribe to the Non-Aggression Principle or Axiom.  The NAP is a moral statement (which I also support).  Isn't the NAP just another version of the "higher law", that other religious traditions would like to apply to humans.?  isn't the NAP an imposition of a type of morality on some who may not subscribe to it?  If there is no Creator, what is the source of man's rights?  It's 4AM, so I apologize if I'm not being completely clear.

Its not so much government but the attitude of people around me towards government which is currently pissing me off.

I'm finally dealing with the fact I've gender dysphoria & yet those around me are dubious about me doing so because I've not sought guidance from some government sanctioned shrink.

Its almost as if people think you need to seek government permission & then have government sanctioned guidance if you want to adapt your body etc.

By me altering my body i'm not hindering anybody from getting on with their day to day business & yet people seem to think I should be under some government sanctioned care.

...at least not until this guy is off the board.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/note.php?note_id=477425082183&id=630752504

What I love the most, without question, about Libertarian views, is the idea of live and let live. It's like Barry Hess said on the Tiny Political show; there are those of us who want to be left alone, and those that will not leave us alone. This flies in the face of everything I believe and I can't back this in good faith. I don't have to financially support the party in order to vote for a Libertarian candidate, and it looks like I won't be.

Even though I've joined the Labour Party Mothy doesn't reckon i'm a socialist

Thought there might be libertarians who'd beg to differ

Two people I have enormous respect for, albeit for different reasons, both turned 90 this year.  Szasz, the great libertarian, is the author of many classics including "The Myth of Mental Illness", "Ceremonial Chemistry", and "The Manufacture of Madness" to name a few.  If you haven't read him or are not familiar with his work, you're in for a real treat.

Anybody who has read Bradbury doesn't need an explanation. 

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Well he hasn't specifically told geolibertarians to get lost from the Lib Dems but has said radicals & lefties to fuck off & that that includes geolibertarians.

It really stinks of "Thanks for getting us elected but now will you fuck off because your not making us look conservative enough"

Well i left a few months back but I've still have geolibertarian friends involved including an elected councillor who's a geolibertarian & right now is extremely pissed

According to Wendy Greuel, the City Controller of Los Angeles, the city recieved $111 million dollars in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus money. And with that money, they created....>drum roll<...54.46 jobs.

http://controller.lacity.org/stellent/groups/electedofficials/@ctr_contr...

Now, this raises two questions in my mind.

#1 How do you create less than half a job? .46?

#2 I wonder how many jobs would have been created in the private sector, if for example, someone was able to start a private business with $111 million dollars?

I especially hate the nation state. States are problematic enough, once you harness nationalism to them: cripes. But this leads us to some major problems and challenges around achieving a libertarian world. Of all the topics I’ve brought up so far, this, I imagine, is the one most people will have well defined views upon and may provide readings for.  As always, I welcome such input because, frankly, I haven’t found treatments that I find compelling.

A big thanks to everyone who contributed to the "Libertarian Enforcement Theory?" thread. I've got some other things I've been wondering about that I thought I'd submit for your comment.

I wanted to open a discussion about how (or if) children are to be protected from negligent, abusive or sadistic parents in a libertarian world. Sadly, such things do exist. Now, I’m sorry that I always need to provide this caveat, but experience has shown it is required. Please don’t insult me with kindergarten like observations on all the harms by the state’s child protection agencies. (D’uh. Oh, wow, how smart of you.)  Shocking though it may be to some, yes, I know.

Hi everybody from Spain.

First of all I like liberty conspiracy and others libertarian podcasts and radios. I agree with most libertarian issues, however in USA you can practice freedom because is a united country, dont forget this very important task. One country, united, with a very good army forces, cop force and a constitution as a limit to the politicians.

A few weeks back Nick Clegg the deputy Prime Minister & the leader of a party I was once a member of swas quoted as saying…

“It’s going to be difficult for someone who is going to receive less housing benefit because of the changes we are introducing to understand why, at the same time, we should spend huge, huge amounts of money in a hurry on replacing Trident in full”.

I in fact wrote a response to this http://www.the-bastard.com/index.php?section=45&page=3172

Ziggy,