Posts tagged freedom
Mike Billy
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If you’re not a terrorist, if you’re not a threat, prove it… This is the price you pay to live in free society right now. It’s just the way it is.
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A joke about economists
Two economists were walking down the street one day when they passed two large piles of dog poop. The first economist said to the other, “I’ll pay you $20,000 to eat one of those piles of shit.” The second one agrees and chooses one of the piles and eats it. The first economist pays him his $20,000.
Then the second economist says, “I’ll pay you $20,000 to eat the other pile of shit.” The first one says okay, and eats the shit. The second economist pays him the $20,000.
They resume walking down the street.
After a while, the second economist says, “You know, I don’t feel very good. We both have the same amount of money as when we started. The only difference is we’ve both eaten shit.”
The first economist says: “Ah, but you’re ignoring the fact that we’ve engaged in $40,000 worth of trade!”
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VIDEO: Senator Mike Lee on FISA: “We can’t abandon constitutional rights for temporary security”
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I demand the right to bear nukes!
Anarchists, I discovered, did not believe in anarchy as it is usually defined — disorder, disorganization, chaos, confusion, and everyone doing as they like. On the contrary, they believed that society should be organized in a thousand different ways, that people had to cooperate in work and in play, to create a good society. But anarchists insisted, any organization must avoid hierarchy and command from the top; it must be democratic, consensual, reaching decisions through constant discussion and argument.
He continued, ‘What attracted me to anarchism was its rejection of any bullying authority — the authority of the state, of the church, or the employer. Anarchism believes that if we can create an egalitarian society without extremes of poverty and wealth, and join hands across all national boundaries, we will not need police forces, prisons, armies, or war, because the underlying causes of these will be gone.’
- Professor Howard Zinn (via lunaseas)
This isn’t exactly how I view the world, but I do think this is a thoughtful quote.
(via prettygirlfrombirmingham)
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Good point, Milton!
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Did you know that New Hampshire has a constitutional amendment on the ballot to ban a state income tax? Did you also know that a majority of voters in New Hampshire are voting “yes” to the ban? I wonder if the Free State Project had anything to do with this.
“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.” - Thomas Jefferson, slave owner.
(Source: loveyouramerica, via conservatives-on-tumbl3r)
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
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Congress and the Constitution: tl;dr
