Episode 23 - Libertarian anarchism versus Libertarian statism; voting as corrupt; faith and force - a podcast by Wes Bertrand

An Apolitical Approach To Libertarianism by Brain Police
http://mises.org/Community/blogs/brainpolice/archive/2008/04/05.aspx
Voting as an lack of consumer choice
Representatives don't represent you
Supposed "checks and balances"
Small government isn't beautiful; government itself is ugly to the bone
Mississippi Drug War Blues, The Case of Cory Maye by Drew Carey
http://www.reason.tv/video/show/403.html
The folly of working for the State in order to get rid of the State
False--and forced--"agency"
Watered-down libertarianism, and its political rejection
World's Smallest Political Quiz, and its erroneous divisions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_Smallest_Political_Quiz
Agorism and the informal (gray and black) market economy
http://agorism.info/counter-economics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informal_economy
Freedom Quotient--that is, Liberation Factor minus Enslavement Factor
Economic Means to Freedom - Part X by Frederick Mann
http://www.buildfreedom.com/economic/eco_10.html
Participating in politics is illogical from the get-go
Libertarianism as abolitionist in principle, not reformist
The psychology of jailers and other perpetrators of heinousness
The fallacy of "voting as an act of self-defense" and acquiescence to plunder--going behind the magic curtain
The Nature Of Present Government (quoting Lysander Spooner on knaves, dupes, and the rest, and on taking responsibility for your political plunder)
http://www.logicallearning.net/libnatureofgover.html
Societal Structures Posturing As Proper: Democracies And Republics (quoting Benjamin Tucker on majority rule as evil and ballots as bullets)
http://www.logicallearning.net/libdemocraciesan.html
Some solutions: Economic disengagement from statism (agorism); education (www.tolfa.us); Hoppe's anti-intellectual intellectuals (delegitimizers of statism); civil disobedience
Secular humanists faith in statism
Religion and Libertarianism by Walter Block
http://www.lewrockwell.com/block/block103.html
Faith and Force: The Destroyers of the Modern World by Ayn Rand
http://freedomkeys.com/faithandforce.htm
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/mysticism.html
"Redeem your mind from the hockshops of authority"
http://www.aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/faith.html
The church prepares the "flock" for the dictator
FCC wants a magic, porn-free wireless Internet
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/24/fcc-wants-a-magic-po.html
bumper music "Get Up Stand Up" from Songs Of Freedom (Disc 2) by Bob Marley and the Wailers
http://www.bamstores.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3017162

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