ARTICLES
Letters to the Editor
from Elizabeth McInnis, Scott Bieser of Big Head Press,
Mimbreno Chiricahua, E.J. Totty, Alex Benton, Dr. Julius No, and Lady Liberty
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The Country We All Grew Up In Is Dead!
by Ron Beatty
Imagine this for a moment. You are a young man, totally
indoctrinated in your religion. Anyone who doesn't follow your religion is
evil and is condemned to hell. Those who seem to follow that religion, but
are called by a different name are worse than almost anyone else. Got all that?
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My Faith is in Freedom
by Lady Liberty
A short story I recently read put a good deal of its
focus on some incidents occurring as a direct result of the Inquisition.
In the story, a woman was taken into custody and tortured until she
confessed to consorting with the devil. Shortly before she died, her
tormentors "mercifully" forgave her. Her accuser was a jilted suitor who
had no evidence for the inquisitors other than his righteous indignation.
The man she truly loved arrived too late to save her; he became her avenger,
and he wreaked widespread havoc to ensure her killers paid for her death.
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Thoughts on Limited Liability
by Sean Gabb
I was approached yesterday—Monday the 25th
Deptember 2006—by an American friend who had just read a piece I
wrote in 2005 against limited liability. Because his enquiry was private,
I will not give his name. But I feel it would be useful to make my reply public.
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"Thank You for Your Service"
by James Glaser
That is what a returning Iraqi vet said to me last
Friday after he learned that I was a combat vet too. I never really know
what to say when somebody says that to me. To be honest nobody ever thanked
me for my service until about twenty years after I left the Nam.
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It Takes a Police State to Raise a Child
by Doug Newman
In the aftermath of Wednesday's hostage taking and
murder-suicide at Platte Canyon High School in Bailey, Colorado, I can
just hear all the gun grabbers proclaiming that it only goes to show that
we cannot tolerate guns in—or anywhere near—schools. Well, one
of their dream bills has just been passed by Congress.
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Control-Freak News
the week of 006-09-25
by E.J. Totty
Well, here we go again! More news that's bound to send
one into a fit of rage, or cause one to reflect upon the thought that it
is—after all—supposedly 'intelligent humans' who are responsible
for the idiocy described hereinafter. . .
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A Newbie in the Bush
by Vern Trumbly
Yep, that's me. A newbie to Libertarianism, and
learning as much as I can as fast as I can about it; lining in �the
bush� so to speak, and growing angrier and more confused by the day.
Angry that I was lied to all my life by my parents (who probably didn't
know they were lying), by a myriad of teachers up through college level
(who should have known they were lying even if they didn't), by the news
media (who are supposed to know they are lying), the government official
(who truly believes she is there to help, and lies despite himself), and
of course our favorite people: the politicians (who know they are
lying if they have previously won even one election). I'm confused for
the same reasons, more or less. I have always tried to be an honest person
and generally assumed most other people were as well; keeping in mind, of
course, that all politicians lie to get and/or keep their jobs. (After all
it is what's expected in politics, in this country at least, is it not?)
So I'm confused why so many people have lied to me for so long. I'm also
extremely angry and scared over what has happened in the past five years,
and what I see happening in the future.
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I'm Still a libertarian
by Ron Beatty
Not too long ago, I wrote an article, entitled �I'm A
libertarian.� (small l, please) in which I ranted a little bit about some
of the things that bother me. Well, I think I'm going to continue in the
same vein, just for the heck of it.
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Are Civil Courts In Contempt of Justice?
by Wendy McElroy
Corporate lawyer H. Beatty Chadwick has passed 11 years
in a Pennsylvania county jail on a contempt of civil court charge relating
to his divorce. He 'refuses' to produce $2.5 million that may not exist. If
he were in the federal system, the maximum penalty for contempt would be 18
months. As it is, Chadwick—who has never been convicted of a crime or
faced a jury—is indefinitely imprisoned without possibility of parole.
Has Chadwick fallen through a crack in the legal system or is he proof that
family courts are out-of-control, especially regarding 'contempt of court'
power?
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