Beware of the supposed gifts offered to you by government, for when it gives you things with one hand, the other hand takes away your liberty and independence.
In this the fourth of our Fundamentals Reissues, the Liberty Conspiracy concludes the discussion about supposed "rights" as defined and "defended" by government, which can only exist by intruding on one's rights. Gardner Goldsmith offers an insightful explanation of why all government is predicated on the breach of rights, and is thus not supportable under its own raison d'etre.
Your tax dollars at work!Happy Thanksgiving!
In this special reissue of Gardner Goldsmith's extensive essay on the dangers of government, he explains why even Thomas Jefferson overlooked some of the inherent contradictions inherent in the "small government" concept of Locke. Please enjoy this, part two of Gard's discussion of fundamental principles. It will serve as a bulwark against statists of all kinds.
Google posted an apology for image search results in which the top image depicted first lady Michelle Obama as an ape. The image, however, was just one of dozens of images of celebrities and political figures altered to look like apes.
The document-leaking web site Wikileaks announced Tuesday that it would release 500,000 alphanumeric pager messages sent on September 11, 2001. I'm brewing coffee and preparing to "live" blog the more interesting of these half million intercepts as they are released over the next 24 hours.
Join Gardner Goldsmith in this special reissue of one of the productions that explores the bedrock ideas of freedom. In this case, he delves into the way in which the term "rights" has been corrupted by the very government supposedly created to protect those rights. Listen, and see why Goldsmith makes a compelling argument that one can never trust government to protect so-called "rights", because in order for government to exist, it must infringe on rights at the outset.
Welcome back to the Liberty Conspiracy, the group of shadowy plotters working to lift society up from the burdens placed upon it by government. As founder Gard Goldsmith explains, events in the US and other nations show us that this is an important time to spread the fundamental ideas of liberty, and this production is the second in a series of rebroadcasts that help explain the moral and economic primacy of freedom.
I was pleased last week when we won a vote in the Financial Services Committee to include language from the Audit the Fed bill HR1207 in the upcoming financial regulatory reform bill. As it stands now, if HR 3996 passes, because of this action, the Federal Reserve's entire balance sheet will be opened up to a GAO audit. We will at last have a chance to find out what happened to the trillions of dollars the Fed has been giving out.
The Metropolitan Police of London will compensate the family of Jean Charles de Menezes, who police officers shot and killed in 2005 mistakenly believing he was a suicide bomber.
After years of writing about how governments abuse, murder, and imprison innocent people and destroy life around the world, I find that I have been wrong, really wrong. All this time, I wrongfully tried to convince readers that terrible things are done in the name of "good government," and now I have to apologize to them.
Feel free to listen to this rebroadcast of a special Liberty Conspiracy production: the importance of money as a medium of exchange.
The House Financial Services Committee voted Thursday to add Rep. Ron Paul's broadly supported proposal to audit the Federal Reserve to a larger banking reform package.
The flooding which nearly wiped the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish, La., off the map after Hurricane Katrina was caused by the Army Corps of Engineers failing to maintain a navigation channel through the city, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Chicago, long one of the most corrupt cities in America, has seen three of its government bureaucrats commit suicide in recent memory, the latest being the president of its school board.
On Monday, the Washington Blade and several other gay newspapers were shut down after the Small Business Administration, which had put them in receivership, was unable to sell them.
New Hampshire's guarantee of a $250,000 line of credit for a local newspaper freshly emerged from bankruptcy is raising fresh questions about whether media outlets which receive government assistance can remain independent, and whether government should offer such assistance at all.
Raising a child is probably the most important thing a person will ever do in life. Yet we constantly hear stories of child abuse and neglect.
Prosecutors trying to put you in prison for a crime you didn't commit can fabricate evidence, coerce witnesses into lying on the stand, and enjoy absolute immunity. They cannot go to prison. They cannot even be sued. They aren't even likely to get so much as a reprimand from the bar association or from their bosses, even after publicly admitting to framing you.
Join the members of the Liberty Conspiracy as they discuss issues ranging from the "Incorporation Doctrine" and gun rights, to the NBA, to protests conducted at military funerals, protests that are being challenged by government, and which will be heard by the philosopher kings in the U.S. Supreme Court.
When neoconservative Ben Stein accused Congressman Ron Paul of being antisemitic for merely wanting to ask WHY Islamic terrorists want to attack the civilians living under western governments that have meddled in the Mideast, the members of the Conspiracy could not sit by silently.
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