The term “torture” might be extended to mean everything that government does. The ultimate irony of our system of government is that the United States of America, a federal constitutional republic endowed by its creators with a monopoly on the infliction of torture, is the judge of its own crimes.

Involuntary taxation, institutionalized inflation, preventative wars, violations of free speech and privacy, and all other functions of government, are also, in one form or another, modes of torture.

If the individuals participating in the Occupy Wall Street movement had a clear vision of what a free society might be like, the U.S. Capitol, the White House, U.S. Supreme Court Building, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York would be the primary foci of their protest demonstrations.

In a free society, one in which the principles of self-ownership and non-aggression are zealously maintained, a competitive private law judicial system would provide effective legal remedies against those who engage in torture. In a free society all services previously offered by government, including defense of private property rights, would be better and more expeditiously carried out by the market.

Exactly what our country would be like under freedom no one truly knows, but the dustbins of history are filled with failed states.

This year the writings of La Boétie, Bastiat, Mises, Rothbard, and Hoppe should be on everyone's holiday shopping list. A free gift in lieu of a bought gift during these days of 23% unemployment and accelerating 11.3% inflation would be to email your loved ones a link to free books at
http://mises.org/literature.aspx

Is polygamy virtuous? At a golf course in Vegas I once met ten men who practiced 21st Century Nikah Ijtimah. To make a long story short, the ten concurred that sharing one wife was blissful, that 10 men divided into 30 days was 3, that 3 was 10 times as intense as 30, and that each male practitioner of 21st Century Nikah Ijtimah contributed infinitely to the psychophysiology of the lucky lady. That the lady was sterile was immaterial.

The state, what Professor Hoppe calls “the expropriating property protector,” is ill-equipped to defend America’s shores. The state’s armies are therefore an illegitimate force to be used to engage in “peace-keeping” activities around the world. In the midst of the ongoing financial meltdown and the fall of dictatorships the discussion of what to do next should focus on the peaceful transition to a true free market society based on voluntary association and the provision of protection through voluntarily subscribed insurance. Let’s leave gender politics to the effeminate left, the state-subsidized poltroons who fatuously persist in fomenting false theory.

I assume, Mr. AntiFed1791, that you’d agree that a bona fide anarcho-capitalist libertarian is, by definition, opposed to the initiation of violence, and opposed, most notably, to The State’s monopoly on the use of violence within a defined geographical area.

Only a statist would be opposed to defending himself/herself against The State. As I wrote in my novel, Milk the Children,

“Resist what Hans calls the expropriating property protector. Sidestep dictator, demagogue, commander, and judge. Study Okstrumendianglockian economics; defund day-jail by hiding assets from The State: art, books, bullion, and gems. Through intent, accident, dream, intuition, mistake, luck, or revelation, extend scientific method into theoretical anarchy; journey through space and return home without harm.

During antiwar marches in Seattle during the Vietnam War, a nonviolent protester might well have been excoriated and vilified by left-wing revolutionaries as being too passive, i.e., not sufficiently hostile.

In this Season of Joy, we rejoice that, due to Climategate, the AGW theory has been exposed for the hoax and the scam that it is. We rejoice that Wikileaks has exposed The State’s crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, and now Cablegate is revealing more and more of the truth for the whole world to see.

Cyberattack as justified retaliation is harmful to those being raped by The State.

Wikileaks will not lack for funding even if VISA and PayPal were to be wiped from the face of the earth, erased from the pages of history by our brave knights of cyberspace. The puerile pleasure of attacking Big Business, enterprises regularly raped by the State, is counterproductive, and as I stated above, is a fine way to end the internet as we know it.

March on, misdirected anarchists. Avenge the wrongs! Why pause to think? Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons! Identify those who do business with The State! Attack not only Amazon, PayPal, VISA, and Mastercharge, to show what stuff you’re made of, but also the computers of every living American who supports war by paying his/her federal income tax! Down with tyranny!

Libertarians are insanely divided over whether or not to condone the violence of boycott and cyberattack in light of government pressure upon those who had provided services to Wikileaks and its contracted service providers.

The United States government behaves like an insatiable rapist, raping men and women indiscriminately through various subdivisions of evil such as the IRS, the TSA, and the Department of War. Each American is raped, and raped repeatedly by the Great Rapist. And now Wikileaks is under attack for revealing some of the Great Rapist’s crimes.

Quite fitting, isn’t it, that the Great Rapist has managed to have Julius Assange detained on allegations of rape?

To hack and boycott the likes of Amazon, PayPal, VISA, and Mastercharge is a fine way to end the internet as we know it. Bearing in mind that the Great Rapist repeatedly rapes these companies, too, if a peaceful war is to be waged during this great Season of Joy, may it be waged exclusively against the Great Rapist through every avenue of noncompliance.

http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march102010/zi...

should bring up the article.

Understandably, many Americans are loath to acknowledge the scientific facts, let alone the political complexities, surrounding the “attacks” of September 11, 2001. As I wrote in Milk the Children, “Hordes of the threatened pledge allegiance to The State, cognizant of its evil cancelli of taxes, inflation, preventative war, of schemes of wealth redistribution, class consolidation, of centrally planned antiprosperity regulations, of networks of mass propaganda, and the imprisonment, indoctrination, and drugging of youth in day-jail.”

In the interest of accurate historical journalism, the Antiwar listening audience is, or should be, eager to hear an interview with physicist Steven E. Jones, architect Richard Gage, or pilot Glen Standish.

Mr. Standish is reported to have written, “I most certainly and honestly believe, that sometime in the near future, it will become common knowledge that the events of 9/11 were an “inside job” designed, engineered and committed by a very large and “in control” rogue element within our United States federal government, used as a false cause, a pretext, a lie, to invade two natural resource rich foreign countries, to further pursue and expand an empire, to change the borders of the Middle East countries, and as part of the war on terror, or more appropriately, the war on freedom, was used to frighten the American people so they would allow the infringement of their civil liberties and constitutional rights, to allow for closer monitoring and further oppression.”