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Heading into midterm election season in America we are faced with an illusory alternative: Caesar in Democratic Party clothing, or in some districts Little Caesar in Republican Party clothing. Apparently what makes the illusion saleable is the mistaken idea (used by Caesar as propaganda) that Jesus Christ was a socialist who supported taxation. Fascists, communists, and progressives (all three branches of socialism), even after all the misery they have created the world over in the last 100 to 150 years, even now still aim a loud speaker toward us blaring the long broken record of their propaganda mantra: “Jesus was a socialist,” by which they try to convince us that Jesus advocated using government force or threat of force to redistribute wealth. We’ve addressed the "socialist" issue in the past (See Jesus Christ's Love vs. Obama Style Socialism ) Nonetheless, the illusion could not be sold to the public if it were not for modern conservatives insisting that Jesus suppor...

"A majority of Americans think the federal government poses a threat to rights of Americans, according to a new national poll." CNN Poll: Majority says government a threat to citizens' rights Libertarians have always understood that the federal government (not to mention various state and local government agencies) has been violating the rights of citizens forever. The proper role of government is to respond to rights violations such as theft, murder, threat of imminent force, fraud, etc. Libertarians understand that any "majority rule" government initiative which is not aimed at responding to rights violation is a violation of the rights of some minority ... a dictatorship of the majority ... and is inherently immoral even if the minority is only one citizen. No majority is ever right to force a man to live by their dreamed up government programs, as long as that man has violated the rights of no one else. "Holy 10 Commandments! If we lived by that ide...

"Constitutionally Limited Government; Fiscal Responsibility; Free Markets." - Core Values of the Tea Party Movement These are values libertarians can support. Even anarchist libertarians can surrender for a season their pie-in-the-sky intellectual constructs and admit that severely limited government is far better than massive out-of-control slave-master government. There has always been a huge pressing question for American libertarians who feel the urge to work for freedom. "Should I defend freedom by supporting a third party; or should I infiltrate and influence one of the major American political parties from within?" To libertarians, both are distasteful alternatives. Third parties have virtually no chance to gain traction, while the major parties seem impossible to effectively infiltrate. But wait! A new alternative has surfaced. The Tea Party movement which has arisen in the last year basically as a slave rebellion now offers freedom fighters a mech...

"Conservatives have been very critical of the Golden Globe-winning film 'Avatar' for its mystical melange of trite leftist themes. But what they have missed is that the essential conflict in the story is a battle over property rights." - Libertarian David Boaz (Read entire Los Angeles Times Article: The right has 'Avatar' wrong ) Is it possible that David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute, was extremely moved by 'Avatar' and found himself stretching for an intellectual reason to justify his appreciation of the film? Because Na'vi "property rights" is quite a stretch. David even admits in his article that in the context of Na'vi society one could only think of "property rights" in a collectivist sense. It's pretty sad when a libertarian writer has to resort to collectivist thinking to make a point, wouldn't you say? David knows 'Avatar' has nothing to do with property rights as the term is...

1.0 The sole purpose of the Government of Haiti is to attempt to restore justice and peace when there has been any initiation of force, threat of force, theft, fraud, or breach of contract. The government exists solely to guard against the potential negative aspects of unrestrained anarchy. 1.1 The Government of Haiti shall refrain from exercising any function which does not unambiguously serve Section 1.0. The government does not exist to provide well-being, but only to attempt to assure the necessary conditions for people to pursue their own well being. There shall be no exceptions . 1.2 The Government of Haiti shall not establish any official state religion or philosophy, but shall recognize there is deep within each individual an innate force for good, therefore all individuals must remain free to live as they choose, and make contractual agreements as they choose provided they do not initiate force, threat of force, theft, fraud, or breach of contract. The above is quoted from th...

"Americans are increasingly opposed to activist government programs. The most significant social movement of 2009, the Tea Party protests, grew out of that opposition. Libertarian heroine Ayn Rand is as popular today as ever. Rand's brilliant and radical laissez faire novel "Atlas Shrugged," sold roughly 300,000 copies last year, according to BookScan, twice its sales in 2008 and roughly triple annual sales in recent decades." - Conservative Libertarianism's Comeback by David Paul Kuhn The above article would have us believe that a growing resurgence in libertarian sentiment is a "backlash" reaction to the Democratic Party's move into full-fledged fascism. Certainly there is some truth to this, but it cannot be the whole story. Franklin Roosevelt's fascism was far more inclusive. FDR's brain trust had almost to a man visited Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union and liked what they saw . In the Roosevelt Administration there was a ...