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Using the guns of government--for the "good" of whom? Report: 60 Million People You'd Never Talk To Voting For Other Guy http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd The endless rationalizations for unjustifiable statist coercion So-called informed voters as the most corrupt The contrary definitions of the word anarchy Who gets to enforce their views on others? Voters, of course Contrary to a democracy and even a Constitutional republic, in a just society there are no irreconcilable conflicts between individuals "Conflicts" of Men's Interests by Ayn Rand (audio) http://atlasshrugged.com/ayn-rand-works/ar-conflicts.html Local governments as biggest meddlers in our lives, who coercively monopolize whole swaths of the economy and extort money from individuals The fallacy of the night-watchman State Cognitive dissonance people retain between the nature of the market and government Ominous parallels from Nazi Germany; collectivism and kowtowing to authority The moral corruption in seeking a "license," getting approval from an unjust organization of people Regulatory madness under the guise of "protection" of consumers; selling the regulatory racket... How can someone claim to possess the authority to override your life and property? "Because I say so!" Parental mistreatment of children's wills, inducing fears and destroying their semblance of rationality with mythologies The article we didn't cover, for obvious reasons: The Case for Obama by Bruce Ramsey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=24 None of the Above by Doug Casey http://libertyunbound.com/article.php?id=26 Five reasons why you shouldn't vote: 1) it's unethical 2) it compromises your privacy 3) it's a degrading experience (begging for your freedom) 4) it just encourages the bastards 5) your vote only counts in the sense that it makes you complicit in the crimes inevitably committed by its recipient; and, of course, voting booths are merely suggestion boxes for slaves A libertarian political party is contradictory; ballots can't be cast to determine and uphold principles An encounter with SEK3, who wrote: http://agorism.info/docs/NewLibertarianManifesto.pdf Why don't we vote for whether or not extortion is permissible in society! if you could really change things through voting, it would be illegal; the coercive funding of government is the crux of the issue The end of "public property" spells the end of government, which is why people always bring up "the roads" argument--they sense the demise of mommy/daddy government if the roads are privatized The authoritarian triad of family, church, and state Give me Libertarianism by D. Allen Kerr http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20081015-NEWS-81015016 Live and let live; don't hit people and don't take their stuff Unrugged Individualism: The Selfish Basis of Benevolence by David Kelly http://theobjectivistcenter.org/showcontent.aspx?ct=38&h=51 Contested Legacy of Ayn Rand: Truth and Toleration in Objectivism by David Kelly http://books.google.com/books?id=C6x38zJL3ccC&dq=truth+and+toleration&source=gbs_summary_s&cad=0 (The rebuttal: FACT AND VALUE by Leonard Peikoff, Ph.D. http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer?pagename=objectivism_fv) Viable Values by Tara Smith

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