It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. Murray Rothbard

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The distinguishing characteristic of human beings is that all humans act. Action is purposeful behavior directed toward the attainment of ends in some future period which will involve the fulfillment of wants otherwise remaining unsatisfied. Action in­volves the expectation of a less imperfectly satisfied state as a result of the action. The individual actor chooses to employ elements in his environment as means to the expected achievement of his ends, economizing them by directing them toward his most valued ends (leaving his least valued ones unsatisfied), and in the ways that his reason tells him are most appropriate to attain these ends. His method—his chosen means—may or may not turn out to be in­appropriate. Murray Rothbard (Man, Economy, & State)
Tags: austrian economics 15 notes | | Apr 26, 2012
The vital command posts invariably owned monopolistically by the State are: (1) Police and military protection; (2) judicial protection; (3) monopoly of the mint (and monopoly of defining money); (4) rivers and coastal seas; (5) urban streets and highways, and land generally (unused land, in addition to the power of eminent domain); and (6) the post office. The defense function is the one reserved most jealously by the State. It is vital to the State’s existence, for on its monopoly of force depends its ability to exact taxes from the citizens. If citizens were permitted privately owned courts and armies, then they would possess the means to defend themselves against invasive acts by the government as well as by private individuals. Murray Rothbard, The Myth of Efficient Government Service (via iambinarymind)

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aheadfullofempty: Feel free to remove this caption when reblogging, but I just want to say, I’ve met Jeremy during my time in Chicago - he’s a fucking dedicated anarchist and anti-racist, a great contributor to radical/anarchist tech and computer security, and a bassist in an awesome band. Or, he would be, if he weren’t being held in prison. He was arrested less than a week ago by the FBI. I would appreciate it if people spread this around.

aheadfullofempty:

Feel free to remove this caption when reblogging, but I just want to say, I’ve met Jeremy during my time in Chicago - he’s a fucking dedicated anarchist and anti-racist, a great contributor to radical/anarchist tech and computer security, and a bassist in an awesome band. Or, he would be, if he weren’t being held in prison. He was arrested less than a week ago by the FBI. I would appreciate it if people spread this around.

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Securing your mobile web browsing

agoristmike:

I don’t know if you’re like me, but I’m a sucker for easy to implement encryption. (Okay, I do my share of difficult to implement as well…) ANYHOW. Because of the large privacy issues that center around the use of Google in our daily lives I long ago switched my search engine to Duck Duck Go. Which has been serving me excellently in my preferred browser Opera. But as Anarchyagogo kindly pointed out, I was still using google search on my android phone. Enter the Duck Duck Go android app. Combined with the Tor app and Orweb a companion proxy-enable browser, this provides security and anonymity from the onset of your mobile internet usage. None of these apps require Rooting your device, and they are from noteworthy privacy advocates whom you can trust. 

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Tags: security opsec 10 notes | | Mar 11, 2012
No war with Iran.

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26 notes | | Feb 18, 2012
Even in the unlikely event that the balanced budget amendment should ever pass, it would be ludicrous in its lack of effect. In the first place, Congress can override the amendment at any time by three-fifths vote. Secondly, Congress is not required to actually balance any budget; that is, its actual expenditures in any given year are not limited to the revenues taken in. Instead, Congress is only required to prepare an estimate of a balanced budget for a future year; and of course, government estimates, even of its own income or spending, are notoriously unreliable. And third, there is no enforcement clause; suppose Congress did violate even the requirement for an estimated balanced budget: What is going to happen to the legislators? Is the Supreme Court going to summon marshals and put the entire U.S. Congress in jail? And yet, not only has Reagan been pushing for such an absurd amendment, but so too have many helpful Reaganomists. Murray Rothbard (via citizens-concerned)
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SOPA and PIPA Fully Alive – And a New Bill Joins Them

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Don’t lose hope. If it’s being shelved and edited there’s still time to make Congress do the smart thing and consult people who actually know how the internet works.

They’re probably hoping the hype will die down and they’ll be able to quietly do whatever they want, which will inevitably be a huge problem for all of us. Don’t let it. Keep up with what’s happening and keep pestering your congresspeople.

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Tags: rothbard me anarchy anarchism Anarchist Agorism black market free market 84 notes | | Jan 9, 2012
The widespread attack on technology is even more irresponsible. If technology were to be rolled back to the “tribe” and to the preindustrial era, the result would be mass starvation and death on a universal scale. The vast majority of the world’s population is dependent for its very survival on modern technology and industry. The North American continent was able to accommodate approximately one million Indians in the days before Columbus, all living on a subsistence level. It is now able to accommodate several hundred million people, all living at an infinitely higher living standard—and the reason is modern technology and industry. Abolish the latter and we will abolish the people as well. For all one knows, to our fanatical antipopulationists this “solution” to the population question may be a good thing, but for the great majority of us, this would be a draconian “final solution” indeed. Murray Rothbard (via blistexfan)
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