The Fallacy of Relative Evil Posted on Mises Blog, April 23, 2009 10:00 AM by Jeffrey Tucker I finally saw Missing, a 1982 film about political violence in Chile, staring Jack Lemmon and Sissy Spacek. It won an Oscar, was nominated for many more, and won 8 other awards at various film festivals. It has [...]
Category Archives: Tyranny
Tyranny From The Left Or Right Is Still Tyranny!
Posted in Tyranny Tagged Chile, Communists, General Pinochet, Jack Lemmon, Jeffrey Tucker, Latin America, Mises Institute, Missing, Sissy Spacek, Tyranny, Wikipedia 1 Comment
The Goal Is Freedom
GOVERNMENT BIAS By Sheldon Richman • Published: 17 April 2009 on the Foundation For Economic Education Website. Sheldon Richman is the editor of The Freeman and “In brief.” He is a contributor to The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (“Fascism”). Anyone discussing social and economic problems with a hardcore free-market advocate hears a string of indictments [...]
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Tyranny And Abuse By Connecticut Attorney General! This Is Outrageous!
Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Attorney General is nailed in this interview with Glenn Beck on his abuse of power in going after the AIG bonuses. He admits that there has been no law broken, but, and this is the outrageous part, he says that “they (the AIG executives who got the bonuses) were undeserving of it [...]
Also posted in Constitutional Government, Individual Liberty, Socialism Tagged Abuse of the Law, Tyranny Leave a comment
Economic Freedom Is A Necessary (But Not Sufficient) Condition For Political Freedom: A Note From My Capitalism, Socialism, & Democracy Course
Posted by Dave Prychitko Considering both economic theory and the historical record, it is reasonable to believe that if a society tries to abolish the market economy it will find that it abolishes the wealth-generation and long-run growth that only a market system can provide, and, on top of that, it will become more undesirably [...]
Unconstrained By Constitutional Prohibitions, What Is Left To Limit The Statists?
“The Modern Liberal believes in the supremacy of the state,” writes Mark Levin, in his just released book, “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto,” he continues, “thereby rejecting the principles of the Declaration and the order of the civil society, in whole or part. For the Modern Liberal, the individual’s imperfection and personal pursuits impede [...]
Also posted in Constitutional Government Tagged liberty, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Mark Levin, Tyranny Leave a comment
The Black Book of Communism
The Black Book of Communism [Buy it Here] Of the tens of thousands of books on the communist experience, this one resource stands out above all the rest—a massive and fitting epitaph for a totalitarian and bloodthirsty theory that killed one hundred million people in the 20th century. The historians writing in this 850-page book [...]
“This Isn’t Socialism Where Headed To, But It May Very Well Be the Other 20th Century “ism”
For Freedom’s Sake was launched with a commitment to bring our readers the best and most thoughtful analysis which will help you navigate through the fog of the political rhetoric that obfuscates the loss of our freedoms as government, of any stripe, encroaches upon them. In that vein, I must recommend that you read Dr. [...]
Also posted in Dictatorship, Socialism Tagged F. A. Hayek, Ludwig Von Mesis, Nazi Germany, Omnipotent Government, Peter Boettke, Socialism, The Road to Serfdom Leave a comment
“You May Get Medical Care or You May Not…It May Not Be Your Choice”
The dangers of socialized medicine are real and your choices will be limited. To see just how dangerous health care reform is, that was hidden in the stimulus bill, see, “Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan,” a commentary by Betsy McCaughey posted February 9th on Bloomberg.com. The details are, to say the least, [...]
A Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty
By Lawrence W. Reed, President of Foundation for Economic Education For Freedom’s Sake is announcing our first in what we hope to be an inspiring series of articles and posts on the men and women who heralded the ideas of liberty and/or survived tyranny and lived to tell their stories for which we may be [...]
