The Free Life | Wendy McElroy Posted August 16, 2011 on THE FREEMAN “Taking the Fifth” – invoking the right against self-incrimination – is a mainstay of mafia movies in which heinous criminals hide behind liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Today guarantees such as due process are often portrayed as encumbrances that threaten [...]
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Lost Wisdom: Gustav Cassel on Economic Planning
By Steve Horwitz: Posted on the Coordination Problem Blog Site. This is from a 1934 Cobden Memorial lecture of Gustav Cassel’s entitled “From Protectionism through Planned Economy to Dictatorship”: Planned economy will always tend to develop into Dictatorship…[because] experience has shown that representative bodies are unable to fulfill all the multitudinous functions connected with economic [...]
Posted in Socialism, Tyranny Also tagged Dictatorship, F. A. Hayek, Gustav Cassel, Planned Economy, Steve Horwitz Leave a comment
We Are No Longer a Nation of Laws. Senate Sets Up Requirement for Super-Majority to Ever Repeal Obamacare
The Senate Democrats declare a super-majority of senators will be needed to overrule any regulation imposed by the Death Panels Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile) Monday, December 21st at 10:15PM EST at Redstate.com If ever the people of the United States rise up and fight over passage of Obamacare, Harry Reid must be remembered as [...]
The Philosophical Ideas Behind Political Power And Tyranny – Part One
From the twelfth to the eighteenth century governmental authority grew continuously. The process was understood by all who saw it happening; it stirred them to incessant protest and violent reaction. In later times its growth has continued at an accelerated pace….And now we no longer understand the process, we no longer protest, we no longer [...]
The Essence of Freedom
Mises Daily by Robert Montgomery | Posted on 9/2/2009 12:00:00 AM When the news of young America’s novel design for living in freedom reached it, the Old World shook its head with profound skepticism. It would never work, they said. The idea was too “revolutionary,” too “progressive,” too “radical,” and certainly too “liberal.” The prevailing [...]
Posted in Classical Liberalism, Tyranny Also tagged Classical Liberalism, Freedom, Mises Institute, Robert Montgomery, The Freeman 1 Comment
Democracy As Pseudo-Savior
The road to the restoration of liberty is going to be long and fraught with ups and downs. Many don’t even know that our liberties are being usurped and that statism has arrived. Some don’t want to know because they are our “weaker brethren,” and they prefer to just “believe” everything will cruse along as [...]
Give Up? Are You Kidding?
B Y L AWRENCE W. R E E D These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is [...]
Tyranny From The Left Or Right Is Still Tyranny!
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 [...]
Posted in Tyranny Also tagged Chile, Communists, General Pinochet, Jack Lemmon, Jeffrey Tucker, Latin America, Mises Institute, Missing, Sissy Spacek, Wikipedia 1 Comment
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 [...]
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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 [...]
Posted in Constitutional Government, Tyranny Also tagged liberty, Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto, Mark Levin Leave a comment
