Tag: government aggression

Do This Before Politicians Make You Pay Your “Fair Share”

Via International Man

Fair share

Bloated governments around the world are faced with worsening fiscal conditions. Strapped for cash, they continue to squeeze every drop of wealth that’s within their reach through money printing and higher taxes. Today, we ask Jeff Thomas to weigh in on how to ensure you don’t become collateral damage in the next crisis.

International Man: We see this trend playing out around the world in the US, across Europe and in third world countries. Desperate governments are always in need of more capital. What does that mean for people who earn money and want to keep it?

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Censorship Tightens As Governments Lose Control

Guest Post by Tom Luongo

Governments have lost control of the narrative that they are in control of events. Everyday I wake up to another instance of outrageous censorship from some ‘social media’ company blocking or banning someone for no apparent reason.

The latest outrage is Twitter banning the account of Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange’s mother, Christine.

Australian and New Zealand ISPs have gone bonkers IP blocking sites in the wake of the Christchurch massacre. Sites like Zerohedge have been targeted in the past two weeks for publishing narratives orthogonal to what the governments in the West are comfortable with people consuming.

First it was Facebook, blocking and then unblocking Zerohedge with no apparent reasoning behind it. Now its ISP’s over-reacting to an emotional event ensuring that a good crisis never goes to waste.

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GOVERNMENT AGGRESSION

Via Being Libertarian

Above all else, the ideas of Liberty are rooted in the principle of non-aggression.

No one, (and that includes government) has the right to use aggressive violence against another individual’s person or property.

Violence should be legally reserved for self-defense only, and to repel an aggressor only.

Today, government is used *primarily* as an aggressor, with various factions jockeying to get in control of it.

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