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Liberator Online, Volume 5, Number 17
September 15, 2000

Contents     President's Corner     What's Happening with the Advocates
Ongoing opportunities     Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News
Ask Dr. Ruwart     Advertisements     Persuasion Power Point    Product Review


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In This Issue:

Drug-smuggling submarine signals that the Drug War is a lost
    cause; Kids must get license to play with toy guns; Startling
    new survey finds *millions* of libertarians; New FAQ tells
    all about World's Smallest Political Quiz; Mary Ruwart on (1)
    whether free market banking will cause another Great
    Depression, and (2) if libertarians want to bring back child
    labor, sweat shops, and all-powerful monopolies; Beep-beep -
    Michael Cloud tells why Big Government is Wile E. Coyote and
    libertarians are Road Runners; a FREE tape offer...

    All this and *much much more* in the world's largest
    libertarian email newsletter

The Liberator Online
Volume 5, Number 17
Circulation: 46,447 in 91 countries

 

 

CONTENTS

PRESIDENT'S CORNER
* Millions of Libertarians!

WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
* New Quiz FAQ, libertarian cruise... and much more

GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* Drug Submarine Proves Folly of War on Drugs
* Kids Must Get Licenses for Toy Guns
* Born to Regulate
* The U.S. Drug War Gulag

ASK DR. RUWART
* Return to the era of sweat shops and child labor?
* Libertarian-style free-market banking: fraud, chaos, and
lost savings?

PERSUASION POWER POINT
* Big Government As Wile E. Coyote
by Michael Cloud

PRODUCT REVIEW
* "All That Glitters" by Michael Cloud - FREE with any
order from our online catalog!

 

PRESIDENT'S CORNER

Dear friends,

    Millions of libertarians!

    Millions of Americans who agree with us on even the hardest
    issues!

    New credibility for the World's Smallest Political Quiz and
    for the idea of a more inclusive political map!

    That's just *some* of the great news we received in a big
    breakthrough last week. Here's the gist of it.

    Rasmussen Research is one of the world's leading polling
    firms. On September 7 Rasmussen announced they had used the
    Advocates' "World's Smallest Political Quiz" in a
    non-commissioned scientific poll of a broad cross-section of
    likely American voters.

    This was the first time the Quiz had been administered by a
    professional pollster. Breakthrough!

    Remember, the World's Smallest Political Quiz isn't a
    softcore "everybody scores libertarian" trick. It asks ten
    questions on serious political issues, including taxes, drug
    laws, immigration, business subsidies, minimum wage laws,
    foreign aid and more. To score even moderately libertarian on
    the Quiz, you've got to have more in common with libertarians
    than with any other political group. And to score high in the
    libertarian sector, you've virtually got to be libertarian.

    That's why the results of this poll are so exciting.

    *Rasmussen found that fully 16% of "likely American voters"
    scored in the Libertarian sector of the Quiz.* That's more
    than scored Liberal (13%) or Conservative (7%). (32% scored
    Centrist, 14% Authoritarian, and 17% fell on the borders of
    the different categories.)

    And more good news: millions of Americans agree with
    libertarians even on some of the "hardest" issues.

    Consider:
      * 28% said they agreed with the Quiz statement: "Drug laws
        do more harm than good and should be repealed."
      * 30% said they agreed with the Quiz statement: "All
        foreign aid should be privately funded."
      * 42% agreed that "Businesses and farms should operate
        without government subsidies."
      * 36% agreed that "We should end taxes. Pay for government
        services with user fees."
      * 28% agreed that "People should be free to come and go
        across borders; to live and work where they choose."

    This is exciting! Clearly, millions of people are already
    libertarian or libertarian-leaning.

    And now, here's our challenge. Rasmussen found that, though
    16% of Americans scored Libertarian on the Quiz, *only 2% use
    the word "libertarian" to describe their views.*

    Our job: reach these people! Let them know there's a
    philosophy, a label, a movement that reflects their views and
    is working for the values they hold dear.

    What an opportunity!

    Let the Advocates' array of tools, techniques, programs,
    publications, and other activities help you reach these
    millions with our message in a positive, persuasive way.

                             Learn More

    For the whole exciting story about the Rasmussen Quiz poll,
    read "Libertarian Litmus Test" at Rasmussen's Web site:

    A request: While there, please take just a moment to THANK
    Rasmussen for doing this! Just click on "FEEDBACK" and tell
    them, in your own words, that you appreciate their using the
    Quiz. That you are delighted to see them recognize that
    libertarians are a big part of the American political scene,
    and there is more to politics than just liberal vs.
    conservative. Tell them you hope they'll continue to use the
    Quiz.

    We're so often critical of pollsters for ignoring us. When a
    leading company gives us this kind of attention, they deserve
    our praise - and enough praise may let them know there's a
    large constituency out there for this kind of approach.

    Thank you! Enjoy this issue of the Liberator Online.

    Sharon Harris, President

    PS: If you like Michael Cloud's column this issue - "Why Big
    Government is Wile E. Coyote" - you'll be delighted to learn
    that it's an excerpt from an exceptional speech of his
    entitled "All That Glitters," full of similar wisdom, insight
    and humor.

    We're offering that tape absolutely FREE with any order from
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    issue for details on this offer.

    Thank you!
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WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES

* New Quiz FAQ: Who created the World's Smallest Political
    Quiz? When and where? What does your Quiz score mean? The
    Advocates has created a huge new FAQ ("Frequently Answered
    Questions") to answer many of the most common questions about
    the history and theory of the Quiz. It's still in draft mode,
    but we rushed it online in response to the surge of interest
    in the Quiz generated by the Rasmussen Poll. (Details on that
    poll are in the President's Corner, above.) You can get to
    the FAQ by clicking here: http://www.self-gov.org/wspq.html.

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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS

by James W. Harris

Drug Submarine Proves Folly of War on Drugs

    Wednesday, September 6, 2000 should go down in history as the
    date that everyone finally realized the War on Drugs will
    never, ever work.

    On that date, police in Colombia stumbled onto a half-built
    submarine - being assembled for drug smugglers.

    The sub was found in a warehouse outside the capitol, Bogota
    - 7,500 feet up in the Andes Mountain. Fully 210 miles from
    the nearest seaport.

    The sub was 100 feet long, extremely strong, and very
    high-tech. Finished, it would have been capable of crossing
    entire oceans, submerging fully 100 meters under the surface,
    and rising anywhere to drop off up to 200 tons of cocaine.

    Even the Colombian navy admits it lacks the expertise to
    build a sub of such quality. A Navy expert described it as
    "unmistakably of superb naval construction." Clues indicate
    Russian engineers may have been involved, and Americans as
    well.

    Even veteran Drug Warriors were stunned at the discovery.
    Smugglers have used passenger ships, planes and tunnels to
    smuggle drugs... but no one had ever suspected something like
    this. The warehouse was empty, and no arrests were made.

    The tremendous profits of drug smuggling - a result of Drug
    Prohibition, of course - have created the incentive for such
    innovations, and provide the funding. And as long as Drug
    Prohibition continues, there will be huge profits to be made
    from meeting that demand... and people willing to go to
    extraordinary lengths to make the extraordinary profits.

    (Source: Associated Press, September 8 2000)

Kids Must Get Licenses for Toy Guns

    It sounds like something out of a parody of political
    correctness. But it's real.

    Kids as young as four in New Zealand are being forced to
    apply for "licenses" before being allowed to play with toy
    guns.

    The idea started at a kindergarten in Nelson, South Island.
    And, according to London's Daily Telegraph newspaper, the
    idea is "spreading rapidly."

    Upon applying to school officials for the license, children
    are asked questions. They must tell why they want the toy
    gun. If they say they want to "shoot" endangered animals,
    they are lectured on why this cannot be done. If they want to
    play cops and robbers, they are told that New Zealand police
    are generally unarmed, so shooting is forbidden. Acceptable
    uses include: euthanasia of an injured horse, and hunting
    possums (regarded as a pest in New Zealand). Sounds like a
    lot of fun, doesn't it?

    Before being granted a license, children must also learn
    rules about guns. "The first rule is that you never point a
    gun at anybody," says the teacher who conceived the plan.

    If granted the license, children must carry it on their
    person when they play games involving guns. According to the
    Daily Telegraph, "Police have given the scheme their tacit
    approval."

    (Source: The Daily Telegraph, London)

Born to Regulate

    Marthe Kent is director of the Occupational Safety and Health
    Administration [OSHA] safety standards program and heads
    OSHA's controversial ergonomics program.

    In an interview in May in the trade journal of the American
    Industrial Hygiene Association, Kent gushed ecstatically
    about her destiny to control others, and the sheer
    intoxicating thrill of exercising that power:

    "I absolutely love it. I was born to regulate. I don't know
    why, but that's very true. So as long as I'm regulating, I'm
    happyIf you put out a reg, it matters. I think that's really
    where the thrill comes from. And it is a thrill; it's a
    high."

    (Source: News of the Weird; thanks to Christopher Burleson)

The U.S. Drug War Gulag

    A study by the Justice Policy Institute (JPI) reports that
    the United State has almost 500,000 of its citizens
    incarcerated on non-violent drug charges. The study is
    entitled "Poor Prescription: The Costs of Imprisoning Drug
    Offenders in the United States."

    The study estimates that there are 458,131 non-violent drug
    offenders behind bars in the U.S. For perspective, that is
    far more than the entire prison population of the European
    Union *for all crimes combined* (356,626) -- and the EU has
    100 million more citizens than the U.S.

    While the U.S. has only 5% of the world's population, it has
    25% of the total number of prisoners in the entire world -
    two million of the eight million prisoners worldwide. The
    Drug War plays a major role in this.

    Of the almost $40 billion the U.S. will spend on prisons and
    jails in the year 2000, $9.4 billion is to imprison those
    458,131 nonviolent drug offenders.

    There are astounding racial disparities. Black Americans are
    being imprisoned for drug offenses at a rate 14 times that of
    white Americans. The numbers are even worse for young drug
    offenders. Young whites are incarcerated at a rate of 30 per
    100,000; young blacks 511 per 100,000. (1996 figures.)

    Every year since 1988, the number of drug offenders
    imprisoned has exceeded the number of violent offenders
    behind bars.

    (Sources: Justice Policy Institute; Drug Policy Foundation)

Conservatives on Drug Legalization

      "it is our judgment that the war on drugs has failed, that
      it is diverting intelligent energy away from how to deal
      with the problem of addiction, that it is wasting our
      resources, and that it is encouraging civil, judicial, and
      penal procedures associated with police states. We all
      agree on movement towards legalization, even though we may
      differ on just how far."

      -- the editors of America's leading conservative magazine
      (founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), National Review,
      February 12, 1996.

    * * *

    "Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News" writer James W.
    Harris is co-editor of the Liberator Online. His articles
    have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including
    The Nation, Reason, The Freeman, the National Taxpayers
    Union's Dollars and Sense, the Atlanta Constitution, and many
    more. He has been a Finalist in the Mencken Awards, given by
    the Free Press Association for "Outstanding Journalism in
    Support of Liberty."


 

ASK DR. RUWART

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How can you answer difficult questions about libertarianism
    -- in short, positive, persuasive soundbite-sized responses?
    It's a challenge every libertarian communicator faces.

    Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian
    communication and author of the international bestseller
    "Healing Our World." Her new book is "Short Answers to the
    Tough Questions." In this column she provides Liberator
    Online readers with "Short Answers to the Tough Questions"
    that libertarians are frequently asked.

    If you'd like Dr. Ruwart to provide effective answers for
    YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian issues, just email the
    questions to her at: mailto:ruwart@self-gov.org. *Due to
    volume, Dr. Ruwart can't personally answer or acknowledge all
    email queries.* But we'll run the best questions -- and Dr.
    Ruwart's answers -- in upcoming issues.

    Extra Tip: Dr. Ruwart suggests that answers are often best
    preceded by a "Ransberger Pivot" statement, to establish
    common ground with the questioner. (Example: "Like you, I too
    want to live in a world where the environment is clean...
    Like you, I too want to see greater abundance for all
    people...") For more on the Ransberger Pivot communication
    technique, see previous issues, or contact the Advocates.

    Dr. Ruwart's past answers are archived in searchable form at


    * * *

Return to the era of sweat shops and child labor?

    "I watched a bit of the Libertarian national convention on
    C-SPAN the other day. I was shocked that libertarians propose
    getting rid of Social Security and Public Education. I'm
    sorry but... have you people ever studied history? One
    hundred years ago sweat shops and factories working child
    laborers over 18 hours a day were commonplace -- just like in
    Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle! There was also
    blacklisting, company stores, tenement dwellings, etc. A
    total libertarian-type of system would promote a brief period
    of very intense competition, but once winners were
    established, those winners would use their power and
    influence to change the rules in order to maintain their
    status in the market. They also could establish a monopoly on
    schools and turn them into a place of indoctrination. It's
    why we have anti-trust laws today! A simplistic analogy would
    be a football game without officials and rules."

    My short answer:

    "History does indeed remind us that child sweat-shop labor
    was common in the 1800s. History also shows us why.

    "In the 1800s, wealth was created slowly. Most of the
    population, children included, spent the better part of their
    lives working just to survive. Childhood, as we know it
    today, didn't exist for most people. In rural areas, even
    children of four or five years had chores to do. Their very
    survival often depended upon their participation in the
    family's earnings.

    "Eventually, industrialization helped us to create wealth
    rapidly. Eighteen-hour days, the rural standard, gradually
    turned into today's 8-hour standard with adults becoming the
    family's sole support. A non-working childhood, as we know it
    today, was born.

    "An interim step in this transition was the 10-12 hour
    factory day for both children and adults. We won't return to
    this situation unless we limit the creation of wealth.
    Studies show that the greatest single factor limiting wealth
    creation today is government intervention in the economy
    (e.g., Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World
    Report, 1997). The poverty of the Third World is directly
    attributable to this government intervention. Children in
    these poor nations often must prostitute themselves just to
    survive. Business has been so strangled by government that
    sweat shops, benign by comparison, frequently aren't an
    option.

    "Government programs, even well-meaning ones like Social
    Security and public education, are wasteful. Their
    inefficient intervention in the economy decreases wealth
    creation, thereby jeopardizing the welfare of our children.

    "Without government intervention, monopolies are rare.
    Rockefeller gained 90% of the market by producing high
    quality oil at a price that the masses could afford. However,
    only a few years later, competitors, who were willing to sell
    for even less, captured a large part of his market. Antitrust
    action, which came decades afterwards, simply wasted taxpayer
    dollars. For details, see Chapter 7 of my book, Healing Our
    World, available as a free download at http://www.ruwart.com.

    "If this 'history' doesn't match what you learned in school,
    remember that today's government has a monopoly on what is
    taught. Children are forced to attend a school which meets
    government standards, including approved textbooks. You
    wouldn't expect such schools to teach you the benefits of
    freedom -- you'd expect them to indoctrinate children into
    thinking that Big Brother knows best.

    "Check out the research for yourself. That way, you can't be
    manipulated into supporting and voting for the very things
    that you despise."

    * * *

Wouldn't libertarian-style free-market banking result in fraud, chaos,
and lost savings?

    Question:

    "How would the monetary policies of a libertarian nation be
    controlled? Before the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the New
    Deal, there were runs on bank, banks that failed and thus
    lost their depositors' savings, and everyone could print
    their own money. How would the banking system remain stable?
    Would we revert to the chaos of the 1800s?"

    My short answer:

    "Contrary to popular opinion, chaos in the banking system is
    usually caused by central banking (e.g., Federal Reserve) and
    regulatory bodies (e.g., FDIC). Problems in the U.S. during
    the 1800s were largely a result of state regulations
    requiring banks to hold part of their reserves in government
    bonds. When a run on the bank occurred, these reserves could
    only be liquidated at a loss.

    "Scotland, which had free (unregulated) banking until 1845,
    had fewer problems. Each bank issued its own currency, which
    was accepted by other banks only when it wasn't inflated
    excessively. Thus, each bank was 'regulated' by its
    competition and the personal liability of bank owners. Banks
    informally insured each other's deposits by covering them if
    a competing bank went under. In this way, banks kept the
    confidence of the Scottish people.

    "Canada had a similar system in place during the Great
    Depression, so Canadians lost only 3% of what U.S. depositors
    did. The Depression was caused by the Federal Reserve, which
    was established in 1913. The Fed allowed banks to inflate
    their currency excessively, which led to bankruptcies when
    depositors tried to recover their cash.

    "A libertarian society would have a system similar to that of
    Scotland in the early 1800s and Canada in the 1920s. As a
    result, we'd have safer banking and less chaos.

    "You might wonder why free (unregulated) banking was
    abandoned and central banking established, if free banking
    worked so well. Central banking allows governments to inflate
    currency, thereby levying an invisible tax on their people
    and giving great profits to banking interests. Of course,
    you'd hardly expect government-run schools to share this
    secret.

    "For more detail, see the chapter 'Banking on Aggression'" in
    my book, Healing Our World. You can download it free from my
    website at http://www.ruwart.com."

    * * *

Should the U.S government forcibly open foreign markets?

    Question:

    "Do you think it is appropriate for the US government to use
    its power to open foreign markets to US companies? I'm
    thinking in particular of how a few years ago we almost had a
    trade war with Japan because Japan wouldn't open its domestic
    car market to US manufacturers. What do you think about this
    issue?"

    My short answer:

    "Individuals should be free to trade -- or not trade -- as
    they choose, without government interference or tariffs. If
    American consumers feel they benefit from buying inexpensive
    Japanese goods, they should do so freely. If our government
    puts tariffs on Japanese cars because Japan won't buy
    American, we hurt ourselves as a nation of consumers to
    'protect' a few auto workers. These tariffs force us to pay
    more for cars, so we have less money to spend on other
    things. Production of these other things goes down, and the
    Americans producing them lose their jobs. In the end,
    protectionist measures put some Americans out of work so that
    others (e.g. auto workers) can make more."

    (See also the last third of Chapter 18 in my book, "Healing
    Our World" for more details.)

    * * *

    Dr. Ruwart's book "Healing Our World" features persuasive
    arguments for liberty, backed with *over 500 references*
    showing how liberty works. You can browse the entire book
    online at: http://www.ruwart.com/Healing/

    You can order it at a special reduced price of only $12.95
    (plus shipping) from the Advocates. Check out our online

    Dr. Ruwart's newest book is "Short Answers to the Tough
    Questions," also available from the Advocates for $12.00
    (plus shipping).
      ________________________________________________________

 

 

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PERSUASION POWER POINT

Big Government As Wile E. Coyote

    by Michael Cloud

    Ever watch Road Runner cartoons?

    They explain the secret of government.

    Road Runner is the Free Market. Road Runner moves fast and
    fends for himself.

    He's self-reliant. An individualist. He doesn't interfere
    with others. He's free...as a bird.

    Wile E. Coyote is Big Government. Wile E. Coyote wants to
    live off Road Runner.

    Acme Products are Big Government programs.

    Every episode, Wile E. Coyote unveils a brilliant new Acme
    Product to get the Road Runner. Acme Products have great
    blueprints and schematics and seem foolproof.

    Every episode, the brilliant new Acme Product fails, smashes,
    crashes, explodes, careens, short-circuits, jams, and
    collapses. Wile E. Coyote is folded, spindled, mutilated, and
    crushed by the Acme Product. Usually after the hapless coyote
    falls half a mile into a ravine.

    Wile E. Coyote is hopelessly optimistic that the next Acme
    Product will get Road Runner. In spite of the fact that every
    Acme Product ever built has failed to get the bird.

    Acme Products makes huge profits selling these impossible
    schemes and unworkable products to a Coyote too dumb to
    notice that he never gets Road Runner - and always gets
    smashed by the new Acme Product.

    Wile E. Coyote is spending a fortune buying the next Acme
    Product. A tax-funded fortune. For an Acme Product and Coyote
    that will fail and fall on us.

    Meanwhile, Road Runner eludes and evades, outruns and
    outsmarts Wile E. Coyote and the new Acme Product.

    If the Coyote realized that Acme doesn't work, he might stop
    wasting our money...and maybe even stop bugging Road Runner.

    The folks working at Acme could do something productive.

    Road Runner could run farther and faster - and maybe even
    safely stop for birdseed now and then.

    Road Runner will never be safe until he permanently shuts
    down Acme Products -- and demands that Wile E. Coyote keeps
    his hands off Roadrunners.

    Next time someone proposes a new government program, next
    time someone calls for continuing to support and sustain a
    government program, remember Wile E. Coyote, label it "Acme
    Products" and answer...

    "Beep-Beep."

    

 

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