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Liberator Online, Volume 9, Number 11
June 23, 2004
In This Issue:
The surprise libertarian moment in this week's
private space travel triumph.…. Supreme Court takes ominous step closer to
national ID.…. The acclaimed "Jim Morrison of comics" is an
outspoken libertarian.…. Exciting new book by Michael Cloud now available.….
New: "Art of Libertarian Persuasion" seminars now scheduled across
America!.…. Neal Boortz sends *thousands* to take the World's Smallest
Political Quiz -- in one day.….Mary Ruwart is asked how we should deal with
foreign threats, and if the free market is responsible for sweatshops and brutal
child labor...... Michael Cloud explores Harry Browne's Futilitarian Argument
Against Government.....
All this and *much much more* in the world’s
largest-circulation libertarian publication...
THE LIBERATOR ONLINE
June 23, 2004
Vol. 9, No. 11
Circulation: 63,992 subscribers in over 100 countries
Published by the Advocates for Self-Government
Edited by James W. Harris, mailto:james@TheAdvocates.org
Created by Paul Schmidt and James W. Harris
___________________________________________
"The World's Smallest Political Quiz is the
single best outreach tool we libertarians have!"
-- George Getz, Libertarian Party press secretary
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CONTENTS
PRESIDENT’S CORNER
* "Art of Libertarian Persuasion"
seminars scheduled across America
* Michael Cloud's brand-new book Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion
WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
* Neal Boortz sends *thousands* to World's
Smallest Political Quiz
...and more news and exciting opportunities for libertarians!
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* Paul Pope: Libertarian Comic Book Creator
Extraordinaire
* Supreme Court Limits Right to Silence, Moves Closer to National ID
* First Private Space Venture Ends with Surprise Libertarian Message
* Heinlein: "The best thing about space travel..."
ASK DR. RUWART
* How do we deal with foreign threats?
* Is the free market responsible for sweatshops and brutal child labor?
PERSUASION POWER POINT #165
* Harry Browne's Futilitarian Argument Against Government
by Michael Cloud
PRODUCT REVIEW
* "Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion" by Michael Cloud. Brand-new book
published by the Advocates!
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PRESIDENT’S CORNER
Dear friends,
I'm excited to announce that the Advocates'
acclaimed "The Art of Libertarian Persuasion" seminar will be coming
to nine major cities across America between July and October!
This seminar -- which teaches libertarians how to
become more convincing, compelling communicators -- has received rave reviews
from attendees. This enthusiastic response has encouraged us to make it
available to more people than ever before.
And if you register now, you can enjoy big
savings -- up to $100 off admission! -- with our Early Bird discounts. (More on
this below.)
The weekend-long seminars will give you the
opportunity to learn communication skills that you can put to use at once.
You'll learn the very best ways to communicate the ideas of liberty from experts
who have spent decades learning and teaching exactly that. This is especially
useful in this election year, a time when Americans are more open than any other
time to learning about new political ideas.
Here's the schedule:
* Arlington, Virginia (July 31-August 1)
* Denver, Colorado (August 7-8)
* Los Angeles, California (August 21-22)
* Dallas, Texas (August 28-29)
* Framingham, Mass. (September 18-19)
* Seattle, Washington (September 25-26)
* Columbus, Ohio (October 2-3)
* San Francisco, California (October 16-17)
* San Diego, California (October 23-24)
For more information about "The Art of
Libertarian Persuasion" seminars, or to register, call (800) 932-1776. Or
visit: www.TheAdvocates.org/seminars.htm
The seminars will be hosted by Michael Cloud.
Michael is a pioneer in the field of teaching powerful libertarian communication
-- he's been doing this for three decades. He's an acknowledged master. We're
excited to bring his expertise to libertarians around the country.
Guest presenters joining Michael at different
seminars are: Harry Browne (two-time Libertarian Party presidential candidate),
Mary Ruwart (author, Healing Our World), Bill Winter (past editor, LP News, now
Director of Communication for the Advocates), and Carla Howell (chair, Committee
for Small Government). I'll be a presenter at many of the seminars, as well --
and I hope to see many of you there!
You'll learn a veritable treasure chest of
powerful, proven communication techniques. How to avoid common communication
mistakes; how to make people more receptive to libertarian ideas; how to give
the best libertarian answer to questions; how to open closed minds; how to use
"Intellectual Judo" against big-government supporters; how to answer
common objections to libertarianism; how to give more effective speeches; and
much more.
The seminar is fast-paced and intensive,
exhilarating and inspiring. You'll improve your communication skills almost
immediately -- and you'll have fun, too.
The seminars will be especially helpful to
candidates, party spokespeople, letter-to-the-editor and op-ed writers, media
coordinators, and outreach activists. In fact, anyone who wants to persuade
others to embrace libertarian ideas will benefit immensely. Whether you're
brand-new to libertarianism or have been a libertarian for decades, you will
leave this seminar a far more effective, persuasive "salesperson" for
the ideas of liberty.
The seminars are scheduled to run from 9:00
am-6:30 pm on Saturdays, and 9:00 am-3:30 pm on Sundays. Again, for more
information about "The Art of Libertarian Persuasion" seminars, or to
register, call (800) 932-1776. Or visit:
www.TheAdvocates.org/seminars.htm
EARLY BIRD SAVINGS OF $100: Admission for
"The Art of Libertarian Persuasion" seminar is $250 at the door.
However, for those who sign up for ANY seminar by midnight July 15 the price is
only $150! Please take advantage of this limited-time offer!
www.TheAdvocates.org/seminars.htm
* * *
New Michael Cloud Book!
"Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion" is
Michael Cloud's long-awaited new book. I'm proud to announce it is published and
distributed exclusively by the Advocates.
It's a wonderful book, an intriguing mixture of
inspiration, libertarian arguments, and outreach nuts-and-bolts wisdom. There's
nothing else like it.
I'm tempted to say a lot more about it, but
instead I'll just direct you to the Product Review at the end of this issue,
where we've provided more details and ordering information.
Or if you already know you want it, you can order
it here:
http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator-online-special.html
* * *
Welcome to 227 new Liberator Online subscribers
this issue. Thanks for joining our subscription "family" of over
60,000 liberty-loving readers in over 100 countries!
Enjoy this issue of the Liberator Online.
-- Sharon Harris, President mailto:sharon@TheAdvocates.org
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WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE
ADVOCATES
* Boortz Boosts Quiz -- Thousands Respond: In his
Townhall.com column, national talk radio star (and libertarian) Neal Boortz
wrote: "There’s a Quiz located on the Internet which helps people figure
out if they may, in fact, be more libertarian than conservative or centrist. The
Washington Post has said that this quiz “has gained respect as a valid measure
of a person’s political leanings.” Take the test. See where you stand."
Boortz gave the URL of the World's Smallest Political Quiz. The result? TEN
THOUSAND Quiz takers in 24 hours -- almost three times our current daily
average! Thousands of people were exposed to the unique libertarian resources at
our site. Neal is a longtime friend of the Quiz and the Advocates. Thanks, Neal
-- for once again helping thousands of people learn more about libertarianism.
* Want to quickly learn the basics of
libertarianism -- from some of the best minds in the liberty movement? Want to
help a friend quickly learn about libertarianism? Check out Libertarianism.com,
from the Advocates:
http://www.Libertarianism.com
* Communication Bargain of the Century: You can
get the great 3-tape audio course "The Essence of Political
Persuasion" from us at the GIVE-AWAY price of only $7.50 - that price
includes handling and First Class mail so you’ll get it right away! We’ve
put over 6,000 sets into the hands of libertarian activists in the past few
years! To order, call us or see:
http://www.theadvocates.org/epp-redirect.html
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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS,
UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
by James W. Harris
Paul Pope: Libertarian Comic Book Creator
Extraordinaire
Paul Pope is a world-renowned comic book writer
and artist, fast becoming a pop culture icon. Indeed, in 2002 GEAR Magazine puts
Pope at # 11 in their annual TOP 100 list of "the most exciting people,
places, and things on the planet," calling him "one of the most
consistently inventive comics artists of his generation." In France he's
been called "the Jim Morrison of comics."
He's a leader in the growing effort to push
comics forward as an art form as worthy of respect as music, film, novels and
poetry. As Pope says: "The art form of comics itself, like all others, is
elastic, open-ended, and expansive. The comics medium has the power to contain
and express all human thought, feeling, and experience."
Publisher's Weekly has noted that Pope is
"the rare comics artist who can move between the opposing worlds of
self-published, underground comix and mainstream, commercial comics, always
producing personal works of imagination with extraordinary graphic skill."
Pope has put his own unmistakable spin on such
classic comic book characters as Batman, Spiderman, the X-Men, and Captain
America. He has also self-published his own critically-acclaimed non-superhero
comics including the surrealist/science fiction series, THB. Pope's graphic
novel Heavy Liquid, a science fiction noir tale, made Publisher's Weekly list of
the Top 100 Books Of 2001.
And how about this for libertarian coolness? In
1998 Pope wrote and drew a remarkable "what if?' story in "The Batman
Chronicles" comic book. Pope imagined "the Berlin Batman" (by day
Baruch Wane, wealthy Jewish artist in 1930s Berlin). This German anti-Nazi
version of the Caped Crusader speaks admiringly of... the great libertarian
economist Ludwig von Mises! The Berlin Batman attempts to stop the confiscation
of Mises' papers by the Nazis (a real-life tragedy). Batman says this about
Mises: "I once met him, and I've read his work. He's a brave man to oppose
the party in these barren times." And at the end of the story, Robin
writes: "Ludwig von Mises escaped to the United States when the Nazis
ransacked his apartment in 1938...Von Mises was working on a new book which
challenged Nazi social and economic policies. They slowed him down, but they
couldn't stop him. He continued work on a book which was eventually published in
'49, called 'Human Action', now considered one of the great libertarian works of
our times… Von Mises' anti-authoritarian ideas were first a threat to the
Nazis, then the Soviets, and to all increasingly regulatory governments in our
own times. He was against socialism in all its many forms. He was an advocate of
individual liberty, free speech, and free thinking..."
Surely one of the great libertarian moments in
comics history!
In a 1995 interview for the online comics site
The Podium, Pope stated his political views in no uncertain terms:
"I'm against all anti-liberal, autocratic,
authoritarian forms of government, including fascism and socialism, all of which
are essentially the same thing in the end -- slavery and death.
"I'm a libertarian, or 'classical liberal',
and that means I'm in favor of freedom of speech and of the press. I believe in
private property and its necessity for a prosperous and safe economy, and I'm
against censorship, taxation, public schools, welfare (another form of
taxation), military aggression, and all tax-subsidized institutions and
organizations…. I'm not a right-winger and I'm not a left-winger. I consider
the right and left both to represent the same thing -- government control."
Paul Pope is one of the latest additions to our
ever-growing "Libertarian Celebrities and VIPs" Web page. You can
check out others at the site:
http://theadvocates.org/celebrities.html
(Sources: Paul Pope's web site:
http://www.paulpope.com
The Podium interview:
http://members.aol.com/podium1/pope.html
* * *
Supreme Court Limits Right to Silence, Moves
Closer to National ID
"Your papers, please." In movies, that
chilling demand from government agents is always a giveaway that they are tools
of an oppressive state.
The U.S. took an ominous step in that direction
this week, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government can arrest and
punish people whose only "crime" is a refusal to give police their
names during a murkily-defined legal police stop.
The narrowly-passed 5-4 decision held that people
have no constitutional right to refuse to tell police their names if police
merely have a "reasonable suspicion" that a person may be involved in
a crime. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said that
demanding a name during a police stop "serves important government
interests" and dismissed privacy and civil liberties concerns by saying the
request is "so insignificant in the scheme of things."
Civil libertarians strongly disagree, arguing
that giving police the power to command a person to disclose his name under such
circumstances is unconstitutional -- a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment
protection from unreasonable searches, and of the Fifth Amendment right against
self-incrimination.
Tim Lynch, an attorney with the libertarian Cato
Institute, put it nicely: the Supreme Court has "ruled that the government
can turn a person's silence into a criminal offense... Ordinary Americans will
be hopelessly confused about when they can assert their right to 'remain silent'
without being jailed."
It is not a mere academic argument. Opponents
fear the decision will encourage police to instigate far more encounters and
searches, particularly on roads, at airports, and in inner cities, based on
flimsy and deceptive accusations. The decision almost certainly guarantees that
vast numbers of Americans will face such stops and demands. It will be easy for
police to enter names into massive, ever-expanding government databases for
further searching, much as is done routinely today with drivers licenses at car
stops.
As Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a dissent:
"A name can provide the key to a broad array of information about the
person, particularly in the hands of a police officer with access to a range of
law enforcement databases."
And finally, this decision inevitably moves us
much closer to a mandatory national ID, to be carried at all times and shown
upon request. After all, the logical next question after "What's your
name?" is: "Can you prove it?"
Or, as those totalitarian governments say in the
movies: "Your papers, please."
(Sources: Associated Press: http://apnews.myway.com//article/20040621/D83BGOU80.html
Supreme Court decision Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court of the state of
Nevada, 03-5554:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov )
* * *
First Private Space Venture Ends With a
Libertarian Surprise
This may just be the most important news event
we've ever written about in the Liberator Online.
As you may know, on Monday June 21, 2004, history
was made when the first privately-funded space ship, SpaceShipOne, successfully
flew into space. (And it did so, incidentally, at a fraction of the cost of
government efforts: The $20 million SpaceShipOne program cost only about 5
percent as much as a single NASA shuttle mission.)
It is impossible to overstate the importance of
this glorious achievement. At last, we may be on the verge of seeing space
exploration liberated from the government -- which has monopolized it and
crippled it for decades -- and opened to the private sector, where the same
ingenuity and innovation that has given us so many other low-cost, high-tech
miracles can bring the unimaginable benefits of space travel to mankind.
Praise to Burt Rutan, designer of SpaceShipOne;
to Paul Allen of Microsoft fame, who financed the effort; and to Mike Melvill,
the 62-year-old test pilot who flew more than 62 miles above the earth. And to
all others involved in this historic feat.
The next step for the team is to see if
SpaceShipOne can carry three people into space twice within two weeks. If so,
they will win the $10 million Ansari X Prize, funded by a group of private space
enthusiasts.
But regardless of whether SpaceShipOne wins or
not, it has already kicked the doors wide open for private space exploration. At
least 27 other organizations are competing for the Ansari X Prize. We are now
officially at the dawn of a new era for humankind: an era of mass space travel,
exploration, and manufacturing.
UPI reporter Irene Mona Klotz caught the essence
of the story:
"It is not for the money these teams have
labored for years to come up with a better way to travel to space; it is to
demonstrate -- and perhaps eventually cash in on -- the fact that there may very
well be a better, less-expensive, more-accessible way to travel to space than
what government-funded programs have been serving up for more than four
decades."
And so did this story in the Christian Science
Monitor:
"When SpaceShipOne split the clear
California skies to cross the threshold of space Monday morning, the rumble that
echoed down toward the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert was no mere sonic boom.
It was a seismic shift in the history of human exploration... [T]his much seems
certain: Space is now open for business."
Finally, there was this wonderful libertarian
moment immediately after the flight. While astronaut Mike Melvill stood atop
SpaceShipOne in triumph, a member of the Western Libertarian Alliance
organization handed Melvill a large poster reading:
"SpaceShipOne
GovernmentZero"
Mike held it up for all to see, and gave a
"thumbs-up" signal to the crowd.
It was a great libertarian touch to one of the
great liberating events in history.
(Here's a link to a photo of Melvill holding the
sign. Photo by Bill Hunt. Scroll to bottom of page to see photo:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/articles/spaceshipone/flightday.html )
(Sources: Christian Science Monitor and UPI:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0622/p01s02-usgn.html
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040604-121009-7639r )
* * *
"The best thing about space travel..."
"When a place gets crowded enough to require
ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best
thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere."
-- from "The Notebooks of Lazarus Long"
(1978) by Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), pioneering libertarian science fiction
writer.
* * *
"Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable
News" is written by Liberator Online editor James W. Harris. His articles
have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, and he has been a Finalist
for the Mencken Award, given by the Free Press Association for "Outstanding
Journalism in Support of Liberty."
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ASK DR. RUWART
Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in
libertarian communication. In this column she gives readers "short answers
to the tough questions" that libertarians are frequently asked.
Dr. Ruwart's past Liberator Online answers are
archived in searchable form at: http://www.TheAdvocates.org/ruwart/categories_list.php
* * *
How do we deal with foreign threats?
Question:
"I agree that the world would be a much
better place if we could all just "get along." But what do you do when
there are people dedicated to your annihilation?"
My short answer:
"You can destroy them, deter them, or win
them over. In real life, the first is often attempted, but rarely accomplished.
Indeed, the backlash from the attempt is often worse than the original threat.
Our “War on Terror” may fall into this category.
"Deterrence buys time, sometimes enough time
for an enemy to self-destruct (e.g., the “Cold War” and the Soviet Union).
"Winning over the enemy is the preferred
solution, since it creates allies and is the least costly, both in dollars and
lives. Free trade is a great peacemaking vehicle, since it intertwines economies
and makes war unthinkable.
"The military-industrial complex has
incentives to discourage such peacemaking and does so by telling us that our
enemies can’t be reasoned with. Perhaps this is why President Dwight D.
Eisenhower warned us that “we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence” by this group."
* * *
Is the free market responsible for sweatshops and
brutal child labor?
Question:
"We had a free market during the Industrial
Revolution.The government didn't get involved in the economy, yet people died by
the dozens in coal factories and children were enslaved in sweat shops."
That's what my teacher says. What do you say?"
My short answer:
"Before the Industrial Revolution, we
created far less wealth per hour than we do today. Consequently, life was
dangerous and hard, whether in the coal mines or on the farms. Children worked
in both places -- or went hungry.
"The Industrial Revolution made wealth
creation more efficient in free market nations. Eventually, children were able
to go to school instead of work, since their parents could more easily support
them.
"Nations without free markets became the
"Third World." Children living in these countries today often have the
same choice our great-great grandparents did: work or starve. Even when
outlawed, child labor still continues there because it’s a necessity for
survival.
"The free market and the Industrial
Revolution made childhood, as we know it today, possible. It will do so for the
rest of the world, too, if adopted."
* * *
Got questions? Dr. Ruwart has answers! If you'd
like answers to YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian issues, just
email to Dr. Ruwart at:
mailto:ruwart@theAdvocates.org
Due to volume, Dr. Ruwart can't personally
acknowledge all emails. But we'll run the best questions and answers in upcoming
issues.
Dr. Ruwart's outstanding books "Healing Our
World" and "Short Answers to the Tough Questions" are available
from the Advocates:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/Merchant2/merchant.mv
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PERSUASION POWER POINT #165
Harry Browne's Futilitarian Argument Against
Government
by Michael Cloud
America is a "Can-Do" culture. We are
pragmatic and practical people. Tinkerers and inventors. Practical scientists.
Whatever we can do, we must dare. Settle the
West? We must. Build the railroads? We must. Soar the skies and even land on the
moon? We must. This Yankee Ingenuity, this Can-Do practicality is the heart of
free enterprise, the backbone of business.
It’s natural that Americans would try to bring
this very trait to government. Politician after politician calls for running
government like a business. Why can’t we make government more responsive, more
efficient, more effective, more user-friendly? Why can’t we run government
like a business?
In his 1995 book Why Government Doesn’t Work,
Harry Browne shows why government can never operate like a business.
Businesses cannot force people to give them
money. Governments do.
Businesses cannot force people to do things their
way. Governments do.
Competition keeps businesses responsive,
efficient, effective, and customer-friendly. Government is a monopoly. It
forbids competitors.
Bad businesses fail. Bad governments grow.
Government is not subject to competition,
consumer choice, and the need to continually do better.
Free enterprise is based on the Utilitarian
Premise: Whatever can be done must be done. The marketplace demands that
businesses strive to make things cheaper, easier to use, and better.
But the Utilitarian Premise has a corollary-- the
Futilitarian Premise: Whatever cannot be done must not be done.
Whatever government cannot do, it must not do.
Whatever government cannot achieve, it must not
attempt.
Whatever government is incapable of, it must
leave alone. Must not raise taxes for, spend money on, or create programs for.
Government doesn’t work.
Government programs are ineffective. They don’t
solve the problems they’re created to solve. They don’t produce the results
they were intended to produce.
Government programs often make things worse for
the people they’re trying to help.
Many government programs, while failing to
accomplish their missions, while making things worse for those they’re aiming
to aid, create new problems for these same people.
Why Government Doesn’t Work documents and
demonstrates how and why government programs are inherently futile. They are
ineffective and counter-productive. They are pointless. And they are expensive.
The Futilitarian Warning says to government: When
what you’re doing doesn’t work, stop doing it. When what you're attempting
has never worked, stop trying it. And stop taxing people for what did not, does
not, and cannot work.
If "ought" presupposes "can."
then "can’t" demands "must not."
If "government ought to" presupposes
"government can," then Harry Browne’s elegant Futilitarian argument
against government is the most powerful argument imaginable: it combines the
moral and the practical case for radically slashing back government.
******************
Michael Cloud was voted the Most Persuasive
Libertarian Communicator in
America and honored with the Thomas Paine Award at the Libertarian Party
national convention in July 2000.
And he has a brand-new book available! See
immediately below for details.
_____________________________________
PRODUCT REVIEW:
Michael Cloud's great new libertarian outreach book!
"Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion" by
Michael Cloud. 240 pages. Quality trade paperback. Published by the Advocates
for Self-Government, 2004.
Do you sincerely want to convince others to
become libertarians?
What if you could open closed minds? What if you
could turn opposition and resistance into agreement and support for liberty?
What if you could melt people's indifference and apathy toward freedom? What if
you could develop a Midas Touch for liberty -- transforming person after person
into libertarians?
Michael Cloud's Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion
will take you a long way toward this.
Why isn't everyone desperately seeking freedom?
Why are so many people indifferent? Why are many others opposed to liberty? And
why have so many people just given up?
Because no one has opened their eyes to the
possibility of liberty. No one has touched their hearts with the intense
desirability of liberty. No one has reached their minds with the principled and
practical wisdom of liberty.
Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion solves these
problems. Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion gives you the keys to opening
people's hearts and minds to liberty.
What You'll Learn:
* Why libertarians don't need "A Better
Mousetrap." (p.23)
* What libertarians can learn from Mark Twain's Cat. (p.34)
* When impatience undermines libertarian progress. (p.52)
* How to gently dissolve many objections in 60 seconds. (p.63)
* Get people to "Push the Button" and become libertarians. (p.81)
* Treasure Map for finding people who urgently want freedom. (p.83)
* One deadly mistake almost every libertarian makes -- and how to avoid it.
(p.96)
* "You know enough about libertarianism to buy it, but do you know enough
to sell it?" (p.126)
* When to "Save Your Breath." (p.165)
* The Biggest Libertarian Communication Turnoff. (p.171)
* How to handle "The Toughest Prospects: Family and Friends." (p.185)
* Danger: "Counterfeit Libertarianism." (p.210)
* "The Unsettling Question Libertarians Almost Never Ask." (p.236)
And much more!
You will reap huge rewards from Secrets of
Libertarian Persuasion. If you talk about libertarianism with your family,
friends, co-workers, or neighbors, you will start seeing astonishing differences
almost immediately. If you're a libertarian activist or leader or candidate for
office, you will start seeing dramatic differences in your libertarian speeches,
interviews, and conversations. Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion is for you.
Michael Cloud is uniquely qualified to unlock the
mysteries of effective communication. For 29 years, Michael Cloud has studied,
investigated, tested, and refined hundreds of different approaches to persuasive
libertarian outreach. He's mapped the safest and best paths through the
dangerous communication minefield.
Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion is the result.
It will give you a head start. Turbocharge your libertarian conversations. So
you can quickly and simply win people's hearts and minds to liberty.
Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion is a charming
and very readable book. It's rich with new insights and outlooks, parables,
one-liners, stories, unforgettable phrases, and power tools for persuasion. Much
of this material appeared originally in different forms in the Liberator Online
over several years, but it's all been rewritten, edited, improved, and updated.
Plus the book includes three classic Cloud articles that have never appeared in
any book before. These alone are worth the cover price!
Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion is published
and distributed exclusively by the Advocates for Self-Government.
Want to learn more? Check these out:
* An interview with Michael Cloud about his new book:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/secrets-interview.html
* A review by Bill Winter:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/secrets-review.html
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