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The
Liberator Online
Vol. 11, No. 12 | June 8, 2006
Circulation: 67,573 subscribers in over 100 countries.
The world's largest-circulation libertarian publication!
Published by the Advocates for Self-Government
Edited by James W. Harris | Email: james(a)TheAdvocates.org
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"The
Advocates for Self-Government [is] one of America's leading
libertarian educational groups."
-- The
Sunday Times of London |
Contents
PRESIDENT'S
CORNER
WHAT'S
HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATE
* Free State Project praises Advocates
* Ebaying the Quiz!
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* You owe
the government half a million dollars
* Pentagon boots out Geneva anti-torture provisions
* Surprising facts about private schools
* QUICK SHOTS: The scariest flim you'll see all year...
PERSUASION
POWER POINT #204
*
"The Greatest Persuasion Advantage You Can Ever Get" by
Michael Cloud
ASK
DR. RUWART
*
Will domestic
jobs go overseas to cheap-labor countries?
SOUNDBITES
FOR LIBERTY
*
Harry Browne, Justice Thurgood Marshall, and Jacob Hornberger
...
PRODUCT
REVIEW
* HUGE SAVINGS on Michael Cloud's
great book and tape set!
...
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President's
Corner |
Dear
friends,
We've
just posted online the brand-new edition of our Operation Politically
Homeless (OPH) manual!
Written by longtime libertarian activist and OPH fan Scott Kjar,
it's been beautifully laid out by graphics master Bill Winter.
The new OPH manual is a great read, whether you're familiar with
OPH or have never heard of it before and are curious to learn more.
It tells you just about everything you need to know about OPH: why
it was created, how it works, and why and how to do an OPH yourself.
OPH is the Advocates' acclaimed "event in a kit" that
can help you discover dozens or even hundreds of libertarian-leaning
folks in your community. OPH is one of the great success stories
of the libertarian movement. Hundreds of thousands of people have
encountered the ideas of liberty through OPH. And millions
more people are out there, just waiting for someone -- maybe you?
-- to introduce them to the ideas of liberty with OPH.
OPH works like magic. And one of the most amazing things about it,
as Scott points out, is that it's... fun!
Libertarian outreach -- fun? You bet! Over and over again, I've
heard OPH users say that. Scott says it himself in the manual:
"I've been doing OPH for several years. I have administered
thousands of Quizzes, seen people with all manner of political views,
been asked questions ranging from the insightful to the provocative
to the absurd, and generally had fun. That's right, I had fun."
I hope you'll check out the manual, and our other OPH material,
and learn more about this incredible tool.
The timing couldn't be better. It's summer -- and that's the perfect
time for OPH libertarian outreach!
Somewhere near you, this weekend there will be an event -- a political
rally, a county fair, a concert, a neighborhood party -- that is
perfect for OPH. Will OPH be there? It's up to you.
Learn about OPH through the new manual here: www.TheAdvocates.org/oph-manual.html.
And there's still more info -- including photos of OPH in action
-- at: http://www.theadvocates.org/oph.html.
Take the ideas of liberty to your community - and have fun!
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Welcome
to 292 new Liberator Online subscribers this issue. Thanks
for joining our subscription "family" of over 67,000 liberty-loving
readers in more than 100 countries!
-- Sharon Harris, President | Email: sharon(a)TheAdvocates.org
PS: To learn more about the Advocates and our
work for liberty visit: www.TheAdvocates.org.
To learn more about libertarianism visit: www.Libertarianism.com.
PPS:
We have an incredible bargain for you.
For a very limited time, you can get Michael Cloud's great book
on libertarian communication, Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion
TOGETHER WITH a fantastic Michael Cloud 2-tape set -- for LESS THAN
HALF-PRICE!
Get the book AND the tape set -- normally priced at $45.00 -- for
ONLY $20.00 (plus shipping and handling).
This is no ordinary tape set. It contains a speech by Michael that
is quite simply one of the most important libertarian speeches I've
ever heard.
Full details about these great items are in our Product Review section
at the end of this issue.
Or,
to place your order, click here: http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator-online-special.html
[Offer
good until June 21, 2006.]
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What's
Happening With The Advocates
* Free State Project praises Advocates: We were pleased to
learn that the Free State project has created a page at their Web
site endorsing Advocates tools and particularly encouraging use
of the Quiz, OPH, and our Lights of Liberty awards. The Free State
Project, which has received a significant amount of national media
coverage during the past few years, describes itself as an agreement
among 20,000 pro-liberty activists to move to New Hampshire, where
they will exert the fullest practical effort toward the creation
of a libertarian society. Thanks!
http://freestateproject.org/volunteer/lights_of_liberty
* Ebaying the Quiz: Advocates fan Paolo Sica sent us a copy
of this letter he sent to Libertarian Party News. Great
idea, Paolo! "It's well-known that Internet users are disproportionately
libertarian -- as eBay sellers may well be! During the process of
moving and cleaning out closets, I include a World's Smallest Political
Quiz card with every eBay item I sell. As a matter of fact, I slip
one in almost every envelope that I mail, including bills and surveys!
It adds negligible weight to the package or envelope, and what a
great way to get people with whom you've established even a minor
relationship thinking about their politics in earnest. I encourage
everyone to keep a stack [of Quiz cards] next to their envelopes
and stamps."
* 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.
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Good
News,
Bad
News,
Unbelievable News |
By
James W. Harris
You Owe the Government Half A Million Dollars
Thanks
to local, state and federal politicians, you and your loved ones
are in debt -- big time.
According to a groundbreaking story in USA Today, federal,
state and local governments have run up unfunded obligations of
$57.8 trillion.
That amount is so huge it is almost impossible to fully grasp.
But think of it this way: it averages out to $510,678 per American
family.
Worse, just like an unpaid credit card debt, the amount is growing,
month by month. And at a terrifying rate -- 20% in the past two
years alone.
USA Today: "The $57.8 trillion liability is the amount
that government needs now, stashed away and earning interest, to
generate enough cash to pay future obligations. ... Like an unpaid
credit card bill, the balance grows every year -- about $25,000
per household annually."
This shocking new number dwarfs all previous reports about government's
unfunded liabilities, which usually focus only on the national debt
(and sometimes Social Security). USA Today arrived at it
by pulling together up all the sources of government debt
and unfunded liabilities.
Here's how USA Today breaks this $57.8 trillion debt down
in a "per household" model:
Program............................................Liability
per household
Medicare............................................$263,377
Social Security...................................$133,456
Federal debt.......................................$42,538
Military retirement benefits...................$25,443
State-local debt..................................$16,395
Federal employee retirement benefits....$14,256
State-local retirement benefits..............$13,257
Other federal liabilities........................ .$1,956
Total..................................................$510,678
per household
Most of this debt is to cover the cost of promised retirement benefits
for the 79 million baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964. Those
program costs will explode when boomers begin collecting Social
Security in 2008 and Medicare in 2011.
To meet these costs will require massive tax hikes, massive
inflation -- and/or a massive cutback in the promised benefits
of these programs.
Whatever the solution, it threatens to be extraordinarily painful
-- a disaster for ordinary Americans, the economy, and future generations.
Meanwhile, most of the politicians who made all these promises and
dragged Americans into this mess aren't even aware of it. According
to Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Tenn., a member of the House Budget Committee
quoted in USA Today, most members of Congress don't even
grasp the size or nature of this incredible problem.
Here is a perfect example of the utter incompetence of government
and politicians. For generations, politicians have played Santa
Claus to win elections, promising wildly irresponsible social programs
and benefits without considering the consequences. Many Americans
have gone along with them, figuring that, even if the programs were
bloated and inefficient, they probably did more good than harm.
But now the bill is coming due, and we can see the results of this
incredible political irresponsibility.
Maybe, just maybe, this will be a wake-up call to Americans: never
again put any trust in the promises of pandering politicians.
Sources:
USA
Today: "Retiree benefits grow into 'monster' "
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Pentagon
Set to Drop Geneva Anti-Torture Provisions
For several
years now, critics around the world have charged that the U.S. government
is engaging in systematic mistreatment and even torture of prisoners.
These critics have cited, among other things, allegations of secret
CIA prisons outside the United States; the practice of so-called
"extraordinary renditions," in which prisoners are sent
to countries where torture is practiced; Bush's declaration that
he is not bound to obey the prohibition of torture recently passed
by Congress; and more.
The U.S. government has strongly denied such charges. But this week
the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times report
that the Pentagon is planning to omit the Geneva Convention's prohibition
on "humiliating and degrading treatment" of prisoners
from a new Army Field Manual on interrogation. The manual
is intended for U.S. soldiers worldwide.
That prohibition is found in Article 3 of the Geneva Convention
agreements. Article 3 prohibits "at any time and in any place
whatsoever...violence to life and person, in particular murder of
all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture, [and] outrages
upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading
treatment."
Article 3 is part of the current U.S. Army Field Manual
on Interrogation. The U.S. has been a signatory to the Geneva Convention
pacts since 1949.
For decades, Article 3 has been part of the official policy of the
U.S. military for treating all detainees, whether in declared or
undeclared wars, civil wars, or peacekeeping activities.
This shifted only in 2002, when President Bush declared -- amidst
great controversy -- that Article 3 did not apply to "war on
terror" detainees.
The Los Angeles Times did not specify whether the Pentagon
is seeking to omit the entire Article 3 passage cited above or just
the prohibition against "humiliating and degrading treatment."
But either way, the effect will be a de facto endorsement of prisoner
mistreatment and torture.
Why make such a move? The Los Angeles Times quotes one
source: "The overall thinking is that they need the flexibility
to apply cruel techniques if military necessity requires it."
Ironically, President Bush recently declared that "the biggest
mistake that's happened so far, at least from our country's involvement
in Iraq, is Abu Ghraib. We've been paying for that for a long period
of time."
Yet sanctioning "humiliating and degrading treatment"
of prisoners is a sure way to bring on more Abu Ghraibs. And of
course it can come back to haunt captured American soldiers and
civilians.
On top of it all, it's difficult to imagine worse timing for such
a move. Talk about bad public relations -- does the Administration
want the entire world to hate and despise America?
As the Daytona News-Journal bluntly put it: "If doubts
remained in the rest of the world that the United States is engaged
in routine torture of prisoners, the new Army Field Manual should
dispel them."
Source:
The Los
Angeles Times, The New
York Times, The Daytona
News-Journal.
Current
Army field manual on interrogation
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Surprising
Facts About Private Schools
Private
schools are good for families, good for kids and good for America,
according to the Council for American Private Education (CAPE),
an organization that champions American private K-12 education.
But you may be surprised at just how beneficial and effective
private schools are. According to CAPE:
* One in four U.S. schools is a private school.
* One child in nine attends a private school.
* Private schools produce an annual savings to taxpayers estimated
at more than $48 billion.
* Private school students perform better than their government school
counterparts on standardized achievement tests.
* Ninety percent of private high school graduates attend college,
compared to 66% of government high school graduates.
* Private school students from low socio-economic backgrounds are
more than three times more likely than comparable government school
students to attain a bachelor's degree by their mid-20s, meaning
that private schools contribute to breaking the cycle of poverty
for their students.
* Private schools are racially, ethnically, and economically diverse.
Twenty-three percent of private school students are students of
color; twenty-eight percent are from families with annual incomes
under $50,000.
* Private secondary school students are nearly 50% more likely to
take AP or IB courses in science and math than government school
students.
* The participation of private school students in community service
projects is significantly higher than their government school counterparts.
* Private school students feel safer in their schools, and are
safer, than students in government schools.
* A study by the National Center for Education Statistics found
that more than three-quarters of private school parents are "very
satisfied" with their child's school, compared with less than
half of parents whose children were assigned to a government school
A nd that's just the beginning, according to CAPE. (The statements
above are fully documented at the organization's Web site, at the
URL just below.)
No wonder, then, that -- to cite another CAPE statistic -- a substantial
majority of adults believe private schools do a better job of providing
a quality education than government schools. And that belief, in
turn, is fueling increased demand among parents for alternatives
to the government's education monopoly.
Sources:
CAPE report at: http://www.capenet.org/benefits4.html
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QUICK SHOTS...
* New libertarian film
"scariest you'll see this year": Libertarian
Aaron Russo's sizzling new documentary America: Freedom to Fascism
received this rave review from CBS's Todd David Schwartz: "FOUR
STARS (Highest Rating): The scariest goddamn film you'll see this
year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed
and trembling. Makes Fahrenheit 9/11 look like Bambi.
After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America
-- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever
shattered. Producer/director Aaron Russo and the folks at Cinema
Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a post-modern New
American Revolution. This is shocking stuff. You'll be angry, you'll
be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and
feel a sickness deep in your gut; I would advise movie theatre managers
to hand out vomit bags. You may end up needing one." You can
learn more -- and see the trailer -- at: http://www.freedomtofascism.com/.
* That big base in Iraq: "In an annual security conference
on Saturday [June 3], Donald Rumsfeld assured the audience, 'We
don't intend to occupy for any period of time. Our troops would
like to go home and they will go home.' Why, then, would the United
States be building an enormous embassy in Baghdad and a base so
large it eclipses Kosovo's Camp Bondsteel, which had been the largest
foreign U.S. military base built since Vietnam? The new embassy,
which occupies a space two-thirds the area of the national mall
in Washington DC, comprises 21 buildings that will house over 8,000
government officials. It has a huge pool, gym, theater, beauty salon,
school, and six apartment buildings. The gargantuan military base,
Camp Anaconda, occupies 15 square miles of Iraqi soil near Balad.
The base is home to 20,000 soldiers and thousands of 'contractors'
... The aircraft runway at Anaconda is the second-busiest in the
world, behind only Chicago's O'Hare airport. And, depending on which
report you read, between six and fourteen more U.S. military bases
are under construction in Iraq. It doesn't appear we'll be leaving
anytime soon -- or anytime, really." -- Marjorie Cohn,
Truthout.org.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506J.shtml
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"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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Persuasion
Power
Point
#204 |
The Greatest
Persuasion Advantage You Can Ever Get
By Michael Cloud
Gary Halbert
is a legendary master of marketing. His marketing and sales campaigns
have reaped hundreds of millions of dollars in profits for his clients.
But he's more than a master marketer. He's a master teacher of marketing.
And he has a vital lesson for libertarians.
Once, while he was teaching a class on selling by mail, he asked
his students, "If you and I each owned a hamburger stand and
we were in a contest to see who could sell the most hamburgers,
what one advantage would you want that would help you sell the most
hamburgers?"
"The best-tasting hamburgers," said one student.
"Powerful advertising is the advantage I'd want," said
another.
"Location, location, location," said a third.
"The lowest prices is the advantage I want," said another.
"Those are good answers," said Gary Halbert. "But
I could give you every single one of them -- and take just one powerful
advantage for myself -- and sell a lot more hamburgers than you."
"What's the one advantage you'd choose?" they asked.
"A starving crowd!" replied Mr. Halbert. "That's
the key. You want large groups of people -- markets -- starving
for what you're offering. People craving what you're offering."
Gary Halbert is right. About marketing goods and services. About
marketing liberty.
We want people who have a burning desire for liberty. People with
a gnawing hunger for small government.
Individuals starving for liberty will eagerly respond to the libertarian
message.
You don't have to sell them on liberty. They desperately want to
buy.
It seems obvious. Simple.
But how do you find a starving crowd for liberty? How do you find
people who desperately and urgently want freedom?
Would you like to learn several ingeniously simple ways to find
the crowd of people who are aching and longing for freedom?
Because that's exactly what I'll show you in the next issue of the
Liberator Online.
(To be continued next issue.)
* * *
Michael Cloud is author of the acclaimed book Secrets
of Libertarian Persuasion available exclusively from the Advocates:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/secrets.html.
In 2000, Michael was honored
with the Thomas Paine Award as the Most Persuasive Libertarian Communicator
in America.
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Ask
Dr.
Ruwart |
Dr.
Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication. In
this column she offers short answers to real questions about libertarianism.
To submit questions to Dr. Ruwart, see end of column.
Will
domestic jobs go overseas to cheap-labor countries?
QUESTION:
"In an economy without any trade barriers, where
the market can be flooded by less expensive imported goods at a
price our domestic manufacturers cannot hope to compete with, what
is going to stop domestic jobs from rapidly going overseas to cheap-labor
countries?"
MY
SHORT ANSWER: Some jobs will indeed go overseas, but here
we'll experience a net gain in the number of jobs and the
wages we're paid. Everyone wins. Here's how it works.
Let's assume that cheap-labor countries can manufacture and ship
clothes to us more economically than our domestic industry. Our
clothing bill goes down, leaving us more money to buy something
else, say, computers. More high-tech, high-paying jobs are created
here to meet the increased demand. We'll experience a net gain in
jobs, because our human capital is more efficiently allocated. Uneducated
cheap labor is manufacturing, and skilled technical labor is innovating.
Of course, the domestic clothing workers will experience some trauma
as they scramble to find new positions. Most will end up in jobs
that are more interesting and demanding as our work force as a whole
shifts to become more technical. Like the rest of the country, they
will benefit from the lower clothing prices and the higher standard
of living made possible by the more efficient division of labor.
Countries that "protect" inefficient industries with trade
barriers keep consumer prices high and prosperity lower than it
otherwise would be. In the U.S., for example, we pay more for automobiles
than we would if tariffs on imports were abolished. Every extra
dollar we spend on automobiles is one less for the computer and
other domestic industries that compete well in the international
markets. Tariffs put our market leaders at risk to preserve inefficiency.
Ultimately, everyone -- even the automobile workers -- lose by higher
prices and the lower standard of living.
* * *
Got questions? Dr. Ruwart has answers! If you'd
like answers to YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian
issues, email Dr. Ruwart at: ruwart(a)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 previous Liberator Online answers are archived
in searchable form at: http://www.TheAdvocates.org/ruwart/categories_list.php.
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.mvv.
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Soundbites
for
Liberty |
Who
really benefits: "Politicians
play cruel jokes on us. They talk of plans to bring peace to the
world, when their real interest is in subsidizing military contractors.
They speak of 'empowering' minorities, when their real interest
is in empowering the leaders of special-interest groups. They talk
of helping the poor, but eagerly put them out of work with minimum
wage laws. Whatever they proclaim publicly, there always seems to
be someone in the background with extraordinary political influence
who benefits far more than those the politicians claim to help."
-- Harry Browne (1933-2006), Liberty A to Z: 872 Libertarian
Soundbites You Can Use Right Now
Threats to liberty: "History teaches us that grave threats
to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights
seem too extravagant to endure." -- Supreme Court Justice
Thurgood Marshall
Free or not free: "If you are not free to choose wrongly
and irresponsibly, you are not free at all." --
Jacob Hornberger, Future of Freedom Foundation
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Liberty -- or License?
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* Do government restrictions against vice and sin make things
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* Does liberty lead to license? ...Or does liberty nurture and
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* How and why liberty nurtures the sunlit side of human nature
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