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Contents
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
* The day
after the elections
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
*
February 22-25, 2007: Sharon Harris speaks at the FSP's Liberty
Forum
*
Quickly learn the basics of libertarianism
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
*
Majority of Americans Think Government is Too Big, Too Meddlesome
* Poll Shocker: Ban Cigarettes?
* GAO Head: U.S. Economic Disaster Looms
* QUICK SHOTS: Electronic voting; That 700-mile fence...
PERSUASION POWER POINT
#214
*
"The Drawbacks and Liabilities of Libertarianism" by Michael
Cloud
ASK DR. RUWART
* How will
the blind and other disabled fare in a libertarian society?
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Dear
friends,
As
the November elections near, my mailbox is filled daily with incredibly
sleazy and absurd advertisements from politicians seeking my vote.
If they are attack ads, they make preposterous and outrageous charges.
The dastardly opponents, it seems, are combinations of Charles Manson
and Adolph Hitler.
If they are ads praising the candidate, the candidate combines the
wisdom of Solomon with the compassion of Mother Teresa, and has
a smiling perfect family and a beautiful Labrador retriever.
It's all so childish and so sleazy, that it's funny, in a way. But
it would be a lot funnier if the stakes weren't so very high.
I am reminded of timeless libertarian wisdom at this time of year.
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Politicians
lie. Government doesn't work. There's no such thing as a free lunch.
And I remember the old joke from the 1964 Johnson vs. Goldwater
presidential race: "They warned me that if I voted for Goldwater,
we'd have race riots in our cities and half a million troops bogged
down in a land war in Southeast Asia. Well, I voted for Goldwater
-- and they turned out to be right!" (Goldwater, you will remember,
lost.)
No doubt about it. Politics is a messy and very inexact business,
and a most unreliable and unsatisfactory way of achieving important
goals.
In just a few days, these elections will be over.
Then what?
Then it will be time for all of us who care about liberty to continue
getting the message of free markets, personal responsibility, and
peace out to a world that so desperately needs to hear that message.
It will be time to continue to learn to communicate libertarian
ideas ever more effectively. And to put our communication skills
to work, by writing letters, making speeches, working OPH booths,
and building and supporting libertarian organizations.
Regardless of how these elections turn out, I am upbeat, optimistic
and excited about the future of liberty. Because liberty doesn't
depend on politicians. (Thank heavens!) It depends, as it always
has, on an educated, concerned and devoted movement of people who
understand the importance of freedom.
And I truly believe that movement is growing -- by leaps and bounds.
More people are waking up. They are learning about the libertarian
alternative. They number in the millions. And they are excited!
Indeed, the "libertarian voting bloc" -- something simply
unheard of just a few years ago -- is now talked about in mainstream
news publications, and is being taken very seriously by the two
older political parties.
There are millions more people who would eagerly support libertarians
right now -- if they knew about our ideals and our movement. We
must reach them.
After the votes are counted, whether your candidates win or lose,
I urge you to keep working for liberty. Keep building a principled,
knowledgeable movement for liberty strong enough to persuade the
nation, and the world, that liberty is moral, that liberty is right,
that liberty holds the best answers to the problems that we face.
This, and this alone, will bring about a free world. There are no
short cuts. But there are some ways that are more effective than
others. It is the Advocates' job to help you discover and utilize
those methods. I hope you will support our work -- and put to use
the many tools we offer to win the world to liberty.
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-- Sharon Harris, President | Email: sharon(a)TheAdvocates.org
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* February 22-25, 2007: Advocates President Sharon
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Good News,
Bad
News,
Unbelievable News |
By
James W. Harris
Majority
of Americans Think Government is Too Big, Too Intrusive
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A
new CNN poll shows that a large majority of Americans agree with
libertarians that government is far too big and is sticking its
snout into matters that should instead be handled by businesses,
non-profits, and individuals.
According to CNN: "54 percent said they thought government
was trying to do too many things that should be left to individuals
and businesses. Only 37 percent thought government should do more
to solve the country's problems."
Further, people correctly perceive that the federal government is
rapidly growing. According to CNN: "When asked if the size
of the federal government has increased in the past four years,
72 percent said it had, and 86 percent said they thought federal
spending had gone up during the same period."
They are right, of course. Since 2000, when supposedly fiscally-conservative
Republicans took control of the U.S. presidency, House and Senate,
federal spending has skyrocketed, even disallowing for the costs
of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.
Indeed, the GOP's 2000-2006 domestic spending spree has been unmatched
since the regime of 1960s liberal Democratic President Lyndon Baines
Johnson and his "Great Society" explosion of social welfare
spending.
[Thanks
to Theo Saur.]
Sources: CNN
- "Poll: Majority believes government doing too much"
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Will
tobacco be the next illegal drug in America?
Maybe.Fully
45% of Americans would support a federal law making cigarettes illegal
in the next five to ten years, according to a new Zogby International
poll, commissioned by the anti-Drug War Drug Policy Foundation (DPF).
Furthermore, young voters in particular favor the idea. An amazing
57% of 18- to 29-year-olds supported it.
A new tobacco Prohibition would be a terrible thing, the Drug Policy
Foundation points out.
"Many Americans would continue to smoke, and Big Tobacco would
be replaced by a violent black market," DPF wrote. "'Tobacco-related
murders' would increase dramatically as criminal organizations competed
with one another for turf and markets, and ordinary crime would
skyrocket as millions of tobacco junkies sought ways to feed their
costly addiction. Prohibition would pave the way for a costly governmental
'war on tobacco' that would put tobacco producers, pushers and users
in prison."
DPF's Nathan Edelman further notes: "Mexico's and Colombia's
narco-traficantes would rejoice at the opportunities for new markets
and profits. ... And just imagine the government's 'war on tobacco':
hundreds of thousands of new jobs for federal, state and local police,
and hundreds of thousands of new prison cells for tobacco producers,
pushers and users; government helicopters spraying herbicides on
illicit tobacco fields here and abroad; people rewarded for informing
on tobacco-growing, -selling, and -smoking neighbors; police seizing
the cars of people caught smoking; urine tests commonplace to identify
users; tobacco courts compelling addicts to quit or go to jail;
and an ever bigger federal police agency -- the Tobacco Enforcement
Administration (the T.E.A.) -- employing undercover agents, informants,
and wire-taps to get the bad guys."
Further, smugglers would create and sell extremely dangerous new
forms of tobacco -- the nicotine equivalents of crack cocaine and
bathtub gin, argues libertarian journalist Jack Wheeler in the Washington
Times.
The idea of a War on Cigarettes may seem far-fetched. However, DPF
points out: "Drug prohibitions tend to be embraced not when
a drug is most popular but rather when use is declining, as tobacco
use is now. We've become accustomed to restrictions on smoking --
sale to minors, and bans on smoking in more and more workplaces
and public spaces -- and on advertising."
Also, longtime readers of the Liberator Online will remember
our report in 1998 on the startling comments Drug Enforcement Administration
head Tom Constantine made during the John Stossel ABC special report
Sex, Drugs and Consenting Adults. Said Constantine: "When
we look down the road, I would say 10, 15, 20 years from now, in
a gradual fashion, smoking will probably be outlawed in the United
States."
For friends of liberty, the lesson should be obvious. We must vigorously
defend the rights of those whose peaceful lifestyle practices we
disagree with or consider unwise. Otherwise, the same arguments
that today outlaw some peaceful but risky practices (smoking marijuana,
for example), will one day be used against millions of other people
who engage in other risky but currently legal behavior, like selling
foods cooked in trans-fat oils (a ban is already being discussed
in New York city), bungee jumping, or taking megadoses of vitamin
C. Or, obviously, smoking.
Source:
Drug
Policy Foundation
Ethan
Nadelman
"Nightmare
of Crack Nicotine" Wheeler, Jack, Washington Times
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GAO
Head: US Economic Disaster Looms
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The
U.S. government is bankrupt and headed towards economic disaster.
So says no less an authority than David Walker, head of the U.S.
Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO is a government
agency that audits and evaluates the federal government. Walker
is, essentially, the government's chief accountant.
And the story Walker is trying to get Americans to hear and understand
is a frightening one.
According to Walker, unless the federal government halts and reverses
current policies, the national debt -- already $8.5 trillion --
could reach $46 trillion or more in the next few decades. That
is almost the total net worth of every person in America.
According to some estimates, just the interest payments alone on
a debt that size would take all the tax revenue the government
collects today.
Walker further notes that the problem is growing by $2 trillion
to $3 trillion every year.
The major culprits: America's three biggest and bloated entitlement
programs -- Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. When the aging
baby boomer generation begins retiring in mass numbers in a few
years, the costs of those programs will explode.
To avoid a financial disaster, Walker says, government will have
to take extremely painful and unpopular actions: raising taxes (boo!)
and/or slashing spending and reducing or eliminating programs and
promised benefits. Otherwise the country faces possible economic
collapse.
Meanwhile, the Democratic and Republican mega-spenders who got us
into this fiscal nightmare won't even talk about it publicly, because
it's not a "sexy" campaign issue -- and perhaps because
it so totally discredits their policies and promises.
Conservative and liberal politicians have blown it. They've bankrupted
America, and now they're keeping it quiet. Only libertarians have
the answers, and the political will, to make the changes necessary
to save the country from a financial meltdown.
Can libertarians convince the public of that -- in time to avoid
the financial tidal wave?
Sources:
USA
Today,
"GAO chief warns economic disaster looms" (October
28, 2006)
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QUICK
SHOTS...
*
Electronic voting:
"You get a receipt when you buy a Slurpee, don't you? Why not
when you choose a president?" -- Greg
Palast, BBC investigative reporter
* The big fence: ""President Bush has
authorized the building of a 700-mile fence. A 700-mile fence they're
going to build between the United States and Mexico. And, he says
he knows where we can get some cheap labor to build it. ... That's
a pretty long fence. I'm thinking to myself, I just hope there's
a way Halliburton can make some money off of this deal. It would
be nice to throw something their way for a change." -- David
Letterman
Sources:
Electronic Voting
The
Big Fence
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Persuasion Power
Point
#214 |
"The
Drawbacks and Liabilities of Libertarianism"
By
Michael Cloud
"You
want to see a Libertarian sputter and become totally apoplectic?
Ask them the following: 'Your philosophy says it is based off of
logic and reason. Logic and reason state that every system of operations
has benefits and drawbacks. I've heard the benefits of Libertarianism
from you, now I'd like to hear the drawbacks of it.' They
can't do it. Libertarians are physically incapable of discussing
the inherent flaws of Libertarianism. They truly believe that their
philosophy is immaculate and without flaw." --Posted by a Democrat
at the "Democratic Underground" blog.
Libertarianism requires us to dramatically reduce government spending,
taxes, power, debt, assets, and liabilities. To dismantle, reduce,
and remove Big Government economic and social programs. At all levels
of government: federal, state, and local.
Our Democrat says that he's heard the personal and social, economic
and political benefits of removing Big Government and expanding
liberty.
But what are the drawbacks and liabilities of living in an America
with small government? With a tiny institution restricted to defending
our lives, liberty, and property?
Drugs and alcohol. With drug prohibition repealed, some individuals
will shoot up, snort, smoke, or swallow a lot of drugs. Meth. Heroin.
Opium. Cocaine. Some will wreck their health. Some will overdose
and die. Others may live their days in a marijuana haze. Still others
will drink themselves into an alcoholic stupor. Maybe for weeks,
months, or years.
Some of these people will be our children, our brothers or sisters,
our friends, and our neighbors. No matter what we do or say, some
will hurt or kill themselves. And it will break our hearts.
Tobacco. Ending the anti-cigarette laws, regulations, and taxes
will make it cheaper and easier to smoke. More people may choose
to smoke. And many will smoke for years and years. Until cancer
and other diseases lay them low. People we love will do this to
themselves.
Some people will drive cars without wearing seatbelts or ride motorcycles
without wearing helmets. And a portion of them will be needlessly
injured or killed because of it.
With a separation of school and government, some parents will not
properly educate their children. And the children will pay the price.
With an end to mandatory Social Security, some wage earners will
not save money for their retirement. Like the grasshopper in the
fable, their winter years will come -- and they will have nothing.
Some business owners may be bigots, refusing to serve those or another
race, religion, sexual orientation, or gender. Or hire them.
Some homeowners may also be prejudiced, unwilling to sell their
home to "those kind of people."
Some people may be as stingy as Ebenezer Scrooge, refusing to help
those less fortunate.
People will be free to do these things in a libertarian society.
A fraction of the population will do these things.
In a libertarian society, neither the government, nor any individual
will have the legal right to use force to stop people from making
stupid, bad, reckless, thoughtless, or brainless choices. Some will
have tragic consequences.
Weaknesses and flaws are part of human nature. Libertarianism does
not cause them, nor will it eliminate them. Some human beings will
make stupid, bad, reckless, thoughtless, or brainless choices in
every society -- libertarian, conservative, or Democratic liberal.
But small government and liberty minimize the impact of human weaknesses
and flaws. And Big Government maximizes their damage.
I believe that only a small fraction of Americans will continue
to make these choices in a Libertarian America.
Few people stay on the fool's path to the fool's end.
Why? Because of the love and forgiveness of their families and friends.
Because vice and stupidity are painful. Because virtue and middle
class values pay off.
In a libertarian society, when the Prodigal Son or Daughter returns,
most families weep tears of joy, welcome them home, and celebrate
their new life.
I would be happy to show our Democrat and his friends the forgotten
benefits and blessings of libertarianism, but first, in the interest
of fair play, he needs to answer his own question:
"What are the drawbacks and liabilities of the Big Government
programs and policies that you advocate and vote for? What are the
drawbacks of government welfare? The liabilities of government-run
public schools? Of Social Security? Not the 'drawbacks' or 'liabilities'
that come from conservatives or Republicans running them. What are
the drawbacks and liabilities inherent in the systems themselves?
"And when you're done, let's honestly and accurately determine
the costs and consequences, the benefits and liabilities of your
Democratic Big Government and our libertarian small government.
Let's see which system lifts the poor out of poverty and makes them
self-reliant individuals. Which approach truly improves the standard
of living and the quality of life of working class and middle class
Americans? Which approach makes us prosperous and generous? And
which approach nurtures freedom and responsibility?
"No system is perfect. Not libertarian. Not Democratic. But
some systems are more perfect than others. And small government
is beautiful."
[Editor's note: The writer Michael quotes posed
his question as a "Democrat," and Michael properly answers
him with that label. However, the Advocates is a non-partisan educational
organization, and does not endorse any particular political parties
or candidates or campaigns. We also realize that there are many
different political philosophies in the Democratic Party, as in
other parties, and the writer quoted does not speak for them.]
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Michael Cloud is author of the acclaimed book
Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion
available exclusively from the Advocates. In 2000, Michael was
honored with the Thomas Paine
Award as the Most Persuasive Libertarian Communicator in America.
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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.
How
will the blind and other disabled fare in a libertarian society?
QUESTION: "I am a blind man, and we are not only a
minority, but a minority with a infinite number of preconceptions
attached to us. I am extremely skilled in my chosen profession,
but I cannot get a job because people in the industry are very image
conscious and don't want to deal with their fears and anxieties.
How would a libertarian society deal with this issue? How would
a libertarian society deal with accessibility issues when there
really aren't enough of us to make a truly profitable sector of
the market place?"
MY
SHORT ANSWER: A libertarian society would minimize your
current problem in several ways. First of all, a libertarian society
would have many more jobs, since each federal regulator destroys
about 150 jobs. When the Reagan administration cut back the number
of federal regulators by about 15% in the early 1980s, annual private
sector job growth increased from 0.5 million to 2.5 million, a whopping
500% increase! Imagine how many new jobs would be created each year
without any regulators at all!
Today, labor is plentiful and jobs are scarce. In a libertarian
society, jobs will be more plentiful and labor more scarce, so employers
will be more open to hiring minorities of all kinds. Indeed, minorities
are the first casualty of government job destruction.
In addition, individuals would be wealthier in a libertarian society.
Since most, if not all, government services would be privatized,
their cost would average one-half of what it is today. With more
money in their pockets, some people would choose to work less and
play more. The number of jobs will increase further as fewer people
choose full-time employment. Those who do wish to work will find
that their services are in much greater demand.
Today, the Americans with Disabilities Act discourages employers
from hiring the disabled. In today's climate, it's tougher to fire
people with a disability, so employers are less likely to hire them.
Indeed, an employer can face additional costs to adapt the workplace
to the disabled individual, and costly law suits even after good-faith
efforts to do so. When an employer has a choice, why would he or
she take such risks? In a libertarian society, this Act would not
have been passed and wouldn't serve as an additional barrier to
employment of the disabled.
In a libertarian society, without excessive regulation, people will
find it easier to start their own small businesses. Small business
owners are more concerned about the bottom line than big corporations.
Entrepreneurs are much more likely to hire a minority individual
with proven skills because profit is imperative. Only businesses
with a big cushion can afford to make hires not on ability, but
on preference.
Finally, a wealthy society, based on individual freedom and responsibility,
is likely to offer more training and support to individuals who
have difficulty finding a job. Today, many people don't bother giving
the disadvantaged assistance, employment, or encouragement, because
the government is presumably doing it. In a libertarian society,
our "safety net" is likely to be much stronger, since
people won't have the mistaken impression that government is taking
care of those in need.
In summary, you should be much better off in a free society. You
are more likely to have a well-paying employer appreciative of your
skills and a better safety net to fall back on should you need it.
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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.
Dr. Ruwart's outstanding books Healing Our World and
Short Answers to the Tough Questions are available
from the Advocates.
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One-Minute
Liberty
Tip |
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Success
with Soundbites
By
Sharon Harris, Advocates President
As a libertarian,
you are automatically a spokesperson for libertarianism. How well
you answer questions about liberty may well determine whether or
not your listeners decide to become libertarians.
So you should always be prepared to answer, in a quick, clear and
memorable way, common questions about libertarianism.
Take a lesson from some of the world's best communicators: don't
leave it to chance!
Don't hope that inspiration will strike you at the moment you're
unexpectedly asked a question. Don't risk the frustration of stumbling
around, answering badly, and then kicking yourself a day or two
later when the right answer suddenly pops into your head.
Instead, work on your answers in advance. Create soundbites -- short,
pithy, memorable answers -- to those questions.
You can probably make a list of questions you are most likely to
be asked about libertarianism. (The most common: "What is libertarianism,
anyway?")
For each of those questions, create one or more soundbites. They
should be about thirty seconds long. Less is better. Write them
down. Refine them. Commit them to memory. And practice saying them
until they come quickly and easily, and sound natural and fresh.
Former Libertarian Party presidential candidates Ed Clark, David
Bergland, and Harry Browne each did this. The seemingly off-the-cuff
eloquence they showed during their campaigns was actually the result
of their advance work preparing and practicing soundbites.
Happily, you don't have to reinvent the soundbite wheel. The Advocates
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Dr. Mary Ruwart is a pioneer in the creation of soundbites. Many
answers from her "Ask Dr. Ruwart" column are archived
in searchable form at
our Web site.
Mary's outstanding book Short Answers to the Tough Questions
is also a treasure of soundbites. It's available
from the Advocates.
There are also some great short soundbite-sized answers to common
questions at our sister Web site Libertarianism.com.
Take these sources as your starting point. Pick the soundbites you
like. Personalize them. Rewrite them and make them your own. Learn
them.
You'll be a far more comfortable and polished spokesperson for liberty.
And you'll enjoy your casual conversations about libertarianism
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For a limited time, you can get Harry last book, Liberty A-Z,
and his final two public speeches -- while saving 40% off the
cover prices.
Here's what you will receive:
 Liberty
A-Z: 872 Libertarian Soundbites You Can Use Right Now
Trade-size paperback [192 pages]
This unique, entertaining, and useful book contains hundreds of
"soundbites" -- short, powerful,and
thought-provoking remarks -- crafted by Harry Browne during his
1996 and 2000 presidential campaigns. Using facts, arguments, humor,
aphorisms, and metaphors, Harry makes the case for liberty -- one
clever quip at a time. The book is organized alphabetically for
easy reference, and covers almost every political topic, from Affirmative
Action to Zero (a Flat Tax Rate of). Liberty A-Z will arm
you with an arsenal of soundbites to spice up your next conversation
or letter to the editor!
"The Future Is NOT Hopeless!"
Speech
on CD [45
minutes]
.
You'll be challenged, enlightened, and inspired as Harry Browne
makes the case for why we should be hopeful about the future of
liberty. You'll hear specific examples of trends and polls that
are moving in our direction, delivered in Harry's warm, heartfelt
style. You'll also hear Harry puncture the gloomy myths that libertarians
sometimes fall for -- such as the notion that the American public
is too apathetic or dumb to embrace liberty. An uplifting speech!
Professionally recorded at the Advocates' 20th Anniversary celebration
(October 2005). This was one of Harry's last public speeches before
his death in 2006.
.
"The
Seduction of Force"
Speech
on CD [61 minutes]
...
Libertarians
agree that people should not initiate force against others. However,
as Harry Browne points out, even libertarians can be tempted to
use government force to achieve "important" goals -- especially
in the area of foreign policy. With Harry's help, you can learn
how to resist this temptation. Once you hear this speech, you'll
understand why the audience gave Harry a standing ovation at the
end. A crisp, professional recording from the Advocates' 20th Anniversary
celebration (October 2005). This was one of Harry's last public
speeches before his death in 2006.
"THE BEST OF HARRY BROWNE"
is a $33.95 value -- but can be yours for only $20 (plus shipping
and handling)! You save $13.95.
That's more than a 40% savings on two
great speeches and an extraordinary book by one of America's greatest
libertarian communicators. Order
today!
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[This offer expires November 15, 2006!]
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