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The
Liberator Online
Vol. 11, No. 7 | March 31,
2006
Circulation: 65,767 subscribers in over 100 countries.
The world's largest-circulation libertarian publication!
Published by the Advocates for Self-Government
Edited by Bill Winter | Email: billw(a)TheAdvocates.org
Senior Editor: James W. Harris
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Contents
PRESIDENT'S
CORNER
*
GREAT NEWS about the Advocates' financial crisis!
* Quiz numbers are *skyrocketing*
WHAT'S
HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
*
April 8, 2006: Sharon Harris
speaks at the Alabama Libertarian Party convention
* April
29, 2006: Sharon Harris speaks at the Kansas Libertarian Party convention
* Minneapolis Star Tribune gives
"small" praise for the Quiz
* Get ready for Freedom Cruise 2007
* Spring is in the air -- start thinking about OPH!
GOOD
NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
*
Police find drunk people in bars (so they arrest them)
* Movie director Jason Reitman is a libertarian
* Smoke outside, go to jail for six months
* QUICK SHOTS: Ralph Nader's shameful secret, and more....
PERSUASION
POWER POINT #199
*
"Constructive Dissatisfaction" by Michael Cloud
ASK
DR. RUWART
*
What can we do about power-hungry police officers?
* Do libertarians support laissez-faire capitalism?
SOUNDBITES
FOR LIBERTY
*
Harry Browne, Richard Lamm, and Adam Smith
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PRODUCT
REVIEW
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President's
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Dear
friends,
GREAT NEWS!
As many of you know, the Advocates
was recently faced with a financial crisis due to an unexpected and
devastating debt from our recent 20th Anniversary Conference. The
worst part of that debt was nearly $50,000 owed to the hotel -- due
immediately. That debt had simply paralyzed us.
I
turned to the friends of the Advocates: our donors and Liberator
Online readers. In two emergency emails, I told you the details
of the hotel debt and asked for your help in settling it.
I
was blown away by your response. Yesterday evening, thanks to hundreds
of generous Liberator Online readers and other donors,
we received enough to pay off the hotel debt in its entirety! (Yesterday
we delivered a check to the hotel for half of the bill, and we’ll
pay the rest as soon as funds come in from pledges made.)
I was also deeply moved by the
wonderful expressions of support we received from you. It is
incredibly inspiring to see how much the Advocates means to so many
people around the world.
The
messages we have received have touched me deeply. I will treasure
them always. (Please take a moment to read some of them here:
http://www.theadvocates.org/response-from-supporters.html.)
We are still dealing with the rest of
the debt, but the worst is behind us now thanks to you. We're
getting back on our feet and moving ahead with the work you expect
from us!
I have been inspired and
reinvigorated by your messages of support.
I promise you to do my very best to
continue and expand the vital work for liberty the Advocates is
famous for.
Of
course this doesn't mean that the Advocates no longer needs your
support. Your donation to the ongoing work of the Advocates is still
urgently needed and most welcome! You can safely make a donation
at our special secure page here:
https://www.fbs.net/advocates/donate.cfm.
We are now planning an ambitious
program for the coming year. I hope I will have more good news to
share with you as we move past this crisis.
Once again, THANK YOU from the bottom
of my heart!
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QUIZ NUMBERS SKYROCKETING!
One indication that the Advocates
will play an important role in shaping the political thinking of
huge numbers of people in the coming months is the sudden and
startling growth in the number of people taking the World's Smallest
Political Quiz online.
During non-election times, the online
Quiz is taken about 3,000-5,000 times per day -- a pretty impressive
number.
Election seasons are a time of
greatest interest in the Quiz. We were expecting a tripling or more
of that number as the fall neared.
But
the numbers are already accelerating beyond that. For the
past week we have averaged *** 15,000 *** Quizzes taken per day!
During the fall, we can expect over
1,000,000 people to take the Quiz -- all exposed not only to the
Quiz, but to the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of liberty
from material at that site that we have carefully prepared.
Thanks to your support, we'll be
taking the good news of liberty to huge numbers of people, in the
most proven and effective ways we've learned in twenty years of
doing so.
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Welcome to 358 new Liberator Online
subscribers this issue. Thanks for joining our subscription "family"
of over 65,000 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: http://www.theadvocates.org.
PPS:
There's another way you can financially
help the Advocates -- purchase something from our online Liberty
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Happening With The Advocates
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April 8, 2006: Advocates President Sharon Harris will speak
at the Alabama Libertarian Party convention, at the Country Inn
and Suites in Montgomery. Join her for a fun day of speeches, conversation,
and camaraderie! Other speakers include State Rep. Randy Hinshaw
(D-Madison). Cost: $40 per person; $75 per couple. For more information,
visit: http://www.lpalabama.org.
* April 29, 2006: Advocates President Sharon Harris
will be the featured speaker at the Kansas Libertarian Party convention
at the Shawnee Country Club in Topeka. Cost: $30 per person (before
April 22). Prices includes a buffet-style Italian dinner. Other
speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. For more information,
visit: http://www.lpks.org/.
* Small but good: Thanks to the Minneapolis, Minnesota
Star Tribune for publicizing the World's Smallest Political
Quiz. The newspaper devoted its March 23 "Web Search"
column to "small achievements" -- that is, things on the
Web that are small. Of course, that includes the Quiz! The newspaper
wrote: "Answer the 10 questions on the World's Smallest Political
Quiz, and you'll quickly find out your political leanings...."
See the column at: http://www.startribune.com/389/story/325935.html.
* Freedom Cruise: It's not too early to mark your
calendar for the 2007 Freedom Cruise. This event, the tenth annual,
will take place from February 19-March 6, 2007. You'll sail from
San Diego to Hawaii (and back!) on Holland America's ms Zaandam.
The event is organized by Ken Bisson of Freedom Cruises. (This isn't
an Advocates' event, but Ken is on our Board of Directors, and libertarians
who have been on past cruises rave about them.) For more information,
visit: http://freedomcruises.biz/CRUISE2007.html.
* It's OPH time: Spring is in the air -- which
means it's time to start planning your warm-weather libertarian
outreach! And there's nothing more effective than our popular Operation
Politically Homeless (OPH) package. This acclaimed "event in
a kit" can help you discover hundreds of libertarian-leaning
folks in your community. For details, visit:
http://www.theadvocates.org/oph.html.
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Good
News, Bad News,
Unbelievable News |
By
Bill Winter
Surprise:
Police find drunk people in bars (so they arrest them)
Here's
something to keep in mind next time you visit a bar, club, or restaurant:
Police in several states have launched crackdowns on drunk driving
and public intoxication -- and are now arresting drunk people who
aren't driving and who aren't in public.
In at least two states -- Texas and Virginia -- police have started
going into bars to arrest people who fail sobriety tests.
Police say the action is necessary to prevent drunk driving. They
also say they don't have to wait until people leave a bar to arrest
them for public intoxication, since the legal definition of "public
space" includes the inside of drinking establishments.
The move has sparked outrage from civil libertarians, who say police
are grossly exceeding their authority, and are arresting people
who pose no danger to anyone.
This issue was first publicized in January, when WorldNetDaily.com
reported that police in Virginia were going into bars and taverns
and literally "pulling people off barstools." The police,
dressed in "SWAT-like attire," would give people sobriety
tests and arrest them for public drunkenness if they failed the
test.
Then, on March 15, NBC Channel 5 TV in Dallas/Ft. Worth reported
that Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agents and Irving police
had launched a similar crackdown.
Police targeted 36 establishments and sent undercover police officers
to look for people who appeared to be drunk. After administering
sobriety tests in the bars and clubs, they charged 30 people with
public intoxication.
In both Texas and Virginia, police said the campaign would reduce
drunk driving. But police apparently made no effort to check which
patrons had walked to the bar, or rode with friends, or planned
to take a cab. In Texas, police even arrested people in a hotel
bar who were registered hotel guests and had no plans to drive anywhere.
One Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission agent said police were justified
in arresting people because "going to a bar is not an opportunity
to go get drunk." Another spokesperson said drinking can make
people do stupid things like "jump off of balconies trying
to reach a swimming pool and miss." The spokesperson did not
give details about how prevalent the missed-swimming pool problem
is in Texas.
After people complained, Texas legislators said they would review
the program to "check for abuses" and to measure its effectiveness.
Well, here's one reason to oppose this campaign against social drinkers:
While police are harassing tipsy people in bars, real criminals
are walking the streets -- free to kill, rob, and rape again.
According to 2004 FBI crime figures, less than half of violent crimes
in the U.S. are "cleared" by police. The FBI says only
46.3% of murders, forcible rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults
end with a suspect being arrested and charged. To break it down
by crime, only 62.6% of murders, 55.6% of aggravated assaults, 41.8%
of forcible rapes, and 26.2% of robberies are ever solved.
This means that for the average violent criminal, there's better
than a 50-50 chance he will never be caught. But hoist one extra
beer in a bar in Texas or Virginia, and a SWAT team will nab you
for sure.
If police spent fewer hours in bars and more hours investigating
murders, rapes, and robberies, there's a good chance that more dangerous
criminals would spend more time behind bars. And doesn't investigating
violent crime seem like a better use of a policeman's time than
lurking in bars, arresting your next-door neighbor for having one
drink too many?
Sources:
(Special thanks to Hugh Wright)
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=30288
http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8034788/detail.html
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49397
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_cleared/index.html
http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_081200713.htmls
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Director
Jason Reitman: Thank you for deciding for yourself
 Jason
Reitman won't tell you not to smoke. He thinks it's your business
if you do. Not his. And certainly not the government's.
Spoken like a true libertarian! And that's exactly what Reitman,
who directed the satiric new movie, Thank You For Smoking,
says he is.
He told the Toronto Eye Weekly (March 23): "I consider
myself a fairly libertarian person; someone who doesn't like being
told what to do. I don't have a problem with people smoking -- it's
their right."
He told the Arizona Republic (March 24): "As a libertarian,
I don't like government control. People should be left to their
own devices. If people want to put a gun to their head and kill
themselves, that's fine with me, and if they want to do it slowly
by smoking cigarettes, that's their choice, too."
Freedom of choice is one of the major themes of Thank You For
Smoking, which is about a charmingly amoral tobacco industry
"spin doctor." Played by Aaron Eckhart, the PR flack encourages
school children to "think for yourselves" about cigarettes
and earnestly explains that Big Tobacco wants to keep cancer victims
alive so they can smoke more.
But the movie doesn't actually advocate smoking. As Reitman told
the Philadelphia Inquirer (March 24), "The movie is
about freedom. But beyond freedom, it's about personal responsibility
-- and beyond that it's about parenting. That you can't simply tell
your kids not to be smokers. You have to teach them to be good,
independent thinkers so that one day they can make the right decisions."
Based on the 1994 novel by Christopher Buckley, Thank You For
Smoking also stars Katie Holmes, Rob Lowe, Sam Elliot, William
H. Macy, and Robert Duvall. Critics have called it "breezy
and entertaining," "one of the year's hottest indie breakouts,"
and "a sharp, irreverent satire." The movie opened in
limited release on March 17.
Reitman, a Canadian citizen, has a Hollywood pedigree; he's the
son of Ivan Reitman, who produced Animal House and directed
Ghostbusters. Reitman studied English at the University
of Southern California, got his first short movie into the Sundance
film festival at age 19, and directed commercials for Burger King,
Wal-Mart, and Buick. Thank You For Smoking is his first
feature film.
Sources: http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_03.23.06/film/spins
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/preview/articles/0324smoking0324reitman.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/14174656.htm
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Smoke
outside, go to jail for six months
When cities, towns, and states started passing smoking bans -- making
it illegal to light up in restaurants, bars, and business establishments
-- libertarians asked: What's next? Will busybody politicians
eventually ban smoking outdoors?
Well, yes. Effective March 17, the town of Calabasas, California
banned smoking almost everywhere. It's now illegal to smoke on Calabasas
sidewalks, parking lots, streets, parks -- and even on your own
balcony -- if a non-smoker is nearby. The only exceptions to the
law are inside private residences and in specially designated hotel
rooms. You are allowed to smoke outside, but only if "no non-smoker
is present and...it is not reasonable to expect another person to
arrive." (It's even a crime to smoke outdoors in the presence
of a non-smoker who gives you permission to do so!) Violate the
ban and you face up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail. A court
can also find someone guilty of "allowing, aiding or abetting"
illegal smoking.
But there's more. If someone smokes in your presence, you can sue
them for statutory damages of $250 for each violation. Even better,
if you can convince a jury that the smoker was guilty of "oppression,
fraud, malice, or conscious disregard for the public health and
safety" when he lit up, you can sue for punitive damages. With
so many juries eager to awards millions in damages, every cigarette
in Calabasas is now one match away from igniting a lawsuit.
That's why Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine (March 8) warns
other cities and towns that may decide to emulate Calabasas: "Americans
should consider whether they really want to embrace the Calabasas
spirit of moralistic intolerance masquerading as 'public health.'"
Indeed. And this new law is bound to make libertarians ask: What's
next? Will busybody politicians now ban smoking all together?
Stay tuned.
Sources: http://www.reason.com/sullum/030806.shtml
...
QUICK
SHOTS...
* They're down there: The government has opened
a new front on the War on Drugs -- in the sewers. According to the
Washington Post (March 27), the White House Office of National
Drug Control Policy is now testing sewage from several cities in
Virginia for "urinary byproducts of cocaine." The tests
will reportedly allow the government to determine what percentage
of the population indulges in illicit drugs.
* Sharing the pain: Thanks to budget-busting Republicans,
your personal share of the national debt is now $28,229, reports
Daylan Darby on LewRockwell.com (March 27). That's the $8.3 trillion
national debt divided by the United States' 295 million citizens.
When President Bill Clinton left office in 2001, your share was
"only" $20,392 (in 2006 dollars).
* Smart communists: A poll sponsored by the University
of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes found that
74% of Chinese agreed that "the free enterprise system and
free market economy is the best system on which to base the future
of the world." Shamefully, only 71% of Americans agreed with
that statement -- putting the United States three percentage
points behind communist China in its support for the free market.
* Big government exposed: Aaron Russo hopes to
premier a new documentary, America: From Freedom to Fascism,
at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The movie exposes the IRS and
the "growing authoritarianism" in American life. Previously,
Russo produced Hollywood blockbusters like The Rose and
Trading Places.
* A profit without honor: Why is it that people
who hate capitalism don't object to making a tidy profit from the
very system they despise? Case and point: Ralph Nader. In a review
of Peter Schweizer's book, Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles
in Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberty magazine (April 2006)
points out that Saint Ralph has a personal fortune of $4 million,
most of it invested in corporations like GE, Cisco Systems, and
IBM. Maybe big business isn't so bad, eh, Ralph?
Sources:
Sewage:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/26/AR2006032600880.html
National debt: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/darby1.html
Chinese: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/btglobalizationtradera/154.php?nid=&id=&pnt=154&lb=btgl
Russo film: http://www.freedomtofacism.com/
Ralph Nader: http://libertyunbound.com/archive/2006_04/jason-lifestyles.html
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"Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News" is written by
Liberator Online editor Bill Winter.
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Persuasion
Power
Point
#199 |
Constructive Dissatisfaction
Makes People Hungry for Liberty
By Michael Cloud
Dissatisfaction is uncomfortable. It eats at us. It makes us restless
and anxious.
Discontent can bleed into every moment of our day. It irritates
and bothers us. It stalks us.
So we avoid and escape it whenever we can. We relieve it whenever
and wherever we can.
Would it surprise you to learn that some kinds of dissatisfaction
or discontent can make our lives dramatically better? And that it
can make people hungry for liberty?
There are two kinds of dissatisfaction: destructive and constructive.
Negative and positive.
Destructive discontent begins and ends with how awful something
is. With how painful and costly it is. With how frustrating and
futile circumstances are. Destructive dissatisfaction tells us that
we're stuck -- and there's nothing we can do.
It makes us feel helpless and hopeless.
Constructive dissatisfaction can lift up our lives. Change our world.
Invent a better future.
Constructive dissatisfaction arises when we visualize a better alternative.
A better possibility.
The light bulb created constructive dissatisfaction with the candle
and kerosene lamp. The automobile made people dissatisfied with
the horse and carriage. Telephones made us dissatisfied with the
telegraph. Word processors and computers did it to typewriters.
Cell phones are doing it to land-line telephones.
New and better goods and services create constructive dissatisfaction.
And drive progress.
We libertarians must learn to sow the seeds of constructive dissatisfaction.
We must expose the unfixably flawed, radically inferior, and obscenely
expensive Big Government programs -- by offering innovative libertarian
proposals. For quickly and dramatically shrinking government. By
showing how and why to totally privatize and marketize Big Government
economic and social programs.
Imagine an amateur, part-time teacher delivering a 30% to 50% better
education to a child than government-run public schools. Now imagine
paying only $1,000 to $1,500 each year for this better education
-- instead of $6,000 to $8,000 for the inferior work. Over two million
home-schooling families do this every year.
Imagine being forced to pay four to six times as much for tax-funded
government housing as private enterprise builders charge. That's
the ratio between tax-funded college dormitory rooms -- and private-enterprise
apartment construction.
Imagine being forced into a government retirement system that takes
your money, makes no guarantees on how much you'll get, and gives
you a poor return for the money taken from your paycheck. Now imagine
putting aside the same amount of money in your own retirement account,
getting interest on your savings, and retiring with a personal nest
egg of over $1 million. Probably more. That's the power of compound
interest. That's the difference between government-run Social Security
-- and private retirement accounts.
That's constructive discontent. It tantalizes and tempts listeners
to liberty. It whets their appetite for small government and freedom.
Get the facts for the libertarian alternatives. Compare private
charity to government welfare. Contrast private economic development
with Big Government economic programs. Show the big differences
between deregulated, private, competitive health care and today's
Big Government medical monstrosity.
That's positive and productive dissatisfaction.
Offer a bold libertarian proposal. Show the huge, immediate, direct
benefits of our private enterprise alternatives. Compare and contrast
them with today's Big Government program.
Sow the seeds of constructive discontent with small government freedom
proposals -- and we can reap a libertarian America.
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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.
What
can we do about power-hungry police officers?
QUESTION:
"If the police force actually attracts people who
like violence, have inferiority complexes, and/or crave power, as
some people suggest, does that alter the libertarian position on
having private police agencies rather than government police forces?
How do we guard against those bad apples who are attracted to a
job which allows them to use force against and power over others."
MY SHORT ANSWER: If we assume that predators are
attracted to law enforcement, private policing becomes even more
desirable. Public police enjoy a great deal of sovereign immunity.
Like many government employees, the extent to which they can be
held liable to their victims is limited. Even when their victims
win settlements, taxpayers -- rather than the offending officers
-- often pay them. A bad apple can often get away with a great deal
more abusive behavior as a public police officer than as a civilian.
Private police, on the other hand, enjoy no such immunities. Profit-making
companies would act quickly to remove an abusive individual from
the payroll to prevent loss of business. The offending officer would
be held personally liable for acts of aggression and, in a libertarian
society, expected to make restitution to the victim.
Private police profit most if they can prevent crime, rather than
chase criminals. Consequently, they show citizens how to make their
homes more secure, monitor houses when the residents go out of town,
and make their presence visible to discourage criminals. Their focus
is on protecting, not apprehending (although they will take a suspect
into custody when appropriate). In other words, private police primarily
"serve and protect," rather than "enforce the law"
as public police do. That's a very different mindset!
Do
libertarians support laissez-faire capitalism?
QUESTION:
"Libertarianism advocates economic freedom. Does this mean
that libertarians support laissez-faire capitalism? If not, then
what is the libertarian position on big business and monopolies?"
MY SHORT ANSWER: Libertarians support the free
market. If this fits your idea of "laissez-faire capitalism,"
in contrast to what the U.S. has today, then my answer is "Yes!"
Many people believe that the free market makes the rich richer at
the expense of the poor, favors monopolies which exploit the consumer,
and creates an antagonistic "dog-eat-dog" atmosphere.
However, these undesirable outcomes occur more often in government-regulated
economies.
The term "monopoly" originally referred to a business
permitted to operate by a royal decree which outlawed all other
competition. Today, most monopolies are still government created.
For example, cable TV companies usually have a local monopoly, because
lawmakers have outlawed competition. Consequently, our cable TV
bills are much higher than they would be otherwise. Like cable TV,
long-distance calls used to be overpriced because of AT&T's
government-granted monopoly. When competition was permitted through
deregulation, long-distance prices plummeted. The high prices caused
by government-sanctioned monopolies hurt the poor the most.
Monopolies can exist in the free market, but only as long as they
serve the customer better than any other provider. J.D. Rockefeller's
Standard Oil gained 90% of consumer business by developing technology
that made oil cheap. However, when Rockefeller used his near-monopoly
to raise prices, competitors quickly arose to undersell him. He
maintained market share only as long as he kept prices low enough
to put competitors out of business.
The consumers, especially the poor ones, came out ahead. Overseas
oil wells and new energy sources (e.g., natural gas) ended Standard
Oil's monopoly long before its antitrust conviction in 1911. Innovation,
not "dog-eat-dog" competition, keeps monopolies in check
in the free market. On the other hand, using the threat of government
guns to eliminate your competition like AT&T did -- and the
cable companies do today -- is about as "dog-eat-dog"
as it gets!
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