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Separate school and state, says leading
columnist.... Twenty-five years after "the gun law that shook
the world".... How many U.S. troops are stationed abroad -- and
in how many countries?.... Easy ways you can promote the
Quiz.... Is Big Government a bigger danger than Big
Business?.... and much more!
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The Liberator Online
Vol. 12, No. 5 | March 8, 2007
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Contents
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
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Easy free ways
you can promote liberty with the Quiz
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
* April 21: Sharon Harris at "Women In Liberty" Minnesota LP
convention
* New "Libertarian Celebrity and VIPs" profiles
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
*
Boston Globe columnist: Separate School and State
* Kennesaw Anniversary: Guns Prevent Crime
* The Sun Never Sets on the U.S. Empire
* Columnist: GOP Divided Between Libertarians and Authoritarians
* Message to Congress: Reduce the Federal Deficit -- or Else
QUICK SHOTS: You owe $175,000...
PERSUASION POWER POINT
#220
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The Power of One by Michael Cloud
ASK DR. RUWART
* Is Big Government a bigger danger than Big
Business?
* Will libertarian courts force witnesses to testify?
ONE-MINUTE
LIBERTY TIP
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Taking YES
for an Answer by Sharon Harris
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Dear
friends,
Last issue I discussed why the World's Smallest
Political Quiz is so important to the libertarian movement, and how
its amazing popularity has brought so many people to understand and
accept libertarian ideas.
Now I want to share with you some free, easy and
highly effective ways you can use the Quiz to take libertarian ideas
to people who are hungry for them.
1) PUT THE ANIMATED QUIZ GRAPHIC AT YOUR WEB SITE.
Having the eye-catching animated Quiz GIF graphic at your Web site,
blog, or online journal will spread the word -- and spark
conversation and debate at your site. That's why thousands of Web
sites, large and small -- including Alan Colmes of FOX TV, Chris
Matthews of MSNBC, The Libertarian Party, the Republican Liberty
Caucus, and many others -- have links to the Quiz at their sites.
It's easy and it only takes seconds. Just visit
this page:
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz-score/lib-word-link.html
... and right-click on the animated Quiz GIF to
download it.
2) USE OUR QUIZ ADS IN YOUR PUBLICATION. Do you or
your organization have a print newsletter, newspaper or magazine? Do
you do outreach fliers? We have great-looking professional ads for
you and your readers! We've prepared several sizes of attractive,
enticing, and provocative ads with the Quiz as their focus.
See them here:
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Beneath each ad is a link for downloading a
high-resolution PDF file ready for printing. (If you use these ads,
please send us a copy of your publication so we can share the good
news.)
3) SEND AN EMAIL NOTE: Tell a friend (or lots of
friends!) about the Quiz using our prepared email message. It only
takes seconds. Use our easy form here:
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz-score/lib-word-email.html
This lets you send anyone you choose a prepared
email about the Quiz. You can easily customize the message, if you
wish.
4) COPY AND POST OUR QUIZ ARTICLE: "The World's
Most Popular Political Quiz" is a short -- only 870 words - article
about the Quiz. It's comprehensive and fascinating. It briefly
explains the origins of the Quiz, answers many of the common
questions people have, and illustrates how much fun people have when
they take the Quiz. And it's copyright free. (We just ask that you
include the link to the World's Smallest Political Quiz.)
It's an easy way to get some fresh content on your
blog, Web site, or online journal -- and, at the same time,
encourage your readers to take the World's Smallest Political Quiz.
They'll thank you for it!
http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz-score/lib-word-article.html
5) TELL YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL NEWSPAPER COLUMNIST
ABOUT THE QUIZ: Columnists love the Quiz. Scores of newspaper
articles have been written about it. You can direct them to our Web
page or send them a copy of the card form of the Quiz. And you can
email or mail them the article referred to just above. Even if they
don't write a column on the Quiz, they'll certainly take the Quiz,
and gain greater understanding of libertarianism.
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There are many other ways to promote the Quiz, and
I'll share them in the near future. But these are amazingly
effective, free, and only take a few moments.
Remember, there is great power in numbers. If a
significant fraction of our readers were to do these things, it
would mean many thousands, perhaps even millions, of people would be
exposed to the Quiz and the ideas of liberty in a very short time.
But even just *one* person doing one or more of
these things can make a difference. You will open minds -- and help
discover and educate the libertarian leaders, activists and
supporters of tomorrow!
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Happening With The Advocates
* April 21, 2007:
Advocates President
Sharon Harris will join other leading libertarian speakers including
author Wendy McElroy, at the 2007 Libertarian Party of Minnesota
state convention. The convention theme is "Women in Liberty." Enjoy
a dinner buffet, bid on auctions, purchase pro-liberty gear, browse
exhibits, meet candidates, party officials and more! Location: the
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http://www.lpmn.org/convention_2007.php
* New "Libertarian Celebrity and VIPs" profiles:
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Good News,
Bad
News,
Unbelievable News |
By
James W. Harris
Boston Globe columnist:
Separate SCHOOL and state
Hooray! One of the nation's most influential political columnists
has endorsed one of the boldest and most far-reaching libertarian
proposals: the separation of school and state.
"A call for separation of school and state" is the
title of a March 4, 2007 column by Jeff Jacoby, award-winning
political columnist for the Boston Globe. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
Globe is the largest newspaper in the New England area, and is the
15th largest-circulation newspaper in America, with over 600,000
readers.
After discussing a current court case concerning
the rights of parents to have a say in government school curriculum,
Jacoby cut to the heart of the matter:
"On any number of fundamental issues, parents
today are sharply divided, and there is no way a government-run,
one-curriculum-fits-all education system can satisfy all sides. The
only way to end the political battles over schooling is to
depoliticize the schools. And the only way to do that is to separate
school and state.
"Parents should have the same freedom in educating
their kids that they have in clothing, housing, and feeding them.
You wouldn't let the government decide what time your kids should go
to bed, or which doctor should treat their chicken pox, or how they
should spend their summer vacation, or which religion they should be
instructed in. On matters serious and not so serious, parents are
entrusted with their children's well-being. Why should schooling be
an exception?
"Get government out of the business of running
schools, and a range of alternatives will emerge. Freedom,
innovation, and competition will do for education what they do for
so much else in American life: increase choices, lower costs,
improve performance -- and eliminate conflict. So long as education
is controlled by the state, the battles and bad blood will continue.
With more liberty will come more tolerance -- and more resources
spent on learning than on litigation."
Libertarians should cheer, and take hope. This is
yet more proof that even the boldest libertarian ideas are rapidly
winning more and more supporters -- a sign that the future for
liberty is bright indeed.
(Congratulations, incidentally, to Advocates
Founder Marshall Fritz! After serving as Advocates president,
Marshall founded the Alliance for the Separation of School and
State, which has been a leading advocacy group for exactly the
arguments Jacoby makes in this article. It can hardly be coincidence
that that organization's very name was the title of this article.)
(Sources:
Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/03/04/a_call_for_separation_of_school_and_state/
Alliance for the Separation of School and State:
http://www.schoolandstate.org/ )
* * *
Kennesaw anniversary:
guns prevent crime
Kennesaw, Georgia is celebrating the 25th
anniversary of a law often cited as proof of the idea that gun
ownership prevents crime.
On May 1, 1982, the Kennesaw city council made
headlines around the world when it ordered "every head of household
to maintain a firearm together with ammunition." (Exceptions were
written so broadly as to allow anyone to opt out, and there is no
penalty for failure to comply.)
The law was in part a reaction to an anti-gun
ordinance passed at the time in Morton Grove, Illinois, which
prohibited the ownership of handguns.
Some opponents predicted a bloodbath. Yet crime
(which was already low) dropped immediately in Kennesaw, while in
Morton Grove it did not.
Further, the drop has continued, even though
during the past 25 years Kennesaw has grown from a sleepy small town
of about 5,000 to a booming high-traffic Atlanta suburb of
30,000-plus residents.
As the Kennesaw Historical Society notes: "Since
passage of the law, the burglary rate in Kennesaw has gone down
significantly -- making it one of the safest cities of its size in
the United States -- while the rate in Morton Grove has gone up."
Handguns are still banned in Morton Grove. Some
people, it seems, learn faster than others.
(Sources: USA Today:
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/02/the_city_where_.html
)
* * *
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The sun never sets on the
U.S. empire
How many countries around the world
have U.S. troops stationed in them?
The answer is astounding. According to the latest
Pentagon figures, the U.S. has more than a quarter of a million
troops in 144 countries and 15 territories.
That's *over 70 percent* of the world's 193
sovereign countries (according to the U.S. State Department). In
addition, there are over 20,000 more military personnel on naval
vessels in foreign waters.
Sixty years after World War II, the U.S. still has
troops in Germany (64,319), Japan (33,453), and Italy (10,449). Half
a century after the Korean War, there are 36,263 troops in South
Korea.
The numbers are smaller in some countries, with
some having only a handful of U.S. troops stationed (for example, 9
in Albania, 7 in Latvia, 3 in Laos). Still, those troops serve as
projections of U.S. military and political power, and are potential
tripwires for war.
In total, there are 284,967 U.S. military
personnel abroad.
Furthermore, the number of countries with a U.S.
military presence has increased in just the past few years. In 2004,
there were "only" 135 countries with U.S. troops.
This kind of world military presence has never
been seen in history. It assures the U.S. will continually be
involved in political strife around the world, and that our taxes
will be heavy and our civil liberties continually in danger.
The Founding Fathers, well aware from history of
the dangers of empire, repeatedly warned against an interventionist
foreign policy:
* George Washington: "The great rule of conduct
for us. in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial
relations to have with them as little political connection as
possible."
* Thomas Jefferson: "Peace, commerce, and honest
friendship with all nations -- entangling alliances with none."
* John Quincy Adams: "America . . . goes not
abroad seeking monsters to destroy."
What would they think today?
(Sources: "Update on the Empire," Laurence Vance:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance103.html
U.S. Defense Department figures:
http://siadapp.dior.whs.mil/personnel/MILITARY/history/hst0609.pdf
)
* * *
Columnist: GOP divided
between libertarians and authoritarians
"The real long-standing divide in the GOP is not between pro-lifers
and pro-choicers, but between libertarian-oriented Republicans who
believe in the Reaganite admonition that "government is not the solution
but the problem," and law-and-order Republicans who believe that "if
you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to hide from the
government."
"It's always been an uncomfortable alliance, one that worked
politically during the Reagan years thanks mostly to [Reagan's]
rhetorical skills, but has become uneasy in recent years. Following
9/11, those of us who understand that controlling government is the key
founding concept of this nation, have been routed by those who believe
the opposite.
"Under George W. Bush, the United States has embarked on the
decidedly nonlibertarian tasks of a) fighting foreign wars, b) limiting
civil liberties at home as a way to root out potential threats at home,
c) expanding government programs, and d) promoting the idea that
government planners will protect and help us, if only we respect and
obey them."
-- from "Is That All The Choice There Is?", a February 18 column by
Steven Greenhut, senior editorial writer and columnist for The Orange
County Register. His column and other writings appear in newspapers
across America.
(Source: "Is That All The Choice There Is?"
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/columns/article_1582381.php
)
Message to Congress: reduce
the federal deficit -- or else!
How do you get Congress to stop deficit spending?
Well, how about slashing their paychecks every year the federal
government runs a deficit?
That's what a new bill, H.R. 500, "The Fiscal
Responsibility Act of 2007," would do. For every year that federal
expenditures exceed revenues there would be a congressional pay cut
of 5 percent for the first year, and 10 percent for any consecutive
subsequent year. (Spending related to war or a direct response to a
terrorist attack would not be counted.)
This reduction would continue until salaries
reached zero. Which, given Congress's spending habits, might happen
pretty darn fast.
The bill has five sponsors so far. Alas, passage
is a long shot, to put it mildly. But it sure would be fun to watch
Congress panic should it even come close to becoming law.
(Source: Downsize DC:
http://action.downsizedc.org/wyc.php?cid=64 )
QUICK
SHOTS...
YOU OWE $175,000: "The official national
debt figure, now approaching $9 trillion, reflects only what the
federal government owes in current debts on money already borrowed.
It does not reflect what the federal government has promised to pay
millions of Americans in entitlement benefits down the road. Those
future obligations put our real debt figure at roughly fifty
trillion dollars -- a staggering sum that is about as large as the
total household net worth of the entire United States. Your share of
this fifty trillion amounts to about $175,000." -- libertarian U.S.
Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX), "The Coming Entitlement Meltdown"
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2007/tst030507.htm
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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
#222 |
The Power
of One
By
Michael Cloud
"One is four times as powerful as two," said Karl
Hess. "One is nine times as powerful as three. One is sixteen times
as powerful as four."
This was not math class. Nor business. It was
speechwriting.
And master speechwriter Karl Hess was teaching me.
One on one.
Karl Hess was best known as Barry Goldwater's
speechwriter. But he was far more than that. He was a journalist, a
gunrunner, businessman, Republican activist, New Left activist,
Libertarian activist, author and speechwriter.
But on this day, Karl was showing me how to prune
my speech into something elegant, simple, and direct.
I was writing a speech for a client. It had clever
phrases and interesting insights. But it just didn't work. Something
was wrong. So I called Karl Hess, and asked for help.
"You're making six points in this speech," he
said. "The audience will applaud. They'll remember that the speaker
was smart and deep, but they won't remember one single thing your
client says.
"Six points is too many. Too much. Every great
speech has one point. One assertion. One idea. One important and
unforgettable idea."
I followed Karl's advice, re-wrote it as he
advised, and my client gave an unforgettable speech. The audience
loved it. More than a dozen organizations invited him to give the
speech to their members. He grew into a local celebrity. And he sent
me eight paying customers who wanted me to write them an
unforgettable speech like his. A speech people talk about.
Karl Hess taught me the power of one.
In speeches. Essays. In conversations.
Each of Aesop's fables had one point. Not two. Not
three. One lesson.
The parables of Jesus. One moral. Not two. Not
three. One maxim.
Allegories. Myths. Teaching tales. Each offers one
truth. Not two. Not three. One.
So, too, with the greatest libertarian books,
essays, speeches, and conversations.
"Economics in One Lesson" by Henry Hazlitt has one
point.
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand has one theme, one
point, one thesis. As does "The Fountainhead."
Each of Frederic Bastiat's brilliant essays and
pamphlets has one lesson.
Harry Browne's most unforgettable essays and
speeches each make one point.
"Losing Ground" by Charles Murray. One
devastatingly powerful point.
So, too, with my best essays, speeches, and
conversations. And yours.
One point -- with several examples.
One idea -- applied to several different
situations.
One insight -- viewed from several different
perspectives.
One lesson -- tested and applied, taught and
reviewed, learned and lived.
If you could reach and teach non-libertarians only
one thing -- one unforgettable point that could change their lives
forever -- what would it be?
What's your one vital freedom lesson?
What's your single, core message about individual
liberty?
What's your one?
Because that's where you make a difference. With
the power of one.
* * *
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.
Government vs. corporations and court testimony
QUESTION: In a libertarian society, how would
we control corporations? They often exploit the environment and their
employees, and seek to purchase the control of government. Is big
government a greater danger than bigger business?
MY SHORT ANSWER: Big government is indeed a
greater danger than big business, since it makes exploitation by big
business possible.
In the early 1900s, individuals could sue corporations
for environmental damage to their property, including pollution of the
waterways. Britain still allows individuals to sue upstream polluters
for restitution, as would a libertarian government.
In the United States, however, individuals are rarely
permitted to sue, since government is supposed to do it for them. While
an individual will rarely sit idle as his or her property is polluted
and devalued, politicians and government employees can profit by
accepting a bribe to look the other way. Consequently, a polluting
corporation can sometimes render itself immune to prosecution by
contributing to the appropriate campaign chest.
In a libertarian society, business managers or owners
who mismanaged employee pension or savings funds might spend a lifetime
making restitution to the victims. In today's society, government often
forgives these debts through individual or corporate bankruptcy,
protecting the guilty at the expense of the innocent. In a libertarian
society, only the victims could waive their right to full restitution.
In summary, a libertarian society would not permit
many of the abuses that big business gets away with today.
* * *
QUESTION: In a libertarian society, when
marriage becomes a private institution, what will happen to the right of
a person not to be forced to testify against their spouse in a court of
law?
MY SHORT ANSWER: In a libertarian society, no
peaceful person could be forced to do anything, including testify
against another. Today's government simply threatens people with prison
and fines unless they give information, often at great cost to
themselves (e.g., missing work).
Does this mean if you were charged with murder that
the witness who could save you wouldn't testify? Probably not. Witnesses
could be reimbursed for lost work and other expenses for testifying, so
their cost would be minimal. Withholding crucial information would
likely be considered socially unacceptable. Few people would want to be
embarrassed by a public announcement that they had done so -- and caused
an innocent person to suffer.
Even today, it's almost impossible to force someone to
testify truthfully. Witnesses lie to protect themselves and others, even
under oath. That's probably the real reason that spouses can't be forced
to testify today: they are the ones most likely to twist the truth for
the benefit of their loved ones.
* * *
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 |
...
Taking YES for an
answer
By
Sharon Harris, Advocates President
As libertarians, we're always anxious to
persuade others to come around to our point of view about every
issue.
So in our first conversation with someone, it's
easy to fall into the trap of not taking YES for an answer.
All too often we anxiously wait for -- or even
rush the conversation toward -- a hot-button topic on which we
*disagree* with the person, so we can begin the persuasion process!
But when we do this, we skip one very important
step in a discussion: building rapport. Without rapport, persuasion
is very difficult, if not impossible.
One wonderful thing about libertarianism is that
EVERYONE agrees with us on some -- even many -- issues. So try
starting the conversation with areas of agreement. Linger on those
issues, enjoy the conversation, and let the other person know how
smart you think they are! Be sure to tell them that you -- and other
libertarians -- strongly agree with them on those issues.
Hold off on steering the conversation toward
disagreement until later in the conversation -- or even until a
future conversation.
Learn to take YES for an answer, first, and you'll
find it much easier to get to agreement on those controversial
topics.
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