February 1996

The Libertarian Religion: "As I was walking though Laishley Park, a smiling man with good posture offered me a 2-inch yellow card." What as it? A Chic comic? Awake magazine? No, this was "yet another example of the World's Smalest Political Quiz". I've taken the quiz, and it's really not that big of a deal. Ten questions, five on economic issues and five on social. I turned up as a left/liberal, a conclusion I must differ with. The test has some serious flaws, such as listing freedom of speech on the left (thanks to the free thinking left, I couldn't see Ike Turner perform when he was in town). But for some libertarians this quiz is the gateway to the wonderful world of the free market.

"If you've used the quiz in you outreach efforts, you know how powerful this Advocates [for Self-Government] tool is." If these missionary efforts continue, libertarians will end up with the LaRouche freaks and Amway zombies as non-religios cults that some cult "outreach" groups have started targeting. And I don't think the designation is entirely undeserved.

The free market as the cure-all for the world's ills is taken as an article of faith for most libertarians, and some justification is invented on the spot when it is challenged. As if getting rid of anti-trust laws will boost competition. The Libbers claim that any monopoly will automatically be disrupted by the free market when other entrepreneurs smell the scent of high profit. Sure, I'll compete with Blockbuster. I've got some change in my couch. Problem is, mega-corporation can afford to lose money in one area (market or geographic location), destroy the weaker competition, then drive the prices up. We've seen this with both Blockbuster and Walmart.

But if you really want to see rampant capitalism, just take a look at the former Soviet Union, where the equivalent of Dan Rather was murdered by the mob because he was thinking of cutting some advertising. And just wait for voluntary taxation, when the police payroll is dependent upon the wishes of the richest districts. Or hell, just privitize it, just like we're doing with prisons. Here in central Texas, the CIA connected Wackenhut corporation runs a prison with virtual slave labor. How do you compete with that?

The Republicans might just kill the libertarian party. If they're facist savages for cutting welfare and medicare, what's that make the Libbers for wanting to cut it out completely? Their only appeal they might have had for the left was their stance on drug legalization. I'm sure cheap and easily-available heroin will reduce the number of addicts, just like it didn't in China with the British, in Vietnam with American soldiers, and now in American cities.

Take the power out of the hands of the government (bad as they are, they at least have to pretend to be on our side), and it falls into the lap of whoever has the most money and power. "Self Government" has worked great for ITT and Chase Manhattan, but ll it will give us is $1 an hour jobs and cheap dope. Just what we need. (Advocates for Self Government, 3955 Pleasantdale Rd., 106-A, Atlanta, GA 30340.

  • Arthur Burns, former chairman of the Fedral Reserve Board: "We could wreck this country overnight if we wanted to ... but of course we don't want to." From the Western Tax Council, PO Box 2197, Orofino, ID 83544.
  • I am the NRA: "As long as people can hold a gun to the temple of our elected representative we will have the potential for significant leverage." - Noam Chomsky
  • Jackboots: According to Mess Age, Humn Events identifies Democrat Representative John Dingell, not the NRA, as the first describing the BATF as a "jack-booted group of fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American society as I could pick today."
  • Most Hateful Quote: "Who cares about Watermelon Head? A nigger-loving White trash bitch just got what she deserved, along with a priapic Jew intent on injecting his own deformed Levantine chromosomes into the aforementioned slut, who had already defiled herself by bearing two fecal half-breeds. The proboscidian Goldman was allegedly a popular waiter among the L.A. lounge lizard set. Someone else will be getting your tips now, Jew-boy. Too bad." - W.H. Hendall, "Million Monkey March": The Meaning For White America, Resistance #56, Nov-Dec 1995
  • Most Absurd Faked Quote: "It is God's law to kill the babies." - Hillary Clinton. Attributed by Texe Marrs from a second-hand source.
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