Adam Young's Columns
"My friend Nicholas has an idea for a business that he describes as a 'consumer-friendly credit reporting agency' that he believes will eliminate the opportunity for the fraud and theft that goes by the general name of identity theft." Column by Adam Young.
" In contrast, the caretaker who only controls but does not own, has no incentive, no financial interest, in maintaining the capital value of the assets he controls beyond the term of his control. As Hans-Hermann Hoppe put it in reference to this phenomenon in electoral politics, what the politician doesn’t loot now, he might never get to loot later." Column by Adam Young.
"By combating Arab and Muslim kidnappers and pirates, Jefferson was engaged in preserving the freedom to trade. George W. Bush, by invading two Muslim countries and murdering 100,000 civilians, is engaged in a war for empire, for oil, for Israel and for popularity." Column by Adam Young.
"The old Anarchists, like today’s Al-Qaeda and the various Jihadi groups, lowered themselves to the level of politicians and the other bandits, looters and murderers that comprise the political machine. Engaging in the sort of gang warfare that defines politics discredits any movement against the State." Column by Adam Young.
Is it Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism or Something Else?
"When politicians see their glory receding, their instinct is to kill." Column by Adam Young.
How the Hiroshima Lie Endangers American Lives
"But there is another more sinister aspect and consequence of the Hiroshima lie. And that is the rationale and justification it affords to Osama bin Laden." Column by Adam Young.
"After more than nine hours of tedious and often ridiculous 'debate' that largely consisted of fear mongering and other general insults to the intelligence of the average person, the House renewed the Patriot Act 257 votes for it and 171 against it." Column by Adam Young.
"What is this but an open declaration that the regime of Tony Blair has established a policy that his police forces can shoot to kill just on suspicion? Can kill anyone in Britain--including British citizens-- without any safeguards at all, based all on how someone may walk or what they wear somewhere at some time." Column by Adam Young.
" I suspect Tony Blair is fully aware of how his policies have brought terror to Londoners, and disaster to Iraq, but such is the contempt for humanity and honesty by politicians in general and Tony Blair in particular, who has a long career behind him of deceit, that he refuses to acknowledge his complicity in this enormous crime he has committed in partnership with his confederate in state terror George W. Bush." Column by Adam Young.
"George
W. Bush, sadly and frighteningly, is indeed the most powerful man on Earth, made
so by the inhumanity of the
"Atomic weapons are the perfect symbol for the modern state. Homicidal, genocidal, all around the enemy of civilization and despoiler of social norms of discourse and harmonious relationships." Column by Adam Young.
Was Terri Schiavo 'Allowed to Die' or Was She Killed?
"While the entire tragedy was unfolding over the past few weeks, my initial reaction was revulsion over the thought that, based solely on the claim of off-hand comments that she made while watching an episode of ER years before her heart attack, she would be starved to death, something which it is illegal to do to a dog in the United States." Column by Adam Young.
Abortion Revisited: The Libertarian Case for Abortion
Recommended "Both women and men should be under no illusions that abortion involves terminating the life of a human being. The pro-choice movement should concede that a human life is taken during an abortion, but defend the right to abortion as consistent with modern definitions of humanity itself, as free, self-owning individuals, and support educational efforts to make abortion rare. The anti-abortion movement should accept this right and focus its efforts on education and providing alternatives to abortion, instead of wasting energy and resources fighting the legitimacy of individual ownership. I happen to think the best way to reduce the number of abortions is to allow infants to be bought and sold, giving women the option of both continuing an unwanted pregnancy and to be financially compensated for her free choice not to have an abortion." Column by Adam Young.
"Here we have a woman raging against the existence of the male of the species, and in the name of making women equal to those men, promotes the notion of a sexually-based punitive tax based not even on guilt but on one’s mere existence and not only that, is now advocating the formation of a sexually exclusive organization to promote one sex over the other. And this is supposed to be equality? Is this what equality is supposed to look like?" Column by Adam Young.
Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child?
"If the great monster is distinguished by the regularized, systemized use of corporal punishment for various infractions of its arbitrary whims and desires both large and small, can we in good conscience emulate its example when we seek to punish misbehavior by those who are dependent on us for rules we impose as parents?" Column by Adam Young.
"...what is 'outsourcing'? Is it any different from what you or I do everyday when we choose between which suppliers will provide us with the goods and services we need to achieve our aims and desires?" Column by Adam Young.
"But even stranger than this is the oft-heard contention by libertarians that absent the State (the industry-military cartel), everyone would be free to own biological and chemical weapons, and even nuclear warheads, along with attack aircraft, missiles, and every other weapon of major destruction and suffering that the Statists and Sadists have conjured up out of their twisted minds." Column by Adam Young.
Recommended "All politicians are by definition losers. Losers who cannot satiate their megalomania and distinguish themselves except through brutality. For politicians, being megalomaniacs is their job description....For some reason these monsters go into politics and instead of hunting victims in back alleys, through politics they are able to magnify the scale of their crimes and the scope of their victims." Column by Adam Young.
"Can you own the recently dead? In other words, under the ideal libertarian conditions of unobstructed self-ownership, could you inherit, or purchase and sell property titles to, a corpse?" Column by Adam Young.
Libertarian Economics and Social Democracy
Recommended "A government arises out of plunder. Foreign or domestic elements will pillage the peaceful producers for their own gain. Eventually, they will realize that instead of raiding them every year, they can conquer them and exact tribute perpetually. They do not establish a monopoly to defend their already existing property, which they used to conquer the producers. Instead, just as I said, they establish the monopoly to tax, to establish a permanent source of annual income. To exploit the weak. Property isn't theft. Taxation is theft." Column by Adam Young.
"...hopefully we can convince enough people that the source of their rage and frustration is the state, and the solution is not democracy and 'political liberties,' but the true freedom of laissez-faire liberty." Column by Adam Young.
"These clueless weirdos, with their fanatical devotion to George Bush and their belief in a god of Holy Genocides, desperately hope that the End Times are near. With their medieval mentality, they put their blind faith in preachers, scriptures, signs and omens, portents and prophecies, and in the most cynical alliance of competitors since the Hitler-Stalin Pact to carve up Poland, the Fundies have allied with the Israeli Likud in a pact of mutually assured exploitation. By aiding the Jewish State, the Fundies hope to speed up the Apocalypse, and by allying with the Fundies, the Likud get a hard grip on the U.S. political process." Column by Adam Young.
Recommended "Freedom or liberty is having control over one's life, destiny and activities, i.e., over how he spends his time on earth and to what uses he puts his body, mind and energy. All individuals live in a world of scarcity. In order to act, each individual must choose between a range of possible actions. By acting, the individual chooses to expend energy, but also to spend his only irreplaceable and nonrenewable capital--TIME. Everyone stands equally naked before the face of time." Column by Adam Young.
Crossing the Rubicon or Jumping the Shark?
"But to hear the Brownshirts expectorate on the electoral results, one would marvel at the rise of civilization in just one election cycle. With the Messianic Masses marching in long shadows behind, offering up the Mandate of the American People (and their liberties) to the presidential god, through whom, embodying the Mandate of Heaven, even though he isn't Chinese, the neocons are actively weaving a vision of idyllic success and achievement, not only in Iraq, but in other targets of the deluded herd's liberating rage." Column by Adam Young.
"Most of these right-wing idolaters of the state, enemies of the real America-- peace-loving, liberty-loving, and devoted to commercial, voluntary exchange--are devoted to a strange duopolistic religion, based on verbal fealty to a Jewish zombie, but full-throated cries to the war god." Column by new Root Striker Adam Young.