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The libertarian bestselling author requests assistance for embattled Professor Walter Block in this TomWoodsTV video.

Will Grigg has done it again. This time, the victim of government violence had four legs. Read about it and see the video clip here. The Labrador's dying yelp after Corporal Tarek Hassani had shot him has haunted me all day.
 
Hooch was barking, as dogs do when strangers approach. He had run around the cop car, but was back on his owner's lawn. He had been provoked by being kicked, but was not armed and did not retaliate, not even by chewing Hassani's ankle. But now he is dead.
 
The Filer, ID police chief Tim Reeves has exonerated the Corporal. So has the nearest government prosecutor. Some busybody had called Hassani to the scene because "dogs were running wild" and Filer has some law to say they have to be leashed. Day was, when an owner could decide whether his dog could or could not run free; nobody wants his dog killed by a vehicle so there is ample motivation to make the right decision. Yet after the dog murder, Hassani swore at the owner and wrote him a ticket for letting the dog run loose. There is no word yet on whether he will be made to pay for the bullet.
 
So it's yet another example of why government is utterly reprobate, beyond hope of taming. It has to go. The means are at hand.

In this Larken Rose video the libertarian discusses how the new ice age has impacted his crosscountry liberty trek. 

Libertarian Walter Block's anti-union stance is attacked in this c4ssvideos video.

I found the following in The Complete Libertarian Forum, Kindle location 24600. It's two centuries old. When will they ever learn? - never. Therefore, they (government) must be abolished.

A suggestion from Dr. Benjamin Rush (1745-1813), signer of the Declaration of Independence and pioneer psychiatrist.
 
Signs of War
 
In order more deeply to affect the minds of the citizens of the United States with the blessings of peace, by contrasting them with the evils of war, let the following inscriptions be painted upon the sign, which is placed over the door of the War Office.

1. An office for butchering the human species.
2. A widow and orphan making office.
3. A broken bone making office.
4. A wooden leg making office.
5. An office for creating public and private vices.
6. An office for creating a public debt.
7. An office for creating speculators, stock jobbers, and bankrupts.
8. An office for creating famine.
9. An office for creating pestilential diseases.
10. An office for creating poverty, and the destruction of liberty and national happiness.

In the lobby of this office let there be painted representations of all the common military instruments of death, also human skulls, broken bones, unburied and putrefying dead bodies, hospitals crowded with sick and wounded soldiers, villages on fire, mothers in besieged towns eating the flesh of their children, ships sinking in the ocean, rivers dyed with blood, and extensive plains without a tree or fence, or any other object, but the ruins of deserted farm houses.

Above this group of woeful figures, let the following words be inserted, in red characters to represent human blood: “National Glory.”
 

In this misesmedia video, Mark Thornton expresses concern about the validity of the American State's latest GDP numbers.

- long time passing?
 
The late Pete Seeger sang that (with slightly different lyrics) movingly, Communist though he was. But currently, the game played by the world's central banks is coming unglued like flower petals in a storm.
 
The German one has asked for its gold stock, stored "safely" in New York. It's not being shipped. Paul Rosenberg would like to know why not, and speculates on some answers. It may be that the game is even more deceptive than we supposed.
 
When will they ever learn?

- in any circumstances.
 
Thunderbolt drew my attention to a superbly reasoned article by Stefan Molyneux, titled "Disproving the State." Stefan shows that no matter what we may think about the "goodness of mankind" the existence of a state is always destructive.
 
I have my ideas about whether humans are intrinsically good or evil, or some mix of both, and probably you do too. It doesn't matter. The state is never a solution.
 
Somehow I'd missed it - first published in 2005 - but it's a must-read.
 
 

A big question is asked and answered in this Josie Outlaw video.

In this misesmedia video, Dr. Joseph Salerno explains that price gouging is a myth.