Topics

• The U.S. government and interventionalism
• Failure to provide for the "common defense" and making us less safe
• War fever
• Resulting statism is killing freedom and prosperity
• Libertarian Solutions
• Have some libertarians forgotten the destructive power of statism?

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The U.S. government and interventionalism [Top]
"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."
- George Washington's Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

• The Pentagon: Islam’s Newest Department of Defense
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, July 15, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• It is an insult to the dead to deny the link with Iraq
  Tony Blair put his own people at risk in the service of a foreign power. - Seumas Milne, July 14, 2005 [Guardian UK]

• Why Are They Killing Us?
  - Patrick Buchanan, July 13, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Terrorism Comes with Empire
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, July 8, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• America the Hated
  The Bush administration’s threat to use nuclear weapons against Iraq, though thinly veiled in circumlocutions, should tell us all we need to know about the American image in the world today. The United States, once so admired over most of the earth, is now seen as a nuclear bully. - Joseph Sobran, December 12, 2002 [Sobran's]

• What price the American empire?
  - Patrick Buchanan, May 29, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]

• A History of Terror
  September 11 was far from the first time that the United States has been targeted by terrorists. In a 1997 report on the scourge of terrorism, the Pentagon's Defense Science Board observed: "Historical data show a strong correlation between U.S. involvement in international situations and an increase in terrorist attacks against the United States." Recognizing that fact is crucial to understanding why both terror and the response to terror have become such grave threats to freedom and prosperity. - Adam Young, February 8, 2002 [Mises]

• The Interventionist-Internationalist Complex
  "At any time, there are two dozen wars going on in the world. The media rarely mention any of them. Occasionally, one of them gets our attention, and off we go." - Gary North, October 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Why Terrorism?
  "Our leaders have attempted the hubristic enterprise of running the world...- Thomas E. Woods, Jr., October 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Origins of the Russian-American Anti-Taliban Alliance
  "I believe that this story will not get out to the general public." - Gary North, October 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Choice
  "...either the U.S. should reclaim its traditional policy of free trade and peace and thereby end its international military interventions, or it should wage unrelenting war against any group or government that resents and responds predictably to U.S. policy." - James Ostrowski, October 8, 2001 [Mises]

• Is It Worth It?
  "...a sense of measure is just what has been missing in American foreign policy for lo, these many years."- Joseph Sobran, October 8, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• If the U.S. hates terrorists, why do we keep arming them?
  "Why doesn't the U.S. government stop arming and training foreign terrorists and the dictators who support them?" - Steve Dasbach, October 5, 2001 [LP Op-Ed]

• Three Steps Back
  "The Consequences of U.S. Global Meddling" - Peter Topolewski, October 1, 2001 [Laissez Faire City Times]

• What About the Children?
  "Unfortunately, the evidence suggests that bin Laden's charge might in fact be true -- that for the past 10 years, the government of one of the greatest nations in history has engaged in the systematic killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent children." - Jacob G. Hornberger, October 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Why Do They Want to Kill Us?
  "Ever since the September 11 attacks, it has almost been taboo, within both the U.S. government and the mainstream press, to openly examine and analyze the three specific reasons that Osama bin Laden has given for his holy war against the U.S. government and the American people." - Jacob G. Hornberger, October 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Is This the Wrong Time to Question Foreign Policy?
  "Although it is considered by many to be beyond the pale of proper discourse to discuss whether U.S. foreign policy may have contributed to the current crisis, the American people ignore this possibility at their peril." - Jacob G. Hornberger, September 27, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Thinking About Homeland Security
  "It also seems wise to argue that misguided interventionism is as big a threat to liberty as people who hate what the rest of us hold dear..." - Patrick O'Hannigan, September 27, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Altruism at Work: How the U.S. Supports the Taliban in 2001
  "This year, the U.S. continued a Clinton-era policy and committed more than $100 million in foreign aid to Afghanistan -- making us the country's largest humanitarian donor." - Michelle Malkin, September 14, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Is this Nothing More than Good versus Evil?
  "...if we are to begin to understand why this horrible event occurred, we need to look inward at ourselves and at those who purport to rule us, and who we permit to hold power over us and so many others around the world." - William L. Anderson, September 14, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Unknown Enemy
  "The United States is now a global empire that wants to think of itself as a universal benefactor, and is nonplussed when foreigners don’t see it that way." - Joseph Sobran, September 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Freedom, Security, and the Roots of Terrorism against the United States
  "If we try to socially engineer their future through the means of political and military intervention we will be risking our own freedom and security, and may end up losing both at the end of the process." - Richard M. Ebeling, September 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Mistaken about Motives
  "It does no honor to the tens of thousands of innocent victims of the September 11 terrorism attacks to fool ourselves about the motives behind that mass murder and destruction." - Sheldon Richman, September 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Memo to Terrorists of the World
  "In the meantime, refrain from blaming the American people for the actions of our government, and from the violence that can only aid the empire." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., December 24, 1999 [LewRockwell.com]

• Breeding Terrorism
  "As we enter the final year of the millennium, let's hope New Year's Eve is tranquil the world over. In any event, the United States should reverse its imperial policy of policing the world." - Sheldon Richman, December 1999 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Searching for Monsters Abroad
  "In a major foreign policy address delivered recently in San Francisco, President Bill Clinton solemnly affirmed that everything everywhere is the business of the United States." - Sheldon Richman, March 1999 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Greetings, America. My Name is Osama bin Laden.
  "This is my message to the American people: to look for a serious government that looks out for their interests and does not attack others, their lands, or their honor. And my word to American journalists is not to ask why we did that but ask what their government has done that forced us to defend ourselves." - John Miller, February 1999 [Esquire]

• "Ancient History": U.S. Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention
  "We have allowed our leaders to violate George Washington's sage advice, and it has cost us dearly."- Sheldon Richman, August 16, 1991 [CATO]

• Notes on Iran, Afghanistan, etc.
  "There are many odd, fascinating, and amusing aspects of the Iranian, etc. crisis which have not even been pointed out, much less discussed by the media - despite the grave and newsworthy nature of the crises." - Murray N. Rothbard, 1980 [LewRockwell.com]

Failure to provide for the "common defense" and making us less safe [Top]

• Ashcroft, 9/11, and Government as Victim
  - James Bovard, Posted July 13, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• FBI should stop doing sex and drugs and focus on terrorism, Libertarians say
  Why were a dozen FBI agents investigating a brothel in New Orleans on the same day that terrorists crashed airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? - released June 13, 2002 [LP Press Release]

• Census: 100,000 Mideast illegals in U.S.
  Analysts say failure of immigration control contributed to 9-11 attacks. - Jon Dougherty, January 25, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]

• They Call This Intelligence
  - Gary North, November 5, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Turning to Government
  "Get out of the game of trying to supply all the desires of 270 million people, and concentrate on protecting us from mass murder." - David Boaz, November 2, 2001 [CATO]

• End the FAA Killings
  "While supporting, arming and teaching terrorists, the U.S. through the FAA maintained a policy to search, disarm and cow passengers, flight attendants and even pilots, and then herd them onto airplanes where they could be slaughtered by terrorists aided by the U.S." - Rex Curry, September 24, 2001 [Laissez Faire City Times]

• Israeli security issued urgent warning to CIA of large-scale terror attacks
  - David Wastell in Washington and Philip Jacobson in Jerusalem, September 16, 2001 [telegraph.co.uk]

• Sloppy CIA likes its home comforts
  "THE CIA has failed to infiltrate Osama bin Laden's terrorist network because its men are not prepared to spend long periods without sex or go into any area where they might get diarrhoea, according to a former intelligence officer." - Michael Smith, September 14, 2001 [telegraph.co.uk]

• The Blasts
  "Once again our trillions of dollars' worth of 'defense' has failed to defend us." - Joseph Sobran, September 14, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Self Defense is Job One
  "The government’s failure to prevent the September 11th terrorist attacks against this country suggests an upside–down sense of priorities." - Larry Elder

War fever [Top]
"The response to this unimaginable 21st-century Pearl Harbor should be as simple as it is swift-- kill the bastards. A gunshot between the eyes, blow them to smithereens, poison them if you have to. As for cities or countries that host these worms, bomb them into basketball courts."
- Steve Dunleavy, New York Post, September 12, 2001

• Bill O'Reilly's emotional responses to criticisms of the U.S. government
  Bill O'Reilly attacks Jeremy Glick, a signatory of the Not in Our Name ad. Mr Glick's father died in the 9/11 attacks. As usual, Mr. O'Reilly tries to drown out some valid points and seems to believe he understands Jeremy's father better than Jeremy. - partial transcript from the February 4, 2003 O'Reilly Factor [Fox News]

• Collateral Damage: Two Venues, One Logic
  After U.S. ground troops had mistakenly attacked a group of Afghanis who were not affiliated with the Taliban or the al-Qaida, killing sixteen of them and taking twenty-seven others captive for a time and roughing them up before releasing them, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declined to apologize: "Let's not call them 'innocents,'" he told reporters. - Robert Higgs, April 11, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Can This War Be Won?
  - Joseph Sobran, April 3, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Violence Legit in Self-Defense – Not Otherwise
  - Tom White, December 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• On Enthusiasm for War
  "On the afternoon of September 11, I was surprised to hear calls for war. I was especially surprised to hear such calls from typically dovish persons." - David Dieteman, December 4, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Retreat From Kabul
  "It may yet be a long time before we will know the outcome of the war and the fate of the Taliban. It will be an even longer time before we are able to gauge the lasting effects of the war, both at home and abroad." - David Dieteman, November 16, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bait-And-Switch In Afghanistan
  - Gary North, November 16, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Ride the Tiger
  "...the people who created the mess will distance themselves from the issue, then step up to the plate like real heroes and start forming a coalition." - Michael Peirce, November 15, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• 'The Americans don't know what they're getting into...'
  "...People here have fought for so long, they think nothing of killing. They kill a man as easily as they kill an animal for food." - Justin Huggler, November 5, 2001 [independent.co.uk]

• A War Against Civilians?
  "...the evidence is accumulating that our current military campaign is indeed, as most of the world sees it, being waged against the Afghan people." - Mark Weisbrot, November 2, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Yugoslavia and Afghanistan – How to Understand Media Spin
  "This war isn't going all that well. Americans are watching it while sitting in comfortable living rooms a few feet from the refrigerator. If they see enough images of Afghan refugees fleeing U.S. cluster bombs or digging for dead relatives in the remains of a hospital hit by a "Bunker Buster" bomb, they might realize that this war is not just." - John Keller, November 2, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• 'Brutality smeared in peanut butter'
  "Nothing can excuse or justify an act of terrorism, whether it is committed by religious fundamentalists, private militia, people's resistance movements - or whether it's dressed up as a war of retribution by a recognised government." - Arundhati Roy, October 23, 2001 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Kidding Ourselves
  "Our overseas adventures have come back in the form of dead Americans, and waging another war overseas is more of the same." - John Keller, October 16, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Too Late?
  "The question now is whether the war on Afghanistan will solve the problem or make it even worse." - Joseph Sobran, October 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Paradoxes of Revenge
  "It is worth asking, however, why there were such calls for wholesale slaughter in the first place." - David Dieteman, October 10, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• 'There isn't a target in Afghanistan worth a $1m missile'
  - Mohamed Heikal, October 10, 2001 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Historical Explanation and Moral Justification
  ". If we fail to comprehend our historical situation, we condemn ourselves to fighting with our eyes closed." - Gene Callahan, October 8, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• War Misgivings
  "Let's not sacrifice our liberty for the chimera of 100 percent security." - Sheldon Richman, October 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The algebra of infinite justice
  - Arundhati Roy, September 29, 2001 [Guardian Unlimited]

• Neocons and Total War
  "Americans are rightly angry about the outrageous murders of September 11. No American wishes to see them unpunished. Neo-conservatives, however, are offering us their usual program as the solution." - Joseph R. Stromberg, September 27, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Drug War Redux
  "The attorney general's misguided model for the War Against Terrorism." - Sam MacDonald, September 27, 2001 [REASON]

• How can the US bomb this tragic people?
  "It's a truly terrible irony that the only man we would be interested in receiving from Afghanistan is the man we are told is the evil genius behind the greatest mass-murder in American history: bin Laden." - Robert Fisk, September 23, 2001 [Independent.co.uk]

• Neocons and Demagogues
  "Again, I understand why liberals think this way. They always want to build a bigger, more glorious State. They are, in essence, socialists. But what explains the neoconservatives, who at least pay lip service to liberty?" - Steven Greenhut, September 21, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• More Bad News
  "As America prepares for war, some disturbing facts are coming to light. If there is to be war in Afghanistan, it will not be easy." - David Dieteman, September 21, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Hamburg Delenda Est
  "Let me explain to you the most fundamental principle of American foreign policy: Any country where the people have unpronounceable names can be bombed by the US with impunity." - John Galvin, September 20, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Ramesh Ponnuru: Ignoramus, or Bald-Faced Liar?
  "One of the more disturbing pieces (among countless disturbing pieces) I've read since the terrorist attacks on September 11 was by Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review. Ponnuru chastizes Father Andrew Greeley for saying "[t]he national cry for revenge is shameful." - Gene Callahan, September 20, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• If Bush wants an invasion, it could become more costly than Vietnam
  - Robert Fisk, September 18, 2001 [independent.co.uk]

• MEDIA ADVISORY: Media March to War
  "In the wake of the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, many media pundits focused on one theme: retaliation." - September 17, 2001 [FAIR]

Resulting statism is killing freedom and prosperity [Top]
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

• Homeland Security CIO wants 'network of networks'
  - Loretta W. Prencipe, November 6, 2002 [InfoWorld]

• Stage Set for Homeland Act
  A little-known amendment in the Senate version of the bill makes it much easier for ISPs to disclose e-mail communications without being served with a warrant, which had been prohibited before the Patriot Act of 2001. - Ryan Singel, November 6, 2002 [Wired]

• Welcome the Next Terrorist Attack?
  ...the lives lost are hardly worth creating a super police state that encroaches upon the great individual liberties enjoyed by so many in this nation. - Timothy Richard, November 5, 2002 [anti-state.com]

• Heartbreak Ridge
  Homeland Security Director, Tom Ridge is asking Silicon Valley to step up to the plate and "fight terror", which translates to more efficient devices to monitor your every move, track you from cradle to grave, biometrically scan you from top to bottom and probably calculate your schedule 1040 every April 15th. - Jeff Elkins, April 26, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• What Rough Beast…
  The real concern here is the ease with which these idiots of the punditocracy are willing to blithely toss away centuries of American tradition. - Jeff Elkins, April 9, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Duty of Lying
  No sooner had the 9/11 attacks occurred than the Federal Government started assuming new powers and abridging old freedoms in the name of national security. - Joseph Sobran, March 15, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Since September 11
  Ever since Lincoln, American presidents have assumed dictatorial powers in wartime. - Joseph Sobran, March 9, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Economic Terror
  Today, we hear from strong advocates of higher taxation, increased spending, higher budget deficits, tougher regulations, bailouts and all kinds of subsidies and support programs as tools to restore economic growth. - Congressman Ron Paul, February 9, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Redefining 'terrorism' threatens our liberty
  - James Perloff, January 4, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]

• The Weak, The Sick, The Infirm, and Other Likely Terrorists
  "...but by failing to discriminate (yes, discriminate) between likely and non-likely terrorists, the baggage-checkers are more likely to miss someone who poses a real threat." - James Waddell, December 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Tragedy of the State
  - Karen De Coster, November 16, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• YOU Might Be a Terrorist
  "Any persons among us who have accepted that certain civil liberties must be abridged in time of war, or forever, for the sake of security, are going to learn Ben Franklin’s lesson the hard way." - Brad Edmonds, November 15, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Operation Enduring Inflation
  "In the weeks since September 11, the Federal Reserve has zoomed the money supply at an astounding rate--an amazing fact when you consider that the economy has actually shrunk during this time." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., November 8, 2001 [Mises]

• Cipro Shortage: An Invented Scarcity
  - Ilana Mercer, October 22, 2001 [Mises]

• What We’re Up Against
  "These statements have in common a belief in collectivism, in the ability of government to do good things for people that they cannot do for themselves (as if we’ve ever seen such a thing in the real world)." - Brad Edmonds, October 22, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Giving Up Liberty for Safety
  - Tibor R. Machan, October 22, 2001 [Laissez Faire City Times]

• Watching You Systematic Federal Surveillance of Ordinary Americans
  - Charlotte Twight, October 17, 2001 [CATO]

• The Skies Darken
  "...the attack combined with the economy-killing response by the government has clobbered our economic prospects in more ways than a column can report." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., October 12, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Now I Understand
  "Since America faces no realistic threat of invasion from a foreign army bent on taking over the country, or bent on anything else, I previously failed to see the need for this gigantic military bureaucracy." - James Ostrowski, October 9, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Trust
  "...if Americans are placing more trust in their government for the duration of the war on terror, they ought to consider all that this entails. To quote Professor Hoppe once again, 'Qua expropriating property protector, a tax-funded protection agency is a contradiction in terms and will inevitably lead to more taxes and less protection.'" - David Dieteman, October 8, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Aftershocks of 9-11
  "Patriotism and nationalism are powerful forces weighing on the public conscience in the aftermath of the attacks. It makes it very unpopular to ask certain questions and to wonder certain things." - Christopher Mayer, October 5, 2001 [Mises]

• Washington asks Qatar to curb TV station's news coverage of attacks
  "But Al-Jazeera, the leading Arabic-language satellite news channel, today dismissed U.S. criticism that its coverage was unbalanced, saying it has given both U.S. and Afghan officials equal air time since last month's attacks..." - October 4, 2001 [freedomforum.org]

• Big government still the problem
  ". Only government can put regulations in place that allow a few barely armed men to hijack airliners and crash them into buildings while, on the other hand, spending 30 years maximizing the populaton's vulnerability to germ warfare." - Paul Craig Roberts, October 3, 2001 [TownHall.com]

• New compromise "Patriot Act" is still a threat to civil liberties
  "Congress should reject the proposed anti-terrorist 'Patriot Act' -- which would greatly expand the federal government's surveillance, wiretapping, and detention authority -- because no new police powers are needed to effectively fight terrorism, the Libertarian Party said today." - released October 3, 2001 [LP Press Release]

• Government Trust Grows Despite Its Inability to Protect
  "At this time of national crisis, we must forget neither our political heritage nor the inherent limits of any governmental machinery. Government has a vital role in defending Americans from deadly foreign threats. But nothing that happened on Sept. 11 or since changed the fundamental nature of American government." - James Bovard, October 2, 2001 [FreeRepublic.com]

• Faith in the State
  "Those of us who are convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the free market is a better forum for reaching sensible decisions about economic matters than its alternatives, namely planned or regulated markets, face a persistent difficulty." - Tibor R. Machan, October 1, 2001 [Laissez Faire City Times]

• The Old Cause
  "Big Government, Having Never Gone Away, Is Now Said To Be 'Back'" - Joseph R. Stromberg, September 28, 2001 [AntiWar.com]

• New terror to freedom
  "If there's one thing that war allows besides the requisite destruction, obliteration and general disruption of daily life, it's an opportunity for politicos to sharply hone their doublespeak." - Joel Miller, September 27, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]

• Airline bailout criticized
  "Free-market supporters and at least one political party have come out in opposition to Congress' $15 billion airline industry bailout plan in the wake of the terror attacks in New York and the Pentagon." - Jon Dougherty, September 27, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]

• Executive power grab on tap at White House?
  "Attorneys: Bush's post-attack directives could lead to liberty-curbing restrictions." - Sarah Foster, September 27, 2001 [WorldNetDaily]

• Fly the Federalized Skies
  "Don't use tragedy to bail out failing businesses." - Michael W. Lynch, September 27, 2001 [REASON]

• What Is Homeland Security?
  "In the interest at getting at the roots and facts of the nature of the new Homeland Security Agency/Department/Office(/whatever), and to get past the rhetoric, I only used official government or quasi-governmental websites to do a little research..." - Jeff Greenspan, September 27, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Why the Show of Force Won't Work
  "An increase of intrusions by the federal government into our lives will make us less safe, not more." - William L. Anderson, September 25, 2001 [Mises]

• Frightening numbers: 49% in new survey support 'special IDs' for Arab-Americans
  "Americans who want to fight terrorism by mandating Taliban-style 'special identification' for Arab-Americans, by allowing police to randomly search people, and by giving the government the power to read e-mail are making a disastrous mistake, Libertarians said today." - released September 24, 2001 [LP Press Release]

• Why Liberty Suffers in War Time
  "Consider this: During all of America's major wars -- the Civil War, World War I and World War II -- the U.S. government restricted Americans' civil liberties in the name of quelling dissent, silencing criticism of political decisions and preserving national security." - Declan McCullagh, September 24, 2001 [Wired]

• Assessing the Damage
  "...it is no surprise that in our current crisis we see economic fallacies calling for "temporary" government interventions in the economy popping up like mushrooms after a rain." - Gene Callahan and Robert P. Murphy, September 24, 2001 [Mises]

• Civil Liberty the Next Casualty?
  "In the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, scholars fear that Americans will sacrifice civil liberties that could be difficult to win back." - Kristen Philipkoski, September 23, 2001 [Wired]

• The end of liberty
  "Law enforcement officials are taking advantage of the war on terrorism to get everything they ever wanted." - Damien Cave and Katharine Mieszkowski, September 22, 2001 [salon.com]

• Killing the Stock Market
  "It is conceivable that stocks might have come back after September 11, just as so many people had hoped. But the meddlers in DC seemed to be doing everything in their power to make sure that it would not happen." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., September 21, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Warning: Proposed anti-terrorism law is grave threat to Americans' liberty
  "New anti-terrorism 'security' measures proposed by the Bush administration may be a threat to the Constitution and Americans' fundamental liberties, and should be more carefully considered before Congress rushes to approve them." - released September 21, 2001 [LP Press Release]

• Safety versus Freedom: The False Dichotomy
  "The U.S. federal government assumed responsibility for protecting airline passengers, and it failed miserably, as always. The supposed tradeoff is illusory: Only in the free market will passengers be both safe and free." - Bob Murphy, September 20, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Is Terrorism Good for the Economy?
  "While even these commentators would see the fallacy in that proposition, in the end, there is no difference to declaring the 'blessings of destruction' on the loss of a whole city or just a small part of it. Both are part of the same fallacy which never seems to die." - William L. Anderson, September 18, 2001 [Mises]

• The DC Horror Show
  "Suddenly, after the attack, all of our wealth and all of our freedoms are up for grabs, and not only by foreign terrorists, but by our own government and its uncritical cheerleaders." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., September 15, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Senate OKs FBI Net Spying
  "FBI agents soon may be able to spy on Internet users legally without a court order." - Declan McCullagh, September 14, 2001 [Wired]

• Anti-Attack Feds Push Carnivore
  - Declan McCullagh, September 12, 2001 [Wired]

• A Wartime "Stimulus" Package—Tax More, or Spend Less?
  - Larry Elder

Libertarian Solutions [Top]

• How the world sees Americans
  Journalist Mark Hertsgaard travelled the globe gathering opinions about the U.S. He talks about the surprising results. - Suzy Hansen, November 6, 2002 [Salon.com]

• The Private Acquisition of Osama Bin Laden
  
• - Michael Miles, February 8, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Yes, I’m a Patriot
  "But that doesn't mean singing paeans to total war." - Brad Edmonds, November 7, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• How To Avoid World War III
  - Thomas E. Woods, Jr., November 3, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Retracing Our Steps
  "Our current condition is permanent – as long as this country remains an empire. The only way to escape it is to resume our original traditions." - Joseph Sobran, November 2, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Repeal gun control laws that leave us defenseless against evil terrorists
  "With sales of guns soaring and support for the Second Amendment peaking after the September 11 terrorist attacks, it's time for politicians to start repealing burdensome gun laws..." - released October 30, 2001 [LP Press Release]

• Alternative to Unending War
  "The U.S. should do now what it should have been doing all along: strive for commercial relations with all, without attempting to manage the entire world political scene." - Jon Basil Utley, October 29, 2001 [Mises]

• Hating America and Other Libertarian Crimes
  "Part of being a patriot is realizing that this is a great country, but as citizens we have a responsibility to speak out and act out against the illegitimate actions of our government." - John Keller, October 9, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• America or Amerika?
  "The clock is ticking. America or Amerika, it's still your choice. But not for long." - Jeff Elkins, October 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Speak the Truth
  "We should never tire in our mission to point out that there is an alternative to the Politically Correctly Left and the Militarized Right: that there is freedom itself, the genuine article, and a tradition of thought in defense of freedom unmatched by any other in its rigor and dedication. This ideal will continue to rise from the ashes, again and again, to point the way forward to peace, prosperity, and liberty." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., October 2, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Considering the Options
  "In short, take a long hard look at who you could have been, and weep. Then get up, dust yourselves off and get to work rebuilding our Constitutional Republic!" - Michael Peirce, September 29, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Uniting the Masses
  "...individuals of the world, disunite!" - Gene Callahan, September 29, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Airplanes and Property Protection
  "The answer here is no different from the usual libertarian prescription for ensuring peace: Let property owners protect themselves and those they serve." - Jeffrey Tucker, September 27, 2001 [Mises]

• Privatizing Foreign Aid
  "Leaders of countries in need would have an incentive to protect their foreign guests as well as their own citizens." - Harry Valentine, September 26, 2001 [anti-state.com]

• Abolish the FAA
  "What’s needed is more of what works: private industry, and less of what has completely failed: government regulation." - John Keller, September 26, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Free Markets Would Be OPEC's Undoing
  "In an environment of economic freedom for energy production in the United States, OPEC would lose all incentive to maintain the price of oil at anywhere near its present level by reducing the quantity of oil it produced." - George Reisman, September 21, 2001 [Mises]

• What Happens Next?
  "Never before has America's involvement in the Mideast's tribal politics seemed more foolhardy. Now that we're stuck in this tarbaby, we're going to have to fight our way out. But we should think twice before punching any more tarbabies down the road." - Jesse Walker, September 21, 2001 [REASON]

• What To Do Now
  - David Dieteman, September 20, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• In the Aftermath of Slaughter
  "I believe that we best express our grief and sorrow by identifying not only with our own but also with those who have been our victims." - William L. Anderson, September 13, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• In A Libertarian America...
  - Thomas L. Knapp, September 12, 2001

• The Lessons of Terrorism
  - Pierre Lemieux, September 11, 2001 [Laissez Faire City Times]

• When the Going Gets Tough
  "In the midst and in the aftermath of crisis, we, the advocates of liberty, have an opportunity to persuade our fellow Americans to reject the immoral and destructive vision of welfare and intervention, both domestically and internationally..." - Jacob G. Hornberger, September 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Risks of Liberty
  - Devon Munro [Freedom Line]

Have some libertarians forgotten the destructive power of statism? [Top]

• The Party of 'Blank out'
  For the rest of us, let us think of governments as criminals with flags. The libertarian movement is alive, well and nowhere in the LP. Now, let’s move on: there is nothing left to see from the LP. - Alan Turin, July 25, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Flogging the Blogging
  Brink Lindsey, of the Cato Institute, has published a long "blog" attacking "anti-war libertarians." (Isn’t "anti-war libertarian" a redundancy?) - James Ostrowski, April 9, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Libertarian Splits in the War on Terrorism
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, October 2001 [Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Does the LP Support THIS War?
  "At some point, you begin to get the feeling that the LP doesn’t understand much about the nature of government." - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., October 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Kill an Arab for Ayn
  "The Randians are the very statists that they purport to despise, and there is nothing they could say, no amount of back-pedaling they could do, that could remove that stain from their image now." - Jeremy Sapienza, October 17, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]