Date: Tue Aug 31 19:55:52 1999 From: advo@best.com (Advocates for Self-Government) Subject: Liberator OnLine, Vol. 4, No. 17 To: liberator@lists.best.com Reply-To: liberator-request@lists.best.com
THE LIBERATOR ONLINE
August 31, 1999 Vol. 4, No. 17 Circulation: 30,776 in 81 countries
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CONTENTS
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* Dwight Yoakam: Friend of Liberty * Big Brother Wants "In" -- To Your Computer * No Guns, No Press
ON THE WEB
* Editor's Choices: Lerman's Bonehead-Of-The-Day Award
ASK DR. RUWART
* Is Government Necessary? * Good As Gold?
COMMUNICATION POWER TIP
* The GOVERNMENT is not the COUNTRY: Uncovering the Statist "We"
PRODUCT REVIEW
* The Thrilling Story of Economic Liberty In America - Like No One Has Told It Before! _________________________________________________________________
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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Dear friends,
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WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
* The libertarian event of the year! The Advoates' 15th Anniversary Celebration will be held September 24-26, 1999 in Atlanta, GA. We have an *incredible* line-up of speakers. In alphabetical order: David Bergland, Walter Block, Harry Browne, Doug Casey, Michael Cloud, Marshall Fritz, Barbara Goushaw, Sharon Harris, Karl Hess Jr., Jacob Hornberger, Vince Miller, Charles Murray, David Nolan, Congressman Ron Paul, and Mary Ruwart.
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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
by James W. Harris
Dwight Yoakam: Friend of Liberty
Dwight Yoakam is one of coutry music's biggest and most respected stars. He's appeared in movies as well, including "Sling Blade" and "The Newton Boys."
He's also very savvy politically, as the following excerpt from an interview in the New York Post indicates:
New York Post: Are you political?
Yoakam: Yeah, but I don't like to get into a discussion of it because that's not what I do. I don't know if, as a performer, I have the right to impose my political views on other people. My views might not always be that correct. There might be humor in them that could be misinterpreted.
Now that I've said all that, libertarianism, the pure Jeffersonian ideal, to me is appealing. I'm not an active member of the Libertarian Party, but I do think there is room for their concepts in our experiment in democracy. We are responsible for our actions. We should consider taking that road less traveled with less government.
I guess I rambled into a pretty big ditch for a guy who didn't want to talk about politics.
(Source: New York Post, Friday, August 20 / Libertarian Clips)
Big Brother Wants "In" -- To Your Computer
The Clinton Department of Justice has drafted legislation that would allow federal and local law enforcement agents to secretly break into people's homes and businesses in order to disable encryption software and computer security systems on personal computers.
Police could also search for passwords and alter computer equipment to secretly collect email messages and other electronic information.
The proposal - ironically entitled "The Cyberspace Electronic Security Act" -- would allow judges to issue secret, "sealed" warrants permitting government agents to enter private property, search computers, and install software to override encryption programs. The government could then secretly intercept computer communications without having to try to decode encrypted messages.
Department of Justice officials maintain the proposal is "consistent with constitutional principles." However, the plan has outraged civil liberties advocates.
Normally, under the Fourth Amendment, the government must first obtain a court order from a judge (based on a finding of probable cause) before searching private property -- and must present that search warrant to the suspect. Secret break-ins and searches are extremely rare under current law; such entries are only made in order to install hidden microphones, andlargely concerning matters of foreign intelligence/national security. Only 50 such entries were allowed by federal and state judges last year.
However, privacy advocates fear that the White House plan to extend this power to domestic computer cases would mean that secret warrants and secret break-ins would become a common law enforcement tool
"Under this new proposal, a rare and little-used law enforcement tactic might become as common as computers," warns Steve Dasbach, National Director of the Libertarian Party. "This represents a huge expansion of narrowly defined exceptions to Fourth Amendment protections -- and represents a genuine danger to anyone who uses computers and encryption software."
"This is beyond the wildest imagination of the most paranoid people who have been following this issue over the years - it's one of the scariest proposals to come out of government in a long time," said David Sobel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "This strikes at the heart of the Bill of Rights."
(Sources: Washington Post (August 20); Libertarian Party media release; Electronic Privacy Information Center; Freematt's Alerts; Insight magazine; Reuters.)
No Guns, No Press
The August 10 attack by Buford Furrow against children at a Jewish community center in Los Angeles received enormous media attention. The case also set off further demands for gun control and hate-crime laws. Farrow's crime was atrocious and certainly merited coverage. But was the fact that guns were involved a major reason for the massive media coverage? If Furrow had used a car, instead of a gun, to commit his assault, would his crime have received as much attention? "We don't have to suppose," reports Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby "Less than four months ago, just such an enormity took place. The media scarcely blinked. "On May 3, Steven Abrams drove past the Southcoast Early Childhood Learning Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., where 40 small children were frolicking noisily in the playground. Deciding, as he later told police, 'to execute those children,' he pulled a U-turn, headed back toward the playground, and floored the accelerator. The car - a 1967 Cadillac sedan - tore through the chain-link fence, sent the jungle-gym flying, and plowed into the crowd of children. It stopped only when it ran into a tree."
Abrams was unhurt, but he killed two children and injured four children and a teacher. In contrast, Furrow wounded five children, killing none.
"Two dead, five injured -- Abrams's violence was far more grisly than Furrow's, and led to a grimmer body count," Jacoby writes. "The sheer horror of the crime, if nothing else, should have attracted frenzied media attention. But it didn't involve guns, and it wasn't fueled by racial or ethnic bigotry, so it attracted almost none.
"On May 5, many papers around the country ran an Associated Press story on the Costa Mesa massacre. Perhaps half a dozen ran a follow-up, also from the AP, on May 9. And that was it. No drumbeat of daily coverage, no flood of editorials and opinion columns, no army of reporters flying out to see for themselves. The story was fully reported in California. It was virtually ignored everywhere else.
"Does a homicidal attack on toddlers only make it to the front page when the killer uses a gun? Is attempted mass murder only newsworthy when the victims belong to an official minority group? Perhaps the nation's editors and producers have a sound journalistic reason for paying so much attention to Buford Furrow when they had paid so little to Steven Abrams. But none comes to mind."
(Source: Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, 08/23/99)
Revolution
"The information superhighway is a revolution that in years to come will transcend newspapers, radio, and television as an information source. Therefore, I think this is the time to put some restrictions on it."
-- Sen. James Exon (D-Neb.) 1996 _________________________________________________________________
ON THE WEB
Editor's Choices: Lerman's Bonehead-Of-The-Day Award
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Here is a sample of a recent award winner:
Thieves are just not trustworthy anymore.
Here's a bonehead award for a shoplifter in Burnaby British Columbia.
A 27-year-old shoplifter, after successfully leaving a Burnaby store with a number of items, was then approached as she was going into her car, by a man claiming to be store security. He asked for her wallet for identification which happened to contain $500. The man, who was not affiliated with the store, walked back to the store telling the woman that she should come back into the store if she wanted her wallet back. Once inside the guy ducked out a back door with her wallet.
The upset woman explained the situation to the store, even admitting the shoplifting. The store called the police. But this isn't the reason she gets a bonehead award.
She gets a bonehead award for insisting that the store should reimburse her for the $500. The store neither reimbursed her nor pressed charges for shoplifting feeling she already caused herself enough misfortune. _________________________________________________________________
ASK DR. RUWART
How can you answer difficult questions about libertarianism -- in short, positive, persuasive soundbite-sized responses? It's a challenge every libertarian communicator faces.
Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication and author of the international bestseller "Healing Our World." Her new book is "Short Answers to the Tough Questions." In this column she provides Liberator Online readers with "Short Answers to the Tough Questions" that libertarians are frequently asked.
If you'd like Dr. Ruwart to provide effective answers for YOUR "tough questions" on libertarian ssues, just email the questions to her at: mailto:ruwart@self-gov.org. *Due to volume, Dr. Ruwart can't personally answer or acknowledge all email queries.* But we'll run the best questions -- and Dr. Ruwart's answers -- in upcoming issues.
Extra Tip: Dr. Ruwart suggests that answers are often best preceded by a "Ransberger Pivot" statement, to establish common ground with the questioner. (Example: "Like you, I too want to live in a world where the environment is clean... Like you, I too want to see greater abundance for all people...") For more on the Ransberger Pivot communication technique, see previous issues, or contact the Advocates.
Dr. Ruwart's past answers are archived in searchable form at the http://www.self-gov.org/ruwart/
Short Answers to the Tough Questions:
by Dr. Mary Ruwart
Is Government Necessary?
Question:
"I gather from reading your previous columns that you believe a libertarian-style government would be limited to a system of police, courts, prisons and military to bring justice to victims of physical force or fraud. These functions, as you stated, could either be provided by competitors within the private sector or by a more traditional form of elected government. Would you agree that the absence of a system of police, courts, prisons and military would be a state of anarchy, and would bring intolerable chaos?
"Would you also agree that there presently exists an absence of a system of police, courts, prisons and military to bring justice to victims of physical force or fraud from actions originating between nations? (It should be noted that the United Nations and NATO are simply vigilante committees.) Is there any inherent reason that a libertarian-style government could not be instituted between nations to bring justice to victims of physical force or fraud originating between these nations?"
My short answer:
"For eons, governments have persuaded us that without the protection of a 'justice system,' chaos would reign. However, police and courts are few in number; they can't control a populace in a high crime area where many people have no respect for property rights. They can only curb aggressors in a predominantly peaceful population. Indeed, the government 'protection racket' usually creates more chaos through violation of property and personal rights than the so-called criminal element.
"Chaos does not result from an absence of a justice system,but from an absence of a respect for others and their property. For example, if you see something that belongs to me, and you can steal it without getting caught, would you? Probably not -- and your decision would have nothing to do with the presence or absence of police, courts, etc.
"A good historical example illustrating that respect for property comes BEFORE a justice system -- not as a result of it -- is the settling of the western U.S. Because the West was only a territory, no governments, police, etc. existed. Yet, contrary to the portrayal by Hollywood, property rights were widely respected.
"Why? The early settlers brought with them a firm commitment to peaceful behavior. They signed voluntary pacts among themselves before they even left the east as to how property would be allotted and how disputes would be settled. Miners got together and decided how claims would be enforced. If someone later decided that they didn't like these arrangements, they could simply execute their buy-out provisions. In essence, the marketplace provided successful governing without government. (For details, check out Anderson & Hills' 'An American Experiment in Anarcho-Capitalism: The NOT So Wild, Wild West,' in the Journal of Libertarian Studies, vol. 3, pp. 9-29.) Note, however, that peaceful people created their own justice system NOT to impose order upon an unruly populace, but to stop any deviations from the norm that they sought to preserve.
"The chaos you observe in international affairs is not, in my opinion, because we don't have a global protection network. The leaders of our many nations are rarely peaceful. They violate the property rights not only of other nations, but their own populace. If these national leaders were to appoint courts, police, etc., the resulting 'justice' system would reflect their own intolerant behavior. Chaos would be increased, not decreased, because the chaos is not caused by individuals, but by govrnment.
"When the world becomes predominantly libertarian, however, the marketplace is likely to evolve an appropriate justice system. Indeed, even today, international trading organizations have their own courts to deal with member disputes.
"Libertarian nations could, of course, set up a system of courts to settle international disputes, funded by those who use the service. Most likely, however, the marketplace would provide them without much fanfare, just as it has among international traders."
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Good As Gold?
Question:
"I am against the gold standard because it gets the government in the business of hoarding gold. Gold is a useful natural resource for such things as electrical conductors. Why would we need to back money by gold? Paper money is just a medium for exchange. Money represents what the people accept it to be worth. "
My short answer:
"People prefer gold because it is not only a medium for exchange, but has intrinsic value. Overnight, peple can lose faith in paper money and it can become worthless. Gold can fluctuate in value, but historically these variations are small compared to the volatility of paper. Governments can easily manipulate the paper money supply by simple decree; gold cannot so easily be inflated. "
Follow-up question:
"If the government prints money at the rate of economic growth and removes money at the rate of economic decline, wouldn't the value of money be more stable then he price of gold?"
My short answer:
"Governments claim to do just as you've suggested, but to the best of my knowledge, they've inflated the currency relative to the economy without exception. Because of the mechanism by which this inflation is accomplished, buying power is shifted from the poor to the rich. Government aggression always hurts the disadvantaged the most.
For the details of how this transfer of wealth occurs, see Chapter 9, 'Banking on Aggression,' in my book, 'Healing Our World.'"
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COMMUNICATION POWER TIP #76
The GOVERNMENT is not the COUNTRY: Uncovering the Statist "We"
by Alan M. Perlman, PhD
Normally, native speakers of English use "we" to refer to themselves and at least one other person who may or may not be present. Politicians, however, use "we" in a devious and manipulative way. I call it "the statist we." It means "I and my colleagues in the government, acting as society's self-appointed agent."
Listen to their public pronouncements, and you'll hear it over and over. And millions of Americans, taking their cue from their leaders (and the government flacks in the media), use it too. It's a subtle way of identifying the country with the government. It follows that what's good for America is what the political elites say is good for us.
When someone talks to you about what "we" must do, politely ask whether the speaker means "the government" or "the nation" -- because they're not the same -- and point out that the government represents a small minority of eligible voters and therefore cannot presume to speak for all of us. Most people will agree that the government is not the country -- and that may give you an opportunity to try the Ransberger Pivot on whatever issue you're discussing.
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ALAN M. PERLMAN has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Chicago and 18 years' experience as an executive speechwriter. His third book, "Writing Great Speeches: Professional Techniques You Can Use," was published in 1997 by Allyn & Bacon. _________________________________________________________________
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