The Libertarian Enterprise
Official Journal of the National Recall Coordinating Committees
Issue 543, November 1, 2009
This issue's Motto: "Each advocate [of socialism] secretly imagines
himself at the top of the hierarchy-to-come"
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THE WEEKLY CARTOON:
Affirmative Action in Action
by Rex May
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EDITORIAL MATTERS
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
Next week, I hope to propose a spiffy new tactic for defeating the
forced collectivization of medicine that presently looms over all of
us, thanks to the increasingly Marxist aspirations and activities of
Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and an army of other criminals
attempting to advance a political and economic philosophy -- in fact,
it's nothing more than a license to steal whatever they want from the
Productive Class -- that was obsolete decades before any of us were
born.
In the meantime, we should all remember what Ludwig von Mises
observed in his great _Socialism_, the principal appeal of which (the
ideology, not the book), he claimed, is that each of its advocates
secretly imagines himself at the top of the hierarchy-to-come. You can
see this almost sexual lust for power plainly in creatures like Robert
Reich, Henry Waxman, Hillary Clinton, and especially both of the
Obamas.
Some of them are almost drooling at the prospect of owning our
lives.
But socialism's "stars" are by far not the only ones who imagine
themselves at the pinnacle. Wake him (or her) up in the middle of the
night, and the merest mailman, pool boy, garbage collector, school
board or city council member shares exactly the same political BDSM
fantasies. It's the reason that collectivism has gotten as far as is
has.
So the next time you find yourself arguing with one of these pocket
Lenins, hit him from an unexpected direction (as I've long advocated)
and disabuse him of any notion that he's going to be in charge of
anything except (revolutionaries being the first people the new regime
disposes of) his own square foot of mud in the concentration camp. If
you can deflate whatever motivates him to work for everybody else's
enslavement -- you may not see the effect immediately, but it is sure
to spoil his daydreams and maybe even give him nightmares for months
and years to come -- you will have achieved a victory for individual
liberty.
Have fun.
L. Neil Smith, Publisher and Senior Columnist
_The Libertarian Enterprise_
EDITOR'S NOTE
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_The real climate change catastrophe_
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Next Thursday marks the first anniversary of one of the most
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For six hours MPs debated what was far and away the most
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The Climate Change Bill laid down that, by 2050, the British
people must cut their emissions of carbon dioxide by well over
80 per cent. Short of some unimaginable technological
revolution, such a target could not possibly be achieved
without shutting down almost the whole of our industrialised
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ARTICLES
1. Letters to the Editor
from Bill St. Clair, A. Nonymous, Mike Snell, A.X. Perez,
Scott A. Campanaro, and Rex May
2. It's Just Not Fair!
by L. Neil Smith
3. Reality and Liberty
by Susan Callaway
4. Non-Aggression Principle and Vice: Where's The Crime?
by Russell D. Longcore
5. Be Careful What You Say
by A.X. Perez
6. Review of Ron Paul's _End The Fed_
by John Walker
7. How More Plaque Will Improve Our Smile
A memorable idea from Don Meinshausen
8. Atlantea The Beautiful No. 48
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
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