The True Duty of a Jury

Josie the Outlaw clearly explains what the true duty and value of a jury is, and why it was instated. It is a major factor in preserving liberty. After all, if only scholars who hold degrees in studying law can understand and interpret the law correctly, how can an ordinary citizen be expected to obey it? And what about immoral laws, which would have you sent to jail while you have not harmed anybody, but merely ignored an arbitrary rule?

Liberty on the Rocks - You are already an anarchist

Larken Rose sits down with Liberty on the Rocks co-founders for a discussion about voluntarism.



This short talk is likely to be an eye-opener for any 'normal, decent' human being.

Outside the Cage - Voting

Larken Rose explains what voting really is about.



Don't vote, or vote Libertarian. Libertarians will liberate freedom. Edit: Well, not anymore...

The Complete and Undeniable Truth - Larken Rose

People who cannot handle uncomfortable truths best skip this post...

But if you're open to logical consistency, even when it appears to turn all your learned beliefs upside down, please listen carefully and take some time to think about it.

Thanks for maintaining an open mind.

To Whom does your Life Belong?

Josie the Outlaw explains the answer to this question in just over 4.5 minutes.

The Road to Serfdom

OR: The Collapse of the American Dream (and not only the American one).
It's called a dream, because... you have to be asleep to believe it.

WAKE UP!!!


Please also check out the site behind this production.

The Government War on We the People

Europe: the End of Democracy

The newly selected, not elected, strong man in Italy, Mario Monty, is ex-Goldman Sachs. Like the management of the ECB. Appointed by the Eurocrats, removing all semblance of democracy from Italy. While democracy is an evil system (after all, it brought us those Eurocrats), the EU was built and defended on the notion of being a democratic union, while in reality not being one. But now, all pretence has been dropped, and a democratically elected leader, Silvio Berlusconi, has been evicted to be replaced by an inside man for the EU, without any possibility for the Italian people to interfere. Italy is now officially a dictatorship. Who will follow?

A Dutch free newspaper, De Pers, featured an article today on a Goldman Sachs takeover of the Dutch Government. A tale-telling passage from that article:

A Goldman takeover will be cheered by the Goldman Sachs-loving royal family. However, that takeover will have a drastic impact on the monarchy. Bea will be evicted immediately and replaced, not by Alexander, but by Friso, who worked at Goldman for four years and ten months and who, on top of that, is married to a former gangstergirl with a burning ambition and a great talent for hiding the truth.

A must-read for Dutch-reading visitors; highly recommended.

The Road to Serfdom

It's been too long since my last post, but I've just been too busy and, actually, still am. But developments in The Netherlands are showing the political agenda of the state, set to enslave the Dutch, and proclaiming every citizen to be a criminal unless proven innocent, where every rational human being knows that a negative can not be proven.

The Dutch state is on a cruisade to abolish privacy. It wants to ensure that it knows the whereabouts of each and every citizen, as soon as he or she leaves home. Public transport is being changed in such a way that it is no longer possible for anyone to buy a ticket anonymously. Private transport is changed in similar fashion. Roadtax (taxing property) is to be replaced by a toll system (taxing use). Already the intention of abolishing roadtax is being reverted by plans of implementing regional toll, that can 'obviously' not lead to national roadtax reductions. New province-based taxes are also already thought up, to replace the taxes that will be included in the new mileage tax. But it gets worse, much worse.

The intentions of the state are to follow each and every vehicle by sattelite (GPS) in order to be able to determine when and where that vehicle was at any given time, in order to be able to charge it based on the time and location. The stated incentive is to encourage people to drive at 'cheap' times, when the roads are relatively empty, and the only way of doing that is by tracking cars through GPS. This is nonsense, of course, even apart from the fact that the roads are almost never empty anymore, due to willful neglection of infrastructural maintenance while draining car drivers' pockets.

Earlier this year, in Orlando, I saw how tolls were arranged in a purely anonymous manner, either through cash payment or through an e-pass. While in Orlando the rates seem fixed (large fixed signs indicating the amount) it should be very simple to use matrix displays to indicate amounts and change the rates based on the time of day and traffic density. While an E-pass is replenished from a (named) credit card account there's no link between the passing of the gate and the owner of the e-pass, or the license plate of the car: the amount gets deducted, and the vehicle is only photographed (linking it to the location) if the toll was not paid.

But aparently this is too simple and possibly too cheap for the Dutch state. While the systems still need to be developed (with taxpayer's money) the state has already announced the penalty for tinkering with the GPS boxes that must indicate the car's location: a fine of 67.000 euro, or 4 years imprisonment. Murder is cheaper! In the words of Camiel Eurlings, minister for traffic, the severity of these sanctions are justified by the financial implications for the state, in line with (other) tax laws.

This statement says it all. Think of how easy it will become for the state to fine speeding once every trip is monitored and every violation of any arbitrary speed limit will be known. Think of how the state will notice anybody who drives to Luxemburg a couple of times a year, thereby becoming a suspect of having a foreign bank account, out of reach of the greedy Dutch state. Think of the endless possibilities for a governement of knowing all its citizens' whereabouts.

You can get away with murder with less punishment these days. And still, there's no climate for an uproar. This will in great part be due to the fact that in Europe people are not allowed to bear arms, and thus have no real defense against the state, with its power and violence monopoly. Apart from the Swiss, that is. This should again be a warning to all Americans not to hand in their right to self defense, and fight the states that want to abolish the constitutional right to bear arms, or even want to turn it into a privilege. Privileges can be handed out and taken back, at will.

The peoples of Europe have willingly walked the Road to Serfdom for a long time. Before they reach the end, things likely will get ugly, but it can still take quite some time before that happens. People still have too much to lose. They're like frogs being cooked slowly. But for protests to be successful, these protests must be massive, and there's little chance of that. We're too decent, unarmed and not trained to fight. Exactly why the Founding Fathers made the right to bear arms part of the constitution. A criminal government cannot do as it pleases when the people can defend itself. In Europe, governments can do anything they like, and get away with it. And unfortunately, the Dutch government is as criminal as they come.

Dutch 'Democracy'

After having toured the country for 100 days, spending wasting over € 3 million in the process, and after having been on holiday recess for another 100 days, the Dutch Governement finally published what they had learned during those first 100 days: more taxes. Labour (PvdA) is back in government, and the robbery of the working class is restarted at full power. The criminal organisation known as 'Balkenende IV' is increasing VAT by 1% (up from 19% to 20%) and duties on fuel and alcohol, as well as the spending on (Islamic) colonists (no, they're not immigrants, immigrants adapt), development aid and other 'good causes' around the world. But it takes away € 600 million from our own care for the elderly and handicapped, "because there is no money" to pay for it. But government has given itself a 20%, soon 30%, payraise, per annum, and the civil servants a raise of 13% over 4 years. No such thing for the private workers, that pay for these wages by way of increased extortion by the taxman.

Public psychological care is granted to muslims when they go on their extended holidays to their home countries. They can have these extended holidays as they live on welfare anyway and have been relieved of their duty to try and aquire a job. But they have all sorts of mental illnesses, so the mental aid workers travel with them to Morocco in order to be able to assist them where and when required. All paid for by the government taxpayer, but not voluntarily. But native elderly and handicapped? No sir.

Private housing corporations wer 'requested' to fund Ellen Vogelaars 'prachtwijken' plan, and when they refused, finance minister Bos just made a law that enables him to loot € 3 billion of private money from these corporations. This will severly hamper those corporation's own maintenance and renewal plans, but who cares. Based on the socialist adagium that the strongest shoulders must bear the cost for the 'poor' corporations in the whole country are now forced, at gunpoint, to pay for the atrocities caused by the Dutch immigration policies, that have changed prosperous neighborhoods into slumps and ghettos. The money spent on these neighborhoods is wasted completely, as it's the people that cause their neighborhoods to decline.

Do I still need to explain that government is a synonym for 'criminal organisation'? Somebody will have to stop these looters, before The Netherlands ceases to exist. The best way to do that is to have the coalition fall apart and have new elections. The Socialist Party is being ripped appart by internal scandals, the labour muslim party PvdA is dropping in the polls (to 20 seats), and the Freedom Party PVV of Geert Wilders is rising (to 19). However, PVV is still subjected to a cordon sanitaire so the race is not run yet. But our current course is headed straight for the cliffs, the place lemmings like to jump off into oblivion.