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Politeness is not the same as Weakness
A polite revolutionary makes every effort to abide by the law, and not lightly to dissolve the political bands which connect him with what has been until now his people. A polite revolutionary states his case, petitions for redress, and sues for a peaceful separation when redress is not possible. A polite revolutionary is not…
Read MoreThe Revolutionary and the Terrorist
You have heard it said, “One man’s revolutionary is another man’s terrorist,” albeit only by the stupidest of people. This is equivalent to the claim that all killing is murder. It is true, though, that most revolutionaries are terrorists, but this is not because revolution and terrorism are synonymous at all. It’s just that most…
Read MoreFighting and Dancing
There are two skills which every human being should be duty-bound and obligated to practice, to include both men and women equally. These are fighting and dancing. Fighting must include, crucially, both interpersonal melee combat—that is, boxing, grappling, and other martial arts—and the use of whatever is the present state of the art of warfighting…
Read MoreUnbiased News Media
“The news media should be unbiased and nonpartisan and just report the truth.” Says who? The whole notion of an unbiased, nonpartisan media was an invention of leftist media bosses of the mid twentieth century. The idea that a human institution can be unbiased is utter nonsense, a fantasy entertained by people who refuse to…
Read MoreThe Political Spectrum
You have heard it said that the political spectrum runs from Left to Right, with Leftism being defined, it would seem, by communal modes of societal organization culminating in communist totalitarian autocracy as the farthest Leftward pole, and Rightism being defined, it would seem, by tribal nationalism culminating in Nazism and other Fascist movements as…
Read MoreRule of Law
You’ve heard it said that “rule of law” means that no one is above the law, because the rulers, the people in government, are subject to the same laws as the rest of the people. This is not correct. “Rule of law” means, literally, that the law itself is sovereign. The law—the document itself that…
Read MoreThe Only Decent Form of Government
You’ve heard it said, “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others.” Really? How about a Constitutional Representative Republic? Ever heard of that? The truth is that democracy is not in any way superior to monarchy or oligarchy or bureaucracy. It is equally evil with these others. The only form of…
Read MoreThe Only Moral Function of Government
The prime political good is Liberty, and as such the only—only—moral function of government is to prevent a man from imposing his will on his neighbor. That’s it. That is the only sort of law that should exist. “Yeah, but, what about laws like murder and stuff? You still need those.” I’m sorry, is a…
Read MoreLiberty as a Solution
Giving up the idea that freedom must be “balanced” with a certain measure of authority is very difficult, even for those who do harbor a spirit of freedom such as we discussed previously. Even if we had a society the majority of which believed in the moral superiority of service and self-sacrifice, we still have…
Read MoreLiberty vs Anarchy
You have heard it said that liberty is all well and good, but it needs to be balanced with an appropriate amount of authority and security, because unchecked liberty, absolute freedom, equates to anarchy. What hogwash. But it’s an easy mistake to make. It is very easy to imagine that absolute freedom equates to absolute…
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