Cyber Wars Becoming a Reality?

China is a little worried  about average citizens having full access to the interwebs:  With cyber security through the roof, the Chinese have extremely limited access to the internet.  Apparently the US government has decided that this is a problem which is ours to fix.

Our government, according to the New York Times, has already attempted to hack into Chinese servers several times before. And with Hillary Clinton's constant publicizing of her discontent with China's policy on the internet, it looks like our government is once again trying to interfere with another country's internal affairs.

There are two main problems with this scenario.  First, the United States needs to recognize the sovereignty of China and the way it wants to operate within its own boundaries. If the United States really wants to "compete" with China or attempt to start China's gradual decline, all it needs to do is lower taxes on growing businesses and allow the private sector to out-buy China globally. Second, China needs to learn that liberty is always the answer to any problem. If its society was free to begin with, we wouldn't be having this discussion right now.

If she thinks this is bad...

Sneha Thakur from the independent newspaper of Washington University, StudentLife, seems to be very taken back by the WU-YAL chapter's display of a Soviet gulag on campus. 

Apparently, millions of people dying from communism wasn't outrageous enough for a group of kids to demonstrate the ideology which made the gulags possible.

Read the article here.

Good Job WU-YAL... almost one month later and the campus is still buzzing about this.

Commemorating the fall of the wall at Rutgers

This past Monday, the Rutgers Young Americans for Liberty commemorated the fall of the Berlin Wall by erecting their own symbolic wall on campus. Rutgers YAL member Aaron Williams and myself spent our Sunday constructing a 10 foot high wall which we put up on College Ave. early the next morning in a high traffic area, Brower Commons.

Student writing on the Berlin Wall replica at Rutgers University

November 9th is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What are YOU doing about it?

Because if you don't have any particular plans, we have an idea for you:  Take part in a national day of activism to educate your campus and raise awareness about alignment of some American policies with the ten planks of the Communist Manifesto.

The twenty years since the wall fell have seen formal communism decline dramatically around the world.  Today only the People’s Republic of China, North Korea, Laos, Vietnam, and Cuba remain self-described communist regimes.  However, a government doesn’t need to call itself “communist” to have strong communist, socialist, or statist leanings.