Posts in "Smash the state"

By Matt Cockerill at 6:44AM

Feb 23, 2010

An Anti-State, Anti-Fed Thriller-Romance?

Here is the synopsis of "Silver Circle," a forthcoming, animated, liberty-themed film:

Picture a world with crisis-fueled cycles of government growth, inflation, nationalization, bailouts, and the corrosion of liberty. With each crisis, the Federal Reserve grows, yet remains below the public radar.

Not exactly farfetched, eh? But in the film's state-dominated world, the spirit of liberty still lives on in the the hearts of a few "free-market rebels who take on the Fed itself - mentally and tactically - and win."

I think this movie sounds cool, which is all to the good. The movement needs different mediums of intellectual and emotional inspiration than the typical nonfiction book or blog post. Yay to creativity and individuality!

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By Matt Cockerill at 8:58PM

Jan 30, 2010

Though we can't yet defeat the bad guys, it sure is fun to annoy them

I hope you all have your own ways of sticking it to the man, provided they will not harm the cause or aggress against private property. Gary North's "recommendation" is my personal favorite:

"You can't fight city hall, but you can pee on the steps and run."

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By Matt Cockerill at 5:59PM

Nov 25, 2009

Get Excited! We are Making a difference in the struggle towards peace and liberty.

Disgusting, dehumanizing euphemisms aside, Vance is correct in asserting that the American People's uncritical military-worship allows the US state to get away with all sorts of atrocities overseas.

Take, for example, this sort of thing. The US government's "abandoned," landmines continue to kill innocents in Vietnam even to this day. The murderer-in-chief is by necessity a numbers-guy and "pragmatist," that won't bother to think about such things in lieu of his "grand vision." So it's not surprising that he's refusing to sign an international treaty banning the use of landmines in general.

The only way the politicians--both foreign and domestic-- will stop the murder is public opposition, which will require a young, romantic, impassioned, and informed group of Americans to change the minds of their countrymen.

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By Matt Cockerill at 6:07PM

Nov 11, 2009

The Case Against Veterans Day

At first glance, opposition to the celebration of Veterans Day seems both callous and untoward. There is good reason for any compassionate human being to empathize with American soldiers in harm's way, and especially dead and maimed US troops. War's cost to humanity cannot be quantified; perhaps there was an Einstein or Ghandi among the piles of dead in Iraq or the mentally dysfunctional at Walter Reed.

But while the suckup to the state, the dutiful soldier, and the armchair general will try to buffalo those who disdain Veterans Day celebrations into saying "you don't care about the troops" who have been killed, maimed, or psychologically dehumanized by the state's wars, opposition to Veterans Day isn't about that.

Veterans Day -- usually thought of as a wider appreciation day for the state's military -- serves as a propaganda outfit for the current set of political actors. If the troops' activity in a war was honorable, surely it follows that the orders they followed weren't dishonorable, let alone, evil! To consistently believe that "the law is the law" or to consider "following orders" heroic regardless of what they actually are leads to an inevitable logical absurdity of having to lionize an SS soldier "following orders," by gassing a Jewish baby.

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By Matt Cockerill at 3:36PM

Oct 29, 2009

The Hypocrisy of the State

The irony of the state is that its chief political actors want us to think of them as individuals. This is hardly surprising -- they are people, after all, and beholden to the same proclivities and social desires as is the rest of humanity.

The current head head of state, Barack Obama, likewise wants us to think of him as an individual. Someone who screws up sometimes, but loves his wife and beautiful children. Someone who abused drugs in the past, but has managed to become a responsible and effective member of society.

While many people are appreciate the personal nature of much of what politicians tell them, I am disgusted by it. Disgusted by the hypocrisy of a president who wants us to get to know and appreciate the family he undoubtedly loves, but dehumanizes the voiceless Afghan child he murders as expendable "collateral damage." Disgusted by the hypocrisy of a government which shackles and kidnaps people for making the same nonviolent mistake its sanctified leader did. Disgusted by the hypocrisy of a state that only seems to consider its power players, and those in cahoots with them, as fully human.

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By Matt Cockerill at 12:12AM

Sep 17, 2009

We can change the world, but we have to try

I usually disdain the sort of wishy-washy cliches' favored by Daytime TV, "cosmo libertarians," and naive, government-worshipping celebrities. To be blunt, repeatedly falling back on useless lines like "live, laugh, love" probably undermines one's ability to actually do those things.

But there is one such cliche' that gets me, *ahem,* rather sappy in Gandhi's "be the change you wish to see." This beautiful, succinct quote is remarkable because it's completely true. All the government's ipso-facto instruments of murder, and ipso-facto acts of murder would cease to exist if the people whose consent they depend on rejected it. Libertarians are the best chance to lead the people of the world in a credible, pro-peace direction. Each and every one of us has an important role to play in this, provided we speak boldly and unequivocally about our ideals.

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