A Case For Self-Governance: The Business of Peace
Jan 18, 2010 A Case For Self-Governance, Anti-State, Anti-War, Police State, Social Issues
I feel peace is a good topic for Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. It was not planned like that, it just happened that way.
War is the governments business and business is good. From military imperialism to militarized police the government is in the business of death and theft. The government is in the business of forcing people to do what it wants with its guns. We discussed in A Case Against Government Part 1: Police State how police are not for the people but to serve the interest of the state. I would like to expand on a concept that Stefan Molyneux of Free Domain Radio proposed in his Lew Rockwell article The Stateless Society: An Examination of Alternatives. The idea is the the Dispute Resolution Organization (DRO). I would like to point out the business of peace can be a highly marketable thing to sell as opposed to the business of war which brings financial disaster, death and destruction.
A DRO is described on Wikipedia as:
a conceptualized organization providing services such as mediation and arbitration through the private sector.
This is his answer to the common question and objection of the statist, “What about Police?” No, we do not need police but we do have disputes that need a resolution. Will it end rape? No, but it will come closer to ending violence and rape than any police force or government entity has proven capable of doing. We see their failure in the fact that these issues still have little resolution or advancements, only a culture that reacts with vengeance towards people.
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Tags: Martin Luther King, Non-profit organization, Violence and Abuse
Killing Us Softly
Dec 10, 2009 Social Issues, feminism, video
Take the time to watch all four parts to Jean Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly.
Sarah Palin, Feminism, and the Left
Jul 5, 2009 Social Issues, feminism
I am not one to chime in on the gossip side of the political scene. I must speak slightly about the gossip here for I see something I oppose in this. I am speaking of Sarah Palin, and all the news over her in the last year. The Left claims to be pro feminist and pro woman, yet they have shown otherwise with Sarah Palin. She is anything but a feminist, and anything but a woman’s right advocate. Yet, amidst this I see attacks from the left on her “motherly” skills with her children, comments on her hair and dress. How is attacking a woman on these grounds constantly not displaying sexual stereotypes?
