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Introduction

“What is Liberty”

  • Websters Dictonary defines it as:
    • the quality or state of being free: a : the power to do as one pleases b : freedom from physical restraint c : freedom from arbitrary or despotic control d : the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges e : the power of choice
    • Libertarians define it as:
      • the rights to your life, your freedom and your justly acquired property. You cannot murder, harm, threaten, enslave, kidnap, or steal and you cannot elect or hire someone to do these things neither. You can use force if necessary to protect ones life, freedom or property
      • Summed up as the non-aggression axiom/principal
  • The idea of liberty first came to prominence during the Classic Liberal movement
    • Liberal and liberty come from same latin root “liber”; liberty “libertas” and liberal “liberalis”
    • Liberal means not bound to traditionalist and conservative thought in the political sense
    • Modern day liberalism shares characteristics with conservatism; that is using state power to meet their needs; conservatives have always done this
      • Ron Paul is not a conservative
      • In the context with the founding fathers, the federalists were conservatives and the anti-federalists were of the liberal mindset
        • George Washington and John Adams were conservatives, while Thomas Jefferson was probably the most liberal of the founders
      • These ideas came about from such writers as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau
        • Their writings were very influential to the founding fathers; they all advocated for a republican system that was setup with the Articles of Confederation
          • Many aspects of the Constitution destroyed the republican government we had and set up a quasi-oligarchy that makes up the federal government
          • Within 150 years, the entire republican system was destroyed, even with the safeguards that were written in the Constitution
          • Within 230 years, leading us to today, the system is filled with massive corruption and is continuously adding more restrictive laws to control the people. The populous is not being educated with any understanding of the true ideas of liberty in the public schools, and the majority of people are more interested in the Hollywood culture than living free and fighting injustice
          • Proof of this is the recent mass protests of people shouting “I’m with Coco!”, yet we can’t even get half that amount of people to an anti-war or End the Fed protest.

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