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What the %#*@ is an anarcho-capitalist?
Source: Ray Lehmann
Country: United States
E-mail: raylehmann@yahoo.com

A brief overview of anarcho-capitalism in particular and libertarianism, with links to a variety of resources. (8/00)

Why crime declines
Source: Ideas on Liberty
Author: Bruce L. Benson
Country: United States

Benson examines how private sector efforts at crime prevention and deterrence helped reduce crime in the 1990s. (01/00)

The justification of private property by first-comers
Source: Against Politics
Author: Jan Narveson
Country: United States

"Since the days of Locke and Hume, who regarded property rights as obvious components of the foundations of society, the subject has gone downhill. Few in the philosophical mainstream simply defend them as altogether reasonable." (05/02)

Libertarian solutions: 'private' cities: a radical idea ... enjoyed by 30 million Americans
Source: LP News
Author: J. Brian Phillips
Country: United States

"A growing number of American homeowners are demonstrating just how far privatization can go. Planned unit developments are privately developed, and primarily privately operated, communities. Today, nearly 30 million Americans live in approximately 100,000 planned communities." (11/98)

Instinctual anarchism
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Craig Ruuska
Country: United States

"Day in and day out of hearing that the government is a benevolent institution had caused permanent damage to my mind; I felt like a little boy caught with his hand in the cookie jar. I implore all that read this; do not subject your children to public school." (01/16/02)

The resignation of Jacob Halbrooks
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Jacob Holbrooks
Country: United States

"[I]t's time for the training wheels to be removed. I am ready to take care of myself." (04/16/02)

Anti-Statists and the free state
Source: Anti-State.com
Author: John Robinson
Country: United States

Compelling case for why the Free State Project is a valid strategy for market anarchists. (08/01)

To hell with freedom
Source: Backwoods Home Magazine
Author: Claire Wolfe
Country: United States

"In your private life, freedom means taking full responsibility for your own actions. I hardly need to mention what a drag that is. In a free country you’d have to pay the consequences of your screwups unless someone voluntarily bailed you out." (07/01)

Original sin
Source: SpinTech
Author: Paul Hein
Country: United States

"Obviously, governments should be abolished. No human institution has been so pernicious, so harmful, so successful at producing misery, poverty, and fear." (04/29/02)

Freeing your inner outlaw
Source: Backwoods Home Magazine
Author: Claire Wolfe
Country: United States

"To be truly free, you will be an Outlaw." First column in a regular serries by Claire Wolfe for Backwoods Home magazine. (07/01)

The importance of escape
Source: Backwoods Home Magazine
Author: Claire Wolfe
Country: United States

"There must always -- always -- be places where discontented people can run for refuge and new beginnings. Otherwise, society ends up being a pressure cooker with a broken relief valve." (05/02)

Restrained
Source: Liberty Round Tanle
Author: Samantha Stead
Country: United States

"I do not live in the 'land of the free'; I live in the land of lies, betrayal, and imprisonment for the under-eighteen." 3rd place in LRT essay contest 2002, age 14-16.

Government and the cycle of violence
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Jacob Halbrooks
Country: United States

"The principle of contract is synonymous with peace, and it is the principle upon which any economically growing country is based. On the other hand, government is not built upon voluntary agreements and peace but upon coercion and force. It is upon the principle of violence that all governments are necessarily based and from which all war and terrorism are derived." (03/17/02)

Socialists complain about anarchist road design
Source: Strike the Root
Author: John Bottoms
Country: United States

"When properly designed and intelligently used [traffic circles] are the epitome of anarchism in action, while the more common stop light is a better metaphor for socialism." (01/22/02)

The only way to go
Source: Doing Freedom
Author: Rocky and Bullwinkle
Country: United States

"[C]ome the revolution, what better way to be prepared than to have a travel alternative that can literally fly under the radar of the fedgov? The 'investment' costs into a license and working plane could pay off handsomely down the road -- and you'd have the benefits of greater traveling freedom now."

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