The only way to create a stable financial system is to force banks, investors, and creditors to bear their own risk. The only way to make them bear their own risk is to end bailouts once and for all. And the only way to end bailouts once and for all may be to dissolve---or at least permanently weaken---the Fed.
Thursday, May 31, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Government guns versus private guns
They (politicians) don’t want ordinary people to own guns — and government should have all the guns. If you wanted to compare the number of people who die from government guns versus private guns — historically, government kills about 95 percent of the people. Maybe it’s worse than that, when you think of the 20th century.
Monday, May 28, 2018
Coercion is evil
Coercion is evil precisely because it thus eliminates an individual as a thinking and valuing person and makes him a bare tool in the achievement of the ends of another. Free action, in which a person pursues his own aims by the means indicated by his own knowledge, must be based on data which cannot be shaped at will by another.
Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), The Constitution of Liberty
Friday, May 25, 2018
Stand a little less between me and the sun...
When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: 'Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.' It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.
Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), Economics in One Lesson
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Quote from Peter Schiff's 2014 book The Real Crash
Quote from Peter Schiff's 2014 book The Real Crash (or at Amazon)...
No regulator will ever be as effective as the threat of failure.
Wednesday, May 16, 2018
Bill of Rights; Unnecessary and Dangerous
Perhaps the most insightful piece among both Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers is Federalist Paper No. 84, surprisingly written by one founding father (crony) I despise the most, the father of central banking Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804). Yet, this federal-centralist proposed the Bill of Rights as "unnecessary" and "dangerous", of course confirmed by U.S. history, as well elaborated by Proems & Poems 19, 20 & 21 in my latest and 10th book One-Hundred Proems and Poems on the Peculiar Human Ability to REASON, Singular Human Right to CONSENT and Other Neglected Matters. Below is an excerpt from Proem No. 21...
"True to Alexander Hamilton's predictions implied in Federalist No. 84 and as bold it may be to say, every aspect of life not mentioned in the U.S. Bill of Rights are intrusively touched by government law, regulation, policy, license, permit, tax, tariff, ban, surveillance, etc. Bolder still yet no less true, every aspect of life particularly mentioned in the U.S. Bill of Rights are intrusively touched by government law, regulation, policy, license, permit, tax, tariff, ban, surveillance, etc.
Ironically, the historically assumed and quite stringently constitutional interpretation “whatever is not written, is not allowed” already began the slow, unnoticed digression in the late 18th century, until the tyrannical convenience “whatever is not written, is allowed” fully matured in the 20th and 21st centuries. To disagree is to ignore implications in and around Mr. Hamilton’s arguments against the Bill of Rights, to insist on disagreeing is to overlook U.S. history entirely."
Ironically, the historically assumed and quite stringently constitutional interpretation “whatever is not written, is not allowed” already began the slow, unnoticed digression in the late 18th century, until the tyrannical convenience “whatever is not written, is allowed” fully matured in the 20th and 21st centuries. To disagree is to ignore implications in and around Mr. Hamilton’s arguments against the Bill of Rights, to insist on disagreeing is to overlook U.S. history entirely."
Copyright © 2018 by D.C. Quillan Stone
Friday, May 11, 2018
Collectivist Doctrines Are Harbingers of Irreconcilable Hatred and War
Excerpt from Ludwig von Mises' Epistemological Problems of Economics (see link for free ebook), Chapter 1...
"The reproach of individualism is commonly leveled against economics on the basis of an alleged irreconcilable conflict between the interests of society and those of the individual. Classical and subjectivist economics, it is said, give an undue priority to the interests of the individual over those of society and generally contend, in conscious denial of the facts, that a harmony of interests prevails between them. It would be the task of genuine science to show that the whole is superior to the parts and that the individual has to subordinate himself to, and conduct himself for, the benefit of society and to sacrifice his selfish private interests to the common good.
In the eyes of those who hold this point of view society must appear as a means designed by Providence to attain ends that are hidden from us. The individual must bow to the will of Providence and must sacrifice his own interests so that its will may be done. His greatest duty is obedience. He must subordinate himself to the leaders and live just as they command.
But who, one must ask, is to be the leader? For many want to lead, and, of course, in different directions and toward different goals. The collectivists, who never cease to pour scorn and derision on the liberal theory of the harmony of interests, pass over in silence the fact that there are various forms of collectivism and that their interests are in irreconcilable conflict. They laud the Middle Ages and its culture of community and solidarity, and with romantic sentimentality they wax ecstatic over the communal associations "in which the individual was included, and in which he was kept warm and protected like fruit in its rind." But they forget that papacy and empire, for example, opposed each other for hundreds of years and that every individual could find himself at any time in the position of having to choose between them. Were the inhabitants of Milan also "kept warm and protected like fruit in its rind" when they had to hand over their city to Frederick Barbarossa? Are there not various factions fighting today on German soil with bitter anger, each of which claims to represent the only true collectivism? And do not the Marxian socialists, the national socialists, the church, and many other parties approach every individual with the demand: join us, for you belong in our ranks, and fight to the death the "false" forms of collectivism? A collectivist social philosophy that did not designate a definite form of collectivism as true and either treat all others as subordinate to it or condemn them as false would be meaningless and vain. It must always tell the individual: Here you have an unquestionably given goal, because an inner voice has revealed it to me; to it you must sacrifice everything else, yourself above all. Fight to victory or death under the banner of this ideal, and concern yourself with nothing else.
Collectivism, in fact, can be stated in no other way than as partisan dogma in which the commitment to a definite ideal and the condemnation of all others are equally necessary. Loyola did not preach just any faith, but that of the Church of Rome. Lagarde did not advocate nationalism, but what he regarded as German nationalism. Church, nation, state in abstracto are concepts of nominalistic science. The collectivists idolize only the one true church, only the "great" nation — the "chosen" people who have been entrusted by Providence with a special mission — only the true state; everything else they condemn.
For that reason all collectivist doctrines are harbingers of irreconcilable hatred and war to the death."
Note:
It is important to distinguish between forced Collectivism dictated by any form of Centralism as described in the above excerpt, versus the voluntary gathering of individuals perhaps led by one or a few for an array of nonviolent motives and/or objectives. Similarly and particularly, it is the distinction between politically compulsory versus privately voluntary attendances to church services or social meetings, thus forming and maintaining entire societies as well. The inherent unethical versus ethical dynamics as well the detrimental versus beneficial effects should be obvious; force (legal or not) versus nonviolence. At the very core is simply this; the regard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent, inseparably the respect for the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason. And so, my newest book's inspiration and topic.
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
"The reproach of individualism is commonly leveled against economics on the basis of an alleged irreconcilable conflict between the interests of society and those of the individual. Classical and subjectivist economics, it is said, give an undue priority to the interests of the individual over those of society and generally contend, in conscious denial of the facts, that a harmony of interests prevails between them. It would be the task of genuine science to show that the whole is superior to the parts and that the individual has to subordinate himself to, and conduct himself for, the benefit of society and to sacrifice his selfish private interests to the common good.
In the eyes of those who hold this point of view society must appear as a means designed by Providence to attain ends that are hidden from us. The individual must bow to the will of Providence and must sacrifice his own interests so that its will may be done. His greatest duty is obedience. He must subordinate himself to the leaders and live just as they command.
But who, one must ask, is to be the leader? For many want to lead, and, of course, in different directions and toward different goals. The collectivists, who never cease to pour scorn and derision on the liberal theory of the harmony of interests, pass over in silence the fact that there are various forms of collectivism and that their interests are in irreconcilable conflict. They laud the Middle Ages and its culture of community and solidarity, and with romantic sentimentality they wax ecstatic over the communal associations "in which the individual was included, and in which he was kept warm and protected like fruit in its rind." But they forget that papacy and empire, for example, opposed each other for hundreds of years and that every individual could find himself at any time in the position of having to choose between them. Were the inhabitants of Milan also "kept warm and protected like fruit in its rind" when they had to hand over their city to Frederick Barbarossa? Are there not various factions fighting today on German soil with bitter anger, each of which claims to represent the only true collectivism? And do not the Marxian socialists, the national socialists, the church, and many other parties approach every individual with the demand: join us, for you belong in our ranks, and fight to the death the "false" forms of collectivism? A collectivist social philosophy that did not designate a definite form of collectivism as true and either treat all others as subordinate to it or condemn them as false would be meaningless and vain. It must always tell the individual: Here you have an unquestionably given goal, because an inner voice has revealed it to me; to it you must sacrifice everything else, yourself above all. Fight to victory or death under the banner of this ideal, and concern yourself with nothing else.
Collectivism, in fact, can be stated in no other way than as partisan dogma in which the commitment to a definite ideal and the condemnation of all others are equally necessary. Loyola did not preach just any faith, but that of the Church of Rome. Lagarde did not advocate nationalism, but what he regarded as German nationalism. Church, nation, state in abstracto are concepts of nominalistic science. The collectivists idolize only the one true church, only the "great" nation — the "chosen" people who have been entrusted by Providence with a special mission — only the true state; everything else they condemn.
For that reason all collectivist doctrines are harbingers of irreconcilable hatred and war to the death."
Note:
It is important to distinguish between forced Collectivism dictated by any form of Centralism as described in the above excerpt, versus the voluntary gathering of individuals perhaps led by one or a few for an array of nonviolent motives and/or objectives. Similarly and particularly, it is the distinction between politically compulsory versus privately voluntary attendances to church services or social meetings, thus forming and maintaining entire societies as well. The inherent unethical versus ethical dynamics as well the detrimental versus beneficial effects should be obvious; force (legal or not) versus nonviolence. At the very core is simply this; the regard for the Singular Human Right to Consent or Not Consent, inseparably the respect for the Peculiar Human Ability to Reason. And so, my newest book's inspiration and topic.
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
100 Proems & Poems on the Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON, Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT & Other Neglected Matters
My 10th book; manuscript completed, edited, front/back covers designed, thus hopefully published/released sometime in June or July 2018 (click here for prior 9 books of poetry)... The following proems are short, topically introductory comments, followed by poems also short, 4-line complimentary verses, will remain online in draft/unedited form only for a few more months...
100 Proems & Poems
on the
Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON,
Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT
&
Other Neglected Matters
on the
Peculiar Human ABILITY to REASON,
Singular Human RIGHT to CONSENT
&
Other Neglected Matters
No. 30 - Hot August Violence
No. 31 - Hot August Violence / Reprise
No. 32 - Sum of All Isms
No. 33 - To Reason Is Human / 3rd Reprise
No. 34 - To Reason Is Human / 4th Reprise
No. 35 - Nature Amoral
No. 36 - Nature Amoral / 1st Reprise
No. 37 - Nature Amoral / 2nd Reprise
No. 38 - Garden of Eden / Part 1
No. 39 - Garden of Eden / Part 2
No. 40 - Garden of Eden / Part 3
No. 41 - Garden of Eden / Part 4
No. 42 - Garden of Eden / Part 5
No. 43 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive
No. 44 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive / 1st Reprise
No. 45 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive / 2nd Reprise
No. 46 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive / 3rd Reprise
No. 47- Conjured Lists / 3rd Reprise
No. 48 - To Emote Is Common and Constant
No. 49 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 1st Reprise
No. 50 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 2nd Reprise
No. 51 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 3rd Reprise
No. 52 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 4th Reprise
No. 53 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 5th Reprise
No. 54 - Individualism versus Collectivism
No. 55 - Individualism versus Collectivism / 1st Reprise
No. 56 - Individualism versus Communism
No. 57 - Individualism versus Fascism
No. 58 - Individualism versus Cronyism or Americanism
No. 59 - Individualism versus Socialism
No. 60 - Individualism versus Aforementioned Isms
No. 61 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism
No. 62 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 1st Reprise
No. 63 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 2nd Reprise
No. 64 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 3rd Reprise
No. 65 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 4th Reprise
No. 66 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 5th Reprise
No. 67 - Individualism versus Religious Absolutism
No. 68 - Individualism versus Moral Absolutism
No. 69 - Individualism versus Patriotic Absolutism
No. 70 - Individualism versus Aforementioned Isms / Reprise
No. 71 - Patriotism: Principle, Propaganda or Psychosis
No. 72 - Patriotism: Principle, Propaganda or Psychosis / 1st Reprise
No. 73 - Patriotism: Principle, Propaganda or Psychosis / 2nd Reprise
No. 74 - Individualism versus Despotism or Elitism
No. 75 - Individualism versus Despotism or Elitism / Reprise
No. 76 - Individualism versus Militarism or Police-Statism
No. 77 - Individualism versus Militarism or Police-Statism / Reprise
No. 78 - Individualism versus Democracy or Populism
No. 79 - Individualism versus Democracy or Populism / Reprise
No. 80 - Individualism versus Aforementioned Isms / 2nd Reprise
No. 81 - The Academic Bomb
No. 82 - The Academic Bomb / 1st Reprise
No. 83 - What Is Murder, Rape, Slavery and Theft / 1st Reprise
No. 84 - What Is Murder, Rape, Slavery and Theft / 2nd Reprise
The bonus section (if you will) below will be included in the book as well. As the section's title implies, it was a book project abandoned in favor of the more particularly important topic (above) regarding reason and consent.
Preceding Quotes by Roger Williams
I. Vainglorious Erections
II. Thy Birth and Blood
III. Cowáump, Nowáump
Preceding Quotes by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
IV. Sophisms for Paltry Profits
V. Germ of Hatred and War
VI. The Barmecidal Aegis
VII. Sweet Redolence of Benevolence
VIII. Love in Market Square
Preceding Quotes by Claude Frédéric Bastiat
IX. Inhumation of Logic
X. The Heart and Art of Harmony
XI. Not by Smith’s Hand Hidden
Preceding Quotes by Spooner/Bruce, Burke, Mason, Franklin, Flynn, Hazlitt
XII. Nothing to Hide
XIII. Songs of Troubadours
XIV. Every Passion Natural
XV. Ineradicable Thistles
XVI. Man's Trinity of Ills
XVII. The Silver Rule
Preceding Quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
XVIII. Game Shell
XIX. Sweat Warm, Hands Worn
Preceding Quotes by Carl Menger
XX. Fitted and Fixed as Iron and Steel
XXI. Liken Knees Deep in Dung
XXII. Obelisk to Sapience
Preceding Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
XXIII. Individualismo
XXIV. Dark Wombs to Marked Tombs
XXV. Das Naturgesetz
XXVI. O Violence, The Devil
No. 31 - Hot August Violence / Reprise
No. 32 - Sum of All Isms
No. 33 - To Reason Is Human / 3rd Reprise
No. 34 - To Reason Is Human / 4th Reprise
No. 35 - Nature Amoral
No. 36 - Nature Amoral / 1st Reprise
No. 37 - Nature Amoral / 2nd Reprise
No. 38 - Garden of Eden / Part 1
No. 39 - Garden of Eden / Part 2
No. 40 - Garden of Eden / Part 3
No. 41 - Garden of Eden / Part 4
No. 42 - Garden of Eden / Part 5
No. 43 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive
No. 44 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive / 1st Reprise
No. 45 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive / 2nd Reprise
No. 46 - Force Proactive versus Force Reactive / 3rd Reprise
No. 47- Conjured Lists / 3rd Reprise
No. 48 - To Emote Is Common and Constant
No. 49 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 1st Reprise
No. 50 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 2nd Reprise
No. 51 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 3rd Reprise
No. 52 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 4th Reprise
No. 53 - To Emote Is Common and Constant / 5th Reprise
No. 54 - Individualism versus Collectivism
No. 55 - Individualism versus Collectivism / 1st Reprise
No. 56 - Individualism versus Communism
No. 57 - Individualism versus Fascism
No. 58 - Individualism versus Cronyism or Americanism
No. 59 - Individualism versus Socialism
No. 60 - Individualism versus Aforementioned Isms
No. 61 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism
No. 62 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 1st Reprise
No. 63 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 2nd Reprise
No. 64 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 3rd Reprise
No. 65 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 4th Reprise
No. 66 - Individualism versus Constitutionalism / 5th Reprise
No. 67 - Individualism versus Religious Absolutism
No. 68 - Individualism versus Moral Absolutism
No. 69 - Individualism versus Patriotic Absolutism
No. 70 - Individualism versus Aforementioned Isms / Reprise
No. 71 - Patriotism: Principle, Propaganda or Psychosis
No. 72 - Patriotism: Principle, Propaganda or Psychosis / 1st Reprise
No. 73 - Patriotism: Principle, Propaganda or Psychosis / 2nd Reprise
No. 74 - Individualism versus Despotism or Elitism
No. 75 - Individualism versus Despotism or Elitism / Reprise
No. 76 - Individualism versus Militarism or Police-Statism
No. 77 - Individualism versus Militarism or Police-Statism / Reprise
No. 78 - Individualism versus Democracy or Populism
No. 79 - Individualism versus Democracy or Populism / Reprise
No. 80 - Individualism versus Aforementioned Isms / 2nd Reprise
No. 81 - The Academic Bomb
No. 82 - The Academic Bomb / 1st Reprise
No. 83 - What Is Murder, Rape, Slavery and Theft / 1st Reprise
No. 84 - What Is Murder, Rape, Slavery and Theft / 2nd Reprise
No. 89 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 4th Reprise
No. 90 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 5th Reprise
No. 90 - What Is Tyranny, What Is Slavery / 5th Reprise
The bonus section (if you will) below will be included in the book as well. As the section's title implies, it was a book project abandoned in favor of the more particularly important topic (above) regarding reason and consent.
MY ALLEGIANCE
- The Abandoned Project / Cantos -
- The Abandoned Project / Cantos -
Preceding Quotes by Roger Williams
I. Vainglorious Erections
II. Thy Birth and Blood
III. Cowáump, Nowáump
Preceding Quotes by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
IV. Sophisms for Paltry Profits
V. Germ of Hatred and War
VI. The Barmecidal Aegis
VII. Sweet Redolence of Benevolence
VIII. Love in Market Square
Preceding Quotes by Claude Frédéric Bastiat
IX. Inhumation of Logic
X. The Heart and Art of Harmony
XI. Not by Smith’s Hand Hidden
Preceding Quotes by Spooner/Bruce, Burke, Mason, Franklin, Flynn, Hazlitt
XII. Nothing to Hide
XIII. Songs of Troubadours
XIV. Every Passion Natural
XV. Ineradicable Thistles
XVI. Man's Trinity of Ills
XVII. The Silver Rule
Preceding Quotes by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
XVIII. Game Shell
XIX. Sweat Warm, Hands Worn
Preceding Quotes by Carl Menger
XX. Fitted and Fixed as Iron and Steel
XXI. Liken Knees Deep in Dung
XXII. Obelisk to Sapience
Preceding Quotes by Ludwig von Mises
XXIII. Individualismo
XXIV. Dark Wombs to Marked Tombs
XXV. Das Naturgesetz
XXVI. O Violence, The Devil
CONNOTED COLLECTIONS of CANTICLES
Carissimum Te Esse Mibi - Nos. 96-100
Condemnation IV - Either/Or
Condemnation V - Pax Americana
Commentary I - Diversity of Individuals
Commentary II - Subjected, Enslaved, Citizen’ed
Commentary III - Liberty Already Lost
Commentary IV - A Good Person
Commentary V - Meaning of Life versus Means to Life
CONFESSIONS & CONDEMNATIONS
Condemnation V - Pax Americana
Commentary I - Diversity of Individuals
Commentary II - Subjected, Enslaved, Citizen’ed
Commentary III - Liberty Already Lost
Commentary IV - A Good Person
Commentary V - Meaning of Life versus Means to Life
Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
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To my daughters, sons-in-law and grandchildren, who I love more than they know. It is my hope they someday will read this book when aged enough by human experiences hence mildly or gravely despondent over the human yet quite inhumane experiments, that is, the political and social monstrosities called Government.
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To the following (incomplete list of) influences, who in various decrees marginally or largely shifted my ideological thus moral paradigm(s), facilitating and fostering the conclusions in this book. Consequently in somewhat chronological order; the Taoist and Greek writers, the Apostles and their Gospels and Epistles, the Early Church writers, the theologians and economists of the School of Salamanca, Roger Williams (his book The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience), John Locke, Richard Cantillon, John Stuart Mill, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Jean-Baptiste Say, Claude-Frédéric Bastiat (of course the essay The Law as well his complete works), Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton (his article No. 84 only) thus the Federalist Papers, then the arguably preferred Anti-Federalist Papers therefore contributors, Patrick Henry (his fiery speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention), writers and orators like Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman) as well chiefs Red Jacket, Joseph, Luther Standing Bear, Seattle and others (as compiled by numerous historians), Henry David Thoreau, Lysander Spooner, Mark Twain (his short story/prose War Prayer) and the American Anti-Imperialist League, Carl Menger, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, Ludwig von Mises (particularly his books Liberalism and Human Action), F.A. Hayek, Garet Garrett, Albert J. Nock (his book Our Enemy, The State), Frank Chodorov, John T. Flynn, C.S. Lewis (his book Mere Christianity), Leonard Read, Henry Hazlitt (his masterly book Foundations of Morality), Ayn Rand (her book Atlas Shrugged and television interviews), Murray N. Rothbard (his two volume historical work on Economic Thought), Martin Luther King Jr. (his speeches and sermons on nonviolence and peace), John Lennon, Milton Friedman, Francis Schaeffer (his book True Spirituality, most noteworthy the section on covetousness), as well the few (among many) contemporaries per their books, essays, articles, lectures, shows, podcasts, documentaries and interviews like Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, Tom Woods, Walter Block, Hans-Herman Hoppe, Jesús Huerta de Soto, Walter E. Williams, Jeffrey Tucker, Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Gerald Celente, Niall Ferguson, Hernando de Soto Polar, Thomas Sowell and of course Ron Paul (consistently a noninterventionist hence a man of peace).
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Is 1:18a / Mt 5:9a
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Copyright © 2018 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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