Progressivism/Socialism: believes that the state can legislate in such a way that all results and prosperity will be equal and plentiful for everyone.
Libertarianism/Anarcho-Capitalism: believes that no collection of legislative force, even with the best intentions, could ever overcome the difficulty of providing guaranteed equality of results while also preserving individual freedom. Some people would suffer in a libertarian society. Anti-statists acknowledge the reality that there will be inequality regardless of what kind of government (or lack-thereof) we have. Therefore, the only prudent and moral goal of societal progression must be the respect of freedom, the protection of basic rights, the non-aggression principle, and a lack of positive or negative discrimination against any individuals or groups under the law.
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On my way to school today, I ran into my friend Frank on the ferry. He is two years my elder, and was always at the top of his class in our high school. He graduated last spring with a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Fordham University. He now finds himself completely unemployed, having to…
If any of my followers are artists or designers and would like to come up with an original icon for me to use as my little avatar or what have you, it would be greatly appreciated!
What I’m looking for is something that encapsulates love, freedom, and our revolution. No specific causes or individuals should be involved for this. Just a general depiction of what “Freedom Without Exception” means to you.
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‘Ten years ago, we could not have imagined our country would engage in systematic policies of torture and targeted killing, extraordinary rendition and warrantless wiretaps, military commissions and indefinite detention, political surveillance and religious discrimination. Not only were these policies completely at odds with our values, but by engaging in them, we strained relations with our allies, handed a propaganda tool to our enemies, undermined the trust of communities whose cooperation is essential in the fight against terrorism, and diverted scarce law enforcement resources. Some of these policies have been stopped. Torture and extraordinary rendition are no longer officially condoned. But most other policies—indefinite detention, targeted killing, trial by military commissions, warrantless surveillance, and racial profiling—remain core elements of our national security strategy today.’
Obama has ‘changed virtually nothing’ from Bush policies in these areas, and ‘most [Bush] policies remain core elements of our national security strategy today.’ At some point very soon, this basic truth will be impossible to deny with a straight face even for the most hardened loyalists of both parties, each of whom have been eager, for their own reasons, to deny it (and even the two differences cited there, though positive, are wildly exaggerated by Obama defenders: the torture techniques authorized by Bush were no longer in use and the CIA black sites were empty by the time Obama was inaugurated; by contrast, there is ample evidence that the Obama administration continues to use torture by proxy and [extraordinary] rendition/CIA-black-sites by proxy as well).
| — | Glenn Greenwald, The ACLU on Obama and Core Liberties (via statehate) |
