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Private: Conservative Hypocrisy on Oliver Stone

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One year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation presented what we called “a conference within a conference” at the annual conference of the Students for Liberty, a student-run libertarian group that is, once again, holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C., this coming weekend — February 13-15, 2015. The theme of our mini-conference last year was “Civil Liberties and the National Security State.” Given that a considerable number of libertarians who come into the movement as conservatives have a difficult time abandoning their conservative views on foreign policy, civil liberties, foreign interventionism, empire, the war on terrorism, and the national-security state, we believe that it is critically important to apprise young libertarians of the libertarian position on these issues, especially since the warfare state constitutes a much graver threat to the freedom and well-being of the American people than the welfare state. Thus, the goal of our mini-conference was to raise the vision of young libertarians to the critical importance of civil ...

ISIS Fears

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ISIS madness is what I call it. ISIS has become the newest fear that has taken over the lives of the American people. People are convinced that ISIS proses a grave threat to “national security.” Unless it is stopped, the American people might have to start learning how to speak Arabic or terrorist. The phenomenon is really no different from Saddam madness. People tend to forget that this same sort of thing occurred for 12 long years — from 1991 to 2003, during the time that Saddam Hussein was the ruler of Iraq. During those years, everyone (except for libertarians) was obsessing over the threat to “national security” posed by Saddam. Every day for more than a decade, people were mumbling “Saddam, Saddam, Saddam.” Everyone was convinced that Saddam was coming to get them, employ the WMDs that the U.S. had given to him (when they were partners in the 1980s), and cart Americans away, just like ISIS. The phenomenon was just ...

Who’s the War Hero?

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Yesterday, a Chilean court ruled that a U.S. Navy captain, Ray E. Davis, participated in the murder of two Americans, Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, in Chile in 1973. The murders were committed as part of a regime-change operation in which the U.S. national-security state and the Chilean national-security state were working together to oust democratically elected President Salvador Allende from office and replace him with a military dictatorship headed by Chilean military strongman Augusto Pinochet. Davis didn’t personally commit the murders. Instead, he fingered Horman and Teruggi to his Chilean counterparts and then gave them the green light to murder the two men. For more on the Horman and Teruggi murders, see my article “The U.S. Executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 1,” which was posted on FFF’s website yesterday. The timing of the Chilean court’s ruling is fortuitous because it comes in the context of the controversy swirling around the move American Sniper and, specifically, FFF Vice ...

States, United States: America’s James Bond Complex

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Today, American politicians of both major parties — conservatives, “moderates,” and so-called liberals alike — insist that the United States is an “exceptional,” even “indispensable” nation. In practice, this means that for the United States alone the rules are different. Particularly in international affairs, it — the government and its personnel — can do whatever deemed necessary to carry ...