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Private Government in Genoa

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Genoa’s Freedom: Entrepreneurship, Republicanism, and the Spanish Atlantic by Matteo Salonia (Lexington Books, 2017); 214 pages. If the city of Genoa had advertised for security services in the 15th century, the job description might have looked like this: Security-Services Wanted Entrepreneurs in the city of Genoa recently fired the king of France and seek a replacement to provide security services. REQUIREMENTS/DUTIES Provide cost-effective domestic and foreign security services for 1 year, renewable annually. Abide by the Genoese law code and procedures for arrest and prosecution. Operate within a fixed budget to be negotiated at contract signing. Respond quickly to monthly and ad hoc reviews by Genoa’s fiduciary, the Bank of St. George. TERMINATION: 30-day notice by either party. SUBVERSION: Attempts to undermine the contract will result in contract termination (see king of France). CORPORATE CULTURE: The city values unhampered economic activity. As a hireling, you are not to expand or redefine services to include new tasks (mission creep) or place security employees ...

Freedom’s Frauds

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Freedom Frauds: Hard Lessons in American Liberty by James Bovard (Future of Freedom, 2017), 184 pages. James Bovard has been a thorn in the side of the statists for decades. His books and columns have exposed the incompetence, hypocrisy, arrogance, and sheer venality of the American political class much as H.L. Mencken did in the early part of the 20th century. Like Mencken, Bovard cuts right through the mind-numbing slogans, deceptions, and outright lies they use to wheedle the support of clueless voters. To read Bovard is to get the antidote for the poison of government propaganda. Once you’ve read him, you can think clearly about the state. One of the complaints that “mainstream” writers level against libertarians is that they cause people to distrust government and lose their faith in democracy. To that supposed crime, Bovard must plead guilty. Ordinary people, he shows again and again, should distrust government because it is primarily devoted to enriching those ...

Suicide by Politics

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If a Mexican citizen wishes to commit suicide, there is an excellent way to do it: run for office on an aggressive platform of shutting down Mexican drug cartels. There is a high likelihood that that candidate’s life will be snuffed out by the drug cartels that he is committed to shutting down. 35-year-old Jose Remedios Aguirre is a recent example. In May he was running for mayor in the town of Apaseo El Alto and promising to bring peace and security to a town that has been besieged by drug cartel violence. It’s worth noting that Remedios was not a novice when it came to personal security. He was manager of a private security firm and had also served as the director of public security in the town from 2012-2015. That didn’t prevent him from being shot dead at close range by multiple gunmen who have still not been caught. According to an article in a Japanese newspaper that detailed ...