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Help FFF Achieve the Free Society

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Some 45 years ago, I discovered four little books in the public library of my hometown of Laredo, Texas. Essays on Liberty, volumes 1–4, consisted of a series of uncompromising, principled libertarian essays by such people as Leonard E. Read, Ludwig von Mises, Henry Hazlitt, Frédéric Bastiat, Bettina Bien Greaves, F.A. Harper, Frank Chodorov, and Clarence Manion. Those four little books changed the course of my life, ultimately motivating me to leave the practice of law to advance liberty. It is that life-changing experience that has guided The Future of Freedom Foundation since our inception 34 years ago. If sound, principled, libertarian perspectives could break through the indoctrination that encased my mind after 18 years of public (i.e., government) schooling, the same thing can happen to others. Our methodology Our methodology is based not on converting people to libertarianism but rather on finding libertarians, especially those who, like me when I ...

The U.S. Government Is the Real Criminal

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“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable.”—H.L. Mencken And so it continues. This entire fiasco—indicting Donald Trump for allegedly violating both the Espionage Act and obstructing justice by improperly handling classified records—is merely the latest in a never-ending series of distractions, distortions, and political theater aimed at diverting the public’s attention from the sinister advances of the American Deep State. Don’t allow yourselves to be distracted, diverted or mesmerized by the cheap theater tricks. This indictment spectacle is Shakespearean in its scope: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Nothing is the key word here. Despite the wall-to-wall media coverage, this is all just smoke and mirrors. Mark my words: the government is as corrupt and self-serving as ever, dominated by two political factions that pretend to be ...

Why JFK Was Deemed a Threat to National Security

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Three days ago — June 10 — was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such as Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran, Congo leader Patrice Lumumba, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz and, later, President Salvador Allende of Chile.  For some 150 years, the federal government had been a limited-government republic. After World War II, however, the federal government was converted to a national-security state.  The difference was day and night. With a limited-government republic, there was openness and transparency in governmental operations. Moreover, there was only a relatively small, basic military force. No Pentagon, no vast military-industrial complex, no CIA, no NSA, and no empire of ...

The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

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“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”—James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts of money? Surround the entire country with ...

Danger Within: The Government Is Turning America Into a Constitution-Free Zone

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“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”—James Madison How far would you really go to secure the nation’s borders in the so-called name of national security? Would you give the government limitless amounts of money? Surround the entire country with ...