This page contains some links to reading material that I've enjoyed. I encourage anyone to read these things as well.

Free Reading:

The Last Ditch, by Nicholas Strakon and Ronald Neff - "TLD is a forum of opinion, edited by hard-core market anarchists, that does not flinch from any of the most pressing issues of our time. We are especially interested in questions of culture and ethnicity, our Polite Totalitarian ruling class, and the homicidal humanitarianism of the U.S. Empire."

How Tyranny Came to America, by Joseph Sobran - "One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own. The modern American educational system no longer teaches us the political language of our ancestors. In fact our schooling helps widen the gulf of time between our ancestors and ourselves, because much of what we are taught in the name of civics, political science, or American history is really modern liberal propaganda. Sometimes this is deliberate. Worse yet, sometimes it isn't. Our ancestral voices have come to sound alien to us, and therefore our own moral and political language is impoverished. It's as if the people of England could no longer understand Shakespeare, or Germans couldn't comprehend Mozart and Beethoven."

Our Enemy, the State, by Albert Jay Nock - "It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can there be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power."

No Treason, by Lysander Spooner - "Previous to the Civil War, there were some grounds for saying that --- in theory, at least, if not in practice --- our government was a free one; that it rested on consent. But nothing of that kind can be said now, if the principle on which the war was carried on by the North, is irrevocably established. If that principle be not the principle of the Constitution, the fact should be known. If it be the principle of the Constitution, the Constitution itself should be at once overthrown."

Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments, by Diane Cecilia Weber, Cato Institute - "Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement. The 1980s and 1990s have seen marked changes in the number of state and local paramilitary units, in their mission and deployment, and in their tactical armament."

Henry George and the Single Tax, by Bob DeNigris - "Land, labor, and capital are the means of producing wealth. Land yields rent, while labor produces wages, and capital receives interest. The wealth of any society is measured as the total of rent, wages, and interest. Taxation is government collection of a percentage of the accumulated wealth. How much the government collects, and how it is spent, constitutes the economic system under which that government operates."

The Most Dangerous Man in the Mid South , by Franklin Sanders - "I didn't sally forth looking for dragons to slay. The dragon came to me. He came with a lie, and either you oppose a lie, or you become a liar. You can kid yourself and say I'm only going along because they have all the guns, but day by day, year by year, your integrity erodes. Finally, you become like the tyrants: just one more liar."

'Conspiracy Theories' and Clandestine Politics, by Jeffrey M. Bale - "Very few notions generate as much intellectual resistance, hostility, and derision within academic circles as a belief in the historical importance or efficacy of political conspiracies. Even when this belief is expressed in a very cautious manner, limited to specific and restricted contexts, supported by reliable evidence, and hedged about with all sort of qualifications, it still manages to transcend the boundaries of acceptable discourse and violate unspoken academic taboos."

Freedom Force International, by G. Edward Griffin - "Freedom Force International is a network of men and women from all parts of the world who are concerned over loss of personal liberty and expansion of government power. They are not mere complainers. They have a plan to do something about it."

We the Sheep, by Joseph Sobran - "Civics for Suckers, Lesson One: In a two-party system, you can get the evils of both parties at the same time. Maybe you voted Republican because you hated the way the Democrats always inch in the general direction of socialism. The joke's on you! The Republicans start a war and simultaneously accelerate the drive toward socialism."

Repatriating the West, by Ronald N. Neff - "The problem can be stated quickly: to borrow from Jared Taylor, "We have a right to be us; and only we can be us." The "we" in this context is white Westerners; and what he and others have pointed out is that white Westerners cannot expect to live in ever-decreasing proportions with Negroes, Hispanics, Orientals, and Third Worlders without its having some effect on our culture, specifically, without its weakening white Western culture, as our folkways, our art, our mores, indeed our very personality are first overshadowed then displaced by those of nonwhite non-Westerners. In other words, multiculturalism means, essentially, the dilution and probable extinction of Western culture."

Recommended Books:

Polite Totalitarianism and Other Essays, by Ronn Neff
Progress and Poverty, by Henry George
Dark Suits and Red Guards, by Nicholas Strakon
The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, by John Perkins
The Second Treatise on Civil Government, by John Locke
1984, by George Orwell
Protection or Free Trade, by Henry George
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, by Charlotte Iserbyt

Other things worth mentioning:

The Mandrake Mechanism, G. Edward Griffin explains how fiat currency and fractional reserve banking work.

When asked "Do you believe in God?", "I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws." -- Albert Einstein

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery. -- Thomas Jefferson

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