The Freedom to Travel

FreeKeene.com blogger David Krouse exercises his freedom to travel without government registration. This video documents his day in court:

Actual courtroom footage:

Announcing Keene Freedom Fest: Spring 2008 – 4/19, 12-3p, Railroad Sq.

GamblingFreeKeene.com present the Spring 2008 edition of Keene Freedom Fest! Join us for an afternoon of pro-Liberty outreach, socializing, and gambling!

4/19, Noon-3p, Railroad Square in Keene (the small park adjacent to 82 Main St.)

The following organizations/people are confirmed to be attending the event:

Food and drinks will be available via nearby vendors like Armadillo’s Burritos, King’s Garden Chinese, and Amicci’s Pizza.

More discussion about the event can be found here on the forum.

See you there!

Pushback

-The Means are more important than the End. Good Means equal good Ends

Virtually everything the government has is based on a foundation of theft. They tax you, with the threat of penalties if you fail, or even make a mistake. A tax is theft, if you do not have a choice in weather you pay it or not. The roads are purchased with this stolen money. If a landowner, farmer, business person, or an elderly woman who has lived on the land all her life, chooses not to sell, the government uses a process called Eminent Domain to forcibly evict a person from their own home, or land. Eminent Domain is a fancy legal form of stealing. The government then builds the road. The government, or another government unit zones all land, dividing some into business, retail, others factory, and other land into residential. This forces people to use the roads to get from point A to point B. The government then demands that you pay to license and register your vehicle, or else you are forbidden from using the vehicle on the government roads. Keep in mind that the road is already paid for by stealing your money from you in the first place.

This process will never cease until there is resistance to it. When the cost of forcing money from people becomes too high, or higher than the revenue it will bring in, the increases in taxation, and the variety of different taxes, will stop. (more…)

Parking Tickets and the “Consent of the Governed”

ConsentThere’s been a theory floating around America for the past couple hundred years suggesting that government people gain their power and legitimacy via the “consent of the governed”. As I understand it, in the world of Legal Land, it is commonly held that silence is tantamount to consent. In that, if the government people demand something of you and you either comply or say nothing that you are consenting to their rule over you.

Some of us liberty activists say that that is absurd. We say that the reason people comply is not because they consent but because they are frightened of violent government people hurting them, their family, or taking away their property.

Perhaps it’s not an either-or situation. While it is true that most people comply with government people’s demands due to fear of violence, it is also true that if enough people withdrew their consent and therefore their compliance, government people would no longer have their precious legitimacy. (more…)

The Market for Liberty PDF

The Market for LibertyAs you know, several weeks ago we posted a free audio book version of The Market for Liberty. We’ve now discovered that there is a PDF version of the book available for free as well.

You can download it here, thanks to the Mises Institute.

To learn more about the book and download the audio book version, visit book.FreeKeene.com