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In This Issue:
The greatest essay on the free market ever written?..... New study: government
is biggest threat to U.S. manufacturing jobs..... Decriminalizing marijuana
doesn't increase drug use..... Zillion-dollar fighter jet just needs a few
"extras"..... Acclaimed "Art of Political Persuasion" seminar coming to
Indianapolis..... Mary Ruwart answers several common questions about liberty and
the environment..... Michael Cloud warns you about "The Deal Breaker" -- and
tells you how to turn it to your advantage.....
All this and *much much more* in the world's largest-circulation libertarian
publication...
THE LIBERATOR ONLINE
May 13, 2004
Vol. 9, No. 8
Circulation: 63,347 subscribers in over 100 countries
Published by the Advocates for Self-Government
Edited by James W. Harris,
mailto:james@TheAdvocates.org
Created by Paul Schmidt and James W. Harris
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"The Advocates is revolutionizing the libertarian movement. I encourage you to
be generous in your support."
-- David Bergland, 1984 Libertarian Party presidential candidate and author of
Libertarianism in One Lesson
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CONTENTS
PRESIDENT'S CORNER
* The greatest essay about the free market ever written?
* Acclaimed seminar comes to Indianapolis
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
* Advocates at national Libertarian Party presidential convention
* "The Art of Libertarian Persuasion," June 12-13, Indianapolis
...and more news and exciting opportunities for libertarians!
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* Zillion-Dollar Fighter Jet Just Needs A Few "Extras "
* Government Is Biggest Burden for U.S. Manufacturing
* New Study: Decriminalizing Pot Doesn't Increase Drug Use
* Mind-Altering Drugs...
ASK DR. RUWART
* Four questions about liberty and the environment
PERSUASION POWER POINT #162
* The Deal-Breaker
by Michael Cloud
PRODUCT REVIEW
* "Short Answers to the Tough Questions" by Dr. Mary J. Ruwart. PLUS FREE bonus
gift if you order now!
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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Dear friends,
There are miracles all around us, if we will just open our eyes and see.
That is one of the key lessons in "I, Pencil," a short, whimsical little story
that is justly famous as one of the greatest essays ever written about the
wonders of the free market.
It was penned by Leonard E. Read (1898-1983), Founding President of the
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), America's first free-market think tank.
The concept of "I, Pencil," is simplicity itself -- indeed, the idea is so
simple a child can understand it. But it is also incredibly profound. Once that
concept is truly understood, it can change forever the way you look at the
world.
"I, Pencil" is narrated by a pencil -- an ordinary yellow lead pencil of the
type found in schoolrooms everywhere.
Ordinary, yes -- but also extraordinary. As the Pencil says early in his story,
"I, Pencil, simple though I appear to be, merit your wonder and your awe... I
have a profound lesson to teach."
And indeed he does. If you have not yet encountered "I, Pencil," I urge you to
do so right away. And if it's been a while since you've read this classic, you
may want to dip into its wisdom again.
It's at our Web site:
http://www.theadvocates.org/library/i-pencil.html
The Foundation for Economic Education does wonderful work in defense of the free
market and individual liberty. Their Web site
http://www.fee.org/
is a treasure-trove of information, which I highly recommended.
Donald J. Boudreaux, a past president of FEE, once wrote: "If I could choose one
essay or book that everyone in the world would read, I would unhesitatingly
choose 'I, Pencil.'"
Yes, it's that powerful. Read it and be filled with wonder.
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You'll learn the very best ways to communicate the ideas of liberty from experts
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I am pleased to welcome 160 new Liberator Online subscribers this issue. Thanks
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Enjoy this issue of the Liberator Online.
-- Sharon Harris, President
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Thank you!
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WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE ADVOCATES
* May 27-31: Advocates at Libertarian Party National Convention. Advocates
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presidential nominating convention of the Libertarian Party. Liberator Online
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* June 12 and 13, Indianapolis, Indiana: The Advocates will again present the
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GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
by James W. Harris
Zillion-Dollar Fighter Jet Just Needs A Few "Extras"
The following is excerpted from a longer Associated Press article:
It was the sort of haggling more likely to be found at a car dealership than a
Senate conference room.
Air Force officials assured cost-conscious lawmakers that they had swung a deal
to get the next line of Georgia-made F/A-22 Raptor fighter jets for the
bargain-basement price of $110 million each. Of course, if they wanted a few
extras, that could lump another $40 million to $60 million onto the sticker
price.
Only when pressed did they acknowledge that one of the extras happens to be the
engine.
"I've learned you've got to ask exactly the right question at exactly the right
time," said Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania, the top Democrat on a defense
appropriations panel. "It's not new that they lied to us. They interpreted it as
stretching the truth, but the fact is, they're trying to get their program
through."
(Source: Associated Press:
http://www.accessnorthga.com/news/ap_newfullstory.asp?ID=35284 )
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Government Is Biggest Burden for U.S. Manufacturing
A blizzard of recent commentary has argued that foreign competition and free
trade pose major threats to American manufacturing, and thus to jobs in
manufacturing. Such arguments are used in turn to support calls for
protectionism and laws against "outsourcing."
However, a new report by the National Association of Manufacturers -- America's
largest industrial trade association -- dramatically challenges that view. It
finds that local, state and national government policies within the United
States are damaging U.S. manufacturing far more than any foreign competitor or
foreign trade policy.
Further, the report says that these policies are "adding at least 22.4 percent
to the cost of doing business from the United States" and place American
manufacturers at a severe competitive disadvantage.
The study examines five areas that hit U.S. manufacturers especially hard:
corporate taxation; mandated health and pension benefits; actual or threatened
tort litigation; regulatory mandates, especially those related to workplace
safety, pollution abatement, and corporate governance; and energy, particularly
natural gas.
Here are some other findings, taken from a summary provided by the libertarian
Foundation for Economic Education:
1) "The U.S. corporate tax burden reduces cost competitiveness by 5.6 percentage
points";
2) "U.S. employee benefit costs are higher than most of its major competitors";
3) "The regulatory compliance burden on U.S. manufacturers is the equivalent of
a 12 percent excise tax."
The report makes a strong case that the greatest threats to American
manufacturing -- and American manufacturing jobs -- comes from U.S. governments,
not from free trade or foreign competition. The best thing local, state and
national governments can do to help is simply to get out of the way.
(Source: "Don't Protect ManufacturingDeregulate!" by Jude Blanchette
http://www.fee.org/vnews.php?nid=5922 )
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New Study: Decriminalizing Pot Doesn't Increase Drug Use
There is no link between the decriminalization of marijuana and increased use of
marijuana or other drugs. Indeed, if anything, decriminalization of marijuana
may lead to less use of other, stronger drugs.
That's the conclusion of a new study in the May issue of the American Journal of
Public Health, conducted by researchers at the University of California, Santa
Cruz.
The study, "The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and in
San Francisco," compares drug use rates between users in San Francisco, where
marijuana is illegal, and Amsterdam, where marijuana can be purchased at
licensed "coffee shops. "
The study "found consistent similarities in patterns of career use across
different policy contexts," including mean age of onset, frequency of use,
quantity of use, intensity of intoxication, and duration of career use.
"If drug policies are a potent influence on user behavior, there should not be
such strong similarities across such different drug control regimes," the study
concluded. "Our findings do not support claims that criminalization reduces
cannabis use [or] that decriminalization increases cannabis use. Moreover, Dutch
decriminalization does not appear to be associated with greater use of other
illicit drugs relative to drug use in
San Francisco, nor does criminalization in San Francisco appear to be associated
with less use of other illicit drugs relative to their use in Amsterdam. Indeed,
to judge from the lifetime prevalence of other illicit drug use, the reverse may
be the case."
Allen St. Pierre, Executive Director of NORML (National Organization for the
Legalization of Marijuana), praised the study's findings, noting that they mimic
similar results commissioned by the U.S. government which have found no greater
use of marijuana in U.S. states that have decriminalized its use compared to
those that have not.
"More than 30 percent of the U.S. population lives under some form of marijuana
decriminalization, and according to government and academic studies, these laws
have not contributed to an increase in marijuana consumption nor negatively
impacted adolescent attitudes toward drug use," St. Pierre said.
"Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers an estimated $10 billion
annually and results in the arrest of approximately 700,000 individuals per
year. Yet, study after study shows that this enforcement has little-to-no
influence on individuals' behavior. Rather, it is a tremendous waste of national
and state criminal justice resources that should be focused on combating serious
and violent crime. It invites government unnecessarily into areas of our private
lives, and needlessly damages the lives and careers of hundreds of thousands of
otherwise law-abiding citizens."
(Sources: NORML: www.norml.org ;
Study "The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy":
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/5/836 ;
Santa Cruz Sentinel story:
http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archive/2004/May/04/local/stories/01local.htm
)
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Mind-Altering Drugs...
"I began to study marijuana in 1967... I had not yet learned that there is
something very special about illicit drugs. If they don't always make the drug
user behave irrationally, they certainly cause many non-users to behave that
way."
-- Harvard medical professor Lester Grinspoon, author of "Marijuana: The
Forbidden Medicine."
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"Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News" writer James W. Harris is editor of the
Liberator Online. His articles have appeared in numerous magazines and
newspapers, including The Nation, Reason, The Freeman, the National Taxpayers
Union's Dollars and Sense, the Atlanta Constitution, and many more. He has been
a Finalist in the Mencken Awards, given by the Free Press Association for
"Outstanding Journalism in Support of Liberty."
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ASK DR. RUWART
How can you answer difficult questions about libertarianism -- in short,
positive, persuasive soundbite-sized responses? It's a challenge every
libertarian communicator faces.
Dr. Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in libertarian communication, and author of
the international bestseller Healing Our World. In this column she gives readers
"short answers to the tough questions" that libertarians are frequently asked.
If you'd like Dr. Ruwart to craft effective answers to YOUR "tough questions" on
libertarian issues, just email the questions to her at:
mailto:ruwart@TheAdvocates.org
Due to volume, Dr. Ruwart can't personally answer or acknowledge all email
queries. But we'll run the best questions -- and Dr. Ruwart's answers -- in
upcoming issues.
Dr. Ruwart's past Liberator Online answers are archived in searchable form at:
http://www.TheAdvocates.org/ruwart/categories_list.php
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Four Questions and Answers on the Environment
Question:
"In a libertarian society, wouldn't polluters get away with destroying the
environment?"
My short answer:
"Government polluters get away with murder -- literally. When courts found the
military liable for illness and death after careless nuclear testing in Utah,
the government claimed sovereign immunity and refused to pay damages. (1) In a
libertarian society, no one would be immune from the consequences of their
actions -- especially not a government charged with protecting us.
"Libertarians believe that people and governments should right their wrongs by
restoring, as much as possible, what they've damaged. Today, our government
makes the taxpayers or new owners shoulder the burden. If polluters don't pay
for the damage they do, why should they stop polluting?"
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Question:
"How are we going to keep big business from polluting too much, if not by
government regulation?"
My short answer:
"Restitution is an effective deterrent, especially to polluters, where
restoration costs are monumental and polluters could spend the rest of their
lives working to compensate their victims.
"The process by which this "justice" is administered works best when all
property is held privately. In Britain, for example, property owners
successfully protect their river segments from uphill pollution by suing for
restitution. (2) In the U.S., however, individuals are not allowed to sue
polluters of public property, and the bureaucrats would rather not antagonize
businesses that can contribute to their campaign chests."
* * *
Question:
"But don't we need some government oversight to keep our environment from being
destroyed?"
My short answer:
"The environment is already being destroyed by our government! Our biggest
polluter is the U.S. military, not corporate America. In 1988, cleanup of 17
military bases was estimated to cost $100 billion over 50 years. (3) Putting
government in charge of protecting the environment is like asking the fox to
guard the hen house.
"The most polluted countries in the world are those where government has total
control of the environment, such as Eastern Europe."
References:
(1) "Court Rules U.S. Not Liable in Deaths from Atom Tests," San Francisco
Examiner, January 11, 1988, p. A-1.
(2) Jane S. Shaw and Richard L. Stroup, "Gone Fishin'," Reason, August/September
1988, p. 34-37.
(3) "The Biggest Cleanup in History," Nucleus, Winter 1989, p.5; "Regulate
Thyself," Dollars & Sense, July/August 1988, p.16.
* * *
Dr. Ruwart's acclaimed book "Healing Our World" presents persuasive arguments
for liberty, backed with over 1,000 references showing how liberty works.
Dr. Ruwart is also the author of "Short Answers to the Tough Questions" -- an
essential guide for anyone wanting to become a better libertarian communicator.
Both Mary Ruwart books are available from the Advocates:
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PERSUASION POWER POINT #162
The Deal Breaker
by Michael Cloud
Has anyone ever told you that he couldn't be a libertarian because of one
"totally unacceptable" libertarian position?
He agrees with libertarianism... except for the one "non-negotiable" issue.
Everything but... abortion. Or immigration. Or the death penalty. Or a
non-interventionist foreign policy. Or gay marriage.
That issue is the Deal Breaker.
When confronted with the "non-negotiable" Deal Breaker objection, most
libertarians try to reason with the person about the issue. They offer evidence
and arguments to change the person's opinion. They spend their time responding
to the Deal Breaker.
They usually fail. After a long, drawn-out, frustrating discussion.
That's what I used to do. I failed, too.
Then I found an approach that let me get past the Deal Breaker.
Here's what happened.
In 1996, the Harry Browne for President campaign hosted a number of fundraising
events. Harry Browne would give his powerful "Government Doesn't Work" speech
and answer questions from the audience.
I emceed the event and did the fundraising. We delivered high-octane
libertarianism.
One evening, after an event ended, a man and a woman approached me.
The man said, "I really like what I heard tonight. I agree with libertarianism
on everything except one thing: abortion. Until you change your tune on
abortion, I can't be a libertarian."
"Thank you for letting me know where you stand," I said. "May I ask you a
question? Are you married?"
"Yes, I'm married," he said.
"How many years have you been married?" I asked.
"Twenty-three years," he said.
"Congratulations," I said. "Maybe you can help me out with something. Do you
always 100% agree with your wife 100% of the time on 100% of everything? Do you
totally, completely, absolutely, without exception, 100% always agree with your
wife? Does she always, totally 100% agree with you?"
"No, of course not," he said.
"Are you glad you married her?" I asked.
He looked into her eyes. "Yes, I am," he said.
"Couldn't you embrace the Libertarian Party the same way?" I asked. "Couldn't
you be compatible with the Libertarian Party in the same way?"
I took out a registration form, signed him up and collected his dues. Then I did
the same with his smiling bride.
I gave him and his wife a different way to look at their Deal Breaker.
I could have asked him whether he had a best friend. Or whether he owns a home.
Or whether he works for someone. Or whether he belongs to a church.
The Marriage Model persuasion pattern above can be used with these examples, as
well.
Don't let points of disagreement stand in the way of points of agreement.
Don't let things we can't work together on stand in the way of things we *can*
work on.
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Michael Cloud is Persuasion columnist for the Liberator Online and The
Libertarian Communicator. In July 2000, at the Libertarian Party national
convention, Cloud was voted the Most Persuasive Libertarian Communicator in
America and honored with the Thomas Paine Award.
Michael Cloud is creator of "The Essence of Political Persuasion," the classic
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Anyone who's ever argued in favor of liberty has faced the "tough questions."
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Unless you can give a short, convincing answer to such questions, your
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