Libertarian Consistency and “Binary do nothing, that sends shock waves through the typical line of thinking. Libertarianism, because of its core principles of self- Thinking” ownership, property rights, and the general competency of by Joe Roberts those who have “skin in the game” to make the best decisions for their own lives, is free to be more imaginative in its Well, 2020 has been quite the solutions, because it is not tethered to this binary thinking of dumpster fire so far, hasn’t “Government should do A or government should do B.” it? Pandemics, government lockdowns, brutality and murder by the police making headlines, riots and protests. In the midst of the unrest, we hear voices from the left and voices from the right shouting over each other and generally segregating across the party lines, as usual, presenting their takes on these situations. This binary rhetoric presents an opportunity for vocal libertarians to engage in dialogue and debate with those in the general public who cannot escape the A libertarian does not have to choose between declaring that binary thinking that results, hopefully providing a consistent the COVID-19 coronavirus is a medical issue to be taken “third way” based on the principles of liberty. seriously and understanding the devastating impact, including the human cost, of the government locking down the economy, putting 40 million people out of work, preventing the exercise of our civil liberties, and passing so-called “stimulus bills” with a price tag in the trillions of dollars. Instead, a libertarian can advocate for a third alternative, namely, all of us individually looking out for ourselves and each other.
A libertarian can advocate the wearing of masks, while opposing a government mandate on them. A libertarian can protest for ending the lockdowns without insisting that a private establishment must allow customers in without taking lockdown precautions.
A libertarian can cry To present a libertarian view means breaking through some out against the commonly-held beliefs by both Democrats and Republicans. violence of the police The main one is the idea that the government should be “doing against poor people something.” Those in the two major parties will differ on of color, while exactly what that “something” is, but when a libertarian pointing out that suggests that the government should withdraw and essentially destroying and looting private businesses is counterproductive
Page 1 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 to getting justice and ending state oppression. A libertarian of Campaign Marketing During whatever race can genuinely listen to people of color, empathize with their fears, listen to their cries for justice, Quarantine believe them, and disagree with those who suggest that more by Amber Jewell government is a solution to a government problem involving individuals working for, and protected by, the government. We This election season has can advocate against aggression at the same time we become a unique encourage everyone of all races and economic backgrounds to experience, thanks to arm themselves and be prepared to resist and retaliate against COVID-19. The aggression. We can concede that there is actual racial and coronavirus has made social injustice in 2020, and understand that racial disharmony campaigning a more and class warfare distracts us from our more poignant, difficult task than ever common enemy: the tyrannical state. before. Government officials have pushed us to And, yes, “true libertarians” can disagree with other “true be locked inside our homes, libertarians” on what non-government solutions to all of these insisted on face masks, and problems might look like. In many cases, certain solutions will have tried to prevent us yield more positive results from face-to-face contact. These “requirements” have, in turn, in some instances than created a situation in which candidates can have minimal they would in other contact with the most important people for their campaigns: instances. We need to the voters. So how do we continue to get our names, and the guard ourselves against Libertarian Party, out to the public? “binary thinking” ourselves, and to give one another the freedom to differ on the best ways to establish a freer society in which citizens are able to pursue personal security and prosperity.
As we spread the message of liberty and promote our candidates this election year, let’s constantly keep our focus on the “big picture”: things don’t have to be a tug-of-war between two parties, each of them pulling for one of two equally wrong government solutions to force on everyone else. Let’s present true liberty as the third, and best, most empowering way. Social media has become a top resource for people who are wanting to advertise anything during this time of isolation. LPDC Membership Program! Creating images, posting videos, and sharing pertinent information can be a great way to publicize to those who are Want to help out the LPDC and at the same time get some stuck at home on their computers for much of the day. For cool libertarian swag? Check out our contributor maximum exposure, marketing experts suggest posting all membership program! over various social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. Of course, ads on these mediums can also be beneficial. You can use these to reach a larger audience and get the most important information out for a longer period of exposure time. You may even consider starting your own blog. If you do, make sure that you share it on all of your social media, as well.
Another fantastic way to market is through branded merchandise (also called promotional products). Did you
Page 2 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 know that the first evidence of promo marketing in this Any COVID-19 Response Must Include country was a Colonial-era presidential campaign button? We keep using them because they work. Get your name on Mental Health Care anything that can be by Darren Hamilton seen over and over again by a high As the COVID-19 crisis number of people – continues, most people are buttons, hats, yard focused on its impact on the signs, and t-shirts, to economy, or worried about an name a few. There are older relative falling ill. But still folks who are there is another public health getting out and about crisis looming over all of us - during this time and one that will slowly ripple they need to be shown outward, but then hit us like a who you are. You can tsunami if we don't prepare also contact friends now, and it will come in the and family to share form of a mental health crisis. your products and Campaign Button for Roger spread the word. Stress, anxiety, and trauma - MacBride for President, Alaska the big three of mental health issues – are on the horizon. Remember: it’s not 1976 We've seen stress humorously commented about in our social just about selling media news feeds. We make light-hearted jokes about anxiety, yourself. If voters don’t understand why they should vote for then forget about it. Why? Because to acknowledge that it you, the political issues remain swept under the rug. Share truly exists is to give a sort of credibility that offends the infographics, statistics, and reliable links to show that you are sensibilities of most people. Those of us who have served in a expert in what you are discussing and promoting. The more the military, especially since the turn of the century, know people understand, the more likely they are to become about "post-traumatic stress disorder" or PTSD. Post-traumatic involved. stress is a real condition, and it doesn't require being in combat to develop it. Almost any traumatic situation can be a contributor. If you Political Operations Committee! believe that you are immune to its effects, Are you a gung-ho political activist who is interested then you are only specifically in local events and politics? Does the fooling yourself. "It incessant wasteful spending of the Dallas City Council cannot happen to me" really get on your nerves? Are you concerned about local was a phrase that I government corruption and want to help keep tabs on it? used to tell myself a lot until it came up to me, We're looking for more libertarians who are astutely bit me on the butt, and interested in being watchdogs for Dallas County politics. said, "I'm here, These people are in charge of identifying strikingly anti- Marine, so you'd better libertarian government action and forming political plans get with the effing program." to couteract it. Interested? Send an e-mail to the LPDC Chair! I read a story some years ago about an Army Sergeant Major who went to weekly sessions with the base psychologist. During these sessions, they would simply talk about general things - small talk about nothing specific, and nothing on the part of the Sergeant Major that would warrant a visit to a psychologist. After a few of these weekly sessions, the psychologist asked the Sergeant Major why he continued to schedule and attend these sessions if there was not an issue that he wished to discuss. "Quite simply," said the Sergeant Major, "I want my soldiers to see me doing it. They don't need to know why I do it, but if they see me, at my age and rank, coming in regularly to talk with a psychologist, then maybe
Page 3 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 some of them who actually do have issues will not feel so stigmatized, and will feel like they can get the help that they We are already reeling with the aftermath of having our health need to get through their own issues." care system and disease prevention programs undermined. Political deprioritization of these services has already led to an In the era of COVID-19, we hear about how we need to inability to proactively contain COVID-19, which in turn has "flatten the curve" and to find ways to slow the spread of the led to reactive responses that are often too little, too late. And virus, but no one seems to be considering the tremendous yet that same over-politicized and reactive system is even amount of stress and anxiety that is being inflicted on all of us worse for the various mental health programs that, over the as a result of the handling of this crisis. Millions of people are years, have had to deal with deep cuts in already scarce losing their jobs, and those that still have jobs that require services. It seems like mental health issues only surface as an being physically present are enduring increasing levels of important topic after events like school shootings or shootings anxiety, stress, and trauma as they try to navigate potentially at large social events, but then they soon fade into the contaminated spaces, and deal with people who may not be background after partisan bickering begins and big-money taking precautions to protect themselves or others. entities start pulling their collective marionette strings. Additionally, there is the trauma that Mental health services are critical to staving off a disaster of the livelihoods of monumental proportions, and mental health treatment must be small-business included in any response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. owners, some of The United States cannot afford to continue making mental whom may have health a reactionary crisis response or a political musical-chair been in business for issue, especially during this pandemic. As a candidate, and as decades, are being someone who benefits from the occasional visit to such a destroyed virtually professional, I think that mental health care should be made a overnight, as well as priority, and here are a few ideas that can be easily that of workers who implemented to make that happen. jobs rely on human interaction, many of First, prioritize telemedicine. Make it low-cost and available which cannot be to all people living in the United States regardless of income, transitioned online. age, or citizenship status. This can be achieved through smartphones apps and smart technology, and training for And it's not just mental health professionals on how to best use this about job loss. A technology. Also, transition group meetings (like substance recent article out of abuse meetings) to online forums which can continue to help the New York Times those people who are working hard to stay clean. These talked about programs can also be continued once social distancing COVID-19 survivors being ostracized AFTER their recovery restrictions have been lifted. by friends and neighbors, and even family members. Some even reported feeling survivor's guilt. While we are ALL vulnerable to the impacts of the pandemic on our individual mental health, certain groups are particularly at risk including mental health workers, adolescents, and those over the age of 65. Health care workers and first responders are already at a greater risk for mental health conditions as data from before the pandemic shows that both physicians and nurses have a higher rate of depression, burnout, and suicide when compared to the general public.
The hidden undertow to the current COVID-19 crisis, the hidden impacts of social isolation (not "social distancing”), fear, uncertainty, and even loss often remain silent, but are just as impactful, and as deadly, as the virus itself. A recent poll conducted by CVS Health and Morning Consult found that two-thirds of adults reported more stress now as compared with this time last year, and nearly one quarter of those also indicated that they do not feel confident in locating resources Second, develop community and neighborhood-level to address their mental health concerns. emotional support systems, then train a new group of local Page 4 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 providers who can focus their time and efforts on enhancing The Plague of 2020: Some Consequences social cohesion and empathetic listening. Many faith-based groups and institutions can serve as a model for this, and can for Libertarians also help facilitate its activities. Most mental health by Barry V. Smith professionals will agree that people need community during times of crisis, so developing these neighborhood-level The Threats support systems can help many who might be suffering. We have a nightmare scenario: And third, be prepared to offer a wide range of necessary a new, poorly understood, mental health resources and support structures. Many people unpredictable disease has in these communities may not have the luxury of being able to suddenly spread around the work from home, and so may be facing increasing anxiety world. It is unusually related to increased risk of virus exposure, or fears about contagious, and potentially losing their jobs. For those that have the ability to shelter in fatal. place, depression may be the biggest factor due to physical isolation or loss of income. Additionally, people may face prejudice based on how the virus has already been labeled by Those who are infected, even governmental agents, leading to horrific, targeted attacks. those who have no symptoms themselves, can spread it to others just by being nearby. There seem to be natural limits to it, in that it has serious effects primarily on a limited class of people, but the disease is too new to be confident of that. There is no vaccine or cure yet.
In this unsettled and threatening new world, where everyone is potentially an unwitting threat to everyone else, there is a compelling temptation to regiment the minute details of everyone’s life to protect everyone else. This temptation is, of course, of primary concern for the libertarian cause. However, the threat to our cause is even more complex and pervasive than it seems at first glance. Many of our political and government leaders operate merely There are obvious and direct threats to liberty. Though the in reactionary mode: the idea being "deal with it when it response of the governments in the American federal system arrives, but not before". For instance, the World Health hasn’t been uniform, various governments have quarantined Organization's plan to deal with COVID-19 does not have any those who are infected, strategies for mental health. Additionally, while Congress has have ordered authorized hundreds of millions of dollars for behavioral individuals not to leave health efforts, including suicide prevention programs, as a their homes except in result of COVID-19, there was a massive need for such limited circumstances, services even before this crisis as tremendous changes already have forced citizens to impact our daily lives. Politicians and government workers wear masks in public, have the ability to get these policies changed and enacted, to have forced many get financial resources allocated and structures in place to business to shut down support mental health workers now, before the wave of need for an extended time, washes over all of us. have forbidden large public gatherings, and have told us how far away from each other we have to be. This is the most pervasive assault on Want to write about libertarianism, but aren't ready for freedom this nation has ever known. It’s been going on for major publications? Want to test your articles first among three months, and the glimmer of light we see at the end of the friends? Submit your articles quarterly to the LPDC tunnel could be quickly extinguished at any time by new newsletter! It's painless, I promise! circumstances.
This is only the beginning. There have been and will be indirect consequences for liberty. The economic shutdown has Page 5 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 been devastating, causing destruction, suffering, uncertainty, of my neighbor’s employer from foot powder to hand desperation, dismantling of institutions, and widespread fear, sanitizer. Charities have provided help for those harmed by the all of which can lead to popular calls for even more extreme lockdown. Businesses and other institutions have made measures. Although there have been conspicuous protests and surprisingly quick progress toward understanding the new resistance, polls have shown that the majority of Americans virus and in developing treatments and vaccines. The private are reluctant to reopen the economy anytime soon. Other sector has been nimble and responsive, and this can only attempts to combat the spread of the disease – testing, contact strengthen the libertarian cause. tracing, surveillance to make sure people are doing what they’re supposed to do – threaten our privacy, and loss of State and local governments have taken a lead in government privacy threatens freedom. The federal government’s attempts response, strengthening the checks and balances of a to alleviate the destruction caused by the economic lockdown decentralized government structure. At the same time, have raised the national debt government regulations have been eased to encourage quick to a level that is likely to and flexible response. increase taxes dramatically and to cause disruption that There has been some will produce calls for even predictable panic and more extreme measures in political opportunism, but years to come. there has also been, in my observation, much more All of this is becoming clear, careful, innovative normalized – we are thinking among the general constantly advised to get used public than I expected. to the “new normal” for the There is reason for long run. I suspect also that both the public and politicians will optimism there. We believe become so sensitized to the atmosphere of fear and threat that that reason is on our side. they will want to expand similar extreme measures to deal with other perceived threats beyond this coronavirus. And on Also, in the climate of top of all this, sometimes there really is a conspiracy: those uncertainty and change, Americans who have lurked throughout our history, wishing many are learning to appreciate the general need for that we would “grow up” and discard our relatively free decentralization and redundancy of our institutions to improve society for something more “practical” and “realistic”, will our security and agility. Effective private response when a take full advantage of the situation to move toward their goals. centralized government approach fails – as in the development of tests for the virus – causes people to be skeptical of I could go on and on, listing a cascade of harmful results of centralized power. Social isolation is encouraging people to this plague, each one creating others, but instead I’ll point out develop skills of self reliance and a greater taste for some reasons for optimism. independence from centralized control. All this support for a multiplicity of institutions and approaches is likely to improve Reasons for Optimism the prospects for liberty.
Some good things have come out of this. Private institutions Some Suggestions for the Future have often responded quickly and effectively to the situation. Many private individuals and institutions have quickly 1. We shouldn’t do anything to interfere with the good things innovated to that are already happening. Beyond doing no harm, we could function in ways look for ways to cultivate new advantages. that accommodate new needs, such as 2. We should strive to be rational, gathering as much more takeout information as we reasonably can, and carefully considering operations by costs and benefits. restaurants. Businesses have quickly retooled to produce medical supplies, such as our own Lauren Daugherty’s switch from wrappings to masks and the switch
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3. Trigger Warning: We as a society need to plan. Crisis magazine.) conditions, including fast-moving threat, uncertainty, ignorance, and mind-numbing surprise naturally provoke emotional calls for oppressive government actions. Therefore, Dear Ben we need to counteract this by being prepared. We need to get by Jim Birchfield into a regular habit of planning for a variety of crises that we haven’t even imagined yet. I’m not talking about a centralized, Dear Ben, precise, detailed plan to be rigidly imposed on everyone. We I know you haven’t been here in a long while, but I wanted to update you on what’s going on in the Republic. You were one of the Fathers. When that nice woman in Philadelphia asked you, after the Constitutional Convention, “What kind of government have you given us? A Monarchy, or a Republic?” You answered “A Republic, ma’am, if you can keep it.” just need to do a few general things. First, someone, preferably I’m sorry, Ben, but we couldn’t. We tried, I guess, but we got multiple actors, need to constantly, consciously, deliberately, complacent, or something, and let it slip away. I don’t know, and systematically look at the overall picture, analyzing how exactly, when it was lost totally, because we’ve been losing it, everything fits together and make tentative predictions about little by little, for fifty years at least. I only know that it’s lost what could happen the future. This monitoring for future now. I have feared this crises would improve the probability that we won’t be taken for a while, but in my by surprise. To this end, we should be doing basic research of shortsightedness, or my various kinds to expand general knowledge and to add to our inability to see the tool kit. Basic research is not a foolish luxury. Second, getting bigger picture, I didn’t more immediately practical, we need to routinely consider see it coming like this. ways to prevent and to respond to various crises, giving Not at all. ourselves more options to work with and improving our chances. Finally, as we do all this we should be sure that I don’t know if you’ll concerns about liberty are explicitly and even formally believe what I’m going incorporated into decision making. This is especially to tell you about our important for decision making within government, the beloved Republic, but institution most dependent on coercion, but it could be useful it’s true. I wish it were for others as well. There are libertarian think tanks that do this not. Remember those kind of work now, but we need to imbed it in other first ten amendments, institutions, too. In doing all this, we must somehow try to called the Bill of include the general public (who have the ultimate power Rights, which were through their sheer numbers) so that they won’t be taken by being discussed shortly Benjamin Franklin, Caricature surprise and so that they will get in the habit of thinking about before you moved on? the consequences for liberty of everything we do. I know this They were adopted the year after. And what Rights they were! last point won’t be easy: fire drills are a real pain and there is a Unfortunately, people in the Republic started taking them for temptation to dispense with them. granted, as if they could not be usurped by the heavy hand of Government, but they have been. Amendment I, the one about If we do all of this, threats will still arise, we will still be free religion and the right of people to peaceably assemble and surprised sometimes, and there will be no guarantees, but the freedom of the press, doesn’t exist in today’s Republic. People probabilities for the survival and development of a free life can’t go to church, even on Easter. We can only assemble, will be more in our favor. even peaceably, in groups of ten or less, and even then we must stay six feet away from the closest person. Can’t even (For others’ observations, see the June issue of Reason shake hands, it’s crazy, it really is. How do they expect us to
Page 7 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 protect liberty, like you did, with ten people who can’t go to a and it outlawed slavery, which was legal last you knew. The tavern and drink grog? I don’t see it happening. It’s almost reasons for XIII aren’t relevant to this letter. Just know that in like that’s what they’re trying to do. The press is not like the 2020, slavery has returned to America, and it’s going to stay a Philadelphia paper you started. They have no desire to seek while. and print the truth whatsoever. They just print what the government tells them to. Seriously. Hard to believe. In short, Ben, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of Amendment II is still here, but lately, some low level public happiness doesn't exist anymore. In fact, the same low-level officials, mayors, governors, judges, and such, and members officials have ordered most businesses to close, except the of the aforementioned press, have started yelling for gun sale ones they want open, which they call “essential.” They pick and ammo sales to be stopped, because there has been a run on the essentials, and of course they always include themselves in both lately. Hell, I’m having a hard time stocking up myself. there, and the press of course. They need someone to spread fertilizer. I don’t have a job anymore because of this order. I am an innkeeper, and it sure seemed essential to me, because I needed the money to pay rent and buy food. But the state says inns aren’t essential, and they didn’t bother to ask me, so I lost my job for I don’t know how long. Before I ran out of money I decided to become enterprising. Not as much as you, but it helped.
About ten years before you moved on, a new invention burst onto the American scene. It was called toilet paper, in fact, you Number IV has taken a beating. There are these things called may remember the Philadelphia outfit that popularized it. I’ll no-knock raids, which is when government men dressed and bet you even knew the three gentlemen that started the armed like soldiers use a battering ram to break doors down in company. (By the way, the system you Founding Fathers the middle of the night. There’s usually about a dozen of them, created became the envy of the world. When people are left they charge in, shoot our dogs, hold us at gunpoint, go through our stuff, and take us to jail if they find anything at all. They have their warrant, but it’s not uncommon for the truth to be stretched for them to get it. There have been many instances where they battered into the wrong domicile and killed the people there. It gets worse, Ben. The courts say that’s okay because the soldiers had the right idea, they just fucked up the address. To err is human, to forgive divine, I guess. You won’t believe what’s happened to Amendment V. Liberty? We have been told to stay home unless we have something really important to leave for, and we are told what those important things are. Not a law, really, but an order, spoken by one of the previously mentioned low-level officials. They are full of themselves, Ben. And that thing about private property not free to mind their own business, they mind it very well. The being taken without Republic flourished in more ways you can shake a stick at, just compensation? until, well, recently. That same company still sells a lot of The federal cops and paper.) For some reason I can’t figure, toilet paper became the state cops have hard to get recently, as people were collecting it. I know it worked out deals sounds odd, but think Dutch tulip mania. At our house, we where they take a started eating a lot of corn and saving the cobs, just in case. man’s property, sell My dear departed mother said that’s what they did when she it, and split the was a girl and her family was very poor in the 1930’s. God proceeds. No trial, no nothing. It’s a hell of a racket. rest her soul. Back to my enterprise, I managed to secure a whole bunch of toilet paper, and I started selling it to the There’s another amendment you wouldn’t know about, highest bidder using technology that didn’t exist for you. I because it was ratified many years after you left, but it’s XIII,
Page 8 Libertarian Party of Dallas County, Texas June 2020 made enough from my enterprise to pay for my house and feed seem to have any fight any my family for two months! But people got mad, saying I more. That tree Thomas shouldn’t price gouge, and I said, “What the hell? My kids talked about – you know can’t eat toilet paper!” That’s the Republic we live in, Ben. I the one. It’s overdue for apologize for all who want to but won't. refreshment. I don’t know if it will survive, but I’m To be fair, Ben, there is a reason for all this, I am told. Which keeping my fingers is ironic and should have been expected, because we stopped crossed. Your words were heeding the advice of George, who in his farewell address to prophetic when you said, the Republic warned us: stay away from foreign “He who would sacrifice entanglements. But we didn’t, and one came back to bite us in liberty for security the behind. It wasn’t a foreign army, Ben. It couldn’t be, since deserves neither.” Ben, we we spend so much on the Republican army that no foreign did and we don’t. Thanks army can threaten us. We’ve been kicking ass pretty much all for trying. over the world for a long time, and only lost once, until now. This foreign invader, Your friend, according to those who say they know, should cause Al bodies to be piling up on the streets, but so far that hasn’t Ps. You probably don’t see him, Ben, but somewhere, George happened so much. Still, a III is smiling. lot of people are really worried about it, especially Copyright 2020 Al Armclok people in the Republic capitol of Washington, and of course the low-level officials I mentioned earlier. So they closed half the Upcoming Events Republic down! I mean people are starving, but they don’t care. They say they do, but they don’t. They are only watching • LPDC Quarterly Executive Committee Meeting out for their own asses, cutting down the chances of them ◦ June 14th, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM getting sick, to hell with everyone else. And Every One Of ◦ Zoom Meeting The Essential Choosers Still Has A Job. I’m out of paper to Contact the Chair for meeting info if you are not sell, and almost out of money, so I don’t know what I’ll do. on ExComm and would like to attend Maybe take up gardening, fishing, and hunting. There are lots of deer, snakes, squirrels, turkeys, and rabbits around here, and Up-to-date meeting announcements and details can always be I’m a good shot, so maybe my wife and kids can keep eating. found on meetup.com or Facebook. By the way, Ben, no one really knows where this invader really came from. It’s just assumed to be a foreigner. Probably Libertarian References never will find out for sure. • Books That’s where we are, Ben. Unfortunately it gets worse. The ◦ Good to be King , Michael Badnarik worst part of all this is that us citizens of the Republic, ◦ Why Government Doesn't Work , Harry Browne descendants of the likes of you, George, Thomas, James, ◦ Atlas Shrugged , Ayn Rand Betsy, Francis, Alexander, John, Samuel, and the others who ◦ The Libertarian Mind , David Boaz met and discussed and argued and gave us the Boston Tea ◦ Economics in One Lesson , Henry Hazlitt Party, the Declaration, the Constitution, Valley Forge with ◦ The Law , Claude-Frédéric Bastiat frostbite, and Don’t Shoot Until You See The Whites Of Their ◦ Healing Our World , Dr. Mary Ruwart Eyes, didn’t complain at all when the low-level officials said stay in your homes, stay six feet away from others, wear a • Videos mask, and close your business. We didn’t even ask questions. ◦ Neitzsche and the Nazis , Stephen Hicks In fact, we are happy to be locked down. Keeps us safe, you ◦ Bullsh*t! , Penn & Teller know. We haven’t asked for an ending date, so I guess we’re ◦ Free to Choose , Milton Friedman subjects until the low-level officials say we’re not. We don’t ◦ America: Freedom to Fascism , Aaron Russo
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