SEPTEMBER 2011 #46 DGC LIBERTOPIA 2011 LIVE & LET LIVE 2 § DGC Magazine April 2010 Issue DGC Digital Gold Currency Magazine Contents PUBLISHER Mark Herpel Five Principles of Libertopia 4 CONTRIBUTORS Paul Rosenberg Mission of Libertopia 6 EDITOR Law Without Big Brother by Gary Chartier 10 Mark Herpel [email protected] Living Without Money is an Act of Communty 12 Skype “digitalcurrency” http://www.dgcmagazine.com Libertopia Comedians 14 DGC Magazine is committed You Own Your Own Mind by Sharon Presley PhD 16 to expanding the legal use of digital gold currency around the world. Slowly, legally The Monopoly-Breakers by Paul Rosenberg 20 and ethically we are trying to move digital gold currency and sound money forward Libertopia 2011 Speakers 22 into everyday business. Murdering the Group, Saving Individuals 26 Want your own magazine or catalog? A Poet Speaks of Liberty by Butler Shaffer 28 Contact Us [email protected] Twitter @dgcmagazine Libertopia Rocks 2011 Bands 30 FREE ADVERTISING Concerts by the Bay Line Up 34 [email protected] DGCmagazine is published online once a month. Libertopia Films 36 Advertisements are free to all industry businesses and related companies. Libertopia Soverign Awards 38 © 2008-2011 DGC Magazine All Rights Reserved Libertopia 2011 Schedule 40 DGC magazine ISSN 2159-791X Exhibitors pages 45 - 47 DGC Magazine April 2010 Issue § 3 Five Principles of Libertopia All actions should be peaceful and voluntary The axiomatic and first principle of Libertopia is that all forms of coercion and violence are unacceptable. Honor the self Each one of us is unique in the universe, endowed with free will, reason and dignity. Celebrate and radically express your unique individuality. Rule yourself As free and sovereign individuals, we rule ourselves and are totally responsible for all our actions. Live and let live Radical tolerance and acceptance of different lifestyles and life choices. Embrace our diversity and uniqueness. Community of Spontaneous Order Allow order to arise by pursuing happiness, respecting each others sovereignty, and engaging in peaceful and voluntary interactions -- exploring, experimenting, discovering, creating, innovating, sharing, selling, trading, gifting, prospering and loving one another. 4 § DGC Magazine April 2010 Issue DGC Magazine April 2010 Issue § 5 http://www.cryptohippie.com Mission of Libertopia Our mission is to establish Libertopia: a voluntary community based on freedom & peace; where each individual’s sovereignty and dignity are respected and all forms of aggression, coercion and violence are unacceptable. Until then, we will hold an annual Libertopia festival: a three day (and eventually a week long) celebration where we share ideas, explore, experiment, discover, innovate, trade, gift, create or perform art, spread the love and rejoice in our diversity and unique individuality. ibertopia is an annual festival a group called Mises West studies efforts to promote a free society. of peace, freedom, music, the Austrian School of economics These were all “small-government” Lcommunity and ideas that and free-market anarchism every or minarchist groups. But many will change the World. Monday night. So hold your of us continued to evolve, and we calendars open for the Libertopia often felt left out of mainstream It is a unique experience...a 3 day on the weekend of October 21, 22, gatherings. We took the ideas of celebration of our individuality and and 23 at Humphrey’s Half Moon Murray Rothbard to their logical diversity packed with renowned Inn and Suites. conclusion – the non-aggression speakers, workshops, panels, axiom and the concept that “it’s my parties, banquets, music, film, art, life and no one can own me.” We literature, commerce, exhibitors, Libertopia Is stopped participating in politics. We themed camps, performers, social became full-blown voluntaryists, networking and much more! a Rejection agorists, and anarchists – and we mean anarchists in the etymological It’s more than a conference…more of Politics… sense of “no rulers.” Maybe than a festival…it’s our future! “private-property anarchists” is Why? It leaves behind the least Many of us began our libertarian another way of looking at it. Either attractive aspects of conference and journey by becoming activists in way, we respect the idea of property. festivals while encouraging a big the Libertarian Party or related That starts with our own bodies and participatory element. Libertopia also is more than “libertarian.” It’s voluntaryist to the core – bypassing and transcending politics completely. Finally, it’s kind of a model for us and a starting-point for a society of the future. It’s a kernel of something we’ll need more of very soon – especially as we watch coercive institutions begin to implode one by one. And that’s part of the reason we chose San Diego as our home this year. It’s in the belly of the beast. But in spite of that (or because of it?), San Diego has become a real hub of voluntaryism. In the Hillcrest neighborhood, for example, there’s a place called Café Libertalia, where Peter Thiel speaking at Libertopia 2010 6 § DGC Magazine April 2010 Issue Stefan Molyneux speaking at Libertopia 2010 extends to other things we’re going to trash the acquired through place. We respect private peaceful, voluntary property, and they know means. In other words, it! But it also means we we engage in activities have peaceful good hosts that promote the kind that respect us and our of life we cannot find desire to share ideas, in statism or even experiment, discover, minarchism. We are innovate, trade, gift, and interested in hard- perform. The weather is core agorism, but we always great in San Diego, welcome the political and that’s a big difference activists into our fold from the Burning Man and hope that they, thing, which is held in a too, become inspired state-controlled desert in by the vision of ethical the blistering heat of late anarchism. Libertopia summer, where you feel is a big tent, and we the heavy presence of welcome everyone. short and sweet and including more para-military cops lurking That includes our brothers and sisters time for questions and answers and in dark costumes with a mindset to who have become cynical about breakout groups to explore issues in match. You could fry an egg on a politics, people who are looking greater depth,as well as more panels rock at Burning Man! In contrast, for answers, even those who are and more workshops. Humphrey’s Half Moon Inn and politically active non-libertarians. Suites is a stone’s-throw from the After all, we all began our journey water, and it’s a garden of indoor- somewhere, and Libertopia will be Libertopia Is outdoor living. The nude beaches a fine start for anyone! (Black’s Beach), parks, fabulous More than a Mexican dining, and zoo are all close by. And the late-October weather Libertopia Is Festival is perfect in San Diego, with 70- degree-ish temperatures by day and More Than a The whole festival thing makes nights in the 60s. When you add in Libertopia more participatory, and the participatory art and free zones, Conference… it opens our event up to vendors where niche groups can gather, it’s and lifestyle exploration – much going to be quite an experience! We like conferences. They’re great different than a conference. There for showcasing the vast talent in will be performers on the great our community. And Libertopia will Humphrey’s stage. Humphrey’s Libertopia have some of the leading advocates Concerts by the Bay has hosted some of freedom – Stefan Molyneux, of the great musical acts like Stevie Is the Kernel Bill Buppert, Gary Chartier, David Wonder, Aretha Franklin, and Ringo Freidman, Angela Keaton, Roderick Starr. And now it will play host our of a New Long, Jim Peron, Sharon Presley, “greats.” It’s a place for celebrating Sheldon Richman, Butler Shaffer, individual dignity that is free of Society… and many more. Take a look at our coercion and state violence. And Speakers page. But after plenty of remember: it’s on private property, We now have a critical mass of feedback from last year, we decided and the owners know exactly what agorists out there - hard-core to enhance that whole “conference” we’re all about, and they want anarcho-voluntaryists who really get concept by keeping the presentations us there! And that does not mean it. They reject the entire paradigm of DGC Magazine April 2010 Issue § 7 political violence. They understand Thor Halvorssen from Libertopia 2010 that initiatory coercion can only lead to bad results, and they don’t want to perpetuate it. They perceive a powerful link between respect for individuals and peace, prosperity, and freedom. Nobody knows how many of us there are, but maybe 20,000 in the United States. And 100,000 throughout the world. We share a vision, and it’s time we started to “live what we are” - as residents of Libertopia. Maybe it’s only a 3-day weekend at this point, but we want Libertopia to grow and evolve into a week-long event - and beyond. It’s time to practice what we preach. Someone is destined to take home statist barbarians. There are close to the 2011 Trading Man, and we hope 100 hard-core free-market anarchists “Trading that someday, when we live in a free in the San Diego area. Every week, society, the 2011 Trading Man will about 20 of them visit Café Libertalia Man”… be remembered as the talisman of to discuss Mises and economics. our event – a kind of hope for what They’ve had tax-ins and debates Because can be. So start saving your dollars with socialists.