April 3rd, 2013 at 10:09PM
A libertarian foreign policy is based on peace

From Yahoo! News

Thanks to Ron Paul’s impact on our national, political conversation, it is now permissible for me to not want my brothers and sisters in the armed forces to have to die for a lie. It’s because of my experience in the military—not because I’m ignorant or naïve about what war entails—that I don’t want my brothers and sisters in the armed forces to have their minds destroyed by mental trauma, their hearts broken by grief, and their consciences ravaged by guilt in their participation in a moral injustice.

The principles of libertarianism to which I was introduced when figuring out my views on intellectual property made perfect sense when applied to our foreign policy and interactions with other nations. The libertarian foreign policy isn’t isolationism; it’s an understanding that if we are aggressive toward others, they’ll respond with aggression toward us.

Jayel Aheram with an article on libertarianism and a foreign policy that’s based on peace on Yahoo! News. 

Yahoo! News is one of he largest news outlets on the internet. If I’m not mistaken, they are actually the largest. Good to see them posting such good things and great to see Jayel get his work out there.

Good stuff, sir!
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February 20th, 2013 at 3:17PM
Peace: a failure of governments to function properly. — Butler Shaffer (via conza)

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December 14th, 2012 at 4:25PM
Ultimately, the source of our problems lies at the level of the individual. If people lack moral values and integrity, no system of laws and regulations will be adequate. So long as people give priority to material values, then injustice, corruption, inequity, intolerance, and greed— all the outward manifestations of neglect of inner values— will persist. —

Dalai Lama  (via cadburycrazed)

Also from the Lama: “If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.  Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.”

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November 12th, 2012 at 5:20PM
Anyone who believes that Ron Paul has simply dreamed up an ideology that young people find attractive has no understanding of what is transpiring in this movement. Ron has tapped into an energy source that could be likened to a Rupert Sheldrake “morphogenetic field.” At both a conscious and unconscious level, tens of millions of people throughout the world are sharing in the spontaneous eruption of opposition to the dehumanizing, oppressive, violent, and destructive nature of the corporate-state systems that exploit human beings for institutional ends. Peace, liberty, private property ownership, and respect for the inviolability of the individual, are qualities insisted upon by growing numbers of persons, not only in America, but elsewhere in the world. —

Butler Shaffer

http://lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer254.html

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Butler Shaffer was one of my wife’s professors in law school. He also had a great cameo on the Robert Wenzel Show: 

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