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GOOD
NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
* Drug War Crumbling: Bold Reform
in Latin America
* Bold Marijuana Reform Proposed in
Denver
* The New Robber Barons
* Cuban Government Tries Market Reforms
QUICK
SHOTS: Identity theft....
Destroying wealth with Cash for
Clunkers.... Health care "reform" could
kill you, doctor says.... No excuses for
war crimes, says President Bush....
PERSUASION POWER POINT #274
* False Alternatives: "Is Health
Care a Right or a Privilege?" by Michael
Cloud
ASK DR.
RUWART
* How could society function without
gov't IDs?
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Good News,
Bad News,
Unbelievable News
by James W. Harris
Drug War Consensus Crumbling: Bold
Reform in Latin America
Argentina and Mexico enacted major
drug law reforms in the past few
days. And other Latin American
nations are poised to follow.
On August 21,
Mexico decriminalized the
possession of small quantities of
most drugs, including marijuana,
heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and
LSD.
Those caught with small amounts will
be
 encouraged
to seek government-funded drug
treatment, where they will be
regarded as patients, not criminals.
Treatment will be compulsory if
users are caught a third time.
This reform was spurred by the
horrific Drug War-spawned violence
that has wracked Mexico recently.
Over 11,000 people have died in just
the last three years.
The government says the policy is
aimed at:
1) Stopping corrupt police from
shaking down peaceful drug users for
bribes;
2) Encouraging addicts to seek
treatment;
3) Freeing government resources to
fight major drug traffickers and
drug gang violence.
Four days after Mexico's stunning
announcement, Argentina's Supreme
Court ruled it unconstitutional to
punish an adult for the peaceful,
private use of marijuana (and
possibly other drugs).
Said the Court:
"Each individual adult is
responsible for making decisions
freely about their desired lifestyle
without state interference. Private
conduct is allowed unless it
constitutes a real danger or causes
damage to property or the rights of
others."
Argentine President Cristina
Fernandez de Kirchner has
called for the decriminalization
of all personal drug use, while
continuing the prosecution of
traffickers and dealers. A bill to
that effect is expected to be
introduced in the Argentine Congress
later this year.
Brazil, Ecuador and other Latin
American countries are also
considering similar
decriminalization moves.
This is in line with a February
statement by the 17-nation Latin
American Commission on Drugs and
Democracy, which, after studying the
drug problem for a year, called for
the decriminalization of marijuana
for personal use and a dramatic
shift in drug policies.
Of course, none of these are perfect
moves from a libertarian
perspective, and nothing short of
full legalization for users,
producers and sellers will solve the
myriad horrible problems created by
drug prohibition.
However, they are strong, humane,
and welcome steps in the right
direction, and are sure to lead to
many more cracks in the
once-impregnable Drug War wall.
Bold Marijuana Reform Proposed in
Denver
Good things on the drug issue
continue to happen in the U.S., too.
 The
Denver Marijuana Policy Review
Panel, which oversees marijuana
possession crimes in that city,
recommended last week that the fine
for possession be set at... $1.
If that recommendation is accepted
by Denver's presiding judge, that
will be the lowest fine in the
United States for marijuana
possession. It is legalization for
personal use in all but name only.
In December 2007, voters in Denver,
Colorado passed an ordinance
mandating that adult marijuana
possession be the city's "lowest law
enforcement priority."
The new proposal is to insure that
the voters' wishes are followed.
"By setting the fine at just $1, we
are sending a message to Denver
officials that the era of citing
adults for using a less harmful drug
than alcohol is over. It's simply
not worth the city's time or
resources,"
said panel member Mason Tvert, a
leader in the earlier Denver
marijuana initiative, quoted by
Denver's Channel 9 News.
Will other cities and states follow
suit? There is hope. A Zogby poll
released in May 2009
found that 52% of American
voters believe marijuana should be
legal, taxed, and regulated.
The
New Robber Barons
"Please tax us more!"
A few of America's richest people
are begging President Obama to raise
their taxes -- along with raising
taxes on all other Americans who
make more than $235,000 a year.
Liberal zillionaire Chuck Collins,
inheritor of the
 vast
Oscar Mayer fortune and coauthor of
a book entitled Robin Hood Was
Right, has formed an organization
with the unpleasant title of
Wealth for the Common Good to
advance this notion. Collins wants
to reverse the Bush tax cuts and
increase the top tax marginal income
tax rate from 35% to 39.6% on
household incomes over $235,000. He
also wants to close off-shore "tax
havens," to make sure those with
above-average incomes aren't holding
on to more of it than he thinks they
should.
Wealth for the Common Good has
kicked off its campaign with an
online petition to collect the names
of rich folks who agree. Collins
hopes to collect a thousand such
names, then deliver them to a
no-doubt-grateful President Obama.
However, someone should tell Mr.
Collins and others who are desperate
to hand over more of their money to
the government that there is nothing
stopping them from doing so -- right
now.
As we have reported in the past,
there is an actual official U.S.
government department that accepts
donations (checks or money orders,
please) from citizens who are
grateful to the State for the
senseless wars, infringements of
civil liberties, torture, inflation,
victimless crime laws, failing
government schools, and the many
other vital and necessary services
it provides.
Here is the address:
Gifts to the United States
U.S. Department of the Treasury
Credit Accounting Branch
3700 East-West Highway, Room 6D37
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Or visit
their Web site.
So, no one who feels under-taxed
need endure that awful situation a
moment longer.
But of course, that doesn't satisfy
Mr. Collins and his ilk. Because
what they really want isn't to just
pay more taxes themselves. They wa nt
to force, at gunpoint, all well-off
Americans to hand over still more of
their hard-earned money to the
State.
That's the difference between
charity -- voluntarily donating to a
cause -- and robbery: ordering
others at gunpoint to fork over
their dough.
It's a difference we profoundly wish
these rich neo-Robber Barons would
grasp.
Cuban Government Tries Market
Reforms
Cuba's government is trying to save
its collapsing socialist economy --
by opening the door to markets in
agriculture.
 For
years Cuba boasted of its state-run
farming system. However, that system
is not only despotic, it has been a
disaster. Despite excellent farming
conditions, production is far below
expectations, and vast acres of
fertile land go uncultivated.
In desperation, the government last
year began giving idle state
farmland to private farmers and farm
cooperatives. Owners are allowed to
pay workers based on results, not
according to state-mandated wage
scales. Hard work, innovation, and
entrepreneurship are rewarded.
The results, predictably, have been
dramatic,
according to a fascinating
article by St. Petersburg Times
Latin American correspondent David
Adams.
Though tilling only about a fourth
of Cuban land, burdened by numerous
idiotic regulations, and forced to
turn over some of their production
to the Cuban government at half the
market price, private sources
already produce nearly 60 percent of
Cuban crops and livestock, according
to the Cuban government. And the
program is just getting under way.
Ironically, the Cuban government is
trying to define this move towards
farm privatization as... true
socialism.
"The last 50 years have shown that
private farmers are more socialist
than the state," said Oscar Espinosa
Chepe, a former state economic
adviser and a critic of the current
Cuban government. "State farms are
anti-socialist. The only thing they
socialized is loss-making."
"The land is there! Here are the
Cubans. Let's see if we work or not,
if we produce or not!" exhorted
Cuban President Rául Castro at a
rally in July.
Viva La Revolución!
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Quick Shots...
 IDENTITY
THEFT:
"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben
Bernanke has been a victim of
identity theft. His credit card
company became suspicious when they
noticed repeated purchases of large,
failing American car companies."
--Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show,
Aug. 27, 2009.
DESTROYING WEALTH WITH CASH FOR
CLUNKERS: "Thanks to the
glories of YouTube, we can watch as
the government mandates the
destruction of perfectly good
automobiles to
 'help
the economy.' ... Really, you ought
to look at at least a couple of
these videos, and the hundreds more
like them on YouTube. Are these
'clunkers?' Can it really help the
economy to destroy perfectly good
assets? Are the people running the
government the most economically
illiterate bunch since FDR ruled the
roost? Or are they dumber?"
-- law professor
Bradley A. Smith describing
YouTube videos like
this one.
HEALTH CARE "REFORM" COULD KILL YOU:
"For generations, we doctors have
promised our patients that medical
advances will allow us all to live
longer, more comfortable lives. Now
that these results are
 finally
arriving, 'health-care reform' -- or
'insurance reform,' as they're now
pitching it -- could snatch the rug
out from under us. ... [E]very
nation that has adopted anything
like that has also adopted measures
that kill medical innovation. They
buy less cutting-edge technology;
won't pay for new, expensively
researched drugs -- saving
government money at the cost of
future patients' lives."
-- Dr. Marc K. Siegel, a practicing
internist and associate professor of
medicine at NYU Langone Medical
Center,
writing in the New York Post.
NO
EXCUSES: "War crimes will be
prosecut ed,
war criminals will be punished, and
it will be no defense to say, 'I was
just following orders.'"
--
President George Bush on the eve
of the invasion of Iraq, March 17,
2003.
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"Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable
News" is written by Liberator Online
editor James W. Harris. His articles
have appeard in numerous magazines
and newspapers, and he has been a
Finalist for the Mencken Awards,
given by the Free Press Association
for "Outstanding Journalism in
Support of Liberty."
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 PERSUASION
POWER
POINT # 274
False Alternatives: "Is Health Care
a Right or a Privilege?"
by
Michael Cloud
"Do you believe health care is a
right or a privilege?" the CNN host
asked two guests.
"Health care is a right, not a
privilege," said speaker after
speaker at televised memorials for
the late Senator Ted Kennedy.
"Is health care a right or a
privilege?" ask
 hosts
and guests on NPR, PBS, CNN, and
MSNBC. You'll read the question
dozens of times on Big Government
blogs and Web sites. In essays and
articles by Big Government partisans
promoting government-run medical
care or government medical
insurance.
The right answer: "It's neither. The
question is what logic texts call
the False Alternative Fallacy. The
question is an example of an
unscrupulous, manipulative sales
technique: the Alternative of Choice
Close. The words 'right' and
'privilege' are loaded and
deceptive. May I explain?"
1.
The False Alternative Fallacy:
If health care is NOT a right, then
it's a privilege. If it's NOT a
privilege, then it's a right. False.
Many widely desired things are
neither rights NOR privileges.
Literacy is neither a right nor a
privilege. Good nutrition is neither
a right nor a privilege. Success is
neither a right nor a privilege.
Love is neither a right nor a
privilege. Other alternatives:
health care is a desirable service,
but NOT a legal right. Or: universal
health care, like universal
literacy, is a desirable social
goal, but NOT a legally-guaranteed
entitlement.
2.
The Alternative of Choice sales
technique: "Which is health care? A
right or a privilege? You choose."
Sales trainers have taught this
manipulative sales technique since
the 1930s. "Would you like one egg
in your malt or two?" (Maybe you
want none.) "Do you want the red
sweater or the blue one?" (Maybe you
want neither, or a jacket.) This "Do
you want this, or that?" technique
gives buyers the illusion of choice,
to get them to turn off their
critical thought process and buy one
or the other. The health care "right
or privilege" question is designed
to make its victims choose between
caring for everyone -- or being an
uncaring cad.
3. The word "right" in the question
means "government-granted
entitlement," NOT the natural or
God-given rights to life, liberty,
property, and the pursuit of
happiness that the American
Revolution was fought for. When the
government grants these kinds of
"rights" or entitlements to
individuals or groups, it saddles
taxpayers with the obligation to
fund or provide them. If person X or
group Y have a government-granted
right to medical services and
medicines, then taxpayers are
legally obligated to pay for it
through taxes or government
mandates. Every government-granted
"right" is an obligation on you.
Rephrase the first part of the
question to this: "Are American
citizens obligated to pay for other
people's medical insurance, or
medical services, or drugs and
medicines?" Or: "Should American
taxpayers be obligated to pay
medical costs of those who smoke, or
drink too much, or use dangerous
drugs, or overeat, or refuse to
exercise, or engage in reckless or
irresponsible behaviors?"
A government-granted right to
medical care is your obligation,
your increased taxes, your cost,
your burden.
4. Consider the meaning of
"privilege": "a right or immunity
granted as a peculiar benefit,
advantage, or favor; especially:
such a right or immunity attached
specifically to a position or an
office." (Source: Merriam-Webster
Dictionary.)
Here's another dirty little secret
behind the false and deceptive
health care question: they are
trying to con us into choosing
between "health care guaranteed to
all, or to only the privileged few."
This level of trickery goes beyond
Karl Marx. It goes all they way to
Groucho Marx. Except
government-controlled or
government-run medicine might just
make us laugh all the way to a
too-early grave.
5. The right questions to ask about
medical care and medical insurance:
* Which laws, regulations, or
government mandates drive up the
costs of medical care, medicine, and
medical insurance?
* Which of these laws, regulations,
and government mandates can your
state legislature and governor
repeal? Which need to be repealed by
the U.S. Senate, the House, and the
president?
* Which government-granted
privileges and special protections
has government enacted for the
benefit of pharmaceutical
corporations, hospitals, doctors,
nurses, lawyers, or insurance
companies that make medical care
more expensive?
* Which of these privileges and
special protections can your state
legislature and governor repeal?
Which need to be repealed by the
U.S. Senate, the House, and the
president?
 *
What other cost-lowering medical
alternatives are forbidden or
blocked by state government or the
federal government?
* Can these be repealed on the state
level -- or do they need to be
repealed on the federal level?
* What other laws and regulations
can we repeal to give patients and
doctors more choices? To improve the
quality of medical care? To lower
the costs of medical care enough to
make them as affordable as food,
clothing, and shelter in America?
Do NOT let the political con artists
prey on your family, friends, and
co-workers. Share this column with
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Liberator Online to them.
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Secrets of Libertarian Persuasion,
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In 2000, Michael was honored with
the Thomas Paine Award as the Most
Persuasive Libertarian Communicator
in America.
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Dr.
Mary Ruwart is a leading expert in
libertarian communication. In this
column she offers short answers to real
questions about libertarianism. To
submit questions to Dr. Ruwart, see end
of column.
How could society function without
government-issued IDs?
QUESTION: Without a national ID
(for example, Social Security numbers or
driver's licenses) how would banks and
other institutions verify your identity
for their services? How could they
prove, for example, your claim to
ownership of a piece of property or a
car? How could they know you didn't just
steal or forge a deed or title?
MY
SHORT ANSWER: A government-issued
 ID
can always be forged. Already today, a
thriving underground black market exists
in forged Social Security cards,
passports, and driver's licenses.
Indeed, banks are losing so much money
on forged ID and identity theft that
many have started fingerprinting
customers. With identification
information, as in so many other areas,
government does a very poor job.
As you have observed, identification --
proving that someone actually is who he
says he is, or has the qualifications he
claims -- is a vital need in a market
economy. Private institutions have an
enormous stake in being able to quickly
and accurately insure the identities of
customers who, in today's global
economy, may engage in transactions
around the world.
In a libertarian society, banks and
other financial institutions would
establish the level of identity
verification they needed to protect
their interests, as has been the case in
the past. Such institutions would have a
strong interest in creating ways of
identification that would appeal to --
not offend or burden or harm -- their
customers.
Competition would quickly create new and
innovative ways to meet this demand. We
would expect to see the kind of constant
innovation, low cost, ease-of-use, and
concern for pleasing customers that we
today see in other significantly
unregulated areas of our economy, such
as telecommunications, computers and the
Internet.
People would be free to decide for
themselves if they wanted to provide
information in order to work with these
institutions. Governments couldn't force
individuals to carry IDs. The most
innovative and customer-pleasin g
solutions would be the most successful.
Finally, in a libertarian society there
would be no danger of governments
collecting vast databases of such
information, a threat to our liberty.
There is a great need for identification
services that aid consumers while
protecting their privacy. Only the
market -- not government -- can provide
this.
LEARN
MORE:
See "What's Wrong With A One-Size
Fits All Identity?" by Jim Harper,
director of Information Policy Studies
at the Cato Institute.
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One-Minute
Liberty Tip
Answering Hostile Questions With the
Amazing Ransberger Pivot
by Sharon Harris
Ouch! Libertarians sometimes get hit
with hostile questions from people
who don't understand the ideas of
liberty and free markets.
Mention free markets, ending the War
on Drugs, or replacing government
schools with private alternatives,
for example, and some people will go
ballistic. They will think you're
crazy, or have evil intentions, or
both -- and they'll let you know it.
"End government welfare? Do you hate
the poor?"
"Make drugs legal? Do you want our
streets
 filled
with crazed addicts and criminals?"
"No government schools? Do you want
a nation of illiterates? Don't you
care about our children?"
Sound familiar? It's easy for a
conversation to quickly degenerate
from here into a shouting match, or
a meaningless exchange of slogans
and rhetoric.
But there's a far better way to
respond. Use the Ransberger Pivot!
The Ransberger Pivot is one of the
most effective communication tools I
know. Invented in 1982 by Ray
Ransberger and Advocates Founder
Marshall Fritz, the Pivot is a great
way to defuse hostility and get your
questioner on *your* side.
The Ransberger Pivot is quite simple
-- but it doesn't come naturally. It
takes some practice. But the payoff
makes it well worth the effort.
There are three steps to the Pivot:
Step 1: Stay calm and *listen* to
what the questioner is asking.
Step 2: Ask yourself what the person
is really concerned about. What does
he really want? Make an intelligent
guess.
Step 3: If you want the same thing
(and 99% of the time you will),
strongly express your desire for
that same outcome. Show your
questioner you share the same core
values on this issue.
Let's look at the Ransberger Pivot
in action.
Your questioner asks: "You
libertarians want to get rid of
public schools, don't you? What
about our children?"
You ask yourself: What is this
person *really* concerned about?
What does he want?
Obviously, he wants children to be
educated. A great goal! You want
this, too, right?
So you respond something like this:
"Like you, I too want to live in a
world where all children are
educated. In fact, where children
have access to a far better
education than they have now."
Bingo! That's the Pivot. You've
bypassed a potential argument, and
instead established a strong common
ground with your questioner. Instead
of immediately launching into a
disagreement, you've found agreement
and shared values.
Now you can go on to a constructive
discussion of the best ways to
achieve the end you both agree is
worthwhile.
Of course, you then must have a good
answer to that question. You need to
know the facts -- in this case, a
persuasive case for why the private
sector offers the best opportunity
to dramatically improve education.
 But
The Ransberger Pivot is a vital
transition, or prelude, to that
answer. It plays a crucial role by
defusing hostility, and thus making
your questioner, and other
listeners, more ready to hear your
answer with an open mind.
Remember: when people ask hostile
questions, they often are
questioning your motives. They
assume you disagree with their
concerns, they think you have
different values, and they may even
believe you have bad intentions.
The Ransberger Pivot is a kind of
verbal judo or aikido. It takes the
steam out of the hostility by
demonstrating that you share the
questioner's concerns. This in turn
offers the opportunity for rapport.
Your listeners are then more likely
to pay attention to your answer, and
you increase your chance of
persuading them to your point of
view.
NEXT ISSUE we'll look at some more
examples of the Ransberger Pivot in
action, and additional tips on using
it.
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Sharon Harris is president of the
Advocates for Self-Government. See
more One Minute Liberty tips.
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ADVOCATES PRESIDENT AT ILLINOIS LP
CONVENTION: Sharon Harris will
deliver the keynote address at the
Libertarian Party of Illinois annual
convention, October 23-25 in
Collinsville, near St. Louis. For more
information,
contact the Libertarian Party of
Illinois.
* 2009
ANNUAL FREEDOM CRUISE: Advocates
Board Member and longtime libertarian
leader Dr. Ken Bisson invites you to
join him for the 2009 Freedom Cruise
September 19 - 26, 2009. Spend a
wonderful week on a luxury cruiser! The
itinerary: Boston,
 Massachusetts;
Bar Harbor, Maine; Halifax,Canada;
Sydney, Canada; Charlottetown, Prince
Edward; Quebec City, Quebec; Montreal,
Quebec. Non-libertarians welcome! Great
food and fine company. (This isn't an
Advocates event, but as noted, Ken is on
our Board of Directors, and libertarians
who have been on past cruises rave about
them.) For photos and more details -- or
to sign up for free, no-commitment email
updates about this and the upcoming 2010
cruise -- visit
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